Titolo programma / Ente finanziatore: PRIN 2022 -MUR
Titolo MAIN - Modelling Ancient Interaction Networks
Coordinatore Andrea Manzo
Data inizio 07/01/2025
Data fine 07/01/2027
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Codice 2022F8FPXW
Descrizione del progetto: Interaction networks at an intra- and interregional scale are crucial aspects of global history since the earliest times. At an intraregional scale, networks arose from the exploitation of different ecological niches by the same or different human groups. At an interregional level, networks emerged from the search for new exploitable ecosystems under the pressure of environmental or demographic factors or, from a certain point, from the search for specific raw materials. In later phases, these processes, although not excluding the temporary or permanent migration of individuals or groups of different size and always affected by multi-scaled environmental dynamics, were increasingly related to the circulation of commodities.
The rise and development of the interaction networks are a very complex issue, and an ideal subject to be faced by means of advanced technological tools. This is the aim of this project.
The project will focus on some study areas: the Southern Atbai (Sudan), the foot of Middle Atlas (Morocco), the Djebel Ahdar (Libya), and the island of Cyprus. The project will particularly focus on the 4th and the early 3rd millennium BCE, when the demand for raw materials and resources increased also due to the emergence of hierarchical societies. Their different setting is intended to provide a more extensive testing for the enhancement of the advanced analytical approaches and procedures adopted in the project. Network Analysis and Agent Based Model simulations.
Titolo programma / Ente finanziatore: PRIN 2022 -MUR
Titolo Environmental Anomalies & Political Legitimacy in Global Eurasia 12th-14th century
Coordinatrice di unità Donatella Guida
Settori ERC coinvolti:
1. SH6_11 Global history, transnational history, comparative history, entangled histories
2. SH6_14 History of ideas, intellectual history, history of economic thought
3. SH6_7 Medieval history
Data inizio 12/12/2023
Data fine 28/02/2026
Codice 20225NNWWE
CUP: C53D23010410006
Descrizione del progetto: The project investigates how, between the 12th and 14th centuries, anomalous natural events—such as earthquakes, droughts, floods, or epidemics—were interpreted across Eurasia (China, Japan, Korea, India, the Islamic world, and Western Europe) as signs of political crisis and instruments to challenge or legitimize rulers. Building on the Chinese theory of the “Mandate of Heaven”, which links natural events to the virtue or failings of the sovereign, the research compares this conception with other Eurasian traditions.
The project involves three research units: Naples (L’Orientale) studies Chinese, Mongol, Korean, and Japanese sources; Bologna (Alma Mater Studiorum) examines Arabic and Persian texts, focusing on the Umayyad, Abbasid, and Black Death periods; Rende (University of Calabria) analyses medieval Latin sources on natural philosophy, religion, and political legitimacy.
Expected outcomes include a comparative mapping of ideas linking disasters and authority, a digital corpus of sources, contributions to global intellectual history, and tools for understanding contemporary political and cultural responses to environmental and health crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
Titolo programma / Ente finanziatore: PRIN 2022 -MUR
Titolo del progetto: InALC - Investigating African Languages and Cultures
Coordinatore di unità Gianfrancesco Lusini
Settori ERC coinvolti:
1. SH4_10 Language typology; historical linguistics
2. SH4_11 Pragmatics, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, discourse analysis
3. SH5_3 Philology; text and image studies
Data inizio progetto: 01/10/2023
Data fine progetto: 28/02/2026
Codice progetto: PRIN 2022XMRNF9
CUP: C53D23006910006
Acronimo: InALC
Abstract: InALC aims to document and study endangered languages, literatures, and cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa, where rapid social, climatic, and political changes threaten oral and minority traditions. The project focuses on analyzing existing recordings and archival materials, while selecting ethnographic objects, manuscripts, audio/video recordings, and historical photographs for an iconographic exhibition. Results will be disseminated through university and school presentations, international conferences, publications, a dedicated web platform, and a touring exhibition, raising awareness of linguistic and cultural preservation and promoting inclusive attitudes toward immigrant communities.
