GLOBAL LATIN II - Siena, September 5-6, 2022

Second edition of the international Siena meeting on Latin as a vector of cultural exchange and language of science in the late Middle Ages and early modern times.

Siena, Santa Chiara Lab, 5 Sep h. 15-19, 6 Sep h. 9-18. Follows in Pisa as Roma Sinica III, 7-9 Sep.

Streaming Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/dfclam_unisiena

GLOBAL LATIN II, SIENA - PROGRAM

ROMA SINICA III, PISA - PROGRAM

5 September, 15.00-18.30

THE CULTURAL EXCHANGE AND THE ROLE OF LATIN

15.00 Welcome, Francesco Stella (Director of the Center "I Deug-Su" - Univ. of Siena) ABSTRACT

CHAIR: Noël Golvers (Univ. Louvain)

15.15 Françoise Waquet (CNRS, Paris), Observatoires locaux, valeurs globales. Discours sur l’universalité du latin ABSTRACT

16.00 Adriano Prosperi (SNS, Pisa), Un caso speciale, il latino come lingua sacra

16.45 Coffee Break

CHAIR Sven Günther (Northeast Normal University)

17.00 Yasmin Haskell (Univ. of Western Australia), Deities, demons... or decoration? Eastern gods in Francesco Benci’s “Quinque martyres” (1591) and Bartolomeu Pereira’s “Paceidos libri xii” (1640) ABSTRACT

17.30 Anna Di Toro (Unistrasi - Siena), La grammatica cinese in latino di Prémare ABSTRACT

18.00 Philipp Roelli (Univ. Zürich), The types of scientific Latin used by authors in China ABSTRACT

18.30 Discussion

6 September, 9.30-13.00

Francesco Frati (Rector - Univ. of Siena)

THE DISCOVERY OF AN UNEXPLORED TEXTUAL HERITAGE JAPAN-CHINA

CHAIR Maurizio Bettini (Univ. di Siena)

9.30 Akihiko Watanabe (Otsuma Women's University, Tokyo) Mercury and the Argonauts in Japan Myths and Martyrs in Jesuit Neo-Latin ABSTRACT

10.00 Aldo Tollini (Univ. Ca’ Foscari, Venezia), Il ruolo del latino nelle missioni cristiane in Giappone del XVI e XVII secolo ABSTRACT

10.30 Coffee Break

Cina - China

11.00 Mingguang Xie (Beijing Foreign Studies University), Massimiliano Carloni (ÖAW, Wien), The Italian Jesuit Michele Ruggieri and his Latin Poems on Chinese Missions ABSTRACT

11.30 Fritz-Heiner Mutschler (TU Dresden), Latin as a world language? China as test case ABSTRACT

12.00 Discussion

6 September, 15.00-18.00

NEW HORIZONS, NEW PROJECTS

CHAIR Jung Imsuk (Unistrasi - Siena)

Corea

15.00 Ahn Jaewon (Seoul National University), On the significance of Latin language in Korean Historiography: focusing on Congr. Riti. Processus 5279 PAPER

15.30 Kim Kukjin (Unistrasi - Siena), Le conoscenze mediche in lingua latina nella Corea del XVIII secolo ABSTRACT

Africa

16.00 Leonardo Cohen (Univ. of Be’er Sheva), Paul Rodrigue (Univ. of Cambridge, UK), Expeditio Aethiopica by the Catholic Patriarch of Ethiopia: A Dispute with an European Jew Concerning the Divine Nature of the Messiah ABSTRACT

16.30 Coffee Break

PROJECTS IN PROGRESS

CHAIR Gastón Xavier Basile (Univ. of Buenos Aires)

17.00 Maria Cristina De Castro Maia Pimentel, Res Sinicae project (Univ. of Lisbona), Persuadere, discutere e informare: l’uso del latino nelle “Cartae Annuae” inviate dalla Cina ABSTRACT

17.30 Stefan Zathammer - Dominik Berrens (Univ. Innsbruck), NOSCEMUS - Nova Scientia: Early Modern Scientific Literature and Latin ABSTRACT

18.00 Tavola rotonda - Round table, with Chiara Tommasi (Univ. Pisa - SERICA), Andrea Balbo (Univ. Torino - SERICA), Kim Kihoon (Seoul National University)

Conclusions: towards the meeting in Pisa

See also:

Press:

Federica Argento, "Secolo d'Italia", 1 settembre 2022
Il latino come strumento di dialogo intellettuale, "Siena News", 2 settembre 2022