Project title: Regionalism, Multipolarity, and the Global South.

Abstract: The research project seeks to examine the impact of the growing role of regions and emerging powers on the world order. The primary objective is to understand how the shift to a multipolar system is influencing countries in the Global South to establish new dynamics of regional cooperation. The research employs a multidisciplinary approach to examine economic, political, and social elements, with a particular focus on regional integration processes and their impact on the global balance of power.

PhD Student: Ilham Mounssif

Supervisor: Prof.ssa Barbara Onnis

Curriculum: International and Area Studies. History. Spaces. Society

Project title: Forms and traditions of contemporary real-life cinema: a case study in Sardinia.

Abstract: The research project aims to investigate the practice of real-life cinema in the sardinian film production panorama from the end of the 20th century to today. This research aims to explore how reality and fiction are intertwined in local film production and offers a critical and innovative reading of this phenomenon by adopting both a quantitative and a qualitative analysis approach, through a census operation of the works associated with this style and also an analysis of these films. The study therefore intends to outline an organic picture of what is defined as the “new sardinian cinema” and its cultural, historical and identity implications.

PhD Student: Roberta D’Aprile

Supervisor: Prof. Antioco Floris

Curriculum: Archaeological, Artistic, Film and Music Heritage

Project title: Minorities and Cultural Tourism between China and Vietnam: A Comparative Historical Analysis.

Abstract: The research focuses on the evolution of policies regarding tourism development in the ethnic minority areas of PRC. The different approaches adopted through the years are analyzed and compared with those used in other countries. The research gives a general picture of the situation across the whole China and provides a series of specific examples about some areas of particular interest.

PhD Student: Giada Donzel

Supervisor: Prof. Andrea Corsale Co-Supervisor: Prof.ssa Francesca Congiu

Curriculum: Euro-Mediterranean Historical Studies from Antiquity to the Contemporary Age

Project title: The Genoese colonies of Cagliari and Naples. Two merchant communities compared through the perspective of the consul of the nation (17th-18th centuries).

Abstract: Observed at a closer scale, national associations instead show the characteristics of complex and multi-layered entities, whose internal articulation reflects, in a completely autonomous manner with respect to the instructions received from the land of origin, the variable degree of integration of the colony and its members with local society and institutions. While for the Genoese colonies these aspects have been extensively investigated up to the central years of the 1600s, there is a lack of studies that shed light on these dynamics at the turn of the 17th century and for the 18th century. The present research therefore aims to comparatively analyze the evolution of the Genoese colonies in the Mediterranean space between the seventeenth and the eighteenth century within the Genoese commercial diasporic network, using the directives of the office of the consular magistracy of the Republic of Genoa as its main source.

PhD Student: Giommaria Carboni

Supervisor: Prof. Giampaolo Salice

Curriculum: Euro-Mediterranean Historical Studies from Antiquity to the Contemporary Age

Project title: Female presences in contemporary art in Sardinia from the post World War II period to the present day.

Abstract: The aim of the project is to recognise the presence of women in contemporary art in Sardinia from the period after World War II to the present day, and to place them within the trends, groups and artistic movements on the island, nationally and internationally. The research will focus specifically on the artists who marked the historical moment in which the richness of Sardinian craftsmanship profoundly inspired contemporary art and design. Part of the work will focus on the fundamental role of female art workers, gallery owners, art historians, museum directors and curators, in order to highlight their fundamental role in the contemporary Sardinian art system. The research aims to encourage gender studies and refine methodological approaches, so as to be able to also map the places of the presence of female figures in art, integrating the valorisation of legacies – in the case of disappeared female artists or gallery owners – of the archives and artists’ studios that are in danger of disappearing.

PhD Student: Caterina Ghisu

Supervisor: Prof.ssa Rita Pamela Ladogana Co-Supervisor: Prof.ssa Eleonora Todde

Curriculum: Archaeological, Artistic, Film and Music Heritage

Project title: Enhancement through digital means of technologically mediated composition and performance.

