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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 a…

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 palaeontolo…

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.

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 practi…

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.

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-ol…

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 e…

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 m…

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. Tradit…

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 re…

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 urg…

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.

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…

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 syst…

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…

How do representations of an “original” humanity ground our socio-political organisation? What role do they play in early modern feminist political theory?

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…

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 cooperativ…

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 processin…

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. Anne…

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 charact…

Votive animal mummies are extraordinary expressions of ancient Egyptian religious beliefs and craftsmanship. From the Third Intermediate Period through to the Roman Period (c.

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 a…

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 chu…

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 fundament…

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 tri…

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 cer…

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 prost…

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 t…

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, d…

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…

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 thre…

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.…

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 archite…

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 villa…

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…

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 primari…

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…

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 te…

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 be…

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 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.

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…

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…

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).

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…

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.

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 mounta…

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 turne…

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…

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…

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 t…

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…

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, blubbe…

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 difference…

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 cro…

Context : Scholars consider the Age of Goethe (“Goethezeit”), i.e., the period between ca. 1770–1830, the climax of German literary history.

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.

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 objecti…

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 coun…

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, northe…

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 f…

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 a…

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…

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 un…

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 wat…

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 innova…

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 I…

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,…

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…

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 Bud…

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 scribe…

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 repat…

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…

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…

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.

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 asyl…

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.

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 t…

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 settlem…

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…

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 innovatio…

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?

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, s…

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 significan…

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 s…

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 inn…

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), Yu…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

“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 syst…

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.

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 unfo…

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 net…

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 cor…

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.…

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…

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…

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, Musl…

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…

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 exp…

Background. Archaeological textiles hold significant importance in comprehending past cultures and histories.

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 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 b…

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.

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 i…

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 ter…

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 condi…

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-pro…

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…

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 Mo…

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 Net…

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 publ…

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 t…

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…

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.

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…

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 plac…

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 re…

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, b…

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.

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 “plurali…

“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…

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 offe…

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 mitochond…

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 recen…

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 Asi…

The world is fracturing. Nationalisms are resurgent, and sectarian policies dominate with growing cynicism.

"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, lo…

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…

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.

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 relatio…

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 e…

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 investi…

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…

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 soc…

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…

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 musi…

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 dur…

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 footpri…

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, anthropolog…

The CONQUES project has undertaken an interdisciplinary and integrative study of Conques, a remarkable pilgrimage and tourist site in Southern France renowned for its rich visual, material, and ritual culture spanning from the ninth to the…

CONSIDER aims to develop sustainable management model (SMM) for industrial heritage sites (IHS) for the benefits of the local communities as a resource for strengthening collective identities, improving the urban landscape, promoting ecofri…

Magnetic field sensing is a wide and important area of research and technological development in which every new magnetic or spintronic phenomenon discovered there would be an attempt to exploit it for magnetic sensing applications with imp…

A.G.A.T.H.O.C.L.E.S. aimed to investigate ancient production technology related to the Greek red-figure vase production through in-depth analyses on the ancient hidden artisanal gestures such as fingerprints, way of applying miltos (a sort…

The artefactual record of Europe transcends national boundaries and reminds us of events and processes that have shaped our collective identity. Artefacts are often seen as synonymous with past cultures, physical evidence for the transmissi…

Although plasters and ceramics are the first synthetic materials produced by humankind and occur in virtually every archaeological context (ritual, domestic, industrial, funerary, or otherwise) their analytical study had remained fragmented…

Transforming TOD into a sustainable planning concept for rural-urban regions Recent policy reports of the European level as well as national and regional governments, point to sprawled rural-urban development as one of the greatest challeng…

The project focused on the area of language change and evolution (i.e. diachronic linguistics), specifically as it pertains to the use of the subjunctive (Subj) and infinitive (Inf).

