Workshops

1 CFU

Lecturer: Massimo Albanese

Start: October 5, 2023

Timetable: Thursday 17-19

Where: Genovino classroom (Darsena Economia, Via Vivaldi 5)

Methods: the workshop will be limited in number and classes will be conducted in presence. Any selection will be made on a first-come, first-served basis. Interested parties should send an email requesting enrollment between September 11 and the start date of the workshop. To enroll, send an email to Massimo.Albanese@unige.it taking care to indicate "S.I. LABORATORY ENROLLMENT" as the subject line and specify first name last name, freshman, course of study, curriculum, year of course.

The laboratory, activated by the Bachelor's degree program in Conservation of Cultural Heritage but also open to students of the Master's degree program in Art History and Enhancement of Artistic Heritage, aims to provide the basic knowledge for a group of applications (software) that can be used in the field of cultural heritage. In particular, the paradigmatic elements characterizing the type of software in question will be analyzed during the workshop and, for the purpose of setting up and developing a project work, the procedures for using the software adopted by the workshop will be illustrated.

For more information, visit the lab page on Aulaweb, which will be activated by the end of September.

1 CFU

Lecturer: Pietro Toso

Start: October 2023

Hours: Fridays 15-18

Where: lecture hall 2 (Balbi Street 2) with inspections of historical buildings owned by the university

Mode: in-person, limited number 18 participants (if this is not possible, an online mode without number limit will be proposed). In case of overnumber, the following will be considered as preferential requirements: students/esses of the 3rd year, then of the 2nd and 1st year (three-year degree in Conservation of Cultural Heritage). To enroll send a submission e-mail to gcm.montanari@gmail.com (referring teacher) specifying: full name, freshman, year of study, course of study, curriculum. Applications must be received by September 2023.

The workshop will be divided into six three-hour meetings (18 hours) that will include visits and reflections related to the University's monumental heritage, its cognitive (sources, more or less recent studies, photographic campaigns), conservation (meetings with restorers and/or consultation of publications on the subject) and dissemination dimensions.
Participants will be asked to write fact sheets on some assets pertaining to the University that can also serve for a popularization of the heritage towards the public, which will be verified by the lecturer (this last commitment is calculated in 7 hours of activity).

Meeting schedule:

• October 20
• October 27
• November 10
• November17
• November 24
• December 1

1 CFU

Lecturer: Donatella Failla

Start: mid-October 2023

Time: to be determined

Where:classroom to be determined

Manner:In attendance. Attending enrollees of the East Asian Art History teaching of the academic year 2023-2024 may register for the Workshop and attend it in-person only. The Lab is also open to enrollments of students who have taken East Asian Art History teaching in previous academic years.

Objectives and Content

The Workshop complements the teaching of East Asian Art History by analyzing the semantic links between words, artistic images and their augural and metaphorical, symbolic and talismanic uses. The main objective is to:

1. provide students with the basic orientations, methodical toolkit, and appropriate vocabulary for deciphering, reading, and describing the compositional, decorative, figurative, and technical-artistic contexts common to East Asian cultures and civilizations.
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2. Facilitate the exploration of figures of speech and thought and the lexical-image link in the arts, including the 'figured augural rebus,' playful allusion, caricature, metaphor, and parody. Promote learners' autonomy in understanding the 'thought-image' plexuses.
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3. fostering and supporting individual training and maturation in the technique of 'recognizing and processing, describing and interpreting'.

1 CFU

Lecturer: Biagio Santorelli

Start: to be determined

Time: to be determined

Method: in-person. Interested parties should send an email requesting registration between Sept. 18 and the start date of the workshop. To register, send an email to the Biagio.Santorelli@unige.it taking care to indicate "LABORATORY REGISTRATION" as the subject and specify last name, freshman, course of study, curriculum, year of course.

The workshop is aimed primarily at students who have never tackled the study of Latin literary history in their previous schooling.

1 CFU

Lecturers: Silvia Pallecchi, with support from Elena Santoro and Alice Capobianco

Starting: will be announced later

Time: will be announced later

Where: on the premises of the Laboratory of Archaeological Research Methodologies (MetRA), via Balbi 4, ground floor.

