Gabriella Valera
University Of Trieste, Department of Humanities, Faculty Member till 01/11/2016, now Scientific Directer of the International Study and Docuementation Centre for Youth Culture www.centroculturagiovanile.eu
After the first researches on the History of Ancient Historiography she soon turned her research more and more markedly towards the history of modern and contemporary historiography, towards problems of the theory of history and towards interdisciplinary lines of research aimed at identifying the statutes of the disciplines of the moral-historical world in their relationships.
She has therefore devoted many years to the detailed investigation of different bodies of sources for a period ranging from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century, coming mainly from the German Empire area, not forgetting however comparisons with other areas: from the legal methodologies of the seventeenth century and the eighteenth century to the philosophical manuals flourished around Kant, from the systems of natural law to the great production on the topic of “rational law”, from the collection of dissertations on public law of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the "political" production of the same period and of the same area involving the themes of the ratio status in the sense contained then in the formulations of the German Staatistik; from the encyclopedias of knowledge of the early modern age to the developments of the Wissenschaftslehre.
Furthermore, in-depth studies on the legal “systems” and its articulations, on "Practical Philosophy" and Ethics, on the methodological debates that had as their object the formation of political economy as historical science (first formulations of economic historicism).
All this led from the "internal history" of the disciplines, passing through parallel investigations into Hobbes' political thinking, Machiavelli's and extensive historical-historiographical evidence, to the recognition of a "paradigm" through which Modernity affirms its scientific being.
More recent are the studies on the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century, that "crisis of the European conscience" (as one can call it echoing Hazard) which reaches our days with the characteristics of an irreversible catastrophe. The foundation of the International Society for Cultural History and the active participation in all its Annual Conferences have given new body to the spatial metaphors that already played a role in her previous research on the State and on the "public sphere", on the "public" space in general, in the game of relationships, with a perspective that does not constitute the simple elaboration of different micro and macro-historical plans, but involves every single "object" of the historical cultural context, with its inescapable specificity. His scientific publications cover a very broad field of interests. A not complete list of publications can be viewed at the University link https://arts.units.it/simple-search?query=valera#.XAv-O2hKjDc (not complete)
For more details www.gabriellavaleragruber.eu and short european cv
Phone: +040638787
Address: Via Matteotti 21, 34138 Trieste
She has therefore devoted many years to the detailed investigation of different bodies of sources for a period ranging from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century, coming mainly from the German Empire area, not forgetting however comparisons with other areas: from the legal methodologies of the seventeenth century and the eighteenth century to the philosophical manuals flourished around Kant, from the systems of natural law to the great production on the topic of “rational law”, from the collection of dissertations on public law of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the "political" production of the same period and of the same area involving the themes of the ratio status in the sense contained then in the formulations of the German Staatistik; from the encyclopedias of knowledge of the early modern age to the developments of the Wissenschaftslehre.
Furthermore, in-depth studies on the legal “systems” and its articulations, on "Practical Philosophy" and Ethics, on the methodological debates that had as their object the formation of political economy as historical science (first formulations of economic historicism).
All this led from the "internal history" of the disciplines, passing through parallel investigations into Hobbes' political thinking, Machiavelli's and extensive historical-historiographical evidence, to the recognition of a "paradigm" through which Modernity affirms its scientific being.
More recent are the studies on the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century, that "crisis of the European conscience" (as one can call it echoing Hazard) which reaches our days with the characteristics of an irreversible catastrophe. The foundation of the International Society for Cultural History and the active participation in all its Annual Conferences have given new body to the spatial metaphors that already played a role in her previous research on the State and on the "public sphere", on the "public" space in general, in the game of relationships, with a perspective that does not constitute the simple elaboration of different micro and macro-historical plans, but involves every single "object" of the historical cultural context, with its inescapable specificity. His scientific publications cover a very broad field of interests. A not complete list of publications can be viewed at the University link https://arts.units.it/simple-search?query=valera#.XAv-O2hKjDc (not complete)
For more details www.gabriellavaleragruber.eu and short european cv
Phone: +040638787
Address: Via Matteotti 21, 34138 Trieste
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1. IMpostazione dle problema 2. Comporrtamento etico-pratico e comportamento tecnico-scientifico nell'atica nicomacheadi Aristotele 3. Virtù etiche e virtùdianoetiche; Il logos e la contingenza. 5 Ipotesi di lavoro
Participants were left completely free to address the topic proposed according to the rhythm of their inner need and according to the point of view of their most lively experience (human, personal, subjects studied or read). This form, quite different from the form of a scientific research, has been preserved in the publication, which particularly aims to enlighten end testify aspects and identities of the Youth Culture in transition. The Forum developed in plenary and thematic sessions. The papers presented in the plenary session have been published in their original language with an abstract translated into Italian or English. A bilingual abstract of the contributions presented in the thematic panels has been also published. The original integral texts are available in the website: www.castellodiduinopoesia.org, in the pages devoted to the forum 2013.
