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PhiSci Workshop: ‘Plus ça change? Continuity and Discontinuity in Philology before and after 1800’

Place: Ghent, Belgium

Date: 26–29 June 2024

Organisers: Laura Loporcaro & Paul Kurtz

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Paper: LUCK History of Knowledge Seminar Series

Place: Lund University, Sweden

Date: 14 November 2024

Speaker: Christian Hoekema

Title: ‘Kritik Beyond the Academy: Belgian Source Criticism Amidst a Shifting Balance of Science and Faith’

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Paper: Scientiae Conference: The Global History of Knowledge, with a focus on the Americas and the Atlantic in the period 1450–1750

Place: Brown University, Providence, United States

Date: 25–26 October 2024

Speaker: Yun Xie

Title: ‘The Republic of Characters: Chinese Printing in the Netherlands from the 17th to the 19th Century’

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Papers: The Making of the Humanities XI

Place: Lund University, Sweden

Date: 9–11 October 2024

Speaker: Martina Palladino

Title: ‘Comparative Philology? Indo-Iranian Philology’s Unities and Disunities’

Speaker: Christian Hoekema

Title: ‘Kritik beyond the Academy: Belgian Source Criticism amidst a Shifting Balance of Science and Faith’

Speaker: Paul Michael Kurtz

Title: ‘Is the History of the Humanities a Teachable Subject – And If So, How?’ (Roundtable)

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Papers: Kunst und Handwerk. Die Techniken des 18. Jahrhunderts

Place: University of Stuttgart & German Literature Archive (DLA), Germany

Date: 16-18 September 2024

Speaker: Martina Palladino

Title: ‘Manual Labour in the Collection and Reproduction of Indian Texts’

Speaker: Laura Loporcaro

Title: ‘Bestandsaufnahme einer Disziplin: C. G. Harles’ Sammlung der Viten zeitgenössischer Philologen (1764-68)’

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Paper: International Society for the History of Rhetoric

Place: University of British Columbia & Simon Fraser University, Canada

Date: 23–26 July 2024

Speaker: Laura Loporcaro

Title: ‘Cicero and Quintilian on Simonidean Mnemotechnic: Similarities and Differences’

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Paper: Oxford Seminar on Jewish History and Literature in the Greco-Roman Period

Place: Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies, UK

Date: 11 June 2024

Speaker: Paul Michael Kurtz

Title: ‘Another View on Ancient Judaism: Catholic Scholarship in the German South, 1820–1880’

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Paper: Text and Transmission (TeTra) Joint Research Seminar 

Place: (online) KU Leuven, Ghent University, University of Oxford

Date: 7 June 2024

Speaker: Martina Palladino

Title: ‘The Sanskrit Yasna and Its Philological Project’

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Paper: Conference: Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern (c. 1500-1850)

Place: Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK

Date: 30-31 May 2024

Speaker: Martina Palladino

Title: ‘Planning the Future of Oriental Philology: Eugène Jacquet and His Network’

Speaker: Laura Loporcaro

Title: ‘What Makes a Fake? F.A. Wolf and the Forgotten Debate on the Authenticity of the Pro Marcello

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Award Speech: Omar Khayyam Preis, Gesellschaft der Freunde islamischer Kunst und Kultur e.V. 

Place: Munich, Germany

Date: 21 March 2024

Speaker: Martina Palladino

Title: ‘Der Sanskrit-Yasna: Eine iranische Tradition in Indien’

Paper: Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

Place: Online Working Group – History of the Language Sciences

Date: 9 January 2024

Speaker: Paul Michael Kurtz

Title: ‘Knowledge Infrastructure ca. 1900: The Case of Assyriology at the British Museum’

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Paper: Tenth European Conference of Iranian Studies (ECIS 10)

Place: Leiden University, The Netherlands

Date: 21–25 August 2023

Speaker: Martina Palladino

Title: ‘From Nēryōsangh to Burnouf. The Effective Philological System of the Sanskrit Yasna

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Summer School Seminar: Huizinga Institute (Netherlands Research School for Cultural History)

Place: Leiden University, The Netherlands

Date: 5–7 July 2023

Speaker: Paul Michael Kurtz

Title: ‘The Stuff of (Human) Science: Objects, Media, Infrastructure’

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Paper: Conference ‘Claiming the Land from Antiquity to Modern Times’

Place: University of Münster, Germany

Date: 21–23 April 2023

Speaker: Laura Loporcaro

Title: ‘Claiming the Land as an Exile: Creating a Shared Identity in Ov. Pont. 2.9’

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Lecture: Series ‘IIAS Lunch Lecture’

Place: Leiden University, The Netherlands

Date: 2 March 2023

Speaker: Martina Palladino

Title: ‘The Śākadvīpīya Brāhmaṇas and Their Customs’

Paper: Making of the Humanities X

Place: University of Pittsburgh / Carnegie Mellon University, United States

Date: 3–5 November 2022

Speaker: Paul Michael Kurtz

Title: ‘Moving Arguments: The Circulation of Linguistic Explanation across Semitic Studies circa 1900’

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Paper: Vossius Center for the History of Humanities & Science

Place: University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Date: 10 October 2022

Speaker: Paul Michael Kurtz

Title: ‘Putting the science back in human sciences: towards a holistic account of philology in the 19th century’

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Paper: Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas

Place: Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

Date: 20–22 September 2022

Speaker: Paul Michael Kurtz

Title: ‘Panta Claus: On a Seemingly Universal Clausal Explanation for Semitic Syntax (1878–1889)’

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