24.05.2022 Visit of Mariya Gabriel - European Commissioner on Reseach, Education and Youth
#EUCelebrationDayVenice2022
Visit of Maria Gabriel
European Commissione on Research, Education and Youth
"Bulgarian culture of past and present for the future of Europe"
9am Aula Baratto, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
9:00 - 9:30 Institutional greetings: Tiziana Lippiello, Rector of Ca' Foscari University of Venice; Luca Zaia, President of the Veneto Region; Luigi Brugnaro, Mayor of Venice; Antonio Trampus, Head of the Department of Comparative Linguistic and Cultural Studies; representative of the Bulgarian Embassy in Rome; and Luisella Pavan-Woolfe, Director of the Council of Europe, Venice office.
9:30 a.m. - 9:40 a.m. Iliyana Krapova and Giustina Selvelli, professors, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, "Bulgarian Cultural and Ethnolinguistic Heritage in the Light of the Legacy of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Co-Patrons of Europe"
9:40 - 9:45 a.m. Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Research, Education and Youth, "The Bulgarian cultural and linguistic heritage" - Speech in Bulgarian language
9:45 - 10:30 a.m. Dialogue and discussion with Mariya Gabriel on "Youth and the Future of Europe - Challenges and Perspectives," moderated by Iliyana Krapova and Eugenia Sainz, Department of Comparative Linguistic and Cultural Studies - Speech in English
10:30 a.m. - 10:40 a.m. Georgi Gospodinov, Bulgarian writer and winner of the European Literary Prize Strega 2021, "What literature can do: memory, time and shelter"
10:40 - 11:00 Live connection with the celebrations in Rome to pay homage to St. Cyril and hear an interview with Bulgarian Prime Minister, Bojko Borisov
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break and performance of Bulgarian folk music
11:30 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. Giuseppe dell'Agata, professor at the University of Pisa and translator of the works of Georgi Gospodinov, winner, for translation, of the European Literary Prize Strega 2021, "20th Century, Bulgarian Literature and the Myth of Ahasfer"
11:50 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. Theodora Dimova, Bulgarian writer and winner of the Grand Prize for Eastern European Literature, "The traumas of the communist past on contemporary Bulgarian citizenship: a writer's perspective"
12:10 - 12:30 Space for questions
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 14:20 Antoaneta Dontcheva, professor, University of Plovdiv and Georgi Kapriev, professor, Sofia University, "Medieval Bulgaria, Byzantium, Venice - Convergences and Divergences. A short list."
14:20 - 14:40 Aksiniya Dzhurova, correspondent of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, "Books printed in Cyrillic in Venice in the 16th and 17th centuries"
14:40 - 15:00 Vassia Velinova, director of the Center for Slavic-Byzantine Studies "Prof. Ivan Duytchev," "Venetian Archives and Bulgarian History"
15:00 - 15:20 Space for questions
15:20 - 15:40 Coffee break
15:40 - 16:00 Daniela di Sora, director of Voland Edizioni publishing house, "Presentation of fiction books by Bulgarian authors published in recent years"
16:00 - 16:45 Theodora Dimova, Bulgarian writer, Ameliya Licheva and Daria Karapetkova, Bulgarian poet from Sofia University, "Modern Bulgarian Literature as Global Literature"
16:45 - 17:20 Bulgaria at the Venice Biennale 2022, meeting with artist Mikhail Mikhailov and the organizers of the Bulgarian Pavilion
17:20 - 17:30 Assia Assenova, Bulgarian language lecturer at Ca' Foscari University, "Presentation of the interactive platform Ezik.bg, designed for Italian L2 students of Bulgarian"
17:30 - 18:00 Concert by young artists of Bulgarian and Balkan music
18:00 Bulgarian aperitif
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