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.
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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.
Roundtable on ‘Women as Authors of Latin Literature’
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.
Call for Papers: Medieval Texts and their Social Contexts: Performance, Performativity, Agents and Genres
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.
WOMEN AS AUTHORS OF LATIN LITERATURE
RELICS organises a roundtable on women as authors of Latin literature. The event takes place on 11 March 2025 over Zoom.
Call for Papers: Literatures Without Borders
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.
Roundtable on ‘The Future of Latin Teaching’
Our second virtual roundtable on 'The Future of Latin Teaching' will take place from Thursday 23 May 2024, 4.00-5.30pm (CET)
Get Together RELICS (8th of March 2024)
"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…
Call for Papers for a Roundtable on the Teaching of Latin
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.
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…
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