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STEFANO GIOVANNI CANEVA

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Position

Professore Associato

Structure

Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali: archeologia, storia dell'arte, del cinema e della musica (DBC)

Address

PIAZZA CAPITANIATO, 7 - PALAZZO LIVIANO - PADOVA

Telephone

0498274606

E-mail

stefano.caneva@unipd.it

After a MA in Classics (Università di Pavia) Stefano Caneva has obtained a PhD in Ancient History in 2011 (Scuola Superiore di Studi Storici di San Marino). He has been research fellow at the Université de Toulouse II Jean Jaurès (2009), Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (2009), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2010-2011), Université de Liège (2011-2014, 2017-2019), Academia Belgica in Rome (2014), and Università di Padova (Marie Curie Piscopia fellowship, 2015-2017). He has taught History of Greek Religion at the Universities of Toulouse (2017), Liège (2017-2019), Brussels (2018-2019), and Greek History in Toulouse (2017) amd Padova (since 2020; invited profosser at the Scuola Galileiana di Studi Superiori on 2022/23).
He is member of several international research projects in Ancient History and has taken part in various EU-funded programmes on active citizenship, intercultural collaboration and the digital promotion of cultural heritage.
His main research fields include the following topics: political and diplomatic interactions in Hellenistic cities and kingdoms; the interaction between politics and religion in power legitimation (Practicalities of Hellenistic Ruler Cults, www.phrc.it; Fb @PHRC_Social); contacts between different cultures and traditions in the Hellenistic and Imperial Mediterranean world; human communities and environment in the ancient world.

Notices

A meeting (in person, or digitally through Zoom) can be requested by writing to stefano.caneva@unipd.it

Office hours

  • at Palazzo Liviano, 3° piano, ufficio immediatamente a destra entrando nella sezione di Archeologia
    Fino alla fine dell'emergenza COVID, il docente riceverà (in presenza e/o in remoto, secondo le norme vigenti) su appuntamento; si prega di scrivere a stefano.caneva@unipd.it

Teachings

Research Area

1)Political, social and cultural history of the Hellenistic period
2)Greek religion in the Hellenistic and Imperial periods
3)Cultural contacts in the Eastern Mediterranean
4)International diplomacy, élites and honour in the Hellenistic and Imperial world
5)Cultic honours for political leaders and public benefactors, between ritual practice and theoretical discourse
6)Public and private processes of heroization
7)Greek epigraphy and digital epigraphy
8)Hellenistic and Imperial Historiography
9)Reception Studies
10)Human communities and environment in the ancient world: ecology, economy, representations