Simposio internazionale Place Names as Intangible Cultural Heritage

Presentazione

Sotto gli auspici dell'Accademia della Crusca, Istituto Geografico Militare, Regione Toscana.

Agenda

26 March 2015

10:00 – Registration of participants

10:40 – Opening session
Cesare Alimenti, Deputy Commander of Italian Geographic Military Institute – Italy
Anna Marson, Tuscan Regional Minister for Spatial Planning and Landscape – Italy
Alberto Nocentini, Accademia della Crusca – Italy
Carlo Alberto Mastrelli, Emeritus professor of the University of Florence – Italy

11:30 – First session: Prolegomena
Andrea Cantile, Chair of the UNGEGN Romano-Hellenic Division – Italy
Place names as intangible cultural heritage: introduction to the symposium
Helen Kerfoot, Honorary Chair of the UNGEGN – Canada
UNGEGN, National Names Authorities and cultural heritage
Peter Jordan, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Convenor, UNGEGN WG on Exonyms – Austria
Geographical names as part of the cultural heritage – some general thoughts
12:45 – Presentation of the Tuscany Region
Maurizio Trevisani and Umberto Sassoli, Tuscan Regional Ministry for Spatial Planning and Landscape – Italy
Place names of Tuscany. From the cartographic sources to diachronic database

13:00 – Lunch

14:20 – Photo of the participants in the garden of the Italian Army Unified Circle.

14:40 – Second session: Genius loci, identity, safeguard and preservation of the place names

Chair, Leif Nilsson, UNGEGN WG on Geographical Names as Cultural Heritage, University of Uppsala – Sweden
Cosimo Palagiano, Emeritus professor of the “Sapienza” University of Rome, Accademia dei Lincei – Italy
Genius loci and identity
Enzo Caffarelli, University of Roma Tor Vergata – Italy
The place name in the complexity of transonymic processes. A cultural-historical heritage to be safeguarded and preserved beyond its primary referentiality
Alberto Nocentini, University of Florence, Accademia della Crusca – Italy
Toponymy as source of (pre)history: our oldest river names
Elena Dai Prà, University of Trento – Italy
Territoriality and toponyms. Borders and bordering in Trentino historical maps
Discussion

16:20 – Coffee break

16:40 – Third session: Place names standardization and cultural heritage

Chair, Helen Kerfoot, Honorary Chair of the UNGEGN – Canada
Leif Nilsson and Annette Torensjö, Co-convenors, UNGEGN WG on Geographical Names as Cultural Heritage – Sweden
Place-names as intangible cultural heritage - the example of Sweden
Élisabeth Calvarin, UNGEGN, Chair of UNGEGN French-Speaking Division – France
The toponymic heritage of Ile-de-France through public transport
Marta Montilla Lillo, Instituto Geográfico Nacional – Spain
Situation and developments in the standardization of geographical names in Spain
Andreas Hadjiraftis, President of the Permanent Committee for the Standardization of Geographical Names – Cyprus
Toponymic Standardization in Cyprus, Geographical Names - Intangible Cultural Heritage
Discussion

18:30 – Closing

20:00 – Social dinner

27 March 2015

9:20 – Fourth session: Historical and geographical point of view (first part)

Chair, Cosimo Palagiano, Emeritus professor of the “Sapienza” University of Rome, Accademia dei Lincei – Italy
Laura Cassi, University of Florence, Society for Geographical Studies – Italy
Geographical aspects of place names research. An overview
Giuliana Biagioli, University of Pisa – Italy
A cultural heritage: Toponymy in Tuscany. An historical, geographical and linguistic enquiry with GIS support
Matteo Massarelli, University of Florence – Italy
Cultural heritage and landscape in Tuscan toponymy with special reference to the West Coast
Nicola Gabellieri, University of Genova – Italy
A changing identity: from an agrarian and manufacturing region to a multi-function territory

10:40 - Coffee break

11:00 – Fourth session: Historical and geographical point of view (second part)
Stefano Piastra, University of Bologna – Italy
The Projection Overseas of a Toponym. The Placename ‘Ravenna’ in the USA
Alessandro Camiz, Sapienza University of Rome – Italy
On the origin and persistence of praedial toponyms in Central Italy
Furio Ciciliot, Savonese Society of National History – Italy
The Historical Toponymy Project: materials for studying a territory
Graziano Ferrari and Gabriele Tarabusi, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, and Nicola di Novella, Naturalist – Italy
A territory speaking as people: the dialects in place names
Andrea Masturzo, University of Bergamo – Italy
Cartography and toponymy: the denomination of the African territory in Italian colonial experience
Discussion

Closing of the International symposium and conclusions

13:00 – Lunch

14:30 – Sightseeing tour: Florence from Piazzale Michelangelo (by reservation)