The 17th Jozef IJsewijn Lecture will take place on Thursday 22 May 2025, at 5pm, in Leuven, and will be delivered by Professor Aline Smeesters (UCLouvain). The lecture will be followed by a reception at 6pm in the big hall of the Erasmushuis on the ground floor. Attendance is free, but registration will be required.
The next day, on Friday 23 May 2025, the 3rd IJsewijn Laboratorium will be held at the Couvreurzaal Leuven. The Laboratorium will have a full-day program devoted to ongoing Neo-Latin research. The participants are encouraged to engage with Neo-Latin from or about Leuven in the context of the 600th anniversary of KU Leuven, founded in 1425. We aim to have one special session devoted to this theme. The scientific committee will make a competitive selection of abstracts, as we have a maximum of 10 paper slots. The main workshop language will be English. Abstracts are due 15 December and should be sent to Adriaan Demuynck (adriaan.demuynck@kuleuven.be) and Raf Van Rooy (raf.vanrooy@kuleuven.be).
For the further details: https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/sph/ijsewijnlab
Radboud University Nijmegen, Huize Heyendaal, Faculty Club, Marijnenkamer
Friday 10 January 2025
Dear colleagues,
On 18 December 2022, Marc van der Poel, Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the Radboud University Nijmegen, passed away at the age of 65. His research on the history of rhetoric, from Cicero to Lipsius, Ramus and Agricola, was groundbreaking and influential. Marc van der Poel served as editor-in-chief of the journal Rhetorica (2011-2018), and as president of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (2019-2022). To honor him, the OIKOS research group Ancient Rhetoric and Aesthetics will organize a symposium on Friday, January 10th, 2025. The program is as follows:
09.30‐09.40 Welcome by Casper de Jonge (Leiden) and Koen De Temmerman (Ghent)
09.40‐10.00 Hanne Roer (Copenhagen, president ISHR), Welcome address on behalf of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric
10.00‐10.45 Michael Edwards (Royal Holloway, London), ‘The orators in rhetoric: a loose canon?’
10.45‐11.15 Coffee and tea
11.15‐12.00 Tina Skouen (Oslo), ‘Quintilian and the new sciences’
12.00‐13.30 Lunch
13.30‐14.15 Janika Päll (Tartu), ‘The way of the dialectics of Agricola into the practice of oratio latina, taught by Lorenz Luden in the 17th century Academy of Tartu: the crossing paths of Sturm, Melanchthon and others’
14.15‐15.00 Manfred Kraus (Tübingen), ‘The role of declamation in Jesuit rhetoric’
15.00‐15.30 Coffee and tea
15.30‐16.15 Kees Meerhoff (University of Amsterdam), ‘Transmission and declamation’
16.15‐16.45 David Mirhady (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, immediate past president ISHR), Closing remarks
17.00-19.00 Drinks
This symposium is funded by the research school OIKOS, the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, and Radboud University.
You are most welcome to attend the workshop. The entrance fee is 20 euros. If you would like to participate, please send an email to Casper de Jonge: c.c.de.jonge@hum.leidenuniv.nl
With kind regards,
Koen De Temmerman
Casper de Jonge
Bé Breij
U bent van harte welkom op de 43e Erasmus Birthday Lecture, die dit jaar iets vroeger valt, op vrijdag 11 oktober, georganiseerd door de Erasmus of Rotterdam Society in samenwerking met de KNAW:
Ann Blair, “Erasmus from the perspective of an amanuensis – Gilbert Cousin”
vrijdag 11 oktober, 16.00-17.30
KNAW, Trippenhuis, Kloveniersburgwal 29, Amsterdam
Allen welkom, aanmelding verplicht
Ann Blair is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor op Harvard University, waar ze boekgeschiedenis en vroegmoderne Europese culturele en intellectuele geschiedenis doceert. Ze publiceerde ondermeer: The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science (1997); Too Much To Know: managing scholarly information before the modern age (2010); L’Entour du texte: la publication du livre savant à la Renaissance (2021).
Voor meer informatie en aanmelden zie: https://www.knaw.nl/en/events/43rd-erasmus-birthday-lecture-ann-blair
RMA-studenten en promovendi kunnen op dezelfde dag deelnemen aan een masterclass door Blair over “Learned Book Culture in the Sixteenth Century”, bij Allard Pierson. Voor informatie en aanmelding, ziehier: https://www.huizingainstituut.nl/course/erasmus-birthday-lecture-by-ann-blair-harvard-university/.
The Teaching Committee of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, together with the Warburg Institute, the Society for Neo-Latin Studies, the Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, and the Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae of KU Leuven, is organizing a digital workshop on “Teaching Neo-Latin: texts, materials, didactic challenges”. It will take place on Wednesday 30 October, 1 to 4.30 PM British time. Further information and registration via this link: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/teaching-neo-latin-texts-2024
The aim of this online event is to bring together (especially early career) researchers and teachers interested and involved in the teaching of Neo-Latin texts at both school and university level. Papers will reflect on the tools and platforms already available, and those which are still needed in order to successfully implement Neo-Latin teaching more broadly in schools and universities.
