our latest activities
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From July 26 to August 1, 2026, we hosted the Aurora Summer School “NeoLEMoS” (Neo-Latin for Early Modern Studies), organized by Federica Rossetti and Patryk Ryczkowski in collaboration with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. The event brought together students and lecturers from ten European countries, fostering a lively and…
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Riccardo Stigliano, PhD student at our Institute, had the privilege of participating in the Byzantine Greek Summer School organized by the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Vienna. This intensive two-week program offered daily language sessions at advanced levels, covering a wide array of Late Antique and Medieval Greek texts…
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For research at the Archives Nationales and the Bibliothèque Mazarine (Institut de France), our researcher Chiara Telesca (related project LAGOOS) spent several weeks in Paris. She was exploring the inscriptions of the Luxor Obelisk and the epigraphic collections from colonial Algeria.
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Circulare July 2026
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From July 13 to 17, our team members Domenico Graziano, Tobias Heiss, and O. Lorena Purcaro participated in the ERASMOS Summer School on Classical Bilingualism at KU Leuven. The five‑day program explored code-switching, translation, and other manifestations of Latin–Greek bilingualism with leading international scholars. Next to a guided city tour with the organizer Raf Van…
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From 14–16 July 2026, the members of the IANLS Executive Committee gathered in Barcelona for their annual meeting. At the invitation of our President, Alejandro Coroleu, the committee met in the beautiful facilities of the University of Barcelona. A major item on the agenda was the preparation of the next IANLS Congress, which will be held in Kraków in 2028. Florian Schaffenrath reported on the progress of…
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On the 8-10 July, the conference New Ancient Greek Literature: Contexts, Audiences, Legacies took place at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Organised by the Hellas Belgicaproject, the conference brought together perspectives on the long history of New Ancient Greek as a dynamic cultural phenomenon from scholars working across Europe, the UK and United States. The Innsbruck…
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Johanna Luggin gave an invited talk at the online „fireside chat“ of the GDLG, the society for didactics of Latin and Greek. She spoke about Latin Women writers in the classroom, presented a state of the art, the corpus of women writers as we know it at the moment and shared ideas and material for…
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One of the aims of the “4K Schwaz” cultural association is to highlight the significance of the Franciscan monastery for the intellectual and cultural life of Schwaz and to remind the local population of this. The monastery’s Latin chronicle, which provides a continuous account from the monastery’s foundation in 1507 to the present day, is…
