Specific programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN) – European Training Network

UPV/EHU Partner Status: Beneficiary
UPV/EHU PI: Maria Teresa Muñoz Garcia De Iturrospe

Project start: 01/10/2020
Project end: 30/09/2024

Brief description: CARMEN: Communal Art – Reconceptualising Metrical Epigraphy Network will train 11 ESRs to face societal challenges in the fields of intercultural understanding, popular culture, and protection of cultural heritage. Studying poetry in the epigraphic Roman tradition will help to regain an eminent body of European folk art tradition. This fascinating publicly exposed poetry (carmina) combines verbal art forms and material manifestations of cultural expressions for a period of 1000 years. We will edit texts, analyse sociolinguistic, aesthetic and gender topics, and discuss regional phenomena in textual and material culture.

Our innovative reconceptualization of this heritage will be an important step to democratise contemporary perceptions of art and to unlock the potential for understanding the heterogeneity of social and cultural performance. Obtaining specialist knowledge on the intriguing CARMEN topic will increase the awareness of cultural diversity and appreciation of popular art. We will take part in the creation of a new community of self-conscious participants in culture-production. Our multidisciplinary and intersectoral program will enable the ESRs to engage in academic research of the highest level, as well as in issues of cultural heritage, knowledge transfer and contemporary non-elite culture all over Europe.