Humanities

Until now, ethicists have mostly told us what is right, while assuming that it is our responsibility to get there.

A three-day festival of documentaries from India.

My dissertation explores the making of the New International Economic Order (NIEO)—and the demands for economic sovereignty and a “right to development” it embodied—from the perspective(s) of sub-Saharan Africa.

How can we examine poetry and production from an environmental perspective?

As Japan built its empire in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, it enforced assimilationist policies that changed the lives of the people in its territories.

Academic knowledge production often involves imbalances of power, as researchers from the Global North have frequently conducted studies in marginalized communities in the Global South.

This institute seeks to reimagine the critical vocabulary of religious studies through the use of Chinese concepts, as a way of decentering and decolonizing the study of religion.

In a reality characterized by massive global movements, it is fundamental to understand the wide range of perspectives involving their different social actors by investigating, for instance, the connections between the socio-political realities of both the mother country and the target one, as they are embodied in literature.

The project “Migration and Ecocriticism in Latin American Literature” investigates the ways in which Latin American authors represent the effects of climate changes, the territorial modifications caused by deforestation and abuse of natural materials, and how this determines the spread of migratory movements.

Movements and Directions in the Study of Capitalism (MADCAP) is an interdisciplinary working group for the study of capitalism in all its global articulations and variations.