Calendar of activities 2025

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University of Modena and Reggio Emila

PhD PROGRAMME IN HUMAN SCIENCES

40th CYCLE
a.y. 2024-2025

DOCTORAL PROGRAMME ACTIVITIES

Doctoral Programme activities are divided into:

  1. Series of seminars on methodologies and general research skills. These activities are mandatory for all curricula.
  2. Optional activities based on the different curricula and research interests. These include single workshops and seminars, series of colloquia and conferences.

Below you can find the list of training activities for the 40th cycle. The activities are also open to students from previous cycles.

Series of seminars on methodologies and general research skills
(COMPULSORY - 3 hours of training activities correspond to 1 university credit)

MODULE

SPEAKERS/LECTURES

VENUE

DATE

Communication skills

Academic Discourse. English for Academic Purposes

Ulrike Kaunzner

Presenting your research

Dip. SLC Modena

- 20 November 2024
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
ROOM B1.5

- 27 November 2024
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
ROOM B1.5

- 4 December 2024
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
ROOM B1.5

Marina Bondi

Writing an abstract

Dip. SLC Modena

23 January 2025
2:30 PM - 5:30 PM
ROOM B1.5

Giuliana Diani

Writing a review

Dip. SLC Modena 11 February 2025
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
ROOM B1.5

Marina Bondi

Writing a dissertation

Dip. SLC Modena

20 February 2025
2:30 PM - 5:30 PM
ROOM B1.5

Silvia Cavalieri

Writing and presenting a poster

Dip. SLC Modena 6 May 2025
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
ROOM B1.5

IT and statistics resources in the Humanities

Julien Longhi (CY Cergy Paris Université)

The embedding of stories in digital social media: circulation, translation and reorganisation of content and meaning

Dip. SLC Modena 12 November 2024
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
ROOM B0.4

Emanuela Raimondi

Risorse bibliografiche ed elettroniche di Ateneo (for PhD students working in the Dipartimento di Educazione e Scienze Umane, Reggio Emilia)

Dip. ESU Reggio Emilia

22 November 2024
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
ONLINE (TEAMS)

Ombretta Malavasi

Risorse bibliografiche ed elettroniche di Ateneo (for PhD students working in the Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali, Modena)

Dip. SLC Modena

27 November 2024
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
ROOM B0.6

Vincenzo Settembrino, Federico Corradini, Jessica Jane Nocella

UNIMORE IT services: UNIMOREAD, VPN, WI-FI, EDUROAM, websites, templates and Brand Book.
Learning Platforms and Apps: Moodle, Microsoft Teams, Google Suite, Gmail, Office 365 (Word, Excel, Power Point).
Virtual labs and remote Desktop for institution-wide licenses (SPSS - Software Package for Social Sciences, SDL Trados, Word Smith Tools). Corpora (Sketch Engine, BNC license- Academic license at English-Corpora.org)

Dip. SLC Modena

- 17 December 2024
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
ROOM B1.5
 
- 4 February 2025
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
ROOM B1.5

Andrea Solieri, Valentina Davighi

IRIS, Open access, FAIR data, Risorse bibliografiche e strumenti di ricerca
( In Italian)

Biblioteca Scientifica Interdipartimentale
Via Campi 213/C, Modena

20 January 2025
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
ROOM 0.1

The Open Science Game
(In Italian/English)

20 March 2025
10:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Sala Gender*More

Giovanna Buonanno

Literature in the digital space: Digital literary archives and web resources

Dip. SLC Modena

20 February 2025
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
ROOM B1.5

Research methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Giovanna Buonanno

From ‘sameness to ‘difference : transnational routes in literature and literary studies

Dip. SLC Modena

11 February 2025
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
ROOM B1.5

Claudio Baraldi

Interlacements of social sciences and humanities: a sociological reflection

Dip. SLC Modena 10 March 2025
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
ROOM B1.5

Marina Bondi

Corpus linguistics for the humanities

Dip. SLC Modena

20 March 2025
2:30 PM - 5:30 PM
ROOM B1.5

Sara Amadasi

Digital methods in qualitative research with children with migrant background

Dip. SLC Modena

- 7 April 2025
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
ROOM B1.5

- 8 April 2025
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
ROOM B1.5

Alfonso Botti

Rapporto critico con le fonti e costruzione dei percorsi interpretativi nelle scienze umane

Dip. SLC Modena

15 May 2025
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
ROOM B2.4

Laura Gavioli

Analysing interaction: a methodological account through the case of dialogue interpreting

Dip. SLC Modena 19 May 2025
2:30 PM - 5:30 PM
ROOM B1.5

Maristella Scorza, Michela Camia

Specific learning disorder: characteristics and early identification. Focus on digital technology

Tecnopolo Padiglione 15
Piazzale Europa, 1/A
Reggio Emilia

21 May 2025
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
ROOM M0.6

Vincenzo Pacillo

Secularism, Laïcité, Laicità: a theoretical and juridical approach to different models of pluralism

Dip. SLC Modena

27 May 2025
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
ROOM B1.5

Gian Antonio Di Bernardo

Research Methods in Social Sciences

Dip. SLC Modena

29 May 2025
-12:00PM - 2:00 PM
-3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
ROOM B1.5

 
Workshops, seminars, symposia and conferences
(OPTIONAL, based on the different curricula and research interests - 3 hours = 1 university credit)
 

SPEAKER(S)/ACTVITY

TITLE

VENUE

DATE

Silvia Modena (Unimore)

Populismo: lingua e identità nel discorso politico contemporaneo

Dip. SLC Modena

- 12 December 2024
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
ROOM B1.5

- 23 January 2025
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
ROOM B1.5

Manlio Della Marca (Unimore)

Explorations in Media Ecology and American Literature

Dip. SLC Modena

- 25 February 2025
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
ROOM B1.5

