Het driejaarlijkse congres van de frisistiek wil deze editie graag een sessie wijden aan de cultuurgeschiedenis van “de lange zestiende eeuw” in Friese landen. Een centrale plek zou er in zo’n sessie onder andere zijn voor Viglius van Aytta (jurist en topambtenaar van Karel V en Filips II) en zijn vriend Joachim Hopperus. Latijn, vroegmoderne meertaligheid en intellectuele cultuur spelen daarbij uiteraard een belangrijke rol.
De deadline voor abstracts is 16 maart.
Voor meer informatie, zie: www.frisianhumanities.frl
Find more information via: https://www.barocon2025.flf.vu.lt
Call for papers
The following topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Sarbievius: works, translations, reception;
- Forms of piety and religious policy during the Baroque era;
- Writers, publishers, readers in the Baroque period;
- Private and public correspondence;
- Biography, hagiography, history;
- Rhetoric as a world-view: literary theory, education, transformation;
- Selfhood and otherness;
- Body, gender, senses;
- Performative literary culture;
- Affetti theory;
- Post-Baroque: tradition, reinterpretation, revival;
- Neo-Baroque in Literature.
Submission guidelines
- Your abstract should be for a 20 minute presentation in English.
- All submissions are done through ConfTool page of the conference.
- The acceptable word range for the abstract is 250-300 words.
Registration
You can submit your proposal on the conference’s ConfTool page welcome.barocon2025.flf.vu.lt. To submit, please register and then you will be able to provide the title of the proposed paper, an abstract (up to 300 words) in English, and keywords. In the field Remark/Message from the Authors you can also submit short biography of the author with key publications (maximum three).
Abstract submission deadline is 20th February, 2025. Abstracts will be considered and reviewed by the Conference organisers. We anticipate communicating decisions on submissions by 20th March 2025.
The conference programme will be published by 31 May 2025. We expect to publish the conference proceedings in a separate book and/or journals Senoji Lietuvos literatūra (Early Lithuanian Literature) as well as Literatūra (Literature)(indexed in Scopus).
In case of problems with ConfTool, please send your proposals and the above information to eleonora.terleckiene@flf.vu.lt.
Dear colleagues,
The international Scientific Research Group (SRN) ‘Literatures without Borders’, funded by the Research-foundation Flanders (FWO) organizes a conference on premodern transnational literatures in the Palace of the Academies in Brussels on 19 and 20 June 2025.
The conference aims to investigate how transnational/cosmopolitan literatures function, and if a conceptual framework could be devised that better characterizes, defines, and understands premodern literary transnationalism.
Keynote speaker will be Prof. dr. Karla Mallette (U-Michigan), whose work on premodern literary cosmopolitanism (e.g. Lives of the Great Languages, 2021) forms an important cornerstone of the current scholarly debate.
We seek 250-word proposals for 30-minute papers that examine the phenomena of cosmopolitanism and transnationalism in premodern Arabic, Byzantine-Greek, Hebrew-Yiddish-Ladino and Latin literatures, as well as their interactions with various vernaculars. More information can be found on our website: https://literatureswithoutborders.com/2024/12/05/call-for-papers-literatures-without-borders/.
We invite scholars of all career stages to submit their proposals to info@relicsresearch.com by December 31st, 2024. Selected participants will be notified by the end of January 2025.
Kind regards,
Ivo Wolsing
Simon Smets
On behalf of the Scientific Research Network Literatures Without Borders
Dear Colleagues,
In the past two years, the research group RELICS organised online roundtable discussions on the future of Latin studies and education. Excellent impulse talks and vivid discussions made the events a success, which is why we have decided to continue the effort. We continue to focus on topics which last years’ discussions highlighted as particularly relevant for the field. This year, we will look at women as authors of Latin literature from various points of view.
