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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…