Research PhD in Public, Social and Cultural Institutions: languages, law, history (cycles 31-35)

With an interdisciplinary approach, this PhD fosters philological, historical and legal skills with a humanistic leaning, for the study of public, social and cultural institutions.

The candidate acquires skills and competences in:

• analysis of literary, legal and historical sources
• documentation, interpretation and know-how of institutional languages and practices, within territorial and temporal contextualization
• integration of philological, legal and historical studies and knowledge suitable for developing European institutional cultures
• construction of interdisciplinary research languages for institutions
• development and verification of models of international cultural sustainability.

The doctorate offers general and interdisciplinary training in the methodology of humanistic and curricular research for specific skills in linguistic traditions, historical sciences and institutions of autonomy, services and rights.

New interdisciplinary skills are created in areas such as multilingualism; interculture; rhetoric; neologisms; critical publishing; literary criticism; law and literature / language; translations and comparisons; administrative languages; integrated protection of rights; service culture; historical jurisprudence; legal journalism; memory law; constitutional, institutional and international histories; local autonomies; local and territorial history; European studies and world history; cultural and environmental heritage.

Cooperation and interdisciplinarity

The PhD programme collaborates with the Department of Law, Political, Economic and Social Sciences (DIGSPES) of Alessandria, the Department of Humanities (DISUM) of Vercelli, with the Department of Economics and Business Studies (DISEI) of Novara and the other departments of the natural sciences to explore topics on environmental issues, health law and bioethics. The collaborative network also extends to other universities (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan-Bicocca, Turin, Valle d'Aosta, Food Sciences, Genoa, Calabria etc). 

The PhD programme has been pursuing a strategy of reinforced interdisciplinarity since 2016, in cooperation with some research centres of the University; in particular, the Centre for Constitutional Law and History (DISCO), the Network for the History and Education of the Shoah, the Inter-University Centre for Peace Studies (CISP), the Marinone Center.

Internationalisation

The doctoral programme also pursues a strong internationalisation strategy. Co-tutorships are sought with foreign universities, and internships and research periods are promoted in foreign universities.
Partnerships have been set up with Université de Toulon (France), Max-planck.Institute for International and Comparative Public Law (Germany), Universitaet Bayreuth (Germany), National Law University New Delhi (India), Technische Universitat Dresden (Germany), Ohio State University, Wake Forest University (North Carolina), Uniwersytet Warszawski (Poland), Université de Savoie Mont Blanc (Chambéry, France), University of West Virginia, Italian Archaeology School of Athens (Greee).

Curricula

The doctorate is structured in three curricula:

• Autonomies, public services, rights (at Digspes, course leader prof. Renato Balduzzi)
• Linguistic-literary traditions (at Disum, course leader prof. Luigi Battezzato)
• Historical Sciences (at Disum, course leader prof. Claudio Rosso)

Information

For more information, you can contact the University Research Department/Doctorates and Fellowships: Mario Repole - mario.repole@uniupo.it - tel: 0161261522 - fax: 0161211369