Phd in PHILOLOGY AND HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT
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- Project “Experiment in computational stylometry for attribution purposes applied to Latin literary texts,” directed by Prof. Francesco Ursini;
 

-Project MAGIC - Myths, artefacts, gestures, incantations, and cyberpractices. Tracing the journey of magical practices from antiquity to the digital age” (directed by Prof. Marinella Ceravolo) explores the theme of magic as a historical-religious category and as a field of theoretical and methodological reflection that spans different eras and disciplines — from the history of religions to anthropology, from ancient to modern and contemporary history, to digital practices. 

Alongside research activities, the project includes a series of monthly seminars, designed as opportunities for interdisciplinary discussion, with speakers who are researchers/lecturers from Sapienza and other universities, often international ones.

The activities were inaugurated with a round table in May (🔗Digit@l Magic? Religions, practices and beliefs online) and, last October, the first seminar was held with Eduard Iricinschi (🔗On scholars and their supernatural beings).To conclude the cycle (in June), we intend to organise a study day entirely dedicated to presentations by doctoral students, in order to stimulate discussion among young researchers from different doctoral programmes. The idea is that each participant will give a 20-30 minute presentation on a topic related to MAGIC — with a mainly historical-religious focus, but absolutely open to interdisciplinary perspectives.

The presentations given in this series of seminars will be published in one of the Quaderni of ‘Studies and Materials on the History of Religions’, thus also offering doctoral students a good opportunity for publication;

- A scientific collaboration between the Department of Classical Studies (Sapienza) and the Thesaurus linguae Latinae (Bavarian Academy of Sciences), focused on the “New open access digitization of the Thesaurus linguae Latinae,” coordinated by Professors Michela Rosellini and Elena Spangenberg Yanes. As part of this project, doctoral students can gain experience in the methodologies and techniques of the digital humanities as applied to lexicography, linguistics, and Latin philology;

 

- ERC Consolidator Grant CAVE Project - “Collection of Ancient Vergilian Exegesis,” in which doctoral students can gain experience in the fields of Latin philology, linguistics, and paleography as well as the digital humanities, directed by Prof. Elena Spangenberg Yanes;

 

- Project “Confessions as trial depositions: Language and style in Anatolian and Semitic juridical documents from the Hittite to the Roman Imperial Age (2nd millennium BCE - 3rd century CE)”, directed by Prof. Alessio Agostini;

 

- Research Center “Onomastikón. Studies in Greek and Latin Lexicography”, 🔗Onomastikón, directed by Prof. Vincenzo Ortoleva, with Prof. Maria Rosaria Petringa and Prof. Salvatore Cammisuli;

 

-Progetto ERC Advanced Grant “PAThs – Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths: An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Lietarture” 🔗Atlas.Paths, directed by Prof. Paola Buzi. The project, still in progress, allows doctoral students to gain research experience in the fields of literature and history