The Department offers a number of Laboratories for research and teaching activity.
Laboratory of Visual and Multimedia Anthropology
The laboratory offers itself as a documentation and research centre concerning demo-ethno-anthropological cultural heritages. A vast iconographic and film archive relating, in particular, to the ethnographic lands of the north-west, is available to University students interested in preparing exams and conducting research work for seminars and degree theses.
Manager: prof. Davide Porporato
Palazzo Tartara (ground floor), via G. Ferraris 109 Vercelli.
Laboratory of Digital development and reproduction of texts
The activity of the Laboratory consists in the creation of the DigilibLT project, Digital Library of Late Antiquity Latin Literature, funded by the Piedmont Region following a competitive tender, in which a specific research group works, and in collaboration in the GeoLat project, Geography for Latin literature.
The Cassa di Risparmio di Vercelli Foundation promoted two other lines of funding, the first aimed at the inclusion in the digital library of Latin Grammars, while the second, recently activated, supports the expansion of the database with the Late Antiquity legal heritage.
The laboratory is equipped with an Atiz professional scanner and three hi-tech computers. Texts and documents up to A2 format can be scanned; the cold light lighting makes the equipment also suitable for the reproduction of valuable books and ancient texts. A screen on the bottom of the scanner allows you to gradually check the outcome of the work, which is automatically saved on the connected computers.
The supplied software (BookDrive Capture for capturing images and BookDrive Editor for retouching and improving the quality of the same) allow you to manage the photographs of the pages, optimizing and merging them into a file in PDF format. From the PDF, through a character recognition program, an editable text is obtained and the PDF serves as a comparison to check its correctness.
These professors belong to the laboratory:
Location: Palazzo Tartara (ground floor), via G. Ferraris 109.
Laboratory of Geography and documentation
The Geography Laboratory houses cartographic, photographic and aerial photographic materials and promotes the scientific research activity that has also been developed through funding from various Projects of National (Prin) and European interest, especially concerning the “rice landscapes”, the “geographies of taste”, with particular reference to eastern Piedmont and geographic mobility. Within the Laboratory, numerous publications and research for degree theses have been produced on the migration issues, as well as on the Piedmontese context and that of the Aosta Valley.
The laboratory - in collaboration with the Italian Association of Geography Teachers (AIIG), the Association of Italian Geographers and the Italian Geographic Society (SGI) - has also organized various conferences of national and international interest.
Manager: prof.ssa Raffaella Afferni
Location: S. Giuseppe campus, piazza S. Eusebio, 5.
LASA – Laboratory of Archaeology and History of Art
LASA serves as the center for practical training in the field of archaeological and historical-artistic heritage for the bachelor’s degree program in Humanities and the master’s degree program in Philology and Cultural Heritage.
LASA serves as the center for practical training in the field of archaeological and historical-artistic heritage for the bachelor’s degree program in Humanities and the master’s degree program in Philology and Cultural Heritage.
It also serves as a resource center for all students in the Department interested in archaeological and art-historical disciplines, supporting exam preparation and the development of research projects at various levels (seminars, undergraduate theses, doctoral dissertations, and independent postgraduate research); it also provides the facilities and resources to enhance institutional teaching through supplementary learning opportunities: access to the collection of iconographic materials; access to and temporary loan of bibliographic materials; technical equipment; courses and activities in the fields of graphic design (graphic processing of materials and excavation surveys); surveying (surveying and documentation of excavations and/or monuments); computer processing (cataloging, statistical analysis, image processing); and photography (photographic documentation of excavations, monuments, and materials).
Manager: prof.ssa Eleonora Destefanis
Location: Palazzo Tartara (second floor), via G. Ferraris, 109.