Category: News
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In the Early Modern period, the need for spoken Latin in academic circles spawned books with Latin dialogues as schoolboy exercises known as colloquia. To a much smaller extent, but with some popularity, Ancient Greek colloquia promoted the ideal of speaking in Greek elegantly. As a contribution to a conference on didactics, Tobias Heiss drew…
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At this year’s conference of didactics of Latin and Greek, Johanna Luggin gave a talk about Latin women writers from antiquity to the Early Modern period. She presented the corpus as we know it at the moment, a short state of the art, and then focused on why and how to include Latin women writers…
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Johanna Luggin, PI of sub-project 4 on „Women’s Voices in Neo-Latin“, visited several groups of pupils, ages 16 to 19, at different high schools in Innsbruck and Schwaz in the last months to talk about and work on texts by Latin women writers from antiquity to the early modern world. The pupils were astonished how…
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As our first team building event, we visited the monastery of Wilten where the abbot, a monk and an employee showed us around the monastery, including the historic library, and the archives. As it houses a large collection of Neo-Latin manuscripts, the Wilten Abbey is not only artistically impressive to us, but also of great…
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To mark the launch of the new SRA at the University of Innsbruck, Rector Veronika Sexl visited our department. The researchers gave the Rector an insight into their work.Rector Sexl wishes the team all the best and every success with their research. (4.2.2026)
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At our weekly team meeting on 4 February 2026, we were honoured to be visited by the Dean of our faculty, Prof. Dr Jürgen Fuchsbauer. He gave us an overview of the ongoing strategic planning process and emphasised how much he values the work of our institute. He wished the SRA all the best and…
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On 3 February 2026, the meeting (Klausurtag) of the Research Programme (FSP) ‘Cultural Encounters – Cultural Conflicts’ took place in Innsbruck. Florian Schaffenrath presented the new SFB Neo-Latin in the Modern World. The brief presentation was followed by a lively discussion in which the participants also explored possible collaborations.
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On 28 January 2026, our Neo-Latin Fellow Alessandro Bonvini who contributed to our SRA as one of our Neo-Latin Fellows gave his final talk “Anxiety and Authority:Erasmus’s Dialogue with Italian Humanism” in Innsbruck. We are glad that Alessandro Bonvini spent some months at our department and wish him all the best for the future!
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On 21 January 2026, our Neo-Latin Fellow Micol Muttini who contributed to our SRA as one of our Neo-Latin Fellows gave her final talk “Risus in ore doctorum: Aristophanes’ Nubes in Latin Dress” in Innsbruck. We are glad that Micol Muttini spent some months at our department and wish her all the best for the…
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During the turmoil of the Thirty Years’ War, Greek Orthodox officials sought closer ties with important Protestant institutions in Germany and beyond. At the 45th Metageitnia, an annual conference that brings together classical philologists from Austria, Germany, Switzerland and France, Tobias Heiss presented findings from his doctoral research. He linked an oration delivered in Ancient…