our latest activities
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On Friday, 6 March 2026, Marie Jeannot-Tirole defended her PhD thesis at the University of Strasbourg. Her thesis is an annotated edition of the Sylva epistolaris seu barba by the Alsatian humanist Johannes Sapidus (1490–1561),…
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In the Early Modern period, the need for spoken Latin in academic circles spawned books with Latin dialogues as schoolboy exercises known as colloquia. To a much smaller extent, but with some popularity, Ancient Greek…
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At this year’s conference of didactics of Latin and Greek, Johanna Luggin gave a talk about Latin women writers from antiquity to the Early Modern period. She presented the corpus as we know it at…
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Johanna Luggin, PI of sub-project 4 on „Women’s Voices in Neo-Latin“, visited several groups of pupils, ages 16 to 19, at different high schools in Innsbruck and Schwaz in the last months to talk about…
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As our first team building event, we visited the monastery of Wilten where the abbot, a monk and an employee showed us around the monastery, including the historic library, and the archives. As it houses…
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To mark the launch of the new SRA at the University of Innsbruck, Rector Veronika Sexl visited our department. The researchers gave the Rector an insight into their work.Rector Sexl wishes the team all the…
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At our weekly team meeting on 4 February 2026, we were honoured to be visited by the Dean of our faculty, Prof. Dr Jürgen Fuchsbauer. He gave us an overview of the ongoing strategic planning…
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On 3 February 2026, the meeting (Klausurtag) of the Research Programme (FSP) ‘Cultural Encounters – Cultural Conflicts’ took place in Innsbruck. Florian Schaffenrath presented the new SFB Neo-Latin in the Modern World. The brief presentation…
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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…
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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.…