27928 - Laboratory (1) (LM) (G.G)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the workshop, the student knows how to approach the various kinds of personal archives, being able to apply those knowledges to discern the characteristics that underpin and differenciate them.

Course contents

This "Laboratorio di Archivi di Persona" (Workshop about Personal Archives) aims to offer students an interactive approach to the manifold characteristics of the archival funds created by various private persons during the last centuries.

The encounters will be declined in such a manner as to show the multiple shades of those egregious collections of documents, books and miscellanea, in monothematic singular lessons that cover, in turn, many different topics.

Thus, the workshops will be held in the University classrooms and, eventually, at the Biblioteca Umanistica "Ezio Raimondi" and at the Archivio di Stato di Modena.

In a similar way, the titular teacher will be aided by other teachers presenting the amplest horizon of archives: professor Paolo Tinti and Chara Reatti, Ph.D., will focus on funds produced by various literati, now preserved at the Biblioteca Raimondi, while professor Stefano Malfatti will illustrate the archive of Sabino Samele Acquaviva, religion sociologist.

Lorenza Iannacci e Massimo Giansante (Ministry of Culture) will focus on some eminent archivists' personal archives, while professor Stefano Moscadelli (University of Siena) will showcase and confront various artists' and intellectuals' private funds.

Finally, the titular teacher will focus on some personal funds preserved at the Archivio di Stato di Modena, showing an evolution stretching from the very late Middle Age to the 19th century.

The workshop can sustain up to 20 students and the attendance is mandatory.

Please, get in touch with the teacher to book your presence at the workshop.

Teaching methods

The encounters will be strictly workshop-like, with an interaction between the teachers and the students.

Original sources will be largely used.

Assessment methods

Assessment will be in progress: students will be expected to interact all along, but a final examination is to be expected on the last lesson.

Teaching tools

Sources will be a frequent teaching tool.

Office hours

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