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Raf Van Rooy

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Philhellenic Neo-Latinist Assistant Professor at KU Leuven ERC-StG holder: ERASMOS

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Theodor Dunkelgrün @theodunkelgrun.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
5 May in Leuven! Looking forward to presenting my book, The Multiplicity of Scripture: The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible (PIMS @uoftpress.bsky.social @brepols.net @degruyterbrill.bsky.social 2025) at @lectio-institute.bsky.social www.kuleuven.be/lectio/event... #BookHistory #earlymodern
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Afternoon Seminar on New Ancient Greek, with a lecture on Greek scholarship in the making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible
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Theodor Dunkelgrün @theodunkelgrun.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
This event is part of the terrific "Hellas was here!" exhibit at the @speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social, by the @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social project on "New Ancient Greek literature of the early modern Low Countries (ca. 1484–1700)": Reinhart Ceulemans, Liese Dictus, Dries Nijs, and @adendros.bsky.social
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Raf Van Rooy @adendros.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
📜 New on Early Modern Hellenism We are pleased to announce the publication of “Zeus the Fool” by Karen Lelittka, a sharp and illuminating examination of Rhodoman’s Ilias parva. Read the full piece here: 🔗 earlymodernhellenism.org/2026/04/01/z...
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Zeus, the Fool?
Criticizing the Pagan Father of the Gods in Lorenz Rhodoman’s Ilias parva (1588/1604) Karen Lelittka (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) The Greeks began their education with Homer. Homer retained hi…
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Pieter Beullens @pieterbeullens.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
CfP on a marvelous topic, imho, especially because I organise the conference myself (with Sébastien Moureau): "Verbositas Arabica, implicatio Graeca, paucitas Latina. Multilingual Text Traditions in the Middle Ages (8th–14th Century)" (20–22 Jan 2027). #medievalsky hiw.kuleuven.be/dwmc/researc...
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Leuven University Press @leuvenup.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The RSA brings together thousands of scholars, embracing the wide scope of Renaissance studies today and fostering a deeper and broader understanding of the period 1300–1700. 📚 Browse our selection of books in Renaissance studies lup.be/collection/r... #RSA2026 #renaissance #history #books #readup
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LECTIO Institute @lectio-institute.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The call for Visiting Fellowships is open! In a nutshell: 📚 Open topic (x2) or a more specific theme (x3) ⏳ 4–6 weeks in the academic year 2026–2027 💶 Non-stipendiary (alas!), but we will cover travel to/from Leuven and accommodation 📆 Apply by 6 March 2026 🔗 www.kuleuven.be/lectio/visit...
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Humanistica Lovaniensia Vol. 74 (2025) poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?... #openaccess @peeterspublishers.bsky.social @adendros.bsky.social @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
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Raf Van Rooy @adendros.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
📣 Publication alert 📣 The 2025 volume of HL is out. You can access the OA volume through the link below. It features a thematic section on ‘Lovanium’ in the frame of the university’s sexcentenary alongside regular articles spanning 6 centuries of Neolatinitas. poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?...
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Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN) @acrsn.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Jan 19 online [4pm CET] NeoClassica: Texts and Perspectives from the Early Modern Classical Tradition seminar: Rewriting Greece - with Raf Van Rooy (KU Leuven), Tomos Evans (Princeton) & Olivia Montepaone (Milan). Link - email prolepsis.network@gmail.com
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Raf Van Rooy @adendros.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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...
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A Woman Writing New Ancient Greek Poetry for a Leiden Disputation (1686)
Dries Nijs (KU Leuven) Leiden University library houses an extensive collection of printed disputationes. These broadsheets and pamphlets present the theses that university students — the responden…
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Raf Van Rooy @adendros.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
📣 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
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IJsewijn Lecture & Laboratorium
The Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae organizes the new IJsewijn Lecture & Laboratorium. This initiative revives the annual Jozef IJsewijn Lecture in a novel format, but preserving some classical in...
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Raf Van Rooy @adendros.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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_...
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Raf Van Rooy @adendros.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
📣 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
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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
📢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
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PhD position, project: LangPro Women in the Early Modern Language Sector
PhD position, project: LangPro Women in the Early Modern Language Sector
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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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
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PhD position, project LangPro: 'Societies and Guilds in the Language Industry'
PhD position, project LangPro: 'Societies and Guilds in the Language Industry'
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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
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
Book cover of "Student Notes from Latin Europe (1400–1750): A Research Companion," edited by Xander Feys, Maxime Maleux, Andy Peetermans, and Raf Van Rooy. Published by Leuven University Press. The cover features a partial diagram of concentric celestial spheres and an anatomical drawing of a human head labeled with Latin terms for sensory faculties. The design is minimalist in beige and gray tones. There is also an open access logo and the logo of Lueven University Press in the bottom left corner.
