

File-leader body: Università degli Studi di ROMA "Tor Vergata" Scientific person in charge: Rosanna SORNICOLA. The forms of preceptive Roman discourse between conservation and change. Scientific person in charge: Andrea MAZZUCCHI. Heading towards a digital Dantesque Encyclopaedia.File-leader body: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II Scientific Co-ordinator: Antonio GARGANO. Spanish songwriters between the Renaissance and the Baroque.The doctoral research projects active in the Department are as follows: Philology Mind, Gender and Language Philosophical ciences Historical, Archaeological and Historical-artistic Sciences

The research activities of the DHS include doctoral training, articulated in directions which have to do with the various thematic areas. The Sections monitor the development of the activities undertaken within each section and so contribute to carrying out the objectives of the departmental research. The sections promote common scientific and cultural interests, bringing together professional, instrumental and technological resources and ensure the organization of the research activities. Modern Philology, Philosophy, Psychology and Educational Sciences, Antiquity Sciences, Historical Sciences, the History of the Cultural Patrimony. The six Sections in which the Department is articulated co-ordinate the activity: i.e. Such a coming together is based not on a sectorial vision but a critical and integrated one of these disciplines, which is suitable to guarantee the scientific and didactic efficiency in the field of literary subjects, of philosophy, of history, of foreign languages and literatures, of sciences dealing with cultural property, of psychological and pedagogical sciences and, at the same time, being able to ensure the quality of research for each of the sectors in question, and so favouring an inter-disciplinary approach. The Department of Humanistic Studies represents a coming together of homogeneous knowledge within the area of humanistic and social disciplines.
