The Mobility Studies Podcast
The Mobility Studies Podcast
Podcast Description
The Mobility Studies Podcast is a space for conversations about mobility — as a concept, a framework, and a way of studying history. You’ll hear from professors, guest scholars, current students, and alumni, as we share ideas, research experiences, and critical reflections.Whether you are a UniPD student, staff member, prospective applicant, or interested in humanities and social sciences, we invite you to join us in this space to discuss how the concept of mobility serves as a strong yet fine thread that connects and intertwines disciplines.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes of mobility as a conceptual framework and historical research tool, covering topics such as academic journeys and methodologies in the humanities. Example episodes include discussions on establishing academic archives and insights from a PhD student's journey, along with reflections from historians on how mobility shapes their research.
The Mobility Studies Podcast is a space for conversations about mobility — as a concept, a framework, and a way of studying history. You’ll hear from professors, guest scholars, current students, and alumni, as we share ideas, research experiences, and critical reflections.
Whether you are a UniPD student, staff member, prospective applicant, or interested in humanities and social sciences, we invite you to join us in this space to discuss how the concept of mobility serves as a strong yet fine thread that connects and intertwines disciplines.
In the Season 1 finale of the Mobility Studies Podcast, host Matthew Anuforo brings the conversation home to where it began—mobility—not just as movement, but as method, perspective, and academic practice. Recorded at the University of Padova, this episode features two doctoral researchers from the European University Institute (EUI), Anna Breidenbach and Niklas Platzer, who reflect on their evolving academic journeys, the role of interdisciplinary exchange, and the relaunch of the Migration & Mobility Working Group at the EUI. Together, they unpack the significance of the Research on the Move workshop co-organised by EUI and Padova, and how both institutions support scholarly collaboration across borders—geographic, disciplinary, and intellectual.
Key themes include:
🔹 How tourism, economic history, and sugar factories become entry points into mobility research
🔹 Life and learning inside EUI’s structured PhD programme
🔹 The value of being “coachable” and reflective as a young scholar
🔹 Practical advice for aspiring PhD applicants to EUI
🔹 How cross-institutional platforms shape new epistemic communities As the episode reminds us, mobility is not just the subject of research—it is also the condition of knowledge itself.
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