Valeria Vanesio
Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, Malta Study Center, International Associate - Field Site Manager in Malta and Italy for research and cataloguing
Università degli Studi "La Sapienza" di Roma, Dipartimento di Scienze documentarie, linguistico-filologiche e geografiche, PhD in Archival and Library Science
Before joining the University of Malta at the Department of Library Information & Archive Sciences in 2020, I was post-doc in Archival History and Archivist of the Malta Study Center (HMML, USA) from 2018 to 2020 and I was and am still involved in a range of activities that includes: projects of digitisation, preservation, and archival description; creation of a specific authority file for the records related to the Order of Saint John and the Maltese archipelago; research projects on the archival history of the Order in collaboration with Universities, Research Centres, and other institutions. I am now International Associate of the Malta Study Center and lead cataloguing and research projects in Malta, Italy and the Vatican Library (Barberini project).
I was also in charge of the first 3-years project of reorganisation of the historical fonds at Magistral Archives of Order of Saint John in Rome (2014-2017) with the creation of an internal archival guide. My MA and PHD dissertations, both held at Sapienza University of Rome, focused on the archival history of the Order, discovered and identified the historical archival holdings at the Magistral Archives and explored the connections between Rome, the other Hospitaller records at the Italian State Archives and Malta.
I held two specialisation diploma at the State Archive in Rome and the Vatican Archive.
My main fields of research are history of archives and institutions, with a focus on the Order of St John and the Mediterranean area, archival cataloguing standards, and digital humanities. I am also recently delving into the interplay between archives and emotions, archival pedagogies, and colonial legacies in the field of archives and libraries. I conducted research and lectured in Italy, Malta and United States.
Awards, stipends and scholarships: Premio Bibliographica (2016), the Heckman Stipend from the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (2017; 2022); mention to the Premio Minerva (2020) for the best doctoral dissertation and research career at Sapienza University of Rome.
I was also in charge of the first 3-years project of reorganisation of the historical fonds at Magistral Archives of Order of Saint John in Rome (2014-2017) with the creation of an internal archival guide. My MA and PHD dissertations, both held at Sapienza University of Rome, focused on the archival history of the Order, discovered and identified the historical archival holdings at the Magistral Archives and explored the connections between Rome, the other Hospitaller records at the Italian State Archives and Malta.
I held two specialisation diploma at the State Archive in Rome and the Vatican Archive.
My main fields of research are history of archives and institutions, with a focus on the Order of St John and the Mediterranean area, archival cataloguing standards, and digital humanities. I am also recently delving into the interplay between archives and emotions, archival pedagogies, and colonial legacies in the field of archives and libraries. I conducted research and lectured in Italy, Malta and United States.
Awards, stipends and scholarships: Premio Bibliographica (2016), the Heckman Stipend from the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (2017; 2022); mention to the Premio Minerva (2020) for the best doctoral dissertation and research career at Sapienza University of Rome.
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Curriculum: Scienze del libro e del documento
A.A. 2014/2015 - 30° Ciclo
Curriculum: Scienze del libro e del documento
A.A. 2014/2015 - 30° Ciclo
From a little hospital for pilgrims to a powerful principality in the heart of the Mediterranean, only a handful of men remained with the aim of rebuilding an order, finding a new home in their archives.
These are the links mentioned during the podcast:
the Aston Originals programme to be featured in this podcast sharing her expertise about the archives of the Order of St John with Dr Brian Sudlow of Aston University.
These are the links mentioned during the podcast:
Magistral Archives in Rome reconstructed through Dr Vanesio's MA, PhD and work for the Order: https://www.orderofmalta.int/government/magistral-archives-and-library/
Archives of the Order at the National Library of Malta: https://maltalibraries.gov.mt/iguana/www.main.cls?p=788374c8-8d6d-44d6-bd24-eb7a87b79d2c&v=ef7e461f-246f-4263-9d3b-279fb84f2a0c
The Malta Study Center at HMML: https://hmml.org/research/msc/
The online platform: https://www.vhmml.org/readingRoom
Gli Archivi Magistrali del Sovrano Militare Ordine di Malta, patrimonio internazionale dal profumo quasi millenario, dimorano oggi presso l’elegante Palazzo Magistrale di via dei Condotti n.68, sede extraterritoriale del governo dell’Ordine. Spalancando le porte della Conservatoria si presenta oggi un panorama documentario estremamente ricco di fascino e valore, fedele compagno di viaggio nelle avventure del suo soggetto produttore.
