Submission deadline:

September 1, 2022

Fondazione Giorgio Cini Residential Scholarships

Venice
Italy

The Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice offers 11 residential scholarships to PhD students and postdoc students who must not be over 40 years old on September 1, 2022, interested in spending two consecutive months in Venice at the Vittore Branca International Center for the Study of Italian Culture between January and December 2023.

The project is part of the initiatives shared with the Veneto Region l.r. 24/2021.

10 scholarships will be granted to interdisciplinary research projects in the field of Humanities.

1 scholarship will be granted to digitization-related research projects.

Ten residential scholarships are offered, within the interdisciplinary context that characterizes the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice to Italian and International scholars wishing to further their studies of Italian culture – especially that of the Veneto – in one of the following fields: art history, Venetian history, literature, music, drama, early printed books and comparative cultures and spiritualities. One residential scholarship will be specifically devoted to research projects focused on digitization topics that will take place at ARCHiVe.

Applications are due by 1 September 2022.

More information can be found here.

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