Titolo programma / Ente finanziatore: PRIN 2022 -MUR
Titolo del progetto: Linguistic complexity: Structural perspectives to local complexities across West African languages
Coordinatore Gian Claudio Batic
Settori ERC coinvolti:
1. SH4_10 Language typology; historical linguistics
2. SH4_11 Pragmatics, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, discourse analysis
3. SH4_9 Theoretical linguistics; computational linguistics
Data inizio progetto: 01/10/2023
Data fine progetto: 06/10/2025
Codice progetto: PRIN 20224H5ZYF
CUP: C53D23003920001
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Abstract: Over the past 15 years, the notion of linguistic complexity—understood as the study of the overall complexity of natural languages—has attracted increasing scholarly attention. While the absolute complexity of a language cannot be fully quantified, local complexities in specific grammatical domains can be examined systematically through cross-linguistically replicable tools.
The project investigates selected local complexities in several West African languages and is organised into four tasks: (1) semantic complexity in kinship terminology; (2) the complexity of non-literal decoding in bilingual speakers; (3) phonological complexity across the macro-area; and (4) the negotiation of local complexities in a Sprachbund setting. The main target languages belong to the Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic phyla (Hausa, Pero, Kushi, Widala-Kholok; Loo, Burak; Wolof, Pular). French, the main Indo-European vehicular language in the region, will be examined in Task 2. Fieldwork areas include north-eastern Nigeria, southern Niger, Senegal, and the Republic of Guinea.
The project advances the study of linguistic complexity by addressing significant yet previously understudied phenomena and by adding a new dimension to research on metalinguistic awareness in bilingualism. Methodologically, it aims to develop tools for consistent cross-linguistic comparison and measurement. The team comprises two units: U1 (UniOr, 4 members), responsible for Tasks 1, 3, and 4; and U2 (Sapienza, 2 members), working on Task 2 and Niger French in bilingual speakers.
Titolo programma / Ente finanziatore: PRIN 2022 -MUR
Titolo del progetto: The Angevin World, the Papacy and the East: 1250-1450
Coordinatore Michele Bernardini
Settori disciplinari / settori ERC coinvolti:
1. SH5_6 History of art and architecture, arts-based research
2. SH5_3 Philology; text and image studies
3. SH6_7 Medieval history
Data inizio progetto: 01/10/2023
Data fine progetto: 18/10/2025
Codice progetto: PRIN 202223C3X9
CUP: C53D23006600006
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Abstract: The Angevin-ruled regions—linked closely to the Papacy and spanning from France to Southern Italy, Hungary, the Balkans, and the Morea—were key hubs of East–West diplomatic and cultural exchange between the 13th and 15th centuries. Following Charles of Anjou’s conquest of Sicily and the Angevins’ acquisition of the crown of Jerusalem, their influence extended across the Mediterranean, the Balkans, and the Holy Land, while Mongol expansion created new opportunities for travel, communication, and cross-cultural interaction.The project aims to produce a comprehensive digital map of contacts between the Angevin territories, the Papacy, and the Eastern world. By integrating visual and textual sources in both Eastern and Western languages into an accessible online database, it will examine the mechanisms of transmission and cross-dissemination that shaped medieval intercultural relations.
Four research units contribute complementary expertise: Naples surveys Persian, Arabic, Turkish, Georgian, and Armenian sources; Bologna studies Papal–Angevin diplomatic networks and Avignon’s eastern links; Chieti analyses artistic and historical exchanges between Southern Italy, the Balkans, and the Holy Land; and Rome investigates manuscripts, maps, and travel accounts from Western Europe. Bringing together Islamic and Caucasian studies, medieval history, art history, philology, and cartography, the project offers an integrated view of East-West connections in the Angevin world and will disseminate results broadly to scholars and the public.