Here is the programme (times are UK-based):
1.00pm: Welcome and Introduction
1.10-1.45pm: Eugenia Sisto (Warburg Institute, London), ‘A new understanding of Latin: the case of Dante’s De vulgari eloquentia‘
1.45-2.20pm: Irina Tautschnig (University of York) and Dominik Berrens (University of Mainz), ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Early Modern Natural History for Schools’
2.30-3.05pm: Pieter Vynckier (Sila Westerlo School), ‘The Laudatio Borysthenis by Feofan Prokopovych in the comprehensible Latin classroom’
3.05-3.40pm: Katharina Schön (University of Groningen), ‘Neo-Latin Literature during Italian Fascism and German National Socialism’
3.40-4.15pm: Anna Rogowska-Wandowicz and Elżbieta Górka (University of Wrocław), ‘Epigrammata by Klemens Janicki (1516-1543) and Spoken Latin’
4.15/30pm: Close
TITEL: Welke klassieken, hoezo klassieken?
DATUM en LOCATIE: vrijdag 28 juni, Heymanszaal, Academiegebouw Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Broerstraat 5)
Dit symposium vindt plaats ter gelegenheid van het afscheid van David Rijser als bijzonder
hoogleraar antiekenreceptie aan de RUG, en het verschijnen van zijn nieuwe boek Arachne
en de imams.
In drie blokken bespreken we thema’s die relevant zijn voor de hedendaagse bestudering van
de klassieken. Na een aantal korte pitches is er steeds ruimte voor publieksdiscussie.
13:45-14:30: blok 1, moderatie Piet Gerbrandy
Klassieken en wetenschap
Pitches: Diederik Burgersdijk, Koen Vacano, Nathalie de Haan, Stephen van Beek
14:30-15:15: blok 2, moderatie Jacqueline Klooster
Onderwijs en literatuur
Pitches: Louise Elffers, Siward Tacoma, Romkje de Bildt, Matthijs Sanders
15:15-15:30: intermezzo door Jean Pierre Rawie
15:30-16:00: pauze met koffie en thee
16:00-16:45: blok 3, moderatie Bettina Reitz-Joosse
De canon
Pitches: Miguel John Versluys, Janneke Louman, Chris Buur, Maarten De Pourcq
16:45-17:30: boekpresentatie en afscheidslezing, ‘Arachne en de imams’
17:30: receptie in Café Wolthoorn & Co (Turftorenstraat 6), met eten verzorgd door de scheidende hoogleraar
Deelname is gratis maar registratie (per mail aan Bram van der Velden: a.j.l.van.der.velden@rug.nl) is noodzakelijk, en wel vóór 14 juni. Geeft u daarbij alstublieft met het oog op de receptie eventuele dieetwensen door. Er is geen livestream voorzien.
The 16th Jozef IJsewijn Lecture will take place on Thursday 23 May 2024, at 5pm, in the Justus Lipsius Room of the Erasmushuis (8th floor; Blijde Inkomststraat 21, 3000 Leuven), and will be delivered by Professor Eric MacPhail (Indiana University). The lecture’s subject will be: Erasmus and the Latin Deficit in Leuven.
Registration to the Laboratorium is open Registration open through: https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/sph/ijsewijnlab.
On Friday 24 May 2024, the 2nd IJsewijn Laboratorium will be held at the Couvreurzaal (M01.E50; Edward Van Evenstraat 4, 3000 Leuven, on the Social Sciences Campus). The Laboratorium will have a full-day program devoted to ongoing Neo-Latin research.
A provisional program can be consulted here.
The registration fee for the IJsewijn Laboratorium will be €25 to cover catering. Please register before 1 May 2024 for the Lecture (free), Laboratorium (€25), or both through this link. (BA and MA students of KU Leuven are exempted from paying the Laboratorium’s fee.)
The 16th Jozef IJsewijn Lecture will take place on Thursday 23 May 2024, at 5pm, in the Justus Lipsius Room of the Erasmushuis (8th floor; Blijde Inkomststraat 21, 3000 Leuven), and will be delivered by Professor Eric MacPhail (Indiana University). The lecture’s subject will be: Erasmus and the Latin Deficit in Leuven.
The next day, on Friday 24 May 2024, the 2nd IJsewijn Laboratorium will be held at the Couvreurzaal (M01.E50; Edward Van Evenstraat 4, 3000 Leuven, on the Social Sciences Campus). The Laboratorium will have a full-day program devoted to ongoing Neo-Latin research, and has two main aims: (1) showcasing state-of-the-art research in Neo-Latin studies, in terms of both subject and methodology, and (2) bringing together young scholars with established researchers, including the Jozef IJsewijn Lecturer. There is, in other words, no specific thematic focus, and everyone is encouraged to present work-in-progress, paying due attention to both successes and pitfalls in Neo-Latin research, and how to build on, or deal with, them.
For more information, see https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/sph/ijsewijnlab
De Society for Neo-Latin Studies organiseert op 23 september een online colloquium over transculturele uitwisseling. Het programma en de registratielink zijn hier te vinden.