Mode:in-person. To enroll, send an email to the silvia.pallecchi@unige.it mailbox, taking care to indicate "POST-EXCAVATION LABORATORY ENROLLMENT" as the subject line and to specify last name, freshman, course of study, curriculum, course year.

The laboratory aims to involve students in post-excavation processing of data and finds and, at the same time, aims to provide them with the skills - theoretical and practical - necessary for the construction of interpretative hypotheses of archaeological contexts and sites.

Among the proposed activities:

• Organization of archives: digitization of excavation documentation compiled with traditional systems; processing, control and archiving of excavation documentation created with computer systems; revision of site stratigraphic diagrams;
• From the controlled archiving of excavation data to the construction of interpretive hypotheses: comparison and dialogue between different source systems; subdivision into activities, phasing and periodization of stratigraphic diagrams; elaboration of phase and period plans; construction and discussion of interpretive hypotheses.

The workshop is open to all students of archaeology courses at the University of Genoa.

For the purpose of obtaining CFUs, signatures of attendance will be collected on a special register.

2 CFUs

Lecturer: Fabrizio Benente

Start: The meetings will be held in the first and second semester. The start date will be announced later

Time: will be announced later

Where:at LaBB (Laboratorio di Paletnologia e Archeologia Medievale "Luigi Bernabò Brea"), located in the courtyard between Via Balbi 2 and 4.

Mode: in attendance. To enroll, send an email to the fabrizio.benente@unige.it mailbox, taking care to indicate "LABORATORY ENROLLMENT" as the subject line and to specify first name last name, freshman, course of study, curriculum, course year.

Post-excavation laboratory activities (processing and digitization of excavation archives) and medieval and post-medieval finds classification and study activities related to the investigations conducted at the following sites: Andora, Borgo Castello (SV), Luni (SP), San Nicolò dell'Isola (Sestri Levante-GE), Oratorio Mortis and Orationis (Monterosso, SP), Abandoned Village of Pian dei Costi (Borzonasca, GE), Castrum Rapallini (Rapallo, GE).

1 CFU

Lecturers: Anna Maria Stagno and Rebekka Dossche, with support from Caterina Piu, Giulia Bizzarri, and Eltjana Skreli

Start:first semester October 25; second semester February 25

Timetable: will be announced later

Method: in-person. To register, send an email to the anna.stagno@unige.it mailbox as of September 1, 2023, taking care to indicate "ASTRALAB ENROLLMENT" as the subject line and specify your first name last name, freshman, course of study, curriculum, course year, indicating which of the activities you are most interested in. A meeting to present the Lab's activities is scheduled for September 15, 2023, at 3 p.m. in Via del Campo 59r.

At AstraLab - DAFIST's Laboratory of Rural and Landscape Archaeology and History, it is possible to carry out hands-on activities related to ongoing environmental and rural and landscape archaeology and history research and projects in the European mountains, collaborating on  post-excavation and post-reconnaissance data processing, analysis of current and historical cartography, introduction to historical ecology observations and archaeobotanical analysis (anthracological, palynological - pollen, phytoliths, Npp's, microcarbons -, dendroecological and dendroanthracological), artifact analysis, field surveys, consultation of field archives and private archives in the custody of LASA and the LASA library, and participation in seminars (SEMPER, ISAGA) and working meetings.
During the workshop, analysis and quantification of ceramic artifacts from the excavation of Fort San Giacomo (Porto Azzurro, Elba Island, LI), relating to the 16th-18th centuries, is planned.

Participation in 25 hours of laboratory activities or 15 hours of laboratory activities and the writing of a paper on the work done allow the acquisition of 1 CFU.

1 CFU - 2 CFU

Lecturer: Anna Maria Stagno, with support from Matteo Tacca, Nathan Brenu, Beatriz Gonzales Montes and Alessandro Panetta

Start: annual seminar cycle, tentative start November 2023

Timetable:will be announced later

Mode:in-person (and distance). To enroll, send an email to the anna.stagno@unige.it mailbox starting September 18, 2023, taking care to indicate "SEMPER ENROLLMENT" as the subject line and specify last name, freshman, course of study, curriculum, and year of course.

Participation in 4 meetings, with the writing of as many reading worksheets on the proposed bibliography, allows the acquisition of 1 CFU (for a total of 25 hours). Participation in Semper and writing a paper on original research to be developed in the course of the year allows the acquisition of 2 CFU.


