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Humanities & Social Change
Alan de Piccolo

The themes of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice are topical now as they always were. The digital humanities can bring a fresh perspective to frame and disseminate them.

Alan Del Piccolo, Post-doc Fellow 2017-18, Venice
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Andrea Drocco

Only an interdisciplinary work on the humanities can shed light on the growth of religious extremism across the world.

Andrea Drocco, Fixed-term Researcher, Venice
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Fabiana Zollo

A cross-methodological approach is crucial to properly investigate the spreading of misinformation and its social dynamics.

Fabiana Zollo, Fixed-term Researcher, Venice
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Francesco Della Puppa

As a sociologist and ethnographer, I observe young people of migrant origin and their artistic productions as actors of social change.

Francesco Della Puppa, Fixed-term Researcher 2017-19, Venice
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Giovanni Lapis

The study of East Asian religions can broaden our horizons and foster critical self-reflection. I find great challenges and potential in religious and intercultural education.

Giovanni Lapis, Ph.D. Student, Venice
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How do contemporary arts-based practices expand or call into question the geoscientific methods and regimes of visuality that characterize the Anthropocene? Are there multiple articulations of the Anthropocene thesis, or radical challenges to it, coming from the visual arts and arts-based research?

Emiliano Guaraldo, Post-doc Fellow 2020-21, Venice
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How do we relate to coastal regions through the foods we eat and the stories we tell about them? After all, eating is one of the most direct ways we interact with environments – both near and afar – by literally digesting them.

Sasha Gora, Post-doc Fellow 2020-21, Venice
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How do art and literature from France and Italy during the last 150 years help us to engage with feelings about heavy industry’s environmental and medical impacts?

Daniel Finch-Race, Post-doc Fellow 2020-21, Venice
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Sustained interdisciplinary research and practice is necessary to develop the critical tools that can uncover the violence and exploitation concealed within the structures and environments so readily accepted as natural.

Ifor Duncan, Post-doc Fellow 2020-21, Venice
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How can collective media practices from the past and present lay the groundwork for the sustainment of life in the future?

Heather Contant, Post-doc Fellow 2020-21, Venice
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Igiaba Scego

In the conglomeration of ethnicities, destinies, imaginations, words and even colours that form our identities we find our freedom. The humanities are basically this freedom.

Igiaba Scego, Post-doc Fellow 2017-19, Venice
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Ilenia Pittui

In the past images were used to speak to illiterate people. Are we still capable of reading them?

Ilenia Pittui, Ph.D. Student, Venice
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Laura Calvaresi

Economics never existed without an ethical discourse. How did the world of Medieval merchants express itself? How does it speak to us?

Laura Calvaresi, Ph.D. student, Venice
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Luigi D’amelia

Studying religious and ethnic prejudices of the past helps us understand the roots of our current fears, dismantle forms of hatred against the «other» and build a new humanism.

Luigi D’amelia, Post-doc Fellow 2017-19, Venice
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Questioning the nature of money and investigating its social perception are key to addressing crucial issues facing contemporary societies

Luigi Doria, Fixed-term Researcher, Venice
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Marco Marrone

I dream of a society where labour means that every individual is realizing his or her full potential as a human being.

Marco Marrone, Post-doc Fellow 2017-19, Venice
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