New post on Hermes, by Dries Nijs (PhD researcher @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social), on a unique early modern poem he found in the archives of @unileiden.bsky.social, entitled "A Woman Writing New Ancient Greek Poetry for a Leiden Disputation (1686)" Enjoy! earlymodernhellenism.org/2025/12/01/a...

📣 The deadline to submit an abstract for the 4th IJsewijn Lecture & Laboratorium is likewise approaching! Submissions due 15 December. www.arts.kuleuven.be/sph/ijsewijn... @neolatinsociety.bsky.social @digneolatin.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy

The deadline to submit an abstract for our HellBel conference is approaching too! "New Ancient Greek Literature: Contexts, Audiences, Legacies" (Leuven, 8-10 July 2026) www.dalet.be/CfP_HellBel_...

📣 The deadline to apply for our summer school on Greek-Latin bilingualism from antiquity to early modern times is approaching (Leuven, 12-18 July 2026). Please spread the word! More information: www.dalet.be/Summer%20Sch... @digneolatin.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy @neolatinsociety.bsky.social

📢Here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on professional opportunities for women in the early modern language sector bit.ly/47Y3hYI Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026

Here’s another fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on guilds and associations supporting early modern language professionals bit.ly/49rsLA3 Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026

In the new #openaccess companion on student notes from Latin Europe (@leuvenup.bsky.social), our own Lorenz Demey, together with collaborators, contributes a chapter arguing that student notes hold great promise as sources for intellectual #history 👇 lup.be/book/student... #HPS #earlymodern #philsky

Do YOU have any Neo-Latin teaching materials? Seriously, do you?

On 28 October 2025, 15h, dr. Xander Feys (KU Leuven), postdoc on the ERASMOS project, will present his new findings in a hybrid lecture at Leuven, which serves not only to mark the end of his time at our project but also to celebrate Erasmus’s birthday.

Happy to see this out, completing the editorial triptych with @krithemp.bsky.social that came out of a lovely workshop in Leuven in October 2022.

There's a new blog on Hermes by Riccardo Stigliano (Universität Innsbruck) -- enjoy! earlymodernhellenism.org/2025/10/01/l...

CFP: Ecosystems of the Mind: Resources for Reconstructing Early Modern Intellectual Life || 21–23 May 2026 || Hamburg, DE Please spread broadly! Feel free to reach out with questions.

Want to work with the FitMA-team? Here is your chance! Join our great project and get paid for it! Two postdoc positions open! #classicsky #medievalsky #philsky www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Christian folk etymology with #Erasmus: Sunday is not derived from the 'sun' but from Dutch '(ver)zoenen' ('to reconcile'). vulgata Germanorum lingua dicitur Soendach, non a Sole, ut quidam interpretantur, sed a reconciliando (LB 5, col. 1191)

#Job Tenure-track #Lectureship in Ancient History (Greek and/or Roman) at the Univ. of Cyprus. Greek not a requirement, but it will be considered a bonus. Happy to answer informal inquiries. Thanks for reposting! ➡️ www.ucy.ac.cy/hr/wp-conten... #job #academicsky #skystorians #classics

🎓CALL FOR PAPERS🎓 Abstracts are still being accepted for an SNLS-sponsored conference to be held in Cambridge on the 5th and 6th of November 2025! Abstracts should be submitted via the following link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📢#Job announcement: Lectureship in Ancient History (Greek and/or Roman) at my Department, at the University of Cyprus; tenure-track; please repost www.ucy.ac.cy/hr/wp-conten...

📢 New blogpost on Hermes: Platform for Early Modern Hellenism Adriaan Demuynck's "Laudes urbium, ἐγκώμια φίλων: Two friends writing city encomia and congratulating each other" earlymodernhellenism.org/2025/08/01/l...

Are you working on topics related to the history of linguistics?🫵 Consider submitting an article to ✨Language & History✨, the journal of the Henry Sweet Society! It is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal published 3 times per year both online and in print. www.henrysweet.org/language-and...

“Brunck” can probably be identified as the French researcher Richard François Philippe Brunck (1729-1803), which means that the notes date from the second half of the 18th century. @adendros.bsky.social

Heading back to Berlin after just 2 days of #ianls25 . Really happy with the 4 special sessions on digital technology. There's are strong focus on databases and corpora, but there were also papers on digital methods. Let's see how things develop over the next triennium! @neolatin

Interesting project presentations this morning in the special session on digital technology at #ianls25 : Malika Bastin-Hammou presented the database of 16th century paratexts of ancient drama: https://ithac.elan-numerique.fr Šime Demo talked about LAPIS, a database of Latin church inscriptions […]

Just in time for the @ianls.bsky.social conference in Aix, the Seminarium is happy to share the new, hefty volume of 'Humanistica Lovaniensia', which appeared last week. As usual, all papers can be consulted freely online, through the following link: poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?...

New volume of Humanistica Lovaniensia poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?... #openaccess In honorem Rhodae Schnur VXorI NVrI res neoLatInas nVtrIentI horum commentariorum editores natalem gratulantur singularem @adendros.bsky.social @thomashendrickson.bsky.social @juancjimenez.bsky.social

A new blogpost is available on 'Hermes: Platform for Early Modern Hellenism': enjoy Domenico Graziano's insightful analysis of the Greek paratexts to Heinsius' intriguing Peplus. earlymodernhellenism.org/2025/06/01/o...

The latest post from Hermes!🪽A piece on D. Heinsius’ Peplus (1613) by Domenico Graziano: earlymodernhellenism.org/2025/06/01/o... New Ancient Greek, early modern paratext and poetic philosophy in action right here!