Contents of the Introducation bi Gabrella Valera (see 'IL globale e la città'
1.Artistic craftsmanship; 2. The revolution of memory and the public sphere; 3.Culture- Citizenship; 4. Global space / Global time; 5. Metodological Issues
"What makes a City is not determined by external factors but by its internal function: openness, environmental quality, participation, dialogue, the city as space of culture-citizenship in which the subject seems a potential winner of the challenge against the discomfort of freedom and the inability to represent the plurality of worlds.
4.
Global space / Global time
From the introduction: "The global space is then something very peculiar. It is “space torn out of the space itself”, it is cultural space where culture lost one of its most typical features in the varied list of its definitions and representations, that is to represent a coherent and delimited system, to mark a border: be it a style or a context of belonging, or a real regional or national characterisation, solved with difficulty, if we deal with “high culture”, by internal universalistic connotations, expressed for example in the rhetoric of the “universal values of art”. In the texts examined the global space is City, Public Sphere, Ecosystem, Writing (that physically bursts into urban or suburban areas as cultural memory): all this is global space as space taken away from “border”, space of crossing, of meetings, liquid space, we could say, to refer to the well known analysis of Bauman, that, according to Matveeva (A participant in the forum), re-establishes also culture as open space of encounter.
In this space men and women, citizens, individuals, live their time.
Il discorso sul globale, portato dentro la "città" con una riflessione su "città" e "cittadinanza", "spazio" e "diritto" come introduzione e commento alle presentazioni e rappresentazioni che giovani da tutto il mondo... more abstract
History and Memory, Youth Culture, Citizenship, Identity, and Globalisation
What makes a City is not determined by external factors but by its internal function: openness, environmental quality, participation, dialogue, the city as space of culture-citizenship in which the subject seems a potential winner of the challenge against the discomfort of freedom and the inability to represent the plurality of worlds.
4.
Global space / Global time
From the introduction: "The global space is then something very peculiar. It is “space torn out of the space itself”, it is cultural space where culture lost one of its most typical features in the varied list of its definitions and representations, that is to represent a coherent and delimited system, to mark a border: be it a style or a context of belonging, or a real regional or national characterisation, solved with difficulty, if we deal with “high culture”, by internal universalistic connotations, expressed for example in the rhetoric of the “universal values of art”. In the texts examined the global space is City, Public Sphere, Ecosystem, Writing (that physically bursts into urban or suburban areas as cultural memory): all this is global space as space taken away from “border”, space of crossing, of meetings, liquid space, we could say, to refer to the well known analysis of Bauman, that, according to Matveeva (A participant in the forum), re-establishes also culture as open space of encounter.
In this space men and women, citizens, individuals, live their time.
1. IMpostazione dle problema 2. Comporrtamento etico-pratico e comportamento tecnico-scientifico nell'atica nicomacheadi Aristotele 3. Virtù etiche e virtùdianoetiche; Il logos e la contingenza. 5 Ipotesi di lavoro
Participants were left completely free to address the topic proposed according to the rhythm of their inner need and according to the point of view of their most lively experience (human, personal, subjects studied or read). This form, quite different from the form of a scientific research, has been preserved in the publication, which particularly aims to enlighten end testify aspects and identities of the Youth Culture in transition. The Forum developed in plenary and thematic sessions. The papers presented in the plenary session have been published in their original language with an abstract translated into Italian or English. A bilingual abstract of the contributions presented in the thematic panels has been also published. The original integral texts are available in the website: www.castellodiduinopoesia.org, in the pages devoted to the forum 2013.
Contents of the Introducation bi Gabrella Valera (see 'IL globale e la città'
1.Artistic craftsmanship; 2. The revolution of memory and the public sphere; 3.Culture- Citizenship; 4. Global space / Global time; 5. Metodological Issues
"What makes a City is not determined by external factors but by its internal function: openness, environmental quality, participation, dialogue, the city as space of culture-citizenship in which the subject seems a potential winner of the challenge against the discomfort of freedom and the inability to represent the plurality of worlds.
4.
Global space / Global time
From the introduction: "The global space is then something very peculiar. It is “space torn out of the space itself”, it is cultural space where culture lost one of its most typical features in the varied list of its definitions and representations, that is to represent a coherent and delimited system, to mark a border: be it a style or a context of belonging, or a real regional or national characterisation, solved with difficulty, if we deal with “high culture”, by internal universalistic connotations, expressed for example in the rhetoric of the “universal values of art”. In the texts examined the global space is City, Public Sphere, Ecosystem, Writing (that physically bursts into urban or suburban areas as cultural memory): all this is global space as space taken away from “border”, space of crossing, of meetings, liquid space, we could say, to refer to the well known analysis of Bauman, that, according to Matveeva (A participant in the forum), re-establishes also culture as open space of encounter.