Titolo programma / Ente finanziatore: PRIN 2022 -MUR
Titolo del progetto: BIG_SMAART - BIM & GIS for Spatial and Multidimensional Archaeological Artefacts and Techniques
Coordinatori di unità: Angela Bosco, poi Andrea D’Andrea
Settori ERC coinvolti:
1. PE8_3 Civil engineering, architecture, offshore construction, lightweight construction, geotechnics
2. SH7_10 GIS, spatial analysis; big data in geographical studies
3. SH5_12 Computational modelling and digitisation in the cultural sphere
Data inizio progetto: 01/10/2023
Data fine progetto: 16/10/2025
Codice progetto: PRIN 2022YK7CC2
CUP: C53D23001900001
Acronimo: BIG_SMAART
Abstract: : BIG_SMAART is a PRIN project designed to organise and systematise information related to the documentation and study of archaeological contexts at both spatial and territorial scales. By developing an information infrastructure that facilitates interoperability between GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and BIM (Building Information Modeling), the project aims to optimise the management of diverse and heterogeneous datasets. The project enhances the capabilities of GIS and BIM by defining libraries of archaeological parametric objects based on international standards, ontologies, and domain-specific thesauri, in line with Open Science principles.
The Vesuvian area—exceptionally rich in data about daily life and technological practices during the Roman period—serves as the testbed for this research.
The project unfolds in three main phases: designing an information model grounded in a sample from the Vesuvian context; surveying and modelling a representative set of parametric objects; and developing an information platform to create an interoperable archive of archaeological data.
Titolo programma / Ente finanziatore: PRIN 2022 -MUR
Titolo del progetto: The art of the stage in Bronze Age Anatolia. Reconstructing Hittite festivals using texts, images and comparative cultural
anthropological evidence
Coordinatore di unità Michele Cammarosano
Settori ERC coinvolti:
1. SH5_3 Philology; text and image studies
2. SH6_3 General archaeology, archaeometry, landscape archaeology
3. SH3_10 Religious studies, ritual; symbolic representation
Data inizio progetto: 01/10/2023
Data fine progetto: 16/10/2025
Codice progetto: PRIN 20228P3LYC
CUP: C53D23006720006
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Abstract: Hittite Anatolia (1700–1200 BCE) possesses the largest corpus of cultic festivals in antiquity, documented in both texts and images. However, these sources have never been systematically compared. The project integrates textual and visual evidence to explore Hittite festivals as “total social phenomena.” Using a multiproxy approach, it combines parallel analyses of texts—particularly the Great Festival of Arinna—and images, especially the reliefs of Alacahöyük, develops methodologies for their integrated study, and reconstructs the festivals through an interdisciplinary lens. Expected outcomes include critical editions of the Arinna festivals, a reassessment of the Sphinx Gate at Alacahöyük, and an open-access digital archive. Outreach activities will feature educational modules and collaborations with museums and volunteer organisations.
Titolo programma / Ente finanziatore: PRIN 2022 -MUR
Titolo del progetto: eartHeritage - A cultural rescue initiative for earthen heritage: An interdisciplinary, diachronic and trans-areal approach to interconnected artistic productions in clay and stucco in Iran, Iraq, Central Asia and the north of the Indian subcontinent (3rd cent.BCE-8th century CE)
Coordinatrice Anna Filigenzi
Settori ERC coinvolti:
1. SH6_3 General archaeology, archaeometry, landscape archaeology
2. SH6_1 Historiography, theory and methods in history, including the analysis of digital data
3. SH5_6 History of art and architecture, arts-based research
Data inizio progetto: 30/09/2023
Data fine progetto: 29/09/2025
Codice progetto: PRIN 2022JL5HLY
CUP: C53D23000170006
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Abstract: The project investigates clay and stucco sculpture from the 3rd century BCE to the 8th century CE across Iraq, Iran, Central Asia, and northern India, and establishes a virtual data centre for documentation, preservation, and dissemination. Despite its historical significance, this tradition remains poorly known due to fragmentary remains, regional instability, and other challenges. Using a multidisciplinary and trans-regional approach, the project studies all archaeological traces, reconstructs iconography and production techniques, and makes the data available through a digital catalogue and virtual museum. Research highlights artisans’ mobility, model transmission, and regional interconnections, while dissemination enhances awareness and protection of this fragile heritage. The team includes three units: Naples (L’Orientale) for Afghanistan/Pakistan, Rome (Sapienza) for Tokharestan and Khotan, and Bologna for Iraq and Iran.
