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CISUECO – Centro Interuniversitario di Studi ungheresi e sull’Europa centro-orientale (Inter-university center for Hungarian and Central-Eastern European studies)

Established in 1989, CISUECO today links 15 research units at universities in the following Italian cities: Bologna, Florence, Naples (L’Orientale), Milan, Padua, Perugia, Rome (Tre), Turin, Udine and Venice.

The Florentine research unit "Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Italian-Hungarian and Danubian Studies" - composed of Professor Beatrice Tottossy (contact person) and Drs. Katia Brunetto, Lena Dal Pozzo, Giorgia Ferrari, Kinga Kapacsy, Mariarosaria Sciglitano, Claudia Tatasciore - supports the following research fields: comparative literatures studies; literary theory (in particular epistemology and ontology of literature); translation (in particular literary translation) and language acquisition studies; and Digital Humanities.

The unit participates in CISUECO’s annual conferences and conducts research in collaboration with the Casa Buonarroti in Florence (Tolnay Carteggio Project), the Turati Foundation (Silone Carteggio Project), the Attila József Society (József Attila's Critical Edition of Theoretical Works 1930-1937), the Lukács Archive of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the National Library of Budapest (Italian-Hungarian Collection Project), as well as others.

In the 2017-2021 period the unit is participating in the COST Action "New Exploratory Phase in Research on East European Cultures of Dissent" (Project "Trauma, Memory, Literature"); since 2018 it is engaged in the creation of an inter-university Literary Translation Laboratory. The unit also hosts doctoral students from European universities, welcomes curricular and Erasmus trainees, and coordinates the Italian-Hungarian and Italian-Finnish extracurricular school in Tuscany.

The Research Unit also carries out “in-house training activities” directed primarily, but not exclusively, to the students of the degree programs in “Languages, Literatures and Intercultural Studies” (three-year course, class L-11) and “European and American Languages and Literatures” (master’s degree, class L-M37), with the achievement of credits (max. 12). For details, please contact the RU Coordinator, Prof. Tottossy.

Coordinator:

Beatrice Tottossy

Members:

Contact:

beatrice.tottossy(AT)unifi.it

Last update

20.10.2021

CISUECO – Centro Interuniversitario di Studi ungheresi e sull’Europa centro-orientale (Inter-university center for Hungarian and Central-Eastern European studies)

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