Parma Hub
The Inter-University Centre for the Study of Romanticism (CISR) organises and promotes study and research activities centred on the pivotal period of the Romantic era across various European cultures. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the Centre’s scholars also examine all the phenomena that preceded and heralded the Romantic era, what the Romantic generations drew upon and reinvented, as well as the subsequent reverberations of European Romantic culture and its traces and influences in non-European cultural spheres.
The University of Parma hub, established following the joining of a group of scholars from the former Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures (which later merged into the Department of Classics, Languages, Education and Philosophy – A.L.E.F.), comprises professors from a variety of disciplines within the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Industries, as well as external members. Building on this interdisciplinary structure, the Centre serves as a focal point for in-depth study and research – including research aimed at educational applications – into nineteenth-century culture as a transitional phase and a crucial turning point between the eighteenth-century (re)inventions of modernity and the revolutionary transformations of the twentieth century and our present day.