The Permanent Seminar on Local History is a well-established experience (started in 1992-1993) that has the explicit objective of integrating teaching and research activities with a strong focus on the dimension of local analysis.
It aims to offer an opportunity for dialogue around objects of common interest that characterize the work of those practicing historical investigations today, starting from documentary sources as well as from the field.   The seminars are usually held on Mondays according to an established schedule, which is usually published in the second half of October.
The series of meetings includes the opportunity for participants to carry out individual research exercises. By the end of January, students and doctoral students engaged in this exercise will prepare a personal study proposal, which should be articulated with a summary and bibliographical apparatus. Starting in February, part of the meetings will be devoted to the discussion of these individual research paths. Research topics and sources may be proposed by the students or, if requested, suggested by the faculty.Undergraduates and doctoral students may focus on sources, methods or historiographical themes that relate to their thesis path.
The seminar is open to students and Ph.D. students from the Universities of Genoa and Eastern Piedmont, and is organized by the Environmental History track of the Doctoral Program in History, Art History, Archaeology of the University of Genoa and the Historical Sciences curriculum of the Doctoral Program in Ecology of Cultural and Institutional Systems of the University of Eastern Piedmont, with the collaboration of the research group of the Laboratory of Archaeology and Environmental History (LASA- Unige) and the G. Casalis Inter-University Center for Territorial History (Uniupo-Unige-Unito).
Each year the seminar focuses on a specific theme.
The theme for the a.y. 2023/2024 will be defined in the last meetings of the 2022-2023 cycle.

1 CFU

Lecturer: Paolo A.M. Triolo

Start: March 14, 2023

Timetable: Tuesdays 4-7 p.m. Hourly duration: 12 hours in attendance; 13 hours of personal student activity. The total amount of hours is 25 hours.

Where: 3 blocks of 3 hours each in Classroom E (Via Balbi 4) on March 14, March 28 and April 4; 1 block of 3 hours in external museum venue on May 2

Methods: Frontal and interactive lectures; practical-application classes in laboratory. Mandatory 75% attendance on each lab section. The lab is limited (maximum 25 students). To register you must contact the lecturer at email paoloantoninomaria.triolo@unige.it

FORMATIONAL OBJECTIVES 
. Knowledge and understanding of the historical and theoretical foundations of IR and UV fluorescence investigation and standards of proper documentation 
Understanding of the potential and methodologies of IR survey in relation to the role of the art historian, particularly for the study of underdrawing.
Application in laboratory or site settings of the knowledge gained.
Understanding of the results, evaluation of the condition of the cultural property examined in relation to the conservation process. 
Ability to translate, through written or oral reports, information obtained from diagnostic surveys; critical discussion of results among students and with the instructor in relation to information from other course instructors or external sources. 

PROGRAMME 
. A. Theoretical lectures (with video support and slides 6 hours)

1. historical and technical introduction to IR reflectography and UV fluorescence
2. casing and interpretation of data on repertory material 
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3. methodology for autopsy and imaging diagnostic analysis; DIAGNOSTIC REPORT writing
4. integrated reading and inter-group comparison

B. Practical lessons (with computer support 3 hours)

1. Colorcorrection for visible light and multispectral scope 
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2. Postproduction for false colors 
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3. Data storage
4. Multilevel files for diagnostic reading

C. Hands-on classes at external museum site (with technical instrumentation provided by LABIR Osiris InGaAs laboratory room and lecturer's staff  3 hours)

1. General methodology for surveying in photography and IR reflectography 
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2. General methodology for surveying in UV fluorescence 

D. Independent student activity (13 hours)

1. Diagnostic Reading and Technical Stylistic Analysis of a different work for each student (acquired or repertory materials)
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2. Preparation of a basic diagnostic report
3. Idevising (non-designing) an integrated intervention of protection, restoration and enhancement of the work under consideration (establishment of the working group, information dissemination options)

PROPEDEUTICITY
. The course implies taking the History of Art Techniques course, Prof. Galassi. 

