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Dinah Wouters
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Scholar of Latin literature, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies @Utrecht University, Postdoc @University of Groningen Current Project: Settler Colonial Paradigms Member of RELICS research and editor of JOLCEL
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Dinah Wouters @dinahwouters.bsky.social · 1d
I'm organizing this in Ghent next month:
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MEDIEVAL TEXTS AND THEIR SOCIAL CONTEXTS: Performance, Performativity, Agents and Genres
Our next conference on “Medieval Texts and their Social Contexts: Performance, Performativity, Agents and Genres” will take place in Ghent from 13–14 November 2025. All are warmly invit…
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Dinah Wouters @dinahwouters.bsky.social · Jul 18
In my chapter, I look at the twenty-seven different names that early modern dramatists gave to the character who in the Bible is only known as "Potiphar's wife": Zenobia, Sephirach, Semsar, Demetria, Nicela ... What is behind all these names?
DOI: 10.1163/9789004724280_012
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Dinah Wouters @dinahwouters.bsky.social · Jul 18
New book: Transnational Encounters in Early Modern Drama, 1450–1750, edited by Jan Bloemendal and me. Including Latin, English, French, Polish, Dutch, and Spanish theatre. From court ballets to commedia dell'arte, Seneca to Corneille, and onomastics to network analysis. DOI: 10.1163/9789004724280
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Dinah Wouters @dinahwouters.bsky.social · Feb 13
Op 13 maart spreek ik in een panel over "Kolonialisme, imperialisme en de oudheid" in het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden. Voor meer informatie, zie www.rmo.nl/uw-bezoek/ac...
Panelgesprek | Kolonialisme en de oudheid - Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
Stichting Zenobia organiseert een panelgesprek met drie experts over de rol van de oudheid bij het rechtvaardigen van Europees kolonialisme in latere tijden.
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RELICS @relicsresearch.bsky.social · Dec 11
Call for Papers for a Roundtable on Gender in Latin Studies.
RELICS is organizing a digital roundtable on the topic of gender in Latin Studies on March 11, 2025. Proposals for impulse talks of 5 minutes should be sent to [email protected] by January 13. More info:👇

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Call for Papers for a Roundtable on Gender in Latin Studies
RELICS organises a roundtable on women as authors of Latin literature. The event takes place on 11 March 2025 over Zoom. We invite concrete expressions of interest: short thoughts that you would co…
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Ivo Wolsing 🟥 @ivowolsing.bsky.social · Dec 5
Together with my colleagues from the @relicsresearch.bsky.social research group, I'm organising a conference on premodern transnational literature. See the call for papers here:
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Call for papers: Literatures without Borders
Pre-modern literary transnationalism from a historical-comparative perspective The international Scientific Research Group (SRN) ‘Literatures without Borders’, funded by the Research-foundation Fla…
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Dinah Wouters @dinahwouters.bsky.social · Dec 4
I read dozens of 17th-century plays about Joseph and his brothers and noticed that only Jesuit school plays dwell on the possibility of Joseph taking revenge on his brothers instead of forgiving them. My chapter in this recently published book offers an explanation:
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Revisiting Revenge Tragedy
"Revisiting Revenge Tragedy" published on 02 Dec 2024 by Brill.
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Dinah Wouters @dinahwouters.bsky.social · Nov 19
Just out: a thematic issue on biblical drama, co-edited by Sarah Fengler and myself. Comparative perspectives from the 12th to the 17th century, featuring plays from the Low Countries, France, Italy, Iberia, and the Holy Roman Empire. www.degruyter.com/journal/key/...
Special Issue: New Perspectives on Biblical Drama; Guest Editors: Sarah Fengler and Dinah Wouters
Volume 11, issue 2 of the journal Journal of the Bible and its Reception was published in 2024.
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RELICS @relicsresearch.bsky.social · Oct 2
RELICS joins Bluesky! And with good news: JOLCEL issue 10 is out! This issue is the second issue focused on Latin-Greek code-switching in Early Modernity.
As always, JOLCEL is open-access. Check out the issue here!
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Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures
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