The College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University, leading a Mediterranean Studies Research Group and a Mediterranean Studies Certificate, invites submissions for an upcoming symposium on Mediterranean Studies to be held in July 2021.   In recent years, the discipline of Mediterranean Studies has “gone from constituting a rather vague approach to a region imagined in...Read More

Ospitiamo per il secondo anno la manifestazione Mitomania “Conversazioni con le Ninfe e i Fiumi, organizzata da Annapaolo Giannelli e Sonia Grandis. SIRACUSA 7 settembre 10.00 Tempio di Apollo – visita ai luoghi delle acque di Ortigia 15.30 Palazzo Francica Nava – Conversazioni sulle ninfe 20.00 Fonte Aretusa “Amori liquidi – Aretusa incontra Ciane” –...Read More

An Academic Conference and Tour of Ancient Sites Syracuse, Sicily 13-19 October, 2019 Even a cursory look at the remaining corpus of Pindar’s victory odes leaves one in no doubt about the wealth, power, and prestige of his Sicilian patrons. Exactly a third of the odes were composed for Sicilian athletic victories and those dedicated...Read More

Conversazioni In Sicilia con la Dott.ssa Giovanna Summerfield, Professor e Associate Dean, Auburn University, USA “Sicily on Screen: Essays on the Representation of the Island and Its Culture” ed. G. Summerfield, McFarland, 2019. Con tutte le sue bellezze fisiche e il suo intrigante bagaglio culturale, la Sicilia è stata fonte di ispirazione per innumerevoli artisti e...Read More