Since the first edition of the Master programme, organised in 2012, two-hundred graduate students of 40 nationalities, worldwide, were involved.
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Internships can be organised either onsite, directly at the headquarter of the host organisation, or online, depending on the availability of the student.
Career destinations of previous participants include working in International Organizations, European Agencies, Public Authorities, Universities, Consulting Companies, Private Enterprises etc. 85% of the participants involved in the previous editions of the Master in European Project Planning and Management are currently working as International Project Managers all over the world
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The project is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.
Since 1972 the Poliarte Academy of Fine Art and Design in Ancona, Italy, has been a centre of excellence for design and applied arts, recognised at both Italian and international level. It’s one of the very first institutions to have specialised in education in the design sector, and has immediately become both a source of inspiration and a benchmark, thanks to its teaching methodology which combines research, practical skills and innovation. Since 1972 Poliarte has organised and run courses focusing on design. From 2016, 3-year courses have been granted formal academic status – 1st level Academic Diplomas, thanks to accreditation from the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research – MIUR. The courses are divided across 5 departments: Fashion Design, Visual Design, Industrial Design, Interior Design and Video-Film Design. Additionally, Poliarte offers short courses focusing on other design areas. It’s a syllabus requiring compulsory attendance, with the perfect balance between theory and practice. Theoretical, creative, design and workshop activities are undertaken with the aim of teaching students how to collaborate, how to communicate and build relationships, as well as inter-disciplinary studies across the different areas of design.
The Technical University of Liberec – TUL – is a mid-sized progressive institution based in Liberec, which marries technical education with the wider university education system. Within six faculties and university institutes, it offers a large spectrum of qualifications in technical and scientific subjects, humanities, as well as artistic and interdisciplinary study areas. TUL has well-equipped laboratories and top-quality teams of research workers for humanities. TUL has actively participated in the creation of common European education areas and common European research areas. The Technical University of Liberec can boast excellent results in the field of science and research.
The Hungarian University of Fine Art – MKE – was the first and continues to be the most prestigious art academy in Hungary. Its traditions date back 150 years, and it represents and embodies a rich cultural heritage of which it is extremely proud, providing a home where future artists can nurture their talents and learn to navigate the art world of the 21st century. An essential element of MKE is their spirit of innovation in partnership with tradition, the diversity of which is captured in the programs ranging “from pigment to pixel”. The old and the new are not vying with each other for dominance. Rather, they form an organic collective of the experience and knowledge of successive generations who learn from and draw on one another. Education, artistic research and the sharing of knowledge are the triple pillars of MKE’s mission statement.
Cracow School of Art and Fashion Design – KSA – was established 30 years ago in Krakow, the cultural capital of Poland. The School offers tuition in Polish in the following fields: Fashion Design, Interior Design, Photography, Visual Merchandising, Drama, Choreography and Pattern Making.
KSA also offers tuition in English in Fashion, Jewellery Design and Creative and Commercial Photography.
Nearly 1000 students study at our school each year, with groups of 15-20 students on each course. KSA represents a point of reference for the whole of Poland – and abroad – for young people that want to study and train in design in the country. Thanks to the importance and reputation of KSA in Poland and its role as a catalyst for excellent design and fine art, Poliarte decide to incorporate the institution in their project.
The Technical University of Košice, Slovakia – TUKE – is a public college. It plays a key role not just in the East Slovak region as the only science, research, and education centre in Slovakia, but also in Central Europe. The Faculty of Art provides higher education in architecture, design (Industrial, Innovation, Space, 2d and Visual Communication), fine art and media art, and is an active institution in the implementation of art, research and exhibition projects in Slovakia and internationally. The Department of Design is one of the three departments that make up the Faculty of Art at TUKE, and has been in operation since its establishment in 1998. TUKE students continue a long tradition of winning major awards at Slovak and international competitions, as well as taking part in renowned exhibitions both at home and abroad
IDEA
A dynamic, contemporary, and intercultural journey that explores the many different aspects of Italian design and manufacturing, which takes place in the Marche, a region that comprises all the particular features of the Italian peninsula in terms of production, fine art, history, architecture and landscape.
