Is geography necessary to war?
A series of conferences and debates with historians and art historians who will investigate aspects of the history of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, not only to learn about the past, but also to provide food for thought to the questions of the contemporary man
Cesare Battisti's experience as geographer lets us reflect on the use of the geographical knowledge, not only to represent the territory, but also to shape man's conscience and will.
What is the role of geography and cartographic documents in the development of a diffused geographic knowledge in Italy, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries?
Massimo Rossi
Historical geographer, he studies the changes of the landscapes in cartography, the geographical-historical contexts and cartographic representations. Since 2013 he's Professor of "Geographies of the contemporary territory" at the University of Architecture of Venice (IUAV) - Department of Culture Project.
Free admission
The meetings are part of the exhibition: Tempi della storia, tempi dell’arte. Cesare Battisti tra Vienna e Roma .
organization: Museo Castello del Buonconsiglio - Monumenti e collezioni provinciali