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From quantum particles to distant galaxies: what do we still not know?

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Showing 144 of 294 projects

HE2025–20273 countries

LIVART · LIVING WITH ART. Domestic decorative sculpture in Western Roman Empire: reconstructing display, sociocultural dynamics, and addressing productive and economic processes

The project ‘LIVART – Living with Art’ explores the role of decorative sculpture in domestic contexts of the Western Roman Empire. While monumental sculpture in public spaces has long been studied, much less attention has been paid to the artistic expressions found inside Roman homes—both urban domus and rural villae.…

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HE2025–20272 countries

FascistPrehistory · Fascist Prehistory: Nationalist and Internationalist dimensions of the human origin researches in the fascist capital (1925-1942)

In one hand, FascistPrehistory (FP) consider that, in each historical moment, scientific universalism can be described as a configuration of relationships between the national and international horizons of scientific activity of palaeontologist in fascist Rome (objective 1). Objective 1 intended to analyse the relation…

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HE2025–20272 countries

OUTCOME · ecO-evolUTionary dynamics in COMmunitiEs

Ecological communities are composed of a vast number of interacting species. Individuals of different species interact for feeding, survival or many other services, like protection or transport. Such interactions form ecological networks.

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HE2024–20262 countries

WBB · Women Building Brazil: a history of architecture from the perspective of self-building sites.

Women Building Brazil (WBB) sought to underscore women’s contributions to Brazilian built environment, focusing on contexts of self-building. Its main objective was to ethically address the neglect of both women and informal building practices in architectural and construction history, especially in the global South. T…

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HE2024–20263 countries

POST-EMPIRE · The Political Culture of Post-imperial Intervention. The case of Spain and the South American republics of the Pacific (1833-1868).

ChatGPT dijo: Context, Motivation, and Pathway to Impact Setting the scene: why a project on post-imperial intervention now? Across Europe and beyond, foreign and security policy are increasingly shaped by the afterlives of empire. From Eastern Europe to the South Caucasus, from North Africa to the Pacific, crises esca…

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HE2024–20263 countries

FIRS · Frontiers Inside Roman Sicily: Culture, Economy and Society between Late Antiquity and the Early Byzantine Period

The Late Antique and Early Byzantine periods are crucial ones for the understanding of Sicily's socio-economic and cultural evolution from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Recent research has shown that the island still played its centuries-old role then as a Mediterranean linchpin, and this realization has awakened schol…

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HE2024–20262 countries

NTSITIMEH · Non-traditional stable isotopes to track the impact of methane in Earth history

Context and overall objectives of the project Methane (CH4) is a potent greenhouse gas that has the capability to significantly impact the Earth’s climate. Recent works estimated CH4 emissions from natural, impacted and human-made aquatic ecosystems at almost half of the total global emissions. Improve our understandin…

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HE2024–20276 countries

ArCHe · Archaeological Coastal Heritage: Past, present and future of a hidden prehistoric legacy

Coastal zones all over the world face growing pressure from climate change and development, with archaeological sites in these areas at increasing risk. The HORIZON MSCA Doctoral network ArCHe addresses the increasing vulnerability of the material remains of Stone Age coastal hunter-fisher-gatherer (HFG) societies (c.…

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HE2024–20262 countries

OSpaMa · Objects, Spaces and Material Culture. Gender and Politics in Early Modern European Republics (Venice, Genova, XV-XVIII centuries)

The project OSPaMa – Objects, Spaces and Material Culture: Gender and Politics in Early Modern European Republics (Venice and Genoa, 15th–18th centuries) addresses a major historiographical gap in the study of early modern republics. Traditional political history has relied primarily on institutional and normative sour…

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HE2024–20262 countries

EuBrand · Patronage and European perspective in Brandenburg Prussia: the painter Etcher Johann Friedrich Wentzel (1670-1729)

The aim if EuBrand was to shed light on a forgotten chapter of Europe’s intellectual and artistic history based on the following research question: how did painting contribute to the creation of a visual language of absolutism during the reign of the first Prussian king Frederick I? EuBrand should foster research and i…

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HE2024–20252 countries

ClimDivE · Influence of Climate variability on the Gravettian cultural Diversity and Evolution

Throughout history, humanity has displayed remarkable resilience by diverse cultural adjustments to changing conditions. In the face of unprecedented environmental shifts brought about by global warming, societies are grappling with the urgent need to adapt. In this context, the ClimDivE project proposes to draw on the…

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HE2024–20286 countries

MECANO · The Mechanics of Canon Formation and the Transmission of Knowledge from Graeco-Roman Antiquity

To consider a text canonical is to invest it or its author with prestige, authority, or even timeless value. Canons set standards and define what is deemed worthy of transmission. Canonical texts or authors become part of reference frames and contribute to shaping shared identities.

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HE2024–20273 countries

BookSHUK · The International Market of Jewish Manuscripts and Books (1900-1948)

BookSHUK set out to investigate the modern history of the Jewish book trade, focusing on the circulation, collecting, and redistribution of Hebrew manuscripts and early printed books from the early twentieth century to the aftermath of the Second World War and the establishment of the State of Israel. Despite the remar…

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HE2024–20262 countries

RhECAST · Rural landscape hEritage and CArbon sequeSTration

RhECAST (Rural Landscape Heritage and Carbon Sequestration) addresses the growing need to reconcile climate change mitigation with the preservation of Europe’s cultural landscapes. Across many European regions, traditional agroforestry systems and historical agricultural landscapes have been progressively abandoned or…

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HE2024–20263 countries

SCIBOS · State functionaries in Byzantium: a social and cultural study (7th-9th c.)

The SCIBOS project (“State functionaries in Byzantium: a social and cultural study, 7th–9th c.”) aimed to investigate the career patterns, social status, mobility, networks and cultural identity of Byzantine officials through the systematic study of sigillographic material, especially Byzantine lead seals. The project…

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HE2024–20262 countries

GYNODICY · gender-egalitarian fictions of origin in European philosophical culture (1673-1751)

How do representations of an “original” humanity ground our socio-political organisation? What role do they play in early modern feminist political theory? This research project examines gender-egalitarian fictions of the origins of societal organisation that circulated in European culture during the seventeenth and ei…

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HE2023–20274 countries

PortADa · Port Arrivals Data. Automatic data collection for a large-scale comparative history of 19th century shipping: a Digital Humanities approach to maritime heritage

In the nineteenth century, during the transition from sail to steam, port cities were central hubs of imperial colonialism and capitalist economies, embedded in maritime networks linking local and regional economies to globalisation and the international division of labour. They were points of entry for goods and capit…

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HE2023–20252 countries

ECODEM · The Building Guilds of Interwar Europe: An Experiment in Economic Democracy

In the aftermath of the First World War, European cities witnessed a massive expansion of producer cooperatives in the building sector. Drawing on ideas for industrial reform that were shared widely across borders, these producer cooperatives, or building guilds, not only aimed to improve urban housing but also to demo…

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HE2023–20253 countries

DREAM-Film · Democratising REsearch and restoration of Audiovisual Media and Film (DREAM-Film): practices and methods to improve the accessibility to restoration and promote competency exchange.

