Raf Van Rooy
@adendros.bsky.social
Philhellenic Neo-Latinist
Assistant Professor at KU Leuven
ERC-StG holder: ERASMOS
Assistant Professor at KU Leuven
ERC-StG holder: ERASMOS
New post on Hermes, by Dries Nijs (PhD researcher @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social), on a unique early modern poem he found in the archives of @unileiden.bsky.social, entitled
"A Woman Writing New Ancient Greek Poetry for a Leiden Disputation (1686)"
Enjoy!
earlymodernhellenism.org/2025/12/01/a...
"A Woman Writing New Ancient Greek Poetry for a Leiden Disputation (1686)"
Enjoy!
earlymodernhellenism.org/2025/12/01/a...
A Woman Writing New Ancient Greek Poetry for a Leiden Disputation (1686)
Dries Nijs (KU Leuven) Leiden University library houses an extensive collection of printed disputationes. These broadsheets and pamphlets present the theses that university students — the responden…
earlymodernhellenism.org
December 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
New post on Hermes, by Dries Nijs (PhD researcher @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social), on a unique early modern poem he found in the archives of @unileiden.bsky.social, entitled
"A Woman Writing New Ancient Greek Poetry for a Leiden Disputation (1686)"
Enjoy!
earlymodernhellenism.org/2025/12/01/a...
"A Woman Writing New Ancient Greek Poetry for a Leiden Disputation (1686)"
Enjoy!
earlymodernhellenism.org/2025/12/01/a...
📣 The deadline to submit an abstract for the 4th IJsewijn Lecture & Laboratorium is likewise approaching! Submissions due 15 December.
www.arts.kuleuven.be/sph/ijsewijn...
@neolatinsociety.bsky.social
@digneolatin.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy
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@neolatinsociety.bsky.social
@digneolatin.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy
IJsewijn Lecture & Laboratorium
The Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae organizes the new IJsewijn Lecture & Laboratorium. This initiative revives the annual Jozef IJsewijn Lecture in a novel format, but preserving some classical in...
www.arts.kuleuven.be
November 26, 2025 at 9:42 AM
📣 The deadline to submit an abstract for the 4th IJsewijn Lecture & Laboratorium is likewise approaching! Submissions due 15 December.
www.arts.kuleuven.be/sph/ijsewijn...
@neolatinsociety.bsky.social
@digneolatin.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy
www.arts.kuleuven.be/sph/ijsewijn...
@neolatinsociety.bsky.social
@digneolatin.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy
The deadline to submit an abstract for our HellBel conference is approaching too!
"New Ancient Greek Literature: Contexts, Audiences, Legacies" (Leuven, 8-10 July 2026)
www.dalet.be/CfP_HellBel_...
"New Ancient Greek Literature: Contexts, Audiences, Legacies" (Leuven, 8-10 July 2026)
www.dalet.be/CfP_HellBel_...
www.dalet.be
November 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
The deadline to submit an abstract for our HellBel conference is approaching too!
"New Ancient Greek Literature: Contexts, Audiences, Legacies" (Leuven, 8-10 July 2026)
www.dalet.be/CfP_HellBel_...
"New Ancient Greek Literature: Contexts, Audiences, Legacies" (Leuven, 8-10 July 2026)
www.dalet.be/CfP_HellBel_...
📣 The deadline to apply for our summer school on Greek-Latin bilingualism from antiquity to early modern times is approaching (Leuven, 12-18 July 2026). Please spread the word!
More information: www.dalet.be/Summer%20Sch...
@digneolatin.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy
@neolatinsociety.bsky.social
More information: www.dalet.be/Summer%20Sch...
@digneolatin.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy
@neolatinsociety.bsky.social
www.dalet.be
November 26, 2025 at 9:39 AM
📣 The deadline to apply for our summer school on Greek-Latin bilingualism from antiquity to early modern times is approaching (Leuven, 12-18 July 2026). Please spread the word!
More information: www.dalet.be/Summer%20Sch...
@digneolatin.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy
@neolatinsociety.bsky.social
More information: www.dalet.be/Summer%20Sch...
