Towards the East: Romance Europe and Cultural Horizons
7th International Conference on Neo-Latin Cultures
24th–25th of June 2025, at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Więzienna 6, Wrocław
The Dante Alighieri Society, the Institute of Classical, Mediterranean and Oriental Studies of the University of Wrocław, the University of Genoa and the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Wrocław invite the citizens and the scholars
Conference programme
Monday, 23rd of June
16.30 – Meeting at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
The organisers invite you to the ‘Midsummer Night in Silesia’, a theoretical and practical tour
Tuesday, 24th of June
9.30 – Opening ceremony
Błażej Stanisławski, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences in Wrocław
Matteo Ogliari, Director of the Italian Institute of Culture in Cracow
Sławomir Torbus, Director of the Institute for Classical, Mediterranean and Oriental Studies, University of Wrocław
Gianluca Olcese, Sonia Maura Barillari, Błażej Stanisławski, Ewa Tichoniuk-Wawrowicz, conference organisers
10.00 – The East in medieval, Greek and Byzantine sources
Sławomir Torbus (Uniwersytet Wrocławski): “Jean Chrysostome face à l'Église occidentale”
Sonia Maura Barillari (Università di Genova): “Le radici delle fanciulle-fiore: dall’albero wak-wak a Luciano di Samosata”
Marcin Bider (Uniwersytet w Siedlcach): “Tra Roma e Costantinopoli: Le fonti del diritto canonico latino negli «Statuti» del Sinodo di Zamość del 1720”
11.30 – Cultural circulation and adaptations
Fabrizio De Falco (Università della Basilicata): “Riadattamenti dall’Inghilterra all’Europa orientale: prime tracce per EuPANL”
Łukasz Krzyszczuk (Uniwersytet Wrocławski) “El delfín del Ganges en el Liber de natura rerum de Tomás de Cantimpré”
14.00 – Antiquity, Byzantine heritage and cultural interactions
Błażej Stanisławski (Polska Akademia Nauk): „Badania archeologiczne nad lokalizacją miejsca obrad Soboru Nicejskiego I”
Gościwit Malinowski (Uniwersytet Wrocławski) „Słowianie i romańska ludność prowincji bałkańskich w VI–VIII wieku”
Victor-Horațiu Troșan (Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai din Cluj-Napoca): “Cartographies of Exile: The Pontic Periphery in Ovid's Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto”
Evelina Kaczynska (Szkoła Anthropos Polskiej Akademii Nauk): „Wpływy bizantyńskie na architekturę sakralną Rusi”
Minlib Dallh (Dominican Institute of Toronto), Turgay Gündüz (Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi): “From polychron monastery in Mysian Olympus (Uludağ) to the Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabet: on the theological and spiritual training of saints Cyril and Methodius”
19:00 – Dinner
Wednesday, 25th of June
9.30 – Modernity and cultural representations
Ewa Tichoniuk-Wawrowicz (Uniwersytet Zielonogórski): “L’Oriente di Franco Battiato”
Simone Turco (Università di Milano-Bicocca): “Ecocritica orientofobica? La seconda mezzanotte di Antonio Scurati e la crisi valoriale dell’Occidente”
10:30 – Linguistic and didactic aspects
Anna Godzich (Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu): “Il lessico del lutto italiano e polacco a confronto – analisi linguistico-culturale (anche) in chiave didattica”
Beata Katarzyna Szpingier (Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu): “Terminologia medica tra etimologia e pratica clinica: una sfida traduttiva e didattica nell’ambito italo-polacco”
Ilona Kadys (Stowarzyszenie Dante Alighieri we Wrocławiu, Szkoła Podstawowa nr 73 we Wrocławiu, Liceum Ogólnokształcące nr 9 we Wrocławiu,): “Come il personaggio di Marco Polo può ispirare i bambini a scoprire lingue e culture diverse”
Riccardo Onnis (Szkoła Główna Mikołaja Kopernika): “Dalla retorica alla meditazione, corrispondenze tra l'arte della memoria antica e lo Yoga Nidra”
14:00 – An anthropological gaze
Alessandro Norsa (Istituto Universitario Salesiano di Venezia): “Echi sciamanici tra Oriente ed Occidente tra Passato e Presente”
Gianluca Olcese (Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Cattedra UNESCO di Antropologia della Salute dell’Università di Genova, Società Dante Alighieri di Wrocław): “Verso Easter (Ostern), la Pasqua turca nei Beskidi”
15:00 – Arab tradition and Western perception
Federico Guariglia (Università di Genova, Università di Verona): “Il Libro della Scala di Maometto: da Oriente a Occidente, sul filo della traduzione/tradizione”
Matteo Parodi (Università di Genova, Università Ecampus): “I saraceni nella Canso della Crozada”
Amal Brihi (Università di Genova): “Dall’Inghilterra di “Alfredo” all’Oriente: climi narrativi nell’Ysopet di Marie de France”
17.00 – Conclusion of the conference
We would like to thank for their support and patronage of the conference:
Italian Institute of Culture in Cracow
University of Zielona Góra
Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań
The Italian Society of Romance Philology
Jesteśmy Uniwersytetem Association of Wrocław
UNESCO Chair in Anthropology of Health – Biosphere and Healing Systems of the University of Genoa