LEARNING OUTCOMES (DUBLIN DESCRIPTORS) 
D.1 Knowledge and understanding of the theoretical foundations of UV reflectography and fluorescence and the standards of proper documentation; understanding of the potential, difficulties, and methodology of the above techniques
D.2 Laboratory application of acquired knowledge; practical execution of basic diagnostic surveys; ability to solve basic problems related to practical application of acquired knowledge.
D.3 Evaluation of survey conditions and ability to adapt; selection of diagnostic techniques most consistent with case history and ability to cross-reference data; understanding of results; recognition (non-evaluative) of the condition of the cultural property examined in relation to the conservation process.
D.4 Ability to translate into written or oral reports the information obtained from surveys with elk two aforementioned techniques; critical comparison of results
D.5 Learn about the conservation condition of a work including through alternative or non-priority diagnostic surveys and through secondary and ancillary elements to optimize the interpretation of data.

Educational Materials 
. Teaching materials prepared by the lecturer (in addition to the listed texts) and any communications from the lecturer especially for teaching can be found within the Teams platform.

REFERENCE TEXTS
. Maria Clelia Galassi, Il disegno svelato- progetto e immagine nella pittura italiana del primo Rinascimento, Ilisso, Nuoro,1998
Marco Cardinali, Dalla diagnostica artistica alla technical art history, KERMES-Lexis, Torino 2020.
Paolo Antonino Maria Triolo, Practical manual of documentation and image diagnostics for the BB.CC., Il Prato, Padova, 2019
G. Verri, J. Cupitt, Multispectral Imaging in Reflectance and Photo-induced Luminescence modes: A User Manual, Charisma Project, British Museum, 2013 (online)

FURTHER READING TEXTS 
. AA.VV., La fabbrica dei colori, Il Bagatto, Rome 1986.
Aldrovandi A., Picollo M., Methods of documentation and non-invasive investigation of paintings, The Meadow, Padua, 2001.
Matteini M., Moles A., Science and restoration, Nardini Editore, Florence, 1998
Poldi G., Villa G., From conservation to art history, Edizioni della Normale, Pisa, 2006.
M. Cardinali, M.B. De Ruggieri, C. Falcucci, Diagnostica Artistica, Palombi Editori, 2002

1 CFU

Lecturer: Lucio Argano

Start: Thursday, May 11, 2023

Time: 

• Thursday, May 11, 2023 9am-1pm (4 hours)
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• Friday, May 12, 2023 9am-1pm (4 hours)
• Thursday, May 18, 2023 9am-1pm (4 hours)
• Friday, May 19, 2023 9am-1pm (4 hours)

Where: Estremo Ponente classroom (Darsena - Economy)

Methods: in-person. To register, send an email to the email address lucio.argano@gmail.com taking care to indicate as the subject "REGISTRATION LABORATORY SELF-INDEPENDENCE" and specify first name last name, freshman, Course of Study, year of course.

Presentation

The Workshop, consistent with the aims of the Degree Course, is designed as an operational seminar moment with the aim of providing participants with the knowledge, approaches and tools to act in the protection and enhancement of cultural heritage through entrepreneurial, organizational and design formulas. The creation of new cultural enterprises is addressed, according to recurring associative and corporate forms and through cultural business plans capable of assessing their effectiveness, opportunities, risks, intervention spaces and sustainability over time. At the same time, the Workshop aims to stimulate the participants' design capacity by encouraging practices of ideation, feasibility, planning, implementation and evaluation of cultural initiatives and events.

Objectives

• contribute to the managerial development of the participants, framing the actions of promotion and enhancement of artistic heritage within an entrepreneurial, organizational and managerial dimension in its most obvious critical implications (opportunities and risks, context, constraints, governance of resources, planning and control, communication, quality, evaluation, critical analytical skills, verification of different feasibility);
• provide information and knowledge elements on the functioning of cultural enterprises, recurring organizational legal models, and analysis and evaluation tools for the establishment of new entities;
• provide a methodological kit of approaches, tools and techniques referring to cultural planning in its ideational, ex ante evaluation (feasibility), programming and implementation stages;
• encourage teamwork skills and relational dynamics, through a methodology of collective involvement of participants on exercises and discussions of concrete cases, but also emphasizing the importance of managing the different stakeholders of each enterprise and project;
• acting on the development of strategic, planning, relational and service behavior skills, stimulating individual capabilities and attitudes to undertake also as personal confidence awareness and resources.

