Mobility Studies

Overview

This is something different than offering a focus uniquely on the circulation of people, objects, and ideas in given historical and geographical frameworks. The Mobility Studies programme at the University of Padua offers a broader approach. It aims at providing students with a selection of specific tools in historical, geographical, anthropological and philological studies, in order to challenge the traditional understanding of human actions, in time and space. “Challenging forces” such as colonization, migration, exile, tourism are seen as factors that shape cultural identities and not only as phenomena of contamination of given cultures. 

Students will be immersed in an engaging process through which people, texts, images, artifacts, commodities, ideas are moved, translated, transformed, adapted and negotiated by different social actors, sometime in distant spatial contexts, in the past and in the present. The global and local scenarios call for new experts, trained in historical and cultural studies, but ready for political and social action today.

Career

Graduates work as:

• State & Local Government Agencies;

• International organisations;

• NGOs;

• Think tanks;

• Cultural tourism;

• Heritage digital industries;

• Media & Communications;

• Academic researchers;

• Teachers at High School Level

• Galleries, Museums, Archives, Libraries