Within the framework of the ‘PLuS Concerts’, the first dates will take place from autumn.Under the title ‘Italian Masterpieces for Piano and Cello’, the musicians Elisa Rumici and Guillermo Ortega Santos invite the audience to join them on a journey to the beginning of the 20th century and listen to works by Italian composers that […]
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Start of the ‘PLuS Concerts’ in Basel: classical music interacting with art and poetry
The ‘PLuS Concerts’ will be opened by two soirées for piano and cello focussing on Italian composers from the early 20th century
News from Castelseprio
In May and June 2024, the fourth excavation campaign took place at the Castelseprio castrum. Having completed the research inside the imposing building – which turned out not to be late antique as traditionally believed, but rather early medieval, probably Lombard (a circumstance that is still exceptional in Italy) -, the investigations moved to a […]
Conference programme “Regenerating the Classics. Citation and Anthologisation in Later Antiquity” has been published
Within the PLuS funded project “Modes of Reading and the Transmission of Texts in Antiquity” under the direction of Prof. Richard Hunter (University of Cambridge), the conference “Regenerating the Classics. Citation and Anthologisation in Later Antiquity” will take place from 4 to 5 July 2024 at the University of Basel. The conference programme is now […]
Holy Year 2025: PLuS supports the restoration of Roman catacombs
As part of the Holy Year 2025, access to the graves of Christian martyrs is to be expanded. Numerous catacombs are being restored so that it will be possible to visit these previously inaccessible sites next year. In his recent speech to the Pontifical Commission of Sacred Archaeology, Pope Francis emphasised the value of the […]
Interview with PLuS Foundation Executive Council member Prof Scheidegger Lämmle
on international mobility at the University of Basel and PLuS funding for the realisation of the Basel Fellowships
The programme for the conference “Le De inuentione entre philosophie, droit et rhétorique” has been published
The programme of the PLuS-funded conference, which will take place from 21 to 23 March 2024 as part of the Lecturae Ciceronis at the Sorbonne University in Paris, is now available. Please refer to the brochure for the detailed programme.
Press release: Launch of new funding programmes and new website
With the publication of the call for applications for the research grants in “Classical Archaeology” and “Key Concepts” and the launch of the Foundation’s new website in February 2024, an announcement was made by press release, which can be read here.
Basel Fellowhip in Latin Literature: Open Call
The fellowship programme funded by PLuS enables a fully financed research stay of up to three months at the Department of Classical Studies. Applications can be submitted to the University of Basel from now on. Application deadline: 3 May 2024. Further information
PLuS finances the archaeology of the future
In a recent article published in the newspaper “Il Resto del Carlino“, Prof. Rachele Dubbini provides an insight into the excavations currently being carried out in Rome as part of the Appia Antica 39 project, in which a section outside the ancient city walls that has never been archaeologically investigated before is being analysed using […]