Professor Alexander Vovin, a prominent member of the Classic and oriental studies section, passed away. Read the obituary by section chair, Prof. Gerd Haverling and the members of the section committee.

The outstanding Latin scholar, Professor Harm Pinkster, a former Council member of Academia Europaea and a member of the section for Classical and Oriental studies since 1989 and its former chair, passed away on December 14th 2021 after a short period of illness.

A new book by Dániel Z. Kádár, member of the Classics and oriental studies section.
The book provides a cutting-edge introduction to cross-cultural pragmatics, a field encompassing the study of language use across linguacultures.

Honorary doctorate awarded to Prof. Walther Ludwig by the University of Vienna.

New book edited by Hannah Cotton and Werner Eck

January 2013