The Day of Remembrance at Ca’ Foscari

The time has arrived for the 6th Ca’ Foscari University Cycle dedicated to Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia. The event is part of a whole calendar of events supported by the Community Of Venice, and coincides with the Italian remembrance day established in 2004 with the date of 10th February, the day in which the peace treaty that ceded part of Venezia Giulia, Istria and Dalmatia to Yugoslavia was signed, in memory of the exodus of the Istrians, Fiumans and Dalmations, of the Fiobe massacres and of the complex history of the eastern Italian border.

The chosen theme for the public meeting that will take place this year on February 14th at 3pm in the Morelli lecture room in the Malcanton Marcorà building is “Protagonists”.

The event, much like the preceding years, is a way to inform students of a large audience about the history of the regions of the eastern Adriatic in its close and centuries-old ties with the republic of Venice and later with Italy. It will showcase history over a long period, and the protagonists of this story whose roots stem from the Adriatic world: the Emperor Diocletian born in Salona and died in Split in Dalmatia in 313, whose important vestiges remain in his imperial palace; Giorgio Orsini the sculptor and architect from Sibenik, active in Venice, Ancona and Rome; Gianrinaldo Carli of Caprodistria, president of the council of Economics in Milan in the 18th century, where he collaborated with Cesare Beccaria and Pietro Verri; Alida Valli, the stage name of Alida Altenburger, famous international actress born in Pula from an Istrian mother and father from Trento, the protagonist of “Senso” with Luchino Visconti (1954) and winner of two David di Donatello Awards.

Speakers at the meeting, organised by the Department of Humanities and the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies, Giovannella Cresci, Bruno Crevato-Selvaggi, Antonio Trampus, Alessandro Cuk, with the welcome address from the Rector of Ca’ Foscari Michele Bugliesi.

The poster of the event