12 students in design and fine art from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia will attend 2-week online courses plus 2 weeks in person in Ancona to discover how the scientific and specific methodology of the Italian design process can respond to the current regional and societal needs of V4 students.
An innovative teaching methodology that combines research, innovation, hands-on projects and techniques to create real-life solutions that meet the contemporary needs of companies and end-users. Creative and design activities will be accompanied by additional work designed to improve collaboration, communication and relationship-building.
The Italian way of design can be integrated into the strategies and processes of local companies and artisans, translating this regional expression of the transformation of society and markets into contemporary and socially useful products and services.
History, tradition and proven methods are combined and improved with a strong innovative drive and fresh, out-of-the-box thinking.
Once back in their home countries, these young students will act as ambassadors and promoters of good design practices, introducing and influencing their network and future companies and colleagues as to how the Italian way of design can have a positive impact on their businesses.
TEAM
Fanni Dallos
Bonyhád – Hungary 1998
I always strive for being well-organized but flexible at the same time. You never know what kind of adventure, experience you are going to miss, if you are not adaptable enough. This perception is what I try to keep in my mind during my work as well.
László Bertalan Boda
Budapest – Hungary 1999
I attend the Hungarian University of Fine arts. In school I like to take a different, more manual approach to projects, which is also present in my day-to-day life. Outside of school, I still find time to draw and illustrate, to make alternative covers for my favourite musical artists, of which I also collect their albums on vinyl.
Veronika Anna Csaszar
Budapest – Hungary 1999
Creating has always been an important part of my life. I keep experimentation and exploration as the main elements of my working method, my purpose is to make my artworks as diverse as possible and find ways to be unique, current and educated.
Gabriela Semanova
Levoča – Slovakia 1999
I’m currently studying industrial design. While designing, I try to implement nature and geometry into my products. I enjoy traveling, literature and getting to know new things.
Karin Kolesarova
Košice – Slovakia 1998,
I’m student of product design and I’m interested in slovak traditions and traditional crafts. I’ve always been trying different areas of design to gain experience and use it in another projects. The most important for me is the minimalism and pure organic forms.
Stefania Suchodolinska
Košice – Slovakia 1996
I am a product design student from Košice. In my work I try to combine colourful and playful design together with clean and functional properties. My designs are often inspired by humorous situations I experienced or bizarre objects I observed in everyday life.
Karolina Pabjańczyk
Bełchatów – Poland 2001
Since I was a little girl I was interested in fashion, volleyball and history. Apart that, I’m a car enthusiast and a film lover. Currently I’m trying myself on a movie set as a costume assistant. I enjoy trying new things and I always try to be positive.
Katarzyna Machejek
Miechów – Poland 1987
From an early age, demonstrated manual and creative skills. Student of Interior Designing on Cracow School of Art and Fashion Design. Lover of design and art. Architecture has always been my passion. In the future, she wants to combine painterliness and design in interior designing.
Weronika Różycka
Busko-Zdrój – Poland 1996
I like challenges and I’m open to new ones, so this course is a great opportunity for me. Interior design has been my passion for many years. I’m currently studying at Cracow school of art and fashion design.
Katerina Klozova
Jilemnice – Czech Republic 2000
Hi, I am a student at the Technical University in Liberec, majoring in textile and clothing design. I really enjoy sublimation printing technology, pattern making and experiments with non-traditional materials for textiles and clothing. In my free time I like to play ball games and play sports with my dog.
Marketa Kozena
Hradec Králové – Czech Republic 1999
I am student of fashion design and previously studied graphic design. I try to make my work with a touch to nature, because for me has nature always been full of unique inspiration and materials. My hobbies are hiking, photography and traveling, which l like to combine :). I signed for this project, because I think its something which can affect my art and knowledge with new experiences, and I can learn something new.
Nella Meresova
Prague – Czech Republic 1999
I am very creative and i like art of every kind. I love trying new things. I challenge myself very often.
