Giovanni VIAN

Position
Full Professor
Telephone
041 234 9823
E-mail
vian@unive.it
Academic discipline
History of Christianity and Churches [HIST-04/B]
Website
https://www.unive.it/people/vian (personal record)
Office
Department of Humanities
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.humanities
Where: Malcanton Marcorà
Research Institute
Research Institute for Digital and Cultural Heritage

Office hours

Teaching activity current year

Teaching activity previous years

STORIA DAL MEDIOEVO ALL'ETÀ CONTEMPORANEA [FM7]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)

IL CRISTIANESIMO DALLA CENTRALITA' EUROPEA ALLA WORLD CHRISTIANITY (6 cfu) [FM0443]

STORIA [FT5]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

STORIA DEL CRISTIANESIMO DALLA RIFORMA ALLA GLOBALIZZAZIONE (6 cfu) [FT0478]

Activities and research skills

Academic discipline
Storia del cristianesimo e delle chiese [HIST-04/B]
Settore Scientifico Disciplinare (SSD) affine
STORIA DELLE RELIGIONI [M-STO/06]
Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
Internazionale: Europa
Known languages
francese (scritto: intermedio parlato: intermedio)
inglese (scritto: base parlato: base)
italiano (scritto: madrelingua parlato: madrelingua)
Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals/book series
Direzione scientifica di "JoMaCC - Journal of Modern and Contemporary Christianity".
Comitato scientifico di "Storia e problemi contemporanei".
Comitato scientifico di "Italia sacra. nuova serie", ISIME.
Comitato scientifico di "Chiese d'Italia", Viella.
Comitato scientifico di "Ponti. Incontri, confronti, contaminazioni tra culture e religioni", Studium.
Comitato di redazione di "Studia Patavina".
Participation as referees of national and international research projects
Referee per progetti FIRB e Futuro in ricerca.
Main departmental research areas and fields
Area: Religioni e filosofie
Area: Storia e Antropologia Linea: Storia del cristianesimo
Area: Studi storici e relazioni internazionali Linea: Europa occidentale
Studi e ricerche di storia del cristianesimo e delle Chiese cristiane dal XVIII al XXI secolo, con particolare riferimento alla storia della Chiesa cattolica
Description:
Studi e ricerche di storia dell�Italia contemporanea
Keywords:
History of the Christian church, Contemporary history
ATECO code:
[85.42] - istruzione universitaria e post-universitaria; accademie e conservatori
"La Rocca" e Pro Civitate Christiana (1941-1959)
SSD:
M-STO/07
Benedetto XV e il modernismo
SSD:
HIST-04/B
Dinamiche di mondializzazione nel cristianesimo (secoli XX-XXI)
SSD:
M-STO/07
Other members of the research group:
Valentina CICILIOT
Il concilio Vaticano II
SSD:
M-STO/07
Il pontificato di Francesco nella Chiesa del XXI secolo
SSD:
M-STO/07
Il pontificato di Pio XI
SSD:
M-STO/07
La Chiesa valdese e la crisi modernista nel primo Novecento
SSD:
HIST-04/B
La crisi modernista
SSD:
M-STO/07
Die Rezeption und Umsetzung der Enzyklika Pascendi im Spiegel der Ausführungsberichte bis 1914
Funding body:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Type:
Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
Role in the project:
PT
Starting date:
Year: 2013 Length in months: 30
Die römische Kurie und der deutsche „Integralismusstreit“ im europäischen Kontext (1900-1914)
Funding body:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Type:
Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
Role in the project:
PT
Starting date:
Year: 2018 Length in months: 36
I laboratori culturali della fede. La produzione di cultura religiosa popolare in Italia dall'Unita al miracolo economico
Funding body:
MUR
Type:
PRIN
Role in the project:
LD
Sito di progetto:
https://prin.mur.gov.it/Ricerca?Filtro.Anno=2020&Filtro.Ateneo=Universit%C3%A0+%22Ca%27+Foscari%22+VENEZIA&Filtro.Argomento=&Filtro.Cognome=VIAN
Starting date:
Year: 2022 Length in months: 36
Other members of the research group:
Valentina CICILIOT
Daiana MENTI
L'insegnamento della teologia e della filosofia cristiana nell'Italia contemporanea
Funding body:
MIUR
Type:
PRIN
Role in the project:
PT
Starting date:
Year: 2010 Length in months: 30
Other members of the research group:
Isabella ADINOLFI
The Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR): an Historical Analysis Between US and Europe
Funding body:
European Commission
Type:
H2020 - Excellence Science - Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions
Role in the project:
NS
Sito di progetto:
http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/199248_en.html?isPermaLink=true
Starting date:
Year: 2016 Length in months: 36
Other members of the research group:
Valentina CICILIOT

Publication highlights

Giovanni Vian Il modernismo e la Chiesa valdese. Evangelici e cattolici nel primo Novecento , Roma, Carocci, pp. 1-319 (ISBN 9788829030743)
2025, Scientific monograph or treatise - ARCA card: 10278/5088568

