In January and February, Johanna Luggin, PI of sub-project 4 on „Women’s Voices in Neo-Latin“, visited several groups of pupils, ages 16 to 19, at different high schools in Innsbruck and Schwaz to talk about and work on texts by Latin women writers from antiquity to the early modern world. The pupils were astonished how few women were able to learn, write and sometimes also speak Latin and how many different works they were still able to produce and leave behind. Discussions ranged from the conditions under which women’s texts were handed down (or forgotten), the political and economic side of access to an education, privilege, power and the beauty of Latin literature.





