Curriculum Vitae
Valeria Flavia Lovato
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Valeria Flavia Lovato
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 4916-2F74-B6AC
Email addresses
- valeriaflavia.lovato@edu.ulisboa.pt (Professional)
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Portuguese | Elementary (A2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Elementary (A2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
Education
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2020/06/07 - 2020/07/10
Attended
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Summer School in Latin and Greek Codicology and Palaeography (advanced) (Postgraduate Certificate)
Major in Greek codicology and palaeography
Central European University, Austria
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Passed |
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2020/02/10 - 2020/02/11
Attended
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Introduction to Network Analysis for Historians and Archaeologists (Postgraduate Certificate)
Syddansk Universitet, Denmark
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2017/08/21 - 2018/06/30
Concluded
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Master of Advanced Studies in Pedagogy (Master)
Major in Pedagogy, Educational Sciences, Teaching Practice, Didactics of Ancient Greek
Haute École Pédagogique Vaud, Switzerland
"Le grec oral au gymnase. La compréhension orale d'un texte d'auteur [Teaching Ancient Greek as a spoken language]. Mémoire
professionnel de diplôme. Master of advanced studies pour le degré secondaire II. Lausanne : Haute école pédagogique - Vaud." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2012/01/10 - 2017/03/17
Concluded
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Valeria Flavia Lovato (Doctor)
Major in Greek literature and philology; Byzantine Studies
Università degli Studi di Torino Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Italy
Université de Lausanne Faculté des lettres, Switzerland "La ricezione di Odisseo e di Omero presso Giovanni Tzetze e Eustazio di Tessalonica [The reception of Odysseus and Homer
in John Tzetzes and Eustathios of Thessaloniki]." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Imprimatur without corrections |
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2008/10/01 - 2012/04/18
Concluded
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Scienze dell'Antichità (Classics) (Laurea Specialistica)
Major in Greek literature and philology
Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy
"La figura di Neottolemo nella poesia epica e nella tragedia di Sofocle [A study of the evolution of the character of Neoptolemus,
both in Greek epic poetry and Sophoclean tragedy]." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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110/110 cum laude |
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2004/10/01 - 2008/09/16
Concluded
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Laurea in Lettere (Laurea)
Major in Classics (Greek and Latin literature and philology)
Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy
"Il pantomimo a Roma nella prima epoca imperiale: le origini e i temi [The origins and themes of pantomime in the early Roman
Empire]" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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110/110 cum laude |
Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2022/11 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Portugal |
| 2021/10/01 - 2022/09 | Postdoc (Research) | Université de Genève, Switzerland |
| Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Switzerland |
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2018/02/19 - 2018/07/31 | Lecturer (University Teacher) | Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Université de Lausanne Faculté des lettres, Switzerland | ||
| 2016/08/01 - 2017/07/31 | Lecturer (University Teacher) | Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Université de Lausanne Faculté des lettres, Switzerland |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2019/01/01 - 2021/09/01 | Postdoctoral Fellow | Syddansk Universitet, Denmark |
| Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Switzerland | ||
| 2017/01/01 - 2018/09/30 | Research fellow | Università degli Studi di Sassari, Italy |
| Università degli Studi di Sassari Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche e Sociali, Italy | ||
| 2013/10/01 - 2013/11/30 | Visiting Student | University of Cambridge Faculty of Classics, United Kingdom |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2022/11/15 - Current | The importance of being urbane. Understanding (good) taste, social distinction and the power of humour from classical Greece
to Byzantium
2021.03585.CEECIND
Principal investigator
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
| 2021/10 - 2022/09/30 | The power of (good?) taste. Understanding refinement, sophistication and social distinction in Byzantium
P5R5PH_203048
Principal investigator
Université de Genève, Switzerland
