our latest activities
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On 28 January 2026, our Neo-Latin Fellow Alessandro Bonvini who contributed to our SRA as one of our Neo-Latin Fellows gave his final talk “Anxiety and Authority:Erasmus’s Dialogue with Italian Humanism” in Innsbruck. We are glad that Alessandro Bonvini spent some months at our department and wish him all the best for the future!
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On 21 January 2026, our Neo-Latin Fellow Micol Muttini who contributed to our SRA as one of our Neo-Latin Fellows gave her final talk “Risus in ore doctorum: Aristophanes’ Nubes in Latin Dress” in Innsbruck. We are glad that Micol Muttini spent some months at our department and wish her all the best for the…
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During the turmoil of the Thirty Years’ War, Greek Orthodox officials sought closer ties with important Protestant institutions in Germany and beyond. At the 45th Metageitnia, an annual conference that brings together classical philologists from Austria, Germany, Switzerland and France, Tobias Heiss presented findings from his doctoral research. He linked an oration delivered in Ancient…
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During the 45th Metageitnia which took place in Innsbruck from 16-17 January 2026, some of our younger team members gave talks about their research. Delila Jordan: Allegoria und imitatio in Servius’ Eklogenkommentar: Tobias Heiss: Metrophanes Kritopoulos’ griechische Rede zum Weihnachtsfest 1625 an der Universität Altdorf: Maximilian Pierl: Lehrgedicht, gelehrte Dichtung, gedichtete Lehre? Zur Definition und…
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Our speaker assoc. Prof. Dr. Florian Schaffenrath welcomes every member of the new project. We are really looking forward to working together as a new team. (7.1.2026)
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William Barton, one of our principal investigators, sparks enthusiasm for ancient languages in pupils. (12/2026)
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A few weeks before the start of our SRA, some team members who were already in Innsbruck met at the Christkindlmarkt next to the Goldenes Dachl to have a cup of hot drinks together. (17.12.2026)