Applications are now open for the Summer School Classical Bilingualism: From Greco-Roman Antiquity to Early Modern Europe, taking place at KU Leuven as part of the ERASMOS project. The program explores various manifestations of Latin–Greek bilingualism in Antiquity, the Renaissance, and the Early Modern Period. The course is open to MA/RMA students, PhD candidates, and postdocs with a good command of Latin and Ancient Greek. Application deadline: 1 December 2025. The full call for applications can be found here: https://www.dalet.be/summer_school_2025_CFA.pdf.
The Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) (dr. Susanna de Beer) in cooperation with the Committee for Teaching Neo-Latin of the “International Association of Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS)” (Prof. Dr. Claudia Schindler, Hamburg, and dr. Christoph Pieper, Leiden) will organize a spring school at the KNIR from 3-11 May 2024. Its title is “Neo-Latin Literature in and about Rome”, and it is open to (Res)MA and PhD students. The deadline for applying is 6 January, 2024.
On the one hand the spring school will give a general introduction in the studying of the field of Neo-Latin for students who have few or no experience with it so far. On the other hand, it will explore the field by focusing on Roman humanism and the city of Rome and its representation in Neo-Latin literature. On the basis of case studies, participants will get to know specimens of Rome’s attractiveness for Neo-Latin writers. The KNIR will be the site of the lectures and library research, but our main venue will be Rome itself. During the course we will visit a variety of sites in (and outside of) Rome (planned i.a.: Biblioteca Vaticana, Vatican Museums, Capitoline Museums, the ancient Forum, the Pantheon, and many more) and relate the places to written sources and literary texts many different sources (poems, historiography, descriptions of the city, letters) in order to understand the impact of the city on the learned Latin debates and literature of early modern Europe.
For detailed description and application see the following link:
https://www.knir.it/nl/cursus/spring-school-neo-latin-literature-in-and-about-rome/
The Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) (dr. Susanna de Beer) in cooperation with the Committee for Teaching Neo-Latin of the “International Association of Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS)” (Prof. Dr. Claudia Schindler, Hamburg, and dr. Christoph Pieper, Leiden) will organize a spring school at the KNIR from 3-11 May 2024. Its title is “Neo-Latin Literature in and about Rome”, and it is open to (Res)MA and PhD students.
On the one hand the spring school will give a general introduction in the studying of the field of Neo-Latin for students who have few or no experience with it so far. On the other hand, it will explore the field by focusing on Roman humanism and the city of Rome and its representation in Neo-Latin literature. On the basis of case studies, participants will get to know specimens of Rome’s attractiveness for Neo-Latin writers. The KNIR will be the site of the lectures and library research, but our main venue will be Rome itself. During the course we will visit a variety of sites in (and outside of) Rome (planned i.a.: Biblioteca Vaticana, Vatican Museums, Capitoline Museums, the ancient Forum, the Pantheon, and many more) and relate the places to written sources and literary texts many different sources (poems, historiography, descriptions of the city, letters) in order to understand the impact of the city on the learned Latin debates and literature of early modern Europe.
For detailed description and application see the following link:
https://www.knir.it/nl/cursus/spring-school-neo-latin-literature-in-and-about-rome/
LECTIO, KU Leuven Institute for the Study of the Transmission of Texts, Ideas and Images in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, is organizing a Summer School on 4-5 September 2023, in the Abbey of Kortenberg, close to Leuven. This year’s focus is on Multilingualism in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period.
The main ambition is to examine to which extent the practices of, and reflection on, multilingualism can be retraced in manuscripts, printed matter, and visual sources, and how this should be taken into account when analyzing the premodern history of knowledge. This Summer School will also introduce us to approaches of media history and book archaeology which help uncover the ‘multilingual past’ of intellectual history, and examine the complex interplay between orality, text, and the material world in relation to linguistic diversity.
Neo-Latin early career researchers (PhD and postdoc) are also welcome to join this summer school.
Please find the invitation and the preliminary program here: https://ianls.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/LECTIO_Summer-School_2023_callprogram_DEF.pdf.
Deadline for registration is 30 June 2023.
Op 13 en 14 oktober 2022 vindt aan de KU Leuven het on-site evenement ‘Latin-Greek code-switching in early modernity: A cross-disciplinary workshop’ plaats. Voor meer informatie en aanmelding zie: https://sites.google.com/view/code-switching2022.
Call for participation
IANLS Vacation School: Digital Humanities and Neo-Latin Studies
Bonn, 1–5 March 2022
The corpus of Neo-Latin texts is a vast and still widely uncharted ‘terra incognita’ whose actual dimensions have been emerging only in recent years with the advent of digitization. The digital turn could be a veritable game changer for Neo-Latin studies. Scholars no longer depend on physical access to large research libraries with collections of manuscripts and old printed books. Today, a daunting quantity of texts is often just a click away. Even though Neo-Latin studies have crucially benefitted from digitization, there has nonetheless been little interaction between Neo-Latin studies and the Digital Humanities.
The Vacation School on Digital Humanities and Neo-Latin Studies, organized under the auspices of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS) and generously sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation, is intended to provide a platform for a more intense dialogue between these two disciplines. It offers an opportunity for people from both fields to discuss research questions at the intersection between Neo-Latin Studies and Digital Humanities and explore the potential of interdisciplinary collaboration.
The Vacation School consists of two events, the first of which was an online conference held from 14 to 17 April 2021 (video in our Youtube channel), whereas the second will take place in person in Bonn from 1 through 5 March 2022. This second hands-on event will enable the participants to meet up in person, share their experiences, ideas and questions. It will address in particular the following areas: (1) Exploring Neo-Latin text corpora, (2) Digital Neo-Latin editions, (3) Lemmatization, (4) Stylometry, (5) Linguistic Linked Open Data, and (6) Geographical and biographical metadata. The program will start in the afternoon of Tuesday 1 March (arrival date) with general introductions and will end in the morning of Saturday 5 March 2022 (departure date) with concluding remarks. The core of the program will be conducted from Wednesday 2 March through Friday 4 March. People arriving late on 1 March and/or leaving early on 5 March will not miss anything essential.
We can offer travel bursaries (maximum amount based on the travel allowances granted by the DAAD) to all successful applicants. The participants will be offered free accommodation in Bonn from 1 through 5 March 2022.
Early-career researchers are particularly encouraged to apply.
Papers and discussions will be in English. Basic computer skills as well as a good command of Latin are required. Participants are asked to bring their own computer.
Applicants are kindly asked to send a short CV alongside a motivation statement (approx. 300 words) via email to Prof. Dr. Neven Jovanović (njovanovic@m.ffzg.hr), Prof. Dr. Marc Laureys (m.laureys@uni-bonn.de), and Alexander Winkler (alexander_winkler@posteo.de).
Deadline for applications: 26 November 2021, Notification: 15 December 2021.
For up-to-date information please visit the website dedicated to the Vacation School (https://dnls.hypotheses.org/) and follow us on Twitter (@DigNeoLatin). If you have specific questions, please contact the organisers directly via email.