Conference: ‘Psalms and Paraphrases’

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…

Invitation: Roundtable ‘Decolonizing Latin Literary Studies in Practice’

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.

Conference: ‘Medieval Texts and their Social Contexts: Performance, Performativity, Agents and Genres’

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.

Bron: Harley Trilingual Psalter (before 1153). British Library, Harley MS 5786.

Conference: ‘Pre-modern literary transnationalism from a historical-comparative perspective’

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…

Conference: ‘Waterways and Literary Channels of the Pre-Modern World’

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…