LIMS - Interdepartmental Laboratory Memory and Society

15/06/2026

2 weeks to apply!
Deadline 30th June

06/06/2026

Three weeks to the deadline for the next call of the LIMS internship programme!

If you want to spend 2 or 3 months in Trento in a memory studies full immersion, you can apply here:

https://lims.unitn.it/internships/

We will soon update the list of research areas in which LIMS members are especially keen on tutoring interns during their stay, but you are free to apply whatever the subject you are working on.

You can read reports from past recipients of this programme here: https://lims.unitn.it/internship-experiences/

Next deadline for the fall internship: 30th June, 12 pm (+2 GMT)

27/05/2026

Call open until 1st Aug. 💡📗🌎

Apply here: https://eventi.unitn.it/it/lims-annual-prize-best-interdisciplinary-essay-memory-studies

Deadline: 1 Aug. 2026

16/05/2026

This upcoming seminar is organised within the LIMS internship programme (https://lims.unitn.it/internships/) in which two early career scholars spend a semester at the Department of Sociology and Social Research and the Department of Humanities of the Università di Trento to learn from memory scholars in a very interdisciplinary framework and develop their own research projects.

The seminar allows the interns to present the research they have been working on during their internship. On this occasion Francesca and Martina will speak, respectively, about the lexicon of memory in ancient historiography and contested architectures in today's urban landscapes.

Just come along, next Monday at noon, if you want to know more!

12/05/2026

Yesterday, 10 memory studies students visited the temporary exhibition 'E noi che ne sappiamo? Riflessioni sul colonialismo italiano' at Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra in Rovereto.

Under the careful guidance of Anna Pisetti, to whom we are indeed grateful, we learnt a lot about the difficult memory of liberal and fascist Italian colonialism in our own national public discourse.

10/05/2026

The second seminar of the series 'Memoryscapes. Antiquity and Today' will take place on Friday 15th May, at 10 am (CEST, UTC+2).

Marco Ferrario (Changchun) will speak on 'Royal Memoryscapes in Hellenistic Baktria and India. Places of Kings and Gods', intersecting ancient Greek and Near Eastern history, memory studies, spatial studies, and political anthropology.

Abstract below⬇️

Those interested to attend online, please request the Zoom link to [email protected] or [email protected] 🌎

Since its discovery in the 1960s, the royal city of Āï Xānum in Eastern Afghanistan has been the focus on much scholarly research devoted to matters of cultural interaction (or the lack of it) between the Makedonian rulers and the local subjects. In exploring the settlement’s spatial politics, however, considerably less attention has been paid to the ways in which Baktrian kings shaped the town as a tool for the display of their royal persona. By focusing on the case study of Eukratides’ reign – to which we owe the best-known stage of the city’s monumental history – this paper explores the way in which Āï Xānum was transformed into the staging ground for the military exploit of a (divine?) monarch. Public and religious spaces, it is argued, were blended together through a calculated blurring strategy, and the city turned into a triumphal stage for the king to display his exceptional power and achievement, for subjects and peers to awe at.

28/04/2026

Apply here: https://eventi.unitn.it/it/lims-annual-prize-best-interdisciplinary-essay-memory-studies

Deadline: 1 Aug. 2026

20/04/2026

This coming Thursday, at 10 am, we'll be talking about potentialities and limits of considering the Athenian Acropolis as a memoryscape. Our guest speaker, Janric Van Rookhuijzen, will provide methodological hints going well beyond the domain of ancient Greek history 🏦🌏

You are all welcome!

16/04/2026

🕐LIMS seminar series dedicated to memoryscapes starts today with an introductory class by Giorgia Proietti, who will discuss concepts and theories about the intersection between memory and space, and discuss some case studies, ancient and modern.

❗️The class, in presence only, is mainly addressed to MA and PhD students and will be held in Italian.

➡️Proper seminars will start next week with Janric Van Rookhuijzen (Leiden) speaking about the Athenian Acropolis as a memoryscape in Antiquity. More details soon!

10/04/2026

A very warm welcome to our LIMS spring intern Francesca Lorenzini, last-year PhD candidate in Roman history at Roma Tre University. Her research focuses on the relationship between the Jews and the Roman Empire in the 1st century CE, with a particular focus on the concept of theocracy.

Welcome, Francesca!

And to find out more about our LIMS internship programme, take a look here: https://lims.unitn.it/internships/