FROM VIRAL EMERGENCY
TO THE CULTURAL VACCINE
PROGRAMME
Thursday, September 30th, 2021
Arrival in Udine of the European delegations participating in the Forum
8.00 p.m. Welcome reception – Ambassador Palace Hotel Restaurant – Udine
Friday, October 1st, 2021
9.00 a.m. Meeting point at Loggia del Lionello – City Hall of Udine
Registration
9.30 a.m. Opening remarks to the Forum
Paolo Petiziol
9.45 a.m. Institutional Greetings
PANELS
The 2021 Forum is characterized by a leitmotiv crossing and connecting all the panels: the role of culture as a “salvific vaccine” for mankind.
In the words of a great poet:
Consider ye the seed from which ye sprang;
Ye were not made to live like unto brutes,
But for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge.
(Dante Alighieri – Divine Comedy, Inferno – Canto XXVI, v. 119)
10.30 – 11.10 a.m. Panel I
From Ideological to Sanitary Barriers
A resurgence of borders
11.15 – 11.55 a.m. Panel II
COVID19: A Social and Cultural Tsunami
Act three of a global disruption
12.00 – 12.45 a.m. Panel III
Aachen or Visegrad?
European unrest
12.00 a.m. Media opportunity: meeting with the press
1.00 p.m. Break and buffet lunch
3.00 – 3.45 p.m. Panel IV
GECT GO/EZTS = GO! 2025 = Collio/Brda
Virtuous examples of European transformation
4.00 – 4.30 p.m. Final remarks
7.00 p.m. Concert of Friuli Venezia Giulia Symphony Orchestra
8.15 p.m. Reception in honor of our Esteemed Guests
Saturday, October 2nd, 2021
10.00 a.m. Departure from the Ambassador Palace Hotel
In occasion of the “GO! 2025 Nova Gorica+Gorizia – European Capital of Culture”, touristic-cultural tour of the Institutional Delegations to the cultural and natural wonders of the Soča River. From war front to exemplary model of European integration. Return in the late afternoon.
See you again in 2022!
Secretariat and logistics
Organization: Mitteleuropa Cultural Association – Udine – Via San Francesco, 34
Phone: +39 0432 204269
E-mail: segreteria@mitteleuropa.it
Website: www.mitteleuropa.it
Twitter: @_mitteleuropa_
Facebook: @mitteleuropa
The current anti-COVID19 regulations require the confirmation of your attendance. Numbered seats will be assigned.
The works of the Forum will take place in compliance with the COVID19 regulations in force on the dates specified.
RSVP: segreteria@mitteleuropa.it – tel. +39 0432 204269
