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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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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May 23-27, 2022
This Graduate Seminar will be led by:
- IUAV University of Venice, Italy
- University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
International PhD Academy
February 14-18, 2022
14 – 19 January, 2018
10-22 July 2017
The 2017 Seminar will be led by:
- Duke University (Sonia Silvestri, Scientific Coordinator)
- National Research Council of Italy
- Università degli Studi di Padova
- Universitá Ca’ Foscari Venezia
- Università IUAV Venezia
- INRS University
- KU Leuven
International PhD Academy
8-13 May 2017
This is the first in the Global Challenges Series of VIU International PhD Academies. Each intensive PhD Academy will focus on a major societal challenges faced by humankind today, which will be addressed via multidisciplinary approaches, involving high-level speakers selected among the VIU member institutions but whose remarks will be adapted to a broad cohort of the VIU community.