Teaching

The doctoral program in Historical, Geographical and Anthropological Studies offers a training program for doctoral and post-doctoral students that includes advanced seminar activities for the development of methodological tools for interdisciplinary research, teaching modules aimed at the acquisition of specific skills on languages and tools of scientific research, and cycles of disciplinary seminars that allow doctoral and post-doctoral students to hone their analytical and synthesis skills in their fields of interest. These activities are developed over the four years in which the course is organized, with a gradual decrease in the teaching load and a gradual increase in the empowerment and growth in autonomy of doctoral and postdoctoral students. In addition, the course offers the possibility of attending optional activities, both internally and externally offered, and organizes discussion moments dedicated to the research of doctoral and postdoctoral students.

In internal teaching activities, 1 ECTS corresponds to 6 hours of seminar or lecture activities and the study, reading and processing activities that are required to attend these activities with adequate preparation.

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Please find below the mandatory activities for each year of the doctoral program.

The Situating Being situated Methodological Seminar is divided into 3 modules:

  • Module 1: Time
  • Module 2: Space
  • Module 3: Relationships
  • Analyzing and Writing Reviews
  • Bibliographic tools, use of Zotero, open data, and open source

1 seminar of your choice from:

  • Historical GIS (basic)
  • Quantitative methods

2 seminars to choose from:

  • Culture and nature
  • Cultural memory
  • Anthropology, colonialism, postcolony

Reading and presentation of classics (1 classic per discipline, with interdisciplinary approach). The seminars will be organized by doctoral and postdoctoral students with the guidance of a faculty member.

Academic English course organised by the University Language Centre (CLA) of the University of Padua

  • Inaugural lecture
  • Presentation of Departments and Libraries
  • Presentation of the progress of doctoral research
  • Summer school

Writing the doctoral dissertation

1 seminar of your choice from:

  • Digital Humanities
  • Historical GIS (basic)
  • Quantitative methods
  • Historical GIS (advanced)

1 seminar of your choice from:

  • Anthropology, colonialism, postcolony
  • Culture and nature
  • Cultural memory
  • 4 seminars with invited speakers
  • Presentation of the main journals in the field every three years

Classics reading (1 per discipline, with interdisciplinary approach) and classroom interventions.

  • Inaugural lecture
  • Presentation of doctoral research progress
  • Summer school

How to write a paper, submit it to a journal, respond to a CFP, and make a reference How to submit a scientific research paper

  • 4 seminars with invited speakers
  • Presentation of the main journals in the field (every three years)

Three-Minute-Thesis Competition

Post-doc research opportunities. How to write a post-doc project

  • 4 seminars with invited speakers
  • Presentation of the main journals in the field (every three years)

41° cycle a.y. 2025-26

Full calendar of compulsory seminars for the first year

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40° cycle a.y. 2025-26

Full calendar of compulsory seminars for the second year

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39° cycle a.y. 2025-26

Full calendar of compulsory seminars for the third year

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38° cycle a.y. 2025-26

Full calendar of compulsory seminars for the fourth year

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Doctoral calendar