The course (now in its 5th edition) invites students to collaborate in building our innovative Museum Lab EUROTALES, aimed at representing and preserving the languages spoken in Europe now and in the past in their variety and dynamic relationship with the European territory, and to acknowledge, describe and preserve the linguistic culture of Europe outside narrow national boundaries, and based on active citizenship.
Students in this CIVIS course will learn about the linguistic cultures of Europe by preparing materials for both the physical and virtual museum venues of Eurotales. Eurotales is both a Sapienza incorporated Museum Collection and a subproject of Calliope (CAsa delle Lingue e delle Letterature In OPEra).
It is also a member of the international network of language museums (ICON) and it works with AND - Ambienti Narrativi Digitali srl for digital processing, data collection, and the website. All of these entities are stakeholders in the project.
Seminars and itineraries (24 hrs):
- 04 January – arrival in Rome
- 05 January – visit to the Museum illustration of the latest project & students’ presentations (morning, afternoon)
- 06 January – students’ presentations 10-12; Invited lectures/ presentation of the Itineraries
- 07 January - Roma Museo Diffuso (find out if we can find earphones)
- 08 January - Wall of Words and other activities (theatre, music)
02 October, 15:00 - 17:00: Introduction and Scope of Eurotales Project and Museum - Language, Community and Place
- greetings and introductions
- EUROTALES Museum Laboratory Concept and Collections [PPT lecture]
- break
- Course Syllabus and Moodle Platform
- Resonances Present – questionnaires
- distribute email list and make WhatApp group for the class
TASKS:
- for 9 October, please complete two questionnaires on Excel
- for 6 November, please complete the remaining 18 questionnaires and upload on Moodle
09 October, 15:00 - 18:00: Field and Research Methods in sociolinguistics and history
- Traces - What are they? - template (PPT lecture)
- break
- Resonances of the Past - What are they? - Template (PPT lecture)
- discussion of First Questionnaires - Q&A
DUE: two Resonances Present Questionnaires.
TASKS: for 16 October, please identify topics for Resonances Past, Traces and start collecting bibliography.
16 October, 15:00 - 17:00: The Basics: Inscriptions, Primary Sources and Bibliographies for Resonances Past and Traces - Q&A
- Research and Resources (Resonances Past and Traces) (PPT lecture)
- break
- Discussion of choice of Resonances Past and Traces.
DUE: topics for Resonances Past, Traces and preliminary bibliographies.
TASKS: for 30 October, collect bibliography and images for Traces and Resonances and write the
short label text for your Trace(s).
23 October, 15:00 - 18:00: Itineraries and Working Groups
- Making itineraries from Traces and Resonances Past: themes, areas, people (PPT lecture)
- Literary Cities (PPT lecture)
- break
- Division into Working Groups on Traces and Resonances Past: discuss topics, and
- bibliography.
DUE: collect bibliography and images for Traces and Resonances and write the short label text for your Trace(s).
TASKS: for 06 November, Completed Resonances Past templates including images, information, texts, references and bibliographies.
30 October, 15:00 - 18:00: Resonances Past Workshop/ Peer review
- students break up in groups and exchange their drafts of Resonances Past. Class time is spent reading and commenting mutually on drafts.
- break
- students discuss the Itinerary themes and Literary Cities they are considering to choose
06 November, 15:00 – 17:00: Itineraries and Traces
- students present the Itinerary themes they are considering to choose
- discussion of Traces
DUE: Resonances Present Questionnaires uploaded on Moodle in ONE excel file.
13 November, 17:00-18:00: Drop-in office hour
DUE: Completed Resonances Past templates including images, information, texts, references and bibliographies.
TASKS: for 20 November, Completed Trace templates including information, texts, references and bibliographies.
20 November, 15:00 - 18:00: Trace Workshop/ peer Review
- students break up in groups and exchange their drafts of Traces. Class time is spent reading and commenting mutually on drafts;
- general discussion on issues and problems in the drafts.
DUE: completed Trace templates including information, texts, references and bibliographies.
TASKS: for 27 November, Revisions (based on classmates’ feedback) of Traces and Resonances Past. These will be commented upon by the professors.
27 November 15:00-17:00: Revising your work
- discussion of issues and problems to fix in written work - Q&A
- final revisions of Resonances Past, Traces, and itineraries due 7 January
04 December 15:00-17:00: preparing for Rome
- planned Activities in Rome - Students’ proposals for further activities
- drop-in office hour
18 December, 17:00-18:00: drop-in office hour
By the end of the online part, we expect students to hand in the following work:
- 20 questionnaires recording data on linguistic biographies (20 Resonances Present);
- either 2 ‘Traces’ and 1 ‘Resonance Past’ or 2 ‘Resonances Past’ and 1 ‘Trace’;
- a short thematic itinerary proposal with map and images inviting the public to visit an ideal itinerary across different Resonances and Traces, or an itinerary through a Literary City, intended eventually for museum display. The itinerary should include a paragraph elaborating its relevance to the memory of the Voices of Europe and suitable images (copyright free)