Unlike other cultural heritage materials, film preservation and restoration has received limited technical and scientific research, leaving many aspects of film materials and color processes largely unexplored. While digital image processing offers advanced methods for detail and color reconstruction, film restoration…

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HE2023–20252 countries

BretPal · Breton Palaeography

Previously seen as a ‘Celtic backwater’ during the expansion of the Carolingian empire, early medieval Brittany flourished as a hybrid region, blending cultural and intellectual traditions from Ireland, Britain, and Carolingian Europe. Annexed into the Carolingian empire in c. 792, early medieval Brittany continued to…

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HE2023–20252 countries

KinSiGHT · Kinship Systems in Gyalrong: History and Transformation

This project investigates the unique kinship systems and family structures among ethnic groups in the Hengduan Mountains of Southwest China, with a specific focus on Gyalrongic-speaking communities in Western Sichuan. This region is characterized by ethnolinguistic diversity and linguistic conservatism, which coexist a…

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HE2023–20264 countries

SEAMS · a Study of Egyptian Animal Mummy Styles

Votive animal mummies are extraordinary expressions of ancient Egyptian religious beliefs and craftsmanship. From the Third Intermediate Period through to the Roman Period (c. 1069 BCE–4th century CE), millions of these votive offerings were produced to meet the growing demand of worshippers, who dedicated them to spec…

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HE2023–20252 countries

TaphArt · exploring the potential existence of rock art paintings in the Middle Stone Age of southern Africa and its destruction due to the action of taphonomic processes

The advent of symbolic material culture and the storage of information outside the human brain through the production of artefacts and images imbued with meaning was a landmark in human evolution. Although it has been generally considered as the consequence of an European Upper Palaeolithic "revolution" that took place…

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HE2023–20252 countries

PENTEX · Pentecostal exorcisms in London: creative and integrative rituals in a multicultural city

This project focused primarily on the analysis of Pentecostal exorcisms in London, although fieldwork was also conducted in Brussels and on digital platforms. The research includes substantial material from the Brazilian Neo-Pentecostal church, the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG), as well as from other Pe…

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HE2023–20252 countries

CosmoClusterPlasmas · The plasma physics of galaxy clusters in a cosmological context: connecting micro and macro scales

Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bound structures in the Universe and play a central role in modern cosmology. They are used to trace the growth of cosmic structure, to test theories of gravity, and to constrain the fundamental properties of dark matter and dark energy. A key component of galaxy clusters…

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HE2023–20262 countries

X-KIN · Exploring patterns of prehistoric kinship from socio-cultural anthropological perspectives

Over the past decade, the rapid expansion of ancient DNA (aDNA) research has transformed the study of prehistoric communities by making biological relatedness newly visible in the archaeological record. This “ancient DNA revolution” has triggered a renewed focus on prehistoric kinship, yet within archaeogenetics kinshi…

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HE2023–20263 countries

HomoClassicisms · Dangerous Liaisons: Classical Antiquity and LGBTQ Movements in Greece, the UK, and the US

Contemporary lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) movements often engage with history to define who they are and where they come from. By selecting and interpreting archives, images and public stories, the movements preserve certain experiences while leaving others out, shaping collective identities in the…

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HE2023–20252 countries

PROSTarget · Understanding the aggressive nature and key molecular drivers of metastatic dissemination in lethal PCa.

Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most diagnosed cancer in men worldwide, with 1.5 million new cases in 2020 across 112 countries and the second leading cause of death. PCa arises from the aberrant proliferation of epithelial cells, termed prostate intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN), and is an androgen-dependent cancer type. N…

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HE2023–20253 countries

COMAL · Cuisine(s) of the Ancient Maya across the Lowlands: Reconstructing Plant Diets through Molecular and Imaging Approaches

The transformation of plants into foodstuffs can be regarded as a form of cultural expression, and the culinary practices that accompany this transformation have the capacity to serve as indicators of social and cultural identities within the archaeological record. The COMAL project (2023-2025) sought to employ innovat…

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HE2023–20263 countries

TESCCO · Teaching science in the Colonial Era: knowledge weaponization and cultural integration from Europe to the Jesuit missions

Human cultures have always defined their identity in relation to and in opposition to other cultures. Through this comparison, different cultures are often perceived as culturally worthy or not, which can justify practices of subjugation, domination, and repulsion when indigenous cultures are deemed unworthy. During th…

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HE2023–20252 countries

RECREATE · Reducing empiricism in luminescence models to measure rates of Earth surface processes

The interdisciplinary project “Reducing Empiricism in luminesCence models to measuRE rATes of Earth surface processes” (RECREATE) combined solid state physics and geosciences to enhance our understanding of the physical processes governing luminescence thermochronometry. Luminescence thermochronometry is used to constr…

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HE2023–20262 countries

JOPHIL · Re-orienting the foundations of 'new science': John Philoponus and the modern theories of space and void (1520-1604)

JOPHIL opens a new window onto one of the most fundamental questions in the history of science: where do our modern ideas of space and emptiness come from? Today, we hardly pause to think about it – we simply assume that objects occupy three dimensions, and that empty space exists all around us, whether in the natural…

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HE2023–20252 countries

RECONSTRUCT · Reconstructing fragmented bones, reconstructing fragmented lives

Human skeletal remains can offer key information on diverse aspects of past life but, like all archaeological materials, they only give a glimpse into the life of past individuals; hence, a fragmented perspective into our ancestors’ lives. Their interpretative potential is greatly inhibited by the fact that such remain…

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HE2023–20262 countries

OMHI · Omitted from history: How workers on India's building sites mediated twentieth-century modernity

Uncovering the People Who Built Modern India When we study India's cities today—the apartment buildings, office complexes, and infrastructure that define urban life—we often focus on the policies that formed them or the planners and architects that designed them. The construction workers, contractors, and engineers who…

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HE2023–20262 countries

CLaRMaV · Coastal Landscapes and Roman Maritime Villas: A Comparative Regional Study of Architectural Models and Environmental Settings

The CLaRMaV project addresses a critical gap in understanding Roman maritime villas across Mediterranean provinces during the Roman period (1st century BC - 5th century AD). While Italian examples are well-studied, provincial maritime villas remain poorly documented, limiting our comprehension of architectural transfer…