Abstract: The subject of the research consists of the multi-typological documents preserved both at the “Centro di Sonologia Computazionale” and “Istituto Centrale per i Beni Sonori e Audiovisivi”. The research aims to: provide a historical-institutional and archival-technical framework of the two preserving entities; identify significant batches from both a documentary and historical-cultural perspective for digitization using the technologies and protocols established by Audio Innova (a spin-off of the University of Padua); carry out the analog-to-digital transfer and enhance the musicological value of the sources and content.

PhD funding: PNRR DM 630/2025 – Audio Innova s.r.l. (Padua)

PhD Student: Siri Luca

Supervisor: Prof. Paolo Dal Molin Co-Supervisor: Prof.ssa Eleonora Todde Company Supervisor: Prof. Sergio Canazza (University of Padua, Audio Innova)

Curriculum: Archaeological, Artistic, Film and Music Heritag

Project title: Archaeology and digital technologies for the study of hermitages and rock churches as indicators of the population dynamics of Sardinian territory between the 6th and 11th centuries.

Abstract: The research aims to study the rock-type contexts of byzantine and medieval Sardinia used for settlement or cult purposes, in order to produce an updated picture of the phenomenon probably linked to the presence of communities of monks of the Eastern or Western rite and to define the dynamics settlement and landscape transformation on the island in the postclassic period. The scientific study will be supported by the use of digital technologies useful for the dissemination of the results produced and the valorisation of the cultural heritage examined.

PhD funding: PNRR DM 118/2023

PhD Student: Silvia Arba

Supervisor: Prof.ssa Rossana Martorelli

Curriculum: Archaeological, Artistic, Film and Music Heritage

Project title: Ethnomusicology and sound archives: visualising multi-part singing in Sardinia.

Abstract: The research project aims to explore the potential of digital humanities to analyse the repertoires of four-part singing in the oral tradition of Sardinia (canto a tenore, canto a cuncordu). The main objective is to develop new systems for the visual representation of the musical structures of these practices, starting from the sound documents preserved in two important regional archives: the LABIMUS (Interdisciplinary Laboratory on Music) archive of the University of Cagliari and the sound and audiovisual archive of the ISRE (Sardinian Regional Ethnographic Institute). The analysis will be preceded by a bibliographical survey of the subject, a census of the main archives of ethnomusicological interest that provide forms of visualisation of sound data, and will be supplemented by ethnographic work aimed at collecting further sound documents.

PhD funding: Istituto Superiore Regionale Etnografico

PhD Student: Irene Coni

Supervisor: Prof. Marco Lutzu

Curriculum: Archaeological, Artistic, Film and Music Heritage

Project title: Still Only One Earth? Environmental Diplomacy between Détente and the Post-Bipolar World. Origins, Challenges, and Prospects for U.S.-European relations.

Abstract: The project aims to trace the main stages of environmental and climate diplomacy to highlight how the environment has been declined in foreign policy agendas particularly between the two sides of the Atlantic – namely the United States of America and the European community – in the period between the détente of the 1970s and the post-bipolar world. In doing so, it aims to reconstruct the positions of these actors around pivotal episodes for the development of this branch of international relations.

PhD Student: Silvia Anna D’Andrea

Supervisor: Prof. Christian Rossi

Curriculum: International and Area Studies. History. Spaces. Society

Project title: Lula and its Space: Pastures, Mines and Gravitational Waves. An Ethnographical Exploration of the Relationship Between the Landscape and its Representation.

Abstract: This research project aims to investigate how the community of Lula (Province of Nuoro, Sardinia) participates in support of the municipality’s candidacy to host the Einstein Telescope. Involving farmers, ex-miners and current operators of the Sos Enattos mine, the research will explore, from an ethnographical point of view the dialogue between the development project the pastoral world and the mining heritage of the area. This approach will allow to observe the impact on the relationships inherent in the local landscape in a framework of transition inside new and old unrests.

PhD funding: Istituto Superiore Regionale Etnografico

PhD Student: Susanna Latini

Supervisor: Prof. Felice Tiragallo

Curriculum: Euro-Mediterranean Historical Studies from Antiquity to the Contemporary Age

Project title: Taxation and Economy in the aragonese Sardinia during the 15th Century.