Wrocław is the hometown of the Angelus Silesius (1624-1677), and the region of Lower Silesia is a place of work of outstanding philosophers and mystics, among whom Jakub Boehme (1675-1624) seems to be the most important. The city of Wrocław dedicated the year 2022 to Edyta Stein (1891-1942), one of the most prominent students at the University of Wrocław, who, as a phenomenologist, strove for the depth of the experience of the “inner man”, which she expressed in her writing activity. For this reason, we would like to invite you to participate in the international conference dedicated to the broadly understood mystical experience in culture and science, as well as to the commemoration of Edith Stein.
Mysticism, a philosophical and religious current occurring in various cultures and religions, recognizes the existence of mystical experience seen as an act and / or state of direct communication and union of a human being (or each individual conscious being) with ultimate reality. Most often, this reality is defined as an impersonal absolute or a perfect personal being on which the essence of any other being is founded. This transcendence in the general religious context performs the function of a sacrum[1]. William James (1842-1910), who included mystical experience as Religious Experiences (1902), indicated the distinguishing features such as: ineffability, noeticism (the accompanying enlightenment revealing and covering at the same time), transitory (relative transience) and passivity (of the experiencing subject).
Empirical experience, the seemingly infallible link between the individual and reality, has no justification of its own, it demands validation through reason, ratio. Also, mystical experience (that sudden and overpowering intrusion of the sacred into the individual) seeks its confirmation, understanding and expression through the word, logos, often a coded symbol, which then becomes the basis of a credo, a philosophical movement or an individual soteriological quest. Although the very “object” of the experience of transcendence, i.e., God/Goddess/Divinity, is indefinable and inexpressible, mystics usually try to express this experience in terms rooted in their tradition and culture. In this way, the mystical experience begins to function within an interpersonal and social framework.
Ecstasy is a special kind of theophany indicating a phenomenon of going beyond experienced by the ecstatic (followers, yogis, ascetics), but also by God/Goddess – crossing oneself towards the Other. While divine motives can be debated but never fully recognized, for the mystic their paths from aesthetics (sensual factors, esp. beauty) to the ecstasy become the only possible way of life. Thus, homo mysticus walks via mystica into transpersonal reality, the mystery of the coexistence of the Absolute and Creation, ineffable darkness, in mystical fear.
For this reason, we call mysticism: “[…] intensely aware experience of the sacrum “inside” man, as the highest or only value. […] The value of the sacred will be understood differently in mystical religions, which do not necessarily talk about a dialogue between the mystic and the Absolute, and differently in prophetic religions, which recognize the substantial separateness of the subject and object of mystical experience. Nevertheless, there will be a common element in both traditions, this conscious participation in the very center of holiness.”[2] This sacred incursion, which takes over the human emotional and mental whole, and often also the body one, has many aspects.
In the space of transcendence, the individual “I” may temporarily disappear, leading to deification and the birth of a “new I”. In order to achieve mystical experience, various ascetic efforts are undertaken such as: sensory deprivation, meditation, silence, breathing techniques. There are many testimonies of experiencing the presence of the Divine, facing God/Goddess (to recall only the experience of Moses on Mount Sinai described in the Book of Exodus). Does God can make effort to encounter His Beloved? – the theme of mystical fusion or mystical love, combining mysticism with eroticism, returns in many forms in very different traditions (the concept of divine bhakti in Hinduism, Jewish and Christian interpretations of the Song of Songs, Sufi poetry). There are also divine entrances into the body of an ecstatic, as well as divine intoxication and other practices of transgression and divine madness (e.g., in Śaivism and Śakti left-hand tantrics, Tibetan Vajrayāna adepts, and Jurodivas in Russia). Then, secret knowledge, hidden from the world (e.g., the Vaiṣṇava tradition of Pāñćarātra, Pythagorean and Orphic teachings) may also be revealed. The divine presence was experienced during the ancient Greek or Egyptian mysteries, in religious and philosophical fraternities, and in later times in the circles of some secret societies (martinists, towians…). In the Christian tradition, mysticism, before it was associated with a specific form of spiritual experience, and on a philosophical and theological basis with knowledge of the apophatic type (the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius, Eriugena, and later Rhenish mystics), was associated with the mystery character of the Christian teachings reserved for the group initiated (Greek adjective μυστικός, “mystical”, shares the same root with the word for “mystery”, μυστήριον). Although mysticism should be distinguished from esotericism (and the related categories of gnosis or magic) – it is an expression of the pursuit of direct union with the Deity by crossing the sphere of the imagination, a key and indispensable factor in various esoteric currents – both of these spheres often interpenetrate with each other (for example in Jewish Kabbalah, Hermeticism and mystical alchemy, in Renaissance Neoplatonists who profess the concept of priscatheologia, and later in Jakub Boehme, Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin, Emanuel Swedenborg, and the romantics inspired by them, or in later trend of perenialism).