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HE2023–20262 countries

BridgHe · Bridging Greek Philosophy, Christianity, and Islam: An Edition of the Late Antique Testimonies of Heraclitus

The chief objective of the project is to produce the first complete collection of the Late Antique testimonies concerning the early Greek philosopher Heraclitus. This source collection will include an English translation of the texts in the various relevant languages (mainly Greek and Arabic, but also Latin, Coptic, an…

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HE2023–20252 countries

ARCHAIC · Diversity of bacteriophages in the ancient human microbiome

The ARCHAIC project addressed a critical gap in microbiome research: the lack of evolutionary insight into the human virome, specifically bacteriophages (phages), through deep-time metagenomic analyses. Previous paleogenomic efforts primarily focused on bacterial components, leaving viral fractions, especially phages,…

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HE2023–20252 countries

CLINIAR · Celtic Language and Identity in Northern Italy and the Alpine Region

In northern Italy and the adjacent Alpine region between the late 7th and the 1st century BC, a number of local languages were written with alphabet variants which had been derived from the Etruscan alphabet of central Italy. The documents are exclusively inscriptions on objects such as gravestones or ceramics, usually…

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HE2023–20273 countries

SILKRAA · The Silk Route Across the Alps. Craftsmen Migrations, Commercial Exchanges & Social Relations Between France & Italy in the Early Modern Period

The project explores the socio-economic dynamics of silk weavers’ migration between France and the Italian peninsula during the Early Modern period. By combining migration studies, labour and urban history, gender studies, the history of technology, and material culture, it aims to move beyond traditional interpretatio…

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HE2023–20252 countries

TOKMAT · Truth, Objectivity, and Knowledge: rethinking the social construction of MAThematics

The project TOKMAT aims to use the mathematical school of intuitionism in order to shed light on how society and science interact. The project focuses on the cultural, personal, and social dimensions of mathematical knowledge in order to better understand how mathematical ideas develop. It combines historical examinati…

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HE2023–20262 countries

DOMES · Architectural Technology Transfer on the Silk Road: Iranian Double-Shell Domes and the West: 14th to 20th Century

DOMES explores the shared architectural heritage of Europe and the Middle East by tracing the transmission of architectural knowledge along the Silk Road during two historical periods: from Seljuk and Ilkhanate Iran to medieval Italy during the 11th-14th century, and from Italy to Iran during the second half of the 20t…

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HE2023–20252 countries

SEABORD · Ottoman Sea Borders, Fortresses and Geo-political Considerations in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1699-1832

The Eastern Mediterranean was a contested sea in the 18th and early 19th centuries. After 1715 the Ottoman Empire reasserted control over key coasts and islands once held by Venice. The region’s fortresses—especially in the Peloponnese, Crete and Cyprus—were not only walls on a skyline; they were working towns, garriso…

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HE2023–20262 countries

SalmoScales · Evolution and molecular mechanisms of adaptive organ allometry in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

Differences in body proportions for a similar body plan are responsible for much of species diversity, famously referred to as "endless forms most beautiful" by Darwin. Within a particular species, however, the proportions of body parts and organs typically remain constant. This guarantees a functional body; variation…

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HE2023–20263 countries

TAMIZDAT · Transnational Book Diplomacy beyond the Cultural Cold War: Towards a Socio-Cultural History of the Tamizdat

The TAMIZDAT project undertook a comprehensive analysis of the transnational production, circulation, and reception of Soviet (S) and East European (EE) literature published abroad – known as tamizdat (which literally means “published over there”), which refers to S and EE texts that were censored or unpublished in the…

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HE2023–20252 countries

WNV · Who Needs Virtue? The Early Academy and the Way to Happiness

Who Needs Virtue? (WNV) investigates the early history of virtue ethics by recovering the ethical theories developed in Plato’s first school, the Early Academy (4th century BCE). While modern accounts focus on Plato and Aristotle, the Academy’s first generations—Speusippus, Xenocrates, Polemo, and others—have remained…

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HE2023–20262 countries

NOVITAS · Nonlinear analysis for virtual design of composite deployable space booms and membranes

NOVITAS addressed the need for accurate, efficient and physically reliable numerical tools for the virtual design of ultra-thin deployable composite space structures, with particular focus on deployable booms, TRAC longerons, membranes and foldable structural assemblies. These systems are increasingly relevant in space…

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HE2023–20252 countries

ClimRes · Quantifying the resilience of vertebrates to changing climates worldwide

Climate change is reshaping ecosystems across Europe and worldwide, yet species differ greatly in their ability to cope with these changes. Some populations rebound quickly after environmental shocks, while others decline. Understanding why such differences exist is central to biodiversity conservation and to predictin…

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HE2023–20252 countries

CULT-AURAL · AURAL CULTURE: DECODING THE SACRED SOUNDSCAPES OF MEDIEVAL EUROPE

In medieval Europe, Christian monasteries shaped sacred landscapes not only through architecture and art but also through sound. Bells and other large percussion instruments, such as semantra and matraca, resounded across valleys and mountain slopes, structuring daily rhythms and linking monastic communities with their…

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HE2023–20262 countries

HUMA · HUMAN ADAPTATION TO DIFFERENT ALTITUDES THROUGH TIME AND CLIMATIC CHANGES

The evolution of Homo sapiens has always benefited from its ability to adapt to the most diverse environments. The subject of the adaptation of human groups to the environment has been of interest to scholars, whose attention is often turned to cases of adaptation to environments with extreme conditions and to the so-c…

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HE2023–202710 countries

LACEGAL · Latin American Chinese European Galaxy Formation Network

The astronomy sector has provided many breakthroughs thanks to its combination of observational innovations and astounding computer simulations, with Europe always at the forefront. However, to ensure that Europe maintains its lead there is a need to continue with advancements in simulation technology. These are consid…

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HE2023–20262 countries

SHAPE · Sharing the Pronoun. Extreme violence, social resistance and the shaping of cultural memory in Spanish American contemporary documentary poetry

SHAPE proposes a groundbreaking cultural approach to the study of 21st-century Spanish American documentary poetry, examining its role as a form of social and community resistance in shaping a collective memory of extreme violence in Latin America. This unique poetic genre integrates a wide range of external sources—et…

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HE2023–20262 countries

LongEmergency · The Long Emergency: The Postcolonial State, Labour and the Railway Strike of 1974.

