Roman Modernities

瓦尔特·本雅明最后一部未完成的作品《拱廊计划》以19世纪的巴黎为范例来理解现代性的震撼体验。本雅明认为奥斯曼在19世纪50年代和60年代对法国首都城市景观的彻底改造相当于一种精神上的冲击，因此反映在波德莱尔的作品中。我们的项目回顾了本雅明的方法，以反映罗马现代化的文化含义。首先，罗马的独特性是由它作为几个传统（古典、基督教、意大利）的象征性城市的地位聚集在一起的。其次，与巴黎不同，罗马与现代性的对抗不是突然的，而是渐进的：从罗马在新民族国家的中心地位开始，它见证了20世纪30年代暴力法西斯对城市景观的重新配置的显著加速，并在战后的几十年里继续通过一个过程，其中包括由皮埃尔·保罗·帕索里尼描述的过程。通过聚集来自不同专业领域（文学和电影研究、哲学、历史、艺术史和视觉文化、性别和后殖民研究、建筑、城市研究、精神分析、文化理论）的学者，我们的项目在一个典型的跨/多学科的角度内移动，在当代理论的光中重新评估罗马的传统研究。鉴于现有学者强调罗马的古代及其神话想象（参考书目参见支持案例），将其与现代性的对抗分析为线性时间运动，并将其作为先前所谓身份的丧失过程，我们的项目旨在将城市作为紧张的领域进行调查，其中垂直性优于水平性，同时性优于历时性，多元化和多元文化优于固定身份。和根状结构的线性关系。指导我们项目的概念（多元稳定性，创伤和冲击，现代性和后现代性，片段，生存，同步，时代错误，不可思议）应该鼓励对主题进行创新和具有挑战性的分析，强调历史和文献方法（罗马罗马博物馆和罗马国家档案馆）与理论方法（BSR， ICI）之间的交流。通过探索叙述、描绘和展示罗马多元遗产和频繁变形的方式，该网络还旨在为从事文化遗产保护和审讯、博物馆研究以及城市空间重构和进一步发展的学者、专业人士、艺术家和机构开发新的概念工具。该网络横跨两所学术机构（华威大学和伦敦大学学院），直接源于P.I.和Co-I的研究兴趣。他们通过跨学科和多学科的视角，以及在英国，意大利和德国的国际学术和非学术合作伙伴关系（ICI柏林，罗马英国学校，罗马国家档案馆和罗马博物馆）继续扩展意大利研究领域。所有的研究活动都将是公开的，并将采用多种形式（会议、讲习班、研讨会、展览、圆桌会议和专门为非专业观众量身定制的电影放映）。传播将涉及多个媒体，其中我们可以预见两本合编的书，两期专题期刊和一个多媒体博客。

Walter Benjamin's last uncompleted work, The Arcades Project, employs nineteenth-century Paris as a paradigmatic model to understand the shocking experience of modernity. Benjamin considers Haussmann's radical transformation of the French capital's cityscape in the 1850s and 1860s as the equivalent of a psychical shock, and thus mirrored in Baudelaire's oeuvre. Our project revisits Benjamin's approach in order to reflect on the cultural implications of Rome's modernisation. First, Rome's singularity is gathered together by its status as symbolic city for several traditions (classical, Christian, Italian). Second, unlike Paris, Rome's confrontation with modernity is not sudden but progressive: beginning with the aftermath of Rome's centrality to the new national state, it witnesses a significant acceleration with the violent Fascist reconfiguration of the cityscape in the 1930s, and continues in successive post-war decades through a process that is described, among others, by Pier Paolo Pasolini.By gathering scholars from different fields of expertise (literary and film studies, philosophy, history, art history and visual culture, gender and postcolonial studies, architecture, urban studies, psychoanalysis, cultural theory), our project moves within a quintessentially inter-/multidisciplinary perspective to reassess traditional studies on Rome in the light of contemporary theory. Whereas existing scholarship stresses Rome's antiquity and its mythical imaginary (for bibliographical references see the Case for Support), analysing its confrontation with modernity as a linear chronological movement and as a process of loss of previous alleged identities, our project aims to investigate the city as a field of tensions, where verticality is privileged over horizontality, synchrony over diachrony, plurality and multiculturalism over fixed identities, and rhizomatous structures over linearity.The concepts guiding our project (Multistability, Trauma and Shock, Modernity and Post-modernity, Fragment, Survival, Synchrony, Anachronism, the Uncanny) should encourage an innovative and challenging analysis of the theme, by emphasising interchange between historical and documentary approaches (CROMA and the National Archive at Rome) to theoretical ones (BSR, ICI).By exploring ways of narrating, portraying and displaying Rome's plural legacies and frequent metamorphoses, the network also aims to develop new conceptual tools of relevance for scholars, professionals, artists and institutions engaged in the preservation and interrogation of cultural heritage, museum studies and the reconfiguration and further development of urban spaces.Located across two academic institutions (Warwick and UCL), the network directly arises from the research interests of the P.I. and the Co-I., who both continue to extend the field of Italian Studies by the engagement with interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives, and from international academic and non-academic partnerships throughout the United Kingdom, Italy and Germany (ICI Berlin, British School at Rome, the Rome National Archive and the CROMA).All research events will be public and several formats will be adopted (conferences, workshops, seminars, exhibitions, roundtables and film screenings specifically tailored for non-specialised audiences). Dissemination will involve several media, among which we can foresee two co-edited books, two monographic issues of refereed journals and a multimedia blog.