4 oktober 2021
The botanical and zoological compendiums “authored” by Francisco Hernández (1515-1587) are among the most important scientific projects of the early modern era. They originated when Phillip II appointed Hernández, a physician and humanist scholar devoted to Pliny, to...
20 september 2021
This KNIR Dialogue, after briefly illustrating the Italian museum scene in its complexity, will focus on a few examples of museums and collections that bear witness to the continuities and fractures between liberal and fascist colonialism and how they were reflected...
5 juli 2021
Francesca Diosono (LMU – University Ludwig Maximilian, Munich) presents three examples between the third and second century BC from the research she is currently carrying on in central Italy. About Fregellae, a Latin colony founded by Rome in 328 BC in the Liri...
11 mei 2021
Can historical revisionism influence a sense of collective belonging? The unification of Italy is actually one of the most problematic subjects. Some political movements from northern Italy even grew up in contraposition with the Italian state. However, only few...
11 mei 2021
Davide Domenici is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Bologna. He directed the Rio la Venta archaeological project (Chiapas, Mexico, 1999-2010) and the Cahokia Project (Cahokia, ILL, USA, 2011-2017). In recent years he collaborated with the MOLAB...
