The ΛΑΓΩΟΣ project (lagoos.org) has published the 3rd instalment of its ongoing edition of K.B. Hase’s secret diary. The 1839 volume is out now online (app.transkribus.org/sites/lagoos) with Greek text, English summaries, and notes on significant entities. 1839 saw Hase’s visit to Algiers inter alia

Am 25.4.2025 findet in Österreich die Lange Nacht der Antike statt www.langenachtderantike.at In Innsbruck: Open-Air-Kino auf Latein! 🎬 Filmklassiker wie Barbie, 50Shades u. Karate Kid lateinisch synchronisiert! 19h Agnes-Heller-Haus Terrasse, Innrain 52a. Eintritt frei 🍿 @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social

Today was the first lecture in the @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social series “Nachhaltigkeit weit(er) denken: Ein Blick auf Sprache, Literatur und Medien”: uibk.ac.at/events/2025/03/06/n... I offered a first session “Über die Schönheit in der Natur lesen und schreiben: Perspektiven des Ecocriticism”

Have enjoyed leafing through the Greek correspondence of Jakob Zwinger (1569-1610) at the @unibas.ch library over the past few weeks. The 13-year-old Jakob wrote two Greek letters to his father, the renowned Theodor Zwinger the Elder, in 1582. Jakob would later become Prof. of Greek in Basel.

Karl Schenkl’s German-Greek dictionary feels like a particularly fitting tool for this semester’s Greek Prose Composition course in Innsbruck #classics @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social

Up next at the @transkribus.bsky.social User Conference, I’ll be talking about HTR and the Greek diaries of K. B. Hase (1780-1864) #TUC24

On my way to Vienna today for an invited lecture at the Austrian Byzantine Society (ÖBG). I’ll be presenting “Ein Leben auf Altgriechisch: Forschungsperspektiven aus dem Tagebuch des Byzantinisten K. B. Hase” tonight at the Department of Modern and Byzantine Greek, Uni Wien.

Back in the UK over the holidays and have come to Carlisle to visit a few local sights. The Carlisle Cathedral library is a fascinating place, with some very well stocked theology shelves! Found a few old friends in the glass cabinets :)

Last week in Paris in the Rue Colbert, where Karl Benedikt Hase had his rooms just around the corner from the BNF’s Richelieu Site. Not 5 mins away, in the arcades of the Palais Royal’s garden, is the Véfour, one of Hase’s favourite restaurants.

Delighted have been able to welcome Raf Van Rooy (KU Leuevn) to Innsbruck for our guest lecture series yesterday evening. Raf’s talk “Weaving in Words like Emblems” brought together questions on early modern uses of Greek and Latin central to the work of numerous IBK colleagues. Εὐαί!

Our conference “Reading and Studying Neo-Latin Authors c.1600-1950” opened yesterday afternoon with five excellent contributions on the roles of N.-L. (its study and interpretation) in the negotiation of various national identities and cultural groups.

3/. Alongside this exciting variety of themes and approaches, we have a visit to the Biblioteca de Catalunya lined up for the first evening of the event!

2/. We welcome ten speakers to the Institut d’Estudis Catalans for the two-day event. Our themes include early work on the Jesuit archives of early modern Canada, the tradition of contemporary scholarship on Nebrija, and 19th-20th century translations of Neo-Latin works into Catalan.

1/. Headed to Barcelona tomorrow for the conference “Reading and Studying Neo-Latin Authors c. 1600-1900”. I’ve put this conference together with colleagues at ICREA/ UABBarcelona and Uni Innsbruck as part of ongoing work on the History of (Classical) Scholarship.