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The Department’s degree programmes for the 2026/27 academic year are now online

The Department’s degree programmes for the 2026/27 academic year are now online

Discover what’s new, explore the contents and objectives in depth, assess the opportunities, and choose the path that best aligns with your interests and professional goals.

Research centre MemoryLab

Research centre MemoryLab

MemoryLab created within the project "The Territories of Memory", thanks to which DISCI was recognised as a Department of Excellence for the five-year period 2023-2027 by the MUR.

Research areas

Research areas

A path through the areas, projects and research groups where new knowledge is born and developed. Discover the research and scientific innovation of the Department's researchers.

Events

1 Apr 29 Apr 2026

Exhibition

The Unseen Sacred

Piazza San Giovanni in Monte, 2 - Chiostro grande

5 Dec 2025 3 May 2026

Exhibition

We are La Pantera. The student movement of 1990: protests, projects, hopes

14 Jan 31 May 2026

Exhibition

Palestine in the Library: Texts and Images

16 Mar 14 Jun 2026

Exhibition

Plural Gazes on a Plural Italy

9 Apr

Seminar

History and Critique of Exploitation

Piazza San Giovanni in Monte, 2

9 Apr

Lecture

From Ukraine to Gaza: Genocide or Genocidal Warfare?

Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2, Aula Prodi

10 Apr

Talk

La nuova iscrizione umbro-latina dipinta sulla Tavola Iguvina II.

Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà, piazza San Giovanni in Monte, 2 - Bologna. Piano terra, Aula Gualandi

10 Apr

Webinar

Transcultural Spaces of Memory

11 Apr

Talk

From the Bronze Age to the Romans

14 Apr

Seminar

From the History of Empires to Global History: A View from Lisbon

15 Apr

Talk

The Egyptian Museum in the Digital Age.

via Zamboni 33, Aula 2

15 Apr

Seminar

The US empire in 20th-century Latin America

16 Apr

Seminar

The Paper of the Dark Ages

P.zza S. Giovanni in Monte 2, Aula Gambi

17 Apr

Seminar

Iconoclasm and the Culture of an Era: Byzantium in the 8th Century

Aula Capitani

17 Apr

Seminar

Provincial Councils and Modern Catholicism

Piazza S. Giovanni in Monte 2

20 Apr 24 Apr 2026

Congress

LRCW8 Late Roman Coarse Ware and Amphorae

21 Apr

Seminar

Word or Sword? Peace and Conflict in Islam between Scripture and History

22 Apr

Seminar

Infrastructural capitalism and the making of the Chinese working class

22 Apr

Meeting

Let me tell you: my experience after graduation

22 Apr

Meeting

Santa Rosa is here, in my hand

DAMSLab/Auditorium Piazzetta P.P. Pasolini 5b

23 Apr

Meeting

Words of Resistance

partenza da Fondazione Gramsci, via Mentana 2

24 Apr

Seminar

Women's bodies: in-pure

Aula Gambi, DiSCi Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2

29 Apr

Seminar

Iconoclasm and the Culture of an Era: Byzantium in the 8th Century

Aula Gambi

8 May

Seminar

Iconoclasm and the Culture of an Era: Byzantium in the 8th Century

Sala del Giardino Pensile

22 May

Seminar

Women's bodies: in-metamorphosis

Aula Gambi, DiSCi Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2

26 Jun

Seminar

Ai e accademia: dalla ricerca bibliografica alla disseminazione dei risultati

9 Apr

Meeting

Call for Players

The great Cloister of the San Giovanni in Monte building

The great Cloister of the San Giovanni in Monte building

The library of archaeology: the "rudere"

The library of archaeology: the "rudere"

The computing room of the Geography branch

The computing room of the Geography branch

Ready to dig!

Ready to dig!

Colors from the library "Giorgio R. Franci"

Colors from the library "Giorgio R. Franci"

The inner courtyard of Casa Traversari (OU of Ravenna)

The inner courtyard of Casa Traversari (OU of Ravenna)