In recent years the study of women authors has grown in importance in Latin studies. This invites us to rethink the field’s boundaries and traditions. We seek perspectives on women, past and present, who used Latin to express themselves. Some view modern feminist theories as vital to the field, while others question their applicability. Does integrating today’s feminist and gender theories risk overlooking the unique contexts of historical texts? Another point of interest is the role of social class and other identity markers in shaping women’s representations. Questions of representation and canon formation remain at the heart of these debates: which texts are privileged, and how do we teach these texts? Finally, we seek input on regional variations in approaches to gender in Latin studies. How do perspectives from different countries interact, and is it possible to trace broader regional approaches shaped by distinct cultural and scholarly traditions? We invite scholars of all career stages to share their ideas on gender in Latin studies with us.
We plan to hold the event on 11 March 2025 over Zoom. The exact time will be decided on the basis of participants’ time zones and will be communicated later. For now, we invite concrete expressions of interest: short thoughts that you would consider worth discussing or more elaborate proposals for a substantial contribution to the discussion. From this, we will select speakers to give impulse talks of five minutes that will serve as a basis for the ensuing discussion.
Proposals and any remaining questions should be sent by 13 January to relics@ugent.be.
With kind regards,
Alex Tadel (University of Warwick)
Simon Smets (KU Leuven)
The conference will take place in Spring 2026 in Münster and is organised by Katharina-Maria Schön (Vienna) and Lukas Reddemann (Münster).
The deadline for papers is the 15th of February 2025.
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
Louvain-la-Neuve/Leuven, 6-7 May 2025
The Society for Neo-Latin Studies (SNLS) is planning an international conference on Neo-Latin style, to be held in London on 18 and 19 September 2025.
This conference aims to bring people together to stimulate discussion on Neo-Latin material across the two days by offering a range of formats for interaction. Thus, in addition to a keynote lecture and traditional paper sessions (with papers of 20 minutes plus discussion), there will be roundtable discussions, papers followed by comments by respondents as well as a display of posters throughout the conference. Expressions of interest to contribute to any of these formats are now invited.
The conference aims to take a more in-depth look at the question of ‘Neo-Latin style’ by asking the following questions: What is meant by ‘style’? What is the early modern and the contemporary terminology to describe this phenomenon? Is there such a thing as ‘Neo-Latin style’? What features of Neo-Latin texts need to be investigated to be able to define their ‘style’? Does the style of Neo-Latin texts develop over the period traditionally defined as that of Neo-Latin literature and, if so, how? Are there any noticeable stylistic differences between texts in prose and in verse and between texts of literary genres? What is the relationship between ‘style’ and translation? How might ‘Neo-Latin’ style differ from the style of classical antiquity? Can one discern any patterns in the use or imitation of particular classical and / or other contemporary authors? Does style differ between texts produced in different countries (by writers with different vernaculars as their native languages)? How might modern research tools and methods (e.g. access to digitized and searchable texts, databases, digital humanities) contribute to research on Neo-Latin style? What has the subject already achieved in terms of research on Neo-Latin style (for instance, the recent research network on ‘Baroque Latinity’) and what would be projects for the future? These (and other) questions may be looked at in broader overviews or by means of individual case studies.
The conference will start at around midday on the first day and conclude soon after lunch on the second day, so that most attendees would only need to stay in London for one night (unless they wish to stay for longer). All presenters are expected to attend in person, though the option to join online as audience members will be set up in due course. At the moment it is not expected that there will be much funding for this conference (though funding applications are in progress). Thus, presenters and other in-person attendees should expect to pay for their own travel and accommodation; in return, there will not be any conference fees, and refreshments during the day will be provided.
Anyone interested in offering a paper, a response, a poster or participating in a roundtable discussion should send an expression of interest to the organizers (Gesine Manuwald at g.manuwald@ucl.ac.uk and Lucy Nicholas at lucy.nicholas@sas.ac.uk) by 31 October 2024. This expression of interest should include name and affiliation, indicate the format for which the contribution is intended and, where appropriate, a title for the contribution and an abstract of up to 300 words. Informal enquiries before the deadline will also be welcome.