Host Institution

The Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies of Sapienza, University of Rome, is the Host Institution of the LATILMA project.
The scientific and didactic skills present within it include Romance philological and linguistic studies, Italian literature and linguistics, foreign, European and Euro-American languages and literatures, for a very broad chronological span —from the Middle Ages to the contemporary—, gender, geographical, anthropological, economic studies, according to interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives.
The project from which the Department was born reflects the awareness of being Italian and European, an awareness that today has reached the awareness that, despite the richness of national and local specificities, there is a common identity and civilization from West to East, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Urals, which therefore necessarily includes those countries which have not yet entered the Union. It is a Europe that projects itself beyond the Atlantic, which recognizes its own historical-cultural roots in the different linguistic and socio-cultural realities of the Americas, transplanted onto other native strains; it is also a Europe that compares itself with other civilizations, those of the former colonial countries of Africa and Asia, as well as those of the countries of the Far East.
Even more so today, because with the migratory flows coming from central-eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America, Italy has become, in line with other European countries further along in the process, a multicultural and multiethnic. Interculturality is, therefore, a character, from both a scientific and educational point of view, constitutive of the Department, which is called upon to welcome, together with Italian students, foreign students on mobility and above all students, children of immigrants or themselves immigrants, who enroll in its degree courses. 
(Reference: Dipartimento Studi Europei Americani e Interculturali)