The Center promotes research, conferences and publications with particular attention to Medieval and Comparative Literature and to the development of Digital Technologies.
Research areas:
EUROPE-ASIA COMPARISON
- Collection: Koreanische Literatur und Kultur 1995-2004
- Series: Hagiographica Coreana, 2001 and later)
Editions and research on Latin texts written in or about Asia:
- Conference Global Latin;
- Participation in the Roma Sinica network;
- Eurasian Latin Archive Digital Library;
- Partecipation into FISR SERICA;
- PRIN Classica Serica;
- Conference Marco Polo;
Series Documenta Orientalia (Pacini)
LATIN MEDIEVALISM
Latin literature and documentation of the European Middle Ages:
- Series Scrittori latini dell’Europa medievale, Pacini;
- Projects Studium 2005-2020, Dictamen 2020 ss., UMAS 2025-27;
- Project GIRPAM 2019 ss.;
- Project PoBLAM (2023-2025);
- Blended Intensive Project Carolingian Literary Lab 2023;
COMPARATIVE POETRY
International and comparative poetry:
- “Semicerchio. Rivista di poesia comparata”, founded in 1986, affiliated to the Center for Comparative Literature since 2005;
- Semicerchio School 1989-2021;
- Exhibitions and Initiatives (70 volte Semicerchio, 2024).
DIGITAL PHILOLOGY:
- Master in Digital Humanities;
- Summer School on Digital Book;
- workshops and meetings about textometry and quantitative methods;
- ALIM Project (PRIN 2012),
- Corpus Rhythmorum Musicum,
- Lexicon,
- Eurasian Latin Archive,
- Erasmus/DEMM
- Rammses.
