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  • Antonia Foggia and Ada Migliazza at the INTRADAMS Summer School in Milan

    Antonia Foggia and Ada Migliazza, predoc researchers in SP 1 (Coordination Project), took part in the Summer School INtegrating TRAditional and Digital Approaches in Manuscript Studies (INTRADAMS), held at the University of Milan from 8th to…

  • The Suffering of the Epic Body: Florian Schaffenrath in Orléans

    From 18 to 19 June 2026, our colleagues in Orléans organised a conference on the theme of ‘The Suffering of the Epic Body’ (Malheurs du corps épique). Over the course of two days, the speakers explored…

  • Dr. Ficulle Santini’s and Prof. Taragna’s Guest Lecture

    On 17 June 2026, our department had the honor of hosting Dr. Larisa Ficulle Santini (Austrian Academy of Sciences) and Professor Anna Maria Taragna (University of Turin). They presented a joint paper in a double…

  • Veronica Papotti Awarded with Seminarium Fellowship in Leuven

    Veronica Papotti, PhD researcher in Subproject 7 Canons of Neo-Latin Texts, has been awarded a Seminarium Fellowship for the academic year 2027–2028 at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Under the supervision of Raf Van Rooy and Nicholas…

  • Domenico Graziano at SISMEL and Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana

    Domenico Graziano (SP1 – Coordination Project) recently completed a period of training and scientific collaboration in Florence at SISMEL (International Society for the Study of Medieval Latin) and the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (8–11 June), as part…

  • William Barton about Byzantine Letters in Spain at the TeTra Seminar

    On 11 June 2026, William M. Barton contributed to the Text and Transmission Research Seminar (TeTra) organized by the universities of Vienna and Leuven. His talk “Byzantine Letters in Golden-Age Spain: On Vicente Mariner’s translation…

  • Latinists Meet Germanists: Afternoon with Michaela Wiesinger

    On 8 June 2026, Prof Dr Michaela Wiesinger from the Institute of German Studies (Innsbruck University) visited our SRA. We presented to her in particular those research projects that are closely related to German humanism…

  • First Presentation of Our New Database: Domenico Graziano and O. Lorena Purcaro in Catania

    Domenico Graziano (SP1 – Coordination Project) and Orsola Lorena Purcaro (SP5 – Neo-Latin Translations – Bilingual Books for Early Modern Readers) participated in the international conference Transfer of Knowledge in Auxiliary Texts to Greek and Latin Literature (14th–16th…

  • Veronica Papotti in Paris: Deixis in Roman Comedy

    Veronica Papotti, PhD student in Sub Project 7 Kanones of Neo-Latin Texts, participated in the biennial conference L’Approximation en latin, organised by the Centre Alfred Ernout and held at Sorbonne Université (Paris) from 1 to…

  • Patryk Ryczkowski in Wrocław and Cracow

    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 15th annual REFORC conference in Wrocław from 19 to…