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CONFERENCE CALL. Geoanthropology: Metabolism, Legal Imagination, Geopraxis
CONFERENCE CALL. Geoanthropology: Metabolism, Legal Imagination, Geopraxis

Submission deadline: 1 March 2025
Geoanthropology is an emerging epistemological framework in which Earth system science encounters the humanities and social sciences. Scholars from all disciplines are invited to submit a short position paper related to the topics of metabolism, legal imagination, and geopraxis.

Turns and Revolutions
Turns and Revolutions

12-14 February 2025, Venice
The 7th International PhD Congress in Philosophy and Education Sciences aims to explore, from a wide array of perspectives, the various epistemic, ontological, social, technological, and cultural turns and revolutions that have either occurred or been proclaimed in history.

 

 

EXIT Project Q&A Session on Addressing Territorial Inequalities
EXIT Project Q&A Session on Addressing Territorial Inequalities

From field research findings to policy recommendations, watch the EXIT project experts discuss the journey, challenges, and anticipated impact of their efforts to propose sustainable strategies for addressing growing inequalities in Europe.

ANTARTIC-OME. Human microbiome transmission in the extreme confined built environment of Antarctica
ANTARTIC-OME. Human microbiome transmission in the extreme confined built environment of Antarctica

This PNRA project proposes a multidisciplinary approach to unravel the features of human microbiome transmissibility among volunteers expeditioners of Mario Zucchelli Station, in Antarctica, and will advance novel methodological grounds by experimenting how ethnographic, qualitative data can inform the interpretation of metagenomics study.

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Our research

Research areas

The Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage (DFBC) encompasses four main research areas: philosophical science, art history, social science, and education.

Each of these areas contributes to the building of knowledge that is interdisciplinary, international, and characterised by critical thinking. Such knowledge embraces the various branches of philosophy (theoretical philosophy, the philosophy of logic, moral philosophy, political philosophy, aesthetics, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of science), as well as history of the arts (architecture, art, museum studies) and performing arts (music, theatre, dance, cinema, audiovisual media). It also engages with various pedagogical perspectives regarding education, and with the complex and profound changes happening in society, which require new and sustainable models of governance and development.

 

Research projects

Our Department is the first Department in Italy in terms of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions funding (48) in the fields of arts and humanities. We also host 5 European Research Council grantees. The decidedly interdisciplinary approach of our research makes the Department an ideal platform for project design at a national, European and international level.

HealthXCross - Remaking Health in a Microbial Planet by Crossing Space, Time, Species and Epistemic Cultures.

Researcher: Roberta Raffaetà;
Length: 60 months

ISEED - Inclusive Science and European Democracy

Researcher: Eleonora Montuschi;
Length: 36 months

EarlyGeoPraxis - Positioned Cosmology in Early Modernity: The Geo-Praxis of Water-and-Land Management in Venice

Researcher: Pietro Daniel Omodeo;
Length: 49 months

Publications

The publications of the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage reflect the heterogeneous interests of its community. Most of the publications regard philosophy, art history, social sciences and education.

The Department also publishes articles on history, psychology, architecture, chemistry, mathematics and law, thanks to the expertise of some staff members. Publications are often interdisciplinary. The Department’s international outlook is resulting in the publication of an increasing number of articles in languages other than Italian. T

he bibliographic information regarding the Department’s publications can be accessed through ARCA, Ca’ Foscari’s open-access archive.