Abstract: This thesis explores how the Kingdom of Sardinia overcame the crisis of the 14th century and integrated into the political, economic, and fiscal structure of the Crown of Aragon during the 15th century. By analyzing preserved documentary sources from the main fiscal institutions, the study examines the strategies employed to secure and exploit the island’s resources, as well as its role in the Mediterranean economy and in financing the monarchy. The research highlights the interactions between taxation, economic production, trade, and governance, offering a comparative perspective with other territories of the Crown. Sardinia, with its insular specificities, emerges as a unique case for understanding the consolidation of state structures and economic dynamics in the late medieval Mediterranean.

PhD Student: Laura Peris Bolta

Supervisor: Prof. Sergio Tognetti

Curriculum: Euro-Mediterranean Historical Studies from Antiquity to the Contemporary Age

Project title: Defining identity through multipart music: the polyphony of women in Corsica.

Abstract: The research project aims to investigate the role of women in the multipart singing oral tradition of Corsica in recent decades, focusing in particular on the factors that have enabled their access to a musical practice historically restricted to men. Through an interdisciplinary approach, which integrates ethnomusicological investigation with the methodologies of gender studies, the aim of the research is to analyse and understand the female modalities of singing in polyphony, which are characterised as much by their sonorous outcomes as by their kinesic, proxemic and gender identity representation aspects.

PhD funding: PNRR DM 118/2023

PhD Student: Giulia Pisu

Supervisor: Prof. Ignazio Macchiarella

Curriculum: Archaeological, Artistic, Film and Music Heritage

Project title: Morienti cuncta supersunt. Funerary Archaeology and Patterns of Cultural Interaction in Southern Sardinia between Punic and Roman Ages.

Abstract: This research project aims to analyze the dynamics of cultural interaction in southern Sardinia in the Punic-Roman age, through some possible lines of study indicated by funerary archaeology. The phase identified constitutes a crucial moment for the historical evolution of the island, which slowly passes from a strongly punicized territory culturally projected onto an African cultural context to become a Roman province, in which the acquisition of Italic customs and traditions does not seem to follow parallel to the change of political dominance.

PhD Student: Gianna De Luca

Supervisor: Prof. Marco Giuman

Curriculum: Archaeological, Artistic, Film and Music Heritage

Project title: Oriental influences on the franciscan art of the late Middle Ages.

Abstract: This research aims to outline a cross-cultural synthesis of the relationship between the image and interior space of two churches: The Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi and the Cappellone degli Spagnoli of the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella in Florence. On the one hand, it is a distinctively Western narrative that reveals the underlying reasons for the orientation of the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi toward the east and consequently tells the secrets of the configuration of the images on the eastern wall. On the other hand, by placing the same pictorial and spatial relationships in the cosmopolitan cultural context unfolded by the Mongolian Empire in the thirteenth, fourteenth century, this part through the analysis of the pictorial configuration of the Spanish Chapel tells the story of the Dominicans’ mission to the East.

PhD Student: Xueqing Li

Supervisor: Prof.ssa Nicoletta Usai

Co-Supervisor: Prof. Andrea Pala

Curriculum: Archaeological, Artistic, Film and Music Heritage

Project title: The Forgotten Archive: governing and shaping document flows in the Depository Archives of the Universities.

Abstract: The archive’s repository phase is a critical one in the life of a administrative document, because it has a dual purpose: the first to support the administrative activity in which they are produced, the second one to preserve its memory. The research activity will focus on the repository archives of the University of Cagliari, carrying out census activities, analysis of documents flows and their management, definition of conservation and access strategies. PhD funding: PNRR DM 351/2022, M4C1-Inv. 4.1, Public Administration

PhD Student: Francesca Pinna

Supervisor: Prof.ssa Eleonora Todde

Curriculum: Euro-Mediterranean Historical Studies from Antiquity to the Contemporary Age

Project title: Sardinia and Montecassino: edition of documents preserved in the archives of the Cassinese abbey (11th-15th centuries).

