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51st Annual Meeting of the Italian Association of Germanic Philology

The 51st Annual Conference of the AIFG, titled “Text Criticism and Germanic Philology: specificities and problems of publishing medieval Germanic texts,” will be held at the University of Ferrara May

Conference “The Golden Ways: perspectives of Germanic philology” (April 11, 2025)

Ignatius Ambrose’ conference room, 19 Valco di San Paolo Street On April 11, a study day entitled ‘The Golden Ways: perspectives of Germanic philology’ will take place at the ‘Ignatius

PhDs

This section collects information on doctoral calls (39th cycle) with training tracks in Germanic Philology. Links to the calls are added periodically; therefore, we encourage you to keep the section

Conference “The Golden Ways: perspectives of Germanic philology” (April 11, 2025)

Ignatius Ambrose’ conference room, 19 Valco di San Paolo Street On April 11, a study day entitled ‘The Golden Ways: perspectives of Germanic philology’ will take place at the ‘Ignatius

Call for Papers: Third AIFG Doctoral Conference, “Cultural Syncretisms in the Literary Traditions of the European Middle Ages. Encounters between Germanic realities and other cultures” (Bologna, December 10-12, 2025)

Bologna, December 10-12, 2025A call for papers for the Third AIFG Doctoral Conference, to be held at the University of Bologna from Dec. 10-12, 2025, has been circulated these days.

Lecture series “Middle Ages in Verona”

A series of lectures pertaining to different areas of research in Germanic philology is being organized at the University of Verona starting March 26. The full program is available at

Summer School of Old Saxon and Middle Low German (Rome, June 24-27, 2025).

“From Old Saxon to Middle Low German: Saxons, language, codes, literary tradition.” A Winter School of Old Saxon and Middle Low German entitled “From Old Saxon to Middle Low German:

Series of meetings “Until a being took over the dark nights”

Dragons and dracomachies in medieval Germanic traditions. The University of Udine’s “Di Toppo Wassermann” Graduate School of Education is organizing a series of meetings on dragons and dracomachies in medieval

Scardigli Award 2025

The Scardigli family intends to award again for the year 2025 a prize of 1,000 euros to the author/author of a publication pertaining to the scientific field of Germanic Philology.