Conference ‘1525. Revolts, society, environment’
Programme for 27 November 2025
Programme for 27 November 2025
FIRST DAY
📍FBK, Italian-German Historical Institute – Trento
❗Simultaneous Italian-German translation will be provided for this study day.
PANEL 1 – RESTLESS SOCIETIES
From 8.30 a.m. to 9 a.m. – Registration
From 9 a.m. to 9.30 a.m. – Institutional greetings
From 9.30 a.m. to 10.15 a.m. – Wars before the war: peasant revolts in the Alps in the 14th and 15th centuries – Marta Gravela, University of Turin
From 10.15 a.m. to 11 a.m. – “dass sy in grosser zwytracht unter inen seyn”. Willensbildungsprozesse und Organisationsstrukturen während des Tiroler Bauernkriegs – Martin Schennach, University of Innsbruck
From 11 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. – Coffee break
From 11.30 a.m. to 12.15 p.m. – The Bauernkrieg and the districts of Trento – Carlo Taviani, University of Teramo
From 12.15 p.m. to 1 p.m. Michael Gaismair. Between economic crisis, mining and uprisings – Armin Torggler, South Tyrol Mining Museum / Provincial Museum of Mining – South Tyrol
From 13 p.m. to 2 p.m. – Lunch break
PANEL 2 – THE POWER OF WATER
From 2 p.m. to 2.45 p.m. – Water and human societies in modern-day Northern Italy – Matteo Di Tullio, University of Pavia
From 2.45 p.m. to 3.30 p.m. – Timber floating on the Chiese River. Communities, merchants, lords – Italo Franceschini, Società di Studi Trentini di Scienze Storiche
From 3.30 p.m. to 4 p.m. – Coffee break
From 4 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. – “A torrent, the most indomitable, sacrilegious, and furious”: water as both a resource and a threat in Trentino – Nicola Gabellieri, University of Trento
From 4.45 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. – Hydraulic machines and technological innovation between the late Middle Ages and early modern age. The case study of the territory between Avisio and Fersina – Marco Stenico, Società di Studi Trentini di Scienze Storiche