Titolo programma / Ente finanziatore: PRIN 2022 -MUR
Titolo del progetto: Chinese narratives and the narration of China in Italy: literature, cinema and art at the intersection of cultural diplomacy and cultural industry
Coordinatore di unità Marco Fumian
Settori ERC coinvolti:
1. SH5_8 Cultural studies, cultural identities and memories, cultural heritage
2. SH5_2 Theory and history of literature, comparative literature
3. SH5_4 Visual and performing arts, film, design and architecture
Data inizio progetto: 01/10/2023
Data fine progetto: 18/10/2025
Codice progetto: PRIN 2022FJX9YZ
CUP: C53D23006800006
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Abstract: The project investigates the cultural, political and economic dynamics that shape knowledge production about China in Italy, adopting an interdisciplinary approach centred on literature, cinema and the visual arts. It starts from the assumption that narratives about China both reflect global power shifts driven by China’s rise and emerge from complex negotiations among various political, cultural and economic actors. Rather than focusing on categories such as propaganda, soft power or cultural diplomacy—already well explored in relation to Confucius Institutes, art and sports diplomacy, the United Front, and the expansion of Chinese media—the project examines the negotiations and cultural practices that, in both China and Italy, construct the image of China.
Three main fields are identified: (a) literary translation; (b) cinema and screening cultures, including co-productions and festivals; and (c) exhibitions of traditional and contemporary art. The project follows two lines of inquiry:
(1) understanding the negotiation processes between Chinese cultural industries and government institutions and their impact on China’s cultural projection abroad;
(2) analysing the institutional and cultural dynamics shaping the circulation of Chinese cultural products in Italy, from literary translation to film festivals and art exhibitions.
By mapping these processes, the project aims to strengthen Italy’s capacity to produce independent, critical knowledge on China and to support cultural and educational actors in navigating the challenges of a shifting geopolitical landscape. Methodologically, it combines qualitative and quantitative approaches, offering both an overview of Chinese cultural products circulating in Italy and an analysis of the strategies, networks and roles of the various actors involved.
Titolo programma / Ente finanziatore: PRIN 2022 -MUR
Titolo del progetto: The quality of life in Greek and Roman cities: perception and policy
Coordinatore di unità Luigi Gallo
Settori ERC coinvolti: SH6_6 Ancient history
Data inizio progetto: 30/09/2023
Data fine progetto: 29/09/2025
Codice progetto: PRIN 2022W8NH4E
CUP: C53D23000280006
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Abstract: TThe concept of “urban quality of life” is a modern notion, widely explored in sociology, but it can also be applied historically to examine past societies and identify the criteria used to judge a city’s liveability, from environmental and hygienic conditions to building standards, social coexistence, participation in communal life, safety, and access to resources and services. This also helps illustrate how such criteria changed from pre-industrial societies to the complex urban environments of today and across different regions.
In the Greco-Roman world, where urban life was central and levels of urbanization were in some periods remarkably high for pre-industrial societies, this topic deserves closer study. Recent scholarship, inspired by historical ecology and renewed interest in ancient urban conditions, has focused mainly on environmental factors affecting liveability and on the degree of environmental awareness in these societies. However, no comprehensive investigation has been carried out on how Greeks and Romans themselves perceived urban quality of life, which indicators they valued, or which regulatory measures they implemented.
