Invisible Cultures, Historical and Archaeological Perspctives
“Invisible” are those cultural and social groups whose outlines are difficult to identify.
Sometimes, material remains compensate the absence of historiographical records or literary sources concerning these groups; sometimes, on the contrary, communities or individuals mentioned in literary sources apparently has not left any material sign of their presence.
Besides, there are groups or individuals whose existence must be assumed in every historical period, even though they are invisible both for historiography and archaeology.
Before trying to understand lifestyle and historical agency of these “cultures”, it is necessary to point out the reason why the memory of some marginalized individuals or socio-cultural units disappeared or was obliterated in material culture and/or in literary sources.
A series of selected papers, dealing with various disciplinary areas, will lead through the analysis of different cases-study to the identification of new theoretical and methodological perspectives, in order to overcome the obstacle of poor documentation.
These new perspectives will enable to return voice and presence to these historical “invisibles”.
Institution:
Department of Humanities - University of Trento
via Tommaso Gar, 14 - Trento, Italy
Conveners:
Viola Gheller, Francesco Carrer
Program
Tuesday 19th March
Room 118
13:30-14:00 Reception
14:00 Opening Speeches: Fulvio Ferrari (Director of the Department of Humanities), Elvira Migliario (Director of the Doctoral School in Humanities)
Opening Remarks: Francesco Carrer and Viola Gheller (organizers of the conference)
Session 1 - POPULATIONS
Chair: Viola Gheller (Università di Trento)
14:30 Shane Brennan (Mardin Artuklu University, Turkey): The noble Kardouchoi and the barbarous Mossynoikoi
15:00 Davide Astori (Università di Parma, Italy): What has become of Damas? The invisible immigrants of the First Empire between exclusion and assimilation
15:30 Yoshimi Tanabe (Centre de Recherche Interuniversitaire L'EXPERICE, Université Paris Nord/13, France - Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University, Japan): Memory of postcolonial immigration in contemporary France: A Site of resistance
16:00 Discussion on Session 1
16:30 Break
Session 2 - GENDER
Chair: Lucia Tralli (Università di Bologna)
17:00 Anna Everett Beek (University of Minnesota, USA): Gender Amender: Sex-Changing and Transgender Identities in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
17:30 Irene Somà (Università di Bologna, Italy): (Un)veiling Politics: Women’s Political Writings in the Julio-Claudian Age
18:00 Davide Tramarin (Università di Padova, Italy): With Pen or Brush: Women's Traces in Fifteenth Century Italy
18:30 Discussion on Session 2
Wednesday 20th March
Room 006
Session 3 - SOCIO-ECONOMICAL ISSUES
Chair: Sebastiano C. Loukas (Associazione Rodopis)
9:00 Martina Hijertman, Per Cornell (Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden): Urban marginality: discourse, interation and materiality
9:30 Max Eager (University of Oxford, UK): Food-riots at Rome
10:00 Lara Tonizzo Feligioni (Sapienza - Università di Roma, Italy): Archaeological indicators for Medieval prisons
10:30 Discussion on Session 3
11:00 Break
11:30 Poster Session
Chair: Francesco Carrer (Università di Trento)
12:30 Discussion on Poster Session
13:00 Lunch
Session 4 - RURAL COMMUNITIES
Chair: Francesco Carrer (Università di Trento)
14:30 Attilio Stella (Università di Trento, Italy): Transhumant pastoralism and demographic development in the Italian pre-Alps: Verona and the low Lessinia in the 14th century
15:00 Antonio Malpica Cuello, Sonia Villar Manas, Guillermo Garcìa-Contreras Ruiz, Luis Martìnez Vàzquez (Universidad de Granada, Spain): In search of the shepherds. Archaeological and historical perspectives for the study of salt and animal husbandry in Granada
15:30 Discussion on Session 4
16:00 Break
16:30 Closing Speech
POSTERS:
Fabrizio Filioli Uranio (Università di Pisa, Italy): Society in Erto and Casso: oral history and new investigation methods
Silvia Lischi (independent researcher): Traces of an Indian community in the city of Sumhuram: investigations on material culture
Florence Liard (Université Catholique de Louvain - Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, France): People and things. Ceramic petrography as a means for exploring the hidden workings of local communities in Postpalatial Crete
Aaron Beek (University of Minnesota, USA): Where have all the pirates gone?
Luca Pisoni (independent researcher): African-European Archaeology: material resistance, graffiti and Rastafari Ideology of the Rosarno African Workers (Reggio Calabria, Italy)