@digneolatin.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy
@neolatinsociety.bsky.social
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📢Here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on professional opportunities for women in the early modern language sector bit.ly/47Y3hYI
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
PhD position, project: LangPro Women in the Early Modern Language Sector
PhD position, project: LangPro Women in the Early Modern Language Sector
careers.universiteitleiden.nl
November 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
📢Here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on professional opportunities for women in the early modern language sector bit.ly/47Y3hYI
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
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Here’s another fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on guilds and associations supporting early modern language professionals bit.ly/49rsLA3
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
PhD position, project LangPro: 'Societies and Guilds in the Language Industry'
PhD position, project LangPro: 'Societies and Guilds in the Language Industry'
bit.ly
November 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Here’s another fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on guilds and associations supporting early modern language professionals bit.ly/49rsLA3
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
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In the new #openaccess companion on student notes from Latin Europe (@leuvenup.bsky.social), our own Lorenz Demey, together with collaborators, contributes a chapter arguing that student notes hold great promise as sources for intellectual #history 👇 lup.be/book/student... #HPS #earlymodern #philsky
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
In the new #openaccess companion on student notes from Latin Europe (@leuvenup.bsky.social), our own Lorenz Demey, together with collaborators, contributes a chapter arguing that student notes hold great promise as sources for intellectual #history 👇 lup.be/book/student... #HPS #earlymodern #philsky
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Do YOU have any Neo-Latin teaching materials?
Seriously, do you?
Seriously, do you?
October 28, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Do YOU have any Neo-Latin teaching materials?
Seriously, do you?
Seriously, do you?
On 28 October 2025, 15h, dr. Xander Feys (KU Leuven), postdoc on the ERASMOS project, will present his new findings in a hybrid lecture at Leuven, which serves not only to mark the end of his time at our project but also to celebrate Erasmus’s birthday.
DaLeT
Welcome to DaLeT, Database of the Leuven Trilingue. It is the first database devoted to an early modern trilingual institute, the Collegium Trilingue Lovaniense, or the Three-Language College in Leuve...
www.dalet.be
October 24, 2025 at 10:04 AM
On 28 October 2025, 15h, dr. Xander Feys (KU Leuven), postdoc on the ERASMOS project, will present his new findings in a hybrid lecture at Leuven, which serves not only to mark the end of his time at our project but also to celebrate Erasmus’s birthday.
Happy to see this out, completing the editorial triptych with @krithemp.bsky.social that came out of a lovely workshop in Leuven in October 2022.
New issue of Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures No. 11 (2025) jolcel.ugent.be/issue/26536/... Latin-Greek Code-Switching in Early Modernity III #openaccess @relicsresearch.bsky.social @adendros.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Happy to see this out, completing the editorial triptych with @krithemp.bsky.social that came out of a lovely workshop in Leuven in October 2022.
There's a new blog on Hermes by Riccardo Stigliano (Universität Innsbruck) -- enjoy!
earlymodernhellenism.org/2025/10/01/l...
earlymodernhellenism.org/2025/10/01/l...
Laonikos Chalkokondyles: The Last Byzantine Historian and the Dawn of Ottoman Historiography
Riccardo Stigliano (Universität Innsbruck) Should the last Byzantine historian be considered an early modern Hellenist? Yes, because he lived through the crucial years of the fall of Constantinople…
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October 2, 2025 at 8:43 AM
There's a new blog on Hermes by Riccardo Stigliano (Universität Innsbruck) -- enjoy!
earlymodernhellenism.org/2025/10/01/l...
earlymodernhellenism.org/2025/10/01/l...
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CFP: Ecosystems of the Mind: Resources for Reconstructing Early Modern Intellectual Life || 21–23 May 2026 || Hamburg, DE
Please spread broadly! Feel free to reach out with questions.
Please spread broadly! Feel free to reach out with questions.
September 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM
CFP: Ecosystems of the Mind: Resources for Reconstructing Early Modern Intellectual Life || 21–23 May 2026 || Hamburg, DE
Please spread broadly! Feel free to reach out with questions.
Please spread broadly! Feel free to reach out with questions.
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Want to work with the FitMA-team? Here is your chance! Join our great project and get paid for it! Two postdoc positions open! #classicsky #medievalsky #philsky
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
2 postdoctoral fellows for the ERC-project ‘Fluidity in the Medieval Aristotle. Readers and Readings of the Greek-Latin Translations’ (FitMA)
Intrigued by the Medieval Aristotle? Join our research group!
www.kuleuven.be
August 28, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Want to work with the FitMA-team? Here is your chance! Join our great project and get paid for it! Two postdoc positions open! #classicsky #medievalsky #philsky
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
Christian folk etymology with #Erasmus: Sunday is not derived from the 'sun' but from Dutch '(ver)zoenen' ('to reconcile').
vulgata Germanorum lingua dicitur Soendach, non a Sole, ut quidam interpretantur, sed a reconciliando
(LB 5, col. 1191)
vulgata Germanorum lingua dicitur Soendach, non a Sole, ut quidam interpretantur, sed a reconciliando
(LB 5, col. 1191)
August 25, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Christian folk etymology with #Erasmus: Sunday is not derived from the 'sun' but from Dutch '(ver)zoenen' ('to reconcile').
vulgata Germanorum lingua dicitur Soendach, non a Sole, ut quidam interpretantur, sed a reconciliando
(LB 5, col. 1191)
vulgata Germanorum lingua dicitur Soendach, non a Sole, ut quidam interpretantur, sed a reconciliando
(LB 5, col. 1191)
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#Job Tenure-track #Lectureship in Ancient History (Greek and/or Roman) at the Univ. of Cyprus.