Facility, dates, times

The structure of the Workshop is divided into two parts:

• the first part focuses on "subjects" that act organizationally in the cultural sector in various forms and that, regardless of profit or nonprofit nature, constitute forms of cultural enterprise, with particular attention to the methods, operations and evaluations that need to be considered for their creation and management (skills, market dimension, strategic profile, demand and supply, legal forms and organizational models, economic-financial dimension, sustainability), including with cultural business plan models and Canvas;
• The second part, on the other hand, privileges the activities carried out by cultural enterprises in their different types and declinations, focusing on project culture and thus on the tools and practical knowledge for the implementation of cultural projects and events (cultural project management).

The workshop has a duration of 25 hours, of which 16 hours are lectures and 9 hours are individual study. It is divided into 4 meetings of 4 hours each.

Thursday, May 11, 2023 9 am-1 pm (4 hours)

Friday, May 12, 2023 9 am-1 pm (4 hours)

Thursday, May 18, 2023 9am-1pm (4 hours)

Friday, May 19, 2023 9am-1pm (4 hours)

Methodology, materials and final evaluation

The teaching methodology includes lectures for the theoretical part, with the use of teaching aids (slides), viewing of films, discussion of cases.

As a final test, participants, individually or in small groups, may choose to create a concise business plan of their own proposal for a new cultural organization or alternatively a feasibility plan of an assigned cultural project, both following work grids prepared by the lecturer.

All teaching materials, with the exception of video documentation, will be given to participants. Bibliographic sources will be available at www.lucioargano.it

Syllabus of the meetings

I. Cultural enterprises: the strategic and market dimensions

• Constituent elements, types, characteristics, recurring forms;
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• Strategic profile, mission, values and ethics, vision, business model, relationship with the context (stakeholders, factors and norms, connection with policies, sectoral peculiarities);
• Markets, competitive arena, objectives, demand analysis, targets, supply system, positioning.

II. Cultural enterprises: the organizational and economic-financial dimensions

• Referential legal forms and models (profit, nonprofit, Testo Unico Terzo Settore, network contracts, etc.);
• Organizational models, functioning and operational mechanisms;
• Provisional budget, financial statements;
• Formal requirements and administrative aspects (establishment and operation when fully operational);

III. Cultural project management: general aspects and ideational phase

• Hints on the principles of cultural planning (actions, events, project scopes);
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• Relationships and relevance to cultural business practice;
• Cultural project life cycle;
• The ideational start and project triggers;
• Analysis and evaluation of the internal, external and competitive context;
• The strategic scope and logic of the project;
• The development of the concept (content) and related activity (offering system and schedule);

IV. Cultural project management: activation, planning and implementation

• The analysis of technical, organizational, economic, marketing feasibility;
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• Forms and sources of public (calls) and private funding, (sponsors, crowdfunding);
• Risk assessment and contingency/convenience plans;
• The definition of implementation, co-production, networking guidelines;
• The planning of actions, timing, milestones, control actions, human and technical resources, and the business plan (budget);
• Hints on contractual aspects, bureaucracies, technical-logistical management and communication.

The cataloguing of cultural heritage
. Methodologies tools and regulations between art historical analysis, ICCD and SIGECWEB platform

2 CFUs

Lecturers: Valentina Fiore, Ada Gabucci

Start: April 5, 2023

Time Schedule: Wednesdays and Thursdays 9am-1pm. This will be two meetings per week of 4 hours each for a total of 8 meetings; the remaining hours to reach 50 constitute self-study that will lead to creating catalog cards, necessary for obtaining the 2 CFUs.

Where: aula Magna (Via Balbi 2); two meetings are scheduled at the Royal Palace Museum (Via Balbi 10) and at the Royal Palace Textile Collection Depot (Via Balbi 10). Schedule:

• April 5 - Ada Gabucci (general introductory part)

• April 6 - Valentina Fiore

• April 12 - Ada Gabucci

• April 13 - Ada Gabucci

• April 19 - Valentina Fiore (Royal Palace)

• April 20 - Valentina Fiore (Royal Palace)

• April 26 - Ada Gabucci

• April 27 - Valentina Fiore

Methods: in-person (classroom lectures and practical application in the museum). Compulsory overall attendance of 75% on each lab section. At the end of the lectures, the student will be required to produce and submit 5 catalog cards to the lecturers, which will be corrected and verified. Only upon completion of the verification of the cards, a certificate of attendance and participation in the workshop itself will be issued. 
To register, send an email to the email address ada.gabucci@gmail.com, indicating as the subject "LABORATORY ENROLLMENT" and specifying first name last name, matriculation, Course of Study, year of course, Tax Code (necessary to open a profile in the platform). Maximum number of enrolled 25 students, according to the order of arrival of applications.