Art appears both as a form of invoking the Deity and an expression of divine love and presence, ecstatic dance (in Sufis, in Kerala teyyam …), music and singing (South Indian Bauls, Ālvars and Nayanars …). Common literature – from the Arthurian cycle and the legend of the Holy Grail to Alef Jorge Luis Borges and the Night of Fire by Eric-Emanuel Schmitt, going through the works of Novalis, William Blake, Victor Hugo, and symbolists, provides countless examples of translating mystical themes into language of poetry and prose.
Mystical experience is also the subject of keen interest in the numerous varieties and currents of new spirituality, dynamically developing over the last decades (including the vast and diverse New Age culture), combining eagerly Far Eastern traditions with Western sensibilities. It is also a recurring theme in the broadly understood post-secularism, i.e., a trend of thought that questions or exceeds (in axiological, philosophical or sociological terms) the belief in the progressive secularization of the world. We can mention here works by Charles Taylor, John Caputo, Jacques Derrida, Emanuel Carrère or Julia Kristeva, and in cinematography, films by Bruno Dumont. Mystical experience becomes here an element of reinterpretation, transformation and a new reliving of religious experience and religious traditions in the world after the “death of God”, in which neither church structures based on dogmatism nor materialistic atheism, enclosing man in the pure immanence of the natural system, can no longer appear as satisfactory answers to basic questions about the human condition.
Although the phenomenon of mystical experience has been of such great importance for centuries in the cultural and personal context, it has become the subject of serious empirical, mainly neuroscientific, research only recently. The observations of the psychobiological activity of modern mystics (Carmelite Sisters, yogis and Buddhist monks who practice meditation) so far shed new light on the mechanism of inducing mystical experiences and lead to interesting comparative conclusions.
We propose that our scientific meeting should cover the following issues:
Mystical experience and biblical traditions
Mystical experience and world religions
Comparative studies on mystical experience
Mystical experience and its expression
Mystical experience and literature / theater
Mystical experience in post-secular contexts
Mystical experience in historical perspective
Mystical experience in the currents of Western esotericism
Mystical experience and philosophy
Mystical experience and neuroscience
Mystical experience and psychoanalysis
“Wild” mystical experience
Mystical experience in the works of Edith Stein
NOTES TO PARTICIPANTS:
Location of the meeting:
University of Wrocław
Institute of Romance Studies
pl. Bp. Nankiera 4, 50-140 Wrocław
Organizing Committee:
Nina Budziszewska (UWr)
Marlena Krupa-Adamczyk (UWr)
Gianluca Olcese (UWr)
Tomasz Szymański (UWr)
Scientific Committee:
Piotr Augustyniak (Pedagogical University of Cracow)
Sonia Maura Barillari (University of Genua)
Agata Bielik-Robson (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology Polish Academy of Sciences,
University of Nottingham)
Nina Budziszewska (University of Wrocław)
Antonio Guerci (University of Genua)
Marzenna Jakubczak (Pedagogical University of Cracow)
Mirosław Kiwka (Papieski Wydział Teologiczny we Wrocławiu)
Marlena Krupa-Adamczyk (University of Wrocław)
Piotr Lorek (Evangelical School of Theology, Wrocław)
Duration of speeches: 20 minutes (+10 minutes of discussion)
Conference languages: Polish, English, Spanish, French and Italian
Fee: 100 euro / 450 zł
(it covers the costs of: gala dinner, coffee breaks, conference materials, concert, and co-financing of the publication of a post-conference monograph)
How to apply:
by email to the following addresses:
nina.budziszewska@uwr.edu.pl (Polish or English)
marlena.krupa@uwr.edu.pl (Polish or Spanish)
gianluca.olcese@uwr.edu.pl (Italian or English)
tomasz.szymanski@uwr.edu.pl (Polish or French)
with an attachment in Word format containing the following information:
1. name, surname
2. Academic title / degree
3. affiliation
4. e-mail address
5. mailing address
6. phone number
7. title of the planned speech
8. discipline(s)
9. Abstract of the speech (approx. 200 words)
A post-conference publication in the form of a monograph is planned in a publishing house from the ministerial list.
