Publishing initiatives

Paideia, rivista di filologia, ermeneutica e critica letteraria

Founded in 1946 by Vittore Pisani and Giuseppe Scarpat and directed since 2004 by Giuseppe Gilberto Biondi, Paideia collects contributions related to historical, philological and literary disciplines, with a focus on classical philology. The journal is currently placed in band A by ANVUR for sectors 10/A1, 10/D2, 10/D3, 10/D4, 10/E1, 10/M1. In 2009 Paideia inaugurated the "forum" section, which hosts multiple reviews (to which the reviewer can respond) on a monograph, so as to constitute, to accompany the work, the most comprehensive critical set-up possible. In 2010, the journal inaugurated the "Catullian" section, which hosts contributions concerning C. Valerius Catullus, screened, as well as through peer review, by an international scientific committee formed ad hoc by leading experts on Catullus (Julia Haig Gaisser, Paolo Fedeli, Antonio Ramírez de Verger, Ulrich Schmitzer).

Quaderni di "Paideia"

Since 2004, the journal Paideia has inaugurated a series of monographs on various subjects (Latin philology, mediolatina, Pascoli's Latin, Linguistics and Philosophy) with a special focus on Catullus. The volumes are peer-reviewed and screened by Paideia's own scientific committees.

Paideia (Only in Italian)

Publishing series directed by Marco Capra.

In collaboration with La Casa della Musica and the Marsilio publishing house, this series publishes the proceedings of conferences that are organized under the scientific direction of the department's Musicology professors. The titles range from Renaissance and Baroque music (A Messer Claudio, Musico, Le arti molteplici di Claudio Merulo da Correggio (1533-1604) tra Venezia e Parma, edited by Marco Capra), to popular music (Popular music e musica popolare. Riflessioni ed esperienze a confronto, edited by Alessandro Rigolli and Nicola Scaldaferri), through the history of music in Parma (Ferdinando Paër tra Parma e l'Europa, edited by Paolo Russo) and the reception of music (La critica musicale in Italia nella prima metà del Novecento, edited by Marco Capra and Fiamma Nicolodi).

Music in atto (Only in Italian)

Directed since 2017 by Maria Candida Ghidini, it was founded in 2003 by Giovanna Silvani as an ideal continuation of the Quaderni di Lingue e Letterature Germaniche (Germanic Languages and Literatures Notebooks) born in 1973 at the behest of Grazia Caliumi. It comes out annually. All issues are monographic. It accepts articles written in Italian, English, French, Spanish and German and ranges in European and non-European geographical and literary fields.

It has a national and international Scientific Committee and an Editorial Board.

Printed by the publishing house MUP of Parma and available for sale in hard copy, it can be downloaded free of charge in digital format from the TorrossaStore.

Non-fiction series

• Editorial Director: Gioia Angeletti
• Scientific Committee: Stefano Beretta, Maria Candida Ghidini, Simonetta Valenti

Collection of translations

• Editorial Director: Maria Valero Gisbert
• Scientific Committee: Micol Beseghi, Nicoletta Cabassi, Elisabetta Longhi

E-theca is a website maintained by Prof. Stefano Caroti that provides a range of texts and tools for medieval and modern Philosophy. In particular, the site collects:

1. EMILIO WEB: site edited by Emilio Panella OP, Convent of S. Maria Novella, Florence. Contains among Emilio's many works (including diary and poems) the edition of the works of Remigio de'Girolami and papers from the Archives of the Convent of S. Maria Novella
2. AETAS CARTESIANA: site devoted to the history of the fortune of Descartes' thought
3. Online Journal and Series of publications, open access: 
   - NOCTUA: The philosophical tradition from ancient to modern
   - QUADERNI DI NOCTUA: Series of studies and texts from ancient to modern
4. MEDIAEVALIA: collection of medieval texts

E-theca (Only in Italian)

The new telematic journal Quaderni della ginestra moves in the same ideal horizon traced by the four-monthly La società degli individui and the series of classics of sympathetic individualism that the cultural association "La Ginestra" has been promoting for years. Some editors come from the ranks of the print journal, others are young scholars working mostly in Parma at the Philosophy Unit of the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Industries. The "Quaderni" were created to provide an opportunity to experiment with new columns and more agile ways of writing. The journal is edited by Anna Maria Ricucci and Corrado Piroddi.

I quaderni della ginestra (Only in Italian)

The four-monthly Philosophy and Social Theory journal La società degli individui, published by Franco Angeli, was born in 1998 out of a research experience on the themes of individualism and community in modern societies. The common feeling of the scholars who collaborate on it is the idea of being able to reconstruct and propose forms of "solidary individualism." The journal is edited by Ferruccio Andolfi.

La società degli individui (Only in Italian)

Humanities studies series directed by Stefania Voce and published by Athenaeum Edizioni Universitarie.

The scholarly series is open to classical, medieval and humanistic philological-literary studies with a special interest in Greek and Latin authors in different disciplines, from modern and contemporary literatures, including foreign ones, to history and Philosophy, to name a few.

