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A day spent at the University
On Saturday 7th May, the University of Florence opens the doors of its rector’s office and introduces itself to future students. In the morning, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., its twelve Faculties will describe their features.
The purpose is to provide the future students, as well as those who want to better know the educational activities of the University, with the fundamentals of each Faculty, featuring the peculiarities of the last years in the specific field of studies, how the Faculty replies to the developments of the jobs to which its studies are oriented and which are the most innovative research fields.
In the afternoon, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., in the Aula Strozzi in Via La Pira 4, the University student associations will feature the activities they carry out.
Moreover, the whole day long, in the courtyard of the rector’s office, some information desks will be arranged to allow each Faculty to provide students and citizens with all useful information on their educational and research activities and to make student associations come into contact with those who want to better know their activities. In the evening, from 9 p.m. to 12 a.m., many performances and theatrical readings will be held in the rooms of the rector’s office and in the adjacent Museo di Storia Naturale.
The dialogue with Europe starts from Florence
The experience of the Fondazione Romualdo del Bianco will be at the centre of the meeting planned on 6th May from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Auditorium al Duomo in Via de’ Cerretani, 54. The meeting, whose title is “Da Firenze, 20 anni di dialogo con l’Europa orientale (1991-2011). L’esperienza della Fondazione Romualdo Del Bianco e la nascita di Life Beyond Tourism® - No profit Portal” (From Florence, a 20-year dialogue with Eastern Europe (1991-2011). The experience of the Fondazione Del Bianco and the origin of Life Beyond Tourism® - No profit Portal” fall within the programme of the Festival d’Europa. As a matter of fact, after the fall of the Berlin wall, the Fondazione immediately took some steps to raise awareness in young generations of the importance of the dialogue and intercultural integration and to develop an international network of cooperation between universities of the Central-Eastern Europe and of Florence. The outcomes of this activity, which over time set up the orientation and the web portal Life Beyond Tourism® Non-Profit Portal, in a short time will be the basis for discussing further advances in the integration of young generations in the European view. Also representatives of the various Florentine institutions that for a long time have been sharing this commitment with the Fondazione will participate in the debate.
Focus on the revival of deconsecrated churches at the Festival d'Europa
On 6th May at 7 p.m., the exhibition “La rinascita delle chiese sconsacrate in Italia” (The revival of the deconsecrated churches in Italy” by Andrea Martino will be opened. The event, promoted by the Fondazione Studio Marangoni, falls within the programme of the Festival d’Europa.
The work of Andrea Di Martino, winner of the Premio Amilcare Ponchielli 2010 of the GRIN is dedicated to the rediscovery of the many deconsecrated churches existing on the territory. As a matter of fact, according to Di Martino, “the deconsecrated churches are very particular places holding multifarious attractions: their sacred life, their revival, their secular life” and they “tell histories of a variegated Italy: refined and superficial, trendy and popular, disobedient and devotional, but in the end surprisingly heterogeneous”. The exhibition will be open until 28th May.
The Risorgimento seen from Europe: at the Lyceum Internazionale a meeting with Rogari
The Risorgimento issue as a European problem will be the topic that Professor Sandro Rogari will address at the conference “Il Risorgimento Italiano come problema europeo” (The Italian Risorgimento as a European problem) dedicated to the analysis of the creation of the Unification of Italy from the point of view of European policy, which will be held on 6th May at 5.15 p.m. at the Lyceum Club in Palazzo Giugni in via degli Alfani 48.
Sandro Rogari served two terms of office as the Dean of the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Florence where he studied and graduated by discussing a dissertation on Contemporary History with Professor Giovanni Spadolini, focusing on the relationships between the Church and the State before the compact between the Italian State and the Roman Catholic Church.During its career as a teacher, Rogari held various chairs always within the ambit of the contemporary studies: History of trade-union movements, History of the economic and social Italian development, History of political parties and movements, History of Western Europe and Contemporary History.
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