Calls and Opportunities

In the framework of the “Mobilities: A transdisciplinary framework for research, international teaching and public engagement in the Humanities” Department Development Project (PSD 2023-2027), the DiSSGeA (Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World) has launched a 2024 Visiting Scholars GRANTS Call for Applications.

The present call is addressed to professors, researchers, and early career scholars (postdoctoral researchers, lectures, etc.) affiliated to European and non-European universities and research centres. Applicants must spend a period of approximately one (1) month at the Department and its “Mobility & Humanities” Centre for Advanced Studies from September 1st, 2024 through July 31st, 2025.

For the stay the Department will provide a total net amount of € 2.500.

The deadline for submission is April 15^th, 2024 at 1:00 pm (CET).

GRANTS AWARDED

The call is open to master’s degree students of the University of Padua, of the courses in: Classical Humanities and Ancient History, Local Development, Sciences of Religions, Sciences for the Landscape and Historical Sciences (curriculum Historical Sciences and curriculum Mobility Studies) and Techniques, patrimoine, territoires de l’industrie (excluded Erasmus Mundus grantees), of Department of Historical and Geographical Sciences and the Ancient World (DiSSGeA).

The scholarships will be of four types:

1. for carrying out activities related to the master’s degree thesis;
2. for attending Summer and Winter Schools;
3. for internships and traineeships;
4. integration of Erasmus scholarships, only for Erasmus+ for Study 2022/23 call grantees;

It will be possible to submit only one scholarship request. Type B and C scholarships cannot be combined with other scholarships intended for similar initiatives provided by the University of Padua.

Applications for participation (Annex A or Annex B) must be submitted before 15 April 2022 through the Moodle platform of the School of Human, Social and Cultural Heritage Sciences, at the following address:

https://elearning.unipd.it/scienzeumane/course/view.php?id=12160#changenumsections

In the framework of the Department of Excellence Project “Mobility and the Humanities”, financed by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, the Department DiSSGeA (hereinafter referred to as “the Department”) has launched the Visiting Professor “Mobility and the Humanities” 2021 Call for Applications. The initiative provides the assignment of positions as Visiting Professor to professors and researchers from international universities or research centres.

The present call is addressed to professors and researchers with proven teaching experience, who are permanent faculty members in European and non-European universities and research centres. Applicants must spend a period of approximately three (3) months at the Department, in order to lecture official courses at the Master level (second cycle degree) with a topic on “Mobility and the Humanities.”

The duration of the courses will be 42 hours and their programmes shall focus on

• Transport History
• History of Tourism
• Digital Philology.

The selected Visiting Professors shall also contribute to the implementation of the “Mobilab” digital laboratory for the study of mobility and to the activities of the Centre for Advanced Studies on “Mobility and the Humanities” and their respective research groups.

Deadline for submission: January 15^th 2022, 1.00pm CEST (Central  European Time) by using the (online) Application form.

Applications must be submitted by e-mail to international.dissgea@unipd.it with the subject Visiting Professor “Mobility and the Humanities.” Incomplete or incorrect applications will be excluded from the selection procedure.

In the framework of the initiatives aiming at promoting its educational activity, the Department of Historical and Geographical Sciences and the Ancient World of the University of Padua, ANNOUNCES a selection procedure to assign 5 (five) two-years scholarships (amount: 9.000 euros per bursary) for especially gifted students who enroll in a.y. 2021-22 at the Master’s Degree in Historical Sciences – Curriculum Mobility Studies.

In the framework of the Department of Excellence Project “Mobility and the Humanities”, financed by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, the Department DiSSGeA has launched the Visiting Professor “Mobility and the Humanities” 2020 Call for Applications. The initiative provides the assignment of positions as Visiting Professor to professors and researchers from international universities or research centres.

The present call is addressed to professors and researchers with proven teaching experience, who are permanent faculty members in European and non-European universities and research centres. Applicants must spend a period of a minimum of 1 to a maximum of 3 months at the Department, in order to lecture official courses at the Master level (second cycle degree) with a topic on “Mobility and the Humanities.”
The duration of the courses varies from 21 to 42 hours and their programmes shall focus—from a historical, geographical or philological perspective—on themes such as migration, global market, changes in urban realities and information management (including digital ones), as well as the mobility of ideas, people, objects, texts or methods and theories to analyse such phenomena.
In particular, we welcome proposals for the following courses: Transport History, History of Tourism, Big Data and Social Network Analysis, Texts on the Move, Digital Philology.
The selected Visiting Professors shall also contribute to the implementation of the “Mobilab” digital laboratory for the study of mobility and to the activities of the Centre for Advanced Studies on “Mobility and the Humanities” and their respective research groups.

Deadline for submission: January 15th 2020, 1.00pm CEST (Central  European Summer Time) by using the (online) Application form.