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Maddalena Napolitani

Phd candidate
ecole normale superieure
Participates in 1 Session
Je suis doctorante en histoire de l'art à Paris, à l'École Normale Supérieure dans le cadre du programme SACRe- PSL (Science Arts Création Recherche). Sous la direction de M. Dominique Poulot et Mme Nadeije Laneyrie Dagen je mène une thèse qui porte sur un "curieux" XIXème siècle: en un mot j'intérroge l'héritage des cabinets de curiosités au cours de ce siècle.
Après une licence en histoire de l'art  à l'Université de Pise (Italie) j'ai integré l'École Normale Supérieure de Paris, où j'ai poursuivi mon Master 1 et 2 en histoire de l'art, ainsi qu'auprès de l'Univerité de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Depuis le master, je m'intéresse à l'histoire des cabinets de curiosités à la Renaissance ainsi qu'aux pratiques contemporaines qui s'inspirenet à ce sujet - agencements de musées et expositions, oeuvre d'artistes contemporaints, etc. Dans ce cadre, mes recherches portent sur l'histoire des collections, des musées - musées scientifiques et d'histoire naturelle en particulier - et du patrimoine.

Sessions in which Maddalena Napolitani participates

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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Sessions in which Maddalena Napolitani attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

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17:00 - 19:30 | 2 hours 30 minutes
Festive Event

Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail take place in the former Grey Nuns' Motherhouse, recycled into campus residence and reading rooms by Concordia University,  delegates will also have the possibility to discover the video Three Grey Nuns (3 minutes, by Ron Rudin and Phil Lichti. Three Grey Nuns recount their memories of communal life in the Grey Nun’s Motherhouse.  Built...

Saturday 4 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00 - 10:00 | 1 hour
Public event
Simultaneous translation - Traduction simultanée

What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, states maintain their leading role in the mobilization of social and territorial histories, on the local scale, regions, neighbourhoods and parishes have changed. Citizens and communities too: they latch on to heritage to express an unprecedented range of belongings that no law seems to be able to take measures to contain, often to the discontent of...

18:30 - 20:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Public event
Simultaneous translation - Traduction simultanée

Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including nationalism.  In these processes, through a variety of devices (museums, scholarly research, consumer reproduction, etc.), dualistic classifications articulate a powerful hierarchy of value and significance.  In particular, the tangible-intangible pair, given legitimacy by such international bodies as UNESCO, reproduces a selective ordering of cul...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00 - 15:00 | 6 hours
Heritage Changes the Social OrderMuseumsActivists and Experts

The second half of the 20th century saw the affirmation of national and international heritage administrations run by teams of experts that mutually validated each other’s knowledge and findings. The emergence of new forms of heritage, new collections and international networks related to museums, or other heritage structures, has led to the development of numerous new or reformulated specialities. In the last two decades a new ideal of heritage has gained ground, one based on communities ...