Spatial and Social Mobilities in the Medieval and Early Modern Alpine Regions. International Conference
Laboratorio di storia delle Alpi
Start date: 27 March 2024
End date: 29 March 2024
Mendrisio
Spatial and Social Mobilities in the Medieval and Early Modern Alpine Regions
27-29 March 2024
Accademia di architettura USI
Mendrisio
This event aims to develop integrated research of spatial and social mobilities in the medieval and early modern Alpine regions, which are to be accounted for some of the most representative examples of European boundary zones and communicative spaces existing in the transitional period between the Middle Ages and the early Modernity. The project intends to contribute to a new understanding of European history of such period by analyzing its' boundary area's spatial and social frameworks in their in-the-course-of-changing, forming, creating, acting, and reacting aspects. For this purpose, the focus of the research will be how the mobility of people across linguistic and cultural borders or territorial and institutional frameworks of political bodies -often bringing the transfer or the circulation of knowledge, techniques, and various cultures- connected with social mobilities, changes or crisis of their new and old conditions, and how such people acted in and reacted to the situations created by their moving.
The conference is supported by SFN-FNS-SNSF (Grant Number IZSEZ0_222634) and by JSPS KAKENHI (Grant Number 20H01340)
The conference is recognized as a DECS-SIMS (Department of Education, Culture and Sport) refresher course for high school teachers in Ticino.
