Category: IANLS News

Artificial Intelligence in Neo-Latin Studies

Online, 20/02/2026

Artificial Intelligence in Neo-Latin Studies: Prospects and Concerns
A roundtable discussion

The Committee for Digital Resources of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies is pleased to invite you to an online roundtable discussion entitled “Artificial Intelligence and Neo-Latin Studies: Prospects and Concerns”.

The session will bring together scholars interested in exploring how recent developments in artificial intelligence are reshaping the study, editing, interpretation, and teaching of Neo-Latin texts. We aim for a lively and inclusive exchange across disciplines and career stages.

Format
The roundtable will begin with a series of 5-minute introductory talks (the abstracts can be found here) by six speakers (William Barton, Marco Cristini, Lev Shadrin, Patruck Burns, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Sarah Lang), each presenting a focused idea, project, or challenge at the intersection of AI and Neo-Latin Studies. These short interventions will be followed by an open discussion, encouraging questions, reflections, and broader conversation among all participants.

Time and place
Friday, 20 February 2026
2:00–3:30pm Central European Time
Online via Zoom (the link will be sent in due course)

Whether you are actively using AI tools in your research or are simply curious about their implications for Neo-Latin Studies, we warmly welcome your participation. To help us with planning, we kindly ask those interested in attending to complete a short form here.

Please feel free to share this invitation with your colleagues.

We hope you can join us for what promises to be a stimulating and forward-looking discussion.

With best regards,
IANLS Committee for Digital Resources

Submission to the Acta Conventus Neolatini Aquisextiensis 2025

Dear participants of the IANLS congress,

A few days ago, we had a wonderful IANLS congress in Aix, and the local organisers did a great job for all of us. Now, it is time to think about the publication of the proceedings. If you want to publish your paper in the Acta Conventus Neo-Latini, please, have a look at the style sheet and send your article (max. 28,000 characters, including spaces and footnotes) by 30 November 2025 to florian.schaffenrath@uibk.ac.at.

Remember that only participants who presented their paper personally at the congress, are allowed to publish it in the Acta.

After a formal check of your submission, we will send it to at least two peer reviewers, and we will let you know about their comments and reviews as soon as we get them. In the end, we will only be able to publish a selection of c. 50–60 papers.

If you have any further questions, please, write to Florian Schaffenrath. I am looking forward to receiving your submission, and together with Béatrice Charlet-Mesdjian, I will do my best to publish the volume in due time.

All the best,
Florian Schaffenrath
General Editor of the Acta Conventus Neo-Latini

3rd Circular Letter Triennium 2022–2025

Preparations for the Nineteenth International Congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies to be held in Aix-en-Provence between 14 and 19 July 2025 have advanced into their final stage.

For information and announcements concerning the congress, please see the official homepage: https://ianls-2025.sciencesconf.org/.

The program is available online at the same address, as well as the abstracts of the individual papers, special sessions, and posters.

Download the full circular letter as PDF HERE.

CfP: RSA Annual Meeting 2026

San Francisco, 19/02/2026 – 21/02/2026

Submission deadline: 25/07/2025

Call for Paper and Panel Proposals
Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting 2026

Proposals are sought both for individual papers and for entire sessions (normally three papers), on any topic concerning Latin in the Renaissance, to be sponsored by the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies at next year’s Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, to be held in San Francisco, 19 to 21 February 2026.

As a large Associate Organization of the RSA, the IANLS will be allotted up to four panels. Sponsorship of a panel by the IANLS normally means that the panel will be accepted by the Program Committee for presentation at the RSA Annual Meeting without further vetting, provided the panels comply with the RSA guidelines. Please keep in mind that, if you send an individual proposal that is not part of a pre-formed panel, the IANLS cannot guarantee that the proposal will automatically fit into one of the four allotted panels. Proposals should include all the information listed in the Submission Guidelines on the RSA website under ‘What’s in a proposal?’. Please pay careful attention to the restricted word count, as the RSA’s submission system will not accept entries that exceed maximum limits. Incomplete proposals will not be considered.

Everyone who presents at the Annual Meeting must be a member of RSA at the time of the meeting; for details see the Submission Guidelines on the RSA website under ‘RSA Membership and Eligibility’. Applicants for inclusion into one of the IANLS panels will normally be expected to be paid-up members of the IANLS (or will be expected to join the Association).

Please do not submit a proposal unless you are confident that you will have the time and the funds to attend the meeting. Each year we see a certain number of people dropping out well past the deadline or even quite close to the meeting itself. Unexpected problems can obviously arise, but every withdrawn paper means an opportunity lost to, and a place taken from, another IANLS member, who wanted to participate.

Proposals should be sent to Marc Laureys, who is the IANLS representative with the RSA, at m.laureys@uni-bonn.de, no later than Friday 25 July 2025. Proposals will be refereed, and everyone will be notified in due course about whether or not the proposal has been accepted by the IANLS for inclusion into one of the four panels. Anyone whose proposal is not accepted for the IANLS panels will be informed in time in order to be able to submit as an individual; please note, though, that in that case the submission will be evaluated by the Program Committee of the RSA.

Download the CfP as PDF.

2nd Circular Letter Triennium 2022–2025

Preparations for the Nineteenth International Congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, which will be held in Aix-en-Provence between 14 and 19 July 2025 are well under way. We are delighted with the interest shown in the congress: 350 papers (individual papers, special sessions and posters) have been accepted from 341 participants from over 30 countries. In the meantime, everyone who submitted an abstract has been informed about its acceptance or non-acceptance by the
Organizing Committee.

