PsyHuman Summer School of Psychology and the Humanities

Summer School

4th Edition: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Individual and Community Well-being

16 Giugno 2025 - 27 Giugno 2025

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Organizzato da: psyhuman.dipsco@unitn.it

Destinatari: Comunità universitaria

Link per prenotazione: Registration

Scadenza prenotazioni: 30 Aprile 2025, 12:00

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Join the 2025 PsyHuman "Psychology and the Humanities" Summer School: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Individual and Community Well-being.

In short:

🗓 Dates: June 16 – June 27, 2025

Apply from March 30, 2025

Apply by: April 10, 2025

📍 Location: Rovereto, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy – University of Trento

This two-week immersive programme is designed to challenge conventional narratives of well-being and the ‘ideal’ mind- and body-type. It adopts a holistic approach, integrating psychological, physical, and socio-cultural dimensions, while blending insights from clinical psychology, biomedical sciences, and the humanities.

Period

In-presence activities in Rovereto will start on Monday morning 16 June and will finish on Friday afternoon 27 June 2025, plus an optional online session approximately a month after the end of the School (see ‘Workload and Credits’ below).

Venue

Academic activities will take place at the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science (DiPSCo), in Rovereto (Italy).
Seminars and workshops will be held at Palazzo Piomarta, corso Bettini 84, Rovereto (Italy).

Programme

The 2025 PsyHuman International School fosters a model of well-being promotion that encompasses psychological, physical, and socio-cultural determinants of health, while challenging the dominant narratives of the ‘ideal’ mind- and body-type. It is based on the idea that the approaches of the humanities can complement clinical psychology and bio-medical sciences to promote individual and community well-being, as well as to question mainstream conceptualisations.

The two-week programme will be structured around in-presence seminars, workshops, and outdoor activities, from Monday to Friday.

Seminars will be delivered by both faculty members and external guests, to ensure a multidisciplinary approach, and a variety of topics and methodologies. Participants will be encouraged to share their own knowledge and competencies in the classroom.
Narrative Medicine Workshop: Activities based on the signature practices of Narrative Medicine (i.e., close reading, attentive listening, self-reflection, writing to a prompt, storytelling and sharing), aimed at strengthening narrative competence (“the capacity to skillfully receive the accounts persons give of themselves – to recognize, absorb, interpret and be moved to action by the stories of others”, Rita Charon, 2017: 1).
Outdoor activities: the programme includes one all-day excursion (to be defined); a half-day guided tour of Rovereto; and a workshop at the Modern and Contemporary Art Museum of Rovereto (MART).

The PsyHuman Summer School offers seminars and workshops that draw on a wide range of approaches to well-being promotion, including those of cognitive, psychological, and bio-medical sciences as well as gender, law, literary, philosophical, and sociological studies.

Lectures and workshops will address the following issues:

gender non-conformity in sports
gender violence
LGBTQIA+ communities’ health and well-being
literature, theatre and medicine
mindfulness and contemplative practices for well-being
narrative approaches to mental illness
narrative medicine
neuroaesthetics and the artist’s brain
new addictions in the era of civilisation
queer activism and migration
sexuality, ableism, and fundamental rights
the neuroscience of love

Participants will enhance the following life skills: narrative competence, affiliation, self-awareness, and interpersonal relationship skills.

Workload and Credits

The Psyhuman Summer School is taught entirely through English. The programme consists of approx. 7 hours per day of activities (seminars, workshops, excursions).

At the end of the in-presence activities all participants will receive an Attendance certificate.
Only the participants of the post-School online session (optional) will be sent an official UniTrento Transcript of records certifying 6 ECTS and a mark. Please, refer to the Syllabus and Assessment Tasks document in the download Box.

UniTrento participants will receive a certificate of attendance.

Please, ask at your students' support desk if this extracurricular activity can be recognised in terms of credits or thesis points or extra credits, according to the rules of your course.

Participants’ Background

The PsyHuman International School is open to up min. 10 and max. 25 senior Bachelor’s degree (from second year) and all Master’s degree students.

Participation is open to UniTrento students but priority will be given to international students.

The programme is particularly suited for students in psychological and social sciences, gender studies, and the humanities, but it is not limited to these fields. We warmly welcome students from any discipline who are eager to enhance their multidisciplinary competence and engage with novel perspectives on well-being.

A good command of English is essential, with a minimum proficiency of B2 level (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).

Application Process

The online application tool and instructions for the authentication, will be accessible starting from 30 March on this web page.
All students are required to upload their CV, most recent ToR (Transcript of Records), complete identity document, English certificate and a motivation letter.
The Summer School will take place with a minimum number of 10 participants. Participation is open to UniTrento students but priority will be given to international students.

Deadlines

All students are required to upload their CV, ToR (Transcript of Records),complete identity document, English certificate, and a motivation letter when applying online.

The online application tool will be available from the section Useful links from 30 March 2025.

Please, apply by 30 April 2025

Participation Costs

The participation cost includes:

lunch in the university canteen from Monday to Friday
dinner at a local restaurant in Rovereto (up to 15 euros)
a socio-cultural programme (guided tour of Rovereto, one-day excursion)
a welcome coffee break
a farewell buffet
a one-day excursion in Rovereto
a visit to a museum or other attraction.

At your charge and under your responsibility are:

Weekend meals
Housing (see the useful links for hints)
Travel
Transportation expenses once you arrive at UniTrento and the surrounding area unless you get from your host the Trentino Guest Card (https://www.visittrentino.info/en/experience/trentino-guest-card)
Visa and health insurance, if needed (for students living outside the European Union)

Sorry, no scholarships awarded.

Accommodation

All participants are responsible for planning and paying for their own lodging in Rovereto, possibly near the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science and the city centre, where classes will be held. Ideally, check-in should be on Sunday 15 June and check-out on Saturday 28 June.

Possible housing solutions in the Info Kit in the downloads.