The Summer School aims to explore themes around the multilingual history of Gorizia through workshops, seminars with university lecturers, guided tours and excursions in the area and meetings with Italian and Slovenian students. This project is part of the programme Thousand years of History in the centre of Europe: Borgo castello crossroads of people and cultures, funded by the European Union with funds from Next generation EU.

DATE & VENUE:

From the 28^th of August to the 6^th of September 2025.

Main location: Gorizia, via Rastello, 38. Italy

GOAL:

The twin cities Nova Gorica/Gorizia are this year the first “borderless” European Capital of Culture in the European history. The Summer School of the cultural association Kulturhaus Görz aims in its second edition once more to offer participants the opportunity to discover the great cultural richness and sociological quality of the coexistence implemented in this territory; this will be achieved through privileged meetings with witnesses, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, artists, tourist guides, visits to the territory, excursions, role-playing games, facilitators and experts in conflict management.

This territory, marked by a deep multilingualism since the Middle Ages, part of the Habsburg monarchy until the First World War, is now experiencing a very crucial moment, as it is in fact an important laboratory of coexistence, of reworking its past through a complex work on memory, often divisive, marked by easy nationalist exploitations and a rediscovery of its multiple linguistic heritage.

The Summer School wants to investigate from a historical, linguistic, anthropological, sociological and economic point of view what is happening in this territory, with particular reference to the history of the 19th century, placing it in a wider European context. The opportunity is to start from the history of this cross-border territory, to imagine together with the participants new scenarios and new solutions at a general level to intercultural conflicts and the peaceful management of territories marked by the coexistence of more national and linguistic realities.

ELIGIBILITY:

The scholars we are inviting to take part include: young people under the age of 30, university students, doctoral students and researchers from all over Europe studying humanities-related disciplines (e.g. history, anthropology, linguistics, translation, diplomatic science, sociology, political science, etc.).

PARTICIPATION OUTPUT:

Participants will have to produce, as the final step of the Summer School, a series of video-interviews that will be recorded. In these short video interviews, which will be available to the public at the end of the Summer School, participants from different European countries and areas will express their ideas on how to transform the path of integration and reworking of history commemory undertaken by this territory.

These video-interviews will be part of a video-installation that will be displayed in via Rastello 38, on monitors inside and on the windows.

HOW TO APPLY:

Those who are interested will have to submit their CV and a motivation letter with an indication of the scientific and cultural questions they would like to investigate during the International Summer School.

• The application deadline is 15^th of July 2025.
• Applications are to be sent to: kulturhausgo.summerschool@gmail.com

COSTS:

The entire teaching, laboratory and hiking proposal is considered an essential part of the program and will be free of charge.

Participants will be able to stay free of charge in Gorizia.