Day 1
15.05.2025
UniTrento, Trento and Senàle–San Felice/Unsere Liebe Frau im Walde–St. Felix, IT
After a warm welcome from the organisers, Ingrid Kofler and Anna Casaglia, we kicked off the first day of Resilience and Dynamics at Italian Borderscapes with incredible energy and insightful conversations!
From thought-provoking sessions with Anna Casaglia, Anne-Laure Amilhat-Szary, Raffaella Coletti, Alice Buoli and Tobias Boos, participants came together to exchange multidisciplinary perspectives and share experiences for an inspiring program ahead.
We explored the Hidden Frontier in the Senàle–San Felice/Unsere Liebe Frau im Walde–St Felix border landscape, tracing layered histories and contemporary realities.
Our visit to the Gampenbunker at Passo Palade offered a powerful lens into the region’s past. At the same time, exchanges with local actors provided enriching insights on how the border continues to shape identities and daily life today.
The day concluded with the screening of Contadini di Confine/Grenzbauern (2024), followed by a thoughtful discussion with the filmmakers Michele Trentini and Marco Romano. The film shed light on a unique cross-border landscape — shaped not by monoculture or neglect, but by the enduring collaboration of farmers and herders whose work sustains the land and a shared cultural heritage.
We stayed at Hotel Gasthof Zum Hirschen in Madonna di Senale, a historic hospitium dating back to 1184, originally a hospice for pilgrims near Tyrol’s oldest sanctuary. Over the centuries, it was managed by Hospitallers, Benedictines, and later private hosts. Since 1972, it has been owned by the Kofler-Mocatti family, who restored it in 2017, blending tradition with modernity in a situated and sustainable architecture for hospitality. Special thanks to Mirko Mocatti for his warm hospitality.
Day 2
16.05.2025
unibz, Bozen–Bolzano, IT
The second day focused on understanding border landscapes, their resilience, and dynamics in uncertain times of polycrisis.
Ingrid Kofler‘s presentation and Jussi P. Laine’s keynote shared insights on European borderlands, while Ilaria Riccioni, Marcus Nicolson, and Andreas Metzner-Szigeth‘s session fostered a dialogue across disciplines and methodological approaches.
Many thanks to all the participants for these intense and unforgettable days of learning, dialogue and exchange!
The seminars were organised by Ingrid Kofler (unibz), Anna Casaglia (Unitn), Alessandra Volgger (unibz).
The Seminar is funded by the Euregio Mobility Fund IV and by the EU – Next Generation EU – PRIN 2022 Call for proposals – D.D. No. 104, February 2, 2022 – M4 C2 Inv.1.1 Prot. No. 20225TN2R9 – Project title: “Italian Borderscapes after 2020. Mapping, unfolding, and re-framing border territories in response to the Covid-19 pandemic” – CUP: D53D23010950006 and “The border is no more, long live the border. De-materialization and re-materialization of internal borders in the European Union” (2022JPFYE8) – CUP E53D23010250006
