Seminar "Layered Cities" in honour of Prof. Marxiano Melotti 22 January, 2026

Professor Marxiano Melotti (Niccolò Cusano University) will be visiting Trivium and History Unit in Tampere during week 4 through the Erasmus teaching exchange programme. A seminar focusing on the layered nature of cities will be organised around his visit on Thursday, 22 January.

Giovanni Paolo Panninin 1700-luvun maalaus, jossa kuvattuna useita maalauksia antiikin Roomasta.
Roma antica, Giovanni Paolo Pannini, 1755. Wikimedia Commons.
Layered Cities: Using Age and Heritage as Lenses of Analysis
Main Building C109 (C6)

13:00-13:10 Opening

13:10-13:40 Ville Vuolanto: Children’s Urban Environments in Roman Oxyrhynchos. Visibility, Movement and Agency

13:40-14:10 Antti Malinen & Tanja Vahtikari: Children as Cartographers: Lived and Narrated Childhood Experience of Urban Environment in Post-Second World War Helsinki

14:10-14:30 Coffee

14:30-15:00 Minna Kulojärvi: Dissonances of a Cultural Heritage Site – Piazza Augusto Imperatore through Augustan, Fascist and Contemporary Eras

15:00-15:30 Marxiano Melotti: Heritage, Community and Cultural Memory. Carbonia (Sardinia) and its Mine Museum

Welcome to the seminar!