The project IATIO mobilises the concept of ‘archipelagic imaginaries’ to examine Indian intellectual and literary investment in the Indian Ocean region during the 1950s-1970s. The research shifts focus from teleological readings of Indian O…

The research presented an experimental and novel investigation within historical archaeology, applied to isolated contexts. The project focused on the establishment of a quarantine system in the Indian Ocean, promoted by colonial empires to…

The main aspiration of the FORGIVEBASQ project is to analyze the concept of forgiveness in order to understand its dynamics in the context of the Basque conflict. To do this, the project proposes an analysis of forgiveness using a philosoph…

Project number 888063, Sunni-Shii Relations in the Middle East (SSRIME) investigates the entangled history of Sunni-Shii relations and sectarian politics in the Middle East and the wider Islamic world. SSRIME seeks to explain the root cause…

Social and popular dances create spaces where citizens can assert, transform and play with identity and social norms related to race, class and gender. The EU-funded DANCETOPIAS project studies social dances in African globalised cities.

MOBILESITES is a three-year "mobility" project that consists of an outgoing phase at the University of Michigan (U-M), a secondment at the Museum für Islamische Kunst in Berlin, and an incoming phase at the Universität Hamburg (UHAM). It no…

This project is mainly focused on the study of how past droughts and other climatic stressors have affected long-term dynamics of bird populations using paleolimnological approaches. Due to climate change, different areas and biomes of the…

What are the Biotic interchanges? We are currently at a peak of Earth's biological diversity, despite recent extinctions caused by the human activities that define the Anthropocene.

For several years, Homo sapiens, H. neanderthalensis, H.

In the 3 years of this Marie Sklodovska Curie project, the researcher has explored several aspects of the life of plants in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He has worked on the changes from the Aristotelian framework in botanical s…

Research on social inequalities and their biological repercussions is at the heart of the human and social sciences. It has been established only very recently that the economic and social conditions of humans also strongly affect their hea…

In October 1604 a giant supernova unexpectedly exploded in the constellation of Ophiuchus and its bright light remained visible to the naked eye for eighteen months. The sudden appearance was an anomalous and stunning event for those observ…

STAND ALONE SUMMARY Cuba-Ireland Digital Archive (CIDA) is a digital humanities (DH) project concerned with the entangled histories of Irish, European and African Diasporas in colonial Cuba. Drawing on untapped and endangered sources select…

Problem addressed and relevance for society: Soil carbon emissions are susceptible to climate change but can be reduced with new land management practices, provided soil carbon–climate feedback outcomes can be predicted. However, prediction…

Life exerts significant influence on the redox landscape of Earth; however, to what extent environmental factors, i.e., background oxygen levels and bio-essential nutrient availability, influenced the early diversification of eukaryotes rem…

Mapping the Aegean had as its main objective the promotion of the study of the Liber Insularum Archipelagi (1420) by the Florentine traveler Cristoforo Buondelmonti, highlighting the importance of this book in the rediscovery of Greece and…

This EU-funded project focused on the issue of gender-based intimate partner violence (IPV) within heterosexual relationships. IPV is a worldwide problem where any members of the dyad may be victims or perpetrators.

The study of prediction about the future, as an expression of collective and recurring concerns, is a significant contribution to the understanding of every age. In late medieval and Renaissance Europe, prophetic discourse was one of the mo…

This project wants to a new window onto trade and contact in Early Medieval western Europe, applying multidisciplinary research methods to well-dated samples of glass to investigate its production, trade, and recycling from the 7th to the 1…

Understanding how biodiversity is generated is a major goal for evolutionary biologists. Instances of repeated phenotypic change – termed convergent evolution – represent an ideal framework to test which genetic factors contribute to the ge…

The action" Saharan Visions of Jesus" (SAVIJU project) aims to investigate the unexplored topic of contemporary Saharan conversions to Christianity, in order to show the complexity and the polysemy of Saharan religious dynamics, focusing on…

SPECTACLE is a multidisciplinary investigation intersecting histories of culture, art, stage design, and theatre. It aims to define the cultural meaning of ‘spectacle’ and ‘spectacularity’ in France and in a selection of European capitals i…

Social insects have commonly high abundances and an impressive role in ecosystems. For example, ants are key predators in many ecosystems and bees provide important pollination services.

NONORMOPERA has investigated the representation of sexual and gender non-normativity in opera by gay composers between the end of the Second World War and the end of the 20th century. Non-normativity includes all sexual and gender identitie…

At the beginning, the objective of my project was to examine how the skin colour (as described by the sources) of captives, slaves and people under other forms of serfdom affected their value in economic transactions before and after the le…

What are norms? Where does their authority come from?