Il 1° luglio, Jarek Wist terrà un concerto con i più grandi successi della musica italiana degli anni ’50 e ’60! Al concerto si potranno ascoltare celebri canzoni dell’epoca della Dolce Vita – Volare; Ciao, ciao bambina; Quando, quando; Tu vuo’ fa’ ll’americano; a także Se bruciasse la città!
Prof. Gościwit Malinowski is one of the founding members of the Dante Alighieri Society of Wrocław. The headquarters of our committee are located in the prestigious Confucius Institute at the University of Wrocław, directed by Prof. Malinowski himself. This international collaboration is a peaceful example of scientific, cultural and economic cooperation between Europe, the Mediterranean and the East.
From 20 to 25 June 2022, the Week of Italian Culture dedicated to Italy and the Mediterranean will take place as part of the international Erasmus+ project European Arts and Traditions in Italian Language Learning – Pastille, in cooperation with the Italian Cultural Institute in Krakow. On this occasion, the international conference Mediterraneo – Crocevia di racconti, 23-25 June (Thursday to Saturday) at the Institute of Classical, Mediterranean and Oriental Studies, ulica St. Jadwiga 3/4.
The programme is as follows: Monday 20, 7 p.m.: film screening (DCF), Adam Kruk presents: Lacci, directed by Daniele Luchetti, 2020 Tuesday 21, 7.30 p.m.: Italian conversation evening (Spanish Library, ulica Szajnochy 5) Wednesday 22, 6.30 p.m.: culinary workshop, ‘panissa and panissette’, by Prof. Sonia Barillari, chef: Jakub Emanuel Malec (Spanish Library, ulica Szajnochy 5) Thursday 23, 7 p.m.: music and tradition, concert by Roberto Ruggeri (Spanish Library, ulica Szajnochy 5) Friday 24, 7 p.m.: Italian literature, artistic reading by Alessandro Curti (Spanish Library, ulica Szajnochy 5) Saturday 25, 7 p.m.: Italian photography, Genoa, gateway to the Mediterranean, photographs by Gianluca Olcese (Spanish Library, ulica Szajnochy 5)
Welcome!
Tutti gli appassionati di cultura italiana, e non solo, sono i benvenuti 🙂 🙂
Invitation to the 4th International Conference on Neo-Latin Cultures
Mediterraneo – Crocevia di racconti / Mediterranean – Crossroads of Stories, 23-25 June
University of Wrocław, Institute of Classical, Mediterranean and Oriental Studies, ulica St. Jadwiga 3/4, room 102.
June, 23, at 9.00
Inauguration, Oratorium Marianum, University of Wrocław, plac Uniwersytecki 1
Welcoming speech
Longue durée
Gianluca Olcese (Università di Wroclaw), I viaggi della lingua italiana e la continuità: il progetto European arts and traditions in Italian language learning.
