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.
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…
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“The literature of ‘modern’ Europe is as intermingled with that of the Mediterranean as if the Rhine had received the waters of the Tiber.” E.R. Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages Waterways, from great seas to local lakes…
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).
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