H-Italy

Field Training School and Research Seminar

URBAN RESEARCH: THEORY AND METHODS

Montecatini Terme, Italy, 21-27 July 2023

This 7-day Field Training School (21-27 July) is aimed at postgraduate students and postdoctoral scholars who are interested in research in urban settings and in empirically-grounded analysis. The primary aim is to train students in the ‘art’ of conducting ethnographic fieldwork and develop the link between ethnographically-based analysis and social theory.

The School is organised and hosted by the International Urban Symposium-IUS in collaboration with an international group of

The Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples (Italy), invites applications for four 1-year (renewable for up to 3 years) postdoc fellowships in Global History and Governance for the academic year 2022-2023

Host Institution: Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Napoli (Italy)

Website: www.ssm.unina.it/en - www.unissme.it

The program in Global History and Governance:

Applicants should submit research projects characterized by a comparative and/or global historical and/or legal perspective on one or more of the following themes in modern and contemporary history: 1) Liberal-democratic systems and/or

The Water Cultures of Europe and the Mediterranean, 1500-1900

Three-Day International Conference

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

13-15 September 2023

What would a history of society and culture look like with water placed at its core? This three-day international conference aims to shed light on the forms of human interactions with water over time in Europe and the Mediterranean. The intention is to explore the history of different societies, the construction of their identities and forms of self-representation, based on their changing relationships with water: the ways of controlling, using and

Call for Book Proposals - Critical Studies in Italian Migrations (Fordham University Press)

CRITICAL STUDIES IN ITALIAN MIGRATIONS

Edited by Nancy C. Carnevale, Montclair State University, and Laura E. Ruberto, Berkeley City College

This Fordham University Press series publishes scholarship on Italian migrations, mobilities, and other related transnational concerns. Authors include both emerging and established scholars with differing theoretical and methodological approaches, all rooted in humanities and social science disciplines. Books in the series seek to engage and extend questions of