Programme-IANLS Vacation School: 7-9th July 2016, Venice, Italy

'Neo-Latin Studies Today: Tools, Trends and Methodologies'

Thursday 7 July 2016

13:15-13:30 Registration/coffee, in the Palazzo Pesaro Papafava (Cannaregio 3764, 30121 Venezia)
13:45-14:10 Welcome/ opening remarks by Ingrid De Smet
14:15 Walk as a group to Archivio Storico del Patriarcato di Venezia at Dorsoduro, 1, Venice 30123. (Over the Accademia Bridge and turn left: it is next door to the Santa Maria della Salute, as you face the church it is a door to the left of the church).
15:00-16:30 Visit to the Manuscript Choir Books, Basilica San Marco conservation project ('Venice in Peril')

16:30 Walk back to the Palazzo Pesaro Papafava as a group

17:15-17:30 Break (refreshments provided)

17:30-18:30 'Neo-Latin Anthologies and Canon Formation' (Marc Laureys)

18:45-19:45 Opening reception at the Palazzo Pesaro Papafava

Friday 8 July 2016

Common Ground: Working with Renaissance and Early Modern Latin (tools, databases, methodologies)

09:00-10:00 "Sources I"

'The Role of Early Printed Books in Neo-Latin Culture' (Craig Kallendorf)

10:00-10:15 Break (refreshments provided)

10.15-12:15 "Sources II”

'Working with Dictionaries' (Johann Ramminger)
'Translating Neo-Latin Texts' (Ingrid De Smet)

[Lunch break according to individual arrangements]

Walk to the Marciana Library (Piazzetta San Marco n.7, 30124 Venezia) and meet at the entrance by 14:25

14:30-16:00 Rare books seminar at the Marciana Library

16:00-16:45 Walk as a group back to the Palazzo Pesaro Papafava

16:45-17:00 Break (refreshments provided)

17:00-19:00 Neo-Latin research in progress: short informal presentations by participants (circa 5 mins), and discussion

Saturday 9 July 2016

Bridging the Divide: Across Disciplines, Across National Paradigms

09:00-10:45

'Imitation as a Pedagogical Tool and/or as a Neo-Latin writer's Working Method' (Raija Sarasti-Wilenius)
'Contributions of Medical Humanism to Renaissance Latin: Tradition and Modernity' (Teresa Santamaría Hernández)

10:45-11:00 Break (refreshments provided)

11:00-12:45

'Writing Regional Histories of Neo-Latin Literature - Current and Future Problems' (Florian Schaffenrath)
'The Beginnings of Hungarian Humanism: the Networks of Janus Pannonius (A Case Study)' (Enikő Békés)

[Lunch break - according to individual arrangements]

Moving on: Professional Development

14:00-15:00 Teaching Neo-Latin (seminar format)

15:00-16:00 Career development: applying for funding/getting published (Ingrid De Smet and others)

16:00-16:30 Break (refreshments provided)

16:30-18:00 Roundtable on Neo-Latin Studies Today: Perspectives and Challenges for the Future

Chair: Ingrid De Smet

Opening remarks: Craig Kallendorf on his review article 'Recent Trends in Neo-Latin Studies'

Respondent: Joaquín Pascual Barea, 'Where Next?'

Discussants: all

18:00-19:30 Free time

19:30 Vacation School dinner (participants & speakers) at 'Crociferi' restaurant. (Sestriere Cannaregio, at Campo dei Gesuiti, behind the Fondamenta Nuove)

Sunday 10 July 2016

Participants depart according to own arrangements

Photos from the trip to the Basilica San Marco conservation project, Manuscript Choir Books ('Venice in Peril').