The academic members of the Department of Italian Language and Literature maintain a wide range of research activities in various fields, including an active publications record, the participation in international conferences, the organization of conferences and symposia with invited speakers of international acclaim, the systematic organization of seminars for the presentation of cutting edge research in the department’s research focus areas, and the on-going research with the participation of both undergraduate and graduate students in the Department’s research labs.

More specifically, the Department of Italian Language and Literature maintains two research Laboratories:

The Computational Stylistics Lab, founded in 2017 by Professor George Mikros. Current director Professor Giannoula Giannoulopoulou (active term 1/9/2020-31/8/2020).

The Laboratory of Language, Translation and Study of the Relations between Greek and Italian Languages (Laboratorio di Lingua, Traduzione e Studio del contatto linguistico italogreco, Lab.It.El.), founded in 2017 by Professor Domenica Minniti Gonias. Current director Professor Domenica Minniti Gonias (active term 1/9/2020-31/8/2020). Among other research activities, the Laboratory organizes the bi-annual international conference Italloelenica.

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Seminar for Italian History and Historiography

The Department also organizes and hosts the Seminar for Italian History and Historiography, aiming at the presentation of recent trends and findings in archival studies, the interdisciplinary perspectives of Italian history and culture and its influence on Europe, in general, and the Mediterranean, in particular, the dissemination of knowledge regarding Italian history outside Italy etc.

The Seminar invites established and junior scholars from Greece and abroad to present their research to a wide audience of undergraduate and graduate students, alumni, professors, as well as the wider public. Seminars are hosted by the Department and are open to all interested parts.

Coordinator: Professor G. Pagratis

Recent presentations (2020)

Charalambos Vlahopoulos (Ph.D. Candidate of the Department of History and Archeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) “Italian Militaries at the Service of the Greek Independence Cause. Case Studies from the D. Roma Archive”, 15 January 2020

Umberto Signori (Historian, Postdoctoral Researcher of the Department of Italian Language and Literature, NKUA), “Corrispondenza consolare o supplica? Rilettura di una fonte per riconsiderare un’istituzione di antico regime,” 13 May 2020 

Renard Gluzman (Historian, Tel Aviv University, School of History), “An Epidemic of Marine Wood-boring Organisms and its Impact on Ships and Seafaring in the Early Modern Mediterranean,” 21 May 2020

George Pelidis (Department of Italian Language and Literature, NKUA), “Accademie cretesi e veneziane: contaminazione e innovazione culturale nel Seicento,” 25 May 2020

Toni Veneri (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), “Fra umanesimo e ragion di stato veneziana: La guerra di Costantinopoli di Paolo Ramusio (1572),” 29 May 2020

Paolo Calcagno (Università degli Studi di Genova), “Traffici commerciali e società marittime attraverso lo sguardo delle fonti giudiziarie: il caso di Genova nel XVIII secolo,” 3 June 2020

Recent Publication

Gerasimos D. Pagratis, ed. Le fonti della storia dell’Italia pre-unitaria (Athens: Papazisis, 2019)