Researcher in Sub-Project 4
Contact
University of Innsbruck
Department for Classical Philology and Neo-Latin Studies
room 06L040 (6th floor)
Innrain 52a (Ágnes-Heller-Haus)
A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
phone: +43 512 507-40701
email: hanne.berendse@uibk.ac.at
Relics Research Profile
Biography
CV
- 06/2001: Born in the Netherlands
- 07/2018: A-Levels (VWO) in Economics and Society, Gemeentelijk Gymnasium Hilversum (cum laude); recognised for achieving the highest mark of my year in the state exams for Philosophy and English Language and Literature
- 07/2021: BA Hons in Culture, History & Society at Leiden University College (cum laude); thesis on the self-fashioning of women artists in the Dutch Republicnominated for Thesis of Merit Award09/2023: MA in Cultural, Intellectual, and Visual History (1350–1650) at the Warburg Institute (high distinction); thesis on Artemisia Gentileschi’s Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine (1615-17) awarded the highest mark of the cohort (82)
- 11/2023: Start of PhD, fully funded by the Austrian Science Fund and jointly supervised by the University of Innsbruck and the Warburg Institute
- 04/2026: Start of Visiting Studentship at the University of Cambridge
Partnerships and Associations
- Board member of the international research network ‘RELICS’ for the interdisciplinary and decolonial study of Latin
- Representative of the University of Innsbruck within the international Scientific Research Network ‘Literature Without Borders: A Historical-Comparative Study of Premodern Literary Transnationality’
Public Engagement Activities and Event Organisation
- Creative Latin Translation Workshop (23/02/2026). Workshop for high school students from the Euregio Tirol on theories of translation, including the usage of translation for popular media.
- GERECHT?: Geschichten über soziale Ungleichheiten (06/2025–03/2026)
- Creative writing project in collaboration with the curators of the Tiroler Volkskunstmuseum to provide reflective vignettes for the objects in the exhibition ‘GERECHT?: Geschichten über soziale Ungleichheiten’ | Contributed two texts on the position of women in the mid-twentieth century.
- Nox Latina: die Lange Nacht der Antike (25/04/2025)
- Nationwide outreach event for the stimulation of interest in the classical world | Developed an open-air cinema with screenings of famous film scenes dubbed in Latin | Responsible for PR, including the development of promotional materials and giving a radio interview about the event.
- ‘Early Modern Latin in London’ Walking Tours (2023–2024)
- Collaboration with the Society for Neo-Latin Studies and Queen Mary’s Centre for Public Engagement | Co-developed a walking tour along historic sites in the City of London to make Neo-Latin accessible to a wider audience. This tour also became part of the Being Human festival.
Conference and Guest Lecture Organisation
- “Old and New Authorities in the Self-Representation of Neo-Latin Authors.” 26th NeoLatina conference, Innsbruck, 24–25 September 2026. Co-organised with Dr Johanna Luggin (Innsbruck), Prof Dr Simone De Angelis (Graz) and Prof Dr Wolfgang Kofler (Innsbruck).
- Guest Lecture by Florence Forte (Warburg Institute and Medici Archive Project) on women Latin authors from the Quattrocento. Upcoming, winter semester 2026. Organised at the University of Innsbruck.
- Guest Lecture by Dr Odile Liliana Panetta (University of Oxford) on academic theses and Reformed political theology in the seventeenth century. 15/01/2025. Organised at the University of Innsbruck.
- Guest Lecture by Dr Martine van Ittersum (University of Dundee) on Hugo Grotius’
- involvement in Dutch overseas expansion and colonisation. 21/05/2021. Organised at the University of Leden.
Research Interests
- Early modern history
- Gender studies
- History of science and ideas
- Visual culture
- Self-fashioning
- Constructions of authority
Publications
- “‘Bodily strength is a disgrace, not an honour’: Johanna Otho (1549–c.1621) on Men’s Moral Education” Renaissance Studies, Special Issue: The Epistolary Renaissance: Women Latinists and the Republic of Letters (1300-1700) [under review].
- “Virgo faciebat: Artistic Self-Fashioning in Latin Inscriptions by Female Artists in Early Modern Italy.” Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures, Vol. 13, Women as Authors of Neo-Latin Texts [expected spring 2026].
- “‘To have learned the Latin language will do me absolutely no harm’: Johanna Otho (1549–c. 1621), De Studio Virginitatis.” In An Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature Written by Women 1350-1800, edited by Stephen Harrison and Gesine Manuwald, 115–125. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2026.
Editorial Work
- Co-editor of the double-blind peer review Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures (Diamond Open Access)
Talks
- Love Among the Ruins: The Symbolism of Classical Ruins in François Boucher’s Peaceful Pastorals. 11/02/2026, Love in Text and Image, The Warburg Institute. Invited.
- Dissecting ‘the Other’: Anatomical Fugitive Sheets and the Representation of the Female Body in the Early Modern Period. 10/12/2025, LECTIO XIV International Conference, KU Leuven.
- Ironic Praise in the Visual Arts: Female Artists and the Mock-Heroic Self-Portrait in Early Modern Italy (1550–1650). 05/09/2025, Ironic Encomia and Paradoxical Humour in the Early Modern Period, Goethe Universität Frankfurt.
- Quae […] ob oculos exhibita fuerunt”: Francesco Ferdinando Giuliani’s De fossilibus universalis Diluvii (1741). 16/07/2025, Nineteenth International Congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, Aix-en-Provence.
- ‘And even savage beasts, you see, are also tamed by the art of those who teach’: Education, Discipline & the Taming of Nature in Johanna Otho’s De Bona Institutione (1616). 13/06/2025, Annual Meeting of the International Society for Intellectual History, University of Aarhus.
- ‘Honey-Sweet Poems’: Vergilian Stylistics in the Poetry of Anna Pallantia (1550-1599). 27/05/2025, Colloquia Neo-Latina Tridentina, University of Trento. Invited.
- The Richness of Receipts, Registers, and Recipe Books: An Introduction to Working with Early Modern Manuscript Sources. 18/11/2024, Guest lecture for the BA-course: “Introduction to Textual Criticism”, University of Innsbruck. Invited.
- The Humanist Network of Anna von Palant, or Pallantia (1550-1599). 20/09/2024, The Epistolary Renaissance: Women Latinists and the Republic of Letters, Medici Archive Project, Florence.
- Fossils of the Flood: Francesco Ferdinando Giuliani’s De fossilibus universalis Diluvii, cum speciminibus Tirolensibus (1741). 12/06/2024, Annual Scientiae Meeting, Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, Brussels.
- A Sense of Self: Artemisia Gentileschi’s Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria (1615-1617). 16/04/2024, Annual Graduate Conference in European History, European University Institute, Florence.
- Unearthing the Past: Empirical Historiography and Object-Based Research in Francesco Ferdinando Giuliani’s De fossilibus universalis diluvii, cum speciminibus Tirolensibus (1741). 27/01/2024, AKMe, University of Innsbruck.
- Perpetuae virgines &gentiluomini: Gender Performance in Self-Portraiture in Early Modern Northern Italy. 17/06/2023, Mediaeval & Early Modern Studies Festival, University of Kent, Canterbury.
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