The focus of the project has moved away from the early decades after independence to investigate more closely the turbulent decades of 1960s and 1970s. Previously, it was envisaged that a substantial part of the project will be devoted to the emergence of railway workers as citizens in early postcolonial India, the foc…

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HE2023–20262 countries

PLATOCHRON · A new understanding of the uplift and incision of the Colorado Plateau from classical and electron spin resonance thermochronology

Orogenic plateaus are key features of the Earth’s surface with average elevations of several kilometres, low relief surfaces and arid climate. They have a strong impact on atmospheric circulation and precipitation patterns, and thus on the erosive capacity of rivers. Continental plateaus show similarities in crustal th…

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HE2023–20252 countries

WHALEBONE · The Early Exploitation of Cetacean in Western Europe during the Late Upper Palaeolithic

Human-whale interactions have deep historical roots extending back thousands of years, although their prehistoric origins remain largely understudied. Due to their massive size, whales have long served as substantial sources of meat, blubber, baleen, bone, and teeth for prehistoric coastal populations. Yet, reconstruct…

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HE2023–20252 countries

PANIC · Pan-Ideologies in Central Europe: Paradoxes of Right-Wing Self-Orientalism.

This research project was conceived at a time when Hungary had already undergone significant authoritarian transformation under a right-wing populist regime, while Slovakia’s political trajectory remained uncertain. Despite their differences, both countries demonstrated a growing revival of panideological traditions—su…

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HE2023–20253 countries

MOLA · Mobility and Life histories in the Alps - Understanding prehistoric social strategies in mountain environment

In prehistoric times, the eastern Italian Alps (i.e. the Dolomites, Trentino-South Tyrol, and the Veneto Prealps) constituted a connecting region between Central Europe and the Mediterranean, which, despite its imposing nature, has been crossed by humans since the Mesolithic. The Adige and Eisack valleys, culminating i…

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HE2023–20253 countries

Journal Poetics · Literature and Media in the Age of Goethe

Context : Scholars consider the Age of Goethe (“Goethezeit”), i.e., the period between ca. 1770–1830, the climax of German literary history. Its most typical features are usually described in terms of aesthetic autonomy, classicism, and an male elitist concept of highbrow art.

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HE2023–20242 countries

Fire-Tools · Tools for the identification of anthropic Fire in low visibility contexts during the Middle Pleistocene

Fire is an element that has profoundly changed the way human groups live. However, we know very little about where, when and how this process took place, especially in relation to the earliest evidence of fire in the Middle Pleistocene. There is a consensus that the first uses of fire were associated with human groups…

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HE2023–20262 countries

SHIPPAN · A transnational history of health control and hygiene onboard of liners (1894-1946)

SHIPPAN seeks to demonstrate how health management on shipping lines and liners—from the second half of the 19th century to the first half of the 20th century—was central to understanding and regulating sanitary issues globally. The objective is to develop a transnational history of health at sea in the Late Modern per…

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HE2023–20252 countries

ARGOT · The Anarchist Translation Flows and World Literature Project (ARGOT)

The Anarchist Translation Flows and World Literature Project (ARGOT) - Grant agreement ID: 101065157 Anarchist periodicals worldwide historically offered readers an uncommon and often outlawed experience of world literature. Yet, their countless literary translations, as well as the editors and translators involved in…

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HE2023–20262 countries

TULAR · TranscULturality and social innovation in frontier AReas of pre-Roman Italy

Critical socio-cultural transformations occurred in central Italy between the 10th and the 8th century BCE, resulting in the emergence of a complex and flourishing Mediterranean urban society. Originating in Etruria - modern Tuscany, northern Latium, and north-western Umbria - the Etruscans were central to this radical…

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HE2023–20273 countries

AntCom · From antiquity to community: rethinking classical heritage through citizen humanities

AntCom aims to train a new generation of highly skilled cultural heritage researchers to harness the potential of the digital transition and address the professional and societal challenges it entails. The focus is on "classical" heritage from Europe’s Graeco-Roman past, with training transferable to other cultural her…

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HE2023–20276 countries

REBPAF · Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures

The digital revolution is opening our eyes to the important historical truth that the enduring cultural and economic value of the book has always depended on its adaptability to different media, today from printed book to e-book (and back again), and in the past from manuscript book to printed book (and vice versa). Re…

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HE2023–20263 countries

PolArt · Political Art: Understanding the Function of Art in the Contemporary Social Space Through a New Interpretation of Classical German Philosophy

The general goal of PolArt is to investigate the political dimension of art and the relationship between art and society, with the aim of identifying in aesthetic representation a meaningful way to understand, critique, and transform social reality. PolArt seeks to provide a new paradigm for understanding how art can p…

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HE2023–20252 countries

TEMPOS · Temporal Evolution of the Milky-way Properties from an Observational and theoretical Sinergy

Understanding how galaxies form and evolve in the Universe is a key, long-term goal of Astrophysics. In this regard, our Galaxy provides unique insights because, due to its proximity, detailed galactic properties can be resolved that can unravel its formation history. For this reason, the international community and in…

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HE2023–20252 countries

SELVANS · Soil condition and capability mapping for sustainable forest management

Soils are essential for facing humanity’s existential challenges of food security, water security, climate change mitigation and adaptation, sustaining biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Whilst the increasing demand for food, clean water and energy by society intensify the pressures on soils, the importance of mai…

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HE2023–20252 countries

PPLMEC · Politics and Practices of Listening in Mao era People's Republic of China.

This interdisciplinary project explores the politics and practices of sound and listening in the Mao era People’s Republic of China (PRC), their interpretation and their impact on social and intellectual change. It does so through an innovative three-tiered analysis of the use and apprehension of sound at state, local,…

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H20202023–20252 countries

INTERPHIL · The international congresses and the transnational shaping of philosophy (1900-1948): Spaces – Struggles – Identity – Knowledge

The project addressed a simple but neglected question: how did philosophy become a modern academic discipline with a recognised identity, institutional boundaries, and international authority? To answer it, the research used the first ten International Congresses of Philosophy (1900–1948) as a privileged observatory, t…

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HE2022–20242 countries

STUCCO · STUCCO. Stuccoes from the Roman necropolises of Pozzuoli (1st-3rd century CE, Campania, Italy)

The STUCCO project focuses on the exceptional ancient stucco decoration of Pozzuoli, a town near Naples in Italy. These stucco relief decorations were removed from their archaeological context in the 17th-18th century during the Grand Tour, a journey through Europe undertaken by the aristocracy for cultural enlightenme…

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HE2022–20243 countries

PRISTINE · PRehistoric fISheries assisTing marIne baseliNEs

PRISTINE was born out of the need to understand the roots of the shifted baseline in Indo-Pacific fisheries, one of the most threatened marine regions. To achieve this, it was essential to expand the time frame beyond traditional fisheries records, which often rely on data from recent decades—insufficient for assessing…

