Neo-Latin

All Senior Members, Postgraduate Students, and Academic Visitors Welcome

Cultures across Languages – Cambridge Society for Neo-Latin Studies Seminar

The seminar brings together scholars and students interested in any aspect of Latin in the postclassical world, whether this is imaginative literature in Latin, or Latin as the primary language of intellectual exchange in premodern periods, and its sundry interactions with the vernaculars. In its new home under the English Faculty’s sponsorship, the seminar aims to offer a space for thinking in particular about English writing and cultural practice against the broader multilingual canvas of culture within, across, and beyond premodern Europe.

2023-24

These are all lunchtime seminars (12pm-1.15pm) -- do feel free to bring your lunch.

19th October 2023
Faculty of English, GR/04
Richard Serjeantson (Cambridge), ‘Eloquence and history, sedition and property: Defending universities in Elizabethan England’

23rd November 2023
Faculty of English, GR/04
Evgeniia Ganberg (Cambridge), 'Mistaken identity, civil unrest, and talking rivers: Staging the Trojan War in seventeenth-century Salzburg'

25th Jan 2024
Faculty of English, SR/24
Floris Verhaart (Warwick), 'Dominicus Baudius (1561-1613) and the roles of women in the early modern republic of letters'

15th Feb 2024
Faculty of English, SR/24
Tomos Evans (California State/The Warburg Institute), 'Editing Milton’s Latin and Greek poems: Challenges and opportunities'

2nd May 2024
Faculty of English, SR/24
Yves Peyré (Paul Valéry, Montpellier), 'Jean Miélot's civic mythography'

For further information about the seminar, please contact Andrew Taylor (awt24@cam.ac.uk), Tania Demetriou (td227@cam.ac.uk) or Anna-Maria Hartmann (amrh3@cam.ac.uk