Global Histories, Cultures, and Politics

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Academic year 2023/2024
Dept. of History and Cultures
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
EQF level: 8
39° cicle
Field of study: politics, social sciences and communications humanities and literature
Place of teaching
bologna (BO), italy
Attendance methods
Full time
Teaching
Classroom-based
Languages in which the course is held
English, Italian
Cost
157,04
Duration of the course
Nov 2023 - Oct 2026
Scholarships
7 

Course contents

The PhD program is characterized by a global and interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of historical and social processes. The "global" is not merely understood as a wider geographical scale, but rather as an epistemic device leading the study of the present and the past. "Globalization" is therefore not taken as something given but as a set of processes, whose variable combination is necessarily the effect of the action of specific political, social, and economic forces that attract investigation through the interaction of multiple disciplinary approaches. Historiography -touching upon topics transversal to different ages such as political, economic, social, and religious history, history of ideas, institutions, settlements, gender history - meets area and oriental studies to grasp the polycentric of global spaces traversed by transnational flows of people, ideas, and commodities. Intellectual and conceptual history, pursued in a non-Eurocentric perspective and attentive to theoretical traditions that have remained marginal in political, social, and cultural studies, allows an analysis of the prospects and limits of Western grand narratives. Anthropology, through a peculiar ethnographic sensitivity, demonstrates how phenomena with a global scope inscribe onto the concreteness of social actors’ experience. Political philosophy, understood as critical theory and entering constant dialogues with such approaches as cultural, postcolonial, and gender studies, provides the conceptual and analytical framework that is needed for the production of a global political theory. Geography provides the language and the methods that allow grasping and representing the multiple spatial and territorial frame within which the investigated processes develop – with a specific focus on "trans-scalarity".
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Teaching

Place of teaching
bologna (BO), italy
Duration of the course
Nov 2023 - Oct 2026
Attendance methods
Full time
Compulsory attendance
Teaching
Classroom-based
Languages in which the course is held
English, Italian

Admission requirements

Type of degree required
2nd Level Degree
Field of study
humanities and literature, politics, social sciences and communications
Foreign language skills
English
English language proficiency is verified during the admission exams.

Admission

Available places
7
Admission
Admission selection
Qualifications and research proposal evaluation Oral examination
Cost
157,04 €
Scholarships
7
5 scholarships funded by the University of Bologna general budget and /or by departmental budget
2 scholarships funded by the EU - NextGenerationEU – NRRP

Employment opportunities

Public and private research institutions, national and international universities, museums and cultural institutions; national and international organizations working in the field of multiculturalism, migration, labour mobility, international cooperation; multimedia publishing industry. The training program aimed to provide transversal skills which can be promoted in many job contexts: building, management and implementation of scientific research projects, dissemination of research results through various communication tools (publishing, mapping, exhibition etc.). The 70% of the post-docs who completed the 33rd cycle of the PhD programme found a job within 3 months from the end of the doctoral program through research fellowship contracts and temporary working contracts in the research fields of the PhD program, while the 14% has been permanently employed by the University of Bologna as research manager. The postdocs considered positive the impact of their doctoral path in terms of job placement and opportunities they got after the end of the doctoral career.

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