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Do YOU have any Neo-Latin teaching materials? Seriously, do you?
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Raf Van Rooy @adendros.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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.
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DaLeT
Welcome to DaLeT, Database of the Leuven Trilingue. It is the first database devoted to an early modern trilingual institute, the Collegium Trilingue Lovaniense, or the Three-Language College in Leuve...
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Raf Van Rooy @adendros.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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.
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Raf Van Rooy @adendros.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
There's a new blog on Hermes by Riccardo Stigliano (Universität Innsbruck) -- enjoy! earlymodernhellenism.org/2025/10/01/l...
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Laonikos Chalkokondyles: The Last Byzantine Historian and the Dawn of Ottoman Historiography
Riccardo Stigliano (Universität Innsbruck) Should the last Byzantine historian be considered an early modern Hellenist? Yes, because he lived through the crucial years of the fall of Constantinople…
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Tomás Antonio Valle @tomasantoniovalle.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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.
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Pieter Beullens @pieterbeullens.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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...
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2 postdoctoral fellows for the ERC-project ‘Fluidity in the Medieval Aristotle. Readers and Readings of the Greek-Latin Translations’ (FitMA)
Intrigued by the Medieval Aristotle? Join our research group!
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Raf Van Rooy @adendros.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
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)
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Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
#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
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SNLS @neolatinsociety.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
🎓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...
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Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
📢#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...
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Raf Van Rooy @adendros.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
📢 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...
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Laudes urbium, ἐγκώμια φίλων: Two friends writing city encomia and congratulating each other
Adriaan Demuynck (KU Leuven / FWO) On 27 February 1565, the new city hall of Antwerp was formally inaugurated, exactly four years after the first stone was laid. To adorn the opening of this presti…
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Henry Sweet Society @henrysweetsoc.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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...
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Language & History — Henry Sweet Society
Published in 3 issues per year both online and in print, Language & History is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that aims to promote the study of the history of all branches of linguistic…
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KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections @speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
“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
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Alexander Winkler @awinkler.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2025
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
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Alexander Winkler @awinkler.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2025
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: ithac.elan-numerique.fr Šime Demo talked about LAPIS, a database of Latin church inscriptions […]
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Raf Van Rooy @adendros.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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?...
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
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
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Raf Van Rooy @adendros.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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...
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On the Hem of Daniel Heinsius’ ‘Peplus Graecorum epigrammatum’: Poetry, Philosophy, and Paratexts in New Ancient Greek
Domenico Graziano (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II – Universität Innsbruck) In 1613, Jan Jacobszoon Paets, Leiden University’s printer (1603-1619), published a mature fruit of Daniel H…
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William M. Barton @krithemp.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
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!
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On the Hem of Daniel Heinsius’ ‘Peplus Graecorum epigrammatum’: Poetry, Philosophy, and Paratexts in New Ancient Greek
Domenico Graziano (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II – Universität Innsbruck) In 1613, Jan Jacobszoon Paets, Leiden University’s printer (1603-1619), published a mature fruit of Daniel H…
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Leuven University Press @leuvenup.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
✨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
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Maarten Larmuseau @maartenlarmuseau.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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
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SNLS @neolatinsociety.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
🚨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 ⬇️
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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 10/05/2025
'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').
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Alexander Winkler @awinkler.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2025
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]
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Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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
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Call for papers: The Sammelband and Instruction
Conference The Sammelband and Instruction – Call for Papers for the 13th International Sammelband 15-16 event University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 19-21 November 2025 Beginning in 2019, the Sammelband 15-16...
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William M. Barton @krithemp.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
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 :)
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Tomos Evans @tomos-evans.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
5th June 2025 Balliol College, Oxford “Transmitting and Preserving Languages in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean” www.themedievalacademyblog.org/transmitting...
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Transmitting and Preserving Languages in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean
Transmitting and Preserving Languages in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean Date: 5th June 2025 Venue: Balliol College, Gillis Lecture Theatre an
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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
For the Neo-Latin/New Ancient Greek folks, CfP for special issues of Humanistica Lovaniensia:
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GEMCA @gemca.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
🗣️ 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
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Raf Van Rooy @adendros.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Warmly recommended reading for those interested in early modern student notes and who are in search of a companion.
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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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)
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Emotional Persuasion in Early Modern Science: Vernacular and Neo-Latin Perspectives
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Raf Van Rooy @adendros.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
📣 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.
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Student Notes from Latin Europe (1400–1750)
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marghefant.bsky.social @marghefant.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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...
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Postdoctoral Position in AI and Social Network Analysis
Unravel the intellectual networks of the past with AI-driven methods
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Alexander Winkler @awinkler.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2025
#Neulatein​ische Neuerscheinung: Burkard, Thorsten, Hrsg. Daniel Georg Morhof Primitiae Parnassi Kiloniensis. 1. Auflage. Kiel: Wachholtz, 2024.
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