The Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, ERC-2019-CoG Architectural Culture of the Early Modern Eastern Adriatic announces three PhD fellowships. The ERC research project, “Architectural Culture of the Early Modern Eastern Adriatic” (proposal number 865863), hosted by the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, benefits from the financial support of the European Research Council, starting in September 2020.
Historian of art and architecture, Jasenka Gudelj will lead an international research group investigating the impact of shifts within political, religious, cognitive and economic spheres in the borderland area of the Eastern Adriatic coast between 15th and 18th c., with focus on architecture as the most evident materialisation of a culture and its transformations.
Prospective candidates should have outstanding projects in one of the following research areas relevant to the ERC action:
- Early Modern Territoriality and Venetiatization: urban changes and public buildings in the Eastern Adriatic;
- Catholic revival and religious architecture of the eastern Adriatic: Valier’s visitation and its aftermath;
- Military architecture between theory and practice of the Early Modern Eastern Adriatic.
The successful candidates will enroll in a PhD program at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, History of Art Curriculum.
Preference will be given to candidates with basic knowledge of Croatian language.