Romania and Italy. The common culture of the memory of the past 100 years. Memory and identity in the romanian-italian dialogue: symbolic spaces, legal, historical and philosophical issues

• Author: Ovidiu predescu
• Pages: 344-345

344 OVIDIU PREDESCU

SCIENTIFIC LIFE

ROMANIA AND ITALY. THE COMMON CULTURE OF THE

MEMORY OF THE PAST 100 YEARS. MEMORY AND IDENTITY

IN THE ROMANIAN-ITALIAN DIALOGUE: SYMBOLIC

SPACES, LEGAL, HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES

OVIDIU PREDESCU

Between the 26-27 October 2018, at the initiative of the “Dunrea de Jos”

University of Galai, the Association of Scientific Researchers in the field of

International and European Law (Italy) and the “Acad. Andrei Rdulescu” Legal

Research Institute of the Romanian Academy, at the headquarters of the “Ugo

Spirito e Renzo di Felice” Foundation in Rome, was held the international

colloquium “Romania and Italy. The common culture of the memory of the past

100 years. Memory and identity in the Romanian-Italian dialogue: symbolic spaces,

legal, historical and philosophical issues”; the event was dedicated to the

Centenary of the Great Union of 1918 – the most important historic moment of the

Romanian people. In the scientific papers and interventions held on the occasion,

various important aspects of the Romanian-Italian relations were approached.

Academics, researches, lawyers, representatives of universities, research

institutes, and cultural foundations from Romania, Italy, and the Republic of

Moldova have approached historical, legal and philosophical issues of common

politics, such as: national issues spanning from the Revolution of 1848 to the Paris

Peace Conference (1919-1920), the unfolding and the consequences of the First

World War, cultural and political relations between Romanian and Italy in the

interwar period, national and international law issues, legal, scientific and cultural

convergences between Romania and Italy in the past century.

The cultural and scientific dialogue thus inaugurated has been continued in

the days of 22 and 23 of November 2018, in Galai, where certain aspects were

treated in depth. On the occasion, there were several new aspects added and new

future perspectives were opened, thus the meeting marking and important

moment in the collaboration of the specialists – historians, philosophers and jurist

– of the both countries, in deepening the problematics of national identity, and also

of memory and common development in Europe and world-wide.

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The colloquium was marked by the presence of renowned academics of Italy

and Romania, amongst which we mention: prof. Augusto Sinagra and prof. Florin

Tudor – cochairs of the colloquium; prof. Mircea Duu – director of the “Acad.

Andrei Rdulescu” Legal Research Institute of the Romanian Academy; prof.

Massimo Panebianco – University of Salerno; prof. Cristian Luca – ad interim

director of the Romanian Institute for Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice,

Italy; prof. Paolo Simoncelli – La Sapienza Universitaty of Rome; prof. Ion Bolovan

– “Babeş – Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca; prof. Gian Luigi Cecchini –

University of Trieste; prof. Liviu-Petru Zpîran – Ambassador Extraordinary and

Plenipotentiary of Romania to the Holy See; prof. Gaetano Sabatini – “Ugo Spirito

e Renzo De Felice” Foundation, Rome / Tre University of Rome; prof. Ovidiu

Predescu – director of the “Dreptul” publications ea.

The works of the colloquium have been honored by the presence of prof. Iulian

Gabriel Bîrsan, rector of the “Dunrea de Jos” University of Galai.