The conference "The multi-ethnic city in the Mediterranean world will be held in Genoa from 4 to 5 June 2018. History, culture, heritage. "
The Mediterranean world has always been one of the scenarios in which the meeting / clash of peoples and civilizations has been richer, more varied, intense, often going to impress itself deeply on the face of the city: not only on the coasts and in the border areas, but even within countries that still face the sea, and for which the sea was an inescapable reference horizon.
The meeting aims to urge AISU members to reflect on the aspects of continuity, such as the moments of articulation and fracture, which have long influenced the multi-ethnic dimension of our cities. Thus, we would like to focus attention on the specificities of the places and periods of a thousand-year history, which gave birth to a cultural heritage - material and immaterial - which today seems to be variously and severely endangered.
We intend to discuss them in an eminently historical perspective - starting from well-documented case studies, such as to offer starting points for comparison - without, however, renouncing to question the meaning of our research in a troubled scenario such as the one in which we live. Without easy anachronisms, but without even taking refuge in the alibi of the specialist: in other words, we would like to give the typical questions of our disciplinary traditions a broader horizon, sensitive compared to the problems of the present time, while at the same time asking ourselves about the forms of scientific communication and on the role of historical research in the contemporary debate.
