‘Memory and Space in Classical Athens (and beyond)’

Final Conference of the PRIN Project MnemAth ‘Memory and Space in Classical Athens. Topography, Monuments, Mindscapes’ (PI Giorgia Proietti – University of Trento)

September 11, 9 AM - 7 PM

September 12, 9 AM - 5 PM

Ahead of the end of the project in late September 2025, the investigators of the PRIN 2022 ‘MnemAth’ – Memory and Space in Classical Athens. Topography, Monuments, and Mindscapes’ announce a two-day conference, which will take place at the Department of Humanities of the University of Trento, on September 11-12, 2025.

The project aims at investigating the formation, transmission, and transformations of historical memory in Classical Athens (ca. 490-322 BCE), as seen through space. Taking inspiration from the growing scholarly focus on the means and forms of social memory, the recent attention given to non-historiographical media of memory, and the paramount importance acknowledged to space as a framework for social memory, the project’s goal is a reconstruction of a stratigraphy of the Athenian spatial memory of historical events, from the Persian wars to the Lamian war.

The 2-day Trento conference (which is also part of a summer school) will focus on the entanglement between history, memory and space in Classical Athens, and beyond, both geographically, to embrace the whole Attica, and chronologically, up to the Roman era.

The conference languages will be both Italian and English. The keynote speech will be delivered by Nino Luraghi (Oxford). Emanuele Greco will offer the conference’s conclusions.

Scientific responsibility and organization: Giorgia Proietti (giorgia.proietti@unitn.it), with the collaboration of Emilio Rosamilia (emilio.rosamilia@unipg.it)