Wednesday, March 2, 2011

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Historian Portuguese José Sarmento de Matos at TransEuropaExpress

historian José Sarmento de Matos will represent Portugal in the next edition of TransEuropaExpress, to be held in Rome on 3 and 4 March, at the Auditorium Ara Pacis. The This year's theme is history and identity. The European intellectuals.
Day March 3, at 15.00, the specialist Portuguese olisipografia (the study of the city) will hold a conference on Lisbon and Europe: Myths, History and Culture . The initiative was conceived and promoted by the Municipality of Rome, the European Commission Representation in Italy and with the 27 European embassies in the Italian capital.
participation is sponsored by the Instituto Camões Portuguese. Free admission.


TransEuropaExpress is an event in which writers, philosophers, historians and other intellectuals from several EU countries are questioning and debate on issues different every year, to try to draw the complex and promote European cultural identity. For the invited speakers, one for each country are asked to produce a text to read during work days and discuss with other participants and the public.

history and identity. Europe intellectuals is the theme chosen for this year. The speakers will analyze, free choice of perspective and how the relationship between intellectuals and the history of his country, starting the idea that culture is the core activity for the formation of a conscience and a shared history.
In the two study days, over four sessions (3 and March 4 at the Auditorium Ara Pacis hours 10:00 to 13:00 and 15:00 to 18:00) you heard the speeches of cultural historians such as Danish Uffe Ostergard , English Enrique de Rivas, the Finnish Liisa Suvikumpu , philosophers and theorists of the Lithuanian political science as Leonidas Donskis; the Swedish Ebba Witt-Brattström specialist in women's history and identity and intellectual Portuguese José Sarmento de Matos specialist olisipografia of (the study of city), journalists, cultural workers and publishing as the Italian Francesco Catalucci , Michaela Jurovska the Slovak and Polish Wojciech Jagielski, scholars and teachers of the humanities as 'Hungarian Péter Sarkozy and Estonia Toomas Kiho ; playwright Matei Romania Visniec ; writers Claudia Rusch for Germany, Peter Murphy for Ireland, Paul Torday for Britain , Marie Darrieussecq for France.

will be presented the book "Feminine Plural Europe", Giulio Perrone editor, Proceedings of the 2008 workshop TransEuropaExpress

brief summary of the five previous editions of the project
first edition was held in February 2005 and were asked 26 writers (one from each EU country and one from a country chosen from among those being made) and brought the issue The writers of the New Europe for a European Union that it can be not only economic and financial community but a broader cultural community.

For second edition (February 2006), 25 intellectuals are questioned on Europe the test of consensus, then the perception that EU citizens have the 'European project'. Through analysis of historical, political, social and cultural products have the lyrics dealt with the complex question of European identity is still under construction (by highlighting different sense of "European identity" among the countries of Western and 'East, stressing the need to consider the immigrant population of Europe, addressing several other issues).

For third edition (February 2007) has chosen the theme of European City , wanting to consider the reports of the seminar through the vision that the city can be both a scholar who "Technical", be it an architect, a planner, or a student of other disciplines. The idea was to draw a portrait of the metropolitan culture of the urban landscape with reference to the city, not only the capital, several countries in the balance between reality and vision. The

fourth edition (February 27 to March 1, 2008), addressed the issue Europe feminine plural : the role of women and female creativity in the various languages \u200b\u200band cultural expressions of each country of 'European Union. Were invited to take part in the conference writers, philosophers, artists, scientists, journalists in recognition of the role of women in European Union countries. The

fifth edition (October 2009) Our walls , after twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, was an invitation to reflect on "borders and barriers" political, social and cultural rights still exist in individual nations, such as the differences between north and south of a country, or problems related to immigration and its walls built around the immigrants themselves or even to the disadvantaged social classes are not protected or "political walls" that still divide the nations . Were invited to take part in the conference of writers, journalists, sociologists and essayists who have already addressed the issue and have developed ideas on this issue.

PROGRAM


Contact Title: TransEuropaExpress - Stories and identity. Europe intellectuals
Date: 3 to 4 March 2011 Rome
Place: Auditorium of the 'Ara Pacis, in Augusta Lungotevere
Admission: Free Info
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