Announcements

On the occasion of the fifth centennial of the Orlando Furioso editio princeps, which appeared in Ferrara in 1516, our Institute and the Famiglia Artistica Reggiana-Studium Regiense Foundation in Reggio Emilia, with the participation of the Centro studi Matteo Maria Boiardo in Scandiano, will organize the two-days conference “Orlando Furioso 1516-2016. New studies for the fifth centennial of the editio princeps”, Reggio Emilia-Florence 19th-20th May 2016. Download here the call for papers.

On the occasion of the Forum ‘Unity in Diversity’, that will take place in Florence next 5th-8th November 2015, with the participation of the Mayors of a hundred cities around the world specifically involved in peace and peaceful coexistence among people, reminding a similar initiative thought and desired in 1965 by the Mayor of Florence Giorgio La Pira, the Sangalli Institute offers its third scholarship for this year, whose title is ‘Cities and Religions. Past and Present for a peaceful coexistence’, in collaboration with the Municipality of Florence, promoter of the Forum, and with the participation of UBI – Banco di Brescia. The winner will be rewarded by the Mayor of Florence Dario Nardella and by the President of our Institute during the days of the Forum. Download the announcement for more details.

Here is, as announced, the announcement of selection for the ‘Sangalli Institute Award for the Religious History’, in collaboration with the Department of University and Research of the Municipality of Florence, represented by its chief Cristina Giachi. Our Award, adjoining this year the ‘Premio Ricerca Città di Firenze’, is under the auspices of the Municipality of Florence. Addressed to young Italian and Foreign researchers, it will offer to the two winners the possibility to publish books concerning the religious history from Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era, in a new book series of the Firenze University Press. Deadline: 1st November 2015.

The Sangalli Institute, in collaboration with the Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma-CSIC, offers 12 grants for young researchers who wish to participate to the atelier ‘Secularism and Religion in Modern Europe (XVIth-XVIIIth centuries)’, from October 5th to 9th 2015, with the participation of renowned Italian and foreign scholars: download the announcement of selection, in English and Spanish.

The Sangalli Institute offers for the second semester 2015 two scholarships, one in religious history and one inter-disciplinary, of 6.000,00 (six thousand) euros each: download the announcements for more details.

The Sangalli Institute for the history and religious cultures offers for the second semester 2014 a pre-tax scholarship of 6.000,00 (six thousand) euros.