More info here: https://www.um.edu.mt/maks/las/ourresearch/projectsandinitiatives/callforwinterschool/
More information here: https://www.um.edu.mt/events/peoplebooksmodels2024/
The researcher and the archivist’s emotions at/with the archives
Emotions and the making of the archive itself
The emotional impact of archives on peoples and communities
The conference also aims at serving as a forum where new research and methodologies can be discussed and tested through a multidisciplinary approach and by combining different perspectives and archival traditions.
The Order of St John is an institution which, for many centuries, has had a presence across multiple regions and is now an organisation with a global reach. A coherent understanding of its history requires a similarly widespread community of scholars working in collaboration and close communication with each other. The Hospitaller Research Forum aspires to offer the infrastructure for such a community to become established and thrive.
The long history of the Order of St. John, the legacies of its presence across regions, and the rich source materials that offer striking traces of its past, have long attracted the interest of a wide range of scholars in multiple fields. There exists both a very long tradition of scholarship and a very lively research culture on the Hospitallers. With a few very worthy exceptions, this scholarship is often fragmented along linguistic and regional lines. It is part of the purpose of this Forum to enhance these regional specialisms by bringing them into closer dialogues with one another, thereby diminishing the levels of fragmentation.
In order to achieve this the Hospitaller Research Forum will undertake a range of activities, such as an annual workshop on a given theme or topic in Hospitaller Studies. The long-term aim is to formulate a coherent research agenda and address gaps, issues and challenges in the field.
These activities will take place predominantly online through video-conferencing, document-sharing and other applications as required.
The results of this Forum may be in the form of scholarly papers collected in special issues of relevant international peer-reviewed journals and in the form of book-length edited collections.
A further aim of the Forum is to design collaborative research projects which would then form the basis of research funding applications from appropriate sources.
Christian Mifsud (Heritage Malta), Dr Valeria Vanesio, Dr Emanuel Buttigieg, Dr Valentina Burgassi team members; 6000 euros
This exhibition forms part of a comprehensive project entitled ‘Stories of the Auberge d’Italie: faces, facets, façades’, the scope of which is to explore this key historic institution within a contextualised historic urban and institutional landscape.
This project is funded by the Internationalisation Partnership Awards Scheme Plus (IPAS+) 2022 of the Malta Council for Science and Technology, and represents a strong collaboration between the University of Malta, Politecnico di Torino and Heritage Malta, supported by the National Library of Malta (Malta Libraries), the Malta Study Center (Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, USA), and the I-Access Project (Interreg Italia-Malta).
The exhibition and the wider project are the result of a collaboration between: Prof. Emanuel Buttigieg (Department of History, Faculty of Arts, UM), Dr Valeria Vanesio (Department of Library Information & Archive Sciences, Faculty of Media & Knowledge Sciences, UM), Mr Christian Mifsud (Project coordinator -Heritage Malta), and Dr Valentina Burgassi (Department of Architecture and Design - Construction History Group, Politecnico di Torino).
The platform used (XDAMS) did not allow to print all of them. See vol. 1 for the methodology adopted.
See the second volume for the inventory of the proofs of nobility.
Main supervisor: Prof. Francesca Santoni (Sapienza University, Rome)
Co-supervisors: Prof. Marina Raffaeli (Sapienza University, Rome), Prof. Federica Formiga (Verona University), Valeria Maria Leonardi (Magistral Archives)
Referees: Prof. Emanuel Buttigieg (University of Malta), Prof. Andrea Giorgi (Trento University)
This is the last draft submitted.
Co-tutor: Prof. Francesca Santoni
National award Premio Bibliographica 2016