Mobility studies (study track)

The mobility studies curriculum is driven by the belief that the humanities can play a crucial role in understanding and addressing mobility in modern society. Students will be immersed in the process through which people, texts, images, artefacts, commodities and ideas are moved, translated, transformed, adapted and negotiated by different social actors – sometime in distant spatial contexts – in the past and in the present. Global and local scenarios call for new experts who are trained in historical and cultural studies but ready for political and social action today. An interdisciplinary education at an international level and enriched by inter-sectoral experiences is fundamental to facing the current difficulties that young humanists face when approaching the new job market in both the private and public sectors.

• For Academic Year 2027/2028, you will need to submit your application within one of the following calls:

  • Call One: 15 September 2026 - 15 November 2026
  • Call Two: 1 December 2026 - 1 March 2027
  • Call Three: 1 April 2027 - 1 June 2027 (only for EU students and non-EU students residing in Italy)

   APPLICATION PLATFORM

   

   Programme structure

• Core units: Migrations in World History, Transport History, Ideas and Cultures in Motion, Communication and Media in History
• History and Social Sciences: Commodity Chains in World History, History of Tourism, Demography and Migration, Space, Place and Mobility, Cultural Encounters, Museum Collections Heritage
• Theory and Methods: Digital Tools for Mobility Research, Big Data and Social Network Analysis
• Literature, Law and Social Sciences: English as a Global Language, Texts on the move, Digital Philology, European and Global Citizenship, Gender EU politics and globalization, Economic globalization and human rights
• Laboratories: Statistics and Databases, Public History, Academic speaking and writing
• Internship and Final Project
• Career Opportunities
• Beyond the employment possibilities in the academy, high school or cultural institutions, such as libraries, museums and archives, graduates will be offered cognitive tools and concrete training opportunities to find a job in state and local government agencies, international organisations such as NGOs, cultural tourism and the heritage, digital and communications industries.