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SNLS Postgraduate Student and Early Career Scholars Event 2026
This year’s event for postgraduate students and early career scholars will take place on Friday, 20 March 2026 (online and kindly organized by Luke Houghton). This will be an opportunity for presenters from these career stages to share their latest research and receive feedback and for others to hear about recent research in Neo-Latin studies. Everyone is welcome! For registration and Zoom details please email the organizer Luke Houghton (at lhought2@ed.ac.uk).
Programme for 20 March 2026, 2–5pm GMT
2:00-2:10 pm Welcome (Gesine Manuwald, SNLS President, and Luke Houghton, organiser)
2:10-2:40 pm Jacopo Pesaresi (Bologna), 'Renewing Elegy: Basinio da Parma and the Early Humanist Reconfiguration of a Classical Genre'
2:40-3:10 pm Alex Tadel (Warwick), 'Mutua litterarum visitatio: Polissena Messalto Grimaldi's Corpus in the Context of Quattrocento Women's Latin Epistolography'
3:10-3:40 pm Miriam Boyes (York), 'Self-presentation and interlingual song exchange in Milton's Lycidas and Epitaphium Damonis'
3:40-3:50 pm break
3:50-4:20 pm Antonia Foggia (Innsbruck), 'Filtering Neo-Latin Through Cicero: Education and Authority'
4:20-4:50 pm Oscar Haines (St Andrews), 'Puritans, Playwrights, Polarisation: Antitheatrical Discourse and Political Factionalism in Pre-Civil War Academic Drama'