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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.

Gothic Winter School (Perugia, Jan. 27-28, 2025)

“The Language and Texts of the Goths.” A Gothic Winter School entitled “The Language and Texts of the Goths” will take place on January 27 and 28, 2025. The Winter

Call for papers. Final conference of PRIN 2022 “Monsters, Sorcerers, and Witches of Northwestern Europe.”

The final conference of PRIN 2022 “Monsters, Sorcerers, and Witches of Northwestern Europe: The Medieval and Early Modern Construction of Otherness in Literature for Popular Audiences” is being organized. The

Updated program – Second doctoral conference ‘The fantastic and the supernatural in medieval Germanic traditions’

Updated program of the Second AIFG doctoral conference. ‘The fantastic and the supernatural in medieval Germanic traditions’ University of Padua, December 11 and 12, 2024

Lecture series “Magic and Myths in Medieval Germanic Texts” (Catania, December 10-11, 2024)

On December 10 and 11, 2024, the lecture series “Magic and Myths in Medieval Germanic Texts” will be held at the Benedictine Monastery in Catania. The event is organized by

Call for Papers. “Per scripta ad astra. The representation of the cosmos in the Middle Ages” (Bergamo Oct. 9-10, 2025).

Bergamo, October 9-10, 2025 A call for contributions has been circulated these days for the international conference “Per scripta ad astra” to be held in Bergamo on October 9 and

“The Nibelungen at the Movies” series of events (L’Aquila, Nov. 26-28, 2024)

A series of events entitled “The Nibelungen at the Movies” will be held in L’Aquila from November 26-28, 2024, in collaboration with the L’Aquila Film Festival and as part of

The gods of others. The religious imaginary of the ancient Germans among misunderstandings, falsifications and literary fashions. Some case studies (Verona, Nov. 26, 2024)

Lecture by Prof. Marco Battaglia (University of Pisa) A lecture by Prof. Marco Battaglia (University of Pisa) entitled “The Gods of Others. The religious imaginary of the ancient Germans among

“Monsters, Sorcerers, and Witches of Northwestern Europe” conference (Naples, November 27-29, 2024).

Palace du Mesnil of the University of Naples “L’Orientale” As part of the PRIN “North and Magic 6: ‘Monsters, Sorcerers, and Witches of Northwestern Europe: The Medieval and Early Modern