2024 Visiting Scholars GRANTS - CALL FOR APPLICATION (by April, 15)
2024 Visiting Scholars GRANTS - CALL FOR APPLICATION (by April, 15)
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 15th, 2024 at 1:00 pm (CET).

GRANTS AWARDED
We are pleased to announce the winners of the Visiting Scholars Grants 2024, as part of the “Mobilities: A transdisciplinary framework for research, international teaching and public engagement in the Humanities” project (PSD 2023-2027).
After a thorough evaluation of the numerous applications received, the Selection Committee has identified the following scholars as recipients of the grants:
– Jensen Ole B. (Aalborg University)
– Patricia Hertel (FU Berlin / Centre Marc Bloch / University of Basel)
– Jean Sebastian “Baz” Lecocq (Humboldt University of Berlin, Institute for Asian and African Studies)
– Erik Aschenbrand (Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development)
We wish to express our sincere appreciation to all candidates for the quality and excellence of the proposals submitted. The selection was highly competitive, given the high standard of applications.
We thank everyone for their interest in our project and look forward to future opportunities for collaboration.
Notturni Contemporanei | geoliteray walk through Venice nightscapes – 2 Feb 2024
Notturni Contemporanei | geoliteray walk through Venice nightscapes – 2 Feb 2024
Notturni Contemporanei. Un’esplorazione geoletteraria dei nightscapes veneziani is part of the geoliterary walks series CONTESTI organised by the Museum of Geography of the University of Padua. Notturni Contemporanei, as part of the NaMUC seminar series, also contributed to the public engagement activities promoted by the MoHu-based Unit of the PRIN PNRR research project WALC – Walking Landscapes of Urban Cultures.
Fostering the process of attunement to the atmospheres of the local urban night, the open-air seminar, organised by Giada Peterle and Giuseppe Tomasella, engaged participants in a night walk through the winter city, drawing on a selection of works by contemporary authors living in, walking through and writing about Venice. Their literary representations revealed experiences, practices and realities co-producing the nightscapes of those people considering the city as their birthplace, home or safe harbour.
Strolling along the calli, the texts invited non-academic participants (25 attendees of different ages and backgrounds) to steer away from the stereotypes and clichés of Venice’s iconography. The geoliterary exploration of local nightscapes, in fact, offered renewed understandings of the entwined relations connecting the excesses of the tourism phenomenon with the decline of residential communities. The night walk was a chance to disclose the ‘glocal’ features of the rising fears related to the consequences of the climate crisis looming over Venice.