ISEMinari
The Institute for the History of Mediterranean Europe organizes ISEMinari cycle of meetings, dedicated to the dissemination and multidisciplinary scientific exchange in the numerous fields in which the research activities of ISEM staff span.
Over recent years, through individual and collective reflection on the sources and the comparison of multiple interpretative perspectives, historical research has challenged the conceptual and ideological barriers that had long divided Western Europe from Eastern Europe, Northern Europe from the Mediterranean, and the Mediterranean within it: spaces that, despite the criticalities of the present, appear, today as in the past, to be profoundly integrated due to the people’s circulation – economic actors, representatives of the great monarchies and minor potentates, migrants -, information, goods, capital and even pathogenic agents. The current international political situation also encourages the humanities to intensify the confrontation of knowledge to tackle complex problems with complex tools: the relevance of interactions and magmatic power relations between geographically distant political and cultural contexts calls for the urgency of a perspective on the past that is not only global but multipolar on long-lasting phenomena that rarely recognise hierarchies between ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’.
Consistently, in this, as in previous cycles, the topics and contributions presented reflect the breadth and depth of ISEM’s collaborations with the scientific network of the National Research Council – which this year celebrates the first centenary of its foundation (1923-2023) – and numerous external research institutions, both Italian and foreign: among them, the Ciclo di studi in Scienze della Pace della Pontificia Università Lateranense, the Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma – CSIC (EEHAR-CSIC), the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani, the Royal Dutch Institute of Rome (KNIR), the University of Florence, the University of Naples Federico II, the University of Siena, the University Suor Orsola Benincasa of Naples and the University of Udine.
Programme 2023
Detailed information on the schedules and programmes of the individual events will be communicated via our mailing list, the Institute website (https://www.isem.cnr.it/) and the ISEM Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/IsemCnr).
For information about the schedule of each appointment (in presence, remote or blended), please write to iseminari@isem.cnr.it.
Programme 2022
Programme 2021
