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Work and rights in the China of Xi Jinping: open access studies by 'Marie Curie' Fellow Ivan Franceschini

Ivan Franceschini is Marie Curie Fellow at Ca' Foscari University and at the Australian Centre on China in the World. His current research focuses on the question of work in China in a global perspective, with particular attention to the issues of worker activism and the awareness of rights among Chinese workers.

Nobel Prize in Physics: here’s how laser is changing science

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics was greeted with great surprise by the worldwide scientific community, at least for three reasons.

Hate speech and big data: The ODyCCEuS project

Social media, the digitization of news and online fora affect significantly how individuals and groups communicate, express and organize themselves. An open discussion between international scholars on “Hate Speech and Big Data: ODYCCEUS conference in Digital History and Digital Humanities”.

Lost monastery in Jesolo: The bell tower of San Mauro emerges from the excavations

The team of Medieval archaeologists of the Department of Humanities unearthed parts of a religious complex in San Mauro and the foundations of its bell tower.

Dramatic increase of posted workers: A European research project

A research presented last week at Ca’ Foscari shows how posted workers often hide social dumping strategies in 9 EU Member States including Italy.

Expectations: This is how the future changes our present

With this Marie Curie ITN project 15 PhD candidates study the role of expectations: From tax evasion to social networks, from model design to emotions, here is how they are studied.

Angelini: “My research with Nobel Prize winner Gregory Winter”

Alessandro Angelini, researcher in biomolecular engineering at the Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems tells us about the impact of the contribution of Gregory Winter with whom he had the opportunity to collaborate.

Fake news from the past

Spread of false information did not start with the Internet: Seemingly ancient inscriptions can be misleading. Two Italian scholars recently discovered that two similar artifacts now kept in Italy and in the United States with what seemed to be Early Christian inscriptions had in fact been purchased on the Roman antiques market at the beginning of the 20th century and were produced by the same forger.

Reconstructing the history of mankind with the help of fecal sterols. First test on the Maori

Scientists at Ca' Foscari University of Venice and the Institute for the Dynamics of Environmental Processes (CNR) have proven the presence of the individuals who colonized the oceanic islands, and the resulting environmental transformation.