This project aims to fill that gap. First, we will examine Greek and Latin authors to assess contemporary perceptions of what made a city liveable and identify the key evaluative criteria. Using targeted Greek and Latin keywords, we will conduct a systematic analysis of literary sources from various genres—especially those offering insight into daily life or describing the features a city needed to meet expected standards of liveability (e.g., poetry, theatre, medical and geographical treatises, satire). Second, we will compile the most complete possible collection of regulatory interventions, local and central, related to these issues, drawing on both epigraphic evidence and manuscript traditions. The periods considered will be the Classical and Hellenistic eras for the Greek world, and the Republican and Imperial periods (from Augustus to Diocletian) for the Roman world.
Titolo programma / Ente finanziatore: PRIN 2022 -MUR
Titolo del progetto: Venusia Judaica: advanced tools for epigraphical, archaeological, geomineralogical investigation, sustainable fruition and preservation of the jewish catacombs of Venosa
Coordinatore Giancarlo Lacerenza
Settori ERC coinvolti:
1. SH5_3 Philology; text and image studies
2. SH6_3 General archaeology, archaeometry, landscape archaeology
3. SH5_12 Computational modelling and digitisation in the cultural sphere
Data inizio progetto: 19/10/2023
Data fine progetto: 19/10/2025
Codice progetto: PRIN 2022LF72JW
CUP: C53D23006910006
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Abstract: Venusia Judaica focuses on advanced research, conservation, and sustainable access to the Jewish catacombs of Venosa, an important but little-studied late-Roman site. The project integrates epigraphic, archaeological, and geomineralogical analyses to explore inscriptions in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, shedding light on Jewish-Christian interactions and the social role of the Jewish community in late antique and early medieval southern Italy.
Building on previous research, it develops an innovative platform for cataloguing, managing, and visualizing data using 3D digitization, mineralogical analysis, and advanced diagnostics. This enables multilayered analysis, remote study on high-resolution interoperable models, and immersive VR experiences, combining mineropetrographic, epigraphic, and archaeological data to support deep understanding and sustainable promotion of fragile cultural heritage.
Titolo programma / Ente finanziatore: PRIN 2022 -MUR
Titolo del progetto: Islamic Literatures in Sub-Saharan Africa: Themes, Genres and Public
Coordinatore Martin Orwin
Settori ERC coinvolti:
1. SH5_2 Theory and history of literature, comparative literature
2. SH5_8 Cultural studies, cultural identities and memories, cultural heritage
3. SH3_10 Religious studies, ritual; symbolic representation
Data inizio progetto: 01/10/2023
Data fine progetto: 18/10/2025
Codice progetto: PRIN 20222ZRMFZ
CUP: C53D23006630006
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Abstract: This project will bring a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to the study of literatures in Islamic societies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on insights from the writings of Alessandro Bausani, the various work packages will engage with texts in indigenous African languages and in Arabic as used in Africa. These will be studied from different perspectives with a view to assessing how they reflect the history and nature of Islamic influence on the literatures of the societies studied. Each research task will be based on investigating literary texts which reflect their Islamic heritage in some way, but from different disciplinary perspectives. Characteristics relating to religion, ritual, themes, form and language use, performance, history and politics will be studied with a view to providing insight into how these texts in different parts of Africa, and in different ways, are rooted in and reflect the Islamic nature of the culture in which they are situated and how they compare. This will be done not only through textual study, but also through the study of how people engage with the texts.
The project focuses on two major regions within Islamic Africa: North East Africa and West Africa south of the Sahara. These regions share certain historical, cultural and linguistic characteristics, the comparative study of which will form part of the focus of the research group as a whole. More specifically these include the use and influence of Arabic literary forms and genres, their interaction with indigenous literary forms (in particular oral literary genres) and the history and development of branches of Sufism including the role these have played in cultural and political changes as well as literary developments in the regions studied. Such research themes provide the basis for the comparative research at a regional level and a continental level but also in terms of disciplines. It is through this synergy of approaches that the ideas of Bausani can be brought into focus and assessed. All the researchers have the requisite linguistic skills to engage with the texts directly in the languages which they study: Arabic, Bamana, Hausa and Somali. Aside from their different regional areas of expertise, they come from different disciplinary backgrounds: Islamic Studies, literary linguistics, comparative literature, history, anthropology and political science.
