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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?