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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

The MSCA is a prestigious grant for experienced researchers who want to work on an independent research project of their choice in another country. The scholarship is funded by the EU research programme Horizon 2020. 

Silhouette of Marie Curie in burgundy and white. Illustration.

  • The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships have a duration of up to two years.

  • The funds are available as a postdoctoral fellowship to researchers with more than four years of research experience, or a PhD degree.

  • The Individual Fellowships grant is a two-way transfer of knowledge, from researcher to host institution, and from host institution to researcher.

 

Ongoing projects

A young smiling woman. Photo.Female Prophecy in Early Modern European Religion

Project leader: Eleonora Cappuccilli

Duration: 01.11.2023 to 31.10.2026

This project is the first attempt to create a theoretical account of female prophecy in 16th century Italy, Spain and England as a key to understanding early modern religion. Eleonora Cappuccilli identifies 16th-century Italian ‘living saints’ and humanists; Spanish beatas and conversas; and English visionaries as privileged actors of prophetic charisma and challenges assumptions that prophecy responds just to national or local interests and debates, opening avenues for transnational and trans-confessional research in this field.


A young man wearing a dark sweather. Black and white photo. TimeWorks | Modernist Occupations

Project leader: Wassim R. Rustom

Duration: 01.10.2023 to 30.09.2026

Wassim R. Rustom research the temporality of labor in modernist texts, beginning with a focus on representations of the writer/artist's work. The project explores British and American modernists' temporal experiments as critical lenses on the socio-temporality of work at a moment of historic transformations in social divisions of labor. 


A young woman with long brown hair wearing a white shirt with a grey west. Photo.Female Bodies in Sacred Spaces: Re-evaluating Women’s Agency in the Greek World (FemBod)

Project leader: Giulia Frigerio

Duration: 02.10.2023 - 30.09.2025

The project aims to re-evaluate women’s agency in ancient Greek sacred spaces, through interdisciplinary approaches including cognitive archaeology. The religious role of women in Ancient Greece has been either overlooked or described as controlled. The described methodology will allow the researcher to reach the set goals by shedding new light on the role of women and by providing insights into the ancient mind and into historical attitudes towards female agency and religious power.


Woman with brown hair in a blazer. PhotoSynchronization of Physiological Rhythms between Musicians and Audiences in Live Concerts (SynchInConcert)

Project leader: Sara D'Amario

Duration: 01.10.2023 - 31.03.2026

SynchInConcert aims at a cutting-edge contribution to the study of physiological rhythms, by investigating, for the first time to our knowledge, the influence between the cardiac and respiratory rhythms of musicians and audiences in live concerts. Results can significantly contribute to the study of joint actions, by identifying ways in which physiological rhythms support social interactions.


Woman with green eyes and long hair. PhotoBecoming Greek south of Ukraine, 1774-2021

The history of Ukraine through its Greek minority between local and transnational contexts (UAGREEKS)

Project leader: Svitlana Arabadzhy

Duration: 01.05.2023–30.04.2025

The project aims to shed new light on the transnational connections and the history of southern Ukraine through the past and present of its Greek minority. UAGREEKS contributes to understanding the complex role of ethnic minorities in shaping both the local and transnational contexts from the 18th century.


Smiling man with brown hair and glasses. Portrait picturePoles and people

Project leader: Johannes Mattes

Duration: 01.11.2022–31.10.2024

Geographical Societies, Statehood, and Civil Society in Transnational Perspective (1870-1925):The project investigates the foundation of statehood, science popularization, and (trans)national cooperation with specific regard to the Polar Regions and “inner Africa”. 


Generative idleness and gestures of reparation

Project leader: Anna-Katharina Laboissiere

Duration: 01.10.2022–30.09.2024

In this project the researchers investigate the transformations of intentional fallowing as a practice for soil regeneration and as a tool for sustainability policies. Through these, the biopolitics of managing and optimising rest, dormancy, and unproductivity will be studied.


Smiling young woman with black hair and red lipstick. Portrait pictureDigital Folklore as Critical and Participatory Heritage

Project leader: Tina Paphitis

Duration: 01.09.2021–30.09.2024

DIGIFOLK investigates social media-based digital folklore to explore the complex digital reproductions and renegotiations of folklore amongst the varied groups that constitute contemporary Norway. It challenges cultural-normative conceptualisations of folk culture in Norway to examine how digital folklore reflects differential social and cultural affiliation, and a form of ‘micro-activism’.


Living with Vultures in the Sixth Extinction

Project leader: Sara Asu Schroer

Duration: 01.08.2020–31.07.2024

LiVE is an ethnographic study of avian conservation in changing European landscapes.

The project investigates how the global phenomena of accelerating species loss and corresponding wildlife management unfold within specific historical and cultural contexts.


Soviet Ellipses

Project leader: Vera Faber

Duration: 01.11.2021–31.10.2023

Soviet Ellipses (SOVEL) deals with the creation and representation of ellipses (i.e. conscious omissions) in Soviet photography, literature, and everyday life.

It sets out from the premise that the significant accumulation of omission practices during Soviet times (1917–1991) did not occur by accident, but rather served as a subversive strategy to undermine censorship, political repressions, and the restriction of expression, which had been dominating the Soviet society for so long.


Smiling midaged man with dark hair and blue shirt. Portrait picture  National and Ethnic Differences in Parental Mediation of Children’s Internet Use

Project leader: Seffetullah Kuldas

Duration: 27.09.2021–26.09.2023

How aware are parents - self-identified with an ethnic minority, majority, or immigrant identity - of their children’s experience of online risks? The present research aims to develop a theoretical framework, a conceptual model, and a measurement scale of parental mediation of children’s Internet use among immigrant and ethnic minorities in Europe.