Presentation: The course will address the topic of cataloging cultural heritage in all its forms, through two distinct but complementary modules, thus providing technical lectures illustrating the computer tools available today and lectures in which art historical analysis is adapted and applied to cataloging.

The first part of the workshop will therefore include general introductory lectures on cataloguing and related methodologies, with an overview of the past and a brief analysis of the current situation and future developments. Particular attention will be paid to the new catalog site and its potential in data sharing and reuse. This will be followed by lectures more specifically devoted to the use of SIGECweb, with a focus on the system and its functionality.

The second part, on the other hand, will be devoted to the technical-scientific application of art historical knowledge in cataloging: through the analysis and direct study of materials (paintings, sculptures, applied art, textiles) and with the correct tools (gloves, tape measure, lens, camera) it will thus be possible to create in a guided way real catalog cards, verifying in the field the problems related to the cataloging of art historical goods.

Objectives: The course has the following objectives:

• provide information and knowledge elements, including at the regulatory and technical application level, on the cataloging of cultural heritage
• provide a methodological kit of approaches, tools and techniques referring to the practice of cataloging cultural heritage
• stimulate and encourage the observation and analysis of the cultural artifact, applying and systemizing their theoretical knowledge of the art history of cultural heritage

Supporting materials:

On the ICCD website there is an active page (http://www.iccd.beniculturali.it/it/SIGECweb/micro-manuali) where a number of manuals organized into the following areas are made available:

• "The cataloging area," which contains manuals explaining the main functions found in the cataloging area
• "The administration area," which contains the manuals illustrating the main functions found in the administration area
• "The geographic functions," which contains manuals related to the use of the geographic module and the cartographic display of geographic information
• "How to ...," provides access to a set of specific manuals for performing certain operations in the system

2 CFUs

Lecturer: Franca Canepa

Start: April 2023

Time:will be announced later

Where: Liguria Region Historical Archives, via Rigola 3 - Genoa

Methods:In-Presence. Eventually, some introductory lectures may be conducted remotely for all enrolled, while the in-presence practical exercises will be limited in number (maximum three people in the Archives) and timetabled keeping in mind also the needs of the students. To enroll, send an email to franca.canepa@regione.liguria.it starting January 2023, taking care to indicate "LABORATORY ENROLLMENT" as the subject line and specify first name last name, freshman, Course of Study, year of course.

The laboratory provides the theoretical and practical tools for the acquisition of basic skills, necessary for the realizationof an archival intervention of reorganization and inventorying of a historical archive, in particular of a contemporary fund

1 CFU

Lecturer: Stefano Gardini

Start: March 1, 2023

Timetable: Wednesday 14-16

Where: classroom 5 (Balbi Street 2)

Methods: 2 hours per week in presence (as many of individual homework). Compulsory attendance of 75% of the total hours of the laboratory. Attendance at meetings and adequate participation in individual practice activities are required for the award of 1 CFU.
To register, you must contact the lecturer at email stefano.gardini@unige.it

The laboratory of Analysis and Reading of Medieval Documentary Sources aims to provide students with the basic critical tools to read and understand the writings of the 10th-15th centuries in the Latin alphabet and in Latin and vernacular languages, with particular reference to Genoese and Ligurian documentation. The workshop is divided into a series in face-to-face meetings devoted to the presentation of the abbreviative system and the main graphic features, as well as reading and transcription exercises carried out collectively in the classroom and individually.

For more information and registration:
Prof. Stefano Gardini - stefano.gardini@unige.it

2 CFUs

Lecturer: Fabio Negrino

Start: will be announced later

Time: Thursday from 2 to 6 pm

Where: at the LaBB (Laboratorio di Paletnologia e Archeologia Medievale "Luigi Bernabò Brea"), located in the courtyard between Via Balbi 2 and 4.