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HE2022–20242 countries

BhutIdBuddh · Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Travel: Identity- and Nation-Building in Bhutan

The BhutIdBuddh (“Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Travel: Identity- and Nation-Building in Bhutan”) research project (2022–24) investigated identity- and nation-building in 18th-century Bhutan with a particular focus on the agency of Bhutanese Buddhist masters as important intermediaries in Bhutan’s entangled history with Tib…

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ScriPTS · Scribal Performance and Textual Standardization in Mesopotamian Lexical Lists

The ScriPTS research project, hosted at the CNRS and within the UMR 7041 joint research unit, challenged models of unified culture and canonization of scholarly texts in the transmission of lexical lists, essential to the training of scribes during the first millennium BC. The main objective was to analyse how writing…

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Collab4Multi · Post-Repatriation: Collaborative Methodologies to Enhance Multivocality

The project Collab4Multi, conducted at the intersection of archaeology, anthropology, and museology, was designed to advance decolonizing methodologies in the field of Indigenous cultural heritage, especially in matters related to its repatriation (i.e., return to and reinstallation in the communities of origin). The r…

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InTer AquAS · Integrating Terrestrial and Aquatic Archaeozoological Studies: Venice and the northern Adriatic lagoons between Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

The project InTer AquAS (Integrating Terrestrial and Aquatic Archaeozoological Studies: Venice and the northern Adriatic lagoons between Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages) investigated elements of continuity and discontinuity and spatial differences in the human-animal-environment relationship at the Roman-early medi…

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BIOSOCIOPOLIS · The BIOarchaeology of SOCIO-POLitical changes in AmphipolIS: Exploring the impact of broad historical trends and status quo transitions on human lifeways and deathways, through a multi-proxy approach

This project will develop a new understanding of how multiple socio-political transitions, representing different forms of urbanism, may impact on lifeways (way of life or manner of living) and deathways (practices of a society surrounding death) on a diachronic scale. This will be accomplished by combining theoretical…

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S.A.L.V.A. · Shine a Light on Villa Adriana. Analysing and reconstructing the original lighting asset and the illumination design process of the architectural complex of Villa Adriana, Tivoli.

The project was carried out in the Archaeology Area of the Department of Geography, History and Philosophy at Pablo de Olavide University of Seville), under the supervision of Prof. Rafael Hidalgo Prieto. It originated from a clear scientific and cultural need: although Hadrian’s Villa in Tivoli, a UNESCO World Heritag…

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ScholaResc · How do rescued scholars change their host academic environments?

ScholaResc is a socio-historical research project focusing on the life trajectories, international circulation, and scientific production of Brazilians who took refuge in France after the military coup of 1964. Its main sources are the asylum application files submitted to the French Office for Refugees and Stateless P…

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A-LIGHT · Archaeology of the Light: multiproxy, interdisciplinary and experimental approach to the knowledge of palaeolithic subterranean activities

The control of fire is a milestone in human evolution. Artificial lighting is a crucial resource for the expansion of social and economic behaviour in Palaeolithic groups beyond the day hours. Besides, this allowed the potential development of the first symbolic comportment located in deep caves probably at least 176ky…

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TRACMI · Trading Chinese Migrants: Networks of Human Trafficking in Treaty-Port China (1830-1930s)

In the past three decades, historians of global Chinese indentured migration have done an excellent job of portraying the trade in Chinese indentured labourers to Latin America, their experiences and the international effort to halt their trafficking. Surprisingly, even though the international trafficking of Chinese c…

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WaterScapes · Human-Environment interactions in and around Venice Lagoon: micro-ecologies and geoarchaeological narratives from Roman Period to Middle Ages

The WaterScapes project investigated the complex interactions between environmental changes and societal transformations in the Venice Lagoon and surrounding regions from Roman period to Middle Ages. Historically, interpretations of settlements and societal structures in this area have focused predominantly on trade, p…

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LUARC · Implacable Archives: Reviving Mário Pinto de Andrade’s Personal Archive

The main objective of project LUARC is to contribute to the revival and development of the personal archive of the Angolan intellectual and politician Mário Pinto de Andrade (MPA). Using the archive as a key to uncover new narratives about Angola’s recent past and to map the evolution of practices and discourses on cul…

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ARIAH · Chemical speciation of A Revolution In Art History

The ARIAH (Chemical Speciation of A Revolution In Art History) project sought to unravel the intricate molecular and nanoscale composition of Renaissance mixed-media paints, which combined egg- and oil-based binders. This material innovation marked a transformative period in art history and enabled masterpieces by arti…

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ARCHIVWAR · Archives in Times of War: Scattered Families and Vanishing Past in Contemporary Syria

What happen to state archives in wartime? What is the predicament of the documents stored in these repositories in times of political upheaval and dislocation? Archivwar answers these questions by examining the afterlife of the archives of legal identity in wartime Syria.

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POYESIS · Perspectives on Yiddish Cultural Evolution and Its Legacy: Visual Arts, Theatre, and Songwriting Between Assimilation and Identity. A Case Study

After the Russian pogroms of the early 20th century, many Jewish people emigrated from Russia to Europe and the US, a phenomenon that caused the decline of entire communities and the dissolution of much of their culture. In just a decade, several Jewish artists, writers, and actors moved to New York and started to gain…

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FRAME · Fungal Research in the Age of Museomic Exploration: revisiting historical lichen collections

Lichens, often unnoticed, are unique symbiotic partnerships between fungi and algae or cyanobacteria. Thriving in diverse environments, these organisms contribute to ecological processes, serve as bioindicators, and hold cultural significance. Their adaptability and intricate relationships make them a fascinating subje…

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FoodStore · Food storage in the late fifth, fourth and third millennia BC in the Northern Fertile Crescent

FoodStore investigates food storage systems in the Northern Fertile Crescent (western inner Syria, south eastern Türkiye, and northern Iraq) during the late fifth, fourth and third millennia BC, in order to define the relationship between storage practices, socio-economic complexity and ecological conditions. During th…

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HUGASEA · Modelling and simulating Hunter-Gatherer Seafaring in the Americas: ecology, society and watercraft technology in cold aquatic environments

The study of coastal or riverine societies has a long history in anthropology and archaeology. However, one of the major problems archaeologists have yet to address realistically is the development of watercraft, not just as a technical innovation, but also its social implications. Indeed, studying the past without inc…

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REMIND · Reimagining Urban Growth in the Mérida Region through Long-Term Adaptive Indigenous Practices: An applied archaeology for sustainable urban development

The REMIND project aims to generate leverage for the applied usage of knowledge derived from the Maya indigenous urban tradition benefitting sustainable and equitable alternatives to urban development in the Urban Region of Merida (URM), Yucatan, Mexico. Since the second half of the 20th century URM experiences rapid u…

