Thursday 04.05.2017
9:00 Registration
9:15 Opening of the symposium, address by Professor Minna Palander-Collin, director of the HCAS
9:30 Keynote 1.
Chair: Maijastina Kahlos (U of Helsinki)
Gregory Crane (Perseus project, U of Leipzig, Tufts U)
Greek and Latin in an Age of Massive Collections and Global Philology
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10:30 Coffee/Tea
10:45 Session 1. Education in Latin in Late Antiquity
Chair: Jan Stenger (U of Glasgow)
Eleanor Dickey (U of Reading)
Learning Latin as a Foreign Language in Late Antiquity: How Did They Do It?
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Raffaella Tabacco (U of Eastern Piedmont)
Reading Poets at the Grammar School in Late Antiquity: the Scholia on Lucan
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Maijastina Kahlos (U of Helsinki)
Whose poetry, whose paideia, whose tradition? – Late Antique Debates on the Greco-Roman Cultural Heritage
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13:00 Lunch in the HCAS Common Room
14:00 Symposium participants leaving for the National Library
14:15 Visit to the National Library of Finland
Jaakko Tahkokallio (National Library of Finland)
Classical Latin Texts in Education, c. 500—c. 1200. What were the medieval “renaissances” all about?
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15:30 Coffee/Tea
15:45 Session 2. Latin in the Early Modern Universities: Lectures, Regulations, Dissertations
Chair: Christopher Celenza (Johns Hopkins U)
Florian Schaffenrath (LBI for Neo-Latin Studies)
Looking over Landino’s Shoulder, Some Thoughts about Landino’s University Lecture on Virgil’s Aeneid
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Sarah Knight (U of Leicester)
‘Latine, & Oratory: without those you will be disgraced, & vilified’: Learning and Performing Latin at the Early Modern Universities
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Sari Kivistö (U of Tampere)
‘The Cobbler Should Stick to His Last’: University Dissertations on Shoemakers as Religious Fanatics
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18:00 Closing remarks
18:30 Reception in the HCAS Common Room
Friday 5.05.2017
9:00 Keynote 2.
Chair: Josef Eskhult (U of Uppsala)
Christopher Celenza (Johns Hopkins U)
Five Ways of Looking at Philology in the Italian Renaissance
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10:00 Coffee/Tea
10:15 Session 3. Latin for Libraries, Antiquarianism, and the Republic of Letters
Chair: Demmy Verbeke (KU Leuven)
Federica Signoriello (European University Institute)
Collections, Education, and Translations: the Role of Latin in Renaissance Libraries of the 15th century Italy
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Svetlana Hautala (U of Siena), Timo Sironen (U of Oulu)
On Presence of Italic Languages in the Debates on Better Latin to imitate in Renaissance Rome: the Case of Osci et Volsci Dialogus by Mariangelo Accursio (1513)
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Josef Eskhult (U of Uppsala)
Conceptualizations of Functions of Latin in the Republic of Letters: the Metadiscourse of Educators, Scholars, Scientists from Florence and Rome to Uppsala and Åbo
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13:00 Lunch in the HCAS Common Room
14:00 Session 4. Educating Hyperboreans, Latin in the North-East of Europe
Chair: Alexandra Grigorieva (HCAS)
Raija Sarasti-Wilenius (U of Helsinki)
Teaching of Latin on the Periphery of Europe in the 17th Century
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Alexei Solopov (U of Moscow)
Latin as Language of Teaching and Language of Everyday Use in the 18th century Moscow Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy, the Case of Mikhail Lomonosov
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Alexei Kouprianov (St. Petersburg HSE/HCAS)
Latin and Greek in the Universities of the 19th century Russian Empire: a Digital Overview
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16:00 Coffee/Tea
16:15 Round table. Digital Humanities for Diachronic Latin and Neo-Latin, Saving from Oblivion, Bringing to Light
Chair and moderator: Gregory Crane (Perseus project, U of Leipzig, Tufts U)
Demmy Verbeke (KU Leuven), Raffaella Tabacco (U of Eastern Piedmont), William Barton (LBI for Neo-Latin Studies), Antonina Kalinina (U of Warwick), Alexandra Grigorieva (HCAS), Alexei Kouprianov (St. Petersburg HSE/HCAS)
18:15 Closing remarks
18:30 End of the symposium
19:00 Concluding symposium dinner at the restaurant