Methods: in presence. To register, send an email to the email box fabio.negrino@unige.it, taking care to indicate as the subject "LABORATORY ENROLLMENT" and to specify first name last name, freshman, Course of Study, year of course.

N.B. Meetings are held partly in the first and partly in the second semester.

Washing, arrangement, classification and drawing of prehistoric, lithic and ceramic finds will be carried out.
The workshop will take place every Thursday, from 2 to 6 p.m., unless otherwise announced, and will be divided into two shifts of 2 hours each.
Field trips, as well as visits to collections and museums will also be part of the workshop activities.

1 CFU

Lecturer: Antonino Facella

Start: March 14, 2023

Timetable: Tuesdays 3-7 pm. Additional dates and times may be arranged with participants

Where: at the LaBB (Laboratorio di Paletnologia e Archeologia Medievale "Luigi Bernabò Brea"), located in the courtyard between Via Balbi 2 and 4.

Mode: in attendance. The workshop is limited (maximum 6 enrolled). To enroll send an email to antonino.facella@unige.it from Feb. 1, 2023, taking care to indicate as subject "LABORATORY ENROLLMENT" and to specify last name, freshman, Course of Study, year of course. The first six who have applied will be admitted.

In the laboratory, activities will be carried out on documentation, archiving and processing of excavation and reconnaissance data related to archaeological research in Cifali (Chiaramonte Gulfi, RG), consisting of:

• informatization of Stratigraphic Unit and Topographic Unit cards
• archiving of photographic documentation of Stratigraphic Units, Topographic Units and finds
• matrix processing, subdivision into phases and periodization
• drawing archaeological artifacts
• digital acquisition of artifact drawings on transparencies
• findings sketching, processing and implementation of material sheets
• any other activities, which will be specified at the workshop

1 CFU

Lecturer: Fabrizio Benente

Starting: will be announced later

Time: will be announced later

Where: at the LaBB (Laboratorio di Paletnologia e Archeologia Medievale "Luigi Bernabò Brea"), located in the courtyard between Via Balbi 2 and 4.

Mode: in attendance. To register, send an email to the email box fabrizio.benente@unige.it, taking care to indicate as the subject "LABORATORY ENROLLMENT" and to specify first name last name, freshman, Course of Study, year of course.

Post-excavation laboratory activities (processing and digitization of excavation archives) and medieval and post-medieval finds classification and study activities related to the investigations conducted at the following sites: San Marziano (Carasco - GE), San Nicolò dell'Isola (Sestri Levante-GE), Orarorio Mortis and Orationis (Monterosso, SP), Abandoned Village of Pian dei Costi (Borzonasca, GE), Castrum Rapallini (Rapallo, GE).

1 CFU

Lecturers: Simone Joshua Madeo, Silvia Pallecchi

Starting: February 2023

Timetable: Timetable will be agreed with students, also based on space availability

Where:archaeology research methodology lab or classroom to be determined (depending on the number of participants)

Methods: the workshop will be held in-person. A maximum number of 20 participants will be admitted, who will be selected on the basis of the curriculum of studies. To register, send an email to the email address simonegiosue.madeo@edu.unige.it by February 6, 2023, taking care to indicate as the subject "PHOTOGRAMMETRY LABORATORY REGISTRATION" and specify your first name last name, freshman, Course of Study and year of course.

The photogrammetric technique allows, through the use of photographs, to model an object three-dimensionally, enabling its positioning in virtual space. The model thus generated is measurable and ensures accuracy and reliability of the data. In archaeology, from the acquisition of photos to the creation of the virtual product, different techniques and solutions have been developed depending on the context of application. From small artifacts to more articulated architectural structures, photogrammetry allows for precise surveys, facilitating data interchange.

In the workshop, all the basic steps in the development of the survey and three-dimensional model will be covered, from the use of the camera to the preparation of the graphic design, managed in CAD software.

1 CFU

Lecturer: Elisabetta Villari

Start: Friday, February 24, 2023 (introductory meeting)

Time: 14-16 (introductory meeting)

Where: Classroom 1, Balbi Street 2 (introductory meeting)

Method:Mixed in-person and distance learning workshop - maximum 15 enrolled. For information and registration: evillari@hotmail.com

Composed of 8 meetings of 3 hours, one of which is introductory, the others involve outings, visits to Museums in Genoa and outside Genoa, visits to sites etc.
. Detailed program is established in the first lesson.

