Category: SP4 – Women
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On Monday, 19 October, Johanna Luggin gave an invited online talk to a group of South Tyrolean Latin teachers, speaking about Latin women writers in the classroom, research in SP4 on „Women’s Voices in Neo-Latin“, the SRA’s digital platform and more. Ideas for inclusion of ancient, medieval and Neo-Latin women writers and their texts in…
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The Austria newspaper “Die Presse” interviewed the researchers of our SRA’s sub-project 4 “Latin of Queens, Abbesses, Scientists: Women’s Voices in Neo-Latin” Johanna Luggin and Hanne Berendse:
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In a new peer-reviewed article, ‘Virgo faciebat’: Artistic Self-Fashioning in Latin Inscriptions by Women Artists in Early Modern Italy, Hanne Berendse examines the Latin signatures of Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, and Artemisia Gentileschi, three leading women painters of early modern Italy, and argues that they should be read as acts of literary self-fashioning. Combining philological…
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At the end of September, our PhD student Hanne Berendse returned to Innsbruck after a six-month visiting studentship at the University of Cambridge. At Cambridge, she worked on the final stages of her dissertation with Professor Dániel Margóscy, a social and cultural historian of early modern science. During her time at Cambridge, she also presented work…
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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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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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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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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…
