Teaching and research activities of the PhD Programme aim to:
• Reshape spacial layouts of social and political science as well as humanities
• Study intercultural contact/conflict phenomena
• Analyse origin and transformation of political, social and cultural phenomena from a global persective
• Affirm and criticize human rights policies according with new definitions of subjectivity and identity construction process
• Rethink and renew disciplinary traditions and analytic categories in order to develop new conceptual perspectives and methods
• Assume a multi-layered, non-progressive, non-cumulative idea of time
• Combine the weave of diverse scales of analysis with comparative and transnational methodologies
• Intertwine the conceptual and empirical dimensions of historical, philological, social, geographic and anthropological research
• Connect technological development with environmental issues
Faculty research areas
Area Studies, Comparative Literatures, Critical Theory, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural and Postcolonial studies, Cultural History, Food History, Gender studies, Geography, History of consumption, Intellectual and conceptual history, Modern History, Political philosophy, Religious Studies, World History.