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Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Concluded
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| 2019/01/01 - 2021/09/30 | Isaac Comnenus Porphyrogenitus: Walking the Line in 12th-century Byzantium and Beyond
P400PH_180700
Principal investigator
Syddansk Universitet Institut for Historie, Denmark
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Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Ongoing
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| 2017/01/01 - 2018/09/30 | Homer between two worlds. The Reception of Homer in the Renaissance, from Byzantium to the West
J82F16000760007
Research fellow
Università degli Studi di Sassari Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche e Sociali, Italy
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Banco di Sardegna
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
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| Book chapter |
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| Book review |
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| Edited book |
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| Journal article |
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| Magazine article |
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| Translation |
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Other
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Activities
Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2022/06/10 - 2022/06/11 | The city's finest: exploring notions of urbanity between East and West, from antiquity to the Middle Ages (International
workshop involving 14 speakers from Europeam and non-European institutions) (2022/06/10)
Workshop (Other)
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| 2020/03/05 - 2020/03/06 | Isaac Comnenus Porphyrogenitus: Walking the Line in 12th-century Byzantium and Beyond (international workshop involving 14
speakers from both European and non-European institutions). (2020/03/05 - 2020/03/06)
Workshop (Other)
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Syddansk Universitet Institut for Historie, Denmark |
| 2017/11/21 - 2017/11/21 | Homer between Two Worlds. The Reception of Homer in the Renaissance, from Byzantium to the West (international workshop involving
10 speakers from European and U.S. institutions). (2017/11/21 - 2017/11/21)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Università degli Studi di Sassari Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche e Sociali, Italy |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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| 2023/11/28 - Current | Invited speaker to the Lecture Series Byzanz in Mainz & Frankfurt with a paper titled "Isaac Komnenos Porphyrogennetos: A
Byzantine Ptolemy between Homer, Aristotle and the Bible".
Seminar
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Lecture Series Byzanz in Mainz & Frankfurt |
| 2023/10/06 - Current | Byzantine rewritings of the biblical and Homeric traditions (lecture for the MA seminar Topics in Literary Theory: Ancient
and Late-Antique Rewritings, invited by Prof. Fotini Hadjittofi)
Seminar
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Byzantine rewritings of the biblical and Homeric traditions
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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| 2022/12/12 - Current | Turn the other... thigh. Mysterious Byzantine proverbs and strange happenings at Troy (lecture for MA course in Classical
Culture, invited by Prof. Ana Maria Lóio)
Seminar
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urn the other… thigh. Mysterious Byzantine proverbs and strange happenings at Troy
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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| 2022/11/19 - Current | Keynote speaker, with a 45-minute presentation titled “Les mille visages de l’Ulysse byzantin entre raffinement courtois et
soupçons d’hypocrisie”, biannual meeting of the Groupe Romand d’Études Grecques et Latines, Haute École Pédagogique, Lausanne
Conference
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Biannual meeting of the Groupe Romand d’Études Grecques et Latines
Haute École Pédagogique Vaud, Switzerland
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| 2022/09/28 - Current | 30-minute popularising presentation, titled "Achille et Ulysse au douzième siècle : les ‘réincarnations’ byzantines de deux
héros homériques”, annual meeting of the middle-school teachers of the Canton de Vaud, Haute École Pédagogique, Lausanne
Other
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Annual meeting of the middle-school teachers of the Canton de Vaud
Haute École Pédagogique Vaud, Switzerland
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| 2022/06/10 - Current | Participation in the international workshop "The city's finest: exploring notions of urbanity between East and West, from
antiquity to the Middle Ages" (Fondation Hardt, Genève), with a paper titled "The many sides of asteiotes: preliminary remarks
on the evolution of a multifaceted concept in Byzantine texts¿.
Workshop
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The city's finest: exploring notions of urbanity between East and West, from antiquity to the Middle Ages
Université de Genève, Switzerland
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| 2022/06/10 - Current | Presentation of a paper titled “The many sides of asteiote¯s: preliminary remarks on the evolution of a multifaceted concept
in Byzantine texts” (international workshop "The city's finest: exploring notions of urbanity between East and West, from
antiquity to the Middle Ages", Fondation Hardt, Genève
Workshop
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The city's finest: exploring notions of urbanity between East and West, from antiquity to the Middle Ages
Fondation Hardt, Switzerland
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| 2022/04/13 - Current | 45-minute lecture, titled "La Lettre d¿Aristée, l¿Octateuque du Sérail et Isaac Porphyrogénète: un voyage entre manuscrits
et paraphrases à la découverte d¿un prince, érudit et diplomate dans la Byzance des Comnènes"
Conference
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Annual conference of the Swiss Association for Byzantine Studies |
| 2022/04/13 - Current | Keynote speaker, with a lecture titled “La Lettre d’Aristée, l’Octateuque du Sérail et Isaac Porphyrogénète: un voyage entre
manuscrits et paraphrases à la découverte d’un prince, érudit et diplomate dans la Byzance des Comnènes”, annual conference
of the Swiss Association for Byzantine Studies (Association Suisse des Études Byzantines), Lausanne
Conference
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Annual conference of the Swiss Association for Byzantine Studies
Association Suisse des Études Byzantines, Switzerland
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| 2022/04/06 - Current | 45-minutes paper titled "Homeric heroes in Byzantium between Thersitean intellectuals and Odyssean philosophers"
Seminar
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Lisbon Classics Seminars
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Portugal
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| 2022/04/06 - Current | 45-minute lecture, with a presentation titled "Homeric heroes in Byzantium between Thersitean intellectuals and Odyssean philosophers"
Seminar
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Lisbon Classics Seminars
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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| 2022/03/03 - Current | 50-minute public lecture, titled "Héros ou anti-héros ? Ulysse et Achille à Byzance entre lectures allégoriques et identifications
historiques", in the context of the "cours public" organised by the Center for Medieval Studies (Centre d’Études Médiévales)
of the University of Geneva
Other
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Cours public en Études Médiévales
Université de Genève, Switzerland
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| 2021/12/13 - Current | Seminar on Isaac Komnenos' rewriting method, based on the analysis of his Homeric works and his paraphrase of the Letter
of Aristeas (lecture for MA course in Byzantine Studies, invited by Prof. Reinhart Ceulemans, Université de Louvain, Department
of Greek Studies)
Seminar
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Seminar on Isaac Komnenos' rewritings style
Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
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| 2021/08 - Current | Invited speaker to a conference panel organised by Dr N. Zagklas and Dr K. Kubina (University of Vienna). Panel title: Byzantine
poetry between fictionality and factuality. Paper title: The many voices (and faces) of the author between truth and fictionality.
Originally scheduled to take place in August 2021, the event has been postponed to August 2022 because of Covid-19.
Conference
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24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies |
| 2021/07 - Current | Invited speaker to a conference panel organised by Prof. R. Ceulemans in the context of the 2020 International Medieval Congress,
Leeds. Panel title: Shifting Borders between Jewish and Christian in Byzantium. Paper title: Isaac's paraphrase of the Letter
of Aristeas as a speculum principis and the role of Jerusalem in the self-portrait of a literate ruler. Originally scheduled
for July 2020, the talk will likely take place at the 2021 Leeds International Medieval Congress, in the context of the same
panel.
Congress
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2021 Leeds International Medieval Congres |
| 2020/10/14 - Current | Invited speaker to the Oxford Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar Series, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies,
Oxford (the talk will focus on the connection between Isaac Comnenus' literary production and his political propaganda). The
event was originally scheduled to take place on October 14th 2020, but it has been postponed to a date TBD because of Covid-19.
Seminar
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Oxford Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar Series
University of Oxford Faculty of Classics, United Kingdom
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| 2017/03/31 - Current | Invited speaker to the interdisciplinary seminar "Autour de la guerre de Troie: récits grecs et romains", organised by Professors
Danielle van Mal-Maeder and David Bouvier, ASA, University of Lausanne. Presentation title: La réception de la figure d'Ulysse
chez les commentateurs byzantins.
Seminar
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Interdisciplinary seminar "Autour de la guerre de Troie: récits grecs et romains"
Université de Lausanne Faculté des lettres, Switzerland
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| 2015/03/12 - Current | Paper presentation: "Ridimensionare Odisseo: Omero, Giovanni Tzetze e l'immeritata fama del dysmorphos Ithakesios", Ricerche
a Confronto VIII, Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà, University of Bologna (seminar with peer-reviewed abstracts).
Seminar
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Ricerche a Confronto VIII (Associazione Rodopis)
Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Italianistica, Italy
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| 2014/11/13 - Current | Invited speaker to the Annual Workshop on Twelfth-Century Byzantine Culture, University of Uppsala. Paper title: John Tzetzes,
a new (or a better?) Homer in twelfth-century Byzantium.
Workshop
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Annual Workshop on Twelfth-Century Byzantine Culture
Uppsala Universitet Humanistisk-samhällsvetenskapliga vetenskapsområdet, Sweden
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| 2020/03/05 - 2020/03/06 | Paper presentation: "A usurper in exile? A reappraisal of Isaac Comnenus' Poem to the Virgin", International Workshop on
Isaac Comnenus, Centre for Medieval Literature, University of Southern Denmark.
Workshop
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International Workshop on Isaac Comnenus
Syddansk Universitet Institut for Historie, Denmark
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| 2019/07/01 - 2019/07/04 | Paper presentation: "Isaac Komnenos' Poem to the Virgin: exile as an occasion for self-fashioning and self-propaganda in 12th-century
Byzantium", 2019 International Medieval Congress, Leeds (conference with peer-reviewed abstracts).
Congress
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2019 International Medieval Congress, Leeds |
| 2018/10/11 - 2018/10/12 | Invited speaker to the international workshop "Pratiques de reformulation: l'Iliade entre paraphrase, traduction et imitation"
(University of Lausanne). Paper title: What is a Middle-Byzantine Paraphrase? A case study: Isaac Komnenos and the Letter
of Aristeas.
Workshop
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Pratiques de reformulation: l’Iliade entre paraphrase, traduction et imitation
Université de Lausanne Faculté des lettres, Switzerland
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| 2018/10/04 - 2018/10/06 | Paper presentation: "Re-imagining the Empire in Isaac Komnenos' paraphrase of the Letter of Aristeas", Byzantine Studies Association
of North America 44th Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas (conference with peer-reviewed abstracts).
Conference
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Byzantine Studies Association of North America 44th Annual Conference |
| 2018/09/06 - 2018/09/08 | Paper presentation: "John Tzetzes' reception of Orpheus", Tzetzes: An International Conference, Ca' Foscari University, Venice
(conference with peer-reviewed abstracts).
Conference
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Tzetzes: An International Conference
Università Ca' Foscari, Italy
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| 2017/11/21 - 2017/11/21 | Paper presentation: "Scaturigo divi Heliconis: la (rap)presentazione di Omero nelle edizioni quattro-cinquecentesche delle
sue opere", Homer between two Worlds, International Workshop on the reception of Homer in the Renaissance, University of Sassari.
Workshop
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Homer between two Worlds, International Workshop on the reception of Homer in the Renaissance
Università degli Studi di Sassari Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche e Sociali, Italy
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| 2017/10/20 - 2017/10/22 | Paper presentation: "Odysseus the schedographer in Eustathios' Parekbolai", Preserving, Commenting, Adapting: Commentaries
on Ancient Texts in Twelfth-Century Byzantium, International Workshop at the University of Silesia in Katowice organised by
the Centre of Studies on Byzantine Literature and Reception (conference with peer-reviewed abstracts).
Workshop
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Preserving, Commenting, Adapting: Commentaries on Ancient Texts in Twelfth-Century Byzantium, International Workshop at the University of Silesia in Katowice |
| 2016/12/01 - 2016/12/02 | Paper presentation: "The wanderer, the philosopher and the exegete: receptions of the Odyssey in twelfth-century Byzantium",
Paths of Knowledge in Antiquity, Topoi Excellence Cluster, Freie and Humboldt Universities, Berlin (conference with peer-reviewed
abstracts).
Conference
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Paths of Knowledge in Antiquity
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Institut für Klassische Philologie, Germany
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| 2016/02/26 - 2016/02/27 | Paper presentation: "The 'city-sacker' Epeius", Trends and Turning-Points: Constructing the Late Antique and Byzantine World,
University of Oxford (conference with peer-reviewed abstracts).
Conference
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Trends and Turning-Points: Constructing the Late Antique and Byzantine World
University of Oxford Faculty of Classics, United Kingdom
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| 2015/05/11 - 2015/05/13 | Paper presentation: "Portrait de héros, portrait d'érudit: Jean Tzetzès et la tradition des eikonismoi", Colloque international
dans le cadre du réseau européen "Le phénomène littéraire aux premiers siècles de notre ère", Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier
III (conference with peer-reviewed abstracts).
