Author: Matthias Grafenauer
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On 2nd July 2026, a group of seven team members visited the library at Stift Wilten to explore the monastery’s collection of Greek materials. The group, brought together by W. Barton under the aegis of the SRA’s Early Modern Classics project, was particularly interested in rare editions of classical works on the library’s shelves, prominent Byzantine authors…
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On July 1st, 2026, Federica Rossetti delivered a presentation at the conference “Paratextes polygraphes et plurilingues de l’Antiquité à l’époque moderne”, hosted by the Collège de France in Paris. Her paper, entitled “Les paratextes multilingues dans le cercle érasmien. Pratiques et enjeux du plurilinguisme humaniste à Bâle”, explored the phenomena of Renaissance multilingualism and polygraphy.…
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Ancient characters and comparative studies 25 years after Marcel Detienne’s Comparer l’incomparable, this conference aims to question the anachronic notion of ‘ancient character’ through the lens of comparative studies (translation, reception, literary, performance). This one-day conference will give voice to new approaches in comparative studies, in order to foster a dialogue among several generations of…
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At the end of June, three of our members had the opportunity to present results of their ongoing research at the latest “Antike Kulturen des Mittelmeerraumes (AKMe)” conference in Salzburg. As a biannual event with changing hosts between the universities of Graz, Innsbruck and Salzburg, it offers PhD candidates an interdisciplinary platform to address methodological…
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On 25 June, ancient historian and papyrologist Anna Dolganov from the Austrian Archeological Institute and computational linguist David Smith from the Northeastern University in Boston visited the SRA and presented APOLLO, their brand-new LLM for Greek, in a guest lecture. Plans are underway to extend this model to Latin. During a discussion between the guests…
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In June, we were delighted to welcome Prof. Francesca Boldrer from Macerata as a visiting researcher at our institute. To mark the end of her stay, she presented her current research on Virgil’s Georgica during our weekly meeting on 24 June; that same evening, she gave a guest lecture on the Atlas Sinensis (1655) by…
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Martin Korenjak traveled to Athens for a meeting of the interdisciplinary „Leibnizkreis“ established thirty years ago by Glenn W. Most, the former professor for Greek in Innsbruck. Martin gave a paper on the influence of the structure of Euclid’s Elements on early modern learned books, which was well received and intensely discussed (19 – 21…
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Antonia Foggia and Ada Migliazza, predoc researchers in SP 1 (Coordination Project), took part in the Summer School INtegrating TRAditional and Digital Approaches in Manuscript Studies (INTRADAMS), held at the University of Milan from 8th to 19th June 2026, in collaboration with the Department of History and Cultures of the University of Bologna and the University…
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From 18 to 19 June 2026, our colleagues in Orléans organised a conference on the theme of ‘The Suffering of the Epic Body’ (Malheurs du corps épique). Over the course of two days, the speakers explored the theme of the body and its disfigurement in epic poetry. In addition to ancient Greek and Roman epics, the…
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On 17 June 2026, our department had the honor of hosting Dr. Larisa Ficulle Santini (Austrian Academy of Sciences) and Professor Anna Maria Taragna (University of Turin). They presented a joint paper in a double Guest Talk, organized by our fellow Riccardo Stigliano, titled: In and Beyond the Female Body. Between Reproductive Control and Renunciation…