Internal colonization and migrations from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary.

Seminar on Thursday, 25 January, 2018 at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale of Cagliari.

The seminar, in collaboration with the Dipartimento di Storia, Beni Culturali e Territorio – Cagliari University, introduces topics such as the phenomenon of abandoned villages, the repopulation and types of land control, the newly founded towns and villages, the intertwining of internal colonization, diasporas, and Mediterranean migrations.

Rossana Martorelli from Cagliari University is presenting, The Arabs and Cagliari during the Byzantine period. Materials for the construction of a hypothesis.  Cecilia Tasca from Cagliari University, is presenting, the Jewish diaspora in late medieval Cagliari; and Massimo Aresu from Leeds University, is presenting, Mediterranean circuits. Beyond the diaspora: gypsies and Sardinian gypsies in the modern age (XVI-XVIII century).  These lectures offer moments of reflection and comparison on the processes of disestablisment, and reorganizing settlement systems within the European-Mediterranean framework, from the Middle Ages to the early Modern Age.

Gianpaolo Salica, researcher of modern history at the Cagliari University, is coordinating the seminar and Roberto Concas, director of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale of Cagliari, is introducing the event. The focal point of the conference is the different methodological approaches to the history of the locations, and the human mobility, bestowing special attention to the social dynamics that have affected the island.