On Wednesday, October 18th 2017, Paul Shore gave the talk:
From Qawl to Verbum: Exploring Four Neo-Latin Translations of the Qur’an
The talk was followed by a discussion.
The 25th–26th September saw an international group of scholars meet in Old Library at All Soul’s College, Oxford for a two-day conference on the phenomenon of window references in literature. Alongside experts on Classical, Neo-Latin and English literature, there were also contributions on two-tier allusions in French, Middle Irish and Polish literary culture. The conference, organised with the support of the LBI for Neo-Latin Studies, also brought together a number of Boltzmann fellows past and present.
On Monday, September 18th 2017, Dr. Bernhard Schirg gave the talk:
“Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny” – Mario Equicola’s Neither by hope nor fear (1506/1513) and the author’s fight for a white vest
The talk was followed by a discussion.
On Wednesday, September 13th 2017, Dr. Petra Šoštarić gave the talk:
Horrida lustra, horridae Musae: Josephi Rodrigues de Mello De rusticis Brasiliae rebus carminum libri IV
The talk was followed by a discussion.
On Saturday, August 28th 2017, Haruka Oba (Faculty of Literature, Kurume University, Japan), a former LBI fellow and currently a partner in the project “Japan on the Jesuit Stage” visited Innsbruck. She had lunch with the LBI team members and discussed the details of the project with Maria Maciejewska and Florian Schaffenrath. They talked about a planned workshop in Japan and an upcoming conference on Jesuit drama, which will take place in Vienna in summer 2018.
We are very happy for Dr. Bernhard Schirg (LBI fellow from August to September 2017) who has gained the "Freigeist"-Fellowship from the renowned Volkswagenstiftung!
Cf. https://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/nc/aktuelles-presse/aktuelles/aktdetne...
On Thursday, 7th September 2017, Akihiko Watanabe gave the talk:
Early Modern Japan, Neo-Latin, and European Classical Humanism
The talk was followed by a discussion.
Akihiko Watanabe (Otsuma Women's University, Tokyo University; Japan), a collaborator in the project “Japan on the Jesuit Stage” spent a few days in Innsbruck (6-11 September 2017).
On Tuesday, 29th August 2017, Bobby Xinyue gave the talk:
The Politics of Neo-Latin Fasti
The talk was followed by a discussion.
Our former fellow Gerard Germain González who was in Innsbruck from October 2014 to January 2015 has published his edition of Agostino Vespucci's De situ ... Hispaniae libellus. The LBI congratulates!
Agostino Vespucci, A Description of All Spain. De situ, longitudine, forma et divisione totius Hispaniae libellus, critical edition, translation, introduction and notes ed. by Gerard González Germain, Roma, Viella, 2017, pp. VIII + 247.
Our former LBI fellow Lugi Silvano from Turin, who was in Innsbruck from November 2016 to January 2017, published a collection of essays on eduaction in early modern times. Congratulations!
Federica Ciccolella / Luigi Silvano (eds.): Teachers, Students, and Schools of Greek in the Renaissance (Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 264), Leiden: Brill, 2017.