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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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Fri18Sep201510:00 amKoninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- & Letterkunde (KANTL)
The Language(s) of the Papyrus Archives
Show contentThe conference “The Language(s) of the Papyrus Archives” will be held at the conference center KANTL (Koningstraat, Ghent) on 18 September 2015.
The conference focuses on the linguistic approach of (documentary) papyri, and on papyri preserved in papyrological archives in particular.
It has a multilingual scope with contributions about Greek, Demotic and Latin.
It not only presents scientific results of scholars working within the field of the linguistic study of papyri, but it also aims to discuss the potential of this relatively new subdiscipline.Programme
10.00-10.30 Coffee
10.30-10.45 Welcoming speech (Delphine Nachtergaele, Ghent University)
10.45-11.30 Bilingual documents in Greco-Roman Egypt (Willy Clarysse, KU Leuven)
11.30-12.15 Some Aspects of the Language of Individuals and Social Groups in Zenon Papyri (Trevor Evans, Macquarie University, Sydney)
12.15-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.15 Further observations on senders, scribes and language (Hilla Halla-aho, University of Helsinki)
14.15-15.00 DIA in the Archive of Basil the Pagarch (VIII AD) (Klaas Bentein, Ghent University)
15.00-15.45 Digital Humanities and the future of linguistic papyrology (Mark Depauw, KU Leuven)Registration
Attendance of the conference is open to the public. A fee of €25 is asked for coffee & tea and lunch; therefore advance registration is necessary. If you plan to attend, please inform the organizers (Delphine.Nachtergaele@UGent.be)