On January 23 and 24, the conference “Cultures, Economies, and Policies of the Forest in Italy: From the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era” will be held in Turin. Below, we share the program of the event, which will feature the participation of some of our members, and we attach the poster.
Thursday, January 23
14:30
Opening and Institutional Greetings
Paolo Cozzo (Director of the Department of Historical Studies, University of Turin)
Giacomo Bonan (University of Turin)
15:00–18:00
Beyond Documents: Archaeology, Cartography, and Oral History – Chair: Giulio Taccetti (University of Turin)
Mauro Buonincontri (University of Siena)
Ecology and Archaeology of Forest Uses in Coastal Southern Tuscany during the Middle Ages: Anthracological Analyses as a Research Tool
Chiara Molinari, Bruna Ilde Menozzi, Anna Maria Stagno (University of Genoa)
Historical Dynamics of Forest Landscapes in the Eastern Ligurian Apennines: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Giulia Beltrametti (University of Roma Tre), Nicola Gabellieri (University of Trento), Vittorio Tigrino (University of Piemonte Orientale)
From the Apennines to the Alps: Forest History, Resource Conflicts, and Geographic-Historical Microanalysis (18th–20th Centuries)
Iolanda Da Deppo, Daniela Perco (Dolomites Ethnographic Museum)
Stories of Trees, People, and Storms
During the session, the preliminary results of the research Perarolo: A Community Between Water and Wood will be presented.
Friday, January 24
09:00–12:00
Economies of Forests and Wood – Chair: Claudio Lorenzini (University of Turin)
Katia Occhi (Italo-German Historical Institute – Fondazione Bruno Kessler)
“Acciò anche li popoli e paesi non abbiano in avvenire da sofrire mancanza alcuna di legnami”: Forest Organization in Italian Tyrol in the Early Modern Period
Bruno Farinelli, Giulio Ongaro (University of Milano-Bicocca)
Production, Prices, and Consumption of Timber in Northern Italy During the Early Modern Period
Augusto Ciuffetti (Polytechnic University of Marche)
The Inhabited Forest: Charcoal Burners, Kiln Workers, and Woodsmen in the Central Apennines During the Early Modern Period
Luca Andreoni, Francesco Chiapparino (Polytechnic University of Marche)
The International Timber Market Between the 19th and 20th Centuries: Italy and the Entrepreneurial Activities of Piccardo Gualino
14:00–17:00
Forest Policies and Conflicts – Chair: Federico Del Giudice (University of Turin)
Vittoria Bufanio (University of Padua)
The Exploitation of Forest Resources in the Padua Region During the 14th-Century Economic Crisis
Giorgio Dell’Oro, Matteo Di Tullio (University of Pavia)
Contested Forests: Social Conflicts and Sustainability in Early Modern Lombardy
Alessandro Bottacci (Italian Society for Forest Restoration), Luigi Piccioni (University of Calabria), Bartolomeo Schirone (formerly University of Tuscia)
The Management-Conservation Dialectic in Italian Forest History and the Work of Fabio Clauser
Francesca Sanna (University of Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès)
Eucalyptus in the Mediterranean: Circulation of Techniques and Models for Industrial Forest Management in the First Half of the 20th Century
