MARTA IANNETTI PRIZE | AWARD CEREMONY
Ceremony and conference
University of Teramo (Italy)
Department of Communication Sciences
D’Annunzio Teaching Pole, Classroom 16
9th December 2025, 4:00 pm–7:00 pm
After a lengthy selection process involving numerous theses and creative projects submitted from all over the world, the Marta Iannetti Award Jury, composed of specialists in the field of anthropology, selected the winners for the three categories:
master’s degree theses
Maria Elena Marabotto Petrelluzzi – Rappresentare Palestina. Pratiche cinematografiche e articolazioni identitarie palestinesi
University of Milan Bicocca.
The research analyses Palestinian cinematographic representations and the trajectories of identity construction that are articulated within a continuous movement between individual and collective experiences, cultural and social dynamics, and historical and political contexts. The anthropological perspective of the investigation was developed within a lexical and methodological film framework, which aims to be a proposed approach to research capable of restoring the dynamics of the film medium and, at the same time, the anthropological perspective. The different narrative forms that Palestinian cinema has been able to take reflect the variety of perspectives of the authors, who are able to draw multiple trajectories that de-essentialise representation and open up to composite imaginaries and modes of storytelling. The variety of individual experiences reflects a community that, although diasporic, retains a deep sense of shared memories and cultural and identity history.
doctoral theses
Maria Coma-Santasusana – Troupeaux de vie. Étude anthropologique d’une communauté pastorale dans le nord-est du Tibet
National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilisations (Inalco), Paris.
The thesis addresses Tibetan mobile pastoralism in the Amdo region of North- Eastern Tibet. Based upon a thirteen-month long ethnographic survey, it examines the different ways in which herders create, maintain and undo the bonds that tie them to their herd animals. The relationship between herders and their animals is shaped by Buddhism and its core tenet of compassion towards animals. The tension between this religious norm and the violence of exploitation characteristic of herding has intensified in the current context of state-led market integration of pastoral production. While herders cannot afford to refrain from slaughtering and selling their animals, they equally engage in a range of strategies of avoidance and compensation. By exploring herders’ participation in a set of practices of animal life preservation, understood as the opposite of killing, this work sheds light upon the role animals play in the social and spiritual life of the pastoral communities they belong to.
creative work
Annagrazia Graduato – Lettera a Lidia
The audiovisual project is conceived in the form of a letter addressed to a woman, reflecting on memory, landscape and transformation through digital archives of the Abruzzo region in central Italy.
The Award Ceremony will take place on Tuesday, 9th December, from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm at the University of Teramo, Department of Communication Sciences, D’Annunzio Teaching Pole, Classroom 16, according to the following programme:
Institutional greetings:
Paola Besutti, Director of the Department of Communication Sciences – University of Teramo
Camillo D’Angelo, President of the Province of Teramo
Gianguido D’Alberto, Mayor of Teramo
Antonio Villani, Mayor of Pietracamela
Interventions:
Luís Costa, Binaural Nodar/Tramontana Network
Francesco Zanotelli, University of Florence
Ivo Quaranta, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna
Chiara Bresciani, Aarhus University
Emanuele Di Paolo, Sapienza University of Rome/Bambun APS
Award ceremony and presentation of the prize-winning works:
Maria Elena Marabotto Petrelluzzi
Rappresentare Palestina. Pratiche cinematografiche e articolazioni identitarie palestinesi
University of Milan Bicocca | Master’s degree thesis
Maria Coma-Santasusana
Troupeaux de vie. Étude anthropologique d’une communauté pastorale dans le nord-est du Tibet
National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilisations (Inalco), Paris | doctoral thesis
Annagrazia Graduato
Lettera a Lidia
Brussels | artistic archive residency/Tramontana Network
Coordinator: Gianfranco Spitilli, University of Teramo/Bambun APS
Binaural Nodar is a cultural organization supported by the Portuguese Republic – Culture, Youth, and Sports | Directorate-General for the Arts.
