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.
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.
RELICS organises a roundtable on women as authors of Latin literature. The event takes place on 11 March 2025 over Zoom.
The international Scientific Research Group (SRN) ‘Literatures without Borders’, funded by the Research-foundation Flanders (FWO) organizes a conference on premodern transnational literatures in the Palace of the Academies in Brussels on 19 and 20 June 2025. The conference aims to…
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…
This workshop explores the various appearances and meanings of water in pre-modern literary cultures. What role did the geography of waterways play in the transregional movement of authors, texts, styles, and poetics? What commonalities and differences can we identify across…
Read More Conference: ‘Waterways and Literary Channels of the Pre-Modern World’
On the 2nd of February 2023, three members of RELICS, Simon Smets, Elodie Paillard and Dinah Wouters, organized a virtual roundtable to discuss the future of Latin studies. This blogpost aims to capture the highlights of that discussion.
On 23 February the Scientific Research Network Literatures without Borders set up a research group which will investigate the translational character of Yiddish, Ladino and other Jewish languages and cultures.
The RELICS research network is delighted to invite you to attend our virtual roundtable on The Future of Latin Studies. Join us on Thursday 2 February 2023 at 4.00-5.30pm (CET).
The blog series 'In Focus' is conceived as a way to show the scope and diversity of the RELICS research group. A member of our team reflects on a current or recently finished project, and how it connects to the…
The monthly blog series 'In Focus' is conceived as a way to show the scope and diversity of the RELICS research group. Each blog post one of us will reflect on a current or recently finished project, and how it connects to the aims and vision of RELICS. Through this, by drawing from our own personal experience, we want to show in which ways Latin cosmopolitanism came to the fore from antiquity until modern times. This month: Elodie Paillard on Roman literary drama.
The monthly blog series 'In Focus' is conceived as a way to show the scope and diversity of the RELICS research group. Each blog post one of us will reflect on a current or recently finished project, and how it connects to the aims and vision of RELICS. Through this, by drawing from our own personal experience, we want to show in which ways Latin cosmopolitanism came to the fore from antiquity until modern times. This month: Elodie Paillard on Roman literary drama.
RELICS was awarded a royal grant for the establishment of a Scientific Research Unit by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO)! The so-called WOG, entitled “Literatures without Borders. A Historical-Comparative Study of Premodern Literary Transnationality” will allow RELICS to coordinate international collaboration for a period of 5 years (with possible extensions).
The monthly blog series 'In Focus' is conceived as a way to show the scope and diversity of the RELICS research group. Each month one of us will reflect on a current or recently finished project, and how it connects to the aims and vision of RELICS. Through this, by drawing from our own personal experience, we want to show in which ways Latin cosmopolitanism came to the fore from antiquity until modern times. This month: Maxim Rigaux on the sixteenth-century poet Juan Latino.
The monthly blog series 'In Focus' is conceived as a way to show the scope and diversity of the RELICS research group. Each month one of us will reflect on a current or recently finished project, and how it connects to the aims and vision of RELICS. Through this, by drawing from our own personal experience, we want to show in which ways Latin cosmopolitanism came to the fore from antiquity until modern times. This month: Chrysanthi Demetriou on cosmopolitanism and Roman comedy.
The monthly blog series 'In Focus' is conceived as a way to show the scope and diversity of the RELICS research group. Each month one of us will reflect on a current or recently finished project, and how it connects to the aims and vision of RELICS. Through this, by drawing from our own personal experience, we want to show in which ways Latin cosmopolitanism came to the fore from antiquity until modern times. This month: Jeroen De Gussem on computers, stylometry and Latin literary studies.
The monthly blog series 'In Focus' is conceived as a way to show the scope and diversity of the RELICS research group. Each month one of us will reflect on a current or recently finished project, and how it connects to the aims and vision of RELICS. Through this, by drawing from our own personal experience, we want to show in which ways Latin cosmopolitanism came to the fore from antiquity until modern times. This month: Ivo Wolsing on the cosmopolitan culture of twelfth-century Palermo.
RELICS 