Abstract: The archive of the Abbey of Montecassino preserves a documentary heritage of enormous size and inestimable value. Part of it concerns the direct relationship between the monastery and medieval Sardinia. The object of the research will be the systematic and complete analysis of the documentation relating to the above-mentioned relationship, as well as targeted insights on the Benedictine presence on the island and on the functioning of the local chancelleries during the medieval centuries.

PhD Student: Davide Pisanu

Supervisor: Prof.ssa Bianca Fadda

Curriculum: Euro-Mediterranean Historical Studies from Antiquity to the Contemporary Age

Project title: From the Second Cold War to Cold War 3.0. Risk factors and security outlook in the Euroatlantic area.

Abstract: From the Second Cold War to Cold War 3.0. Risk factors and security outlook in the Euroatlantic area. The research is about the evolution of the strategic and military balance in the Euroatlantic area, from 1970’s till today. The doctrines of NATO, Warsaw Pact and the Russia Federation, the deployment of troops and military equipment, the development of civil and strategic defence programs, the concepts of hybrid and coalition warfare, all will be key elements of this ambitious and innovative academic study.

PhD Student: Danilo Secci

Supervisor: Prof. Christian Rossi

Curriculum: International and Area Studies. History. Spaces. Society

Project title: Sardinian Ceramic Manufacturing Tradition. Production processes and workshops in the postclassical age at the origin of present-day craftsmanship.

Abstract: The project has the so called “ceramica steccata” as its object, a ceramic production peculiar to Sardinia during the late antiquity, and it refers to a wide chronological span, from III to VII century. The project is focused on the localization of the production areas and their catchment areas, both in an economical and commercial way, and the trade routes that allowed the spread of those ceramics throughout Sardinia.

PhD funding: PNRR DM 351/2022, M4C1-Inv. 4.1, Cultural Heritage

PhD Student: Marcella Serchisu

Supervisor: Prof.ssa Rossana Martorelli

Curriculum: Archaeological, Artistic, Film and Music Heritage

Project title: The so-called “Byzantine” belt buckles as an archaeological and socio-economic indicator for the reconstruction of the events of Sardinia and its cultural interchanges with the Mediterranean between the 6th and 11th centuries.

Abstract: The research undertakes the analysis of the so-called ‘Byzantine’ belt-buckles of the Western Mediterranean (Southern Italy, Sardinia, Sicily and North Africa). By focusing on morphology, handicraft techniques and finding contexts of these metal artifacts, the main aim of the study is to provide a brand new and innovative focus on social and economic exchanges between the Western and the Eastern parts of the Byzantine Mediterranean, from the 6th to the 11th c. CE.

PhD Student: Sara Tacconi

Supervisor: Prof.ssa Rossana Martorelli

Curriculum: Archaeological, Artistic, Film and Music Heritage

Project title: The role of documentary filmmaking in film education in Sardinia.

Abstract: The present research programme intends to investigate institutions and practices that, in the context of film literacy in Sardinia, have been promoting a specific reflection around the languages of reality, documentary and ethnographic movies. The aim of this research is also to elaborate a methodological and practical proposal responding to the needs of current educational contexts.

PhD Candidate: Francesco Andreotti

Supervisor: Prof. Floris Antioco

Curriculum: Archaeological, Artistic, Film and Music Heritage

Project title: From Sardinia to the Indian Ocean: coral in Hispano-Genovese global exchange networks (secc. XVI-XVIII).

Abstract: The research aims to reconstruct the complex nature of the social-economic networks which took shape between the 16th and 18th centuries around the fishing and marketing of Sardinian coral in the upper Tyrrhenian area. The work will be carried out by systematizing, primarily, the rich literature available on the subject but, above all, by making the methods of classical historiography research interact with the use of computational methodologies and tools in the processing of information data extracted from different types of documentary sources collected in local, national and international archives.

PhD Candidate: Filippo Astori

Supervisor: Prof. Giampaolo Salice

Curriculum: Euro-Mediterranean Historical Studies from Antiquity to the Contemporary Age

Project title: The digital catalog of works of art at the University of Cagliari (19th - 21st centuries).