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LOGGIA · Linking community archaeology and wellbeing in the Mediterranean

Cultural heritage-related activities may break down barriers to public participation and – within the contexts of museums, historic landscapes and parks, and others – may positively impact individual and community wellbeing. Wellbeing is a construct with multiple meanings and usually paired with health, quality of life…

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MODiterranean · Age of Moderation: Liberal Patriotism in the Mediterranean, 1814-1848

This project investigates the transnational conceptualisation and diffusion of moderate liberal thought in Mediterranean Europe in the first half of the nineteenth century. It explores moderate thinkers’ formulation of a third political way for the future of Europe between revolution and reaction, by focussing on the w…

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PHOTOELECTROART · The photo-reactivity of artistic pigments: from the preservation of historical paintings to new opportunities as singlet oxygen generators

Singlet oxygen is a highly reactive oxygen species known for its strong oxidative properties. Certain materials, known as singlet oxygen generators, produce this compound when exposed to light and in the presence of oxygen. These generators are sometimes found in the pigments used in historical paintings.

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RadNIW · Writing on Air: Radio and Northern Irish Writers, 1966–1986

This interdisciplinary project seeks to combine studies of media broadcasting, cultural history, collaboration, and literary analysis to consider the lives and works of recent Irish writers whose careers were closely tied to the BBC and RTE. In short, it seeks to address the significant – and significantly underappreci…

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YTOPIA · Yamatology of the Axis. Japan as a Nazi-Fascist Utopia of Political Renewal

Japan still occupies a special place in the European far-right imagination, often being described as an ethnically and culturally homogenous land that has successfully harmonized tradition and modernity, representing a possible alternative to the liberal development pattern of Euro-American societies. The myth of Japan…

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Making in W-Africa · A history of ‘Making Things’ in West Africa, 1920-1980: creating, meaning making and experience

“A history of ‘Making Things’ in West Africa, 1920-1980: creating, meaning making and experience” studies artisans and craftspeople to write a history of ‘making things’ in Ghana and Nigeria. It brings to the fore historical bodies and systems of knowledge and experiences of ‘making things’ under colonial rule and afte…

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Beyond Boycott · Musical Internationalism and the Making of Race in Apartheid South Africa

The project develops a social and cultural history of the cultural boycott of apartheid South Africa. It focuses especially on the hidden histories of classical musicians who defied sanctions to perform in the country. The project uses archival material to establish who travelled to South Africa in defiance of the boyc…

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AUTOREN · Automata and Power in the Culture of Machines of Renaissance Florence, Milan and Venice (1400-1600)

Introduction: Renaissance automata emerge as perhaps the most abstract compositions of occidental civilization, as observed by pioneering art historian Eugenio Battisti. As the dawn of cybernetics, robotics, and artificial intelligence unfolds, historians of technology reevaluate the role of European automata. The intr…

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MARGINS · Pushing back the MARGINS: investigating the PPNC-Late Neolithic conquest of near-eastern arid lands through settlement pattern analyses and landscape studies

MARGINS intends to understand why and how, at the end of the Neolithic (PPNC-Late Neolithic, 7th-6th millennium), the arid margins of the Fertile Crescent witnessed a wide settlement growth, performed by groups involved in interregional networks but who developed their own socio-economic strategies. Despite intensified…

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Harmony on the Edge · Harmony on the Edge. Musical Encounters Between Early Modern Europe and South America

Harmony on the Edge explored the roles of music and sound in the ways European travellers and colonisers perceived, conceptualised, and classified Indigenous populations in South America during the early modern period. Drawing on a rich corpus of textual and visual sources, the project examined how European observers e…

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NOMAD-Outcome · Not for sale! Explaining the Outcomes of Neighbourhood Mobilisations Against Displacement

The NOMAD-Outcome project (“Explaining the Outcomes of Neighbourhood Mobilizations Against Displacement”), explores the dynamics of collective organization for housing justice in working-class neighbourhoods in Barcelona, Montreal and Lyon. It addresses the collective responses to housing insecurity, which is a critica…

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NERELUN · Negotiating Religion at the United Nations

Religion is an increasingly salient issue within the United Nations (UN), especially in relation to its human rights activities. There is a widespread perception of the growing threat posed by Islam, especially to the universality of human rights. The academic debate on the topic is highly polarized, with one view defe…

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MISHA · Militant Science. European Physicists and the Emergence of Transnational Radical Science Movements

Drawing on largely unexplored archival sources, oral histories, and primary literature, MISHA studies the processes of emergence of transnational Radical Science Movements (from now onwards: RSMs) from the 1960s to the mid-1980s as forms of reflection on both the limits and the emancipatory potential of science. In par…

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PostelEast · Guillaume Postel and the East: Universalism in the Global Renaissance

The French scholar Guillaume Postel (1510–1581) was a Renaissance polymath largely known for his interest in Hebrew and Jewish esoteric tradition. He is often remembered for his belief in a past and future universal concord among Jews, Muslims, and Christians across the globe. Yet, what lay at the heart of Postel’s ide…

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ANIMATE · Animation, Materials, Transcultural Ecologies: Performing Worlds at the Baroque Savoy Court of Christine of France

ANIMATE investigates the spectacles staged across the Duchy of Savoy, from its capital Turin to the top of Mont Cenis, during the lifetime of the regent Christine of Bourbon-France (1606-1663). By examining the natural resources, landscapes, and stagecraft that audiences would have seen in these performances, the resea…

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HOLAHERIS · A holistic structural analysis method for cultural heritage structures conservation

The HOLAHERIS project proposed a holistic structural analysis method for cultural heritage structures conservation, introducing an original multidisciplinary framework that will make the safeguard and protection of these structures less expensive, faster and more reliable than state-of-the-art approaches. HOLAHERIS com…

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PARCA · Advance in Proteomics and Analysis of dyes and Recovery of Charred and Aged textiles

Background. Archaeological textiles hold significant importance in comprehending past cultures and histories. They play a crucial role in confirming or validating historical sources, shedding light on the utilization of specific species, providing evidence of trade routes, and indicating technological levels.

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HISHOUSHOCK · The Long-Term Consequences of Shocks to Housing Wealth: Insights from History

Climbing the housing ladder is the most important way for households to accumulate wealth, but households differ significantly in their access to housing. The goal of this project was to investigate the effect of shocks to housing values on the wealth and homeownership of individuals and their neighborhoods, focusing p…

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COMCON · Communities of Concord: Building Contentment and Belonging through Emotional Images in Early Modern Europe and Beyond

The project uncovered case studies shedding light on how images represented European and Latin American identities and communities in the early modern age. It focused on visual and narrative paradigms—in paintings, prints, and illustrated books—devised in Catholic Iberian contexts between the 16th and 18th centuries an…

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MARTINET · Musicians in the “Republic of Letters”: For a Social Network Analysis of Giambattista Martini’s Correspondence

Handwritten correspondence was a vital means of communication during the 18th Century. Through their letters, people kept in touch with family and friends, exchanged information, sought patronage, and did business. By frequently corresponding with each other, scholars, scientists and artists formed a flexible, self-reg…

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ECODIV · Ecological diversity of land vertebrates through the largest extinction in Earth history

Contemporary Earth’s ecosystems are threatened by accelerating extinction rates, but their responses to biodiversity losses are not detectable on short-time scales. However, large-scale biodiversity crises, or ‘mass extinctions’, occurred in the past and their long-term effects are detectable and measurable in the foss…

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OPTIMAL · OPtimal Transport for Identifying Marauder Activities on LiDAR

Illegal excavation of archaeological sites to collect historical material culture ("looting") is a pressing problem on a global scale with strong consequences on security, economics, and society. Looting is the main source of income for terroristic groups and organised crime undermining the security and development of…

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CLUES-DECEB · Cultural Loss Under Emulated Shocks – Demographic Environmental Climatic Empirical Bottlenecks

CLUES-DECEB (Cultural Loss Under Emulated Shocks – Demographic, Environmental, Climatic, Empirical Bottlenecks) addresses the lack of systematic research on cultural loss, the mechanisms that drive it, and how it can be measured under conditions of stress and disruption. This issue is increasingly important in a world…

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IBERHUNT · Palaeolithic ungulate hunting strategies in the eastern Iberian Peninsula through advanced proteomic profiling

Recent zooarchaeological analyses have suggested that Neanderthals were skilled hunters. Yet, there is still a vivid debate on whether Middle Palaeolithic human groups were also capable of more effective, and diverse, sophisticated food-processing behaviours, in particular through specialised hunting. Traditionally, ar…

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TAHL · Temporalities of Andean Heritage Landscapes

This research project tackles the issue of Andean cultural heritage being regularly managed in ways that do not do justice to indigenous understandings and experiences of history and of the past. A main consequence is a widespread sense of dispossession and alienation resulting from mainstream archaeological conservati…

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BiGAr · BIM and GIS Integration for Archaeology: a new method for documenting field archaeology

The project titled “BIM and GIS Integration for ARchaeology” (BiGAr) focuses on innovating archaeological research methodology by developing a digital application that integrates representation software, specifically Building Information Model (BIM) and Geographical Information System (GIS). The project aims to documen…

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WasteLands · Waste lands? New perspectives on the archaeology of disaster recovery in medieval Europe

WasteLands explores the impact of and recovery from three major disasters in medieval Europe: the 1248 Mont Granier landslide (France), the 1348 Eastern Alps earthquake (Italy, Austria and Slovenia), and the 1421 St Elisabeth flood (the Netherlands). It aims to develop a ‘global’ landscape archaeological approach to th…

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WOMENSONG · Women Songwriters of the Victorian Fin de Siècle: Exploring the Sentimental Voice

Context and overall objectives The second half of the nineteenth century in Britain witnessed a sharp rise in professional opportunities for women in music, particularly in the field of composition. While several notable women attained public success producing large-scale works for major concert venues, most aspiring f…

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ClimAHealth · Assessing the role of climate adaptation on human evolution and its implications for health.

After migrating out of Africa, human populations encountered diverse climates, particularly varying temperatures. Over millennia, this likely acted as a selective pressure, shaping human metabolism and leading to adaptations detectable in the genome as signatures of positive selection. Considering that the mechanisms f…

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TRADElam · Trade at the Sea of the Rising Sun: Neo-Elamite commercial involvement in the Persian Gulf network (1000-525 BC)

The project TRADElam studies 500 years of Persian Gulf history from the perspective of the Neo-Elamite kingdom, one of the early Iron Age regional powers (1000-520 BC). Since direct evidence for large-scale exchange of bulk goods is rather limited in the historical record, scholarly attention has focused on individual…

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Inventing GPS · Technology and International Security in the Cold War and Beyond

One of the most significant technological innovations of the post-war era, the development of GPS revolutionized the way we navigate, fight wars, design maps, and keep time. However, a GPS historiography is still missing. The EU-funded Inventing GPS project will provide the first complete historiographical study of GPS…

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SOUNDEPTH · Sounding the Depths of Providence: Mineral (Re)generation, Natural Resources, and Human-Environment Interaction in the Early Modern Period

SOUNDEPTH's subject is the evolution of the early modern debate on ore generation and of our understanding of geological phenomena and natural resources. The project has been carried out through: - acquisition of scientific knowledge/skills; - analysis of sources; - confrontation with secondary literature; - replicatio…

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GEOCOSM · Kant, a Cosmopolitan in Königsberg: an Idea for a Local History with a Cosmopolitan Aim

One of the most influential political texts articulating a vision for a peaceful global order is Immanuel Kant’s Perpetual Peace. The text was published in 1795 by the shores of the Baltic Sea, a region, which has resurfaced today as a place of conflict. However, the academic literature has for a long period adopted Ka…

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RENAISSANCE USSR · HUMANISM BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN: ITALIAN RENAISSANCE STUDIES IN THE SOVIET UNION

The project RENAISSANCE USSR investigates a largely unexplored chapter in the global history of historiography: the study of the Italian Renaissance in the Soviet Union from the 1920s to the 1980s. While the Italian Renaissance is widely regarded as a foundational moment in the emergence of modern European identity, ce…

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INVASOMICS · Adaptive plasticity as a key for invasion success in disturbed ecosystems

Invasive species are a major constituent of global change, threaten local biodiversity and cause serious economic damage. The science of biological invasions has tried to discern what factors determine the success of invasive populations, be it the species-specific intrinsic features or environmental factors, e.g. eutr…

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RITMO · The place-making function of ritual movement in Roman religion

The project “RITMO. The place-making function of ritual movement in Roman religion” focuses on ritual movement, that is movement of individuals or groups on a more or less fixed route for religious causes or purposes (e.g. processions).

