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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…

Languages encode knowledge, culture, and identity, yet more than half of the world’s languages are currently endangered, and many are represented only through short, fragmentary wordlists. These sparse records restrict our ability to unders…

In the current context of a globalised world, where migration flows are constant, the Mediterranean region is strategic. The Southern and Northern shores of the Mediterranean are (and have been) constantly in contact.

In the digital era society is evolving at a rapid pace and investing in education have vast social and economic advantages for it. It is the education that allows people to have access to SDGs 4 and the consortium is created as a platform f…

The rise of right-wing populist movements in Europe and beyond is of growing concern, particularly given their track record regarding human rights, media independence and mis/disinformation. This threatens the resilience, inclusivity and de…

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…

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.

EPISTEAM stands for Epistemology in Art, Science and Technology. The objective of the Consortium of 14 partners behind this project is to develop an intersectoral and interdisciplinary common research program for cutting-edge strategies of…

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…

According to some sources of diverse typology and different historical reliability - hagiography, historiography, epistles, ecclesiastical documents -, the Church of the East, in some moments of its history, turned to the West searching for…

The enlargement of the European Union to include Central and Eastern Europe (2004, 2007) has been followed by the rise in power of rightwing politics in Europe. Factors that contributed to the ensuing institutionalisation of right-wing part…

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…

EarthSea investigates the ways in which literature and visual media addressed forms of water-soil relationships– with a particular focus on land subsidence – in the context of the Po Delta in Italy. The Po Delta, a significant anthropogenic…

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…

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 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…

During the 16th century secular and temporal powers fought to gain monopoly on the future, striving to gradually eliminate religious expectations from the domain of political decision-making. This project looks at this struggle, that peaked…

The aim of the project is to develop an innovative framework for a better understanding of ecological crisis. The current approach is based on the idea that we are going through a global crisis of nature.

The CAPHE project is aimed towards fostering artistic collaboration and community engagement across various global locales, with a dedicated push on notion of hybrid environment as milieu of the action. What fuels the CAPHE project?

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…

Music is an element that is present in our daily lives. There are different styles of music, including classical, jazz, pop, rock, etc.

Several works by Ernesto Neto present huge, warm-colored, pleasantly smelling Lycra tunnels. They are cases of installation art: the public is supposed to enter the tunnels and interact with the physical environment, experiencing the works…

Participation in creative and artistic activities has been shown to produce personal and social benefits. Similarly, making music reduces stress, enhances confidence, facilitates social interactions and leads to an overall increase in the i…

In an era where fake news, disinformation, and hate speech proliferate across digital platforms, the integrity of democratic societies is increasingly under threat. The spread of manipulated narratives and misleading content has serious con…

The conviction at the heart of this project is that philosophy can no longer postpone systematic reflection on translation. This is not only due to a widespread "translational turn" in the humanities but because translation is at the core o…

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…

Machine learning (ML) systems continue to revolutionize many aspects of daily life, but despite their immense potential have yet to impact significantly in polymer science. One major issue that is hindering the more widespread use of machin…

The digital age has transformed how we interact with technology, with over 60% of the global population using the internet and more than 5 billion people having social media accounts. This digital immersion starts remarkably early –some rep…

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,…

This project explored the transition of the public health system in the successor states of the Habsburg Empire during and after its collapse following the First World War. As a case study, it focused on the Alps-Adriatic macro-region, cove…

Music exerts strong effects on the human brain, as evidenced by both subjective emotional reactions and overt changes in neurophysiology: lullabies are known in all cultures and times as an effective sleep aid for children and adults. Howev…

Opera hinges on audience participation. Throughout history, opera audiences have shaped theatrical spaces, cultural policies and communication networks, influencing production models, canons, and even politics.

The main objective of the project to provide a cultural history of Irish writers' connections with The New Yorker in the mid-twentieth century. I will first conduct a comprehensive survey of Irish writers' contributions in The New Yorker fr…

The aim of EUTERPE (European Literatures and Gender in Transnational Perspective) is to offer an innovative approach to contemporary European women’s literature by proposing a framework for a transnational feminist literary theory and trans…

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…

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…

POSTURE investigates the theme of bodily attitudes, postures and movements within one of the most important pieces of cultural heritage, i.e., the Hebrew Bible. Furthermore, it explores the interpretation, transmission and transformation of…

Plausible deniability (PD) is a linguistic strategy that consists in intentionally conveying content in such a way that the intention can later be denied. PD is essential in the success of e.g., covert threats (“It would be a shame if somet…

The growth and well-being of societies depend partly on the ability of science to answer the problems that each society faces, both at a collective and individual level. The solutions to societal issues, be technical, economic, political, a…

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…

As the war in Ukraine is still unfolding, scholars, the media and the public debate the opportunity to intervene, what Russia could do next, and how to reduce the negative impacts of the war. Amongst these issues, particular interest is dev…

. MWER will contribute to our understanding of and engagement with Europe’s cultural diversity and past.