The TECTONIC project focused on the documentation, conservation, and accessibility of Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH), recognizing its importance for preserving human history and traditions. Its main objective was to foster intersectoral…

The Oceanic and South East Asian Navigators (OCSEAN) project unites researchers from Canada, Europe, Island Southeast Asia and Oceania to re-evaluate our understanding of the Austronesian expansion. It does so using new high-density data fr…

In public and policy discourse, "green" and energy-efficient planning and building practices are generally presented as a win-win response to many urban evils, including energy scarcity, air pollution and water quality, but also social ills…

Between 2020 and 2024 the Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Training Network (ETN) "PUSHH - Palaeoproteomics to Unleash Studies on Human History" provided international doctoral training on palaeoproteomics applied to palaeontology, palaeoant…

This MSC Action dealt with the project title “Historical Grounding of Environmental Migration Decisions of People at Risks – (HoMe)”. It aimed to provide insights on historical reasons for migration decisions of people at environmental risk…

The PTANOIS POSIN project investigates the cultural movement of intellectuals and itinerant professionals of performing arts in the Hellenistic period. In the Hellenistic cultural panorama, itinerant specialists of literature and music play…

NeT-HiDeA is a philosophical-political investigation on the articulation between temporalities, history, and the problem of social and political transformation. Assuming the hypothesis that the way human beings use and conceive time and tem…

Archaeological sites are by and large palimpsests of coarse-grained chronological resolution, with many episodes of (re-)occupation where often undifferentiated blocks of time are used as units for temporal reckoning. Ancient teeth preserve…

Breaking with current interpretations, THE DAMNED is the first study to reframe the European political geography to include the (post)colonial space and to reassess the historical influence of the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962) –…

MAYURB addressed the study of ancient urbanism using the Classic Maya Period (250-900 CE) as the basis. The novelty of the project relies on its comprehensive understanding of the ancient city, with a perspective that delves into site plann…

This study was designed to develop protocols and procedures to obtain genomic DNA data from degraded old museum specimens using High Throughput Sequencing (HTS) using Southeast Asian frogs as focal taxa. Specimens housed in natural history…

Architectural design projects commonly stem from a collaboration between designers, clients and a variety of experts. In spite of its relevance, the tacit knowledge has not been studied methodically in the field of architecture.

We investigate the court residence or palace as a European phenomenon of cultural exchange. We want to meet the challenges which make a proper understanding of the palace difficult and ultimately endanger its survival.

VERTEXCULT aims to the first systematic investigation of the vernacular literary texts used for the intellectual education of lay people in western Tuscany between the half of the XIII century and the first twenty years of the XIV century i…

The objective of the HISPANEMA project is twofold. First, to carry out reconstruction and visualization of once lost and so far still hidden part of European scientific heritage - by investigating the narratives of things, i.e.

'Materia medica' is a Latin expression meaning the body of knowledge about the medicinal properties of plants, of certain animals and minerals - the so-called 'simples' - that constitute the raw material for the preparation of medicinal rem…

Can turbid coastal environments provide a refuge for coral reefs in periods of warm climate? Coral reefs are the most highly valued marine ecosystems in the world.

The project was aimed at investigating the tradition of the Oxford Calculators with a special focus on their theories of modalities and modal logic. Particular attention was paid to the use, in the Calculators’ tradition, of the concepts of…

This research analysed the biographical and autobiographical texts of late-medieval and early modern women who were deemed to be mystics, blessed, or saints. The main objective was to determine to what extent extreme religious experiences (…

This project aims to better understand the evolution of spatial capabilities in animals and how sex and species differences in behaviour and cognitive abilities arise. Many animals, including humans, rely on their navigation skills to find…

Sustainability studies of Europe’s marine environment may have focused on geological and biological data, but they have not extensively integrated disciplines such as archaeology or the evidence this field can provide in understanding the p…

This project is focused on the activity of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club of New York, founded in 1961 by Ellen Stewart (1919-2011) in an old café on Manhattan Lower East Side, to give voice to artists marginalized by both the institutio…

How do LGBTQ people (i.e. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Queer people) mobilize the memories of the past for civil resistance?

