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Ugo Mondini
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Research Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University Trustees) / British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford

I work on Greek language and literature

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Still a lot of time to enroll!

👉Summer School of Languages of the Christian East, Rome, July 6–17, 2026.

(including an intensive course in medieval and early modern vernacular Greek, taught by yours truly.)
📚 Announcement
Summer School of Languages of the Christian East (LOC)
🗓️ 6–17 July 2026

I will be teaching Vernacular Greek at this year’s Summer School, held in Rome.
February 10, 2026 at 8:55 PM
On Thursday 5 February, join us for the next seminar of Euripides in the Middle Ages

Patrick Finglass (University of Bristol), Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris in John Malalas

To receive the link, please write to my email address (see the programme blw).
Tomorrow, join us for the next seminar of Euripides in the Middle Ages

Guido Avezzù (University of Verona), Erratic readings and emendatory method in Euripides’ ‘alphabetical’ plays

To receive the link, please write to my email address (see the programme blw).
A reminder for the series “Euripides in the Middle Ages”. This week’s seminar has been postponed. The next seminar will be:

20 January, 4:30 p.m. GMT
D.J. Mastronarde (UC Berkeley), The nature of Palaeologan annotations on Euripides: Moschopulus, Thomas, and Triclinius

An updated programme below
February 2, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Tomorrow, join us for the next seminar of Euripides in the Middle Ages

Guido Avezzù (University of Verona), Erratic readings and emendatory method in Euripides’ ‘alphabetical’ plays

To receive the link, please write to my email address (see the programme blw).
A reminder for the series “Euripides in the Middle Ages”. This week’s seminar has been postponed. The next seminar will be:

20 January, 4:30 p.m. GMT
D.J. Mastronarde (UC Berkeley), The nature of Palaeologan annotations on Euripides: Moschopulus, Thomas, and Triclinius

An updated programme below
January 26, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Tomorrow, join us for the next seminar of Euripides in the Middle Ages

Donald J. Mastronarde, The Nature of Palaeologan Annotations on Euripides: Moschopulus, Thomas, and Triclinius.

To receive the link, please write to my email address (see the programme blw).
A reminder for the series “Euripides in the Middle Ages”. This week’s seminar has been postponed. The next seminar will be:

20 January, 4:30 p.m. GMT
D.J. Mastronarde (UC Berkeley), The nature of Palaeologan annotations on Euripides: Moschopulus, Thomas, and Triclinius

An updated programme below
January 19, 2026 at 5:24 PM
📚 Announcement
Summer School of Languages of the Christian East (LOC)
🗓️ 6–17 July 2026

I will be teaching Vernacular Greek at this year’s Summer School, held in Rome.
January 19, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Reposted by Ugo Mondini
"A General View of the City of Constantinople"
Unknown artist, published by Bowles & Carver, 1763–1830
From Yale Center for British Art (see link below)
January 16, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Reposted by Ugo Mondini
The volume is a very West Fjords piece - evening prayers by Tyrfingur Finnsson (c. 1713-1749x53) priest at Staður i Súgandafirði. A very Icelandic life of the period: defrocked as a priest for allegedly dropping communion wafers while drunk, he remained in the area scribe, translator and farmer...
January 16, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Ένας παλιός καλός φίλος μου και οι αναγνώστες του
January 16, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Reposted by Ugo Mondini
Just terrible, & terribly stupid. There's no other way to describe this. As Islamic Studies chair for the Midwest AAR for the past 8 years, I've met and worked with so many outstanding faculty and grad students in IU's excellent Religious Studies and Middle East programs among others.
Indiana University Bloomington to Eliminate or Suspend Over 100 Academic Programs in Sweeping Restructuring - The Bloomingtonian
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana University Bloomington is suspending or eliminating more than 100 academic programs across a wide range of disciplines ahead of the 2026-27 academic year. The programs are ...
bloomingtonian.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
If you missed the 6th Global Humanities Initiative Forum on the pillar “Humans and Their Literatures,” you can watch the recording at the link below:

youtu.be/pDis3vatQMY?...
6th MIT Global Humanities Forum on “Humans and Their Literatures”
YouTube video by MIT Global Humanities Initiative
youtu.be
January 12, 2026 at 10:50 PM
A reminder for the series “Euripides in the Middle Ages”. This week’s seminar has been postponed. The next seminar will be:

20 January, 4:30 p.m. GMT
D.J. Mastronarde (UC Berkeley), The nature of Palaeologan annotations on Euripides: Moschopulus, Thomas, and Triclinius

An updated programme below
January 11, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Join us for the 6th Global Humanities Initiatives Forum

Humans and Their Literatures
Jan 9, 2026, 10:00–11:30 AM EST
Online (Zoom Registration Link: mit.zoom.us/meeting/regi...)
Speakers: Ugo Mondini, Michael Angerer, Marina Bazzani, Di Wang, Wiebke Denecke
January 5, 2026 at 1:55 PM