The “Slow Trains”Daily Mobility Practice of Local Farmers in Southern China
3 December2025, 2.30 p.m.
Palazzo Wollemborg
MoHu Seminars
Moving with, and filming, female shepherds in ItalyIn questo mondo (Anna Kauber, 2018) film screening with English subtitles
26 November 2025, 2.30 p.m.
Palazzo Wollemborg
MoHu Seminars
Mobilities and immobilities in agroecology.Knowledge, people, and other living beings
20 November 2025, 8.45 a.m.
Palazzo del Capitanio
MoHu Seminars
Mobility & Humanities (MoHu) Centre for Advanced Studies
The Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World (DiSSGeA) at the University of Padova hosts the MoHu Centre, which develops interdisciplinary research about mobilities in past and present societies. Drawing from a rich and unique mix of disciplines, the MoHu Centre aims to contribute original work to an emerging area of interest that is increasingly examined by other research hubs worldwide.
MoHu works on 5 main mobilities research ‘Nodes’: People, Objects, Ideas, Texts and Theories & Methods
Teaching
DiSSGeA offers advanced teaching programmes to support students’ learning, training and cultural growth in topics related to mobility and the humanities. Discover more about our second cycle degree curriculum in Mobility Studies.
The MoHu Centre activities are currently carried out within the framework of the “Mobilities: A Transdisciplinary Framework for Research, International Teaching and Public Engagement in the Humanities” Department Development Project (PSD 2023-2027) at DiSSGeA (Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World, University of Padua)