our latest activities
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We extend our warmest congratulations to our Institute Director and Principal Investigator, Professor Martin Korenjak, on his election as a Full Member (Wirkliches Mitglied) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)! This is the highest academic honour in Austria. The President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, former Federal Minister and Professor Emeritus Dr Heinz…
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On the invitation of our Related Project “Scanderbegus Latinus – The Image of Skanderbeg in Neo-Latin Literature”, Prof. Gentiana Kera (University of Tirana) gave a guest lecture on Thursday, 7 May 2026, entitled “Teaching the Past: Skanderbeg and History Education in Socialist Albania”. In her lecture, Prof. Kera examined how the portrayal of Skanderbeg and…
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On the occasion of the doctoral conference Leggere, scrivere, studiare. L’attività intellettuale e le sue tracce, organized by the Department of Humanities of Università Roma Tre, Antonia Foggia presented a paper entitled Nel laboratorio di un magister quattrocentesco: tracce dell’attività didattica in un commento anonimo quattrocentesco a Ovidio e Virgilio (Napoli, Biblioteca Nazionale, V.D.52). The…
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Riccardo Stigliano, MA, researcher in the SFB‑related project Scanderbegus Latinus – The Image of Skanderbeg in Neo‑Latin Literature at the University of Innsbruck (Department of Classical Philology and Neo‑Latin Studies), has been awarded a doctoral mobility grant by the University of Ottawa. Stigliano is enrolled in a joint PhD program with the University of Pisa and will…
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On 28 April 2026, Maria Pilo, MA who has been at our department as Neo-Latin fellow since February gave her final talk about Gaspar Manius’ Commentary on Propertius’ Elegies. We are glad that you were here in Innsbruck for three month and wish you all the best for your future and your carreer!
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On 27 April 2026, the two members of the Innsbruck-based Lemnius team for the first time visited their project partners, Florian Hitz and Georg Heinzle, at the Staatsarchiv Graubünden in Chur. The meeting provided an opportunity to review the project’s progress and to view manuscripts of the Raeteid as well as relevant secondary literature in…
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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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On April 22, 2026, Federica Rossetti and Riccardo Stigliano delivered a lecture for Master and PhD students in the Degree Program in Philology at Roma Tre University. The session focused on the reception of the Orphic Argonautica in Italian Humanism, combining close readings from the original Greek text with passages from Basinio da Parma’s Argonautica. By…
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Our researcher Veronica Papotti attended the inaugural meeting of the international network Canons of Latinity, 1150 to the Present, entitled Latin Responses to Horatian Lyric, 1150 to the Present, held in Oxford from 16 to 17 April 2026. The event brought together scholars working on the reception and transformation of Horace across a wide chronological spectrum, fostering…
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From 14 to 17 April 2026, Florian Schaffenrath took part in the so-called ‘standard setting’ process in Vienna: c. 25 people were preparing the Greek and Latin (including Neo-Latin) texts that are set for the final examination at the end of secondary school throughout Austria. The group of people working on these texts consists of…