Department of
Philosophy and Cultural Heritage

Department of
Philosophy and Cultural Heritage

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In my End is my Beginning. Dialectical Images in Times of Crisis
In my End is my Beginning. Dialectical Images in Times of Crisis

9-10-11 October 2024
The 6th Postgraduate International Conference of the PhD in History of Arts intends to analyze the liminal space between different meanings of ‘crisis’ and their translation into images, exploring through visual outlooks the twilight moment when a familiar world sets and an alien one begins to dawn.
It features a Keynote Lecture by prof. Vincenzo Trione (IULM University, Milan).

Call for abstracts: Turns and Revolutions
Call for abstracts: Turns and Revolutions

Submission deadline: 31 october 2024
The 7th International PhD Congress in Philosophy and Education Sciences aims to explore, from a wide array of perspectives, the various epistemic, ontological, social, technological, and cultural turns and revolutions that have either occurred or been proclaimed in history.

Engaged Empirical Inquiry in the Age of AI: The Question of Research Environments
Engaged Empirical Inquiry in the Age of AI: The Question of Research Environments

TIPS Inaugural Lecture
4 November 2024, 5 pm
Openness, engagement, integrity, sustainability, democratic exchange, transnationality and transdisciplinarity: this talk with prof. Sabina Leonelli will reflect on how to reimagine the epistemology of scientific research that best suits current instantiations of data-intensive, AI-fuelled empirical inquiry across a wide variety of research sites around the world.

ANTARTIC-OME. Human microbiome transmission in the extreme confined built environment of Antarctica
ANTARTIC-OME. Human microbiome transmission in the extreme confined built environment of Antarctica

This PNRA project proposes a multidisciplinary approach to unravel the features of human microbiome transmissibility among volunteers expeditioners of Mario Zucchelli Station, in Antarctica, and will advance novel methodological grounds by experimenting how ethnographic, qualitative data can inform the interpretation of metagenomics study.

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Our research

Research areas

The Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage (DFBC) encompasses four main research areas: philosophical science, art history, social science, and education.

Each of these areas contributes to the building of knowledge that is interdisciplinary, international, and characterised by critical thinking. Such knowledge embraces the various branches of philosophy (theoretical philosophy, the philosophy of logic, moral philosophy, political philosophy, aesthetics, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of science), as well as history of the arts (architecture, art, museum studies) and performing arts (music, theatre, dance, cinema, audiovisual media). It also engages with various pedagogical perspectives regarding education, and with the complex and profound changes happening in society, which require new and sustainable models of governance and development.

 

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Research projects

Our Department is the first Department in Italy in terms of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions funding (48) in the fields of arts and humanities. We also host 5 European Research Council grantees. The decidedly interdisciplinary approach of our research makes the Department an ideal platform for project design at a national, European and international level.

HealthXCross - Remaking Health in a Microbial Planet by Crossing Space, Time, Species and Epistemic Cultures.

Researcher: Roberta Raffaetà;
Length: 60 months

ISEED - Inclusive Science and European Democracy

Researcher: Eleonora Montuschi;
Length: 36 months

EarlyGeoPraxis - Positioned Cosmology in Early Modernity: The Geo-Praxis of Water-and-Land Management in Venice

Researcher: Pietro Daniel Omodeo;
Length: 49 months

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Publications

The publications of the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage reflect the heterogeneous interests of its community. Most of the publications regard philosophy, art history, social sciences and education.

The Department also publishes articles on history, psychology, architecture, chemistry, mathematics and law, thanks to the expertise of some staff members. Publications are often interdisciplinary. The Department’s international outlook is resulting in the publication of an increasing number of articles in languages other than Italian. T

he bibliographic information regarding the Department’s publications can be accessed through ARCA, Ca’ Foscari’s open-access archive.

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