Research

Welcome to our research pages!

At the Department of Romance Studies and Classics research is conducted within French, Italian, Classical Languages, Latin American studies, Portuguese and Spanish

Our Research Subjects

Research at the Department is conducted within a wide range of fields, especially within Linguistics and Literature, but also the Social Sciences.

The Old Library, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland - The Book of Kells

Our researchers

Contact information regarding research at Romklass

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Our publications

Books an articles from our researchers

News

2025-04-16

When AI learns to talk - what it reveals about us

How does language emerge - and can a robot really understand what we say? We spoke to Anna Jon-And, a researcher at the Centre for Cultural Evolution at Stockholm University, who uses AI to understand how grammar can emerge spontaneously - and what it says about our own intelligence.

2025-04-09

Department of Romance Studies and Classics

Francophonie en Afrique : l'organisation doit réinventer son rôle et ses priorités

Nouvel article de Christophe Premat dans The Conversation UK

Language, Literature and Culture Society, Democracy and Welfare International Relations and Migration

2025-03-28

Department of Romance Studies and Classics

Burkina, Mali, Niger quittent la Francophonie : rupture politique, continuité linguistique

Nouvel article de Christophe Premat dans The Conversation Africa

Culture and Media Economy and Society Language, Literature and Culture

Calendar

May

Seminar

NILAS Research seminar - Más allá de lo individual: las emociones en la trama de lo social

Santiago Canevaro, Doctor en Ciencias Sociales, magíster en Antropología Social (EIDAES/UNSAM) y sociólogo (UBA)

NILAS Research seminar - Más allá de lo individual: las emociones en la trama de lo social

Santiago Canevaro, Doctor en Ciencias Sociales, magíster en Antropología Social (EIDAES/UNSAM) y sociólogo (UBA)

Language, Literature and Culture Psychology and Human Behaviour Society, Democracy and Welfare

May

Lecture

Unmasking the Self: Fanon’s Paradoxes of De-alienation in Black Skin, White Masks

To mark the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s birth, this open lecture of Christophe Premat revisits his seminal work "Black Skin, White Masks", exploring the complexities of de-alienation and identity formation in the aftermath of colonial domination.