Master of Arts in Mobility Studies

Today mobility is a keyword related to migration, transport, mass tourism, global trade, the circulation of digital information, and their impact on urban transformations. Beyond everyday perception, mobility is also a new paradigm in the Social Sciences and Humanities, that looks beyond immobile socio-economic structures and fixed cultural identities, in order to provide a new understanding of past and present societies.

The two-year MA program in Mobility Studies at the University of Padua is driven by the assumption that the Humanities can play a crucial role in facing and understanding mobility in present society. This is something different than offering a focus uniquely on the circulation of people, objects, and ideas in given historical and geographical frameworks. The MA program in Mobility Studies offers a broader approach. It aims at providing students with a selection of specific tools in historical, geographical, anthropological, and philological studies, in order to challenge the traditional understanding of human actions, in time and space. “Challenging forces” such as colonization, migration, exile, tourism are seen as factors that shape cultural identities and not only as phenomena of contamination of given cultures. Students will be immersed in an engaging process through which people, texts, images, artifacts, commodities, ideas are moved, translated, transformed, adapted, and negotiated by different social actors, sometimes in distant spatial contexts, in the past, and in the present. The global and local scenarios call for new experts, trained in historical and cultural studies, but ready for political and social action today.

General Modules
Migrations in World History
Transport History
Ideas and Cultures in Motion
Communication and Media in History

History and Social Sciences
History of Tourism
Demography of Migration
Space, Place and Mobility
Cultural Encounters
Museum Collections Heritage
History of Ethnography: Scholars Travellers and Adventurers

Literature, Law and Social Sciences
English as a Global Language
Texts on the move
Digital Philology
European and Global Citizenship
Gender eu politics and globalization
Economic globalization and human rights

Laboratories
Statistics and Databases
Public History

Others
Academic speaking and writing
Internship
Final Project

The programme is a study track – completely held in English – of the Master’s degree programme in Scienze storiche

Graduates work as:

1. State & Local Government Agencies;
2. International organizations;
3. NGOs;
4. Think tanks;
5. Cultural tourism;
6. Heritage digital industries;
7. Media & Communications;
8. Academic researchers;
9. Teachers at High School Level
10. Galleries, Museums, Archives, Libraries