Seminar in honour of Prof. Marxiano Melotti Thu 22 Jan

January 21, 2026

"Roma antica", Giovanni Paolo Pannini, 1755. Wikimedia Commons.

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.

Layered Cities: Using Age and Heritage as Lenses of Analysis

Thursday 22 Jan

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!