For 1,500 years, the seabed of the island of Portitxol in Xàbia has sheltered one of the largest collections of Roman gold coins found in Spain and Europe. It consists of 53 Roman coins which, after being analysed by scientists from the University of Alicante Research...
The Mediterranean Researchers’ Night returns to the University of Alicante (UA). Vice President for Knowledge Transfer, Innovation and Dissemination María Jesús Pastor presented the activity and its programme at a press conference held today on the campus of San...
The Round Table – animated by Professors Marta Tigano, Fortunato Freni, Adelaide Madera, Michele Messina and Anna Pitrone – proposes to the participants a debate on the migratory phenomenon; starting from a reflection on the continuous massacres of...
The representation of marine fauna is particularly frequent in archaeological and numismatic documentation, and the focus on aquatic species is reflected in various literary and historical sources from the Greco-Roman period. The multi- and inter-disciplinary approach...
There are many ways of living and narrating the Mediterranean. Live it or tell it as a place of inspiration, wealth and beauty or as a place where migrants are dead in the effort to escape finding a better life. News reports, documentaries, posts on social media...
Our panel is dedicated to the representation of the sea in visual arts: Paolo Campione introduces the issue by reasoning on the long-term relationship between seascape and figurative arts. Laura Busetta discusses the special relationship between cinema and the...