1 CFU

Lecturers: Anna Maria Stagno, with support from Andrés Menéndez Blanco and Caterina Piu

Starting: March 2, 2023

Timetable: it will be possible to participate in the workshop activities every Wednesday and Thursday (excluding holidays) from about 2:30 to 4:30 pm.

Mode: in attendance. To register, send an email to the mailbox anna.stagno@unige.it starting February 1, 2022, taking care to indicate as subject "ASTRALAB ENROLLMENT" and to specify first name last name, freshman, Course of Study, year of course, indicating which of the activities you are most interested in. Laboratory activities will be presented at the first introductory meeting.

At the AstraLab - Laboratory of Rural and Landscape Archaeology (and History) at DAFIST, it is possible to carry out hands-on activities related to ongoing environmental and rural and landscape archaeology and history research and projects, collaborating in the realization of analyses of current and historical cartography, introduction to historical ecology observations and archaeobotanical analyses (anthracological, palynological - pollen, phytoliths, Npp's, microcarbons -, dendroecological and dendroanthracological), artifact analysis, field surveys, consultation of field archives and private archives in the custody of LASA and the LASA library, attending seminars (SEMPER, ISAGA) and working meetings.

Participation in 25 hours of laboratory activities or 15 hours of laboratory activities and the writing of a paper on the work done allow the acquisition of 1 CFU.

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Lecturer: Anna Maria Stagno

Start: January 30, 2023

Timetable: Monday 2:30-4:30 p.m.

Methods: in-person (and distance). To register, send an email to the mailbox anna.stagno@unige.it starting September 1, 2022, taking care to indicate "SEMPER ENROLLMENT" as the subject line and specify your last name, freshman, Course of Study, year of course.

Participation in 4 meetings, with the writing of as many reading sheets on the proposed bibliography allows acquiring 1 CFU (total of 25 hours). The participation in 10 meetings and the writing of the final paper corresponds to a total of 50 hours in total and allows acquiring 2 CFU.

The Local History Permanent Seminar is a well-established experience (started in 1992-1993) that has the explicit objective of integrating teaching and research activities with a strong focus on the dimension of local analysis.

The seminar is open to students and doctoral students from the Universities of Genoa and Eastern Piedmont, and is organized by the Environmental History curriculum of the Doctoral Program in History, Art History, Archaeology of the University of Genoa and the Historical Sciences curriculum of the Doctoral Program in Ecology of Cultural and Institutional Systems of the University of Eastern Piedmont, with the collaboration of the research group of the Laboratory of Archaeology and Environmental History (LASA- Unige) and the Inter-University Center for Territorial History G. Casalis (Uniupo-Unige-Unito).

Each year the seminar focuses on a specific theme.

The theme for the a.y. 2022/2023 is "The knowledge of practices, the practices of knowledge."

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Lecturers: Carlo Montanari and Maria Angela Guido, with the support of Davide Attolini and with the collaboration of the two DISTAV&nbsp laboratory technicians; Bruna Menozzi and Riccardo Santeramo

Starting: the laboratory started in the 1st semester continues in the 2nd semester

Timetable: agreed upon with the attending

Where: classroom to be defined from time to time (LASA Lab at DAFIST or DISTAV), Botanical Garden or other site of inspection

Manner: mainly in-person, some distance meetings possible. A closed number (maximum five registrants). To register  send an email to the mailbox carlo.montanari@unige.it, maria.angela.guido@unige.it, davide.attolini@gmail.com

Indeed, half of the hours will be devoted to Archaeobotany (first semester) and half to Applied Botany of BBCC (second semester).
Topics covered:

• Part 1 - Archaeobotany.
  • Xylology and Anthracology: microscopic analysis for identification of wood and charcoal samples from sites of archaeological interest.
  • Palinology: microscopic analysis of samples for identification of pollen and phytoliths
• Part 2 - Botany applied to BBCC
  . Analysis of biodeteriogenic flora on artifacts of historical, artistic, and archaeological interest; visits to historic gardens, analysis of plant elements represented in artistic works.