LECTIO Summer School (3 & 4 September 2025)

On September 3 and 4, LECTIO Research Institute will be organizing its annual Summer School for ECR. Since 2022, the Summer Schools have invited PhD candidates and postdocs to explore a specific theme from a variety of disciplinary perspectives based on materials from Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Early Modern Period. This year, the masterclasses will be devoted to letters and letter collections. 

Epistolography and letter collections have garnered much scholarly attention in recent years, benefiting from diverse and complementary questions raised by various fields of research. Several aspects of letter-writing in the pre-modern and early modern world also connect with the Challenging Traditions program, which is central to the current research agenda of the LECTIO Institute. Postgraduate students and PhD researchers will have the opportunity to attend masterclasses on topics related to the study of letter-writing in the pre-modern and early modern world. The masterclasses are meant to be interactive and invite participation. In each session, masterclasses are accompanied by participants’ short presentations on their ongoing research.

As member of LECTIO's scientific board and a member of the organizing committee, I will give a seminar on gender dynamics in Enlightenment letters.

For more information on the program, see here.