Seminars and Conferences

Series of teaching seminars, senior seminars, and conferences organized in the MemoryLab framework.

Seminar series

Series of teaching seminars organized in the MemoryLab framework.

  • Dissonant Memories and Movements

    The series of seminars, organized by Martina Tazzioli and Annaclaudia Martini, involves internationally renowned scholars—historians, anthropologists, geographers—and investigates various aspects related to the way in which critical studies on memory problematize the construction, negotiation, management, and resistance to “authorized” memories, and the processes of memory creation in relation to migration and social movements.

  • Memories and Oblivion of Islam in Europe - 15th-20th Centuries

    The series of seminars, organized by Chiara Petrolini and Guido Bartolucci, aims to investigate the memory, and in some cases the removal of memory, of the presence of Muslim men and women in the history of early modern Europe, intertwining social and cultural relations with the theological, ideological, and military confrontation that marked the relations between European Christianity and Islam. Each seminar will therefore address a specific case in which Islamic tradition and the Muslim presence have been studied, misunderstood, or removed from collective memory.

  • At the Intersection of Multiple Memories. Collecting Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire: The Marsili Case.

    Led by experts and scholars of book history in Muslim societies, the formation of collections of Oriental manuscripts in early modern Europe, and Luigi Ferdinando Marsili (d. 1730) himself, this series of seminars will explore various aspects of the Marsili collection of Islamic manuscripts now held at the University Library of the University of Bologna.

  • Memories Images Territories. Practices of collaboration, restitution and knowledge sharing through visual sources.

    The series of seminars, organized by Chiara Scardozzi, aims to present different experiences and case studies to investigate the many possibilities that images (photographic and film, amateur or professional) have to contribute to research in collaboration with the communities involved and in what ways they can be enhanced, reinterpreted, produced, and shared for the creation of knowledge and the activation of collective histories and memories.

  • Oral history seminar series

    The seminar, organized by Toni Rovatti and Jacopo Lorenzini, aims to outline an initial overview of oral history through the voices of the historians who have brought it to life in Italy from the 1960s and 1970s to the present day. A program of six meetings with six protagonists will be accompanied by two methodological seminars and a workshop (in collaboration with AISO - Italian Oral History Association), as well as an introductory meeting organized by the two promoting professors.

  • The legacy of conflicts: political reflection, institutional impacts, memories, and cultural reinterpretations

    The seminars in this series, organized by Antonio Del Vecchio and Jacopo Lorenzini, consider different moments in history—ranging from the contemporary era to the religious wars of early modernity, from revolutionary struggles to imperial violence and conflicts in post-colonial societies – to investigate how their memory, narration, and elaboration have influenced political reflection, institutions, law, and the elaboration of history.

  • The Lion’s satire: A Case Study in Multispectral Imaging

    Seminar series and teaching laboratory promoted by MemoryLab in collaboration with the Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge at the University of Pisa.

Senior seminars

List of senior seminars aimed at second- and third-cycle students organized as part of MemoryLab.

Conferences

Conferences organized in the MemoryLab framework.