Greek not a requirement, but it will be considered a bonus. Happy to answer informal inquiries. Thanks for reposting!
➡️ www.ucy.ac.cy/hr/wp-conten...
#job #academicsky #skystorians #classics
Greek not a requirement, but it will be considered a bonus. Happy to answer informal inquiries. Thanks for reposting!
➡️ www.ucy.ac.cy/hr/wp-conten...
#job #academicsky #skystorians #classics
August 8, 2025 at 6:45 AM
#Job Tenure-track #Lectureship in Ancient History (Greek and/or Roman) at the Univ. of Cyprus.
Greek not a requirement, but it will be considered a bonus. Happy to answer informal inquiries. Thanks for reposting!
➡️ www.ucy.ac.cy/hr/wp-conten...
#job #academicsky #skystorians #classics
Greek not a requirement, but it will be considered a bonus. Happy to answer informal inquiries. Thanks for reposting!
➡️ www.ucy.ac.cy/hr/wp-conten...
#job #academicsky #skystorians #classics
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🎓CALL FOR PAPERS🎓
Abstracts are still being accepted for an SNLS-sponsored conference to be held in Cambridge on the 5th and 6th of November 2025!
Abstracts should be submitted via the following link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Abstracts are still being accepted for an SNLS-sponsored conference to be held in Cambridge on the 5th and 6th of November 2025!
Abstracts should be submitted via the following link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
August 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
🎓CALL FOR PAPERS🎓
Abstracts are still being accepted for an SNLS-sponsored conference to be held in Cambridge on the 5th and 6th of November 2025!
Abstracts should be submitted via the following link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Abstracts are still being accepted for an SNLS-sponsored conference to be held in Cambridge on the 5th and 6th of November 2025!
Abstracts should be submitted via the following link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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📢#Job announcement:
Lectureship in Ancient History (Greek and/or Roman) at my Department, at the University of Cyprus; tenure-track; please repost
www.ucy.ac.cy/hr/wp-conten...
Lectureship in Ancient History (Greek and/or Roman) at my Department, at the University of Cyprus; tenure-track; please repost
www.ucy.ac.cy/hr/wp-conten...
www.ucy.ac.cy
August 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
📢#Job announcement:
Lectureship in Ancient History (Greek and/or Roman) at my Department, at the University of Cyprus; tenure-track; please repost
www.ucy.ac.cy/hr/wp-conten...
Lectureship in Ancient History (Greek and/or Roman) at my Department, at the University of Cyprus; tenure-track; please repost
www.ucy.ac.cy/hr/wp-conten...
📢 New blogpost on Hermes: Platform for Early Modern Hellenism
Adriaan Demuynck's "Laudes urbium, ἐγκώμια φίλων: Two friends writing city encomia and congratulating each other"
earlymodernhellenism.org/2025/08/01/l...
Adriaan Demuynck's "Laudes urbium, ἐγκώμια φίλων: Two friends writing city encomia and congratulating each other"
earlymodernhellenism.org/2025/08/01/l...
Laudes urbium, ἐγκώμια φίλων: Two friends writing city encomia and congratulating each other
Adriaan Demuynck (KU Leuven / FWO) On 27 February 1565, the new city hall of Antwerp was formally inaugurated, exactly four years after the first stone was laid. To adorn the opening of this presti…
earlymodernhellenism.org
August 2, 2025 at 8:29 AM
📢 New blogpost on Hermes: Platform for Early Modern Hellenism
Adriaan Demuynck's "Laudes urbium, ἐγκώμια φίλων: Two friends writing city encomia and congratulating each other"
earlymodernhellenism.org/2025/08/01/l...
Adriaan Demuynck's "Laudes urbium, ἐγκώμια φίλων: Two friends writing city encomia and congratulating each other"
earlymodernhellenism.org/2025/08/01/l...
