Our next conference on “Medieval Texts and their Social Contexts: Performance, Performativity, Agents and Genres” will take place in Ghent from 13–14 November 2025. All are warmly invited to join us in person! Registration via: https://event.ugent.be/registration/medievalperformance.
On 11 March 2025, two RELICS members, Simon Smets and Alex Tadel, organized our third virtual roundtable to discuss women as authors of Latin literature. This blogpost by Alex Tadel provides an overview of the event.
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. We invite scholars of all career stages to submit their proposals to info@relicsresearch.com by December 31st, 2024.
Last year, the research group RELICS organised an online roundtable discussion on the future of Latin studies. Excellent impulse talks and vivid discussions made the event a success, which is why we have decided to continue the effort. Future roundtables will focus on topics which last year’s discussion highlighted as particularly relevant for the field. This year, we will look at the teaching of Latin from various points of view.
Can we effectively unlearn and dismantle the harmful, neocolonial structures of knowledge that have shaped Latin into the field of study it is today? If so, how can we relearn Latin? Together, the six speakers, the audience, and the organizers will partake in a collective project of imagining and developing a toolkit for un/relearning Latin.
Psalms, their translations and poetical rewritings are the focus of the SRN Literature without Borders’ next conference in May 2026 in Leuven. The deadline for the CfP is 15 January 2026.
Our next conference on “Medieval Texts and their Social Contexts: Performance, Performativity, Agents and Genres” will take place in Ghent from 13–14 November 2025. All are warmly invited to join us in person! Registration via: https://event.ugent.be/registration/medievalperformance.
RELICS 
Roundtable on ‘The Future of Latin Teaching’
Our second virtual roundtable on ‘The Future of Latin Teaching’ will take place from Thursday 23 May 2024, 4.00-5.30pm (CET)