On 17-18 October, University of Siena’s Department of Historical Sciences and Cultural Heritage (Università di Siena, Dipartimento Scienze storiche e dei beni culturali) will host a conference on mining landscapes of medieval Italy: Paesaggi minerari dell’Italia medievale.
This exciting conference is spearheaded by Giovanna Bianchi, Associate Professor of Medieval Archaeology, and Luisa Dallai, head of the Laboratory of Topography of Mining Territories (LTTM), both at Università di Siena. Bianchi and Dallai work on the 2022-2026 ARC Discovery Project “Pursuing Public Health in the Preindustrial World, 1100-1800“, which this website covers. This conference brings to the discussion new research on mining landscapes, the environment, health, and multidisciplinary methodological approaches to researching preindustrial mining.
See in particular papers by researchers across various projects , including Prof. Guy Geltner (Monash University), Nicholas Minvielle (INRAP LA3M, UMR 7298), Fabio C. Pinna (Università di Cagliari), and Mattia Sanna Montanelli (Università di Cagliari), and of course Giovanna Bianchi (Università di Siena) and Luisa Dallai ((Università di Siena).
For a closer view of the programme pdf, and more information, see here.
To follow the presentations, please see the Dipartimento di scienze storiche e dei beni culturali Youtube channel here.
