Laboratories
The Department of Humanities has a computer lab and a language lab. Several permanent labs conduct teaching and research activities.
Computer lab
The lab has several computer devices, including PCs hooked up to the LAN, a printer, a projector, and a screen.
Language lab (Room 1.13)
The department’s language lab is for teaching anyone who wants to learn a language.
It is particularly the preferred location for teaching activities in the field of Audiovisual Translation: it hosts lectures, practical exercises, and dedicated seminars.
The laboratory hosts curricular exams that can be taken on the university’s e-learning platform and admission tests for degree exams.
The Laboratory is also used for teaching assistants' and lecturers' training activities, which explicitly focus on e-learning. Finally, it is where video lessons for asynchronous teaching can be recorded.
Technical equipment:
- 28 All-in-one PCs with Intel i3 CPU, 8GB RAM, 1TB HD, 24 ‘monitor - Windows 10, Office 365 (University)
- There is one Intel i7 teaching station connected to an 80-foot Promethean interactive whiteboard (with a Benq ultra-short-throw video projector) equipped with stereo speakers.
- Each workstation is equipped with wireless keyboards and mice and wired stereo headphones.
- One Brother DCP-5500DN multifunction printer.
- All clients are equipped with Wi-Fi and connected to the university’s wired network via cable. All workstations are currently in perfect working order.
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Linguistic Geography Laboratory
The Linguistic Geography Laboratory is at the heart of the work that created the Linguistic Atlas of Sicily (ALS). Its decades-long interest in the island’s dialects and, more generally, in all aspects of the linguistic repertoire of Sicilians has led to the collection of numerous oral documents, now amounting to several thousand hours of recordings of inestimable linguistic and cultural value. This documentary heritage is capable of (re)presenting contemporary Sicily both linguistically and in its various levels of variation, both in terms of dialect and language and ethnographically and in terms of traditional culture. This documentation is contained and managed (through a special database) in the Archive of Sicilian Dialects. The Laboratory also houses the Photographic and Audiovisual Archive, which collects photographic and film material produced during the ALS’s ethno-dialect surveys.
The Laboratory has various equipment for managing sound, photographic, and audiovisual documents: computer stations connected to a management and storage server; high-fidelity external sound cards; recording plates and analogue and digital portable recorders; video cameras; cameras; and large-format scanners.
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Studio Teatro 711
Studio Teatro 711 is located on the seventh floor of Building 12 of the Department of Humanities. Since June 2024, the Studio has undergone a gradual but necessary transformation to accommodate the equipment needed for the implementation and development of two research programmes linked to the PNRR 5G M&G Engineering Project (led by Prof. Roberto Pirrone) and the PRIN-PNRR 2022 OATI-OPEN THEATRES IN ITALY Programme (Prof.Anna Sica, scientific director for the University of Palermo). For this reason, Studio per docenti 711 has been transformed into a theatre post-production studio. The formation of Studio Teatro 711 has enabled the two joint PNRRs to achieve the aims and objectives of their collaboration, namely, to provide a theatre post-production studio for the specific disciplines of theatre. This aim has been achieved, and the Studio, now Studio Teatro 711, named after the Studio’s number and has been the studio of the professors of the SSD L-ART/05 (Theatre and Performing Arts) for the last twenty years, has already proven its functionality in responding to the educational challenges of our research, as required by our times and the new generations of students, contributing to the excellent success of the points planned by the two PNRR projects that created it.
Studio Teatro 711 was designed for research, training, and post-production, as well as live streaming of the Studio’s capabilities in terms of live theatre on an online platform, in post-production, on radio, and/or in video-drama podcasting, i.e., a streaming television studio for theatre and post-production theatre. It brings together the twenty years of activity and research of the Laboratorio Studio Teatro (LUST), founded by Prof. Anna Sica (De Domenico Sica) in 2001.
Studio Teatro 711 productions:
Poetoscopio, Prima che il vento me lo porti via (Before the wind takes it away), edited by Anna Sica and Salvatore Tedesco, issue zero, Studio Teatro 711, March 2025
Three poets and three philosophers take to the ancient stage of Segesta to recount the feelings, emotions, and turmoil of our time through the voices of LUST actors, who recite according to the ancient Italian or dramatic method. Poetoscopio is produced by Studio Teatro 711 of the Department of Humanities at the University of Palermo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDyl_ifqwbM
OATI Workshop - Open-air theatres in Italy: the state of studies, Studio Teatro 711, 30 April 2025
The workshop develops analyses and studies on the forms and practices of theatre in gardens and green theatres in Italy, as well as on acting, directing, and repertoires of the Italian 20th century in ancient theatres. It raises questions about the aesthetics of outdoor theatre. Prof. Paolo Quazzolo of the University of Trieste leads the first session of the workshop. The second session is chaired by Prof. Anna De Domenico Sica of the University of Palermo, and the third by Prof. Maria Pia Pagani of the University of Naples “Federico II”.
(coming soon)
Podcast Conversations by Salvatore Tedesco, Studio Teatro 711, June 2025