Next Tuesday, February 27th, at 3pm, prof. Matthias Heinz (University of Salzburg), director of the database OIM (Osservatorio degli italianismi nel mondo), will be our guest at the Department of Private Law and Critique of Law of the University of Padua to talk about the diffusion of words of Italian origin in the world. It…
On Monday 19t February 2024, at 2:30pm (Rome time), Alicia Wolff, PhD student at the University of Heidelberg, will give a lecture on “Glossaries, itineraries, and treaties: Lists as the main tool for organizing, saving, and sharing knowledge in medieval pilgrimage reports”, based on her doctoral thesis. Pilgrimage routes, from Northern Europe towards Rome and Jerusalem in…
Our PI Stefania Gialdroni will soon be in Frankfurt to present a paper which combines the classical work by Friedrich Bruns about the routes of the Hanseatic League ‘Hansische Handelsstrassen’ and the opportunities provided by the most recent information technology tools. The lecture will take place on January 31st 2024 within the framework of the…
On Monday 18 December 2023, at 4:30 pm, at the Private Law Department of the University of Padua (Palazzo Bo, Aula Ederle), Francesca Fusco, jurist, linguist and member of MICOLL’s team, will present her book dedicated to the standardisation of administrative legal language at the time of the unification of Italy in the framework of Prof.…
For once, we have organized a seminar in Italian. This time we will really go beyond the boundaries of legal history and explore the relationships between law (or, more generally, social sciences) and AI. We will do that thanks to a dialogue between a legal philosopher (Angela Condello, University of Messina) and an information engineer…
The second workshop of the MICOLL project, “Law, Language, and Geography: Charting the History of Commercial Terms”, will take place at the Goethe-Universität of Frankfurt am Main on the 1st December 2023. Migration is one of the great challenges of our era, but one that has been with us since ancient times. Today, it is…