Abstract: The research aims to create a digital catalog of artworks part of the historical and artistic heritage of the University of Cagliari, created between the XIX and XXI centuries. The goal is to develop an interactive and multifunctional platform generated by an open source application, able to collect iconographic material and the complexity of the information of the artworks, sources and study materials, for the purpose of the philological and critical reconstruction of the university heritage.

PhD Candidate: Carlo Maccioni

Supervisor: Prof.ssa Rita Pamela Ladogana

Curriculum: Archaeological, Artistic, Film and Music Heritage

Project title: Hydrogeological industrial risk and anthropization: study of a model for the creation of an ‘integrated safeguard system’ for cultural and landscape heritage applicable to the context of the Santa Gilla lagoon.

Abstract: The research aims to develop a methodology for the protection and enhancement of the cultural and environmental heritage, starting from the case study of the Santa Gilla lagoon and the surrounding municipalities, through the creation of a replicable safeguard model that can, with a view to “horizontal subsidiarity” and “shared responsibility”, stimulate participation in addressing, through a shared reference framework, any critical conditions related to natural and anthropogenic events and to secure and monitor the local cultural landscape.

PhD Candidate: Francesco Mameli

Supervisor: Prof. Fabio Calogero Pinna

Curriculum: Archaeological, Artistic, Film and Music Heritage

Project title: Grapich Cinema. The italian Baroque as a model of the Horror genre in Cinema.

Abstract: This project aims to investigate the relationship between graphic art, Baroque art, and horror cinema, with particular attention to the aesthetic and semantic roots of the latter within the Baroque context. The main objective is to analyze how the visual and symbolic characteristics of Baroque arts have influenced the emergence and development of the cinematic horror genre. The study seeks to provide a theoretical framework for interpreting the Baroque legacy in the visual language of horror, going beyond a merely historical reconstruction. It is conceived as an attempt to develop a scientific methodology capable of identifying and describing the mechanisms through which Baroque aesthetic models are reflected and transformed in contemporary horror cinema.

PhD Candidate: Mehdi Mohammadi

Supervisor: Prof. Diego Cavallotti

Curriculum: Archaeological, Artistic, Film and Music Heritage

Project title: Diasporas in Lebanon. Women's traditional handicraft as a space of action and cultural narrative.

Abstract: Starting from the historical and geographical context of Palestinian diaspora communities in Lebanon, the research addresses the social processes of meaning-making around craft practices perceived as traditional. It focuses on the activity of embroidery (tatriz) performed by Palestinian women, and recently declared UNESCO heritage. The research takes an interdisciplinary perspective, integrating an analysis of historical sources and an ethnographic approach to fieldwork, for which is planned a ten-month stay in Lebanon.

PhD Candidate: Onnis Benedetta

Supervisor: Prof. Francesco Bachis

Co-Supervisor: Prof. Melis Nicola

Curriculum: International and Area Studies. History. Spaces. Society

Project title: The so-called “rough” pottery in Sardinia from Late Antiquity to the end of the Byzantine Age as a productive, economic and social indicator in the Mediterranean.

Abstract: This research project focuses on coarse wares in Sardinia during the late antiquity and the byzantine age. This study will be carried out by merging together morphotypological, technological and contextual data, locating the geographical areas of provenience of the sherds analysed in each site, and taking into consideration the distribuiton network of goods on the Island and in the Mediterranean area.

PhD Candidate: Laura Pinelli

Supervisor: Prof.ssa Rossana Martorelli

Curriculum: Archaeological, Artistic, Film and Music Heritage

Project title: Slaves. A digital platform for the history of slavery in the Kingdom of Sardinia (17th-18th centuries).

Abstract: The thesis aims to analyze, from a social and institutional point of view, the phenomenon of slavery in the kingdom of Sardinia between the XVII and XVIII centuries. Collecting and systematizing the historiographic literature on the subject and investigating different types of sources on local, national and international archives, the research aims to identify the social and institutional protagonists of the slavery phenomenon and traded human capital. The information collected will be organized through a digital portal in which the personal stories of slaves will be accessible to everyone.

