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  • Canon Conference in Paris

    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…

  • First Advisory Board-Meeting

    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…

  • “Die Presse” Reports on SP 4’s Research: Women’s Latin in the Early Modern Period

    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:

  • Sappho Digital: Guest Talk by Laura Untner

    On October 7, 2026, Laura Untner (Freie Universität Berlin) spoke to a large audience about the fascinating early Greek poet Sappho. The lecture provided an overview of how her work has been received in German-speaking…

  • ‘Virgo faciebat’ – Article about Latin Signatures of Women Painters by Hanne Berendse

    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…

  • Hanne Berendse’s Visiting Studentship at the University of Cambridge

    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…

  • Patryk Ryczkowski at Conference about Book Culture in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

    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…

  • NeoLatina 2026: “Old / New Authorities in the Self-representation of Neo-Latin Authors”

    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…

  • Visit of the Swiss Ambassador

    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…

  • Machine Learning: Lev Shadrin at Summer School in Graz

    From 21 to 25 September, Lev Shadrin took part in the Machine Learning for Digital Scholarly Editions summer school organized by the Department of Digital Humanities at Uni Graz and sponsored by CLARIAH-AT and DARIAH-EU. The summer…