Conference
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Colloque international dans le cadre du réseau européen "Le phénomène littéraire aux premiers siècles de notre ère"
Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France
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| 2015/02/27 - 2015/02/28 | Paper presentation: "Hellenizing Cato? A short survey of the concepts of Greekness, Romanity and barbarity in John Tzetzes'
work and thought", Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Byzantine World, University of Oxford (conference with peer-reviewed abstracts).
Conference
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Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Byzantine World
University of Oxford Faculty of Classics, United Kingdom
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| 2014/02/28 - 2014/03/01 | Paper presentation: "Ulysse, Tzetzès et l'éducation à Byzance", The city and the cities: from Constantinople to the frontier,
University of Oxford (conference with peer-reviewed abstracts).
Conference
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The city and the cities: from Constantinople to the frontier
University of Oxford Faculty of Classics, United Kingdom
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| 2013/09/26 - 2013/09/28 | Paper presentation: "La réception des Éacides chez les érudits byzantins", Les Anciens des Modernes, Université de la Franche-Comté,
Besançon (conference with peer-reviewed abstracts).
Conference
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Les Anciens des Modernes |
Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
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| 2018/05/05 - Current | Ordinary member of the SVAW/ASEA (Schweizerische Vereinigung für Altertumswissenschaft / Association Suisse pour l'Étude de l'Antiquité) | Ordinary member |
Consulting
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2017/07/01 - Current | Collaboratrice Scientifique Externe (Scientific Collaborator) at the University of Lausanne. Participation in ongoing projects conducted by Professor David Bouvier (participation in seminars, workshops and other events; scientific consultation). See especially my involvement in the activities connected to the Swiss National Foundation Project "Le devenir numérique d'un texte fondateur: l'Iliade et le Genavensis Graecus 44" (Universities of Lausanne and Geneva). | Université de Lausanne Faculté des lettres, Switzerland |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2018/02/19 - 2018/07/31 | Lecturer in Ancient Greek at the Universities of Lausanne. Subjects taught: Greek grammar and syntax for advanced Hellenists (lecture); Greek literature for advanced Hellenists (lecture, reading of original texts by various Greek authors, literary and philological commentary); Greek philology for advanced Hellenists (lecture, introduction to Greek meter and accentuation, basics in philology and textual criticism); Greek grammar and syntax for beginners (tutorial class for core lecture by Dr Pierre Voelke). | Université de Lausanne Faculté des lettres, Switzerland | |
| 2016/08/01 - 2017/07/31 | Lecturer in Ancient Greek at the University of Lausanne. Courses taught: Introduction to Greek grammar and syntax for beginners (tutorial class for core lecture by Dr Pierre Voelke); Greek philology for advanced Hellenists (lecture, introduction to Greek meter and accentuation, basics in philology and textual criticism); Greek grammar and syntax for advanced Hellenists (tutorial class for core lecture by Prof. David Bouvier: monthly sessions). |
Journal scientific committee
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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| 2021/02/01 - Current | Graeco-Latina Brunensia (1803-7402) | |
| 2021/01/01 - Current | Bryn Mawr Classical Review (1055-7660) | |
| 2020/09/01 - Current | I quaderni del ramo d'oro (2035-7524) |
Distinctions
Other distinction
| 2020 | Wolfgang Fritz Volbach-Fellowship
Leibniz-WissenschaftsCampus , Germany
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| 2019 | Carlsberg Conference Grant
Carlsbergfondet, Denmark
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| 2018 | Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoc.Mobility Grant
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Switzerland
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| 2017 | Research grant awarded by the Dipartimento di Storia, Scienze dell'Uomo e della Formazione (University of Sassari) and financed
by the Banco di Sardegna
Università degli Studi di Sassari Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche e Sociali, Italy
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| 2015 | Swissuniversities grant for the most promising co-tutelle PhD projects involving a Swiss University. Grade awarded: A
swissuniversities, Switzerland
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| 2015 | Doctoral research grant awarded by the Zerilli-Marimò Foundation (Lausanne) for the academic year 2015-2016
Zerilli-Marimò Foundation , Switzerland
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| 2012 | PhD scholarship (awarded to the highest-achieving candidates after a competitive international selection)
Università degli Studi di Trento Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia, Italy
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| 2012 | PhD scholarship (awarded to the highest-achieving candidates after a competitive international selection)
Università degli Studi di Torino Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Italy
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| 2003 | Travel and attendance grant for Summer School
Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy
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