History and Geography
D. Rando, T. Frank, M. Spadaccini, M. Ansani, L. Roselli
History of medieval historiography in the long-term transdisciplinary perspective; Ruling classes selection, training and circulation in medieval Italy and Germany; Religious-secular tensions in the late Middle Ages: history of sainthood, history of welfare institutions and associations.
Analysis of the forms and the practices of the archival records in the early Middle Ages, especially related to the administration of justice.
Origins, formation and preservation of the archival collections in relation to the history of their promoters, with particular attention to monastic, charitable and private collections.
M. Rizzo, D. Maffi, M. Di Tullio
Strategy, geopolitics and military history: the Spanish-Habsburg Empire between Italy, Europe and the Mediterranean; the international circulation of elites and human capital; Italian soldiers in Europe and the Spanish Empire; siege warfare in Europe during the ancient regime.
Economic and social history of the pre-industrial period: public finance, logistic, and taxation, economic inequality and social mobility, historical demography, history of science and technology.
Economic and social history of industrial era: business, politics, and cosmopolitan networks in nineteenth-century Europe; the economy of Pavia in the twentieth century. Economic and social history of the University of Pavia between the early modern and contemporary ages.
Environmental history: resources and knowledge; climate and society; animals-humans’ relationships.
F. Torchiani, I. Veca, I. Poggiolini
History of historiography; expatriate movements, exile and opposition: strategies, languages and tools of political communication in the context of anti-fascist Italian emigration; contemporary Italian history between fascism and reconstruction; Cultural history; history of contemporary Catholicism; nationalism; ItalianRisorgimento; media and society in the contemporary age; material history; conspiracy theories; anti-Semitism.
Transatlantic and European relations: from convergence to detachment. How the end of American Europe led to European enlargement and its antithesis: Brexit; the transformation of diplomacy from post WWII peace-making to the paralysis of traditional diplomatic methods within an increasingly dominant framework of disinformation and ‘new public diplomacy’
History and critique of Christian sources on Judaism and Islam: theological treatises, translation and exegesis of sacred texts, missionary experience, pastoral documentation, conversion and evangelization programs, Orientalist production. Genesis and history of the concept of Abrahamic religions: epistemological, hermeneutical, and interreligious implications.
Didactics of human Geography and Cartography; Urban and regional geography: scale of observations and ecosystems; Landscape and Environment; Toponymy and Geopolitics: cartographical aspects.