Program structure

The PhD programme promotes the international training of graduate students, mainly through fostering their active participation in international networks and encouraging scholarly publications of their research in relevant Journals and Series with high international impact. The research activities of PhD students aim at the publication of monographs, articles, tools to support research, such as the creation of specific databases, websites, models of interpretation for data, and cartographic processing.

PhD students are required to fulfil the following tasks and obligations:

First year:

- To attend minimum 30 hours of teaching activities. Please consider that the seminars organized in the frame of the “Classics and not only” and "Il Silenzio delle ragazze" cycles are mandatory;

- Presentation of the progress on the research work realized and discussion with a discussant during the final year meeting of the PhD Academic Board;

Second year:

- To attend minimum 30 hours of teaching activities. The seminars organized in the frame of the “Classics and not only” and "Il Silenzio delle ragazze" cycles are mandatory;

- Presentation of the progress on the research work realized and discussion with a discussant during the final year meeting of the PhD Academic Board;

- To submit 1 research product (scientific paper or book chapter or conference paper); 

Third year:

- To attend minimum 30 hours of teaching activities. The seminars organized in the frame of the “Classics and not only” and "Il Silenzio delle ragazze" cycles are mandatory;

- To submit 1 scientific paper published in category A journals;

- PhD final exam;