Titolo programma / Ente finanziatore: PRIN 2022 -MUR
Titolo del progetto: Folklore and oral traditions in the Greek culture. From the Archaic to the Hellenistic period
Coordinatore Riccardo Palmisciano
Settori ERC coinvolti: SH5
Data inizio progetto: 01/10/2023
Data fine progetto: 18/10/2025
Codice progetto: PRIN 20222NFMAH
CUP: C53D23006620006
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Abstract: In Greek culture, which was predominantly oral and aural, it is crucial to investigate the relationships between so-called popular oral traditions (folklore) and the formalized traditions embedded within the political and cultural institutions of the polis. In this dynamic, the distinction between the ‘popular’ and the ‘literary’ components appears inconsistent, as the ‘high’ literary forms do not stand in opposition but are combined and integrated within a broader and multifaceted cultural landscape. This landscape is especially characterized by a variety of festive occasions, both public and private, which constitute the primary context for continuous interaction between the two cultural forms. The research project aims to reconstruct the main aspects of the complex relationship between high and low culture, between popular traditions and highly stylized poetic forms, with particular attention to the performative dimension to which these literary expressions were primarily intended. It also seeks to compare them with other cultures exhibiting similar formal and structural phenomena, providing useful points of reference.
Titolo programma / Ente finanziatore: PRIN 2022 -MUR
Titolo del progetto: ‘We want bread, not bullets’: Iraqi food politics in historical perspective
Coordinatrice Daniela Pioppi
Settori ERC coinvolti:
1. SH6_12 Social and economic history
2. SH6_9 Modern and contemporary history
3. SH5_8 Cultural studies, cultural identities and memories, cultural heritage
Data inizio progetto: 30/09/2023
Data fine progetto: 29/09/2025
Codice progetto: PRIN 2022C3BLH5
CUP: C53D23000140006
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Abstract: Food is essential for life. Therefore, it is central to many different political and cultural dynamics and a powerful lens through which to explore broader issues of power and identity. Food politics is of crucial importance to the Arab region, one of the most food insecure regions of the world (Harrigan, 2014). Yet, it remains an under-studied subject. This is even more true for Iraq, home of the flood plains of the Tigris and Euphrates, a country self-sufficient in food until the 1980s and today heavily dependent on food imports and highly food insecure. How did a state so abundantly rich in agriculture mere decades ago become such a net food importer? What policies of food production, consumption and distribution have domestic political leaders and external actors adopted in search for food security and political stability? How have these policies impacted the lives of the Iraqi population? What do Iraqi civil society and social movements have to say about it?
To answer these and similar questions, the project aims at reconstructing the politics of food in Iraq since the US-led occupation of 2003 through an interdisciplinary approach and three analytically different, but largely interrelated areas of research: 1) Food politics at the national, regional and global level. This area of research aims at a comprehensive historical reconstruction of state policies and narratives with respect to food production, consumption, and distribution. Furthermore, an important part of the research will be focused on the international dimension of food politics, that is an analysis of the policies of global and regional actors, international aid, patterns of food trade and their consequences on the country and on the livelihoods of Iraqi population. 2) Contentious food politics and collective action. This area of research aims at investigating how, over the period under scrutiny, emerging and more consolidated civil society groups and social movements in Iraq have positioned themselves with respect to the food question and to the policies and narratives deployed by state, regional and global actors, but also at spotting bottom-up initiatives, alternative models and practices and new forms of mobilization. 3) The politics of food from a cultural perspective. Food politics is also strictly related to culture and identity. This area of research aims at delving into the rich production of Iraqi cultural actors living in the country or in the diaspora with respect to food practices.
Titolo programma / Ente finanziatore: PRIN 2022 -MUR
Titolo del progetto: The “Wheel of Time”: An Inquiry into New Sources of Late Indian Buddhism (X–XIII cent.)
