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Visualizing Cities Summer Institute | Past Editions

Digital Technologies for Historical and Cultural visualization are transforming the ways that scholars can study and represent works of art, as well as growth and change in urban spaces and buildings. Interdisciplinary teams focus on the hard questions of Digital Art History as a discipline, a set of methods, and a host of technical and institutional challenges and opportunities.

Wandering Across Sustainable Terrains and Environments

July 7-12, 2025

Call for applications: closed

The PhD Academy is led by:

- Duke University
- Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
- University of Exeter 
- Iuav University of Venice

The performing arts contribute to the environmental humanities, foregrounding their role in understanding and tackling the environmental crisis. In this PhD Academy, this relation will be interrogated from the viewpoint of the

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Rethinking Rural Futures in an Age of Climate Change: Migration, Adaptation, and Sustainability Transitions

May 12-17, 2025

Call for applications: December 2, 2024 – January 31, 2025

The PhD Academy is led by:

- Duke University
- Exeter University
- Stellenbosch University

Rural communities are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, having long relied on farming, fishing, and the natural environment for their livelihoods. Strategies to enhance climate resilience and to support rural flourishing will

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Science Communication and Education

Focus
All stakeholders, from researchers to professionals, policy makers and citizens must contribute to achieve sustainable development and the SDGs.  Researchers have to provide the acquired knowledge, whereas professionals and policy makers need the capacity to face and manage complex issues. Citizens’ engagement is necessary in order to promote a constructive dialogue that supports both research and policy.

Critical Infrastructure Resilience | Past Editions

The VIU Summer School on Critical Infrastructure Resilience (CIR) brings together academics and professional experts to discuss an emerging topic with a pragmatic and scientific approach. The School, led by the University of Rome Tor Vergata, explains how critical infrastructure works and fails; its cascading impact from local to global, and the strategies to use to build a resilient society.

Defining the Human in Environmental Humanities

VIU Global Challenges Initiative

June 6-11, 2022

This Graduate Seminar will be led by:
- Boston College, USA
- Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany

How Can the Humanities Save the Planet?

VIU Global Challenges Initiatives

June 10 - 14, 2019 

Leading Universities
Boston College (Prof. Elizabeth Wallace)
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Prof. Shaul Bassi)
Tel Aviv University (Prof. Dorit Tanay)

Framing Global Change and Green Economy in the Sustainable Development Goals

September 12-16, 2016

Scientific Coordinator
Prof. Carlo Giupponi, Dean of VIU and Director of Venice Centre for Climate Studies, Professor of Environmental Economics, Dept. Economics, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

Organized in collaboration with Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, PhD in Science and Management of Climate Change.