PhD Candidate: Beatrice Schivo

Supervisor: Prof. Giampaolo Salice

Curriculum: Euro-Mediterranean Historical Studies from Antiquity to the Contemporary Age

Project title: In Movement Between (Im)mobility and Hospitality: Hegemonic Practices and Strategies of Resistance — Imaginaries, Representations, and Narratives.

Abstract: The research, within the widest phenomenon of the international migration and human mobilities, focuses on the forms of mobilities considered “irregular” according to European national and international policies. Linked to these migratory movements, the research addresses the issue of the formal and informal reception of asylum seeker people in crossing, stopover, and destination societies in Italy and Sardinia.

PhD Student: Cinzia Atzeni

Supervisor: Prof. Raffaele Cattedra

Curriculum: Euro-Mediterranean Historical Studies from Antiquity to the Contemporary Age

Project title: Non-Theatrical and Non-Broadcast Heritage: Recovery and Valorization.

Abstract: The research focuses on the ways in which films and videos produced outside the traditional distribution/release circuits are transferred to the archives and on the protocols used by the latter to make them usable again. Through the census and analysis of these materials related to the University of Cagliari, the objective is to develop new guidelines and best practices for access and valorisation through the construction of a digital platform dedicated to the audiovisual memory of the University itself.

PhD Student: Michela Buttu

Supervisor: Prof. Antioco Floris

Curriculum: Archaeological, Artistic, Film and Music Heritage

Project title: The ‘Digital Divide’ in the Relationship Between Communities and Cultural Heritage: Proposals for a Predictive Analytical Model in the Context of Cultural Heritage Interpretation Planning.

Abstract: The research concerns the study of intergenerational rifts produced as a result of the digital revolution, in relation to cultural heritage. Starting from the identification of causes and critical issues that characterise the phenomenon, it will be produced a predictive analysis model, based on the classification of case studies in the fields of archaeology, art history, museology and education, which will propose methods and formal solutions to overcome the critical peculiarities of the digital divide.

PhD Student: Antonio Giorri

Supervisor: Prof. Fabio Calogero Pinna

Curriculum: Archaeological, Artistic, Film and Music Heritage

Project title: The Evolution of the Republican People's Party (CHP): From a Central Actor to a Peripheral One.

Abstract: The doctoral research concerns the political history of Turkey and specifically of the political party CHP, and is based on the most modern historiographical perspectives developed in the Turkish academic world, with which Dr. Sanna came into direct contact during his semester as a Visiting Researcher at the “Bilkent” University of Ankara, one of the major centers of their elaboration. In Turkey he conducted various on-field research activities in archives, libraries, and through oral sources, as well as an internship in the “Hrant Dink” research center in Istanbul.

PhD Student: Carlo Sanna

Supervisor: Prof. Nicola Melis

Curriculum: International and Area Studies. History. Spaces. Society

Project title: The History of the Sardinian Province of the Order of Preachers Between the 19th and 20th Centuries: A Census of Suppressions, Dispersals, and Archival Traces.

Abstract: The investigation aims to analyse and contextualise the history of the Dominican province, in its many transformations, limited to the island territory in the 19th and 20th centuries. Paying particular attention to the analysis of the archives, an attempt will be made to characterise the presences, absences and dispersions of Dominican documents concerning Sardinia. The intention is to ideally reconstruct the organicity of the documentation and visualise the deep relationships between different archival contexts.

PhD Student: Sergi Lorenzo

Supervisor: Prof.ssa Cecilia Tasca

Curriculum: Euro-Mediterranean Historical Studies from Antiquity to the Contemporary Age

Project title: Female Patronage in the Art of Medieval Sardinia.

Abstract: In Sardinia there are medieval written sources that testify to the presence of a significant number of women associated with the commissioning of works of art. Female names appear in relation to artistic patronage starting from Xth /XIth century. These clients probably were part of the aristocratic families that ruled the island. The investigation into the role of women as clients will be functional to understand the historical-artistic dynamics in Sardinia; moreover it can be clarifying the position of female figures in the decorative choices.