The Editorial Committee of the series is composed of Davide Astori, Mariella Bonvicini, Massimo Magnani, Nicola Reggiani and Paolo Rinoldi. 
The Scientific Committee from Gianfranco Agosti, Giuseppina Allegri, Fabrizio Amerini, Giuseppe Gilberto Biondi, Armando Bisanti, Jean-Louis Charlet, Paolo Chiesa, Loredana Chines, Federico Condello, Edoardo D'Angelo, Michèle Fruyt, Giulio Iacoli, Ermanno Malaspina, Joseph Manning, Raffaele Perrelli, Diego Saglia, Ulrich Schmitzer, Mario Tesini, Richard Trachsler, Simonetta Valenti and Carlo Varotti

Ricerche di S/Confine aims to be the place for the meeting/comparison of the different skills present in the Department's Art Music Performing Arts Unit, without ideological and/or methodological boundaries, with the intention of enhancing multidisciplinarity and interchange between different research experiences. Ricerche di S/Confine that are also intended as an opportunity for rigorous verification of the specificities of the tools and perspectives of study of the individual areas.
Sharing a common anthropological slant brings to the center of our interests, despite the difference in approaches, the human being, in his interactions with other human beings and with the environment. From the founding of the first city in the land of Sumer to contemporary large cities/museums/commercial centers, humans have created objects, urban forms, ideologies, systems of communication and control of the world and the territory; mental maps that we intend to analyze from different points of view, put here in comparison, in order to attempt, with an eye to the past, to interpret the present, to prefigure our future.

Ricerche di S/Confine (Only in Italian)

Purloined Letters is a peer-reviewed journal with a scholarly profile that refers to the area of literature, art, film, history, and the humanities.

It is dedicated to an eminently interdisciplinary topic such as citation, that is, the reuse of materials (primarily verbal, but also visual and musical) within a text: appropriation of a fragment and its insertion into another system, starting from the strategies of classicism to the rewriting practices of postmodernism. The journal aims to deal with the phenomenon from both a theoretical and an interpretive and historical point of view.

The journal has been included in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), one of Clarivate Analytics' citation databases that lists the best emerging journals worldwide. This database contributes to the composition of the Web of Science (WoS) core collection, where as a result articles published in the journal will be indexed.

Founded by Prof. Rinaldo Rinaldi in 2010, this semiannual journal is now edited by Nicola Catelli and Corrado Confalonieri.

Parole rubate/Purloined Letters

The series "GAP (Global Archaeological Projects). Bridging the Gap in Archaeology", directed by Alessia Morigi and published by Quasar, is open to the more properly archaeological study of materials and contexts but also to cross-cutting approaches, from geoarchaeology to Chemistry-Physics for Cultural heritage, to the archaeology of architecture, to industrial archaeology, to the application of new technologies to cultural heritage, to bioarchaeology, to the development of artificial intelligence applied to Archaeology, to the contribution of archaeology to city and land management policies, to the communication of archaeology and cultural heritage, to the literature on archaeological landscapes, and to the continuity of the archaeological matrix in the postclassical age. The accepted researches of the series are consequently naturally polyphonic and can encompass wide-ranging themes that expand, in a diachronic and choral perspective, to innovative and international interdisciplinary experiences. The series is, therefore, global in the double sense of the methodological approach that takes on contexts in their totality but also of the global scale of the investigations collected.

Director of the series: Alessia Morigi

International Scientific Committee:
Patrizia Basso (University of Verona); Jacopo Bonetto (University of Padua); Elena Calandra (University of Pavia); Paolo Carafa (Sapienza University of Rome); Maurizio Forte (Duke University); Alessandro Launaro (University of Cambridge); Daniele Malfitana (University of Catania); Annalisa Marzano (University of Bologna); Laurent Pernot (Institut de France - Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres); Christopher Smith (University of St Andrews); Luigi Sperti (University Ca' Foscari Venice).

GAP - Global Archaeological Projects (Only in Italian)

• Parmasofia
  Parmasofia is the site dedicated to an in-depth look at the cultural appointments of the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Industries (DUSIC), seen and told through the eyes of Journalism students.
  Born as part of the course unit of Laboratory Journalism, taught by Gabriele Balestrazzi, Parmasofia aims to become a real magazine just a click away. With a twofold purpose: on the one hand, to transform itself into a showcase of DUSIC-branded events, thus fulfilling the task of the Third Mission, and on the other hand, to be a gym for students who want to try their hand at journalism: a journalism with a cultural slant, increasingly rich in insights and insights, which makes knowledge captivating without distorting academic content.
  https://www.parmasofia.unipr.it/ (Only in Italian)
   
• Historic Collection
  Discographic Series (with Casa della Musica and Sara Ferrari Edizioni Musicali)
  
  Produced in collaboration with Casa della Musica and Casa del Suono, the Historic Collection series was born with the aim of enhancing recordings from the first half of the 20th century and results in an editorial plan that, through the sometimes unusual juxtaposition of particularly significant historical recordings, aims to document not only the various interpretative trends, but also to highlight certain key points in the history of opera and the melodramatic imagination from the late 18th century to the early decades of the 20th.