Category: News
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At this year’s Long Night of Research (Lange Nacht der Forschung), our SRA organised a special reading of Neo-Latin literature: Neo-Latin texts by early modern woman writers. Johanna Luggin (PI of our SFB’s subproject ‘Latin of Queens, Abbesses, Scientists – Women’s Voices in Neo-Latin’) introduced three woman writers from the 16th, 17th, and 18th century,…
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On April 22, 2026, Federica Rossetti and Riccardo Stigliano delivered a lecture for Master and PhD students in the Degree Program in Philology at Roma Tre University. The session focused on the reception of the Orphic Argonautica in Italian Humanism, combining close readings from the original Greek text with passages from Basinio da Parma’s Argonautica. By…
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Our researcher Veronica Papotti attended the inaugural meeting of the international network Canons of Latinity, 1150 to the Present, entitled Latin Responses to Horatian Lyric, 1150 to the Present, held in Oxford from 16 to 17 April 2026. The event brought together scholars working on the reception and transformation of Horace across a wide chronological spectrum, fostering…
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From 14 to 17 April 2026, Florian Schaffenrath took part in the so-called ‘standard setting’ process in Vienna: c. 25 people were preparing the Greek and Latin (including Neo-Latin) texts that are set for the final examination at the end of secondary school throughout Austria. The group of people working on these texts consists of…
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Will Barton gave workshops at high schools where he showed to pupils how we are processing old texts with the help of new technologies. On 28 January, he visited the Franziskaner Gymnasium Hall… and on 16 April 2026 the BORG Schwaz.
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On 14 April 2026, the SRA team had the pleasure of meeting Prof. Paolo Rondinelli (Università Telematica Pegaso), invited to Innsbruck by Prof. Christine Franziska Konecny to give a lecture on his recent critical edition of Francesco Serdonati’s Proverbi Italiani. We are very pleased with the stimulating exchange of ideas and perspectives we had with…
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To mark the official launch of our eight-year research project, we hosted an opening ceremony in the main university hall on 24 March 2026. Florian Schaffenrath, speaking on behalf of the SRA, welcomes all the guests present. The programme is accompanied by music from the Tyrolean string quartet Quartissimo. The Dean of our faculty, Prof…
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Our researcher Antonia Foggia (sub-project 1) partecipated in the Society for Neo-Latin Studies Postgraduate and ECR Scholars Event (online, 20th March 2026), a scholarly forum dedicated to the presentation and discussion of ongoing research in Neo-Latin studies by postgraduate and early career researchers, and to the promotion of academic exchange and critical feedback. In her…
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On 9 and 10 March 2026, Martin Korenjak gave two introductory talks on Neo-Latin to the subject coordinators for Latin of Eastern Upper Bavaria in Neufahrn bei Freising and Rosenheim respectively. The talks aimed at familiarizing the listeners with Neo-Latin and at introducing them to the manifold possibilities of using Neo-Latin texts at school.
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On Friday, 6 March 2026, Marie Jeannot-Tirole defended her PhD thesis at the University of Strasbourg. Her thesis is an annotated edition of the Sylva epistolaris seu barba by the Alsatian humanist Johannes Sapidus (1490–1561), a colourful text that includes, among other things, a paradoxical praise of the beard. Florian Schaffenrath was a member of…