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The 2025 volume of HL is out. You can access the OA volume through the link below. It features a thematic section on ‘Lovanium’ in the frame of the university’s sexcentenary alongside regular articles spanning 6 centuries of Neolatinitas.
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05.02.2026 22:15 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Thoughtful, constructive peer-review is really worth its weight in gold.
04.02.2026 18:59 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Read Nabataean!
04.02.2026 11:36 — 👍 20 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Yes, soon enough AI will be writing the papers, and indeed peer-reviewing them, and in any case they'll only be read by other AI systems writing other papers.
With any luck, none of us will ever have to think or learn again!
03.02.2026 17:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pixelia Publishing
Well, our tiny open-access, non-profit publishing house finally shelled for a website that doesn't look like I made it in five minutes on wordpress: pixeliapublishing.org
03.02.2026 14:27 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Me too-- I'm always just floored by what students can do when they feel ownership over a project.
02.02.2026 17:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I sometimes co-edit Latin texts with students.
Students write the commentary on the Latin text (which I then edit), and I write the volume intro (which the students then edit). Tbh, reading their feedback is always my favorite parts of the project.
02.02.2026 17:00 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Map discovered in my kitchen. Includes "ork fortris."
01.02.2026 01:01 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
(Seinfeld voice) What's the deal with preferred indifferents?
30.01.2026 18:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One more week to submit nominations!
The J.P. Gumbert Dissertation Award honours the best PhD thesis on any aspect of manuscript studies defended in 2025. The winner receives 5,000 EUR and a fellowship at the CSMC
30.01.2026 08:32 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
I believe he's pulling a "Reverse Leap-Day William"
30.01.2026 15:11 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Is it just me, or is stylistic analysis (as a means of determining authorship) basically a pseudo-science?
Are there any convincing cases affirming (or denying) authorship based on style?
29.01.2026 19:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ooo, this is a good one.
29.01.2026 19:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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27.01.2026 16:28 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Homan seems much more amenable to public opinion. Esp if the public can find 50k to stuff into a Cava bag.
27.01.2026 13:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Things that will cause snow (according to my kids):
1 Put a white crayon in the freezer
2 Wear pajamas inside out
3 Flush an ice cube down the toilet
4 Fluff pillow; put spoon under it
5 Scream "Let it snow!" into the freezer
23.01.2026 22:35 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Could "slop-monger" work? Or would that be the companies?
22.01.2026 21:19 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It's a nightmare skenario!
22.01.2026 14:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I think there is a mistaken belief that it's easy to write a good children's book, and a correct belief that it's easy to monetize a famous name.
21.01.2026 15:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I think about that guy all the time. Back in '03, I remember thinking "What purpose do lies like that serve? Why even bother telling lies so blatant?" Alas that I found out.
20.01.2026 20:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
You know what you don't often get? Interesting bibliography on NORTH Picene.
20.01.2026 20:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How popular was this career progression?
19.01.2026 18:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wait-- and it looks like this one isn't even about Baldassarre Cossa, the pirate who turned cardinal and got elected (anti)pope.
19.01.2026 18:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Latin terms that should be used more often: "nudius tertius"
17.01.2026 20:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On Saturn's own day?!? Do they hold nothing sacred?
17.01.2026 16:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
CALL FOR PAPERS
TEACHING WITH OVID
Friday 12th - Saturday 13th June 2026
Multiple time zones*
Online
The International Ovidian Society and the Societas Ovidiana welcome proposals for papers (15-20 mins), panels (1 hr), or roundtables (1hr) for an online pedagogy symposium.
We invite proposals on any aspect of teaching Ovid in the university or school classroom.
Proposals might consider, but are not limited to the topics of:
Classroom exercises based on Ovidian texts and themes (e.g. love; exile; epic; tragedy);
Teaching with Ovidian intermediaries (e.g. medieval moralised Ovids; early modern translations);
Using modern editions and/or translations in the classroom;
Ovidian retellings in the classroom;
Teaching with the material text, archives, or library resources;
Language teaching with Ovid (e.g. Latin; medieval languages);
Producing creative responses to Ovidian texts and ideas.
The CFP deadline is Monday 16th February 2026.
Please send abstracts of c. 200 words with a brief author bio to
rebecca.menmuir@lincoln.ox.ac.uk.
The symposium will be free to attend, but membership to the International Ovidian Society will be required. Visit https://ovidiansociety.org.
*All are welcome to submit an abstract regardless of time zone: we will try to accommodate suitable times across the symposium.
CFP EXTENDED: Teaching with Ovid, an online pedagogy symposium. The new deadline for submissions is February 16th.
To all those who have submitted abstracts for the original deadline: many thanks, and we will be in touch soon!
16.01.2026 15:28 — 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Call for applications: LECTIO Visiting Fellowships 2026–2027
Interested to work on our collections? The Call for applications of the LECTIO – KU Leuven Visiting Fellowships 2026–2027 is now open. As in previous years, Special Collections offers a joint fellowship. We will be happy to welcome you!
16.01.2026 10:23 — 👍 39 🔁 36 💬 0 📌 4
Mulling cover images for the next volume in our series of student editions of Latin texts written by women:
14.01.2026 17:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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