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.
Category: Blogpost
Roundtable on the Future of Latin Studies
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.
In Focus: The Dutch Humanist and the Strong Female Character
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.
In Focus: Was Roman literary drama ‘cosmopolitan’?
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.
In Focus: Travel and Cosmopolitanism: A Medieval View in Covid Times
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: Klazina Staat on the medieval maps and... the covid- pandemic.
In Focus: From Slave to Poet: The Schoolmaster Juan Latino in Sixteenth-Century Granada
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.
In Focus: Cosmopolitanism on stage: how classical Latin literature formed our comic identity
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.
In Focus: The ‘Features’ of Cosmopolitanism: Computers & 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: Jeroen De Gussem on computers, stylometry and Latin literary studies.
In Focus: Palermo, cosmopolitanism at the crossroads
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.
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