Organised by the Society for Neo-Latin Studies (SNLS), this international colloquium brings together leading scholars to discuss their current work on Latin’s place and value in a rich variety of early modern global contexts, ranging from London to China, Poland to the Philippines, and Russia to the Levant. Talks will encompass many disciplines and genres, including drama, poetry, travel-writing, rhetoric, geography, historiography and theology. We will discuss how Latin worked as a medium within early modern transcultural exchanges, as well as its significance for questions of rhetoric, educational processes and forms of representation.

Speakers will include: Dr. Ovanes Akopyan (Ca' Foscari University of Venice), Dr. Natalya Din-Kariuki (University of Warwick), Prof. Yasmin Haskell (University of Western Australia), Dr. Simon Mills (Newcastle University), Prof. Carla Nappi (University of Pittsburgh), Dr. Emily Stevenson (University of York), Dr. Máté Vince (Queen Mary University of London), and Prof. Akihiko Watanabe (Otsuma Women's University).

The colloquium programme can be found on the SNLS website (https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/snls/).

The colloquium has been co-organised by Mr. Tomos Evans (Birmingham), Prof. Sarah Knight (Leicester), Dr. Rebecca Menmuir (QMUL) and Dr. Sharon Van Dijk (Birmingham).

Registration is free, and the colloquium will take place online via Zoom. Zoom details will be circulated shortly before the event.