May 12, 2026 to May 13, 2026 (Europe/Brussels / UTC200)Mgr. O. Romerozaal (02.10), Collegium Veteranorum (109-20), Sint-Michielsstraat 2-4 , 3000 Leuven Registration: https://www.kuleuven.be/lectio/events/conference-psalms-and-paraphrases The Book of Psalms holds a central place in both Jewish and Christian traditions, acting as a prayerful bridge between the…
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.
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.
Performance and performativity have proved to be highly productive concepts for understanding the social worlds of medieval texts in diverse literary, linguistic and historical contexts. Through associable notions of orality, aurality, gesture, ritual, materiality, and agency, they have provided fresh ways to historicise texts. This conference seeks to build on such work through a comparative lens, bringing together case studies from different settings, languages and genres, to ask how texts functioned in social contexts, considering their written manifestations as only one part of their lives.
RELICS organises a roundtable on women as authors of Latin literature. The event takes place on 11 March 2025 over Zoom.
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.
Our second virtual roundtable on 'The Future of Latin Teaching' will take place from Thursday 23 May 2024, 4.00-5.30pm (CET)
"On March 8, RELICS researchers held an informal meeting at Ghent University in which we presented pitches of our current projects and discussed forthcoming events for our network. We are excited to announce that our next RELICS conference will be…
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