The Department of Sociology and Social Research celebrates the 60th anniversary of its opening, in 1962, with a day of conferences and an exhibition. That first step led to the founding of the University of Trento and to the study of social sciences in Italy, and deeply changed the city of Trento and local society. The celebrations include a special lecture, a round table on the present and future of Italian social sciences, and the inauguration of a photographic exhibition on Saturday at the Sociology building in via Verdi 26. A stamp will be issued to celebrate for the anniversary
"Sessanta e non sentirli" (Sixty years and counting): this is the motto that the Department has chosen to celebrate the 60th anniversary since the first lecture given at the then University Institute of Social Sciences, which is now the Department of Sociology and Social Research. That lecture was given by Giorgio Braga who, at 10 am on 5 November 1962, for the first time taught sociology to students in Italy. That day marked a starting point for the study of the social sciences. The Faculty of Sociology of Trento was the first, and for a long time the only university of social sciences in Italy, and contributed, like no other, to the advance of sociology in Italy - including, since 1983, thanks to the PhD in Sociology and Social Research - and to the opening of sociology to interdisciplinarity. This has been a characteristic of the Department since then and it still makes the university stand out in the national academic environment.
In the years that followed that first lecture, the presence of the Faculty of Sociology would contribute to bring about change in the city of Trento and in local society. This was shocking at first, because of the turmoil caused by the student movement. But then the city of Trento and its University grew closer, found their balance and opened up to many other disciplines.
To remember those days, the Department of Sociology and Social Research has organized a series of events that will take place on Saturday 5 November and a photographic exhibition that will be hosted at the Sociology building in via Verdi 26.
The programme of events starts in the morning, at 9.30, after the academic procession of the department: Marzio Barbagli - University of Bologna, one of the leading scholars of Sociology and, until 1979, professor of history of sociological thought in Trento - will welcome the attendees and give a lecture on a very current subject entitled "Uomini senza. Mutilazioni maschili, mobilità sociale e squilibri di status".
Later on, at 12.00, professors Andrea Cossu and Marta Villa of the University of Trento and Katia Malatesta of the Superintendence for Cultural Heritage of the Autonomous Province of Trento, will offer guided tours of the Department.
A round table on the present and future of Italian social sciences will take place in the afternoon at 3.00 in Aula Kessler (in person and via video link). The round table will be attended by Maria Carmela Agodi (Italian Association of Sociology), Filippo Andreatta (Department of Political and Social Sciences - Bologna), Gabriele Ballarino (Italian Society for Economic Sociology), Sara Bentivegna (Society, Culture, Communication), Rita Bichi (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan), Marco Bontempi (Department of Political and Social Sciences, Florence), Dora Gambardella (Department of Social Sciences, Federico II), Emanuela Mora (Department of Sociology, Catholic University), Roberto Pedersini (Department of Social and Political Sciences, Milan), Carlo Pennisi (Italian Conference of Sociological Departments), Francesco Ramella (Department of Culture, Politics and Society, Turin), Sonia Stefanizzi (Department of Sociology and Social Research, Milan-Bicocca).
To close the day, the photographic exhibition "Sessanta e non sentirli" will be unveiled at 6.00 in the Aula Kessler with addresses by Franco Marzatico, director general of the Strategic Mission Unit for the protection and promotion of cultural heritage and activities of the Autonomous Province of Trento, Giuseppe Sciortino, director of the Department of Sociology and Social Research, and the curators: Marta Villa of the University of Trento and Katia Malatesta of the Historical Photographic Archive of the Superintendence for Cultural Heritage of the Province of Trento. The exhibition will be open to the public until 8 April 2023 at the Department in via Verdi 26.
A stamp will be issued to celebrate the anniversary. Those who wish can visit the Department on Saturday from 10.00 in the morning to 4.00 in the afternoon to have the stamp obliterated on one of the postcards that have been printed for the occasion.
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For the full programme and further information visit: https://www.unitn.it/sessanta-non-sentirli
Further information on the event is available on UniTrentoMag, the University's web magazine, at: https://www.unitn.it/anniversario-sociologia