[Antiquitas] CFP: Humanist Greek (HUG) — Perspectives for a New Field of Studies, August 23–25 2018

[Korhonen, T Tua M]

Hei,

tässä CFP Helsingissä pidettävään kansainväliseen konferenssiin. Abstraktien viimeinen jättöpäivä on 1.3.2018.
Toiseksi pääpuhujaksi on lupautunut Stefan Weise Wuppertalin yliopistosta. Konferenssi on maksuton.

Terveisin,

Tua Korhonen, FT, Kreikan kirjallisuuden dosentti, yliopistotutkija
Maailman kulttuurien laitos, huone A212
PL 24 00014 Helsingin yliopisto



 

 

Call for Papers: Humanist Greek (HUG) — Perspectives for a New Field of Studies, August 23–25 2018

The project Helleno-Nordica will host a three-day conference Humanist Greek (HUG) — Perspectives for a New Field of Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland, August 23–25, 2018. 

 The deadline for abstracts is March 1, 2018.

 “Humanist Greek” (or Renaissance Greek, an archaizing variant of Greek) refers to the Greek language and Greek texts composed by the Humanists from the Renaissance onwards. Humanist Greek can be seen as a sister concept to Neo-Latin. However, Humanist Greek literature has gone largely unnoticed until recently with the sudden appearance of research articles, even books (e.g., Hellenisti! edited by Stefan Weise), anthologies coming-to-be, and databases containing HUG texts. The aim of this conference is to map the area of this new, growing field of study.

In this interdisciplinary conference on Humanist Greek, we consider the scope and meaning of the phenomenon and the texts written in this archaizing form of Greek.

 We invite papers dealing with topics such as:

– the concept of Humanist Greek / Renaissance Greek / etc. vs Neo-Latin

– representative/interesting/central texts in Humanist Greek

– writers of Humanist Greek from a specific region or university

– linguistic features of Humanist Greek texts or one particular text

– editing Humanist Greek texts

– imitation strategies of Humanist Greek – of Homer, Hesiod, etc.

– relationship with contemporary (modern) Greek, especially “Church Greek” (liturgical Greek)

– sociolinguistic approaches: who wrote to whom and why – social networks

– translations: when were HUG texts translated into Latin or a local vernacular?



Please send a ca. 300-word abstract for a 20-minute paper in English or German to

tua.korhonen at helsinki.fi and erkki.sironen at helsinki.fi no later than March 1, 2018.

Please include in a separate file your affiliation, e-mail address, and a short list of relevant publications. We will inform/notify you of acceptance by April 30, 2018.

 Helleno-Nordica is funded by the Swedish Research Council and conducted by the Universities of Lund, Helsinki, and Tartu.


 


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