“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…

ERC Synergies: MICOLL Meets PatriFem

On 21 May 2026, Stefania Gialdroni will take part in the presentation of Elena Maccioni’s volume I tribunali mercantili nei comuni italiani. Giustizia, politica, economia (secoli XII-XV) (Viella, 2024), hosted by the Università degli Studi di Genova. The event is funded by the ERC project PatriFem, led by prof. Denise Bezzina, who was previously a…

Doctoral lecture by Francesca Fusco

On 30 April 2026, from 10:30 to 12:30, Professor Francesca Fusco will deliver a doctoral lecture entitled Intersections between Language and Law in the Vocabulary of Financial Distress. The event will take place at Aula De Ponti, Palazzo del Bo, University of Padua, and will be introduced by Professor Stefania Gialdroni. The lecture is organized…

Merchants’ Routes 2.0: From Archives to the Web – 4th MICOLL Workshop

What: 4th International Workshop of the ERC CoG MICOLL: “Merchants’ Routes 2.0. From Archives to the Web”. Where: Genoa State Archives (Piazza Santa Maria in Via Lata, 7) and Società Ligure di Storia Patria (Palazzo Ducale, Piazza Giacomo Matteotti, 5, Genoa) When: 22 and 23 January 2026   We are thrilled to announce the upcoming 4th…

Second joint workshop MICOLL-HOLYLAB

What: Workshop “Digital Humanities e Mobilità: Ulteriori Prospettive da Progetti ERC” Where: Department of Political Sciences, RomaTre University, Room 4A (4th floor), via Gabriello Chiabrera 199, Rome When: 7 November 2025, 2:30pm We are delighted to announce that the second joint workshop of the ERC projects MICOLL (Migrating Commercial Law and Language. Rethinking Lex Mercatoria,…

Stefania Gialdroni and Matteo Moro in Erice

Our PI Stefania Gialdroni and one of MICOLL’s postdocs, Matteo Moro, will join the prestigious International School of Ius Commune in Erice (Italy). INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF IUS COMMUNE Directors of the School: M. Bellomo – K. Pennington – O. Condorelli – W. Decock 44th Course: Legal, cultural and religious pluralism: aspects and problems in the…

Padua: First Workshop of the Project IUSTITIAM

What: First Workshop of the Project IUSTITIAM: Jurisdictional Places for Commerce (11th–17th Centuries) Where: Venice – Deutsches Studienzentrum in Venedig; Padua – Palazzo del Bo, Aula Vigini When: 25–26 September 2025   The first international workshop of the project IUSTITIAM – Iustitia Mercatoria. Places, Spaces and Iconographies of Mercantile Justice in Europe (11th–17th centuries) will…

Francesca Fusco in Budapest

Our postdoc Francesca Fusco has just given a series of lectures within the framework of the PÁZMÁNY SUMMER SCHOOL on LAW AND LANGUAGE in Budapest. It is a very ancient university, founded in 1635. She was the only Italian scholar: well done Francesca! This international Summer School, open also to undergraduate students, deals with the…

PHEDRA Conference in Paris

Our PI, together with part of the teams of MICOLL and IUSTITIAM, will join one of the biggest events on commercial law history of the last years: the conference of the project PHEDRA led by prof. Luisa Brunori. What: PHEDRA Conference – Existe-t-il un « modèle européen »? Pour une histoire du droit des affaires…