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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.

Law and the Global Economy. Training the Next Generation of Academic Leaders

September 15-19, 2025

Call for applications: January 15 – May 15, 2025

The PhD Academy is led by:

- University of Padua, Italy
- University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
- University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
- Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- KU Leuven

The world is currently witnessing a significant

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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.

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.

Science and Technology Studies

International PhD Academy

January 8-15, 2016

Science & Technology Studies (STS) is an interdisciplinary field, bringing together sociology, history, philosophy, sociology and related social science and humanities approaches. STS looks at science and technology (S&T) as a means of asking about the creation of facts, technological objects, and scientific knowledge, examining the ways in which S&T are embedded in social life.