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<div class="column"><p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">On </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'; font-weight: 700">May 8-10, 2014 </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'">(Thursday till Saturday), the </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'; font-weight: 700">Library of the University of Tartu
</span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'">(Estonia) will host an international conference </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'">„Humanist </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'; font-weight: 700">Greek in Early Modern
Europe. Learned Communities between Antiquity and Contemporary Culture“ </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'">on
Humanist Greek. This field of study focuses on texts by academic non-Byzantine writers
who from </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">the </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'">Renaissance onwards have composed poems and prose in ancient
atticising Greek.
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'">Although the notion "Humanist Greek" has been in use for decades, these texts
have been quite neglected for a long time and for the most part remained on the margins
of Neo-Latin studies. In order to fill this gap, </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">Tartu University Library </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'">will hold a
conference, focusing on humanist Greek poetry and prose production (including
rhetoric as well as scientific treatises) from its emergence in Western Europe in Italy
and its practice in French and German </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">universities </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'">to its arrival </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">on </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'">the Baltic coast.
Although the main focus will be the production of humanist Greek texts in Northern
Europe and especially in the Baltic Sea area, its broader framework (the role of
Byzantine scholars, study and teaching of ancient Greek language and literature as well
as translating from Greek and editing Greek texts) will be regarded briefly as well.
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'">We are very pleased to announce that professors </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'; font-weight: 700">Dieter Harlfinger </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'">and
</span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'; font-weight: 700">Walther Ludwig </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'">(Hamburg University) have agreed to be our keynote speakers. A
panel discussion </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">on </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'">future collaboration on Humanist Greek text corpora will be held.
The languages of the conference are </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'; font-weight: 700">English </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'">(preferred) and </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'; font-weight: 700">German; </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'">we also intend to
publish the papers, which can be in </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'; font-weight: 700">English, German, French or Italian </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'">(or Humanist
Greek).
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'">During the conference an </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'; font-weight: 700">exhibition </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'">of humanist Greek prints and manuscripts
from Tartu University Library will be open; it will also be possible to enjoy the
international literary festival </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'; font-weight: 700">Prima Vista </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'">(May 7-11, 2014).
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'">The conference is financed by </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">the </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'">Estonian Research Council’s project PUT </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'; font-weight: 700">132
</span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">“Humanist </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'">Greek in Early Modern Estonia and Livonia: a bridge to modern and
ancient European culture“ (2013-2016).
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'; font-weight: 700">information and call for papers: </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'; color: rgb(0.000000%, 0.000000%, 100.000000%)"><a href="mailto:humgraeca@ut.ee">humgraeca@ut.ee</a>
</span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'">or<br>
organizers’ contact person:
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'; font-weight: 700">Janika Päll </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'">(PhD, researcher; Tartu University Library, Science Center)
</span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'; font-weight: 700">e-mail: </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(0.000000%, 0.000000%, 100.000000%)"><a href="mailto:Janika.Pall@ut.ee">Janika.Pall@ut.ee</a>
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'; font-weight: 700">phone 1: </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'">+372 53922391; </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'; font-weight: 700">phone 2: </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'">+372 7422243<br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'; font-weight: 700">fax: </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'">+372 7375701<br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'; font-weight: 700">address: </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'">Science Center, Tartu University Library, W. Struve 1, Tartu 50091, Estonia
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; font-weight: 700">Deadlines<br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'">First call for papers: July-September 2013<br>
Second call for papers: September-October 2013<br>
Information regarding travel and hotels in Tartu: September 2013
Deadline for paper proposals: November 15, 2013<br>
Notification of the acceptance of papers: November 20, 2013
Preliminary program available: November 20, 2013<br>
End of registration for participants: February 28, 2014<br>
Further information on hotels, meals, travel: April 1, 2014 and later
Conference: May 8-10, 2014
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Cambria'">Main sessions:<br>
1) Humanist Greek in poetical and rhetorical traditions (on texts and text corpora in
Humanist Greek);
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