Dinah Wouters
@dinahwouters.bsky.social
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
Current Project: Settler Colonial Paradigms
Member of RELICS research and editor of JOLCEL
New article in the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Following the story of Joseph in early modern drama, from Latin school plays to Italian oratorio:
"Son già vicine
Le mie ruine
Ne dal periglio
L’opra ò il consiglio
Mi può serbar."
Following the story of Joseph in early modern drama, from Latin school plays to Italian oratorio:
"Son già vicine
Le mie ruine
Ne dal periglio
L’opra ò il consiglio
Mi può serbar."
Latin School Plays in European Drama. A Transregional and Multilingual Account of Joseph Plays (1500–1700)* | Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
Abstract In this article I integrate school drama, mainly in Latin, with other types of drama during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I do so by exploring connections between adaptations of on...
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November 19, 2025 at 10:34 AM
New article in the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Following the story of Joseph in early modern drama, from Latin school plays to Italian oratorio:
"Son già vicine
Le mie ruine
Ne dal periglio
L’opra ò il consiglio
Mi può serbar."
Following the story of Joseph in early modern drama, from Latin school plays to Italian oratorio:
"Son già vicine
Le mie ruine
Ne dal periglio
L’opra ò il consiglio
Mi può serbar."
I'm organizing this in Ghent next month:
relicsresearch.com/2025/10/21/m...
relicsresearch.com/2025/10/21/m...
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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October 22, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I'm organizing this in Ghent next month:
relicsresearch.com/2025/10/21/m...
relicsresearch.com/2025/10/21/m...
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
July 18, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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
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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February 13, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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...
Reposted by Dinah Wouters
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 relics@ugent.be by January 13. More info:👇
relicsresearch.com/2024/12/10/c...
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 relics@ugent.be by January 13. More info:👇
relicsresearch.com/2024/12/10/c...
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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December 11, 2024 at 9:55 AM
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 relics@ugent.be by January 13. More info:👇
relicsresearch.com/2024/12/10/c...
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 relics@ugent.be by January 13. More info:👇
relicsresearch.com/2024/12/10/c...
Reposted by Dinah Wouters
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:
literatureswithoutborders.com/2024/12/05/c...
literatureswithoutborders.com/2024/12/05/c...
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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December 5, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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:
literatureswithoutborders.com/2024/12/05/c...
literatureswithoutborders.com/2024/12/05/c...
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:
brill.com/edcollbook/t...
brill.com/edcollbook/t...
Revisiting Revenge Tragedy
"Revisiting Revenge Tragedy" published on 02 Dec 2024 by Brill.
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December 4, 2024 at 12:42 PM
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:
brill.com/edcollbook/t...
brill.com/edcollbook/t...
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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November 19, 2024 at 12:24 PM
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/...
Reposted by Dinah Wouters
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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As always, JOLCEL is open-access. Check out the issue here!
jolcel.ugent.be
Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures
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October 2, 2024 at 1:41 PM
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!
jolcel.ugent.be
As always, JOLCEL is open-access. Check out the issue here!
jolcel.ugent.be