- 26 February 2025
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
ROOM B1.5

Laura Madeleine Maria Turchi (Unimore) Il sistema diplomatico in età moderna dall'Italia all'Europa (XV-XVIII secolo) Dip. SLC Modena 29 April 2025
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
ROOM B1.5
Matteo Al Kalak (Unimore) Come leggere una disputa del XVIII secolo. Lodovico Antonio Muratori, l'Inquisizione e i limiti della verità Dip. SLC Modena 30 April 2025
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
ROOM B1.5
Claudia Cagninelli (Università di Milano)

Analisi del discorso francese e strumenti testometrici: questioni teorico-metodologiche nella costruzione ed esplorazione di corpora digitali

Dip. SLC Modena 12 May 2025
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
ROOM B0.4
Maria Chiara Rioli (Unimore) Writing Contemporary History: Israel, Palestine, and Historiography in the Conflict Dip. SLC Modena 10 June 2025
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
ROOM B1.5

Prof. Ilario Bertoletti
(Editor-in-Chief - Editrice Morcelliana, Brescia)

L'editoria e la dialettica dell'ipertesto Dip. SLC Modena 23 October 2025
2:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room TBD

Visiting professors

1. Prof. Josef Schmied (Chemnitz University): An empirical, genre-based approach to Academic Writing for Doctoral Research

-13 November 2024 h. 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Room B1.5 - Conventions & Genres in Academic Research
-18 November 2024 h. 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Room B1.5 - Digitalisation and Recent Development of Genres and AI
-20 November 2024 h. 10:00 AM -1:00 PM, Room B0.6 - Writing and Reviewing a Conference Proposal/Abstract
-21 November 2024 h. 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Room B1.5 - Sketching a (PhD thesis) Project Proposal and a PhD Thesis

2. Prof. Josephine Mirador (De La Salle University, Manila): Understanding Academic Discourses for Advanced Research Communication

Seminars Date

(i) Academic Discourse and Research Communication
(Principles, Characteristics, Typicalities)

-5 February 2025, 10:00 AM-1:00 PM, Room B1.5

-12 February 2025, 10:00 AM-1:00 PM, Room B1.5

(ii) Communicating Research Part 1
Discourse Modes, Genre Features, Macro and microstructures, Moves
Stylized features, academic register and conventionalized language

-19 February 2025, 10:00 AM-1:00 PM, Room B1.5

-26 February 2025, 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, Room B1.5

(iii) Communicating Research Part 2
Discourse Modes, Genre Features, Macro and microstructures, Moves
Linguistic Cueing, Signposting

-5 March 2025, 10:00 AM-1:00 PM, Room B1.5

-12 March 2025, 10:00 AM-1:00 PM, Room B1.5

(iv) Authorial stances and “Voice” construction:
Analysis of persuasive discourse in written academic genres

-19 March 2025, 10:00 AM-1:00 PM, Room B1.5

-26 March 2025, h. 14:00-17:00, Room B1.5

(v) The discourse of storytelling for research purposes;
Writing for qualitative research purposes:
Life history writing and narratives, Ethnographic accounts and fieldnotes, Writing up case studies

-2 April 2025, 10:00 AM-1:00 PM, Room B1.5

-9 April 2025, 10:00 AM-1:00 PM, Room B1.5

(vi) Converting the dissertation into publishable manuscripts;
Writing research articles for publication

-14 April 2025, 10:00 AM-1:00 PM, Room B1.5

-16 April 2025, 10:00 AM-1:00 PM, Room B1.5

3. Prof. Federico Farini (University of Northampton, UK): Research Methods for Social Sciences and Humanities

-18 March 2025, h. 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM, Room B1.5 - Research Designs for Humanities and Social Sciences
-1 April 2025, h. 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM, Room B1.5 - Analytical Procedures for Humanities and Social Sciences
-8 April 2025, h. 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM, Room B1.5 - Analytical Procedures for Humanities and Social Sciences
-15 April 2025, h. 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM, Room B1.5 - Ethics; Dissemination for impact

4. Prof. Christiane Hohenstein (Zurich University of Applied Sciences): Introduction to Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion

Seminars Date

1Pragmatic models of intercultural communication and cooperation; intersectionality and inclusion.
Students are introduced to a set of related pragmatic models (Perspectivising, Cultural Apparatus, Cultural Filter, three-tier co-operation), work with case studies on intersectionality and inclusion and reflect on critical incidents.

13 May 2025, 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, Room B1.5

2Negotiating linguistic diversity and inclusion in interaction; qualitative empirical data and analyses.
Students work with linguistic transcriptions of authentic discourse and are given the opportunity to use videography, transcribing and multimodal analyses.

20 May 2025, 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, Room B1.5

3Language regimes, policy and language rights in multilingual communication; marginalisation, revitalisation and empowerment.
Students explore case studies in various marginalised and small languages and approaches combining language policy, linguistics and AI instruments.

22 May 2025, 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, Room B1.5

4Resource-oriented approaches in higher and tertiary education (HTE); Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and the challenges of linguistic inclusion. 
Students reflect on accessibility and inclusiveness of multilingual learning in HTE using UDL, including options of easy-to-read, plain or simplified languages etc.

10 June 2025, 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, Room B1.5

 

Summer School 2025

Digital Humanities and Digital Communication: Integrating Traditional and Innovative Tools
Modena, 3-6 June 2025
Download the scientific programme.

 

Further optional activities

You can also choose any of the training activies of the Doctoral Programme in Humanities, Technology and Society (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) as optional activities. Please remember that 3 hours of activities correspond to 1 university credit (CFU).
For further information: https://www.phdhumantechsociety.unimore.it/insegnamenti/

 

Ultima modifica: 18 giugno 2025