Only one week left before the early bird offer expires!
👉Summer School of Languages of the Christian East, Rome, July 6–17, 2026.
(including an intensive course in medieval and early modern vernacular Greek, taught by yours truly.)
Please contact me (my email is in the programme, otherwise DM) at least one day in advance to receive the link.
We are delighted to announce an upcoming graduate workshop, “Euripides in Context: New Perspectives on the Transmission and Reception of Ancient Greek Literature”. The workshop is part of the activities of the JFF Project Euripides Byzantinus.
24 March 2026 at 3:00 pm (GMT)
I was extremely pleased to contribute today to the Lectures of the Institute for the Study of Eastern Christianity at the Catholic University of America today.
Thanks to Father Stefanos Alexopoulos, Vessela Valiavitcharska and Joshua Robinson for their kind invitation.
Tomorrow, join us for the next seminar of Euripides in the Middle Ages
Chiara Meccariello (University of Exeter), Learning (from) Euripides: Tragedy and educationthrough the lens of Greek papyri
To receive the link, please write to my email address (see the programme blw).
Still a lot of time to enroll!
👉Summer School of Languages of the Christian East, Rome, July 6–17, 2026.
(including an intensive course in medieval and early modern vernacular Greek, taught by yours truly.)
On Thursday 5 February, join us for the next seminar of Euripides in the Middle Ages
Patrick Finglass (University of Bristol), Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris in John Malalas
To receive the link, please write to my email address (see the programme blw).
Tomorrow, join us for the next seminar of Euripides in the Middle Ages
Guido Avezzù (University of Verona), Erratic readings and emendatory method in Euripides’ ‘alphabetical’ plays
To receive the link, please write to my email address (see the programme blw).
Tomorrow, join us for the next seminar of Euripides in the Middle Ages
Donald J. Mastronarde, The Nature of Palaeologan Annotations on Euripides: Moschopulus, Thomas, and Triclinius.
To receive the link, please write to my email address (see the programme blw).
ℹ️ Course details: www.syriacastudisiriaci.it/scuola-estiva/
📩 summerschoolsyriacaups@gmail.com | DM welcome
Italian is the main language of instruction, but if participants with limited Italian are enrolled, teaching may be adapted and conducted in English, but please contact me and the organisation in advance.
📌 Early bird fee (€420) until 15 March 2026
🏠 On-campus accommodation available
My course on Vernacular Greek (40 hrs) is designed for students with a basic knowledge of Ancient and/or Modern Greek.
We will read texts from the earliest sub-literary attestations to the 18th c., combining linguistics and literary studies and exploring contacts with other Mediterranean languages.
The LOC Summer School combines intensive morning language courses with a rich afternoon programme of seminars and discussions.
Courses offered in 2026:
Arabic I–II | Armenian I–II | Hebrew I–II | Ethiopic I | Georgian I | Vernacular Greek | Syriac I–III
📚 Announcement
Summer School of Languages of the Christian East (LOC)
🗓️ 6–17 July 2026
I will be teaching Vernacular Greek at this year’s Summer School, held in Rome.
"A General View of the City of Constantinople"
Unknown artist, published by Bowles & Carver, 1763–1830
From Yale Center for British Art (see link below)
The volume is a very West Fjords piece - evening prayers by Tyrfingur Finnsson (c. 1713-1749x53) priest at Staður i Súgandafirði. A very Icelandic life of the period: defrocked as a priest for allegedly dropping communion wafers while drunk, he remained in the area scribe, translator and farmer...
Ένας παλιός καλός φίλος μου και οι αναγνώστες του
Just terrible, & terribly stupid. There's no other way to describe this. As Islamic Studies chair for the Midwest AAR for the past 8 years, I've met and worked with so many outstanding faculty and grad students in IU's excellent Religious Studies and Middle East programs among others.
For more information, please visit our website:
comparativeglobalhumanities.mit.edu/pillars/huma...
Alternatively, feel free to write to us directly.
If you missed the 6th Global Humanities Initiative Forum on the pillar “Humans and Their Literatures,” you can watch the recording at the link below:
youtu.be/pDis3vatQMY?...
A reminder for the series “Euripides in the Middle Ages”. This week’s seminar has been postponed. The next seminar will be:
20 January, 4:30 p.m. GMT
D.J. Mastronarde (UC Berkeley), The nature of Palaeologan annotations on Euripides: Moschopulus, Thomas, and Triclinius
An updated programme below
Join us for the 6th Global Humanities Initiatives Forum
Humans and Their Literatures
Jan 9, 2026, 10:00–11:30 AM EST
Online (Zoom Registration Link: mit.zoom.us/meeting/regi...)
Speakers: Ugo Mondini, Michael Angerer, Marina Bazzani, Di Wang, Wiebke Denecke
