On April 28th 2012, the "Tiroler Nacht der Forschung, Bildung und Innovation" (Tyrolean Night for Research, Education and Innovation) was held in Innsbruck.
The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies contributed the world's first Neo-Latin Poetry Slam to this interdisciplinary event.
Eight participants, among them professional "slammers" and students from the Latin Department of Innsbruck University, performed their poems based on various Neo-Latin texts.
In March 2011, the Thalia Wagner'sche Bookshop in Innsbruck, our main partner for book acquisitions, presented our Institute and various aspects of Neo-Latin studies in a specially designed shop window (cf. the attached pictures).
In an interview given to the OST Bridges Magazin (the Online Magazine on Transatlantic Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy, published quarterly by the Office of Science & Technology (OST) at the Austrian Embassy in Washington, DC), the Austrian Federal Minister for Science and Research, Karlheinz Töchterle points out "Neo-Latin studies as an example of a prominent field of research in the Humanities” in Austria (vol. 33, May 2012).
A delegation from the LBI for Neo-Latin Studies visited Washington, D.C. from 21st to 26th of March 2012 in order to participate at the RSA-Conference (Renaissance Society of America).
Besides the official conference programme, they were able to visit the “Austrian Cultural Forum Washington” where they were warmly welcomed by its director, Andrea Schrammel.
On March 7th 2012, Prof. Dr. Karl A. E. Enenkel (University of Münster) visited the LBI and gave a talk on "Die humanistische Kultur Coimbras als Wiege des emblematischen Kommentars. Sebastian Stockhamers Alciato-Kommentar für Joao Meneses Sottomayor (1552)".
On February 22nd 2012, Prof. Dr. Claudia Schindler, head of the Institut für griechische und lateinische Philologie (Hamburg University), visited the LBI.
The presentation of the LBI was followed by a short discussion about the Institute's programme and the three research lines as well as about Neo-Latin as a discipline.
On January 13th 2012, Dr. Victoria Moul (King's College London) visited the LBI and gave a talk on "Reading Latin Elegies in Seventeenth Century England".
On Wednesday 11th of January 2012, the members of the “Qualifizierungsprogramm Train the Trainer”, organized by the Lower Austrian university of education, visited the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo Latin Studies. Our guests are going to be responsible for the implementation of the new school leaving examination in Latin, in which Neo Latin texts will play an important role in the future.
On December 21st 2011, Mag. Katharina Cortolezis-Schlager, member of the Austrian National Council and of the science committee, visited our Institute.
A presentation of the LBI was followed by a discussion about the Institute's programme, Neo-Latin as discipline as well as recent scientific developments in the Ludwig Boltzmann Society.