Sonia Maura Barillari (Università di Genova), L’iter barcinonense di sant’Antonio Abate: un percorso attraverso il mediterraneo testuale, narrativo e iconografico
Paolo Tabacchini (Università Palacký di Olomouc), Requiem, ovvero Delle tentazioni di Antonio (Tabucchi)
Afternoon session, at 13.30
Borders
Ewa Tichoniuk-Wawrowicz (Università di Zielona Góra), Labirinti del Mediterraneo
Anna Siri, Cinzia Leone (Università di Genova), Corridoi umanitari nella prospettiva storico-antropologica. Il progetto europeo HUMCORE
Emilio Quadrelli (Ricercatore indipendente), La “frattura coloniale” attraverso lo sguardo e le parole dei minori richiedenti asilo del Continente africano
June, 24, at 10.00
Medieval Mediterranean
Sławomir Torbus (Università di Wroclaw), The references to Paul’s journey to the third heaven (2 Cor. 12:2-4) in Charles Williams’ Arthuriad
Błażej M. Stanisławski (Accademia Polacca delle Scienze, Istituto di Etnologia e Archeologia, Wroclaw), Rozwój struktur kościelnych i architektury sakralnej Normandii oraz południowej Italii i Sycylii w świetle aktywności rodów normańskich Grentemensil i Gérei (Lo sviluppo delle strutture ecclesiastiche e dell’architettura ecclesiastica in Normandia e nell’Italia meridionale e in Sicilia alla luce delle attività delle famiglie normanne Grentemensil e Gérei)
Fabrizio De Falco (Università di Bologna), Le strade che portano a Roma. Il viaggio dall’Inghilterra all’Italia: racconti, scelte e itinerari tra XII e XIII secolo
Simone Briano (Università di Bologna), Il Mediterraneo e gli altri: Gog e Magog dalla Siria al Medioevo europeo
Afternoon session, at 14.30
Elena Muzzolon (Università di Genova), Strade perdute. Viaggi estatici nel Lancelot en prose
Federico Guariglia (Università di Genova), Canzoni e motivi dalla Catalogna al Veneto: itinerari letterari
Ilona Kadys (Scuola Elementare n. 73 W. Anders), La saggezza dei proverbi nell’insegnamento della lingua italiana – dal Veneto alla Sicilia
Mediterranean and Europe, at 16.00
Fabio Boni (Università Pedagogica di Cracovia) e Luca Palmarini (Università Jagellonica), Il Mediterraneo tra Italia e Grecia, come rotta verso l’indipendenza della Polonia: gli appunti manoscritti del nobile polacco Zygmunt Mineyko
Lucia Ruggieri (Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia), Fra immagini letterarie e idee politiche: l’Europa e l’Italia attraverso le lettere di Battista Guarini
Renato Ricco (Liceo Classico “Pietro Colletta” – Avellino / Università di Salerno), Viaggi, lacrime e dolori su rotte mediterranee: verso una moderna edizione dei Versus de Anna sorore Didonis di Pietro da Moglio
June, 25, at 9.00
Towards the East
Angelo Cattaneo e Giulio Vaccaro (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea, Roma-Firenze), Dal Mediterraneo al Polo Artico e ritorno: il misterioso viaggio dei fratelli Zen(o)
Silvia Tolusso (Università degli Studi Roma Tre), L’Oriente dopo il Medioevo: notizie dalle missioni gesuitiche in Cina e Giappone in età moderna
Krzysztof Bekieszczuk (Università di Wroclaw), Missionaries from the Mediterranean region and their contribution to the linguistic research on Indian languages
Nina Budziszewska (Università di Wroclaw), L’image du surnaturel indien dans les “Voyages” d’Ibn Baṭṭūṭa
Between lands and languages, at 11.30
Marek Dolatowski (Università di Zielona Góra), Le isole linguistiche dei cimbri e dei mòcheni – ospiti germanofoni nel Trentino
Monica Mosca (Università di Wroclaw), Il pellegrinaggio di Egeria: tra terre e lingue… in movimento
Il Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival è il più grande festival di documentari in Polonia. Per la diciannovesima volta vi invitiamo a un viaggio intorno al mondo e all’interno di noi stessi, che si svolgerà dal 13 al 22 maggio, presso il Centro Cinematografico della Bassa Slesia DCF, dove assisteremo all’anteprima in Polonia delle ultime realizzazioni del cinema documentario di tutto il mondo.
