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Events

Seminar

11 November 2026

Italian and other languages at school

Between continuity and change, everyday teaching practices and field research

Webinar

13 November 2026

The Emerging Syntactic Unit in an Intonation Unit-Annotated Corpus

Seminar with Ryan Ka Yau Lai, Kay Berry and Paula Lagasse

Event Within the Framework of:
Seminar cycle - Identifying units of organization in spoken discourse: theory and methods

Exhibition
Depiction of Theodoric, seated on his throne with a scepter in his right hand, a scroll in his left, and a crown on his head

2 October - 15 November 2026

Theoderic the Great. Legacy and Memory

Books Exhibition in Bologna University Library

Talk

16 November 2026

French Culture at the Malatesta Court: New Investigations into Vat. Urb. 11

Lecture by Paolo Rinoldi

Event Within the Framework of:
Third Seminar on Romance Philology and Medieval History

About us

LILEC’s lecturers , professors and researchers foster dialogue and interaction between languages, fields of knowledge and cultural experiences to produce high-quality, cutting-edge research and teaching. The aim is to give practical value to humanistic knowledge, considering it in dialogue with other fields of knowledge, in order to tackle the challenges of an increasingly complex and diverse world through original, inclusive and forward-thinking critical thinking.

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Public engagement initiatives in 2023

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Total competitive research projects in 2022, 2023 and 2024

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Incoming and outgoing international student mobility in 2023/2024

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