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  • Classical Bilingualism: Summer School at KU Leuven

    From July 13 to 17, our team members Domenico Graziano, Tobias Heiss, and O. Lorena Purcaro participated in the ERASMOS Summer School on Classical Bilingualism at KU Leuven. The five‑day program explored code-switching, translation, and other manifestations of Latin–Greek bilingualism with leading international scholars. Next to a guided city tour with the organizer Raf Van…

  • IANLS Executive Committee Meeting: Florian Schaffenrath in Barcelona

    From 14–16 July 2026, the members of the IANLS Executive Committee gathered in Barcelona for their annual meeting. At the invitation of our President, Alejandro Coroleu, the committee met in the beautiful facilities of the University of Barcelona. A major item on the agenda was the preparation of the next IANLS Congress, which will be held in Kraków in 2028. Florian Schaffenrath reported on the progress of…

  • New Ancient Greek Conference in Leuven

    On the 8-10 July, the conference New Ancient Greek Literature: Contexts, Audiences, Legacies took place at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Organised by the Hellas Belgicaproject, the conference brought together perspectives on the long history of New Ancient Greek as a dynamic cultural phenomenon from scholars working across Europe, the UK and United States. The Innsbruck…

  • Johanna Luggin’s “Fireside Chat” about Latin Women Writers in the Classroom

    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…

  • 4K Schwaz: Chronicle of the Franciscan Monastery

    One of the aims of the “4K Schwaz” cultural association is to highlight the significance of the Franciscan monastery for the intellectual and cultural life of Schwaz and to remind the local population of this. The monastery’s Latin chronicle, which provides a continuous account from the monastery’s foundation in 1507 to the present day, is…

  • Summer School in Tallinn with Three of our PhD Students

    Our researchers Antonia Foggia, Ada Migliazza, and O. Lorena Purcaro actively took part in the YRI Summer School “Print Culture and Translation in Central Europe (1500–1700): Methods, Problems and Approaches”, (Tallinn, 30 June–3 July 2026), organised by the COST Action CA23137 – PCPSCE and hosted by the Under and Tuglas Literary Institute of the Estonian Academy…

  • Submerged and Saved: Domenico Graziano Catalogues Flood Fragments at the Florence National Central Library

    From 29 June to 3 July, Domenico Graziano participated in the summer school “1966-2026. Frammenti dall’alluvione di Firenze”, organized by the Florence National Central Library, with the partnership of the Associazione Italiana Manoscritti Datati, the Ente Nazionale Giovanni Boccaccio, and the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento. Together with the other participants, our researcher trained in state-of-the-art tools…

  • On 2nd July 2026, a group of seven team members visited the library at Stift Wilten to explore the monastery’s collection of Greek materials. The group, brought together by W. Barton under the aegis of the SRA’s Early Modern Classics project, was particularly interested in rare editions of classical works on the library’s shelves, prominent Byzantine authors…