On Monday, June 19th 2017, Massimiliano Malavasi will gave talk:
Famiano Strada’s Momus: The Scholar versus the Poets of his Time
The talk was followed by a discussion.
On Wednesday, June 14th 2017, Rocco Di Dio gave the talk:
Marsilio Ficino and the Renaissance Ideas of Beauty and Love: Preparatory Notes for the De Amore
The talk was followed by a discussion.
On Thursday, June 8th 2017, Farkas Gábor Kiss gave the talk:
Von der Poetria nova zu Erasmus: amplificatio und copia im rhetorischen Unterricht um 1500
The talk was followed by a discussion.
On Thursday, June 1st 2017, Dávid Molnár gave the talk:
Pietro Illicino’s Assassins: Literary Works in the Service of a Careerist’s Life
The talk was followed by a discussion.
On Monday, May 22nd 2017, Alex Simrell gave the talk:
The Importance of Citation in “Digital Humanities”. Producing a CTS Version of Tyrolean Neo-Latin Texts
The talk was followed by a discussion.
On Thursday, May 18th 2017, Krisztina Goda gave the talk:
Intermediation by Translation
The talk was followed by a discussion.
The Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies organised a conference on Latin and the Republic of Letters, Diachronic Concepts of Education from Oral Tradition to Digital Humanities (4–5 May 2017). Speakers for the event came from numerous different countries, including Russia, the USA and various European states. Key note presentations were given by Gregory Crane and Christopher Celenza.
From the 26–29th April 2017, the Annual Meeting of the Classical Association (UK) took place in Canterbury. In collaboration with the Society for Neo-Latin Studies (SNLS), the LBI organised a round table entitled „Classical Genre and the Shape of Knowledge in Renaissance and Early Modern Latin Writing“. This is the fourth time that the SNLS and the LBI have worked together on representing Neo-Latin Studies in Classical circles in the UK.
On Wednesday, May 10th 2017, Prof. emerit. Hans Helander gave the talk:
The Age of the World. Early Modern Chronology in the Western and Eastern Churches
The talk will be followed by a discussion.
As in the last five years, also this year the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft has organized a Meet Science Event in the beautiful location of the Semper Depot in Vienna. On 19 April 2017, more than 500 guests (representatives and steakholders of the most important Austrian science organisations) came together and were deeply impressed, not only by the presentations of the different Ludwig Boltzmann institutes, but also by the performance of the drama group Nesterval.