our latest activities
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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…
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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.