The Vittore Branca Course on Italian Civilisation
In the three-year period 2007- 2009, the Vittore Branca Course on Italian Civilisation is devoted to studying the relationship between Venice and Italian civilisation during the three centuries of European modernisation. Following on from the course on the 18th-century last year, the 2008 edition focuses on the 19th century, with the aim of describing the tensions at a time of strong innovative drives in geopolitics and then in institutions, social relations, production processes, and equally powerful and even more complex artistic and cultural developments, capable of representing simultaneously the survival of traditions and values and the speed of innovations and changes.
In this context Venice provides both an ideal place for the decline of all humanistic civilisation, to the point of becoming an emblematic metaphor for “death”, and a special case of the wide reach of modernisation processes, which nothing or no-one seems able to stop.
Specifically intended for honours degree undergraduates, PhD students and post-grads in humanistic subjects, the course of lectures and seminars brings together round this thematic core a group of teachers including Cesare De Michelis, Giovanni Boniolo, Cesare Galimberti, Maria Fancelli, Siro Ferrone, Vittorio Marchis, Donatella Calabi, Andrea Colli, Alberto Mario Banti, Alberto Cadioli, Enrico Testa, Marinella Colummi Camerino, Marco Meriggi, Elisabetta Merlo, Carlo Sisi, Jacopo Pellegrini, Daniela Goldin Folena, Giudo Capovilla and Pietro Gibellini.
On friday July 4 at 5 pm, Cesare De Michelis will hold a cnclusive seminar, open to the public, on the topic "Nell’Ottocento: tramonto e progresso".
The scholarships were awarded thanks to the support by: Il Sole 24 ore, Marsilio Editori SPA, RCS Libri, Fondazione di Venezia, Veneto Banca S.p.A., Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Fondazione Giorgio Cini.
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Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
22 June – 4 July 2008
Subscription fee: € 120
Information
Vittore Branca Course on Italian Civilisation
Giorgio Cini Foundation
Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
30124 Venice
tel. +39 041 2710227 – Fax +39 041 5223563
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