Partnerships
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1. Universities & Institutes
Since 2016, there has been an intensive exchange with the Institute of Classical Philology and Ancient Culture at the University of Wrocław (Poland). In May 2017, the Institute was honoured with one of the 'Internationalisation' best practice awards of TU Dresden for a joint workshop. First contacts with Wrocław were already established in the 1990s.
In cooperation with the professorships in Ancient History (Christoph Lundgreen), Catholic Biblical Theology (Maria Häusl) and Protestant Biblical Theology (Jan Heilmann), the Dresden Classical Studies Presentations have been taking place every semester since the summer semester 2006. In addition, the participating professorships hold joint colloquia four times per year. In the winter semester of 2025/26, the four institutes mentioned above held their first Gender Lectures, which focused on ancient topics under the title 'Gender Lectures: Myth, Politics, and Gender Discourses. Rereadings, Revisions, and Transformations of Ancient Gender Thinking'.
2. Symposiums
At irregular intervals, the Institute organises symposia in cooperation with various partners. Most recently, the Institute hosted the 7th Kleine Mommsentagung in October 2016.
Also in 2016, the Junior Latin Forum (founded by Therese Fuhrer and Marco Formisano) was held in Dresden.
Previously, the Institute hosted the Federal Congress of the German Association for Classical Philologists (2002) and three times the specialist conference Aquilonia (2003, 2013, 2025).
In 2008, the international conference 'Empires and Humankind - China and the West Compared' took place in Dresden as part of the comparative research project by Fritz-Heiner Mutschler and Achim Mittag.
3. Schools and further teaching training
In coordination with colleagues from high schools in eastern Saxony, the institute organized the annual Dresden Latin Days between 2011 and 2019, where interested students from Saxony could learn about studying at our institute. The Dresden Latin Days eventually gave rise to the Saxon Antiquity Day, which has been held alternately in Dresden and Leipzig since 2022 and is organized by staff from both institutes of classical philology. The event offers students in grades 9 to 12 an insight into the study of ancient languages.
In addition, the institute regularly supports the Saxony branch of the German Classical Philologists' Association in organizing training days for Greek and Latin teachers in Saxony.