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…

A day trip along the canals

Learning by experience! Stefania Gialdroni, Chiara Lo Giudice, David De Concilio and Jake Dyble along the waterways used by merchants from the Middle Ages until the 1960s to transport men and goods. Thanks to the director of the Museum of river navigation (Museo della navigazione fluviale), Maurizio Ulliana, yesterday we had the opportunity to navigate…

Micoll’s first time at the Accademia della Crusca!

What a great day for #Micoll ! Our PI, together with Francesca Fusco and Davide Basaldella, was for the first time at the Accademia della Crusca, one of the leading (and most ancient) institutions in the field of research on the Italian language. Its headquarters is located inside the Villa Medicea di Castello, on the beautiful…

Matthias Heinz on italianisms

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…

“‘Scienze dello spirito’ e intelligenza artificiale”

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…

Dr Francesca Fusco at the Paris Lodron Universität in Salzburg

MICOLL crosses the Alps! On Wednesday 29 November, at 9:15 am, our Francesca Fusco will illustrate the MICOLL project at the Paris Lodron Universität in Salzburg, where she will also give a lecture on the linguistic history of legal Italian. More information HERE.

AISPE-SISE Congress 2023: University of Palermo

The International Congress “Centers, Peripheries, Networks, People, Goods, and Ideas on the Move in Economic History and the History of Economic Thought”, organized by the Italian Association for the History of Economic Thought (AISPE) and the Italian Society of Economic Historians (SISE) will take place at the University of Palermo from 19 to 21 October 2023.…

“Cities within Cities”: Panel 3.7, AISU Conference: University of Ferrara

Thanks to all the participants of our panel 3.7 “Cities within cities. Merchants and urban space between integration and marginalization (11th-17th Centuries)” which took place this morning at the University of Ferrara within the framework of the 11th AISU (Associazione italiana di storia urbana) conference “Beyond the Gaze. Interpreting and understanding the city”. In order…