What a stimulating conversation! Thanks to @relics_research, my fellow panelists and to audience members. I hope that we can schedule a follow-up event as we have lots more to discuss (especially regarding how academics & schoolteachers can collaborate effectively).

CS Lewis, in his inaugural, called the disappearance of Latin in the 20th century a greater loss of learning than was experienced in the post-Roman west of Late Antiquity.

A good time to remember Coleridge's Greek poem against the slave trade: a Sapphic ode in 24 quatrains, ‘Sors misera servorum in insulis Indiae occidentalis’ (Ode on The West-Indian Slave Trade). samueltaylorbloggeridge.blogspot.com/2019/11/coleri…

#19write work continues on a first description of Charles-Benoît Hase’s use of Ancient #Greek in his secret diaries. Putting pen to paper on the piece is revealing new insights on H.’s attitudes and activity as a philhellene during an early phase of the Greek ‘language question’.

❗️Please help us with public engagement! Me, Dr Sharon van Dijk, SNLS, with a group of PhDs & ECRs, are putting together a (free!) walking tour: 'Early Modern Latin in London'. Any suggestions for how to get the word out to communities / members of the public in London?

*Final reminder* to apply for the LECTIO Visiting Scholars Program by 31 May! Do you work on intellectual history? Legal history? Textual editions? Applying digital humanities methods on pre-modern material? Something else along the LECTIO lines? Come spend some time in Leuven!

Lectoribus εὖ πράττειν! Goed nieuws om de ochtend van een drukke 2-daagse mee te starten (IJsewijn Lecture & Laboratorium): ik ben zowaar 1 van de 5 laureaten van de Eos Pipet 2023! Eos Wetenschap vzw Stemmen geblazen, en delen maar! #NieuwOudgrieks eoswetenschap.eu/geschiedenis/d…

We are gearing up for our first SNLS Early Modern Latin walking tour next Sat! If you see me and Simon Smets gesticulating wildly in front of some Latin inscriptions in the City next weekend, give us a wave😅 Both tours are totally booked up but we hope to run more!

Writing today on Hase’s role in Alexander von Humboldt’s Latin publications. Hase provided lists of Latin vocabulary for his friend’s De distributione geographica plantarum (1817) and later translated a work. For a piece on Hase’s use of the classical languages in 19thc. #19Write

Applications for visiting fellowships to use Durham University libraries & archives in 2023-24 are now open: durham-rrl.org.uk/fellowships/ We welcome applicants aiming to collaborate with members of #Classics & #AncientHistory: please do get in touch! durham.ac.uk/departments/ac… #AncMedTwitter

Mark your calendars! Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) (Institute for Advanced Studies) is hosting a launch for Baroque Latinity by Jacqueline Glomski, Gesine Manuwald & Andrew Taylor Wednesday 1st of Nov, 5:00 pm–7:00 pm 📅 bit.ly/3qbeF1l 📖 bit.ly/44KYIOK

Onto the 2nd proofs today for the latest in the Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series. The anthology presents poetry by renaissance & early modern #classicists (incl. Manuzio, Dorat & Scaliger!) revealing how song and scholarship blend. Out Jan ‘24: bloomsbury.com/uk/anthology-o… Bloomsbury Classical Studies & Archaeology

📢 Job opening at ERC-StGr project ERASMOS: Postdoc - NLP for historical languages (1 year, with option to extend) Please dare (and care) to share! kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs…

Early Modernists and/or Latinists! Is anyone interested and able to lend a couple hours on 12th or 18th Nov to help run another ‘Early Modern Latin in London’ walking tour? All the material has been written and tested and it’s always a lot of fun (I think and the feedback says!)

Here's a call for participation in a very brief survey on digital #Neolatin projects. If you know about a relevant project, it would be great if you could share what you know 👉 forms.gle/9pk74ESs6xD2tF… For more info on digital Neolatin studies, follow hcommons.social/@digneolatin

#CFP Academic Eloquence in Europe from Humanism to the Enlightenment (15th–18th Century) - Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens - 14–15 November 2024 - Due Jan 31 - listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=…

We are delighted to announce a new specialised short course led by scholars William M. Barton, Lucy Nicholas, and Raf Van Rooy! This course, structured over 8 sessions, offers an in-depth exploration of New Ancient Greek literature. Book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/new-anc… #AncientGreek

CfP Rountable on the future of teaching Latin. ##ClassicsTwitter

New issue of Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures No. 10 (2024) jolcel.ugent.be/issue/25908/in… #openaccess Latin-Greek Code-Switching in Early Modernity II RELICS Raf Van Rooy

Call for papers: Literatures without Borders – Literatures without Borders literatureswithoutborders.com/2024/12/05/cal…