PhD Student: Valeria Carta

Supervisor: Prof. Andrea Pala

Curriculum: Archaeological, Artistic, Film and Music Heritage.

Project title: «Digital Portraits»: A Multimedia Tool on the Professors of the Royal University of Cagliari (1764–1946).

Abstract: The research project, carried out in the three-year period 2019-2022, intended to enrich the knowledge of the history of the University of Cagliari and of the portal of the Historical Archives through the creation of a relational database concerning the teachers who taught there, from the refoundation in 1764 until 1946, the year of the termination of the Royal University. The database has the purpose of facilitating access to the data relating to the teachers of the University of Cagliari.

PhD Student: Laura Cogoni

Supervisor: Prof.ssa Eleonora Todde

Curriculum: Euro-Mediterranean Historical Studies from Antiquity to the Contemporary Age.

Project title: Redefining the Relationship between Art and Fascism in Sardinia through Syndical Exhibitions.

Abstract: The research is cross-disciplinary and embraces both archival and art historical fields. From general to specific, it aims to identify the relations between Sardinian artists and Fascist cultural policy. Through the analysis of the archival sources identified, the research has been extended towards the ten exhibitions of the Fascist Fine Arts Syndicate of Sardinia, with the intention of reconstructing their specific events. Part of the project is the reordering of the artist private archives of Filippo Figari, the regional Secretary of the Syndicate. This activity makes it possible to place him within the organisational system of Exhibitions and thus to investigate his personality beyond his well-known artistic career.

PhD Student: Martina D’Asaro

Supervisor: Prof.ssa Pamela Ladogana Co-tutor: Prof.ssa Mariangela Rapetti

Curriculum: Euro-Mediterranean Historical Studies from Antiquity to the Contemporary Age.

Project title: The Military Dictatorship in Brazil and the Discursive Uses of Photojournalism (1964– 1985).

Abstract: The aim is to understand how the relationship between the newspapers «Folha de S. Paulo» and «Jornal do Brasil» and the military that held power for two decades evolved. Given the centrality of discursive production as a useful tool to achieve certain political and economic objectives, the photographic language and the verbo-visual interaction are analyzed in a dialogical key, resorting to certain categories and concepts present in Bakhtin’s and Gramsci’s thought.

PhD Student: Dreux Miranda Fernandes Thomas

Supervisor: Prof. David Bruni

Curriculum: Archaeological, Artistic, Film and Music Heritage.

Project title: The Development of the European Union’s Common Security and Defence Policy and Intelligence Sharing as an Opportunity to Relaunch a New European Defence.

Abstract: The topic of this research, in addition to mapping the organisms that are part of the communities of defense and intelligence, relies on a framework of policy analysis to structure the challenges of intelligence sharing on the European level. It is argued that the EU’s capacity to produce its own security intelligence is very low, depending on the sharing of intelligence by the national agencies. Additionally, it is said that the sharing of police intelligence is much more structured than the sharing of security intelligence. Finally, it is concluded that the European intelligence community welcomes different intelligence cultures within it and focuses its activities on diffuse cooperation that faces the limits of national sovereignty, interoperability deficits, and difficulties in establishing institutional relationships of trust.

PhD Student: Pietro Lucania

Supervisor: Prof.ssa Patrizia Manduchi

Curriculum: International and Area Studies. History. Spaces. Society.

Project title: A New Perspective on Life: The Use of Advanced Analytical Techniques in Bioarchaeology to Maximize Understanding of Sardinia’s Prehistory.

Abstract: Essential to understanding the complexity and dynamicity of Sardinian cultural and biological landscape is the people themselves. The aim is to contribute to anthropological studies analysing health, funerary behaviour, and culture considering the natural and cultural environment in which people lived. The lifeways of two sites, one from the Middle Neolithic and one from the Punic Era are investigated through bioarchaeological and chemical analysis, and geo-terrestrial imaging to give information so that a comparison within the people of Sardinia and those in Europe can be obtained.

PhD Student: Rossella Paba

Supervisor: Prof. Carlo Lugliè

Curriculum: Archaeological, Artistic, Film and Music Heritage.