Partners and Sponsors

The non-profit Italian cultural association ARCHI (Applying Research, Cultural Heritage & Innovation) is a partner  of EAAS 2026 Visions of Freedom.

The main aim of the association is to apply academic research in the humanities and literature, but not exclusively, to promote innovation in  various spheres in order to provide solutions to the challenges of our time.

The registration fee to the conference includes the membership to the association. Know more about ARCHI: https://www.archi.bo.it/

AISNA (Associazione Italiana di Studi Nord-Americani) is the American Studies Association of Italy, founded in 1973. It brings together scholars, teachers, students, and professionals inside and outside the world of academia who have an interest in the study of North-American literature, history, arts, culture, society, and institutions.

The institutional function of AISNA is promoting research and teaching in the field of American Studies in Italy, and encouraging contact and exchange among its members as well as between AISNA members and American Studies scholars and associations all over the world. To that end, AISNA organizes a meeting every year and an International Conference every other year, to which international scholars are invited as speakers and welcomed as participants.

LILEC is a department that focuses on four main areas of scientific research and their many intersections: languages, linguistics, literatures and philologies. LILEC promotes internationality, interdisciplinarity, multiculturalism and plurilingualism, and aims to produce high-quality and innovative teaching and research. The Department’s researchers cooperate with a number of international networks in the field of the humanities, and they are fully committed to facing the major social challenges of today, making LILEC a dynamic hub and a permanent laboratory rooted within the social, local, regional and national context, and consistent with the university’s ‘third mission’.

The Department of Political and Social Sciences was established in 2012 and is a reference point for research and teaching at both national and European level.

It is the largest Italian university department in the field of Political and Social Sciences (the so-called Area 14 of the scientific sectors classification elaborated by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research) and the only one focusing on political sciences that has been awarded the title of “Department of excellence” by the Italian Ministry of Education.

On a global scale, it contributes to placing the University of Bologna in the top 100 universities in the world in the field of Politics and Internal Relations. The department provides courses in all the main disciplines studying political and social phenomena. It offers Bachelor’s and Master's degree programmes in the two campuses of Bologna and Forlì.

The Department of the Arts (DAR) was born in 2012, when the Department of Visual Arts and the Department of Drama and Music Studies were merged. DAR offers the whole spectrum of artistic studies: Medieval, Modern and Contemporary History of Art, History of Architecture; Museology, Criticism and Psicology of Art. It also presents a complete range of courses focusing the history and theory of dance and theatre, as well as on the history and theory of cinematography, photography, television and media, on historic, systematic, and theoretical musicology, on the pedagogy of music and on ethnomusicology. Moreover, the Department also offers courses on: Semiotics and Philosophy of Language, Pedagogy, Political Philosophy, Political Sciences and History of Political Doctrines, General Sociology and Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes, as well as Contemporary History.

The Department of the Arts designs and promotes events related to various artistic, cultural and social expressions through DAMSLab, Centro La Soffitta, and CUBE. Its two specialized libraries, the labs spread across the buildings, the PhD course in Arts, History, Society and the Specialization School in Historic and Artistic Heritage make DAR one of the most important institutions devoted to the study of arts on an international level, valuing a cultural policy aimed at promoting research and dialogue with civil society.