Lo slogan del festival di quest’anno, “Rethink Everything”, è tratto dal film “Reinventing the World”, diretto da Richard Dale, Nigel Walk. È un invito a ripensare la nostra visione del mondo di fronte alle decisioni imposte in seguito alla pandemia e alle conseguenze della guerra russo-ucraina. Tra gli oltre 70 film del programma del festival, dodici sono stati selezionati per concorrere al Gran Premio della Bassa Slesia. Vi invitiamo a esplorare il programma dell’edizione di Wrocław del festival su mdag.pl. Oltre al fantastico cinema di non-fiction, troverete incontri con ospiti invitati, registi uomini e donne, laboratori, eventi musicali nel club Tender is the Night e dibattiti!
Tra il ricco programma ci sono quattro film italiani consigliati dalla Società Dante Alighieri:
Advanced five-day course at the University of Genoa Dipartimento di Lingue e Culture Moderne
The course combines theory with practical application and includes a well-designed approach to monitoring and assessment with clear feedback to participants. It aims at triggering reflection and at disclosing new perspectives to each participant. It will be engaging and interactive, facilitating sharing and productive dialogue between participants. The contents of the course draw on the most recent research and practice in the field. Online learning activities will be carried out with an appropriate learning management system in order to blend both synchronous and asynchronous learning.
The venue of the course will be suitable to the number of participants involved, it will comply with relevant health and safety standards, and will be accessible to persons with disabilities. Course providers will offer their services in an inclusive way, without any type of discrimination. Particular attention will be paid to allow equal access to participants with special educational needs. Participants will have the opportunity to provide an assessment of the course and feedback about their experience. This feedback should be used to improve the future sessions. The course provider will also offer the possibility of complaints. Submitted complaints will be addressed in a timely, efficient, fair, and constructive manner.
Certification of learning outcomes will be provided to the participants. The certificate will include the name of the participant, a short description of the course and its learning outcomes, its dates and venue(s), the name of the course provider and the course instructors.
Minimum number of participants for course activation: 4 Course duration: five days, five hours per day. Languages: English and Italian Inscription fee: 400 €
Participation in the course (except for those belonging to Italian institutions) can be financed with funds from the European Commission through the Erasmus+ Key Action 1: Learning Mobility of Individuals.
In case of changes in fees, content, dates, location or schedule of the activities, participants will be offered the possibility to cancel their participation at no extra costs and with a reasonable advance notice. Cancelation of the participation and reimbursement in case of events outside of participant’s and course provider’s control (such as natural disasters or serious transport disruptions) must be included in the terms and conditions of the course.
Course providers: Sonia Maura Barillari (professor of Romance Philology at the University of Genoa) Chiara Benati (professor of Germanic Philology at the University of Genoa) Claudia Händl (professor of Germanic Philology at the University of Genoa)
For information and registration: maurasonia.barillari@unige.it
Course programme Monday 17 October 2022
Germanic literatures: Medieval German Heroic Epic
This module deals with medieval heroic epic in the German language area. The texts of this genre are rich in themes and motifs, and diverse in emphases, while at the same time retaining a number of archetypal elements. Particular attention will be paid to the Nibelung tradition and the Dietrich epics which draw their origins in remote events related to the Germanic Migration Period.
Germanic literatures: Medieval German Courtly Romance
This module focuses on the emergence of medieval verse romances in the German language area. On the basis of a series of significant examples from the works of Hartmann con Aue, Wolfram von Eschenbach and Gottfried von Straßburg, the features of this genre, its relationship to the Romanic sources and its relationship with other medieval German literary genres will be taken into consideration.
Tuesday 18 October 2022
Germanic literatures: Medieval German Lyric (1150-1300)
This module deals with the main aspects of the medieval German Lyric tradition from its beginnings in the mid twelfth century to the early years of the fourteenth century, a distinct period delimited by the main manuscript collections which embrace poems on the theme of love as well as those on didactic, political, and religious subjects. Particular attention will be paid to the nature of the manuscript transmission, to the manuscript illustrations and to the relationship to Old Provençal and Old French lyric.
