ALLI – Linguistic Atlas of the Italian Lakes
The Linguistic Atlas of the Italian Lakes Study Center (ALLI), established in 2022, is the natural development of the geolinguistic and ethnolinguistic project of the same name, aimed at collecting, documenting, and studying the life, history, and language of the communities that lived around Italy's inland waters.
Coordinator: Fabio Fatichenti – fabio.fatichenti@unipg.it
Location: Department of Humanities – Languages, Literatures and Ancient and Modern Civilizations, Palazzo Manzoni, Piazza Francesco Morlacchi 11, 06123 Perugia, Italy.
Contact: +39 075 585 4642
Scientific Committee: Antonio Batinti, Rita Chiacchella, Carla Falluomini, Ermanno Gambini, Enzo Goretti, Massimo Lorenzoni, Regina Lupi, Massimiliano Minelli, Daniele Parbuono, Mirko Santanicchia, Mario Tosti, Giulio Vaccaro, Manuel Vaquero Pineiro, Roberto Venanzoni, Stefania Zucchini.
Activities: Through its sixty publications, the ALLI project has helped fill a gap in the history of Italian linguistic studies, opening new interdisciplinary research directions in an area of experience and a productive and terminological sector that had previously been poorly documented and threatened by profound transformations.
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CEMS – Centre for European Modernism Studies
The Centre for European Modernism Studies (CEMS) is an inter-university center headquartered administratively in Perugia and affiliated with the Department of Humanities. Its purpose is to investigate artistic and literary Modernism in its broadest spectrum. Literature, music, theatre, visual arts, linguistics, and philosophy provide different research fields through which to explore Modernism, a phenomenon expressed in multiple forms.
Directors/Contacts:
• Prof. Massimiliano Tortora
• Prof. Annalisa Volpone – annalisa.volpone@unipg.it
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CISF – Inter-University Center for Franciscan Studies
The CISF, established in 1988 on the initiative of Prof. Roberto Rusconi, currently includes the Universities of Campania, Chieti, Macerata, Milan, Padua, Perugia, Roma Tre, Siena, Verona, Udine, and the Pontifical Antonianum University. It promotes research and teaching in the field of religious history from the Late Middle Ages to the beginning of the Modern Age, with particular emphasis on the history of Francis of Assisi and the Franciscan Orders within the broader context of the religious movements and orders of the period.
Director: Roberto Lambertini, University of Macerata.
University of Perugia Contact: Stefano Brufani – stefano.brufani@unipg.it
Location: Palazzo Bernabei, Via San Francesco 19, Assisi, Italy.
Board Members: Marina Benedetti, Stefano Brufani, Maria Grazia Del Fuoco, Maria Teresa Dolso, Marco Guida, Raimondo Michetti, Michele Pellegrini, Maria Clara Rossi, Daniele Solvi, Andrea Tilatti.
Activities: In collaboration with the International Society for Franciscan Studies (SISF), since 1985 the Center has organized an annual two-week residential seminar in Assisi for twenty young Italian and international scholars and researchers. Fifteen scholarships are available to facilitate participation. At the end of the seminars, CISF also organizes an annual Study Meeting. Together with SISF, it also organizes the International Conference on Franciscan Studies, held every October since 1973. The 50th conference took place in 2022.
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CISFAR – Inter-University Center for Farnese Studies
The CISFAR – Inter-University Center for Farnese Studies was established in 2025. It is administratively based at the University of Tuscia and includes the Universities of Parma, Federico II of Naples, Perugia, Roma Tre, Sapienza University of Rome, Luigi Vanvitelli University of Campania, L’Aquila, Bergamo, Macerata, and the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa.
The Center promotes research and scientific collaboration concerning the historical events, patronage, artistic production, and literary activity of the Farnese family, one of the most important aristocratic families of early modern Italy. Pope Paul III belonged to this family, which ruled the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza until the early eighteenth century.
At the University of Perugia, the Center is affiliated with the Department of Humanities (Academic Senate resolution of March 25, 2025).
Contact:
Prof. Erminia Irace – erminia.irace@unipg.it
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Center for the Study of Medieval Spirituality
Contacts:
• Prof. Stefano Brufani – stefano.brufani@unipg.it – Tel. +39 075 585 3082
• Prof. Carla Falluomini – carla.falluomini@unipg.it
• Prof. Stefania Zucchini – stefania.zucchini@unipg.it – Tel. +39 075 585 3084
Location: Via Ciuffelli 31, 06059 Todi (PG), Italy.
Telephone: +39 075 8942521 – +39 075 585 3047.
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Center for Studies on the Anthologia Latina
The Center for Studies on the Anthologia Latina conducts philological and literary research on the poetry of the final phases of the literary history of the Roman Empire and of the Romano-Barbarian kingdoms.
Coordinator: Paola Paolucci (Department of Humanities, University of Perugia).
Location: Palazzo Silvi, Via del Verzaro 61, Perugia – Tel. +39 075 585 4980.
Scientific Committee: Loriano Zurli, Paola Paolucci, Lucio Cristante, Rosa Maria D’Angelo, Maddalena Spallone, Fabio Stok, Walter Berschin, José Manuel Díaz de Bustamante, Niklas Holzberg, Scott McGill, Kurt Smolak, Étienne Wolff.
Activities: The Center conducts research on the poetry of the later phases of Roman literary history and the Romano-Barbarian kingdoms, focusing especially on the poetic texts collected in the so called Anthologia Latina, which includes poems from Vandal Africa, other Romano Barbarian kingdoms, the Middle Ages, and Latin Humanism.
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Eratosthenes – International Center for the Study of Ancient Geography and Its Medieval and Modern Tradition
ERATOSTHENES promotes scientific initiatives (conferences and seminars), teaching activities, and public outreach events (lectures and presentations) on ancient geography and its reception during the medieval and modern periods.
The Center coordinates the Geographia Antiqua Seminars and the journal Geographia Antiqua, founded in 1992 with the support of the University of Perugia and published by Leo S. Olschki Publishing House.
Coordinator: Francesco Prontera.
Location: Department of Humanities – Languages, Literatures and Ancient and Modern Civilizations, Via Aquilone 7, 06123 Perugia, Italy.
Scientific Committee: Claudia Antonetti, Pascal Arnaud, Germaine Aujac, Serena Bianchetti, Patrick Gautier Dalché, Hans Joachim Gehrke, Pietro Janni, Gianfranco Maddoli, Didier Marcotte, Elvira Migliario, Marica Milanesi, Roberto Nicolai, Silvia Panichi, Alexander Podossinov, Francesco Prontera, Mario Tosti.