Upcoming events
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Mon05Sep2022Fri09Sep2022Gent
14th International Colloquium on Late and Vulgar Latin (Latin vulgaire – latin tardif XIV)
Show contentPlease note: the conference has been postponed again due to the continuing uncertainties related to the covid-19 pandemic and will take place from Monday, September 5th to Friday, September 9th, 2022.
The 14th International Colloquium on Late and Vulgar Latin (Latin vulgaire – latin tardif XIV) will be held at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of Ghent University (Belgium) from Monday, September 5th to Friday, September 9th, 2022. It will be organized by the Latin section and the research group DiaLing at the Department of Linguistics, under the auspices of the Comité international pour l'étude du latin vulgaire et tardif (www.unibg.it/lvlt).
The colloquium will be held in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Latin. As per tradition, it will be devoted to all linguistic aspects of late, informal, non-standard and colloquial Latin (including the transition from Latin to Romance).
For all further information, please visit the website of the colloquium at https://www.lvlt14.ugent.be. For any additional questions you may have, please contact the organisers at lvlt14@ugent.be.
Past events
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Tue22Oct2019Fri25Oct20198:30 amCamelot room (Blandijnberg 2, 3rd floor)
Multilingualism and language varieties in Europe - Autumn School in Medieval Languages and Culture 2019
Show contentThe Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies (HPIMS) is organizing their 2019 Autumn school in Medieval Languages and Culture on the theme of Multilingualism and language varieties in Europe.
In particular, on Tuesday 22 October, Roger Wright (University of Liverpool) will give a lecture (11.00-12.30) on "The emergence of the vernacular languages in the Middle Ages; Romance in the Iberian Peninsula in the Tenth Century." After lunch, Anna Adamska will give a lecture (15.30-17.00) with the title "A laboratory of multilingual communication? Speaking, writing and reading, in the towns of late medieval East Central Europe."
For more information, please visit https://www.ugent.be/pirenne/en/news-events/events/sociolinguistics.
Attendance for individual lectures, as well as the entire Autumn School, is free for UGent members, but registration is required: please inform the organisers of your attendance for specific lectures, or for the Autumn school as a whole, at Martine.DeReu@ugent.be.