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Vox Mercatoria: the MICOLL podcast is now online!

The first episode of Vox Mercatoria, the new podcast of the ERC project MICOLL is now available online. You can watch the launch reel here: Instagram Reel. Debt and credit are words we encounter constantly: in contracts and balance sheets, but also in everyday language. We can have a financial debt or a moral debt;…

“Have the Gods Fallen?” now on YouTube

We are delighted to announce that the entire conference “Have the Gods Fallen? An Interdisciplinary Reconsideration of Lex Mercatoria and Commercial Revolution”, held at San Servolo in Venice on 17–19 June 2026, was recorded and is now available on the MICOLL Project YouTube channel. The recordings include all conference sessions and offer the opportunity to…

Looking Back at the MICOLL Final Conference

From 17 to 20 June 2026, scholars from across Europe gathered in Venice for the MICOLL final conference, “Have the Gods Fallen? An Interdisciplinary Reconsideration of Lex Mercatoria and Commercial Revolution”. Hosted at the Venice International University on the island of San Servolo, with the opening keynote held at the German Center for Venetian Studies…

Roma amoR

Thanks to all participants of the third workshop of our project. Rome did not disappoint, giving us wonderful weather and joyful days.  

Francesca Fusco in Venice

What: Phedra Winter School 2024 Where: Venice, Palazzi Minelli and Contarini, Sestiere Cannaregio When: 29-31 October 2024 Today our Francesca Fusco will represent Micoll at the Winter School of our beloved project Phedra in Venice, organized by Luisa Brunori and Dave De ruysscher, with a paper about the terms insolvency and bancruptcy from the Middle…

Davide Basaldella and Francesca Fusco in Warsaw

What: The contexts of Italian: language, didactics, interculturality (I contesti dell’italiano: lingua, didattica, interculturalità) Where: Uniwersytet Warszawski and Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu When: 1st Edition in Warsaw – April 18 and 19, 2024 Our two linguists, Davide Basaldella and Francesca Fusco, will soon take part in this important event with a paper entitled…