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Massimo Salgaro and Lacina Yéo outside the entrance of the Frinzi library

As part of the MoCoSvi – Mobility for International Development Cooperation project implemented by the University of Verona, the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures will host for a period of 3 months Prof. Lacina Yéo, Associate Professor of German and Global Studies at Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny Abidjan-Cocody (Ivory Coast), with the aim of promoting […]

Roundtable Hangzhou-Verona in Sala Arazzi of the Verona City Council

Hangzhou-Verona Roundtable

An important roundtable resulting from the Hangzhou-Verona twinning was held on Wednesday, May 29, in the presence of Mayor Damiano Tommasi at the City Hall of Verona, the Director of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Verona, Prof. Roberta Facchinetti, and Prof. Barbara Bisetto, chair of the department’s internationalization commission. […]

The opening of the roundtable Living in Difference in aula Co-working

“Living in Difference” Symposium

The “Living in Difference” symposium, organized by Gabriella Pelloni as part of the interdisciplinary research group “Representations of Otherness, Diversity and Marginality in Contemporary European and Non-European Literatures”, took place on Monday, 27 May, in the Co-Working Room. The day marked the first meeting between the members of the team created within the framework of […]

At the desk, Professors Rospocher and Boschiero for the conference Diversity, Accessibility, Inclusion in the Digital text and Cultural Heritage Challenges and Perspectives

Diversity, Accessibility, Inclusion in the Digital text and Cultural Heritage

On 22-24 May, the International Conference “Diversity, Accessibility, Inclusion in the Digital text and Cultural Heritage: Challenges and Perspectives”, organized by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Verona with the support of the DAIH centre (Digital Arena for Inclusive Humanities, www.daih.eu) took place. The conference, held in English, was […]

Professors Tamar Sukhishvili from the university of Tblisi, Georgia, and Daniele Artoni in the cloister of Santa Maria della Vittoria

Prof. Sukhishvili visits from Georgia

In the second week of May, the Department of Foreign Languages and Literaures hosted Prof. Tamar Sukhishvili (Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia). Prof. Sukhishvili, the second Georgian professor hosted this year as part of the Erasmus+ faculty mobility program, taught a course on the theme of “Language and Culture”, comparing metaphors and connotative meanings […]

Group photo at the end of the lecture of Prof. Anna Khachatryan from Armenia

Visiting Professors Avakova and Khachatryan from Armenia

On 13-17 May, the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures hosted Erika Avakova and Anna Khachatryan, esteemed university professors from two different Armenian higher education institutions. Prof. Anna Khachatryan, from Yerevan State University, gave a series of lectures on translation for the divisional students attending the “Varieties of the Russian Language” course taught by Prof. […]