our latest activities
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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“,…
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On October 19, 2026, Federica Rossetti delivered a seminar at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore in Vilnius, entitled “Polish and Lithuanian Aristocracy in Basel in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century: The…
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The conference “De la norme à l’œuvre. Élection et fonctions des canons d’auteurs et d’artistes antiques de l’Antiquité à nos jours” took place in Paris from 14 to 16 October 2026. There, Florian Schaffenrath gave…
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On 9–10 October 2026, the first meeting with the Advisory Board took place. Following an informal opening over dinner with the Board members, Florian Schaffenrath was able to give the guests, who had travelled to…
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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…
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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…
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Patryk M. Ryczkowski, PI in the Sub-Project 6 Neolatin and the Newcomers and currently also a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at the Vilnius University, participated in the conference Book Culture in the 17th–18th Centuries in the…
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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…
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On 25 September 2026, Salome Meyer, the Swiss Ambassador to Austria, visited our institute together with Fabian Leimlehner, Honorary Consul of Switzerland in Tyrol, and was briefed on the Lemnius project, which represents an ideal…