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A Global History of China's International Relations
This project focuses on the history of China’s relations with other countries. The proposals should adopt a global history approach and focus on the contemporary period (19th, 20th, 21st centuries). Two research lines are particularly encouraged: 1) China-Spain relations during the late 1930s; 2) The Cold War and the beginnings of China’s economic reform in the late 1970s.
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Email: cbraso@uoc.edu
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Economic and Business History of China
Research proposals on the economic and business history of China are welcome. Candidates should have Chinese language skills and an interest in pursuing a research career focused on China’s economic and/or business history. The proposals may cover the 19th, 20th, or 21st centuries and extend to the Greater China area. The candidate should be interested in reading secondary sources in different languages and examining primary sources (from digital or physical archives, if possible, in China).
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Email: cbraso@uoc.edu
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Non-Hegemonic Art History: Contemporary Art, Curatorship, Museology, and Coloniality
Research proposals are welcome on contemporary art and curatorial studies that examine art history concepts beyond the Euro-American axis. This involves an approach based on art and politics, but also postcolonial studies, examining the persistence of colonial difference and possible reparative strategies. In addition, we welcome research that, whether in the field of art or not, seeks to understand how Western epistemological thinking operates to understand the persistence of coloniality in our academic environment.
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Email: minigoc@uoc.edu |
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Latin American Art (with a special focus on Brazil)
Research efforts focused on art in Latin America and/or specifically on Brazilian art in relation to social, colonial, and political history of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Topics may include racism, latent colonial power relations, art under dictatorship, and curatorship, etc. |
Email: minigoc@uoc.edu |
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Otherness, Discourse, Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Globalization in China
Research on the construction of discourses around concepts like otherness, modernity, and interculturality in the colonial and postcolonial world of East Asia, particularly in China and the Sinophone sphere, from the perspective of modern and/or contemporary history.
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Email: dmartinezrob@uoc.edu |
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Personal and Professional Networks in the Construction and Expansion of Francoist Elites, 1959-1975
The need to modernize and open up the economy in Francoist Spain led to the expansion of a specialized bureaucracy capable of developing plans to stabilize the situation. Efforts were made to involve local and regional elites to ensure capillarity, consensus, collaboration, communication, and synergy in terms of their interests. Close collaboration between local leaders and regional administration members led to strong relational networks, often reinforced by family ties, which supported both general and particular social, economic, and political interests.
These new elites acted as agents implementing the regime’s reformist directives and simultaneously became spokespersons and messengers for provincial needs and concerns. These groups contributed to talent recruitment, professionalized apolitical staff, reintegrated individuals punished during the immediate post-war period, and, in some cases, brought modern and international trends into the regime, thus ensuring Francoism’s survival. This thesis proposal aims to identify such relationships, decode the mechanisms behind these connections among the various sectors involved, and reconstruct the relational networks that emerged during the developmental period.
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Email: jclaretmi@uoc.edu Email: jfusters@uoc.edu Email: mgilgar@uoc.edu Email: jpujadasmo@uoc.edu |
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A History of Education in Catalonia and Spain during the Contemporary Period
Education has been one of the political and ideological battlegrounds in contemporary Catalonia and Spain, part of the confrontation between reformist and conservative models. From primary school to university, there has been a succession of opposing models regarding educational policies, teaching theories, curricula, and the organization of teachers. This research aims to examine some of these episodes that have affected—and continue to affect—our educational history.
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Email: jclaretmi@uoc.edu |
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Intergenerational Inequality during Industrialization in the Barcelona Area, 19th - 20th Centuries
Research on past and current societies has shown how high levels of socioeconomic disparity hinder social mobility and perpetuate intergenerational inequality. Barcelona and its surroundings during the 19th and 20th centuries provide an extraordinary case study for these issues due to significant levels of economic inequality. This area showed early industrialization from the late 18th century. Additionally, there was a replacement of elites: the nobility lost its prominence to liberal professionals, army officers, and public officials, while large merchants accumulated the most wealth during this period.
This area also experienced an early decline in fertility rates within Southern Europe, and until the late 19th century, the inheritance system was based on non-heritable property. These factors contributed to reducing inequality within families but increasing inequality between families, as wealthy families could invest more in their descendants to prevent downward mobility and, consequently, block upward mobility of members from less wealthy families. The goal of this doctoral project is to determine the processes of intergenerational transmission across the social spectrum along with industrialization in the Barcelona area.
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Email: jpujadasmo@uoc.edu Email: jclaretmi@uoc.edu Email: jfusters@uoc.edu Email: mgilgar@uoc.edu |
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Regionalisms and National Projects under Franco's Dictatorship
The objective is to explore the continuity and influence of specific forms of regionalism within the margins of legality and permissiveness between 1939 and 1975, based on the recognition of their active and continuous participation in the construction of the Spanish state. The aim is to analyze the importance of regionalist discourses and practices in the political-cultural reconstruction of various territories and in the shaping and development of Spain during the second half of the 20th century.
