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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

17 Apr

Seminar

Provincial Councils and Modern Catholicism

Piazza S. Giovanni in Monte 2

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

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

Seminar

Paolo Capuzzo – "Donne d'Oriente" come categoria politica

Aula Capitani – Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2

22 Apr

Seminar

Paweł Kras (Lublin) - Papal inquisitors, bishops, and the records of heresy trials in late medieval Bohemia and Poland

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

Talk

Jericho: Looking for cities in Palestine

Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2, Aula Fumagalli

23 Apr

Meeting

Words of Resistance

partenza da Fondazione Gramsci, via Mentana 2

23 Apr

Seminar

The Holocaust, the Nakba, and the Genocide in Gaza: Memory, Accountability, and Binationalism

Piazza di San Govanni in Monte, 2

23 Apr

Seminar

Second session - Survey of Semitic texts and languages

Aula Gambi, San Giovanni in Monte

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

30 Apr

Talk

“The Italian Archaeological Mission at the Sun Temple of Nyuserra in Abu Ghurab: latest research and new discoveries on Egypt of the 3rd millennium BC.”

Aula Torresani, Piazza San Giovanni in Monte, 2

8 May 5 Jun 2026

Seminar

Join us at the table 4

piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2

8 May

Seminar

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

Sala del Giardino Pensile

15 May

Seminar

Connessioni Jesiane. Furio Jesi tra filosofia, storia delle religioni e politica

22 May

Seminar

Women's bodies: in-metamorphosis

Aula Gambi, DiSCi Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2

27 May

Seminar

Masterclass in Ethnographic Writing

26 Jun

Seminar

Ai e accademia: dalla ricerca bibliografica alla disseminazione dei risultati

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)