Being a complex, pan-European literary movement, the Petrarchan tradition constitutes a privileged perspective for understanding the origins of modern European identities and cultures. The first overall objective of the project is to map th…

Mixed religious identities and interfaith relations represent one of the most crucial and debated phenomena in the 21st century. The revival of the religious dimension in the world is evident in the growing religious implications in modern…

Although well-known Italian works, from Dante’s 'Vita Nova' to Boccaccio’s 'Comedia delle Ninfe fiorentine' as well as to Sannazaro’s 'Arcadia' and Bembo’s 'Asolani', are commonly defined as prosimetra, only recently this literary typology…

During the 19th century, a great number of Italian activists, intellectuals and patriots spent part of their lives in prison as a consequence of their struggles to obtain Italian independence or unification, and based on this experience the…

Sex War-k aims to conduct a systematic investigation into illegal sex work in a European country during the Allied occupation. Focusing on the relationships between American soldiers (GIs) and Italian illegal prostitutes (the so-called 'seg…

LAAA has addressed significant lacunae in intellectual history and classical reception. It has provided the first systematic investigation of the early modern reception of late ancient philosophy which has been insofar overshadowed by the i…

BAnDiT was a 4-year H2020 ITN MSCA project that provide a platform for industrial-academic collaborations for the analysis and development of advanced and secure blockchain-based applications. This platform showed how the synergy between In…

Approaches combining archaeology and archaeometry for the investigation of past records are established, but recent technological advances, especially new IT tools, push for a general update of the consolidated procedures. BE-ARCHAEO launch…

INTENSE promotes the collaboration among European, US and Japanese researchers involved in the most important particle physics research projects at the high intensity frontier. The observation of neutrino oscillations established a picture…

European countries are proud of their rich heritage and landscape assets, both urban and rural. They have a lengthy and successful history of conserving them and capitalising on them culturally and economically.

ERARD focuses on better understanding mechanisms that contribute to the development of psychopathology, and specifically depression. Depression is a highly prevalent and often recurrent emotional disorder that is characterized with difficul…

The H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action, an Innovative Training Network, European Joint Doctorate “Migration and Modernity: Historical and Cultural Challenges” (MOVES) is built around the conviction that contemporary migration challenges ca…

ASArt-DATA addressed the study of Saharan rock art that represents one of the most challenging topics of the archaeological and anthropological investigation of the region. Rock art is one of humankind's most fascinating and widespread cult…

Landscapes provide essential services to humanity including water, food, energy, and clean air. But more than being simple providers of natural resources, landscapes have immeasurable value as cultural, scientific, educational, recreational…

The project Bridging East and West: Wisdom Literature in Cuneiform and Greek Traditions (BRISDOM) explores similarities and differences in wisdom in Mesopotamian and Greek traditions. BRISDOM represents the first ever attempt to provide a c…

As European societies strive towards increased complexity and integration, the challenge is to bring together diverse individuals and communities without eroding their unique identities and diversity. Understanding how such harmonious integ…

US-E AntiRacism investigated how the Roman Catholic Church responded to anti-Black racism from the age of ‘overtly racist regimes’ to decolonisation, the civil rights era, and 1960s modernisation. In particular, it focused on Catholic ‘inte…

Archaeological heritage is at risk, endangered by several natural and anthropogenic hazards and climate change pressures, causing physical degradation and destruction of ecofacts, archaeological artifacts, structures, and monuments. The int…

As the ongoing robotic exploration to Mars has made some tantalizing discoveries, the next major step should be retrieving samples from the Martian surface, so they can be investigated in detail in terrestrial laboratories. However, conside…

PoLiMeR: Polymers in the Liver – Metabolism and Regulation The PoLiMeR consortium is a Systems Medicing training network for young scientists of various disciplines and nationalities. We believe that the present day challenge to provide inn…

In funerary archaeology, also called archaeo-anthropology, a major issue is the lack of method validation. To avoid wrong interpretations about past funerary practices, it is important to validate existing methods before they are applied.

CONCHA (Portuguese for "shell") aimed to discuss the concept and characterization of coastal cities around the Atlantic rim from the 15th through the 18th centuries. It did so through the study of the conditions and expectations of such set…

This Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral project engages with the intense processes of global interconnectedness that characterise the post-WWII era and tries to understand its effects on historiography and architecture culture at large. It…