Convegno internazionale "Naming, Identity and Tourism"

Potenza, 3 maggio 2018 (aula magna Francioso, dalle ore 14.30); 4 maggio (sala del Cortile, Palazzo Loffredo, Museo Archeologico Nazionale della Basilicata, dalle ore 9.30)

Il convegno internazionale dal titolo Naming, Identity and Tourism intende percorrere, in ottica pluridisciplinare, i recenti sviluppi e i nuovi orientamenti nel campo di ricerca che si occupa di naming. L’obiettivo dell’iniziativa è di raccogliere una comunità di studiose/studiosi provenienti da università italiane e straniere per esplorare, alla luce delle più recenti prospettive critiche, studi di caso, aspetti teorici e metodi di indagine che possano dare un significativo contributo a questo campo di ricerca. Gli interventi privilegeranno lo studio dei nomi di luoghi, persone o personaggi, tradizioni e rituali, monumenti e siti archeologici intesi come pratiche discorsive connesse a una molteplicità di dimensioni, dai discorsi identitari, a quelli promozionali (mercificazione dei luoghi), commemorativi (rappresentazione/costruzione della memoria collettiva), e artistici (letteratura , arte, cinema, musica). Il convegno è rivolto anche a giovani studiosi (assegnisti, dottori di ricerca, dottorandi, studenti magistrali) e docenti della scuola secondaria nelle discipline linguistiche, letterarie, storico-filosofiche, geografiche e sociologiche. Si ritiene che questo ambito di ricerca, valorizzato dal suo forte del suo carattere pluridisciplinare, costituisca un terreno di studio e di formazione che vale la pena approfondire in Italia.
 

Relatori

Maoz Azaryahu (University of Haifa, Israel) is Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Haifa and since 2017 he has been the Director of the Herzl Institute for the Study of Zionism.
His main research interest touches upon street names and monuments in public spaces and their relation with politics and politics of commemoration. An internationally recognized scholar, he has written extensively on urban landscapes, memory, and society.
To name but a few of his publications:
- The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes: Naming, Politics and Place (2017, co-editors: R. Rose-Redwood and D. Alderman), a collection that brings together the works of geographers, anthropologists, historians, linguists, planners, and political scientists to examine the power of street naming as an urban place-making practice.
- Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet (2016, co-editors: Marie-Laure Ryan and Kenneth Foote) offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding how space works in narrative and narrative theory and how narratives work in real space.
- Tel Aviv: Mythography of a City (2006) combines historical research and cultural analysis, exploring the different myths that have been part of the perception of Tel-Aviv. By relating Tel Aviv's mythology to its physicality (buildings, streets, personal experiences, and municipal policies), Azaryahu he offers critical insights into specific myths and their propagation in the spheres of both official and popular culture

Richard Coates (University of the West of England, Bristol, UK) is Professor of Linguistics and Onomastics at the University of the West of England. He is a former Vice-President of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences. He has also been Hon. Director of the Survey of English Place-Names since 2003 and Principal Investigator of the project Family Names of the United Kingdom, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom (2010–2014).
His research interests cover name theory, the philology of western European languages, historical linguistics, the cultural history of English, dialectology and dialect literature, and local history. An internationally recognized researcher, he has written extensively on issues related to these areas of study. His place-name work is mainly centred upon the origin of English place-names created before 1500 A.D. In addition, he has a more general interest in names as linguistic objects, and has published work on name theory (The Pragmatic Theory of Properhood) in such journals as Linguistics, Language, Journal of Linguistics and Onoma.
His book The Traditional Dialect of Sussex (2010) provides a detailed analysis of the dialect from the Anglo- Saxon period to the present day.

Peter Jordan (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Urban and Regional Research)
PhD., Professor honoris causa at the Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca (Romania), he teaches regularly at the universities of Vienna, Klagenfurt and Cluj-Napoca.
He has had a long-standing interest in the field of geography, since 1977 he has been map editor (Atlas of the Danubian Countries) and then editor-in-chief of the Atlas of Eastern and Southeastern Europe, a map series published in instalments (1989-2014). He is also member of the editorial board of several international scientific journals.
He was director of the Austrian Institute of East and Southeast European Studies in Vienna (2001-2005). He is currently director of the Institute of Urban and Regional Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences (since 2007), chair of the Austrian Board on Geographical Names (AKO) and managing editor of the Austrian Geographical Society (MÖGG).
At an international level, he is Chair of the ICA Commission on Atlases, Convenor of the Working Group on Exonyms United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names and Vice-chair of the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names.