Righteous and witnesses: historical remembrance and action ethics

seminar for the training and further education of teachers organized by the Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide Committee
8th, 12th, 19th March

Milan - Casa della Cultura, via Borgogna 3
(MM San Babila)
from 15.30 to 18.30

You can download the abstracts of the speeches delivered at the course for high school teachers by experts on the subject of the Righteous in the history of the Twentieth Century and on the nowadays figures of civil courage. In particular we have focused on the categories of Righteous in history, the relationship between history and remembrance, and the value of direct testimony.
The goals of the seminar are the acquisition of theoretical and methodological tools and the effort to improve the students' awareness about these subjects.
To be completed as soon as we have the translations

PROGRAMME AND SPEECHES

1ST DAY: 8TH MARCH 2010

Theoretical foundations of the Righteous concept

Gabriele Nissim, Chairman of the Gardens of the Righteous Committee:
"What purpose do the Righteous serve? A reflection on remembering good"
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Salvatore Natoli, Full Professor of Theoretic Philosophy, University of Milan-Bicocca
"Righteousness and rendering justice"
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Stefano Levi Della Torre, essayist, Milan Polytechnics
"The Righteous in Jewish culture"
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2ND DAY: 12TH MARCH 2010

The Righteous' deeds in the totalitarian context

Marcello Flores, historian, University of Siena
"Historical memory between use and abuse"
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Annalia Guglielmi, Gariwo contributor
"Figures of civil courage in Eastern Europe"
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Pietro Kuciukian, founder of the "Righteous for the Armenians" international committee
"The Righteous as witnesses to truth in the Armenian affair"
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3RD DAY: 19TH MARCH 2010

The educational value of remembering the Righteous

Sante Maletta, Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Calabria
"Exemplariness of the Righteous and moral education"
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Ulianova Radice, Coordinator of the Gardens of the Righteous Committee:
"The Gariwo website and the We For project: the Web Forest of the Righteous"
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The abstracts will be published online as soon as possible.