Memory and Space in Classical Athens (and beyond)

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" (PI: Giorgia Proietti, University of Trento, in collaboration with Emilio Rosamilia, University of Perugia) announce a summer school, 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 (ca. 490-322 B.C).

The summer school will explore the entanglement between history, memory and space in Classical Athens, and beyond, through a variety of class and activities (8 hours per day, for 5 days), according to the provisional program below.

Program

• Day 1: welcome breakfast and introduction - classes 1-2: Memory and space: theories and methods - class 3: Memory and space in Classical Athens: the epigraphical evidence
• Day 2: classes 4-7: Memory and space in Classical Athens: topography and the archaeological evidence - pizza
• Day 3: guided tour of the fascist urban architectures in Bolzano and the relevant re-semantization project - class 8: Memory and Space: GIS, ArcGIS and WebGIS - participants’ short presentations
• Days 4 e 5: final conference of the PRIN 2022 project "MnemAth. Memory and Space in Classical Athens. Monuments, topography, mindscapes"

Classes will be taught in Italian only; the conference languages are both Italian and English.

The final program of both the classes and the conference, along with any practical detail, will be shared in due course with selected participants.

CFU

Participants will receive a certificate of participation (1 CFU). The acknowledgement of the latter depends on the rules of the course in which each participant is enrolled.

Who should attend

The summer school is open to PhD Students and Post-docs, advanced MA Students and post MA Students, for a maximum number of 15 participants (please note that 3 are reserved for UNITN participants).

Application

The deadline for application is May 30, 2025.

The results of the selection will be notified by June 13, 2025.

Fees

250 euro (150 euro for UNITN participants)

Detailed instructions for payment will be sent in due course to selected participants.

The fee covers: welcome breakfast (day 1); pizza (day 2), train tickets for the round-trip Trento/Bolzano (day 3), 2 canteen lunches (days 1 and 2), 2 lunch buffets and 4 coffee breaks (days 4 and 5).

Participants should cover themselves the remaining meals, travel and accommodation expenses.

Cancellation policy: no refunds in case of withdrawals.

Scientific responsibility and organization

Giorgia Proietti - giorgia.proietti@unitn.it , with the collaboration of Emilio Rosamilia -  emilio.rosamilia@unipg.it 

This event is funded by the European Union – Next Generation EU, under the PRIN 2022 call, project "Memory and space in ancient Athens. Topography, monuments, mindscapes" (2022T3J3LF) – CUP E53D23000360001.