T4EU workshop organized by University of Trieste and Primoska University
Border’s heritage: migration, memory, (in)visibility
Saturday 23.3.2024 - 9.30 a.m.
University of Primorska, Armerija, titov trg 5, Koper
The workshop, organised in cooperation with the European alliance T4Europe, aims to critically reflect on the meaning of ‘common heritage’ in a European context. How does intergenerational transmission work in a Europe that wants to build a sense of common belonging by bringing together different national and local histories, often traumatic memories? How can the mobile, often invisible or, on the contrary, all too visible heritage linked to migrations and displacements be recognised?
In a borderland, memories, identities and legacies are intertwined and overlapping, but they are not ‘contained’ in a homogeneous agglomerate. Beyond a rhetoric of inside/outside social inclusion, border heritage presupposes intermediate and graduated measures, in which the parts cannot fully constitute the whole, in order to also recognise the invisible, the traumatic, the silenced or the subaltern memories that are often invisible.
The aim is an interdisciplinary and mutual confrontation between the different visions and experiences of heritage experts from 10 European universities participating in T4EU WP7 on ‘Common Heritage & Multilingualism’, stakeholders working in GLAMs (galleries, libraries, arts, museums) of the different regions and students of the European Alliance. The workshop goes with the opening of the exhibition "In the garden of the (in)visibles".
The speakers are:
 Assoc. prof. Roberta Altin, University of Trieste, anthropologist
 Assoc. prof. Katja Hrobat Virloget, University of Primorska, anthropologist
 Giuseppe Grimaldi, PhD, T4EU research fellow, University of Trieste, anthropologist
 Prof. Michaël Mrissa, University of Primorska, vice-rector
 Assoc. prof. Jure Gombač, Slovenian Migration Institute, ZRC SAZU, sociologist, historian
 Mirna Buić, PiNA - Association for Culture and Education, anthropologist
 Stefano Lusa, PhD, Radio Capodistria – RTV SLO, journalist, historian
 Assoc. prof. Dimitrij Mlekuž Vrhovnik, Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of
Slovenia and University of Ljubljana, archaeologist
 Adriana Torregrossa, Cizerouno associazione culturale, artist
I will be transmitted also on-line: https://upr-si.zoom.us/j/84562104755
It will be in English and in the frame of the international conference Interpret Europe:
https://interpret-europe.net/interpret-europe-conference-2024/