Questioning Food, Mobilities & Development | 6 Feb 2026
Questioning Food, Mobilities & Development | 6 Feb 2026
Curated by Chiara Rabbiosi and Ginevra Montefusco, the Questioning Food, Mobilities, and Development exhibition will open on February 6 at 09.30 am and will be open to the public until February 8, 2026 at the Museum of Geography, Palazzo Wollemborg, Via del Santo 26, Padova.
Representing the culmination of the Space, Place, and Mobility course unit, this exhibition showcases a rich and creative learning journey developed in collaboration with students from the Local Development and Mobility Studies Master’s programmes. It is also connected to the activities of the Food Communities Empowerment research group and forms part of the activities conducted within the Post-development Geographies of Local Food Systems: Community-Based Networks Addressing Food Insecurity PRIN 2022 PNRR project, which is funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.
Starting from the core geographical concepts of space, place and scale, the exhibition progressively explores the multiple meanings of food ‘on the move’, including the material, symbolic, political and relational aspects. Designed as a pedagogical experiment, the exhibition is a result of an educational training integrating theoretical frameworks, empirical case studies, and creative experimentation.
The exhibition format translates this research and teaching endeavour into an open, participatory experience, demonstrating how creative methodologies can foster learning by doing while engaging wider audiences beyond the classroom and boosting the university’s societal impact.
Dance Moves Opening – 15 Jan 2026
Dance Moves Opening – 15 Jan 2026
On Thursday, January 15th, concluding the international conference “Urban Mobility Cultures: Creative and Narrative Approaches to Moving in the City”, organized by the DiSSGeA department of the University of Padua in collaboration with the Mobility and the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies, the museum hosted the pre-vernissage of the exhibition Dance Moves. Walking and drawing in the city, by artist-researcher Tânia A. Cardoso and MoHu member Giada Peterle.
The exhibition hosted several works by illustrator and urban planner Tânia Alexandra Cardoso, who explores the poetics of everyday life, using graphic art to question and co-create the urban environment.
The comic story Dance Moves emerges from an interdisciplinary dialogue between architecture, geography, urban studies, and graphic languages, developed over the years through creative workshops, conferences, and jointly conducted lessons. However, it is primarily the most structured outcome of the “walkshop” titled Walking with the city, a walking workshop organized in April 2025 to engage students from the University of Padua, particularly those from the Master’s Degree Course in Landscape Sciences.
This event, and more generally the conference, are part of the WALC – Walking Landscapes of Urban Cultures research project, which involved the Universities of Bologna, Padua, and Milan Bicocca.
The exhibition will be open from 16 Jan 2026 to 15 Feb 2026.
WelMovFem - Welfare on the Move: Female Mobility and Social Care Across the Early Modern Adriatic
WelMovFem - Welfare on the Move: Female Mobility and Social Care Across the Early Modern Adriatic
Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Global Individual Fellowship (Dec 2024 – Nov 2027) supervised by Andrea Caracausi. Supported by the MoHu Centre and MobiLab.
The WelMovFem project explores the interrelation between human mobility and access to pre-modern welfare within the Republic of Venice (from the 16th to the 18th century).
The overall objective is to highlight the role of migrant women as both providers and recipients of social protection, focusing on their translocal networks and possessions. Could their geographical mobility influence their capacity to demand certain rights, or otherwise affect the institutions’ abilities to verify the legitimacy of their claim? To answer this question, the research is not limited to urban charity institutions, but encompasses various forms of aid that moved between Venice and its Eastern Adriatic domains (e.g., financial aid, inherited possessions, dowries, and slave ransoms). The project combines quantitative analysis with in-depth source analysis in order to uncover the significance of women’s material resources in empowering kinship, family, and community ties even across great distances. Through the adoption of an interdisciplinary approach, which brings together gender history, mobility studies, and digital humanities, the WelMovFem project will result in an innovative and ambitious vision of social care in a region that connects various facets of European culture. The project’s ultimate aim is to enrich ongoing discussions about migrants’ rights from a historical perspective, enabling EU policymakers to have a long-term view of the current migratory phenomena and raising EU citizens’ awareness of these global issues. The researcher’s mobility between various academic settings (the US, Italy, and Croatia) is enabling her to develop new interdisciplinary skills, expand her social and professional networks, and enhance her career opportunities in academia and beyond.
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101153667
MSCA Fellow:
Teresa Bernardi
Research Perspectives between Digital and Traditional Historiography International conference, Turin, 23-24 November 2026 | Exploring Women’s Networks in the Early Modern Period
Convenors: Alessandra Celati, Teresa Bernardi, Eleonora Cappuccilli
This panel aims to explore women’s social networks in the long Ancien Régime (15th–early 19th century), examining their forms, functions, and transformations through a dialogue between traditional historiography and digital and computational approaches. The call invites contributions that combine the analysis of case studies with methodological reflections to investigate how women built, used, and interpreted social relationships in different historical and geographical contexts, and how such networks can be reconstructed and studied today.
deadline: 25 February 2026