Expertise

The institute is specialized in the following domains:
- History of cultural terminology in modern European languages and its relations to the Mediterranean tradition in Greek, latin, Hebrew, and Arabic
- History of philosohical and scientific thought, history of ideas and of linguistic signs, from the ancient to the modern world
- Studies and critical editions, lexical analysis, concordances, and lexica;
- Assyrology
- Papyrology
- Migration studies
- Development of methodology for computer-based textual analysis.