Category: News
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On the 8-10 July, the conference New Ancient Greek Literature: Contexts, Audiences, Legacies took place at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Organised by the Hellas Belgicaproject, the conference brought together perspectives on the long history of New Ancient Greek as a dynamic cultural phenomenon from scholars working across Europe, the UK and United States. The Innsbruck…
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Johanna Luggin gave an invited talk at the online „fireside chat“ of the GDLG, the society for didactics of Latin and Greek. She spoke about Latin Women writers in the classroom, presented a state of the art, the corpus of women writers as we know it at the moment and shared ideas and material for…
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One of the aims of the “4K Schwaz” cultural association is to highlight the significance of the Franciscan monastery for the intellectual and cultural life of Schwaz and to remind the local population of this. The monastery’s Latin chronicle, which provides a continuous account from the monastery’s foundation in 1507 to the present day, is…
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Our researchers Antonia Foggia, Ada Migliazza, and O. Lorena Purcaro actively took part in the YRI Summer School “Print Culture and Translation in Central Europe (1500–1700): Methods, Problems and Approaches”, (Tallinn, 30 June–3 July 2026), organised by the COST Action CA23137 – PCPSCE and hosted by the Under and Tuglas Literary Institute of the Estonian Academy…
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From 29 June to 3 July, Domenico Graziano participated in the summer school “1966-2026. Frammenti dall’alluvione di Firenze”, organized by the Florence National Central Library, with the partnership of the Associazione Italiana Manoscritti Datati, the Ente Nazionale Giovanni Boccaccio, and the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento. Together with the other participants, our researcher trained in state-of-the-art tools…
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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…
