900fest – Fifth edition (Forlì, from 24 to 27 October 2018)
ITALY 1938 – EUROPE 2018
anti-Semitism, racism and xenophobia, crisis of citizenship, cosmopolitanism and community
Preview 900fest 2018
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6th
4 pm, Palazzo Romagnoli (Via Cesare Albicini, 12)
Eighty years ago, the first anti-Jewish laws
By Michele Sarfatti (Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milan)
9.pm, Chiostro dei Musei San Domenico (P.zza Guido da Montefeltro, 12)
“Between the Klezmer and the Jewish soul”, concert with Duo Gurfinkel and Elisaveta Blumina
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24th
3.00 pm – 7.00 pm, Town Hall (piazza Saffi, 8)
900fest opening
The great fault
1938, the “true” legality
Alessandro Pajno
Anti-Jewish laws
Tullia Catalan
Ordinary administration: the Italian way to the Shoah
Matteo Stefanori
“The young Primo is back …”
Anna Foa
The so-called “failed italian Nuremberg”. Twenty years after.
Michele Battini
9.00 pm, Cinema San Luigi (via Luigi Nanni 14)
Film screening: “1945”
(by Ferenc Török, Hungary, 2017)
Introduced by Gianfranco Miro Gori
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25th
9.30am – 12.30pm, Province Hall (piazza Morgagni, 2)
Why the racial laws?
A reflection on Italian anti-Semitism
Marie-Anne Matard-Bonucci
Alberto Cavaglion
Guri Schwarz
Paola Salvatori
3.00pm – 5.00pm, Province Hall
Anti-Semitism as a revolutionary political theory
5.00pm – 7.00pm, Province Hall
Citizenship, emancipation and anti-Jewish anti-capitalism
Michele Battini and Guri Schwarz
8.30pm – 10.30pm, Cinema San Luigi
Film screening: “Süss the Jew” (Veit Harlan, 1940)
Introduced by Gadi Luzzatto Voghera
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26th
9.30 – 12.30 am, Teaching Hub (viale F. Corridoni, 20)
Women against racism and sexism
Wanda Nowicka (Poland)
Pragna Patel (United Kingdom)
Roza Hodosan (Hungary)
Coordinator: Raffaella Baccolini
5.00 – 7.00 pm, Town Hall
Are we racist?
Laura Balbo, Ernesto Galli della Loggia
Discussant: Alessandro Cavalli
8.30pm – 10.30pm, Cinema San Luigi
Film screening: Mussolini’s speech, Trieste 1938
Introduction by Fabio Levi
With permission of Archivio Nazionale cinematografico della Resistenza e Istituto Luce-Cinecittà
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27th
10.00 am – 12.00 am; 15.00 – 18.00, Town Hall
Cosmopolitanism and community
Discussant Wlodek Goldkorn
Democracy: crisis or metamorphosis?
Michel Wieviorka
Sovereignty vs. autonomy, State vs community: the debate within Jewish political thought
Julie E. Cooper
Cosmopolitan vs. community: the new social divide?
Wolfgang Merkel
Migration and citizenship in the capitalist state
Lea Ypi
“Are not we both human beings?”: why turning to our common humanity is not always enough
Anne Phillips
Citizenship and the disruptive alterity
Bashir Bashir
Citizenship beyond sovereignty: rethinking democratic representation
Melissa Williams
9.00pm, Masque Teatro (via Orto del Fuoco, 3)
A strange and bitter fruit
Show with Paola Sabbatani, Lelia Serra, Roberto Bartoli, Daniele Santimone
Ongoing (Sala XC Pacifici – from 16 to 17 october)
Exhibition (exhibition room beneath the Town Hall, Piazza Saffi, 8)
On the occasion of the Festival we will set up the exhibition “The offense of the race. Racism and anti-Semitism of fascist Italy “, realized by the Superintendency for books and documentary assets of the IBC Regione Emilia-Romagna, illustrates with vintage documents, the theme of racism and in general the attitude towards the “different” in the fascist era.
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