Giovanni Vian L’episcopato del Triveneto al Vaticano II. Dall’annuncio alla partecipazione al concilio (1959-65) , Venezia, Edizioni Ca' Foscari, vol. 41, pp. 1-142 (ISBN 9788869699085; 9788869699092) (ISSN 2610-9123)
DOI 2025, Scientific monograph or treatise - ARCA card: 10278/5089407

Claus Arnold, Francesco Tacchi, Giovanni Vian The Controversy over Integralism in Germany, Italy and France during the Pontificate of Pius X (1903-1914) , Turnhout, Brepols, vol. 116 (ISBN 978-2-503-60490-9) (ISSN 0067-8279)
2024, Scientific monograph or treatise - ARCA card: 10278/5048681

Claus Arnold; Giovanni Vian La Redazione dell’Enciclica Pascendi. Studi e documenti sull'antimodernismo di Papa Pio X , Stuttgart, Anton Hiersemann Verlag, vol. 48, pp. 1-338 (ISBN 978-3-7772-2035-2)
2020, Pubblicazione di fonti inedite - ARCA card: 10278/3734447

VIAN G. La riforma della Chiesa per la Restaurazione cristiana della società. Le visite apostoliche delle diocesi e dei seminari d’Italia promosse durante il pontificato di Pio X (1903-1914) , ROMA, Herder Editrice e Libreria, pp. LXVI-1013 (ISBN 9788885876354)
1998, Scientific monograph or treatise - ARCA card: 10278/20607

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Curriculum vitae

Giovanni Vian (Venice, 1963) graduated at Ca' Foscari University of Venice (1988), PhD in Religious History at the University of Bologna (1995), completed further studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris). Post-doctoral fellowship (1996-1998) and research fellow (1998-2001) at the University of Padua, since 2001 he has been Associate Professor of the History of Christianity and Churches at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, where he has been Full Professor since 2015. As a visiting professor, he teaches History of the Ecumenical Movement at the Istituto di Studi Ecumenici “San Bernardino” (Venice), affiliated with the Pontifical Athenaeum Antonianum.

In his research activity he studies the dynamics of the history of Christianity from 1800 to today. In particular, he has devoted studies to the modernist crisis and the anti-modernist reaction, to aspects and figures of the history of the contemporary papacy, to key moments in the history of the Catholic Church and the Waldensian Church in Italy, and to the events of the Christian Churches in Venice.

He is the author of about 170 scientific publications, including 7 monographs, 1 sources edition, 14 volume editors, over 50 articles in specialized journals. He has organised numerous national and international conferences and seminars; he has participated by invitation in about eighty conferences and seminars in Italy and abroad. He is a member of the scientific committees of the series "Italia sacra. Nuova serie" (ISIME), "Chiese d'Italia" (Viella) and "Ponti" (Studium), of the Scientific board of the journal «Storia e problemi contemporanei» and of the Editorial board of the journal «Studia Patavina». He is general editor (with C. Arnold and V. Ciciliot) of JoMaCC - Journal of Modern and Contemporary Christianity.

He participated in the projects of the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, HAR2013-48000-P (2014-2017) and HAR2017-88490-P (2018-2020), he was scientific co-director of two Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft projects DFG 216736344 (2013-2016) e DFG 392561361 (2018-2020), scientific director of research units in a MIUR - COFIN 2008 project, supervisor of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship, Horizon 2020, Call: H2020-MSCA-IF-2014. He was principal investigator of a MUR-PRIN 2020 project - Prot. 2020TCFPK2: "Cultural Labs of Faith. The Production of Christian Popular Culture in Italy from the Unification to the Economic Miracle".

He obtained a research fellowship from Graduiertenkolleg «Theologie als Wissenschaft» at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (August 2012).

In A.Y. 2023-2024 he held the course History of the Ecumenical Movement at the 'San Bernardino' Institute of Ecumenical Studies Venice (Pontifical University Antonianum).

Institutional roles:

a) Ca' Foscari University of Venice:

  • vice-coordinator of the Teaching Committee of the PhD in "European Social History from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Age" (2007-2014)
  • member of the Board of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Storici, Geografici, Antropologici of the University of Padua, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, University of Verona (2011-2014)
  • vice-director and research delegate of the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies (01/10/2012-30/09/2014)
  • president of the University Quality Assurance Unit  (05/12/2014-09/11/2016)
  • delegate for Quality Assurance of the Department of Humanities (2019-2020)
  • director of the Department of Humanities (05/10/2020-30/09/2023)
  • member of the Academic Senate (22/02/2022-30/09/2023)
  • member of the Advisory Board del DREST - Italian Doctoral School of Religious Studies since 2022
  • co-promotor and member of Centro interdipartimentale di Studi Storici sul cristianesimo - CISC (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) since 2015, director of the CISC since 2023

b) others institutional roles: