INTERNATIONAL SUMMERSCHOOL FOR YOUNG EUROPEAN STUDENTS AND RESEARCHERS: HISTORY, LANGUAGES AND BORDER CULTURES

In preparation for Nova Gorica/Gorizia being the 2025 European Capital of Culture, the Summerschool aim is to offer participants the opportunity to discover the great cultural richness and sociological quality of the coexistence implemented in this territory; this will be achieved through privileged meetings with witnesses, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, artists, tourist guides, visits to the territory, excursions, role-playing games, facilitators and experts in conflict management. This territory, marked by a deep multilingualism since the Middle Ages, part of the Habsburg monarchy until the First World War, is now experiencing a very important moment, as it is a laboratory of coexistence, of reworking its past through a complex work on memory, often divisive, marked by easy nationalist exploitations and a rediscovery of its multiple linguistic heritage. The Summerschool wants to investigate from a historical, linguistic, anthropological, sociological and economic point of view what is happening in this territory, with particular reference to the history of the 19th century, placing it in a European context. The opportunity is to start from the history of this cross-border territory, to imagine together with the participants new scenarios and new solutions at a general level to intercultural conflicts and the peaceful management of territories marked by the coexistence of more national and linguistic realities.

You can find the programme here.