TURIN HUMANITIES PROGRAMME
5th CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – 2024
2025-2027 RESEARCH CYCLE
“Rethinking the Origins of Political Economy in the European World: Needs, Justice, and the Wealth of Nations”
Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura della Compagnia di San Paolo (hereinafter “Fondazione 1563”) has since 2013 supported research and advanced training in the field of the humanities.
In a wider effort to pursue this goal, in 2020 Fondazione 1563 has launched the Turin Humanities Programme, a research initiative that allows junior scholars to work on interrelated research projects under the guidance of especially appointed Senior Fellows.
THP aims at promoting two-year research projects about relevant global history topics.
Under THP in 2020 Fondazione 1563 launched a first call for application for research on the Enlightenmnent legacy: the rights of man in a global perspective, in 2021 a second call for application for research on Political Thought and the Body: Europe and East Asia, ca. 1100-1650, in 2022 a third call for application for research on Slavery, ethnicity and race in the Mediterranean. Ideas and attitudes from Homer to Columbus, and in 2023 a fourth call for application for research on Slavery and Serfdom in Europe and the New World: Debates in the Early Modern Period.
Fondazione 1563 is now pleased to launch the fifth call for applications to award up to 4 two-year fellowships for advanced studies on Rethinking the Origins of Political Economy in the European World: Needs, Justice, and the Wealth of Nations.
The Director of Studies for this programme (2025-2027) will be Sophus Reinert, T.J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of Business Administration and of History in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School and in the History Department and Harvard University.
For information and questions please email: info@fondazione1563.it
Applicants are invited to submit research project proposals of a maximum of 3000 words, plus bibliography. Projects are expected to engage with one or more aspects of the general research framework Rethinking the Origins of Political Economy in the European World: Needs, Justice, and the Wealth of Nations.
Candidates are invited to propose projects addressing any aspect of the cultural, economic, political, social, and intellectual implications of the evolving relationship between human needs, rights, and the commercialization of society in the long eighteenth century. The broader objective of the project is not merely to deepen our understanding of the origins of political economy as a historical phenomenon, but to examine the diverse historical canons through which it was shaped and the processes of international competition, emulation, and translation that enriched and transformed its development.
Proposals should engage thoughtfully with the complex and often contentious dimensions of this history, recognizing its enduring significance for contemporary debates and practices.
Details of the research framework can be found here.
In addition to the research proposal, applicants must submit their Curriculum vitae et studiorum and:
- an article-length piece of writing, published or unpublished, which demonstrates innovative thinking (written in English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish) and
- the contact information of two scholars familiar with the applicant’s work and willing to act as their referees (one of whom can be their PhD supervisor); only the referees of shortlisted candidates will be contacted by the Fondazione 1563.
Successful candidates will carry out their individual research projects under the supervision of the Director of Studies. They will also collaborate to the organization of activities such as seminars, conferences, exhibitions and summer schools, during which they will be invited to share their research projects with a wider community of academics as well as students and the general public.
Qui tutti i dettagli per partecipare.
