Project financed by UNINT – Third mission call – social impact (academic year 2022/2023)
Leaders: Mariagrazia Russo, dean of the Faculty of Interpreting and Translation and UNINT teacher and Lucilla Pizzoli, UNINT teacher
Objectives
The initiative is part of the activities of public engagement organized on a non-profit basis with cultural and social development value and aimed at a non-academic audience. Specifically, it falls within the orientation and interaction initiatives with the high school and information initiatives aimed at children and young people.
The exhibition "At the origins of languages. The first written testimonies” intends to document the history of the languages taught in the Faculty of Interpreting and Translation (Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese, English, Italian taste, Portuguese, russo, Spanish e tedesco) describing the first documents considered evidence of the birth of languages in order to increase awareness of their history, of the relationships between similar languages and cultures (highlighting for example the common matrix of neo-Latin languages) and of the variety of textual typologies through which you can do historiographical research (graffiti, inscriptions, practical documents and literary texts). A separate space is also reserved for LIS (Italian sign language). The connections with the structures that host the documents described in the exhibition represent the object of valorisation in order to enhance the cultural heritage spread throughout the national and international territory.
Actions
Organization of an exhibition, with inauguration on 30 September 2023, on the occasion of the research night, developed in 43 panels arranged in the spaces of the University of International Studies of Rome (library, atrium, corridors) so as to constitute a structured itinerary accessible in the its entirety, but also only for the individual sections of interest with their own internal autonomy.
Impact
Increase historical awareness of the relationships between related languages and cultures and of the various textual types of communication. At the same time, valorisation of expanded knowledge by encouraging the acquisition of political strategies at a territorial and national level, in correlation with the European and international context, aimed at acquiring, disseminating and using knowledge as an engine of growth and sustainable socio-economic and political development .
Indicators
- Number of visitors;
- degree of participation in the exhibition;
- degree of usefulness of the exhibition.