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Are you working on topics related to the history of linguistics?🫵
Consider submitting an article to ✨Language & History✨, the journal of the Henry Sweet Society! It is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal published 3 times per year both online and in print.
www.henrysweet.org/language-and...
Consider submitting an article to ✨Language & History✨, the journal of the Henry Sweet Society! It is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal published 3 times per year both online and in print.
www.henrysweet.org/language-and...
Language & History — Henry Sweet Society
Published in 3 issues per year both online and in print, Language & History is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that aims to promote the study of the history of all branches of linguistic…
www.henrysweet.org
July 31, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Are you working on topics related to the history of linguistics?🫵
Consider submitting an article to ✨Language & History✨, the journal of the Henry Sweet Society! It is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal published 3 times per year both online and in print.
www.henrysweet.org/language-and...
Consider submitting an article to ✨Language & History✨, the journal of the Henry Sweet Society! It is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal published 3 times per year both online and in print.
www.henrysweet.org/language-and...
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“Brunck” can probably be identified as the French researcher Richard François Philippe Brunck (1729-1803), which means that the notes date from the second half of the 18th century. @adendros.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 7:38 AM
“Brunck” can probably be identified as the French researcher Richard François Philippe Brunck (1729-1803), which means that the notes date from the second half of the 18th century. @adendros.bsky.social
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Heading back to Berlin after just 2 days of #ianls25 . Really happy with the 4 special sessions on digital technology. There's are strong focus on databases and corpora, but there were also papers on digital methods. Let's see how things develop over the next triennium!
@neolatin
@neolatin
July 17, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Interesting project presentations this morning in the special session on digital technology at #ianls25 : Malika Bastin-Hammou presented the database of 16th century paratexts of ancient drama: https://ithac.elan-numerique.fr
Šime Demo talked about LAPIS, a database of Latin church inscriptions […]
Šime Demo talked about LAPIS, a database of Latin church inscriptions […]
Original post on openbiblio.social
openbiblio.social
July 16, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Interesting project presentations this morning in the special session on digital technology at #ianls25 : Malika Bastin-Hammou presented the database of 16th century paratexts of ancient drama: https://ithac.elan-numerique.fr
Šime Demo talked about LAPIS, a database of Latin church inscriptions […]
Šime Demo talked about LAPIS, a database of Latin church inscriptions […]
Just in time for the @ianls.bsky.social conference in Aix, the Seminarium is happy to share the new, hefty volume of 'Humanistica Lovaniensia', which appeared last week.
As usual, all papers can be consulted freely online, through the following link:
poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?...
As usual, all papers can be consulted freely online, through the following link:
poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?...
PEETERS ONLINE JOURNALS
poj.peeters-leuven.be
July 10, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Just in time for the @ianls.bsky.social conference in Aix, the Seminarium is happy to share the new, hefty volume of 'Humanistica Lovaniensia', which appeared last week.
As usual, all papers can be consulted freely online, through the following link:
poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?...
As usual, all papers can be consulted freely online, through the following link:
poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?...
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New volume of Humanistica Lovaniensia poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?... #openaccess In honorem Rhodae Schnur VXorI NVrI res neoLatInas nVtrIentI horum commentariorum editores natalem gratulantur singularem @adendros.bsky.social @thomashendrickson.bsky.social @juancjimenez.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
New volume of Humanistica Lovaniensia poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?... #openaccess In honorem Rhodae Schnur VXorI NVrI res neoLatInas nVtrIentI horum commentariorum editores natalem gratulantur singularem @adendros.bsky.social @thomashendrickson.bsky.social @juancjimenez.bsky.social
A new blogpost is available on 'Hermes: Platform for Early Modern Hellenism': enjoy Domenico Graziano's insightful analysis of the Greek paratexts to Heinsius' intriguing Peplus.
earlymodernhellenism.org/2025/06/01/o...
earlymodernhellenism.org/2025/06/01/o...
On the Hem of Daniel Heinsius’ ‘Peplus Graecorum epigrammatum’: Poetry, Philosophy, and Paratexts in New Ancient Greek
Domenico Graziano (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II – Universität Innsbruck) In 1613, Jan Jacobszoon Paets, Leiden University’s printer (1603-1619), published a mature fruit of Daniel H…
earlymodernhellenism.org
June 2, 2025 at 8:47 AM
A new blogpost is available on 'Hermes: Platform for Early Modern Hellenism': enjoy Domenico Graziano's insightful analysis of the Greek paratexts to Heinsius' intriguing Peplus.
earlymodernhellenism.org/2025/06/01/o...
earlymodernhellenism.org/2025/06/01/o...