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The fall of the wall: twenty years later. 1989-2009
Venue: University Ca' Foscari, Venice (Italy)
Period: Dec. 17-18, 2009
The conference
The Section of Slavic Studies of the Department of American, Hiberic and Slavic Studies of the University Ca' Foscari of Venice organizes a conference to discuss about 1989 and the epocal changes it brought at both the national and international level.
The discussion will focus on the political impact that the fall of the wall had on the communist regimes of Eastern Europe from a national perspective, on one hand, and the effects provocked by both the existence and the fall of the wall at a cultural and literary level, on the other.
The conference language will be Italian, with some speeches in French.
The participants
After the welcome address by the authorities, the conference will be divided into four sessions followed by discussion.
Confirmed speakers and participants will be as follows:
- Sergio Corduas (University Ca' Foscari, Venice)
- Nedjalko Dačev (Regional Institute for the History of the liberation movement, Trieste)
- Giuseppe Dall'Agata (University of Pisa)
- Francesca Fornari (University Ca' Foscari, Venice)
- Guido Franzinetti (University of "Piemonte Orientale")
- Iliana Krapova (University Ca' Foscari, Venice)
- Luigi Marinelli (University La Sapienza, Rome)
- Predrag Matvejević (Zagreb)
- Jaroslaw Mikolajewski (Polish Institute, Rome)
- Eugen Negrici (University of Bucharest)
- Donatella Possamai (University Ca' Foscari, Venice)
- Maria Antonietta Saracino (University La Sapienza, Rome)
- Alessandro Scarsella (University of Bergamo)
- Maria Teresa Secondi ("Il Gazzettino", Venice)
- Angela Tarantino (University of Florence)
- Tzvetan Todorov (CNRS, Paris)
- Henryk Wujec (Fundacja dla Polski, Warsaw)
- Želyu Želev (Balkan Political Club, Sofia)
Organiser
Department of American, Hiberic and Slavic Studies
Information & contacts
Department of American, Hiberic and Slavic Studies
address: Ca' Bernardo, Dorsoduro 3199
30123 Venice
tel. 0039.041.2349434
fax. 0039.041.2349410
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