Giorgio di Nunzio in Rijeka

What: International scientific conference “Citizens at the Forefront of Law, Terminology and Technology: Navigating Legal Information in the Digital Environment” Where: University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law When: 24 April 2025 Prof. Giorgio Di Nunzio (University of Padua, DEI Department of Information Engineering), Member of MICOLL’s Senior Staff, will soon fly to Croatia to present…

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Francesca Fusco in Poznań

What: 2nd International Conference “I contesti dell’italiano. Variabilità in lingua, didattica, letteratura e cultura” organized by Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań and University of Warsaw Where: Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań,  Al. Niepodległości 4 (Collegium Novum) When: 3-5 April 2025 Our Francesca Fusco will soon be in Poznań to present a paper entitled “Falliment e…

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Daniele Tinterri in Boston

We are very pleased to announce that our postdoc Daniele Tinterri will present a paper within the framework of the huge Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America which will take place in Boston on March 20-22, 2025. He will talk about the “Liber Gazarie”, one of the main sources of medieval maritime law,…

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Daniele Tinterri in Trent

Coming soon: Doctoral lecture by our postdoc Daniele Tinterri at the University of Trent! What: “La scoperta dell’ignoto. Spazi e tempi dei mercanti, esploratori e cartografi tra geostoria e global history (XIV-XX secolo)”. Doctoral lecture within the framework of the Doctorate in  “European Cultures. Environment, Contexts, Histories, Arts, Ideas”. Discussant: prof. Andrea Bonoldi Where: University…

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Micoll’s 3rd Workshop: Rome, 23-24 January 2025

What: 3rd Workshop of the ERC Project Micoll: “The Merchants’ ‘Code’. Mercantile Contracts and Letters (11th-17th Centuries)” Where: Rome, Casanatense Library and Senate Library When: 23-24 January 2025 And here we go, finally! The program of our 3rd Workshop is now ready. If you want to participate, please send an email to stefania.gialdroni@unipd.it.

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Casting call “Le vie dell’acqua”

We are looking for 7 actors – 4 boys and 3 girls – to play teenagers around 17 years old in Micoll’s film “Le vie dell’acqua” (“The Ways of Water”). If you live in Veneto (the film will be shot in Padua and Venice) and you are interested in participating just use the QR code…

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MICOLL goes on air

Today, Thursday 26 December, at 5:30 pm (in Italy) our PI Stefania Gialdroni will be virtually in Canada as a guest on the radio show “L’ Eco del Lazio” hosted by Tony Porretta and Iolanda Russo (Extra Tv) on CHINRadio “The Voice of Canadian Multiculturalism”, to talk about merchants, migration, and communications tools in history (among other…

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New Project: “Cities as Breeding Grounds”

Very proud to be part of this new project funded by the FWO (Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen / Research Foundation – Flanders). Title: Cities as breeding grounds: Legal change in financial law (c. 1620-c. 1750) Senior research projects fundamental research – G0ACT25N FIN-code:7010 All credit, however, goes to Luisa Brunori and Dave De ruysscher, who…

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“Lights, camera, action!”

First two days of shooting (and a lot of brainstorming) for MICOLL’s movie ‘Le vie dell’ acqua’ in the heart of the University of Padua, the Palazzo del Bo. Great start with interviews with prof. Carlos Petit (Universidad de Huelva), prof. Andrea Caracausi (Università di Padova), prof. Matthias Heinz (Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg) and our…

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