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Email: jclaretmi@uoc.edu Email: jfusters@uoc.edu Email: mgilgar@uoc.edu |
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Alto de la Cruz, Archaeology and Gender: Gender Studies in the Protohistory of the Iberian Peninsula
Advances in archaeological and protohistorical research from the 20th to the 21st century have been very positive, incorporating new tools for data analysis and interpretation. However, in the Iberian Peninsula, the necessary inclusion of a gender perspective in this analysis has been much more limited.
In the case of the protohistoric settlement of Alto de la Cruz (Cortes, Navarra), which has been and remains a historical and archaeological reference both nationally and internationally for understanding societal changes and developments during the first millennium BC in the Ebro Valley and the Iberian Peninsula, this gender perspective is urgently needed and should provide key insights into interpretations of protohistorical developments in the region.
Research at the Alto de la Cruz site was crucial for the position of Spanish archaeology in the mid-20th century. The permanent exhibition at Alto de la Cruz, inaugurated in October 2017, offers a snapshot of the work carried out between the 1940s and 1990s.
A working team has been created to analyze the site from a gender perspective.
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Email: gmunilla@uoc.edu |
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The Historiography of Archaeology in the Iberian Peninsula: Alto de la Cruz and the Development of Protohistorical Studies
Alto de la Cruz is a settlement from the first millennium BC defined as a fortified Oppidum located on the right bank of the Ebro River. It has an absolute stratigraphic sequence documenting the continuous life of its population from the Bronze Age (around 1100 BC) to the Second Iron Age (around 350 BC), illustrating the evolution of the Iberian Peninsula during this period.
Historiographically, the site can be analyzed in three key phases:
This means that Alto de la Cruz played a crucial role in European protohistory in the Iberian Peninsula. Additionally, it helps explain developments in research methodology from the mid-20th century to the present and its relationship with international research methods.
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Email: gmunilla@uoc.edu |
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Art History and Visual Culture in Spain. Art, Culture, and Modernity under Franco’s Regime
This research line addresses the various ways in which manifestations related to Modernity (avant-garde, modern architecture, cinema, and various expressions of mass culture) coexist, resist, or are promoted by the organs of Franco’s regime. This line proposes to bring historical-cultural analysis into the Spanish context of Francoism across its different socio-political stages: autarky, developmentalism, and late Francoism, exploring chronologies, artists, peripheries, and media less studied to highlight complex issues such as the relationship between fascism and modernism, modernity and regionalism, avant-garde and traditionalism, or classicism, as well as the processes of rupture and continuity in artistic modernity between the pre-war and post-war periods.
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Email: arodriguezgrane@uoc.edu Email: mgomezpr@uoc.edu |
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Art, Science, Technology, and Society (ACTS)
Research proposals exploring the interrelations between art, science, technology, and society (ACTS) from historical, theoretical, methodological, or practical perspectives, or a combination of these. Special attention is given to approaches from media archaeology, social studies of science and technology applied to the arts, as well as philosophical approaches from new materialisms. Structural research on the ACTS ecosystem as a whole is also welcomed.
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Email: palsinag@uoc.edu |
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Art and Education
Research on theories and practices connecting the fields of art and education, with a focus on critical perspectives. Possible thematic areas include teaching theories, specific contexts (school, museum, community, etc.); education and cultural policies, history of art education, social impact, etc.
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Dr. Aida Sánchez de Serdio Martín Email: asanchezdeserdio@uoc.edu |
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Collaborative Artistic Practices
Research on artistic manifestations based on collaboration among different actors (whether artists, support staff, collaborators, or the general public). The focus will be on negotiations, tensions, partial agreements, and political implications in the processes of collective artistic production.
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Dr. Aida Sánchez de Serdio Martín Email: asanchezdeserdio@uoc.edu |
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Artistic Research: Post-Media Languages and Transdisciplinary Practices in Context
Contemporary artistic practices are characterized by transcending the limitations and classifications of compartmentalized artistic languages. Adopting a post-media perspective allows the integration of both traditional techniques and digital technologies or more process-oriented and relational mediums. This doctoral thesis proposal promotes artistic research projects that do not center on the media themselves but rather on the implications of one form of materialization over another.
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Dr. Laia Blasco-Soplon
Dr. Queralt Berga Carreras
Dr. Aida Sánchez de Serdio Martín
Dr. Paloma González Díaz
Dr. María Iñigo |
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Artistic Research in Interactive and Immersive Media
Digital art is not only ideally positioned to explore these new spaces, but it is also essential for developing approaches, strategies, and responses that are inclusive, equitable, and more sustainable.
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