Teaching Neo-Latin: texts, materials, didactic challenges: A digital workshop

Co-organised by: The Warburg Institute, the Teaching Committee of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS), the Society for Neo-Latin Studies (SNLS), the Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Neo-Latin Studies (LBI) and the Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae of KU Leuven.

The aim of this online event is to bring together (especially early career) researchers and teachers interested and involved in the teaching of Neo-Latin texts at both school and university level. Five speakers will explore ways to assemble teaching material and deliver the teaching, and papers will reflect on the tools and platforms already available, and those which are still needed in order to successfully implement Neo-Latin teaching more broadly in schools and universities. We also invite comments from anyone in attendance and a general pooling of ideas through general discussion between each paper is a key desideratum. 

Each speaker will present for 20 minutes followed by 15 minutes of discussion.

In the following programme, times are UK-based:

1.00pm: Welcome and Introduction

1.10-1.45pm: Eugenia Sisto (Warburg Institute, London), 'A new understanding of Latin: the case of Dante’s De vulgari eloquentia'

1.45-2.20pm: Irina Tautschnig (University of York) and Dominik Berrens (University of Mainz), 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Early Modern Natural History for Schools'

2.30-3.05pm: Pieter Vynckier (Sila Westerlo School), 'The Laudatio Borysthenis by Feofan Prokopovych in the comprehensible Latin classroom'

3.05-3.40pm: Katharina Schön (University of Groningen), 'Neo-Latin Literature during Italian Fascism and German National Socialism'

3.40-4.15pm: Anna Rogowska-Wandowicz and Elżbieta Górka (University of Wrocław), 'Epigrammata by Klemens Janicki (1516-1543) and Spoken Latin'

4.15/30pm: Close

If you have any questions about this event, please contact Lucy Nicholas (lucy.nicholas@sas.ac.uk) and Christoph Pieper (c.pieper@hum.leidenuniv.nl)

Organisers:
Sarah Knight (Leicester/SNLS)
Gesine Manuwald (London/SNLS)
Lucy Nicholas (Warburg Institute/SNLS)
Christoph Pieper (Leiden/IANLS)
Raf Van Rooy (Leuven)
Isabella Walser-Bürgler (Innsbruck/LBI)

ATTENDANCE FREE WITH ADVANCE BOOKING