PhD in Space, Image, Text, Territory

The doctoral program focuses on interdisciplinary research at the intersection of culture, art, and media, exploring the relationship between space, image, text, and territory. Key thematic areas include:
Cultural and Artistic Narratives – crime fiction in socio-cultural and transmedia perspectives, graphic novels, and digital storytelling.
Symbolism, Allegory, and Religious Discourse – verbal, visual, kinetic, and digital expressions of the sacred; sensory and bodily experiences in artistic creation.
Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies – from traditional cultural processes to heritage objects, archives, digital technologies, and site-specific patrimonial-artistic contexts.
Artistic Mediality and Image Authority – the role of images as documents or artworks, analog and digital media, identity and otherness in collections and museums.
Urban and Transcultural Studies – cultural imaginaries, multimedia artistic forms, migration, transformation, and identity in artistic expression.
Ethics, Politics, and Cultural Policies – exploring the political and ethical dimensions of culture and the arts, and the development of cultural policies.
Representation and Visibility in Art – challenges of the “non-finished,” visible/invisible/non-visible, and contemporary artistic representation.
This program equips doctoral students to conduct original research, develop critical and creative projects, and engage with complex interdisciplinary frameworks in national and international contexts.