Join the SNLS for our new "Women Writers in Early Modern London" walking tour, which we are running as part of the Being Human Festival 2025 @beinghumanfest.bsky.social! Click the link for more information and to book on: www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/women...

The SNLS is delighted to once again be participating in the Being Human Festival with ✨new walking tours✨ on multiple dates! Check out the programme to see what amazing humanities events are in store this Festival season!

The 2025 Being Human Festival programme is now live! 💫 This year's festival runs from 6 - 15 November 2025. With over 220 events taking place in 46 towns and cities across the UK, there is a wide range of events to suit everyone's curiosities. Programme highlights: bit.ly/3IsbVWI #BeingHuman2025

Registration for the "Neo-Latin and Issues of Style" conference at UCL is open until 11 September. Sign up now!

I can highly recommend @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social’s walking tour of Early Modern Latin in the City of London. Visited some new sites and finished off with a nice pub lunch and a toast to Wynkyn de Worde www.layersoflondon.org/map/trails/e... #layersoflondon

#CFP Reception of the Ancient World in Trading, Collecting, Gaming and Fortune-Telling Cards - online conference - November 21-22, 2025 listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A... Due by Oct 15

#MedievalSky #EarlyModern If you're working on any aspect of the life-cycle (eg birth, marriage, baptism, leaving home, death, childbearing, etc) and want to present at the Life Cycles Seminar at IHR I'd be keen to hear from you! Echo chambers are never good, so it's always worth casting the net.

🎓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...

📜NEO-LATIN PUBLICATION📜 The SNLS is delighted to share, on behalf of editor Dr David Money, Issue 15 of the newly revived Vates: The Journal of New Latin Poetry! Click the link to dive into some treasures of Neo-Latin verse: vatesblog.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

🚨Neo-Latin Event Next Week!🚨 On Friday 30 May, several scholars from the University of Cambridge are organising a roundtable on ‘Scientific Poetics and Neo-Latin’. The event promises an exciting lineup of papers and discussants and there is still time to register! More details are on our website:

🚨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 ⬇️

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume. Classicist: why yes, that was the age of gold, when folks free from care lived out their lives in gentle leisure. The earth too was free from harm, not touched by a rake nor wounded by any plows, but gave everything of her own accord.

🎓 ONLINE EVENT The Society for Neo-Latin Studies is organising an online event, hosted by @warburginstitute.bsky.social, on 5 June! Come along to hear presentations on current Neo-Latin or Neo-Greek research projects by our postgraduate and ECR colleagues 📚 Link to signup and more info below ⬇️

What a day to have studied Latin in Chicago.

Can’t wait for our roundtable on new editions of the medieval Ovid at this year’s @kzooicms.bsky.social, with some Ovidian editors! This Friday. Featuring Frank Coulson, Kyle Gervais, Robin Bockerman, Sarah-Jane Murray, and Mattheiu Boyd. In the last 5 years alone, they have published editions of…

Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges, University of Exeter, June 2 - 4, 2025 #Skystorians www.rensoc.org.uk/event/women-...

🧵With the UK government having recently rolled back funding for Latin teaching in secondary schools, and with GCSE season approaching, the SNLS is aware that some students will need extra Latin tuition in the run up to their exams. (1/2)

🧵Exciting PSA from the SNLS on behalf of the journal Vates: Announcing the return of Vates: the journal of New Latin Poetry Previous 14 issues, 2010-18: vatesblog.wordpress.com New series, similar but with some improvements, to appear regularly from mid-2025: ISSN 2976-9671.

Idyllic weather for ‘Being Bruno’! ☀️📖

Call for papers! "Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer, 1500-1700," to be held in Canberra, Australia on 7 and 8 August 2025. Abstracts due 31 March 2025. #cfp #EarlyModern #nuntastic #16thC #17thC #skystorians #AcademicSky #BookHistory

CONFERENCE Wearing Antiquity: modern fashion and the past 2000 BCE-1000 AD 9th International Conference IMAGINES 19-21 March, Senate House HIGHLIGHT: Workshop by Harriet Vine of Tatty Devine @tattydevine.bsky.social Full programme and registration (free and open to all): bit.ly/436L7TR

Join us on 4th March from 3-7 PM at the American Academy for a conference on "Approaches to the Roman Environment." The event will end with closing remarks from Peter J. Smith Senior Fellow in Archaeology Angela Trentacoste.

2 fully-funded PhD places available in Swansea's School of Culture and Communication -- which includes history, heritage, ancient history, classical studies. Topic open; restricted to those who would pay UK fees; tight deadline 24 February. Feel free to share. www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

EXCITEMENT!!! OUR PROGRAMME IS LIVE! Would you look at all these fascinating panels and presentations -- the #EarlyModern continues to fascinate. Have a peak www.rensoc.org.uk/srs-biennial... and get excited for 2-5 July in Bristol for #RenSoc25! #SkyStorians

Those are some lovely looking manuscripts (if we do say so ourselves)! 👀

📖 The SNLS held its AGM in Cambridge in November, where we were treated to a private tour of Trinity College’s Wren Library! Check out some of the medieval and early modern Latin manuscript treasures we saw, from the hands of Thomas Power, Prince Henry, and (perhaps) the Venerable Bede himself…

🎓CONFERENCE: Neo-Latin and Issues of Style: Places and Periods 1450–1750 (18-19 September, 2025) The SNLS is organising an international, two-day conference in London later this year! This free event promises an edifying series of panels and lectures on Neo-Latin genres and styles across periods.

✒️CALL FOR PAPERS: Postgraduate Research Sharing and Feedback Event. The Society for Neo-Latin Studies is organising an online event for PhD students and ECR colleagues on Thursday 5th June 2025! The deadline for abstract submissions is 13 April 2025. Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/CFP-n...

Neo-Latin job alert at KU Leuven! PhD position in Renaissance classical bilingualism contributing to the ERC Starting Grant project ERASMOS. Application deadline 1st March 2024. www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

20 years! Congratulations! I hope to finally send off my form to become a member in this coming year! 😊🔥

We join Bluesky at the dawn of a special year for the Society for Neo-Latin Studies: 2024 will mark 20 years of the SNLS! We have been the home of scholars in the UK interested in literature of the early-modern period written in Latin for two decades.

Neo-Latin Podcast alert! Episode 7, on 'Act and Tripos verse' is now available here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren... Many thanks to Dr Will Barton and Dr Tommi Alho for creating it!