Metaphors, oaths, the sacred, and modernity. Two seminars with Adam B. Seligman
21 and 23 May 2025
Palazzo Liviano
Circu.I.T.I.N.G. Seminars
Oggetti AgentiCulture e pratiche materiali nel Medioevo e Rinascimento
15-16 May 2025
Palazzo Liviano e Palazzo Luzzatto
MoHu Seminars
Along the line: writing about nature, borders, and infrastructure through comics and graphic narratives
2 April 2025, 12.30 p.m.
Palazzo Wollemborg
MoHu Seminars
Free the map: from Atlas to Hermes – a new cartography of borders and migration
7 April 2025, 10.30 a.m.
Palazzo Wollemborg
MoHu Seminars
Geopoesie urbane: tracce, confini e paesaggi tra narrazione e visualità
3 April 2025, 10.30 a.m.
Complesso Beato Pellegrino
MoHu Seminars
Material Pragmatism and Mobilities Research
9 April 2025, 2.30 p.m.
Palazzo Wollemborg
MoHu Seminars
West African Explorers of Africa: Pilgrims on the Overland Roads to Mecca, 19th and 20th centuries
15 April 2025, 10.30 a.m.
Palazzo Luzzatto Dina
MoHu Seminars
Exclusionary Design. When the city rejects you!
16 April 2025, 8.30 a.m.
Complesso Beato Pellegrino
Guest Lectures
A sketchy history of automobility in Africa
23 April 2025, 2.30 p.m.
Palazzo Wollemborg
MoHu Seminars
Urban Walking Culturestra geografia e arte
WALC Transdisciplinary colloquium
February 21, 2025
Padua, Museum of Geography
NaMUC Series
Probing ghostly infrastructures. Tracciando la deriva spazio-temporale del lungofiume orientale di Lisbona, dal 1856 a oggi
17 February 2025, 4.00 p.m.
Palazzo Luzzatto Dina
MoHu Seminars
Sources, data and methods for the history of sociology
13 December 2024, 12 – 5 p.m.
Online Conference
CircuITING Seminars
- CANCELLED -Touristification: a biopolitical lens and research approach
9 December 2024, 3.00 p.m.
Palazzo Luzzatto Dina
MoHu Seminars
Tourist mobilities and place challenges: a conversation between Antonio Paolo Russo & Thiago Allis
4 December 2024, 4.30 p.m.
Palazzo del Capitanio
MoHu Seminars
CITTÀ A PAGAMENTO, CITTÀ MORTE. Miti, incongruenze e problemi fondamentali del “contribuito d’accesso”
22 November 2024, 5.30 p.m.
Venezia
Seminars
Paesaggi culturali e pratiche turistiche. La negoziazione del paesaggio culturale: esiti, conflitti, e casi studio
24 October 2024, 10.30 a.m.
Palazzo Wollemborg
Didactic seminar
Paesaggi culturali e pratiche turistiche. Il turista come agente del paesaggio culturale
23 October 2024, 10.30 a.m.
Palazzo Wollemborg
Didactic seminar
«Some very serious difference» Verità storica, finzione letteraria e opacità storiografiche a partire dalla querelle tra Hayden White e Carlo Ginzburg
22 October 2024, 4.30 p.m.
Palazzo Liviano
CircuITING series
Pilgrimage circuits and religious tourism in India
30 October 2024, 10.30 a.m.
Palazzo Wollemborg
Geographies in practice: unpacking food, gender and mobility
16 October 2024, 3.30 p.m.
Palazzo del Capitanio
Connecting urbanization, experience of nature and protected areas
24 October 2024, 9.30 a.m.
Palazzo del Capitanio
Sources, data and methods for the history of sociology
16 October 2024, 11-16 CET
Palazzo Liviano
Air travel and the transformation of the modern business world, 1920s-1990s
10 October 2024, 2.30 p.m.
Palazzo Jonoch Gulinelli
Figures of movement
30 September 2024, 2.30 p.m.
Palazzo Jonoch Gulinelli
Masculine Compromise: The impact of migration on men’s changing elderly care practices in China
8 October 2024, 2.30 p.m.
Palazzo Luzzatto Dina
Didactic seminar
MOHU VISITING SCHOLARSgrants awarded
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)