Afdeling Grieks UGent

13/06/2026

🎓📜On June 2, our department of Greek was well represented at KU Leuven for the 25th Day of Byzantine Studies organized by the Belgian Society for Byzantine Studies! Two members of the team presented their research to our colleagues from Belgian Universities.

Eleonora Lauro presented her research on Byzantine book epigrams in Italo-Greek Manuscripts and Michele Didoli shared his insights in the structure of complement clauses of perception verbs in Early Modern Greek Hagiographical Sermons. We would like to thank and congratulate them for sharing their fascinating research 👏.

12/06/2026

The staff member of this month is Maria Navarro López, who joined our section in April 2026, as a visiting PhD student from the University of Barcelona.

👉 Read the interview here: https://www.grieks.ugent.be/medewerker-van-de-maand-mei-2026-maria-navarro-lopez/

05/06/2026

On June 4, at the University of Oxford, Ugo Mondini and Dan Gallaher hosted the second workshop on "Transmitting and Preserving Languages in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean".

One of the invited speakers was Andrea Massimo Cuomo from Ghent University, alongside Marina Bazzani (University of Oxford), Valentina Calzolari (University of Geneva), Benedetta Contin (Austrian Academy of Sciences), Karen Hamada (University of Tokyo), Anthony Kaldellis (University of Chicago) and Markéta Kulhánková (Czech Academy of Sciences)

https://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/events/2026/june/04/transmitting-and-preserving-languages-medieval-and-early-modern-mediterranean

02/06/2026

Onze collega Floris Bernard, prof. in de Griekse letterkunde, schreef een boek over verboden literatuur van de oudheid tot nu, met als prikkelende titel: 𝐿𝑒𝑒𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑡 𝑏𝑜𝑒𝑘 𝑛𝑖𝑒𝑡!🤓 Proficiat!

Morgen (3 juni) stelt collega Floris Bernard zijn nieuwste boek voor in het NTGent.

𝐿𝑒𝑒𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑡 𝑏𝑜𝑒𝑘 𝑛𝑖𝑒𝑡! vertelt verhalen van censuur, boekverbrandingen, geheime bibliotheken… van de oudheid tot de dag van vandaag. 📖

Het boek vloeit voort uit de lezingenreeks ‘Verboden boeken’, georganiseerd in 2023 door Sara Buekens en Floris Bernard (vakgroep Letterkunde).

📚Wat maakt lezen gevaarlijk? Waarom zijn autoriteiten bang van boeken? Wil je dat weten? Lees dit boek!

👉Boekvoorstelling: om 20u in de foyer van het NTG (geen aanmelding vereist).

01/06/2026

Last week, in collaboration with the Research School OIKOS and the Royal Library of Belgium, we organised a two-day crash course in Greek palaeography.

An inspiring and hands-on experience for all participants, who acquired practical skills for research involving literary and documentary papyri and manuscripts! 📜🎓

20/05/2026

🏆 Vandaag organiseerden we op de Blandijn samen met het Certaminacomité de proclamatie van de Vlaamse Olympiades Latijn en Grieks 2025-26.

Voor de Griekse wedstrijden stuurden dit jaar maar liefst 44 klassen een Homerosvertaling in, en 139 leerlingen namen individueel deel aan de Platowedstrijd! Dikke proficiat aan alle deelnemers, en in het bijzonder aan de laureaten, de eervolle vermeldingen en hun begeleidende leraren! 👏

13/05/2026

Our staff member of the month for April 2026 (published with some delay) is Davide Massimo, FWO junior postdoctoral researcher working on Hellenistic poetry inscribed on stone. We spoke with him about his interest in epigrams, his use of organization tools, and his research on desserts.

👉 Read the interview here: https://www.grieks.ugent.be/medewerker-van-de-maand-april-2026-davide-massimo/

11/05/2026

Our colleague and poet Cattafi will share some thoughts on contemporary Italian poetry and read a selection of her poems (mainly from her 2024 collection *Differire il giorno*) during a poetry evening organised by the Società Dante Alighieri – Ghent.

You are all warmly welcome on Thursday 28 May at 8.00 pm in the Rozier (Classroom 2.2). The event is free and will be held in Italian.

If you’re interested, please book a place here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/la-poesia-vivente-tickets-1988978909460?aff=oddtdtcreator

08/05/2026

Goed nieuws voor leraren: je kan de workshops van onze afdeling Grieks nu al aanvragen voor het schooljaar 2026-27! 🎉

We hebben volgend jaar maar liefst 12 workshops in de aanbieding. We laten je leerlingen proeven van Oudgrieks of modern Grieks, verkennen de rol van dieren in literatuur en goden in videogames, ontrafelen de geheimen van epigrammen, inscripties en manuscripten, of gidsen hen door tragedies, hagiografieën en antieke romans.

🧐 Lees de volledige beschrijving op: https://www.grieks.ugent.be/info-voor/scholen/workshops-voor-scholen/

👉 Vraag je workshop aan via dit formulier: https://forms.gle/AXCJiSaknY4sFhUh7

23/04/2026

We are pleased to announce that our colleague Andrea Massimo Cuomo (Dep. of Linguistics and one-month research awardee at Dumbarton Oaks) will take part in the upcoming Byzantine Studies Workshop at Dumbarton Oaks. The workshop brings together leading scholars to discuss key issues in Byzantine studies and education.

👉 Link to programme and abstracts: https://www.doaks.org/events/byzantine-studies/other-programs/workshop