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Center for Amalfi Culture and History | Fiftieth Anniversary of Foundation 1975-2025
30 April - 3 May
PROGRAM
Identity cultural promotion in the Amalfi Coast: retrospectives and study perspectives.
- Wednesday, April 30, 5 p.m.
Welcome and greetings to participants
John CAMELIA
Director of the Scientific Committee C.C.S.A.
Giuseppe GARGANO, President Emeritus C.C.S.A.
Presentation of the official program of the Celebrations
Pasquale NATELLA, Meritorious Member C.C.S.A. Fiftieth
Alida FLIRI, Presentation of Dieter RICHTER’s volume, The Amalfi Coast. History of a European landscape
Salvatore AMATO, Dieter RICHTER, Nicolaus MERKEL, Inauguration of iconographic and documentary exhibition: The soldier with the Leica. The Amalfi Coast in the photographs of Hilmar Landwehr (1942-1943)
Seminar days
1975-2025: Half a century of identity cultural promotion in the Amalfi Coast: retrospectives and perspectives of research and study
- Thursday, May 1, 9:30 a.m.
Session I
The intercepted story
Institutional Greetings
Andrea DE PASQUALE, General Manager
Of the Education, Research and Cultural Institutions Directorate of MIC.
Flavia PICCOLI NARDELLI, president of the Association of Italian Cultural Institutions.
Daniele MILANO, Mayor of Amalfi Inter venti
Gerardo SANGERMANO, University of Salerno
Introduction to the work: one story, many stories
Giovanni VITOLO, “Federico II” University of Naples
Amalfi historiography between document and interpretation
John CAMELIA, C.C.S.A. Scientific Committee.
Presentation of the special issue of the indexes of the C.C.S.A. Review, a periodical of Amalfi history, art and culture
3:30-6:30 pm
Bruno FIGLIUOLO, University of Udine
Evolving spaces of recent historiographical inquiry:
the contribution of the Center for Amalfitan Culture and History.
Paolo PEDUTO, University of Salerno
Men for the sea, ships and landings in the Middle Ages in Southern Italy (10th-14th centuries).
Matthew HARPSTER, Coç University of Istanbul
Galleys from Byzantium to Amalfi: archaeological and textual data and new research paths
Giuseppe MANDALÀ, University of Milan
Amalfi in the Arab-Islamic Mediterranean space.
Vera Charlotte von FALKENHAUSEN
Tor Vergata University of Rome
Amalfi and Byzantium: trade routes.
Debate
- Friday, May 2, 9:30 a.m.
Session II
A ‘World Heritage Site’: the land and the environment
Hidenobu JINNAI, Hosey University of Tokyo
The forms and modes of settlement
Maria RUSSO, “Vanvitelli” University of Naples
The territorial and urban organization of the Amalfi Coast: nature and human intervention
Antonio BRACA
Superintendence of Artistic and Historical Heritage of Salerno/Avellino
Between patronage and faith, Amalfi Mediterranean crossroads of medieval art
Valentino PACE, University of Udine
Art excellence on the Coast: between historiography and research needs
Giuseppe GARGANO, President Emeritus C.C.S.A.
The medieval ‘forma urbis of Amalfi’ and the submerged structures of the Coast (13th cent.)
3:30-6:30 pm
The perceived landscape
Matilde ROMITO, former Director Provincial Museums of Salerno
Foreign artists’ perception of the coastal landscape between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Olympia GARGANO
Research Associate in Comparative Literature University of Nice
The Coast seen and told. Metaliterary representations of the Amalfi Coast.
Francesco D’EPISCOPO, “Federico II” University of Naples “La bella Amalfi”
Pasquale IACCIO, University of Salerno
Amalfi starring in origin cinema documentaries
Joachim DI MARTINO, Gaspare ADINOLFI
Center for Amalfitan Culture and History
The Amalfi Coast between “consumption and protection”
Debate
- Saturday, May 3, 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Final workshop
Multiculturalism: the new frontiers of identity research
Communications
Historical research – publishing
Moderator
Olympia GARGANO
Research Associate in Comparative Literature University of Nice
Interventions
Emanuele INDRACCOLO, University of Salerno
The publication of the Proceedings of the 1934 Conference on Medieval Maritime Law.
Matthew DARIO PAOLUCCI
Research Associate L.O.R.D.E. Hosey University – Tokyo
L.O.R.D.E. and C.C.S.A.’s research on landscape, architecture and eco-history
John MORRISSEY, VSIG Association – University of Vienna and Innsbruck
The overseas editorial promotion of Amalfi’s multicultural image.
Alfonso CONTE, University of Salerno
Between Kingdom and Republic: recent studies and research projects on the contemporary history of Amalfi
Peter SANTORIELLO, Researcher C.C.S.A. Sacred and civil architectures.
Giuseppe VITOLO, Researcher C.C.S.A.
The research and the A.L.E.C.A. (Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of the Amalfi Coast) portal www.aleca.it
Archaeology, geology and material culture
Moderator
Alfredo Maria SANTORO, University of Salerno Inter venti
Domenico CAMARDO, Herculaneum project leader.
Luca DI FRANCO, ABAP Superintendence Metropolitan area of Naples,
Mario NOTOMISTA, Center for Amalfitan Culture and History A tool for knowledge, protection and enhancement: maps of the archaeological potential of the Ager Stabianus
Aldo CINQUE, Center for Amalfitan Culture and History.
The role of geological and geomorphological knowledge in assessing the archaeological potential of Ager Stabianus
Chiara LAMBERT, University of Salerno
Marielva TORINO, Suor Orsola Benincasa
Rock sites on the Amalfi Coast: from participatory archaeology to the “Longobard Ways across Europe” itinerary
Flavio RUSSO, Historical Office E.I. The internal fronts upstream of the Duchy.
Planning and territory: landscape, art, environment
Moderator
Maria Rosaria SANNINO, Journalist Speakers
Antonio MILONE, Federico II University of Naples Art and patronage in 13th century Amalfi
Michail TALALAY, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
The cultural interchange between the Amalfi Coast and the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Annarita AVERSA, Architects Anonymous Milan
The vademecum: ideas and projects for the preservation of the Amalfi Coast’s landscape and architectural heritage
Salvatore DE RISO
Master Pastry Chef and Magister of Amalfi Civilization 2016
Publishing prospects for the revitalization of the traditional gastronomic specificities of the Amalfi area
4 p.m.
Amalfi, Morelli Hall of the Municipal Palace
Ceremony conferring Honorary Citizenships for high merits of study and awarding certificates of merit to Honorary and Meritorious Members of the Center
6:30 pm
Amalfi, Arsenal of the Republic
Musical concert on classical and Amalfi tunes
