SSI - School of International Studies

Winter School

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Borders, memory, and territorial transformations in the Alpine Region

Euregio Seminar 2026
9 February 2026 - 11 February 2026, start time 9:30 - 17:30
Trento - Bressanone/Brixen- Fortezza/Franzensfeste - Bolzano/Bozen
Organizer: School of International Studies
Target audience: Students
Contacts: 
Staff of the School of International Studies - SIS
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PROGRAMME

Day 1 | Monday, 9 February | Trento → Bressanone/Brixen
Location: Room CLAB S - School of Innovation- University of Trento, via T. Gar 16/2, Trento


9:30 – Welcome session: Anna Casaglia and Ingrid Kofler

9:45 – Opening Roundtable: Border heritage, polycrisis, and military geography
with Alice Buoli, Gianluca Catucci and Raffaella Coletti

11:30 – Guided walking tour: Military Geographies of Trento
with Virginia Magnaghi

13:15 – Break

16:30 – Student Workshop: Cultural Heritage and Memory
coordinated by Anna Casaglia and Virginia Magnaghi
Location: University of Bozen-Bolzano Campus Bressanone-Brixen

 

Day 2 | Tuesday, 10 February | Bressanone/Brixen → Franzensfeste/Fortezza
Location: Room 2.14 - University of Bolzano/Bozen Campus Bressanone-Brixen
Viale Ratisbona 16, Bressanone

9:30 – Guided visit of the Fortress - Franzensfeste/Fortezza

13:00 – Break

14:30 – Seminar class: The Vallo Alpino / Alpine Wall
with Heimo Prünster

16:00 – Student Workshop: Borders and fortifications
coordinated by Ingrid Kofler and Valentina Rodani

 

Day 3 | Wednesday, 11 February | Bozen/Bolzano
Location: Room F6 - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, piazza Università, Bolzano


10:00 – Guided walking tour: Fascism and war heritage in Bolzano
with Roberto Gigliotti

12:30 – Break

14:00 – Final Roundtable: Borders, Heritage and History
with Špela Ledinek Lozej, Giacomo Pettenati and Matteo Proto

15:30 – Student Workshop: Create your border zine
with Marcus Nicolsson and Anna Tuedos

17:30 – Free Exhibition: PRIN project Italian Borderscapes with Project Presentation

 

GUEST SPEAKERS
• Alice Buoli – Politecnico di Milano
• Gianluca Catucci – University of Trento
• Raffaella Coletti – ISSIRFA
• Roberto Gigliotti – Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
• Špela Ledinek Lozej, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Virginia Magnaghi – Bibliotheca Hertziana Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte
• Marcus Nicolsson – Eurac Research
• Giacomo Pettenati, Università del Piemonte Orientale
• Matteo Proto – University of Bologna
• Heimo Prünster – Institute of Applied Bunkerology
• Valentina Rodani – Politecnico di Milano
• Anna Tuedos – Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

 

CONTACTS
Prof. Anna Casaglia (University of Trento) anna.casaglia@unitn.it
Prof. Ingrid Kofler (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) ingrid.kofler2@unibz.it

 

 

The Winter School is funded by the Euregio Mobility Fund IV - CUP E66E25000040005 and by the EU - Next Generation EU - PRIN 2022 Call for proposals - D.D. No. 104, February 2, 2022 - M4 C2 Inv.1.1 Prot. No. 20225TN2R9 - Project titles: "The border is no more, long live the border. De-materialization and re-materialization of internal borders in the European Union" (2022JPFYE8) - CUP E53D23010250006 and "Italian Borderscapes after 2020. Mapping, unfolding, and re-framing border territories in response to the Covid-19 pandemic" - CUP: D53D23010950006.