Coordinatore di unità Francesco Sferra
Settori ERC coinvolti:
1. SH5_3 Philology; text and image studies
2. SH6_7 Medieval history
Data inizio progetto: 01/10/2023
Data fine progetto: 18/10/2025
Codice progetto: PRIN 2022NZRBRH
CUP: C53D23006940006
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Abstract: The Tantric cycle of the Kālacakra represents one of the most important Buddhist traditions, not only because of its impact on the Indian subcontinent, but also due to its diffusion throughout Central Asia and Southeast Asia. While engaged in a dual form of competition – on the one hand with Śaivism and Vaiṣṇavism in the pursuit of patronage, and on the other with the increasingly dominant Islamic culture in the defence of an Indic, orthodox identity – the early teachers of the Kālacakra produced an original synthesis of various Buddhist and, to some extent, non-Buddhist traditions. In doing so, they developed a new worldview along with a new system of soteriological practices, including yoga, initiations, and related disciplines.
Titolo programma / Ente finanziatore: PRIN 2022 -MUR
Titolo del progetto: Water management and environmental change in Central Asia: politics, society and transnational connections (1948-2020s)
Coordinatore di unità Tommaso Trevisani
Settori ERC coinvolti:
1. SH3_6 Social influence; power and group behaviour
2. SH6_9 Modern and contemporary history
3. SH7_6 Environmental and climate change, societal impact and policy
Data inizio progetto: 01/10/2023
Data fine progetto: 16/10/2025
Codice progetto: PRIN 2022LB3WKL
CUP: C53D23005830006
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Abstract: The project will explore the history of water management and agricultural policies in the semi-arid macro-region encompassing Central Asia and the Middle East/North Africa (MENA), with a particular focus on transnational connections across this vast area. In the wake of the Second World War, both Central Asia and the MENA region witnessed major development projects and policies related to water and land management. These initiatives led to significant economic and environmental transformations, reshaping local societies and influencing international relations.
Titolo programma / Ente finanziatore: PRIN 2017
Data inizio progetto: 18/09/2020
Data fine progetto: 18/09/2023
Progetto continuativo: No
Titolo del progetto: l'Architettura dell'Imperatore. Residenze ufficiali e private, paesaggi urbani e porti nell'età di Adriano (117-138 d.C.)
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Codice progetto: 2017PYHXXH
Coordinatore: Coordinatore nazionale: Paolo Carafa (Università degli Studi di ROMA "La Sapienza") / Coordinatore di unità: Chiara Zazzaro (Università di Napoli "L'Orientale")
Tipologia fondi: fondi nazionali
Descrizione del progetto: La ricerca è dedicata alla conoscenza, analisi e valorizzazione culturale di Villa Adriana e Ostia. L’obiettivo è l'analisi dell’architettura romana nell’età di Adriano (117-138 d.C.) basata per la prima volta su una lettura analitica e sistematica di monumenti (quali contesti di strutture e arredi) e complessi monumentali. Dopo l’edizione di tutti gli edifici adrianei di Roma (Carandini, Carafa 2012-2017) e Atene (Lagogianni-Georgakarakos, Papi 2018),si esamineranno con gli stessi metodi la residenza dell’imperatore a Tivoli e il porto di Roma. Prodotti della ricerca saranno un Sistema Informativo Archeologico per conoscenza e gestione delle due aree; ricostruzioni degli edifici della Villa e di Ostia; atlanti e pubblicazioni dedicati alla storia di luoghi, monumenti e arredi. Le attività sono state concordate con: Istituto Centrale di Archeologia, Istituto Villa Adriana e Villa d’Este, Parco Archeologico di Ostia Antica. Si offrirà alla comunità scientifica, all’Amministrazione dei Beni Culturali e al pubblico la possibilità di accedere al sistema di conoscenza rappresentato dai contesti esaminati grazie a uno strumento tecnologico innovativo. Si svilupperà anche una procedura di analisi e gestione di siti archeologici complessi replicabile in altri contesti del mondo classico.