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EPISTYLE · Style Matters: Scientific Pluralism and its Early-Modern Sources

EPISTYLE focuses on the concept of “style” and its aim is to lay the ground for rethinking the history and the terms of contemporary debates over scientific pluralism. The notion of "style" played an important role in the so-called “pluralist turn” in history and philosophy of science (H&PS) of the second half of the t…

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Novel and the Heart · The Novel and the Heart: 1840-1940

“The Novel and the Heart: 1840–1940” examines the heart as a focus of experiential description in anglophone fiction of the Victorian (1837–1901) and modernist (1901–1939) periods. Methodologically, it requires a multi-disciplinary approach, bringing together expertise in both the health humanities and the history and…

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CONGOTOPIA · Sonic migrations: Congolese rumba and utopias in 20th century West Central Africa

CONGOTOPIA proposes a new approach to the historical phenomenon of colonization and decolonization by looking at the politics of African popular music. The analysis of the development of Congolese rumba in the 20th century allows me to offer the first study of the decolonization of West Central Africa that goes beyond…

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MITOCHADAPT · Mitochondrial efficiency as a mechanism for local adaptation in a changing climate

This project is centred on an integrative and collaborative research program to investigate the evolutionary potential of populations to respond to climate change and a potentially general mechanism of adaptation, namely increased mitochondrial efficiency. The proposed work will be a significant advance to the field by…

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ECOFUTURE · Imaging the (Eco)Future: Ecotopian Thought in an Age of Climate Breakdown

This research investigates the lack of critical attention to the presence, absence and function of ‘ecotopian’, or ecologically-ideal, visions of the future within ecocriticism and within contemporary climate change discourse. Whereas recent years have seen a huge rise in the number of dystopian depictions of the futur…

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EMOPractices · Emotions as Practice in the early modern Jesuit missions in the Asia-Pacific

The project “Emotions as Practice in the early modern Jesuit missions in the Asia-Pacific” (EMOPractices) analyses the sixteenth-eighteenth century writings of Jesuit missionaries to shed new light on the encounters between European and Asian peoples and to uncover how their emotional practices normalized the subordina…

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HARMONI. · John Selden's Harmonic Jurisprudence. A European Interpretation of English Legal History.

The world is fracturing. Nationalisms are resurgent, and sectarian policies dominate with growing cynicism. In this climate, history can seem powerless—an idle discipline removed from urgent realities.

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WomenThinkingLove · A Gendered History of Emotions in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy

"Women Thinking Love" delves into the profound transformations in the way Early-Modern Italian women conceived and engaged with the concept of romantic love during a pivotal period in the Western intellectual history. In the Renaissance, love emerged as a central intellectual, philosophical, and literary theme. However…

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CLIMGROWTH · Effects of climate change on adult body size: Towards an integrative approach to understand the underlying mechanisms, the consequences across the lifespan, and improve our predictive ability

Changes in adult body size have become a flagship response to climate change. In organisms with a finite growth, as mammals and birds (higher vertebrates), it is thought to result foremost from climate-induced changes in growth trajectories (plasticity) rather than from changes in the frequency of alleles coding for bo…

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DAG · Demise of the Atlantic Grey Whale

The grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus) is a baleen whale species currently restricted to the North Pacific. It feeds at high latitudes in summer and normally forages in waters no deeper than 120 metres on a variety of benthic lifeforms. This restricts the species to shallow waters, making grey whales an easy target for…

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GLOB-POP-NAT · Populist nationalism in 'global' western India, 1920-1939

Glop-Pop-Nat offers a new study of the transnational connections between emerging Hindu nationalism (Hindutva) and contemporary European fascism in the 1920s-30s, enabling through its globalising and comparative perspective on their relationship improvements to our understanding of both. Moreover, by employing the stil…

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TIQ · Textual Integrity of the Qur’an: Sunni and Shi'i Historical Narrations on the Falsification

My first goal in the "Textual Integrity of the Qur'an" project was to train in Sunni approaches to Quranic studies at the University of Toronto for 22 months under Professor Walid Saleh's supervision. I aimed to deepen my understanding of early Muslim historical and legal data, including hadith studies, at the Universi…

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GALATEO · GALATEO (Good Attitudes for Life in Assyrian Times: Etiquette and Observance of Norms in Male and Female Groups)

The GALATEO (Good Attitudes for Life in Assyrian Times: Etiquette and Observance of Norms in Male and Female Groups) project aimed to understand anew the importance of etiquette in late Assyrian society (10th–7th century BCE) and to investigate through a multidisciplinary approach the extent to which etiquette influenc…

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VICTIMEUR · The New Politics of Victimhood in Post-Socialist Europe

Main contributions and findings Notions of historical and collective victimhood has become one of the main battlefields for populists. Imagery of historical and war suffering, grievances directed at the ‘West’ to frequent references to past oppression and injustice has increasingly been deployed by right-wing populists…

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InAndAround · Patterns of land-use and human mobility in a time of climate changes (Italy, 6th to 10th cc.)

1.PROBLEMS AND ISSUES ADDRESSED The action investigates human-environmental and human-climate interactions, including their effect on migratory flows, in Tuscany (Italy, 6th to 10th cc.). It integrates into the traditional debate on the socio-political actors responsible for shifting settlement patterns the role of cli…

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NapApps · Napoleonic Job Applications: from Personal Pleas to Modern Curriculum Vitae in Early 19th-Century Europe

The NapApps project conducted an extensive analysis of job applications for administrative positions during the Napoleonic era to explore the shift from traditional pleas to modern curricula vitae. By applying statistical text analysis to a vast corpus of archival sources, the project challenged existing interpretation…

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REWID · Rethinking Widowhood: Women, Loss, and Liberation in Nineteenth-Century Musical Culture

The MCSA ‘Rethinking Widowhood: Women, Loss, and Liberation in Nineteenth-Century Musical Culture’ (REWID) confronts the challenge of historicising widowhood (a topic often overlooked or given tangential mention) at the intersection of musicology, gender studies, and the history of emotions. The research tilts the disc…

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ANTIQUITATES · Empirical Knowledge and Antiquarian Architecture in Sixteenth-century Venice

The overarching aim of the ANTIQUITATES project is to investigate the quantitative empirical practices of the early modern historical disciplines. The case study of ANTIQUITATES regards antiquarian architecture in the Republic of Venice during the sixteenth century. This project studies the work of a group of groundbre…

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SCORE · Sustainable COnservation and REstoration of built cultural heritage

In Europe the ecological footprint of EU-28 countries grew from 1.6 Gha to 2.3 Gha in fifty years. Researchers and engineers together with stakeholders in charge of built cultural heritage must help to minimise the global ecological footprint by developing resource-efficient and climate-resilient innovative restoration…

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SciCoMove · Scientific Collections on the Move: Provincial Museums, Archives, and Collecting Practices (1800-1950)

Concern about provenance and calls for repatriating museum objects have increased considerably in recent years. In this context, the EU-funded SciCoMove project studies the history of some scientific collections in paleontology, anthropology, botany and related applied sciences. Drawing on the most recent historiograph…

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