Participation at the VI Colloquia Ceranea in Łódź
Dr Andrea Bernier will participate at the sixth international, interdisciplinary scholarly conference Colloquia Ceranea, organised between 9 and 11 May 2024 by the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe “Ceraneum”, University of Łódź, Poland (see the PROGRAMME). Dr Bernier will deliver a paper on the changes that affected the administrative system of the Eastern part of the Roman empire in the 4th century AD (abstract here: Colloquia Ceranea).
Participation in the Toruń Festival of Art and Science
Dr Andrea Bernier will participate in the 22. Toruński Festiwal Nauki i Sztuki (Toruń Festival of Art and Science) with the lecture 'Rest or Perish? The introduction of Sunday as a day of rest in the Western world'. The lecture will take place on Monday 22 April, from 10 to 11.30 am, at the Nicolaus Copernicus University, Collegium Humanisticum, Bojarskiego Street 1, room AB.1.17. Details and further information can be found at https://www.festiwal.torun.pl/imprezy/393.
Research stay in London
Dr Andrea Bernier completed a 2-week research stay in London (17 February-2 March) for collecting literature concerning his research project. Host institutions were the Library of the Institute of Classical Studies ( https://ics.sas.ac.uk/) and the main library of UCL (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/using-library/libraries-and-study-spaces/main-library ). Dr Andrea Bernier would like to express his sincere gratitude to the staff of these superb libraries for their assistance and support during his stay.
Lecture at UMK
On 17 January 2024, dr Andrea Bernier gave a lecture for the students of the Department of Applied Linguistics and Department of Italian Philology in the Faculty of Humanities at UMK. The lecture was dedicated to the modern history of an Italian region (Emilia-Romagna. Racconti e immagini di una regione italiana) and was delivered in Italian.
POLONEZ BIS Kick-off meeting
Dr. Andrea Bernier and Prof. Szymon Olszaniec participated in the POLONEZ BIS Kick-off meeting held in Kraków on 30 November-1 December 2023.