✨𝗟𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻 𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝘁 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗻: 𝗩𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝗲𝘂𝘄𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝘂𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗶𝘁 (𝟭𝟰𝟮𝟱-𝟭𝟳𝟵𝟳), Ralph Dekoninck, Violet Soen (red.) 🖋️Een bijzondere blik op vier eeuwen notities van Leuvense studenten en geleerden Meer info 👉 lup.be/book/lessen-... #KULeuven #UCLouvain #600jaarKULeuven

Discover our results of the largest ancient DNA study ever conducted on a single burial site: 400 skeletons from the Belgian city Sint-Truiden (8th–18th century). A unique glimpse into 1000 years of genetic history. (1/9) @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

🚨Neo-Latin Conference🚨 A reminder that the Society for Neo-Latin Studies is organising an international conference on Neo-Latin style in London on 18-19 September 2025! All are welcome and attendance is free! Click the link below to see a provisional programme and to register ⬇️

'Reciprocal' in English comes from Latin reciprocus 'returning', and I'm charmed by the theory that reciprocus in turn comes from the unattested phrase *re-que pro-que (literally 'back-and forth-and').

Nun ist mir der neue #Papst einigermaßen egal. Aus #neulatein​ischer Sicht erwähnenswert ist aber, dass sein Namensvorgänger lt. Stroh "wohl der letzte voll sprachmächtige Lateiner unter den Päpsten" war ( […] [Original post on openbiblio.social]

I am pleased to share the CfP for the next meeting of the Sammelband 15-16 project group, on 'The Sammelband and Instruction' 📍Nicosia (University of Cyprus) 📆9-21 November 2025 For more information, and the full CfP, please see below: sammelband.hypotheses.org/2481

The deadline (04.05.) is fast approaching for our upcoming workshop on “Diaries of Scholarship”. Link and CfP in the (very kind) reminder from the ACRSN @acrsn.bsky.social :)

5th June 2025 Balliol College, Oxford “Transmitting and Preserving Languages in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean” www.themedievalacademyblog.org/transmitting...

For the Neo-Latin/New Ancient Greek folks, CfP for special issues of Humanistica Lovaniensia:

🗣️ 𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗢𝗤𝗨𝗘 🔜 Mardi et mercredi prochain, assistez au colloque "New Perspectives on Neo-Latin Correspondences during the Early Modern Period", @adendros.bsky.social @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social 📅 6-7/05 📍 Leuven, Mgr. Sencie Instituut / Louvain-la-Neuve, Learning Center Christine de Pizan

Warmly recommended reading for those interested in early modern student notes and who are in search of a companion.

Emotion in Early Modern Science? Join us for a 2-day conference at the Warburg Institute exploring how Kepler, Kircher, and Boyle used pathos, praise & wonder in their scientific writing. 📅 15–16 May 🎟️ Free (in person or online)

📣 New open access publication on early modern student notes, in which Leuven features quite prominently, as it has a long tradition of research in this source type (e.g. Magister Dixit, DaLeT). An extra surplus is that it has appeared in the year of KU Leuven's sexcentenary.

Last days for applying to our vacancy for a postdoctoral researcher in SNA and AI, applied to the study of the Ancient World! Do not hesitate to contact us with questions! More information here: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

#Neulatein​ische Neuerscheinung: Burkard, Thorsten, Hrsg. Daniel Georg Morhof Primitiae Parnassi Kiloniensis. 1. Auflage. Kiel: Wachholtz, 2024.

#Neulateinisch​e Neuerscheinung: Schwab, Maren Elisabeth, Stefan Feddern, Jochen Schultheiß, und Andreas Schwab, Hrsg. The Poetics of Things Past - Gedichtete Geschichtsdinge: Transmission of Knowledge in Verse from Antiquity to Early Modern Times. 1 […] [Original post on openbiblio.social]

#Neulatein​ische Neuerscheinung: Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, Brian P. Copenhaver, und Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Nine Hundred Conclusions. I Tatti Renaissance Library, ITRL 100. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2025. #renaissance #philosophy @neolatin @renaissance

There is a new blogpost on 'Hermes: Platform for Early Modern Hellenism', which stretches somewhat the definition of early modern, but is nonetheless fascinating: it concerns K. B. Hase's incredibly intriguing diary from the first half of the nineteenth century, almost entirely in Ancient Greek!

📚 "In uno volumine” – XII Sammelband 15-16 International Conference 📍 San Daniele de Friuli, Italy | 🗓️ April 10-12 Olga Gkiouleka, will present her research on a fascinating 16th-century Sammelband containing three Greek books printed in Spain : [1/3]

My first bluesky post is to share that this nice collaboration with @tolonen.bsky.social , @jukkasuomela.fi , @trismegistostm.bsky.social and Toon Van Hal is out. We use metadata to study the circulation of Classics in Early Modern England: it was fun to do the research,and even to revise the paper!

(Neu-)Lateinische Neuerscheinung: Korenjak, Martin: Latein. Porträt einer Weltsprache, München: Beck 2025, https://www.chbeck.de/korenjak-latein/product/38086732 @neolatin #NeoLatin #neulatein #latein

De grootste Nederlandse stilist aller tijden was waarschijnlijk Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536). neerlandistiek.nl/2025/03/eras...

📢 Only 2 weeks left to submit your paper for the #GrECI Project's Concluding Conference (22-24 Oct. 2025, Nicosia 🇨🇾)! Theme: Ancient Greece as a shared cultural archive in early modern Europe. 🗓️ Deadline: 1 April 2025 🔗 More info: greci-twinning.org/events-and-d... #AncientGreece

CFP: Scholarly Institutions Through Time: Continuity and Change On May 14 my Uppsala department will be hosting a workshop on the role of scholarly institutions in the history of science. Follow the link for the whole call. docs.google.com/document/d/1...