Lecture by Saveria Teston

PhD student Saveria Teston, who is preparing her dissertation in Cultural and Environmental Heritage at the University of Bologna under the supervision of Prof. Alessandro Iannucci, presented her research to colleagues at ZRC SAZU during the first week of June. On Tuesday, 5 June, she introduced her work to members of the research programme group Heritage on the Margins, and in the following days, she also presented it to researchers from the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology and the ZRC SAZU Research Centre in Nova Gorica.

Saveria Teston graduated in architecture from the University of Ferrara (1998) and in Italian literature from the University of Bologna (2023). Her research focuses on the relationships between narration and processes of regeneration. Her doctoral thesis, entitled Ecology of Narration for Self-conscious Energy Transitions, investigates how the interplay of different narrative forms (myth, fairy tale, song, epic, and novel), combined with poietic practices such as artistic production, technical invention, symbolic re-signification, and political experimentation, can act as a generative force, fostering the collective energy required for social metamorphosis.