THE C. ARRIUS NURUS FOUNDATION
Scholarships
The Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae offers a number of scholarships
of €800 per month, for a minimum of 3 consecutive months each, to both
post-graduate students and junior scholars working in the area of Neo-Latin
Studies, who wish to continue their studies and/or research at Leuven. They
are invited to contribute to the activities of the Seminarium, and to take
an active part in the Master programme of Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Publication of the results of their research in Humanistica Lovaniensia
can be taken into consideration.
For
the moment, all positions are filled in through 2012, yet an application
for fellowships starting 2013 can be submitted by filling out the application
form. On completion this form should be sent to:
Prof.
Dr. G. Tournoy
Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae
Blijde-Inkomststraat 21, B-3000 LEUVEN
Visiting Scholars
* Nurus Fellow: Drs. Antoine Haaker (University of Wrocław, Poland, link): ‘Speaking ancient Greek in the Renaissance: Greek school dialogues’, October 2011 – March 2012.
* Nurus Fellow: Dr. Šime Demo (University of Zagreb, link): ‘Linguistic aspects of Latin-Croatian macaronic poetry: localising a global phenomenon’, October 2011 – February 2012. Research project: European and especially Croatian macaronic poetry against the background of recent linguistic theories on social (broad cultural and pragmatic) and grammatical conditions that shape linguistically mixed texts.
* Nurus Fellow: Dr. Valerio Sanzotta (Università di Cassino, link): ‘Towards a critical edition of Marsilio Ficino's Argumenta in decem Platonis dialogos’, September 2010 – February 2011.
* Nurus Fellow: Dr. Atsuko Fukuoka (University of Tokyo): ‘Jus circa sacra – A Contested Right of the Sovereign in the Context of Seventeenth-Century Debates on the Church-State Relationship in the Netherlands', September 2010 – January 2011.
* Visiting Scholar: Drs. Michał Czerenkiewicz (University of Warsaw), ‘Neo-Latin Netherlandish Literary Culture in the 16th and 17th Century and “The Polish Lipsius”, Simon Starowolski’, September-October 2010.
* Nurus Fellow: Dra. Nienke Tjoelker (University of Cork): ‘An analysis of the Latin style of the Alithinologia (1664) of John Lynch’, January – April 2010.
* Research Fellow: Drs. Pablo Toribio Pérez (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid; link): ‘Isaac Newton: Unpublished Latin Writings on Church History. Critical Edition, Translation, and Study (Yah. Ms. Var. 1/ Newton 19, Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem)’, September – December 2009.
* Nurus Fellow: Dr. Diana Stanciu (Bucarest): ‘The Passions and the Fate of the Stoics in Seventeenth-century England: Justus Lipsius’ Influence in Ralph Cudworth' (July – September 2009); and ‘Philippus Van Limborch: Arguments for Toleration and Irenicism in his Correspondence with Ralph Cudworth’ (September – December 2009).
* Nurus Fellow: Dr. Luigi Silvano (Università di Torino; link): ‘Angelo Poliziano’s Latin Translation of Pseudo-Alexander of Aphrodisia’s Problemata’, January – June 2009.
* Nurus Fellow: Drs. Werner Gelderblom (Radboud University Nijmegen; link): ‘Johannes Secundus’ Basia: the creation of a master piece’, January – May 2009.
* Nurus Fellow: Margaret King (University of Cork): ‘’, January – May 2009.
* Visiting Scholar: Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Fordonski (University of Warsaw), November 2008.
* Nurus Fellow: Dr. Aline Smeesters (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve; link): ‘Neo-Latin Birth Poems from the Low Countries’, March – July 2008.
* Nurus Fellow: Dr. Fabio della Schiava (Università di Firenze/Milano - Leuven): ‘Maffeo Vegio, De rebus antiquis memorabilibus Basilicae S. Petri Romae’, January – June 2008.
* Nurus Fellow: Dr. Lisa Ciccone (Università di Messina): ‘Le Odule di Giovanni Quatrario’, January – June 2008.
* Nurus Fellow: Dr. Laurent Grailet (Université de Liège): ‘The Turkish Letters of Busbecq : a linguistic study’, November 2007 – June 2009, part time.
* Visiting Professor: Prof. Dr. Robert Young (Renaissance Literature and Literary Criticism in the English Dept of North Carolina State University): ‘English translation of Justus Lipsius’s De Constantia’, October – November 2007.
* Visiting Professor: Dr. Natalia Agapiou, September - February 2006-2007; February – July 2008.
* Visiting Scholar: Prof. Dr. Andrez Budzisz (Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski), research on Neo-Latin epic literature, December 2004 – June 2005.
* Visiting Scholar: Prof. David Walker, executive officer at the Faculty of economics and commerce of the University of Melbourne, Australia, 2004-05.
* Visiting Scholar: Prof. Dr. Jill Kraye (The Warburg Institute, London): research on 'pre-Lipsian' Louvain philosophical writings in the sixteenth century, August 2004.
* Visiting Scholar: Drs. Juan Ballesteros (Universidad de Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla; Dept. Humanidades - Sec. Historia Antigua): research on Lipsius's Admiranda, July – August 2004.
* Visiting Scholar: Prof. Dr. David Money (University of Sunderland – Wolfson College, Cambridge), 2003.
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Visiting Professor: Prof. Dr. Charles Fantazzi (University of Windsor, Ontario
and East Carolina University, North Carolina), 2002.