Forsaken relics. Ritual practices of appropriation of abandoned things

Workshop internazionale

Nei giorni 19 e 20 dicembre 2022, a Pisa presso il Centro Congressi Le Benedettine (Piazza San Paolo a Ripa d’Arno, 16) si terrà il workshop internazionale “Forsaken relics. Ritual practices of appropriation of abandoned things”, organizzato da Anna Anguissola, Alessandro Buono e Gianluca Miniaci.

Supporto organizzativo di Erika Ramos, dottoranda in Storia del Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere.

Per partecipare è richiesta la registrazione, inviando una mail a: forsakenrelics@gmail.com

Programma

Monday, 19th December 2022

14:00 – Introductory remarks

Session 2: CITIES AND SETTLEMENTS

14:30 – Chiara O. Tommasi (Università di Pisa)
Roman euocatio, or how to get in possession of a city

15:00 – Antonio Stopani (Università di Torino)
Rehabi(li)ting abandonment. Urban occupations, possessory communities and the right to the city

16:00 – Dace Dzenovska (Oxford University)
Failed appropriation: post-socialist nonproperty in the Latvia-Russia borderlands

16:30 – Coffee break

Session 1: LANDSCAPES AND PLACES

17:00 – Pascal Vernus (École Pratique des Hautes Etudes)
Human (re-)appropriation of natural pristine elements

17:30 – Bisserka Gaydarska and John Chapman (Durham University)
Biographies of place and the significance of place-value

18:00 – Alcira Dueñas (Ohio State University)
The Disappearing Commons: From Indigenous ‘Communal’ to ‘Vacant’ Lands, or the Formative Anomalies of Colonialism

18:30 – Joseph Viscomi (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Archiving emptiness: Depopulation and material landscapes in Southern Italy

19:00 – Q&A Session

Tuesday, 20th December 2022

Session 3: HOUSES AND TOMBS

09:00 – John Chapman and Bisserka Gaydarska (Durham University)
The biographies of Neolithic burnt houses: insights from the Trypillia mega-sites of Ukraine

09.30 – Érika Ramos (Università di Pisa)
Fragmentary death, completeness of memory: The reuse of sacred spaces in Third Intermediate Period Egypt

10:00 – Ludovico Rebaudo (Università di Udine)
Appropriation and reuse of grave stelai and other sculptures in the ancient Greek world. Some case studies

10:30 – Anna Anguissola (Università di Pisa)
Reclaiming the funerary space. Tombs, sarcophagi, and words in the burial grounds of Hierapolis in Phrygia

11:00 – Coffee break

Session 4: RITES AND SUPERNATURAL

11:30 – Gianluca Miniaci (Università di Pisa)
Speaking with the supernatural and listing: how ancient Egyptians were taking possession of abandoned properties and social identities

12:00 – Alessandro Buono (Università di Pisa)
How to Claim Things with Rites. Care for the Dead and Heirship Rights on Vacant Inheritances (Early Modern Catholic World and Beyond)

12:30-14:00 – Lunch break

Final Discussion

14:00-15:00 – Introduced by Angelo Torre (Università del Piemonte Orientale)


Informazioni e contatti

forsakenrelics@gmail.com

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