“Vittore Branca” International Center for the Study of Italian Culture

• Intersections between mysticism, esotericism, spirituality, and popular religion: an interdisciplinary analysis between philosophy, social sciences, and theology.
• Exploration of the boundaries between science, religion, and culture: the interaction between scientific conceptions and religious phenomena.
• The construction of religious boundaries and the perception of the Other: identity, alterity, and borders in social and political contexts.
• Between New and Old Age: the relationships between old and new trends in religious phenomena.
• Phenomenology of the religious body: perception, emotion, and cultural construction of the body in spiritual practices.
• Study and enhancement of the Tiziano Terzani Archive: personal documents and photographs as testimonies of his experience and worldview.

• History of European Seminar in Ethnomusicology
• Editing audio visual documents to create video clips and texts with archival materials
• Study of Alain Daniélou manuscripts
• Revising and study of Bîrûn project. Seminars on Ottoman music
• The Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies at the Giorgio Cini Foundation and the popularizing of Indian music in Italy: a history of forty years of courses, seminars and concerts
• For a history of IISMC: birth and development of a new idea of popularization and research on world music

• Benno Geiger in dialogue with Italian poets and writers
• Benno Geiger in dialogue with German-speaking poets and writers
• Benno Geiger translator and poet
• Gabriele D’Annunzio and the “Fiume exploit,” based on the documents in the Frumi Bequest
• Art and literature in Italy, Germany and the rest of Europe in the mid-20th century, based on the documents in the Geiger Bequest
• The “Veneto tradition” in 20th-century culture and the role of Diego Valeri

• Ancient book collections in the 20th century
• Illustration and mise en page of Venetian 15th and 16th century books
• 17^th century printed books held in the Fondazione Giorgio Cini
• Personal libraries (Munoz, Dudan, Salvadori); illustrated books
• Book illustration
• Exchanges, relations and collaborations among typographers in 15^th and 16^th century-Venice
• Modern antiques: the book trade through sales catalogs

• Historical-critical or philological research projects aimed at enhancing the archival collections of the Institute for Music.
• History of the Egida Sartori Early Music Seminars from 1976 to the present.

• Vittorio Cini as art collector and the Fondazione Giorgio Cini art collections
• Prisco Bagni’s photographic collection: study, reorganization and inventory
• Emilian drawings of architecture, perspective, quadratura and decorations: study and cataloguing of the Antonio Certani collection in the Fondazione Giorgio Cini
• Drawings for the decorative arts in the Fondazione Giorgio Cini collections: study and cataloguing
• Landscape drawings: study and cataloguing of the works in Fondazione Giorgio Cini collections
• Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Emilian and Bolognese figurative drawings: study and cataloguing of the works in the Antonio Certani collection in the Fondazione Giorgio Cini
• Nicolò Cipriani’s “Italian Photo Library” in the Fondazione Giorgio Cini: study, reordering, inventorying (and cataloguing) of a section of the photo library
• Giuseppe Fiocco’s photographic collection in the Fondazione Giorgio Cini: study, reordering, inventorying (and cataloguing) of a section of the collection
• Rodolfo Pallucchini’s photo library: study and cataloguing of a section of the photo library

N.B. Candidates are invited to contact the Institute (arte@cini.it) to view the collections and archives involved in their chosen research themes.

The Archive of the History of the Venetian State allows for a detailed and multifaceted study of the role played by Venice in European diplomacy, with reference – among others – to the following specific topics:

• The “ego-documents”: papers of a lifetime. The “Tenenti” Bequest. Reconstructing Alberto Tenenti’s profile from a historical, intellectual and networking perspective.
• Mixing and sharing ideas: arrivals, departures and in loco elaboration
• The relationship between the Serenissima and the Holy See
• The knowledge of the territory ruled by the government of the Republic – both on land and at sea – at Palazzo Ducale
• Venice’s perception of the world “expanded” by discoveries, as a privileged observatory of changing horizons and therefore as an “eye on the world”
• Venice defensive works between 16th and 18th century: Western Stato da Terra – Stato da Mar
• The Murazzi sea defense
• Enrolling convicts
• Relics obsession
• Religious places and builiding permits
• Between persistence and innovation
• Inquiries on Toponymy
• Mercenary Eros
• The pater familias
• Cult of the dead
• Self-celebration among noble families
• Culture, arts and social differentiation
• Venice and the Ottoman Empire

• Bibliography, works, and compositional thought of Antonio Vivaldi: an investigation into the stylistic connections and mutual influences with Venetian, Italian, and European composers of his time.
• Evolution of Vivaldi interpretation: from the rediscovery of the music of the Red Priest in the early decades of the twentieth century to the present day.

• The life and art of Aurel A. Milloss
• Luigi Squarzina as stage director and playwright
• Theatre theory and practice in Arnaldo Momo’s works
• History of drama, based on opera librettos in the Ulderico Rolandi’s Bequest – specifically focused on Veneto and Venetian opera production
• Stage design in the Veneto from 17th to 20th century
• 20th- century Italian author’s set design in cinema and theatre Pierluigi Samaritani’s and Mischa Scandella’s set design
• Theatre and Movie Direction in the archives of Maurizio Scaparro, Giovanni Poli and Arnaldo Momo
• Iconography as a study source for the history of theatre

• Digitisation of archival materials in various formats (paper, photographic, magnetic).
• Digitisation of bound bibliographic materials, both ancient and modern.
• Automation of post-production processes for images.
• Data representation systems.
• Linked Open Data for Cultural Heritage.
• Online dissemination of content and sources: technologies, methodologies, opportunities, challenges.
• Digital technology for accessibility and inclusivity within cultural institutions.