European Doctoral Programme

Europe and the Invention of Modernity

Curriculum presentation

In the search for the identity of Europe, all too often there is a tendency to look for common origins or for elements of a shared heritage.
This doctoral program in history wants to remove such preconceptions and to focus instead on the analysis of the processes that made Europe the first laboratory of modernity, and the processes that led to this phenomenon.
This is the twin conceptual core of our new doctoral programme.
Thus, we take our distance from traditional inquiries of Europe’s identity which usually involve a search for common origins or for elements of a shared heritage.
At the core of the programme of our proposed advanced study is the elaboration, from a historical perspective, of the original traits of European modernity, and of the process by which Europe was defined by reference both to the concept of and to the processes entailed in modernity.

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