Category: News
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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…
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Veronica Papotti, PhD student in Sub Project 7 Kanones of Neo-Latin Texts, participated in the international conference Latin vulgaire – latin tardif (LVLT), held at the University of Verona from Monday 14 to Friday 18 September 2026. The conference brings together linguistic and philological approaches to Latin, with particular attention to linguistic variation and to…
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Orsola Lorena Purcaro (SP5 – Neo-Latin Translations – Bilingual Editions for Early Modern Readers) participated in the international conference Old Ideas in New Minds: Strategies of Autonomy from Antiquity to the Renaissance, organized by the Research Group “Autonomy of Heteronomous Texts in Antiquity and the Middle Ages” at the University of Jena, which took place…
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Alessia Grillone, PhD from the university of Turin spent three months at our department as a Neo-Latin fellow. On 9 September 2026, she shared the results of her latest research on John Argyropulos’ translation of the Nicomachean Ethics. We thank Alessia for having spent several months in Innsbruck and wish her only the best for…
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On September 3–4, the Institute and the SRA were represented at the University of Oxford by our researcher, Domenico Graziano. He took part in the international conference “The Froben Publishing House and Roman History in Renaissance Basel,” hosted at All Souls College and organized by Gavin Kelly, Veronica Fiscella, and George Woudhuysen. During the event,…