The Austria newspaper “Die Presse” interviewed the researchers of our SRA’s sub-project 4 “Latin of Queens, Abbesses, Scientists: Women’s Voices in Neo-Latin” Johanna Luggin and Hanne Berendse:
In a new peer-reviewed article, ‘Virgo faciebat’: Artistic Self-Fashioning in Latin Inscriptions by Women Artists in Early Modern Italy, Hanne Berendse examines the Latin signatures of Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, and Artemisia Gentileschi, three leading women painters of early modern Italy, and argues that they should be read as acts of literary self-fashioning. Combining philological…
At the end of September, our PhD student Hanne Berendse returned to Innsbruck after a six-month visiting studentship at the University of Cambridge. At Cambridge, she worked on the final stages of her dissertation with Professor Dániel Margóscy, a social and cultural historian of early modern science. During her time at Cambridge, she also presented work…
On September 24 and 25, the NeoLatina conference was held in Innsbruck. This conference series, held annually in turn by Universities of Würzburg, Freiburg i.Br. and Innsbruck is dedicated to Neo-Latin authors and topics. This year, the conference was held in cooperation with the SRA “Neo-Latin in the Modern World” and the Centre for the…