The Plenary papers will be delivered by Raija Sarasti (Helsingin Yliopisto), David Amherdt (Université de Fribourg), Robert Seidel (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), Ida Gilda Mastrorosa (Università degli Studi di Firenze), and Antonio Moreno Hernández (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) in the five official languages of the IANLS (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish).

Download the full circular letter as PDF HERE.

Workshop: Teaching Neo-Latin: texts, materials, didactic challenges

Online, 30/10/2024

The Teaching Committee of the IANLS, together with the Warburg Institute, the Society for Neo-Latin Studies, the Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, and the Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae of KU Leuven, is organizing a digital workshop on “Teaching Neo-Latin: texts, materials, didactic challenges”.

It will take place on Wednesday 30 October, 1 to 4.30 p.m. British time. Further information and registration via this link: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/teaching-neo-latin-texts-2024.

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. 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.

Programme (times are UK-based)

1.00 p.m.: Welcome and Introduction

1.10–1.45 p.m.: Eugenia Sisto (Warburg Institute, London),  “A new understanding of Latin: the case of Dante’s De vulgari eloquentia”

1.45–2.20 p.m.: Irina Tautschnig (University of York) and Dominik Berrens (University of Mainz), “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Early Modern Natural History for Schools”

2.30–3.05 p. m.: Pieter Vynckier (Sila Westerlo School), “The Laudatio Borysthenis by Feofan Prokopovych in the comprehensible Latin classroom”

3.05–3.40 p.m.: Katharina Schön (University of Groningen), “Neo-Latin Literature during Italian Fascism and German National Socialism”

3.40–4.15 p.m.: Anna Rogowska-Wandowicz and Elżbieta Górka (University of Wrocław), “Epigrammata by Klemens Janicki (1516–1543) and Spoken Latin”

4.15/30 p.m.: Close

Travel bursaries Aix-en-Provence 2025

Thanks to the two Memorial Funds of the IANLS, the Executive Committee is pleased to offer a number of Travel Bursaries to help doctoral students and early career researchers (within three years of their PhD award) meet the costs of travel to the Nineteenth International Congress of the IANLS in Aix-en-Provence, France. Up to 10 grants of 300 EUR will be made available.

Please send the completed form to kristi.viiding@gmail.com by 1st November 2024.

The form may be completed in any of the IANLS’ official languages. We hope to inform you of the outcome of your application by the beginning of December 2024.

The form is available as PDF and DOCX.

Conf: Bücher in neulateinischen Gedichten

Bonn, 28/06/2024

The workshop is made possible by financial support from the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, the Studium Generale of the University of Bonn and the Faculty of Arts of the University of Bonn.

Download the full program as PDF HERE. For more information, please visit the related entry on the HP of the University of Bonn HERE.

The 25th anniversary of the Neulateinisches Jahrbuch will also be celebrated on the same day. All information about this event can be found HERE.

Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Lovaniensis published

Florian Schaffenrath and Dirk Sacré are delighted to announce that the proceedings of the 2022 IANLS Congress in Leuven have been published:

Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Lovaniensis
Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies (Leuven 2022)
Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2024
(Acta Conventus Neo-Latini, vol. 18)
ISBN: 978-90-04-69557-3

As usual, after general material on the jubilee congress in Leuven, the volume contains the plenary papers (by Marcus de Schepper, Sylvie Laigneau-Fontaine, Antonio Iurilli, José Carlos Miralles Maldonado, and Claudia Schindler) and then over 50 selected papers that were held in Leuven. The editors are pleased that the volume has been published long before the next congress, which will take place in Aix-en-Provence in 2025.

CfP: RSA Annual Meeting 2025

Boston, 20/03/2025 – 22/03/2025

Submission deadline: 22/07/2024

Call for Paper and Panel Proposals
Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting 2025

Proposals are sought both for individual papers and for entire sessions (normally three papers), on any topic concerning Latin in the Renaissance, to be sponsored by the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies at next year’s Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, to be held in Boston, 20 to 22 March 2025. As a large Associate Organization of the RSA, the IANLS will be allotted up to four panels. Sponsorship of a panel by the IANLS normally means that the panel will be accepted by the Program Committee for presentation at the RSA Annual Meeting without further vetting, provided the panels comply with the RSA guidelines. Please keep in mind that, if you send an individual proposal that is not part of a pre-formed panel, the IANLS cannot guarantee that the proposal will automatically fit into one of the four allotted panels.

Proposals should include all the information listed in the Submission Guidelines on the RSA website under ‘What’s in a proposal?’. Please pay careful attention to the restricted word count, as the RSA’s submission system will not accept entries that exceed maximum limits. Incomplete proposals will not be considered.

Everyone who presents at the Annual Meeting must be a member of RSA at the time of the meeting; for details see the Submission Guidelines on the RSA website under ‘RSA Membership and Eligibility’. Applicants for inclusion into one of the IANLS panels will normally be expected to be paid-up members of the IANLS (or will be expected to join the Association).

Please do not submit a proposal unless you are confident that you will have the time and the funds to attend the meeting. Each year we see a certain number of people dropping out well past the deadline or even quite close to the meeting itself. Unexpected problems can obviously arise, but every withdrawn paper means an opportunity lost to, and a place taken from, another IANLS member, who wanted to participate.

Proposals should be sent to Marc Laureys, who is the IANLS representative with the RSA, at m.laureys@uni-bonn.de, no later than Monday 22 July 2024. Proposals will be refereed, and everyone will be notified in due course about whether or not the proposal has been accepted by the IANLS for inclusion into one of the four panels. Anyone whose proposal is not accepted for the IANLS panels will be informed in time in order to be able to submit as an individual; please note, though, that in that case the submission will be evaluated by the Program Committee of the RSA.

Download the CfP as PDF.