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Presentation
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
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
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.
News
Innovation and Research
The new excavation notices are online
Check the application deadlines
University
Student elections: take part, choose, change
Participate in the student elections and choose who will represent your needs in the University Bodies.
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.
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.
Events
Exhibition
Palestine in the Library: Texts and Images
Exhibition
Plural Gazes on a Plural Italy
Seminar
Wall painting in the Aegean
Piazza S. Giovanni in Monte, 2, Aula Morandi
Seminar
Wall painting in the Aegean
Piazza S. Giovanni in Monte 2, Aula Fumagalli
Lecture
Demons in the Book of the Dead and Egyptian funerary literature
Aula 1, via Zamboni 33, piano terra
Seminar
Legacies of Imperial Violence
Seminar
Engaging in Indian philosophy
Via Zamboni 38, Aula V
Seminar
Join us at the table 4
Aula Gambi, piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2
Meeting
Bodies, Violence, Narratives, and Care: Possible Connections
Seminar
Iconoclasm and the Culture of an Era: Byzantium in the 8th Century
Sala del Giardino Pensile
Seminar
«If you can draw what is precious out of what is vile»
P.zza S. Giovanni in Monte 2, Aula Seminari
Lecture
Disease Demons and How to Banish Them: A Practical Handbook Against Isefet
Aula 1, via Zamboni 33, piano terra
Lecture
Meeting with Gianmarco Chiari ("Federico II" University of Naples – Universidad de Cantabria)
Aula VI, via Zamboni 38 (piano terra)
Seminar
For a Feminist Critique of Exploitation
Piazza San Giovanni in Monte, 2
Seminar
Connessioni Jesiane. Furio Jesi tra filosofia, storia delle religioni e politica
Lecture
The Daevas: Demonic Entities and Religious Practices in Ancient Iran
Aula Celio, via Zamboni 38
Seminar
Donna, ti vogliono ingannare!
Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà, Aula Prodi, Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2
Fair
Play The Games Festival 2026
BolognaFiere, viale della Fiera 20
Seminar
Women's bodies: in-metamorphosis
Aula Gambi, DiSCi Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2
Seminar
Join us at the table 4
Aula Capitani, piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2
Seminar
Masterclass in Ethnographic Writing
Seminar
Join us at the table 4
Aula Grande, piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2
Seminar
Politicizing Exploitation
Piazza San Giovanni in Monte, 2
Seminar
Ai e accademia: dalla ricerca bibliografica alla disseminazione dei risultati
Calls and competitions
Open calls
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
Versione italiana
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 library of archaeology: the "rudere"
The computing room of the Geography branch
Ready to dig!
Colors from the library "Giorgio R. Franci"