Society for Neo-Latin Studies Postgraduate Research Sharing and Feedback Event

The Society for Neo-Latin Studies is organising an online event, hosted by the Warburg Institute, for PhD students and ECR colleagues. It will consist of presentations on current Neo-Latin or Neo-Greek research projects by postgraduate students and early career researchers, and will serve as an opportunity to share ideas and receive feedback from other scholars in the discipline.

Organisers: Lucy Nicholas ([email protected]) and Gesine Manuwald ([email protected]).

PROGRAMME (each session is a 30-min slot: up to 15mins presentation + up to 15mins discussion) 

1.00–1.10pm – Introduction and Welcome

1.15–1.45 – Paper 1: Gavanndra Hodge, ‘Insignium, Armorum, Emblematum, Hieroglyphicorum et Symbolorum … Explicatio of Abraham Fraunce’. Chair: Dr John Colley

1.50–2.20 – Paper 2: Dr Stefano Cianciosi, ‘Classical Literature at the Court of Matthias Corvinus: Naldo Naldi’s De Laudibus Augustae Bibliothecae’. Chair: Dr Lucy Nicholas

2.25–2.55 – Paper 3: Dominika Tokarz, ‘Two faces of the soul in Andreas Alenus heroid: “Soul to Body”’. Chair: Professor Gesine Manuwald

2.55–3.15 – Break

3.15–3.45 – Paper 4: Isaac Figliuoli, ‘Singing the news in Renaissance Italy. Political discourse in the verses of Niccolò Cieco’. Chair: Dr Lucy Nicholas

3.50–4.20 – Paper 5: Dr Jordi Alonso, ‘Jesuit Epic at the Edge of the World: Ubertino Carrara’s Columbus in Translation’. Chair: Dr John Colley

4.25–4.55 – Paper 6: Alexander Gould, ‘Jesuit Relations and the interaction between Neo-Latin and the vernacular’. Chair: Professor Gesine Manuwald

4.55–5.00 – Conclusion

FULL PROGRAMME AND ABSTRACTS

ONLINE ATTENDANCE FREE WITH ADVANCE BOOKING