Young woman with hijab. Portrait picture.Countering feminism: transnational Islamic women organizations

Project leader: Laila Makboul

Duration: 01.09.2020–31.08.2023

This project studies emerging transnational networks of Islamic women organizations in the Arab-Muslim world and their opposition to feminism. The study will explore in what ways anti-feminism is employed as an analytical, methodological and practical tool to construct and deconstruct knowledge production of Islamicate societies and how anti-feminism relates to international discourses and conventions on women.


Midaged pensive man with glasses and brown hair. Portrait pictureIndex of Middle English Prose: Cotton Collection

Project leader: Alpo Honkapohja

Duration: 01.09.2021–31.08.2023

Access to medieval manuscripts, which form a major part of our collective heritage, is dependent on the search tools available to us. In this project we aim to compile a catalogue of one of the foremost collections of medieval manuscripts and to develop a search tool for Middle English prose.


Multilingual landscapes of medieval Scandinavia

Project leader: Alessandro Palumbo

Duration: 2020–2023

When the Latin written culture was introduced in Scandinavia, it encountered an old native tradition based on the local vernacular and the runic script.

The project focuses on the encounter between the runic and Latin written traditions, and on phenomena of language and script mixing. 


Made in Sweatshops

Project leader: Audrey Millet

This project about women workers in the garment industry in Paris- and Shanghai in the late 19th to the late 20th centuries will offer a new way of thinking about female work and the gender of technologies by re-evaluating:

  • the relationships between bosses, middlemen and female workers, and
  • the links between techniques, qualification, workers losing skills because of one-sided work and gender.

The overall aim for the project is to show how technologies are fuelling the misery of female labour and the depletion of industrial products. This is a development fostered by the rise of neoliberalism.


Young man with a strong gaze and dark hair. Portrait picture The neoMONSTERS Within: The Others in India’s Science Fiction

Project leader: Sami Ahmad Khan

Which divergent constructions of alterity and monstrousness do we find within contemporary India’s popular imagination?

The neoMONSTERS project studies how and why the others in India’s SF are encoded and deployed as monsters in and via alternate presents and imagined tomorrows. It also investigates how this process is contoured by political and ideological conflicts and geopolitical and geoeconomic interests. 


Rethinking Virgin Mary in Early Modern Italy

Project leader: Eleonora Carinci

Duration: 01.09.2021–31.08.2023

Which cultural impact did literary representations of the Virgin Mary have on the construction of women's identity?

A corpus of literary works on the Virgin Mary written by Italian men and women between ca.1450 and 1650 will be identified and evaluated and will be included in a searchable bibliographical digital repertory.


Young man with beard and dark hair. Portrait pictureDematerialized fashion and French couture subsidy

Project leader: Vincent Dubé-Senécal 

This project aims to study the role of French women’s sartorial fashion in France’s international relations with a focus on both its interaction with the European Economic Community (EEC) and its influence on the American mass market during the 1960s and 1970s.

This approach is meant to open the fields of fashion history and international relations history to each other.

Completed projects

The Division of Ethics from Political Philosophy

Project leader: Toshiro Osawa

Duration: 01.09.2021–31.08.2023

Ethics and political philosophy are integral both to human individual activities and to social interactions, and yet philosophy in the Kantian tradition has reinforced the separation of these two domains. This project aims to resolve a confusion in the intellectual foundation of ethics and show how it can reclaim its interrelation with political philosophy.


French and English Translations of Petrarch’s “Fragmenta”

Project leader: Riccardo Raimondo

Duration: 17.10.2019–16.10.2022

How did early modern translations of Petrarch’s Fragmenta impact the literary cultures of France and the British Isles in subsequent centuries? The project offers a comparative investigation of early modern translations of Petrarch’s Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta into French and English, as well as a study of their impact on their respective ‘translation traditions’.


Gestural Meanings: Typology and Interface Constraints

Project leader: Mariia Espiova

Duration: 01.09.2020–31.08.2022

The project investigates channel-independent universals of meaning composition and channel-specific constraints on meaning expression. We investigate how different types of truth-based, but not-at-issue (e.g., quotative, optative, mirative, etc.) and non-truth-based (e.g., expressive) meaning are conveyed via various means, with focus on gesture, broadly construed.


MigraLing: Between migration and linguistics

Project leader: Raf von Rooy

Duration: 01.04.2021–31.03.2023

How did Greek migrants in Renaissance Italy contribute to grammar as a multilingual discipline?

The project “Between migration and linguistics: Greeks in Western Europe and the emergence of contrastive grammar in the Renaissance (c.1390–1600)” will study the impact migrants had on the transformation of grammar; from a monolingual Latinocentric specialised knowledge domain, to a multilingual discipline taking into consideration that the teaching of the Greek language stimulated a contrastive approach to language studies.


Impersonal Pronouns in Norwegian, Swedish, and German

Project leader: Sarah Magdalena Zobel

The empirical aim of this project is to gather new linguistic data on Norwegian, Swedish, and German impersonal pronouns using corpus linguistic studies and fieldwork methodology.

The research mainly concerns the impersonal pronoun man, which occurs in all three Germanic languages, but seems to have different possible uses in the three languages. A minor objective is also to compare the Norwegian impersonal pronouns 'man' and 'en' regarding their uses and possible interpretations.

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