Upcoming Seminars

The seminars are held every Wednesday at 5:00 PM (Central European Time) via Zoom:  click here to join 

January 14, 2026

Rafael Juan Pascual Hernández  (University of Granada)

Crossing Epistemological Borders: New Ways of Studying Alliteration in Old English Verse

January 21, 2026

Sophie Ling-chia Wei (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) 

Typology Meets the Yijing: Jesuit Figurists' Intralingual Translation and the Sinification of Jesus

January 28, 2026

Jasmine Bria (University of Bari Aldo Moro)

Borderlands and Cultural Identities in Arthurian Narratives

February 4, 2026

Naoko Kato (Corpus Christi College at the University of British Columbia/Independent Scholar)

Double Abandonment: Transpacific Borders of Erasure and Resistance (1942–1965) 

February 11, 2026

Dario Capelli (University of Urbino Carlo Bo)

Echoes of the Struggles Against the Beguines in a Poem by Thomas Hoccleve

February 18, 2026

Peppino Ortoleva (University of Turin)

Surreal Frontiers: Decolonisation, Borders, and Never-Ending Wars

February 25, 2026

Anik Nandi (Woxsen University)

Transnational Migration and Language Policies in Northern Ireland, UK: Family Dynamics towards Heritage Language Maintenance

March 4, 2026

Muhammet Enes Akdağ  (Üsküdar University)

Transnational Film Networks and Moviegoing Culture in the Jerusalem Mutasarrifate (1874–1917)

March 11, 2026

Karen Pinto (University of Colorado Boulder)

Through the Eye of the Cartographer: The KMMS Islamicate Vision of the Bilad al-Rum Byzantine Frontier with Syria

March 18, 2026

Sonja Brentjes (Max Planck Institute/Independent Scholar)

Formal and Informal Borders: How Much Did They Matter in the Mathematical Sciences in Premodern Islamicate Societies?

March 25, 2026

Eleonora Matarrese  (University of Bari Aldo Moro)

Edible Wild Plants: Widespread and Futuristic Knowledge in the Middle Ages (with practical workshop)

April 1, 2026

Pierpaolo De Giosa (National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris), Luigi Andriani (University of Hamburg)

More-than-human Encounters under the Same Roof: Household Spirits and Rituals in Bari

April 8, 2026

Marusca Francini  (University of Pavia)

Beyond Poetry. The Style of the Norwegian "Tristrams Saga"

April 15, 2026

Gesufrancesco Petrillo & Cristiano Bedin (Istanbul University)

Queer Encounters Across Borders: Adapting Perfect Strangers (2016) into Stranger in My Pocket (2018)

April 29, 2026

Elisa Ramazzina (University of Insubria)

Margins, Maps, and Monsters: Negotiating Borders in the “Wonders of the East”

May 6, 2026

Seda Öz (University of Delaware)

Entangled Germanies: Remaking Cinema at the Borders of Cultural Memory

May 13, 2026

Giorgio Ennas (University of Utrecht/Franklin University Switzerland)

Borders and Epidemics: Sanitary Transformation of State Borders in the Ottoman Empire between the Eighteenth and the Nineteenth Centuries

May 20, 2026

Nora Berend (University of Cambridge)

Title TBA

May 27, 2026

Valentina Surace (University of Messina) & Aisling Reid (Queen’s University Belfast)

Divided We Stand: Belfast’s ‘Peace’ Walls and the Logic of Security                               

June 3, 2026

Elisa Cugliana (Cologne University)

«Altez Gaschraibach» and New Technologies: Documenting Cimbrian Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries

June 10, 2026

Luigi Andriani (University of Hamburg)

One Language Fits All? The Spectacular Case of Multilingual Italy

June 17, 2026

Betsey Price (York University)

The Mansions of the Visigoths: Self-Definition Through Boundaries

June 24, 2026

Nancy Bruseker (University of Toulouse)

Gender Jetset: The Carrousel Cabaret and Transfemininity on Tour, 1950-1969 

July 1, 2026

Feride Zeynep Güder (Üsküdar  University)

Title TBA