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2019
The Research Project entitled “On both sides of the Iron Curtain: the cultures of dissent and the definition of European identity in the second half of the twentieth century between Italy, France and the USSR (1956-1991)” is financed by the State University of Florence. The project’s Scientific Chiefs are: Teresa Spignoli (Associate Professor – Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature) and Claudia Pieralli (Tenure Track Associate Professor – Slavic Studies/Russian Literature). The research area includes the various forms of dissent culture that from the fifties onwards have concerned the European context, with particular regard to the comparison between Western and Eastern Europe, notably the Franco-Italian area and the Slavic one, (Soviet Russia, Belarus and Ukraine). These areas are characterized by the emergence of similar forms of protest against the cultural and political establishment, which express themselves in an antithetical but specular manner, in relation to the axis that separates the eastern bloc from the western one. The project aims to problematize the geocultural concept of Europe starting from its internal historical, social, and ethnocultural diversities, especially interested, with the end of the Second World War, in the West/East dividing axis, more than in the South/North axis, or the axis that divides Western Europe from Eastern Europe, included in the sphere of influence of the Soviet bloc. Visit the Project's Web page: www.culturedeldissenso.com
Cold War History
L'appuntamento mancato: La sinistra italiana e il Dissenso nei regimi comunisti (1968–1989)2012 •
2022 •
Il 17 novembre 2014, nel corso della sessantonovesima sessione dell’Assemblea Generale delle Nazioni Unite, i delegati della Federazione Russa propongono una mozione (A/C.3/69/L.56/Rev.1) al Third Committee (relativo ai Social, Humanitarian & Cultural Issues) per «Combattere la glorificazione del nazismo, del neonazismo e di altre pratiche che contribuiscono ad alimentare le contemporanee forme di razzismo, discriminazione razziale, xenofobia e relativa intolleranza». Il 21 novembre 2014 la mozione viene messa ai voti ed approvata con 115 voti favorevoli e 3 contrari: sono i voti di Stati Uniti, Canada e Ucraina. I paesi astenuti sono 55, e corrispondono ai paesi membri dell’Unione Europea (Italia compresa, che – per inciso – in quel periodo era presidente di turno dell’UE), ai restanti paesi della NATO e ai paesi del Five Eyes – Accordo UKUSA (oggi in parte confluiti nell’AUKUS). La risoluzione entra in vigore il 18 dicembre 2014 (A/RES/69/160). Sono passati circa nove mesi dalla rivoluzione di Maidan, e la stampa internazionale è abbastanza incuriosita dall’astensione dell’UE dalla votazione della risoluzione, in particolare per quanto concerne le posizioni di Germania, Francia e Inghilterra (all’epoca ancora stato membro). Appare tuttavia chiaro, tra i vari commentatori, la volontà degli alleati degli Stati Uniti di fare scudo intorno all’Ucraina, contro la cui dirigenza era evidentemente rivolta la mozione presentata dalla Russia. In Italia invece la notizia viene praticamente ignorata da tutti i media. Nel corso degli anni successivi, a più riprese (2021 compreso) la Russia ripresenta ai voti la stessa mozione, nel tentativo di allargare il novero dei paesi favorevoli, lamentando la persistenza delle problematiche in oggetto nonostante le precedenti approvazioni da parte dell’Assemblea Generale. I risultati saranno sempre gli stessi: risoluzioni approvate ma con il voto contrario di Usa e Ucrania e paesi UE/NATO/AUKUS astenuti. Anche alle votazioni successive la stampa italiana non dà alcun risalto. Curiosamente, il Parlamento Europeo rimanda al testo di una di queste risoluzioni – pur non avendola votata1 – in una Risoluzione del 25 ottobre 2018 sull’Aumento della violenza neofascista in Europa. Si riportano in questo dossier gli articoli apparsi nei media italiani in merito al voto del 21 novembre 2014; di quattro articoli – qui disposti in ordinine cronologico – solo uno è apparso nella versione elettronica di un quotidiano nazionale (la Stampa). In aggiunta, si allega un articolo italiano sulla votazione della risoluzione del 2020.
Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici
Russia, Oriente slavo e Occidente europeo. Fratture e integrazioni nella storia e nella civiltà letteraria2017 •
The present book addresses a wide range of problems concerning the history of Eastern Slavic culture in its interaction with cultural models of Western Europe. This collective work is the final result of the French-Italian conference “Fratture e integrazioni tra Russia, mondo slavo orientale e Occidente. Storia e civiltà letteraria dal Medioevo all’epoca contemporanea” (University of Florence, April 16-17, 2015): the complexity of cultural relations between Russia, the Slavic East and the European West is analysed by enhancing the variety of points of view and by using different methodological approaches and perspectives provided by different fields of study. Here, new materials and new analytical methods are presented, useful for studying the complex interactions between the Western cultural tradition and the Eastern Slavic one from the Middle Ages to the present day. The “fractures” and “integrations” are identified through critical reading or rereading of texts, works and authors...
2018 •
This paper analyses the emergence, spread and demise of a coherent program of radical geopolitical revision developed in East European dissident circles in the 1980s. Its foundation was the insistence on the need to completely overthrow the post-Yalta, bipolar division of Europe, combined with an emphasis on the priority of human rights in political and peace issues, as well as the belief in the value of the CSCE process. It was also marked by explicit consent for the reunification of Germany as well as the insistence on the need for a democratic Russia to be part of a wider European setup. Through seminal documents, such as the Prague Appeal of 1985 intellectuals, like Jaroslav Šabata, as well as his Czechoslovak, Polish and Hungarian counterparts, were able to convince large parts of the western peace movement and some political circles to adopt the “heretic” perspective. The paper also shows how a seemingly “cultural” discourse of Central Europe, put forth by intellectuals and artists can, together with the “Yalta debate” of the mid-1980s, be read as a specific (critical) geopolitical project. Finally, the post-communist foreign policies of the dissident-led governments are investigated in an attempt to explain the partial demise of “heretical geopolitics”.
Italian Studies, 2014
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Bulletin of the American Society of Overseas Research
Sapir-Hen, L., Fulton, D. N., Adams, M. J., and Finkelstein, I. 2022. The Temple and the Town at Early Bronze Age I Megiddo: Faunal Evidence for the Emergence of Complexity. Bulletin of the American Society of Overseas Research, 387(1), 207–220.2022 •
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR INNOVATIVE RESEARCH IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY FIELD
Telecom sector in India and Customer Relationship Management (CRM)2016 •
Journal of Science and Engineering
Analisis Daya Dukung Tanah Dasar Berdasarkan Uji CBR Laboratorium Dan Uji CBR Lapangan Pada Ruas Jalan Kampus Unipas MorotaiDOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
Notas Acerca da Disciplina "Estrutura e Funcionamento da Educação Brasileira2007 •
Architectural Research Quarterly
Making sites that matter: choreographing situated knowing in architectural analysis and design2019 •