EUROCLASSICA ACADEMIA RAGUSINA 2026
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Reminder: Academia Ragusina is one of the Euroclassica “schools “, conceived as a biennial symposium, combination of scholarly lectures and didactic workshops. It is intended for high-school students (primarily those attending classical gymnasiums, but also other schools), university students of classical philology, history, national literatures of various European countries, archaeology and doctoral students in related scientific disciplines interested in classical and postclassical texts in Latin and Greek from all over Europe and beyond as well as for teachers and researchers themselves. The school is international in character, its lecturers and attendees coming from Croatia and other European countries. Euroclassica’s Academia Ragusina aims to constantly remind contemporary society of the importance of learning classical languages. The lecturers strive not only to highlight the greatness of ancient writers but also to highlight the relevance of their works almost two thousand years after the collapse of the states in which they lived, refreshing our memory of all later authors who were inspired them in any way.
Official languages are English and French
Level of Latin : intermediate (ECCL, Ianua)
The symposium would be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, a city with a rich cultural heritage and significant manuscript collections and libraries as well as numerous traces of Greco-Roman civilization.
We can get the support of relevant institutions, students, teachers and scientists in Dubrovnik and in Croatia, but we need the help of all of you, national representatives, so that Euroclassica’s Academia Ragusina can gain an international character through its participants.
Therefore, we would be grateful if you could answer the questionnaire on the proposed date and make suggestions on the rest of the program so that it is best suited to the request.
TOPIC for 2026:
Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia, the first encyclopedia – an incentive for preserving planet Earth
QUESTIONNAIRE
ABOUT THE DATE OF THE EVENT
OUR PROPOSAL: Arrival: Sun March 29 2026 Departure: Fri April 03 2026
YOUR PROPOSAL: Arrival: ______________________ Departure: ________________________
Lectures for all participants will focus on various chapters from the work of Pliny the Elder, with an emphasis on the text and the context of the time the work was written, as well as today’s ecological problems in preserving the Earth and its atmosphere. Connection of the Pliny’s work with the endeavours on preserving the Earth will be a good contribution to the celebration of upcoming Earth Day (Apr 22).
Pedagogical workshops will include work on the text and connecting our rich natural heritage and today’s ecological problems, and will be conducted at two levels:
a) for students of classical high schools
b) for undergraduate, post graduate and doctoral students of humanistic and natural sciences.
Possibility of organizing pedagogical workshops for interested teachers.
PROPOSED PROGRAM:
Sun. March 29 2026 – Arrival, accommodation
Mon. March 30 26 – Lectures and pedagogical workshops
Tue. March 31 2026 – Lectures and pedagogical workshops
Wed. April 01 2026
– Morning: visit to the manuscript collections of the Scientific Library, the Franciscan Monastery of the Friars Minor and the State Archives in Dubrovnik.
– Afternoon: city tour
Thur. April 01 2026 – Trip to the ancient site of Narona, museum tour, lecture and pedagogical workshop
Fri. April 02 2026 – Departures
Please reply to jadranka_bagaric@hotmail.com. before August 10 2025. The results will be presented at the General Assembly in Sofia, where we will agree on the final date of the event.
