Posted on 26 October 2015
The Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre, together with the Historical Archives of the European Union, the Department of History and Civilization and Department of Political and Social Sciences (EUI), is organizing the workshop 'Intelligentsia: Eastern European Phenomenon?'. The workshop will be held on 27 November 2015 at Sala del Capitolo, Badia Fiesolana.
The aim of this workshop is to reflect upon the Eastern European phenomenon of the intelligentsia, a social group with leadership role in shaping society's political and cultural self-consciousness. The term intelligentsia was first used with respect to the Russian-controlled part of Poland during the age of partition. Since then, it has then been used in many Eastern European countries. The tradition was especially strong in Communist period when the intelligentsia constituted a social group often engaged in the opposition against the communist regime.
One of the most prominent representatives of the intelligentsia was without doubt Stanislaw Brzozowski (1878 – 1911), Polish writer, philosopher, publicist, literary critic. His intellectual fascinations stretched from the non-deterministic interpretations of Marxism to the Catholic modernism. Brzozowski spent the last years of his life in Florence, where he died and was buried in the Trespiano cemetery. He influenced many other thinkers including Zygmunt Bauman, Leszek Kolakowski, and Czeslaw Milosz.
Speakers will include Wlodek Goldkorn, journalist for L'Espresso, Adam Puchejda, from Kultura Liberalna (weekly magazine), and Slawomir Sierakowski, leader of Political Critique and director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Warsaw.
For further information and in order to register your participation, please contact the conference secretariat:
Claudia Fanti - tel.: +39 055 4685662
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