Category: News
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Domenico Graziano (SP1 – Coordination Project) recently completed a period of training and scientific collaboration in Florence at SISMEL (International Society for the Study of Medieval Latin) and the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (8–11 June), as part of the 11th International Training Course on Manuscript Studies. During his stay, under the supervision of Prof. Gabriella Pomaro (SISMEL),…
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On 11 June 2026, William M. Barton contributed to the Text and Transmission Research Seminar (TeTra) organized by the universities of Vienna and Leuven. His talk “Byzantine Letters in Golden-Age Spain: On Vicente Mariner’s translation of Theophylact Achridensis’ Correspondence” is available on youtube.
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On 8 June 2026, Prof Dr Michaela Wiesinger from the Institute of German Studies (Innsbruck University) visited our SRA. We presented to her in particular those research projects that are closely related to German humanism (Delila Jordan, Ivan Mazhaev, Benedikt Zett), and in turn gained insights into her work, particularly her ERC project “German Arithmetical…
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Domenico Graziano (SP1 – Coordination Project) and Orsola Lorena Purcaro (SP5 – Neo-Latin Translations – Bilingual Books for Early Modern Readers) participated in the international conference Transfer of Knowledge in Auxiliary Texts to Greek and Latin Literature (14th–16th c.): The Making of the Late Medieval and Renaissance Canon, organized by Giandamiano Bovi and Vincenzo Damiani (Catania, 4–5 June…
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Veronica Papotti, PhD student in Sub Project 7 Kanones of Neo-Latin Texts, participated in the biennial conference L’Approximation en latin, organised by the Centre Alfred Ernout and held at Sorbonne Université (Paris) from 1 to 3 June 2026. During the conference, she presented a paper devoted to the use of deixis in Roman comedy, focusing…
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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 15th annual REFORC conference in Wrocław from 19 to 21 May 2026. Pursuing the leading topic of the Christian materiality, he organised a panel devoted to the material representations…
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On 21 and 22 May 2026, our related project Scanderbegus Latinus (PI Stefan Zathammer), in collaboration with Prof. Gentiana Kera (Department of History, University of Tirana), hosted a two-day international workshop dedicated to the representation of Skanderbeg in Early Modern literature at the University of Tirana. The workshop was formally opened by Prof. Mark Marku,…
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We extend our warmest congratulations to our Institute Director and Principal Investigator, Professor Martin Korenjak, on his election as a Full Member (Wirkliches Mitglied) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)! This is the highest academic honour in Austria. The President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, former Federal Minister and Professor Emeritus Dr Heinz…
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On the invitation of our Related Project “Scanderbegus Latinus – The Image of Skanderbeg in Neo-Latin Literature”, Prof. Gentiana Kera (University of Tirana) gave a guest lecture on Thursday, 7 May 2026, entitled “Teaching the Past: Skanderbeg and History Education in Socialist Albania”. In her lecture, Prof. Kera examined how the portrayal of Skanderbeg and…
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On the occasion of the doctoral conference Leggere, scrivere, studiare. L’attività intellettuale e le sue tracce, organized by the Department of Humanities of Università Roma Tre, Antonia Foggia presented a paper entitled Nel laboratorio di un magister quattrocentesco: tracce dell’attività didattica in un commento anonimo quattrocentesco a Ovidio e Virgilio (Napoli, Biblioteca Nazionale, V.D.52). The…