EUROPEAN CULTURAL IDENTITY. LAW, HISTORY, THEATRE AND ART. International Conference, Milan, 11-12 May 2017

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Edited by Enzo Balboni and Annamaria Cascetta
Edizioni ETS

European Cultural Identity

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

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