we are presenting a description of the week accompanied
with
photos
and
works
Title:
"The
Golden Ideas of Renaissance Florence - to the Third Millenium of Integrating
Europe"
Project
leaders:
Prof.
Vladimir N. Egorov
Rector of Ivanovo State University
E-mail:
rector@ivanovo.ac.ru
Prof.
Dmitriy I. Polyvianny
Dean of History and International Relation Dept.
Ivanovo State University
153025, Ivanovo-25, str. Yermak 39., Russia
Tel. +7(0)932326188
Fax: +7(0)932326600
E-mail:
sintrel@ivanovo.ac.ru
Prof.
Dr. Nina Revyakina
Brief description of the initiative:
The topic and the aim of the project:
As it is stated
in the European Convention draft, “cultural,
religious and humanist inheritance of Europe…
always present in its heritage, has embedded within the life of society its
perception of the central role of the human person”,
and the European nations “have
gradually developed the values underlying humanism: equality of persons,
freedom, respect for reason”.
The topic of the
project stresses the
cultural roots of contemporary European integration upon the base of
cultural and human values born by Renaissance Italy and enriched through the
centuries of cultural progress and interaction between states, societies and
cultures. Its contents have
covered
a wide variety of burning problems of the modern World, to the solution of
which the rich intellectual heritage of the Florentine Humanism may
contribute. The project aimed
to stimulate students from different faculties (history, cultural
anthropology, philosophy, sociology, political science, law, international
relations etc.), from different universities and states to read classic
works of Florentine humanists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (Coluccio
Salutati, Marciglio Ficino, Gianozzo Manetti, Mattheo Palmieri, Giacomo
Gelli, Niccolo Machiavelli, Leonardo Bruni and others) and to develop, due
to the contemporary needs of the World, of their nations and societies, the
ideas born in Renaissance Florence. The participants
have
worked
out essays on humanism, tolerance, education, culture, progress, justice,
human rights, political system, international peace etc. To our mind, the
project should be continious and in some years lead to the compiling of
special book of best students’ essays and action papers with the same title
as the project itself.
Specification of
the participants:
Students of history, philosophy, cultural anthropology, sociology, law,
political science, international relations and other humanities and
interdisciplinary studies, from 2nd to 4th year,
skilled in debates, essay writing, individual and collective research,
proficient in oral and written English. For the first try we proposed
to bring together students from Slav countries like Russia, Belarus,
Ukraine, Bulgaria, Croatia and Serbia, with the universities of which
Ivanovo State University supports academic communication and cooperation.
Specification of works carried out and
the materials used in the workshop / specification of the performance during
the cultural initiative:
The Ivanovo university team (Prof. Vladimir Egorov as Rector, Prof. Nina
Revyakina as Expert, Prof. Dmitry Polyviannyi as Project Leader) will
prepare the preliminary list of themes for essays accompanied with
recommended bibliography of main Florentine Humanists’ works in Russian and
English languages and short reader of their selected texts.
The students from participating Universities were
supposed, during the preparatory period, to read the works of the Florentine
Humanists to formulate, to chose or to specify one of the proposed themes
for their individual essays. The essays (up to 1000 words) should
have been written in English under the guidance of the
appropriate professors no later than October 1st, 2003 and sent
to the Ivanovo University by e-mail. Then the Project Leader and his student
team have formulated the
final agenda of the Integration Week from the themes for collective essays.
In Florence the students inspired by the magnificent atmosphere of the
cradle of European humanism were
supposed to work in small (3 or 4 students, depending of the number of
participating Universities) teams to merge and to complete the essays and to
elaborate common Action Paper addressed to certain World and national
leaders and institutions.
The participants:
Ivanovo, Russia
Prof. Dmitry Polyviannyi
E-mail:
sintrel@ivanovo.ac.ru
New
Bulgarian University
Sofia, Bulgaria
Doc. Elka Bakalova
E-mail:
elkabakalova@hotmail.com
M oscow
State University named after Lomonosov
Moscow, Russia
Prof. Elena Serdyuk
E-mail:
eserd@hist.msu.ru
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