International Conference
Milan, Italy, 9 - 11 December 2003
Teatro Franco Parenti
Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide Committee
Associazione PierLombardo Culture
PROGRAM
Day 1st, December 9th
Morning, 9:00am Discussant Dario Fertilio
Welcome by the Authorities
Introduction
Gabriele Nissim -
“No, I will not give you my soul!”
Elena Bonner Sakharova
Andrei Sakharov’s struggle for legality and justice
Coffee break
Vittorio Strada
Completeness of memory and historical conscience. The century of totalitarianism and the metanoia of Vasily Grossman
Sergio Rapetti
The Gulag system: 1918-1991. Jacques Rossi and his extraordinary “recorded memory”
Discussion
Afternoon, 3:00pm Discussant Marcello Flores
Defending truth
Nikita Struve
Osip and Nadezhda Mandel’shtam: together, at the service of poetry and truth
Irina Sirotinskaya
Responsibility and morality of the word in Varlam Shalamov
Natalia Gorbanevskaya
“Stolen air”. Anna Achmatova’s Requiem and the poetry magazines of the Sixties
Coffee break
Alexandr Daniel’
Literature on trial. Sinjavsky and Daniel: “the defendant pleads not guilty”
Arina Ginzburg
From the White Book on the Sinjavsky-Daniel’ case, to the support for political prisoners and to the Helsinki Movement: Alexandr Ginzburg
Discussion
In the evening
“Life has fallen, distant flash of lightning…”
Recital by the songwriter and singer Elena Frolova on texts by Achmatova, Mandel’shtam, Shalamov, Barkova: love, poetry and music, despite the Gulag
Day 2nd, December 10th
Morning, 9:00am Discussant Carla Tonini
Resistance in civil society
Vladimir Tolz
Samizdat free information in the Seventies and Eighties: the “Current events chronicle”, “Bulletin V” and the West
Giovanni Guaita
Resistance on the part of believers: the examples of Pavel Florensky and Alexander Men’
Coffee break
Elena Chukovskaya
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn. From the exposure of censorship to testimony about the “Gulag Archipelago”
Sergei Khodorovich
Resistance among ordinary people and support for prisoners’ families
Slavy Boyanov
Independent thought under totalitarian regimes
Discussion
Afternoon, 3:00pm Discussant Pietro Kuciukian
Defending human dignity in the Gulag
Sergei Kovalyov
Resistance inside the camps in the Seventies and Eighties: the example of Anatoly Marchenko
Yuri Mal’tsev
The psychiatric repression of the thought: Petro Grigorenko, a rebel of the nomenklatura
iniziocorsivoCoffee break
Armenak Manukyan
The repressions of the Thirties: episodes of resistance of the Armenians
Amatuni Virabyan
The Armenians repatriated after the Second World War and the defence of national identity
Discussion
Day 3rd, December 11th
9:00am Discussant Viktor Zaslavsky
The Gulag and Italy
Elena Dundovich
The Righteous who denounced the Gulag in the West. Some exemplary stories
Pierluigi Battista
Italians who refused to ignore the reality of the Gulag
Coffee break
Francesco M. Cataluccio
Against the removal of the Gulag. The case of Gustav Herling
Didi Gnocchi
Edmondo Peluso, an Italian victim of the Gulag
Francesco Bigazzi
The odyssey of Emilio Guarnaschelli
Discussion
Afternoon, 3:00pm Discussant Francesca Gori
The Gulag and post-soviet Russia
Viktor Shmyrov
The “Perm-36” lager, a memorial to the Gulag
Arseny Roginsky
Keeping the memory of the Gulag alive in contemporary Russia
Anatoly Razumov
The Leningrad Martyrology: popular remembrance of the victims of the “Great Terror”
Closing debate, 6:00pm
The Righteous in the Gulag: why should we remember them?
Moderator Gabriele Nissim