Germanic literatures: The reception of courtly romance and heroic epic in Scandinavia (sagas and ballads) The aim of this module is to show how some of the most popular themes and characters of both courtly romance ad heroic epic (e.g. Yvain, Percival, Charlemagne and the Paladins) are transformed and adapted to two of the most characteristic genres of medieval and post-medieval Scandinavian literature: the saga and the ballad.
Wednesday 19 October 2022
Romance literatures: Romance literatures and popular culture
This module analyses the relationship between popular culture, often rife with pre-Christian heritage, and ‘high’ culture. The effects of this dialogical and osmotic relationship can only be understood through the analysis of the literary texts that preserve more or less explicit traces of myths, beliefs, legends, and traditions which lived exclusively in orality.
Romance literatures: Romance literatures and popular culture – Narratio brevis. Case study: barbeoire and papeoire This module proposes the analysis of two adiaphorous variants of a fabliau by Jean Bodel, Le vilain de Farbu. The aim is to study in depth, on the basis of historical semantics, the relationships existing between the mask (understood as an artefact), the names attributed to it and its uses in war, magic and ritual contexts.
Thursday 20 October 2022
Romance literatures: The text/image relationship
This module deals with the problems connected to the multiple relationships possibly existing between text and image and to the relations established between two language codes, which are distinct (in one case predominantly discursive, in the other predominantly iconic) but, from a semiotic point of view, not too different. The different forms of relationship in praesentia (coexistence of text and images) and in absentia (images that refer to a pre-text) will be investigated.
Romance literatures: The text/image relationship – Epic poem. Case study: Cruet’s pictorial cycle This module analyses the transposition of an epic poem into images. The pictorial cycle of the Château de Verdon-Dessous near Cruet, the residence of the Lords of Verdon (early 14th century) and its relationship with its source: the Girart de Vienne by Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube, composed between 1190 and 1224, will be analyzed.
Romance literatures: The text/image relationship – Romance. Case study: the Siedlęcin painting cycle This module analyses the transposition of a novel into images. The painting cycle of the residential tower of Siedlęcin on the Bóbr (Silesia), possibly built by Henry I, Duke of Jawor, around 1313-1314, and its relationship with Lancelot en prose (first half of the 13th century) will be analyzed.
Friday 21 October 2022
Romance literatures: The Mediterranean Space
This module explores the role of the Mediterranean as a privileged point of contact of cultures and traditions: on its shores and along its routes, stories of different origins and nature meet, have a dialectic relationship, mix and hybridize, becoming the lifeblood of the future ‘European’ literatures.
Romance literatures: The Mediterranean Space. Case study: the Legenda mirabilis This module is devoted to an apocryphal Life of St Anthony Abbot of which Alfonsus Bonihominis translated six excerpta from Arabic into Latin in 1342. The second one, «S. Antonii iter barcinonense» is particularly interesting, since it exposes in explicit terms the dynamics of narrative reworking of the links which continued to exist between the two shores of the Mediterranean.
Durante il convegno verrà inoltre presentato il progetto Erasmus Plus European Arts and Traditions in Italian Language Learning – PASTILLE (2019-1-PL01-KA203-065078), dedicato alla costruzione di strumenti didattici innovativi per l’insegnamento della lingua italiana.
4 e 5 maggio 2022
4 maggio ore 14.30 – 19.00 5 maggio ore 9.00 – 13.00 Il convegno ha valore di Corso di Aggiornamento per insegnanti di ogni ordine e grado. Ai partecipanti verrà rilasciato regolare attestato di partecipazione. Per gli insegnati è prevista l’autorizzazione alla partecipazione in orario di servizio.
Direzione del corso: Martina Di Febo: mdifebo68@gmail.com Aula Magna, Via Balbi 2 – Genova Per maggiori informazioni: maurasonia.barillari@unige.it Promotore: Maura Sonia Barillari – Dipartimento di Lingue e Culture Moderne