My research grounds a public ethics of care in a phenomenological understanding of vulnerability by constructing a historical trajectory that extends from ancient Greek drama to contemporary feminist theory. Its development is articulated o…

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.

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…

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…

This study anthropologically investigates tensions within the transnational wool industry, a commercial network that emerged from European colonial projects that distributed sheep to the Global South’s grasslands. Wool production is an indu…

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 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…

Catholic Performance Culture in Early Modern England (CaPer) explored how practices of representation and recreation were vital to shaping and sustaining Catholic minority in early modern Protestant England. It comprehensively investigates…

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…

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…

Global Maghreb: Transnational Recognition and Knowledge of a Postcolonial Literature offers a groundbreaking approach to the study of Postcolonial literatures and, more generally, literary history, by (1) promoting a genuinely interdiscipli…

“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…

The relationship between transmission - or "passing on" - of knowledge and of inequalities constitutes an important social and political concern in today’s world. These inequalities are based on many factors such as, amongst others, status,…

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…

ARPOEXMUS aims at expanding contemporary ideas about musical archiving (storage and preservation) and conservation (management of heritage assets so as to enhance their significance) by contending with the heterogeneous musical materials an…

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 reality of migration in the 21st century is a major social challenge for Europe and the whole world. The TransMigrARTS project, Transforming Migration through the Arts, aimed to prove, using an applied creative research methodology, tha…

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 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…

The project LAREGRE focuses on a specific era – Late Antiquity, 200 to 600 AD – in a specific region of Africa – Egypt – and addresses the problem of quite a strong and specific linguistic policy enforced for the first time in that country…

The Faces Revealed Project has focused on a specific aspect of Ancient Egyptian yellow coffins that has never been analysed before: the geometry of the features which create the anthropoid forms. The approach adopted in this project combine…

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, arts organizations have accelerated their lagging digital transition in an effort to provide broader public access to their collections and projects, and increase their stake in the attention economy. Y…

ITACA (Intercultural Theatre and Cultural Appropriation) intends to explore the complex phenomenon of cultural appropriation in contemporary theatre with the aim of setting up a form of theatre aesthetics. Cultural appropriation is defined…

EcoSF investigates the prominence and distinctive representation of ecological issues in Italian science fiction (1952-2019). Through an extended comparative analysis, the research shows how science fiction is able to imagine and conceptual…

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…

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…

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…

Dynamic Jewish-Muslim Interactions in Popular Maghribi Comedic Performance Culture since the 1920s (DJMI), investigates the historical and contemporary interactions between Jewish and Muslim communities in the Maghrib region through cultura…

PlaGE project studied the theatrical and artistical practices performed by asylum seekers in Reception centres and informal camps of the Mediterranean migratory route. In these places, neither inside nor outside European borders, the use of…

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…

The European Union (EU) faces a high-level security threat by the uncontrolled spread of disinformation and conspiracy theories, which has led to a significant increase in political extremism, anti-expert discourses, and increasing authorit…

Project TRAMP was focused on the analysis of 21st-century American and Western European literary fiction as a way of shedding light on the current crisis of transatlanticism and the rise of far-right and right-wing populisms across the West…

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…

The Spatial Practices in Art and Architecture for Empathetic Exchange (SPACEX) project responds to the challenges posed by the rise of populist nationalism and conflict in European societies. SPACEX aims to engage diverse communities throug…

The project Transcultural Perspectives in Art and Art Education (TPAAE) investigated contemporary art in Europe and East Africa, and forms of art education on both continents in a transcultural perspective. Innovative in our approach was se…

COBRA aimed to train the next generation of researchers to accurately characterize and model the linguistic, cognitive, and brain mechanisms deployed by human speakers during conversational interactions with both human interlocutors and art…

The MORPH project proposes to use sound morphing to investigate musical instrument timbre. In music, timbre is traditionally associated with the musical instrument producing the sound.

TICLAUS intended to improve the current TRANSITIVITY framework through the analysis of discourse retrieved from forensic contexts. In doing so, the ER could use her analysis to draw awareness to societal issues that are largely under the ra…

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…

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.

“Ex Ovo Omnia”: “From the egg comes all” (William Harvey 1578-1657): The oocyte is the foundation of life, developing from a single fertilized cell to a multicellular organism capable of an independent existence. Oocyte quality, is influenc…

This multifaceted research identifies and examines the diverse ways in which radio produced by and for Indigenous communities in the US facilitates tribal self-representation and enables Indigenous self-determination. As Indigenous communit…

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…

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…

Humans are highly skilled in assessing the appearance of objects. By comparing the relative qualities of materials, such as whether they are flexible or rigid, soft or hard, smooth or rough, rotten or fresh, we can quickly tell if these are…

The large public health burden and individual suffering associated with mental disorders speaks to the need to study their biological underpinning. Genetic research, animal models of disease and human neuroimaging studies have provided conv…

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…

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…

CRAFT investigates the politicization of the judiciary and civil society in countries that face de-democratization or the gradual deterioration of the quality and quantity of democratic institutions, actors, and procedures. Politicization o…

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…