Internships – Spring

The memory of deportation and the refugees question  (Chiara Renzo)

^{Topics: 1) Guided visit to the Museum and Documentation Centre of deportation and Resistance (Prato), which collects witness accounts on deportation and on the people’s resistance to Nazism and Fascism; 2) Guided visit of the State Archive of Florence and analysis of some primary sources on the civilian internment in Tuscany during WWII; 3) discussions/exercitations about Refugee crisis and humanitarianism in the first half of 1900 and after WWII, with a focus on the Jewish displaced persons (DPs).}

The Virtual Museum of Tuscan Archaeology  (Margherita Azzari)

_{Topics: In collaboration with the Laboratory Labgeo, and the Italian Geographical Library (Unifi). The internship, related to the Chimera project, entails the creation of a virtual museum concerning the Tuscan archaeology heritage in addition to exploring the artifacts. The students could create thematic pathways, either in a virtual mode or on site.}

Public Archaeology and the political use of the Archaeology (Michele Nucciotti)

_{Topics: In collaboration with the staff of the cooperative company Archaeological Laboratories San Gallo (Prehistoric Archaeology; Classical Archaeology and Etruscology; Archaeology and Epigraphy of the Nearest ancient East; Digital Bank on Aegean Subjects DBAS). Focuses: 1) past and present definitions of archaeology and their actual-potential contribution to the improvement of cultural and economic living standards on behalf of present-day communities (focus on Etruscan complex); 2) the political use of the archaeology as a medium for community identity, beliefs and economics (how artefacts and sites have been instrumentalized in order to affirm ethnicity, religion, community identity).}