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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.

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News

Student elections: take part, choose, change

University

Student elections: take part, choose, change

Participate in the student elections and choose who will represent your needs in the University Bodies.

Call for applications to Erasmus+ mobility for traineeship 2026/27

International

Call for applications to Erasmus+ mobility for traineeship 2026/27

Would you like to broaden your curriculum by working abroad? Carry out a paid traineeship in a European Union country. Apply by 12 May.

Research the Future: PhD Open Day at UniBO

Innovation and Research

Research the Future: PhD Open Day at UniBO

An online event for those who have completed, or are about to complete, their degree and want to understand whether a PhD is the right next step for their future.

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

Innovation and Research

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.

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Events

Meeting

Studying at university later in life - University for adult learners over 40, 50 and 60

2 Feb 26 Mar 2026

Exhibition

Karkemish of the Hittites on the Euphrates

Ulus

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

Guided tour

Porte aperte a San Giovanni in Monte

Guided tour

Porte aperte a San Giovanni in Monte

Conference

Où commence la mer?

Meeting

Live the experience by discovering the degree courses in the field of Humanities

Seminar

Global Queer History

Meeting

Pianificare oltre la catastrofe: il piano ecologico tra presente e futuro

Seminar

Archaeological Survey and Excavations at Khirbat al-Mafjar, Jericho, Palestine

Aula Seminari, Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2

25 Mar 27 Mar 2026

Seminar

Quali Enciclopedie e Biblioteche per il Futuro. Strumenti della ricerca, della produzione e della comunicazione scientifica, culturale e politica

Meeting

Let me tell you: my experience after graduation

Seminar

Weaponizing Archaeology: Israeli Settler Colonialism and the Erasure of Palestinian Cultural Heritage

Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2

Seminar

The spectres of the Commune. Echoes, interpretations, legacies

Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2

Seminar

Donna, ti vogliono ingannare!

Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà, Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2

Seminar

La pratica della ricerca antropologica: le sfide dell’immersione partecipante e dell’ascolto

1 Apr 29 Apr 2026

Exhibition

The Unseen Sacred

Piazza San Giovanni in Monte, 2 - Chiostro grande

Seminar

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

Sala del Giardino Pensile

Seminar

History and Critique of Exploitation

Piazza San Giovanni in Monte, 2

Seminar

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

Seminar

The US empire in 20th-century Latin America

Seminar

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

Aula Capitani

20 Apr 24 Apr 2026

Congress

LRCW8 Late Roman Coarse Ware and Amphorae

Seminar

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

Seminar

Infrastructural capitalism and the making of the Chinese working class

Seminar

Women's bodies: in-pure

Aula Gambi, DiSCi Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2

Seminar

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

Aula Gambi

Seminar

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

Sala del Giardino Pensile

Seminar

Women's bodies: in-metamorphosis

Aula Gambi, DiSCi Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2

Seminar

Ai e accademia: dalla ricerca bibliografica alla disseminazione dei risultati

Presentation

Book presentation "Liber formularius" by Ranieri da Perugia

Piazza San Giovanni in Monte, 2

Seminar

Meetings with Hitomi Sato (Kyoto University)

Aula Specola, San Giovanni in Monte 2

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Calls and competitions

Open calls

Ricercatori a tempo determinato

Rif. 1418 - Bando per 1 posto da ricercatore a tempo determinato tipo RTT - Dipartimento DISCI - GSD 10/STAA-01 - SSD STAA-01/B - BO

end date: 14 aprile 2026, 12:00

Incarichi post-doc

Procedura di valutazione comparativa per titoli e colloquio per il conferimento di n. 1 incarico post-doc presso il Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà- SSD GEOG-01/B- GSD 11/GEOG-01 - Cod. Pica incarichipd2026-11

end date: 25 marzo 2026, 12:00

Bandi di mobilità internazionale

Bando per l’erogazione di borse di studio per periodi di ricerca all’estero finalizzati alla preparazione della tesi di laurea magistrale– a.a. 2025/26. Dipartimento delle Arti (DAR), Dipartimento di Storia Culture e Civiltà (DISCI), Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Italianistica, Dipartimento di Filosofia (FILO), Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture moderne (LILEC).

end date: 04 giugno 2026, 12:00

Visiting professors, researchers, scholars and fellows coming from abroad

DiSCi - Bando per visiting fellows

end date: 31 marzo 2026, 23:55

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Meet your future at the University of Bologna. Find the right programme for you at the Department of "History and Culture"

Meet your future at the University of Bologna. Find the right programme for you at the Department of "History and Culture"

First and Second cycle degree programmes a.y. 2024/25

History and archaeology of the San Giovanni in Monte Complex

History and archaeology of the San Giovanni in Monte Complex

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I.D.E.A - Innovation - Development - Entrepreneurship - Alma Mater

I.D.E.A - Innovation - Development - Entrepreneurship - Alma Mater

Turn research into a business idea

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)