Edited by Enzo Balboni and Annamaria Cascetta
Edizioni ETS
What role can culture have in creating, developing and disseminating the values which, over the centuries, have led to the idea of Europe as a common home?
Here culture is understood as a primarily humanist culture, meaning literature, art, theater, music, and legal, historiographical and economic culture.
Culture is a construction and sedimentation of centuries, a work in progress in continuous formation, the essential raison d’être for the goal of European integration for the first time in history resting not on an imperialistic but a democratic basis.
What presence and above all what effectiveness can art and culture have in rising our awareness of and pride in belonging to a centuries-old construction, a melting pot that has mingled many traditions and been fostered by them?
The Conference, intending to bring a strictly cultural contribution to reflection on these issues, after a foundational layer, centered on juridical, historical, economic and philosophical culture, focused on theatrical culture. Why? Because the theater, a multi-millennial expressive form, is the most open and chorally participatory of the arts; because, in its valence as emotion and political reflection physically played out in the presence of an audience, it can effectively contribute to shorten the distance of the population from the theme.
Integration is also-and perhaps above all- a question of “knowing” and “understanding”.
Table of contents
Introduction Enzo Balboni and Annamaria Cascetta Greetings from the President of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella Greetings from the President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani Greetings from the Rector Franco Anelli
Introduction to the session: The legal and economic foundations of Europe Gabrio Forti The constitutional statute: canon and project of the European institutional identity Enzo Balboni “United in Diversity”. From the debates over the European identity to the official lexicon of the Union Cesare Pinelli Economic Europe: subsidiarity, solidarity, development Alberto Quadrio Curzio
Introduction to the session: The istorical foundations of Europe Angelo Bianchi The modernity at the origins of European identity Luigi Mascilli Migliorini Europe and globalization Agostino Giovagnoli Humanism and barbarism. The crisis of European consciousness in G.B. Vico Francesco Botturi The origins of the tragic: the Greek experience Giulio Guidorizzi Prophecy and utopia. The Passion theater and Jewish humor as the stumbling block of the state and criticism of the state affairs Claudio Bernardi The festival of Purim and Jewish humor of the Diaspora between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age Carlo Susa The circulation of actors in Europe under the Ancient Régime Siro Ferrone Les évolutions de la tragédie française aux XVII et XVIII siècle, de la cruauté scénique à la force du poème dramatique. Christian Biet Tennessee Williams and theatrical change on the post World War II world stage Stanley E. Gontarski The performative theater of 2000s: mirror and alarm of a crisis. Annamaria Cascetta The art of political theater recognized by Europe: Mistero buffo by Dario Fo Anna Barsotti and Eva Marinai Social theater between identity and difference Giulia Innocenti Malini The Canon of European drama and the example of Don Juan: a canonical character for Europe Roberta Carpani Opera and Law: cultural canons, common values and aesthetics. Filippo Annunziata Reflections on a continent that becomes a stage: Home Visit Europe by Rimini Protokoll Arianna Frattali The European identity of Western art Paolo Biscottini Méditerranéité: the idea and image of North-South relations at the root of a visual culture of Europe. Francesco Tedeschi