Category: News
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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:
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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…
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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…
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Patryk M. Ryczkowski, PI in the Sub-Project 6 Neolatin and the Newcomers and currently also a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at the Vilnius University, participated in the conference Book Culture in the 17th–18th Centuries in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth held at the Ossolineum library in Wrocław (28–29 September 2026). He delivered a paper devoted to Ignacy Kulczyński’s…
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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…
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On 25 September 2026, Salome Meyer, the Swiss Ambassador to Austria, visited our institute together with Fabian Leimlehner, Honorary Consul of Switzerland in Tyrol, and was briefed on the Lemnius project, which represents an ideal collaboration between Chur and Innsbruck. Also joining us were senior representatives of our university, Vice-Rector Gregor Weihs, Vice-Rector Dirk Rupnow,…
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From 21 to 25 September, Lev Shadrin took part in the Machine Learning for Digital Scholarly Editions summer school organized by the Department of Digital Humanities at Uni Graz and sponsored by CLARIAH-AT and DARIAH-EU. The summer school comprised five days of live coding sessions on BERTopic, a modular Python framework for topic modelling. The sessions covered…
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The research team from SP1 recently concluded a fruitful participation at the Transkribus User Conference 2026 in Passau (September 21–23). Reflecting the event’s core theme on the differences and synergies between AI technologies, our researchers presented a poster detailing the AI-augmented pipeline currently under development for the Neo-Latin in the Modern World Digital Platform. The presentation outlined…
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On September 22, we had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Saskia Limbach at our department. Her visit began with a dynamic round-table with department and project members, offering a fantastic opportunity to share our ongoing research and exchange project ideas. Later, Dr. Limbach presented key insights from her ERC-funded project, WidowsPrint. Her talk, with the…
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From the 14th to the 18th of September the Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) Codex and Code, organized by the Democritus University of Thrace (Greece) and carried out jointly with the Historical and Palaeographical Archive of the National Bank of Greece, took place on the Greek island of Patmos. The programme aims to provide insights…