In this space men and women, citizens, individuals, live their time.
Il discorso sul globale, portato dentro la "città" con una riflessione su "città" e "cittadinanza", "spazio" e "diritto" come introduzione e commento alle presentazioni e rappresentazioni che giovani da tutto il mondo... more abstract
History and Memory, Youth Culture, Citizenship, Identity, and Globalisation
What makes a City is not determined by external factors but by its internal function: openness, environmental quality, participation, dialogue, the city as space of culture-citizenship in which the subject seems a potential winner of the challenge against the discomfort of freedom and the inability to represent the plurality of worlds.
4.
Global space / Global time
From the introduction: "The global space is then something very peculiar. It is “space torn out of the space itself”, it is cultural space where culture lost one of its most typical features in the varied list of its definitions and representations, that is to represent a coherent and delimited system, to mark a border: be it a style or a context of belonging, or a real regional or national characterisation, solved with difficulty, if we deal with “high culture”, by internal universalistic connotations, expressed for example in the rhetoric of the “universal values of art”. In the texts examined the global space is City, Public Sphere, Ecosystem, Writing (that physically bursts into urban or suburban areas as cultural memory): all this is global space as space taken away from “border”, space of crossing, of meetings, liquid space, we could say, to refer to the well known analysis of Bauman, that, according to Matveeva (A participant in the forum), re-establishes also culture as open space of encounter.
In this space men and women, citizens, individuals, live their time.
are the Proceedings of the I World Youth Forum “Right
of Dialogue”, held in Trieste from September 27th to 29th
2008, within the activities of the Network “Poetry and Solidarity”-
International Poetry Competition Castle of Duino,
on the theme “Cultural associations and new solidarity”.
Against all rhetoric about young people, seen as either
bearers of messages only positive or of only negative values
(according to the contrasting views), during the Forum
emerged hopes and worries, certainties and disenchanted
visions, projections into the future and rootedness in a history
not always metabolised even by the older generations, a
history known through interpretative models sometimes accepted,
sometimes contested.
What has really struck, amongst this magma of differentiated
positions and conditions, is the willingness, the ability
and the carefulness of the analysis.
We decided to publish all contributions as they have been
presented, by very young people or by authors already involved
even professionally in cultural activities, and living
in countries quite diverse not only from the geographic point
of view, but also from historic, politic and cultural ones. I
only introduced each text with a few preliminary remarks.
These texts require an attention that must go beyond the
specific arguments, to understand the roots and the deep
cultural references (and also sometimes the emotive and existential
ones). The contributions leave in who reads them, as
they left in who listened carefully to them, and in particular
in the editor of these pages, an unavoidable belief: like any
fundamental right, the “right of dialogue” represents a constant
challenge for our mind and for our life, and the path to
its accomplishment is by now far from being covered.
participants to the IV World Youth Forum “Right to Dialogue”,
that took place in Trieste from September 23rd
to the 25th, 2011.
Participants were left completely free to address the
topic proposed according to the rhythm of their inner need
and according to the point of view of their most lively experience
(human, personal, subjects studied or read).
Presentations were intensively and keenly discussed.
From the Introduction by Gabriella Valera:
Few more sentences, to draw from this foray through
the texts of the young participants to the Forum, from
this ‘culture of justice’ they have represented, some moments
of synthesis and some suggestions for work.
As we have seen, two models of Justice/justice have
been represented here.
The first vertical one, is founded on Authority/Punishment:
whether in the religious form of ‘fate’ – “That
sky owns us all” (Duli) – or whether in various cultural
forms, from those in which the “disenchantment”
of modernity hasn’t yet begun, to those in which personal
responsibility remains within the vertical system
of state/institutions/individuals-subjects.
The second one instead is horizontal: the “horizontal
freedom”, justice among equals.
In order to give substance, through the issue of rights,
to the construction process of justice the question “justice:
how?” and the further questions deriving from
it – “who needs justice?”, “justice for whom?”, “justice
how now? Justice how after now?” – seem to indicate
a path, which engages all our individual and collective
resources, and gathers all our needs for rights (individual
rights and rights of the people, which so often in
history incorporated individual rights).
The initial suggestion by Vladimir Perić that justice
lies in the same condition as democracy, i.e., they
are both produced by majorities against minorities (as
the several texts focusing on the plight of minorities
prove – Zeeba, Querin, and others), can therefore provide
the basis for a new attempt to rethink the issue of
democracy, as far as a change in the form of democracy
means a change in the form of justice. This is an ancient
and difficult issue, that was already raised by the fathers
of democracy, but in the texts of these young people, in
their experiences, worries, anxieties for change, it acquires
a new and urging actuality"
"
participants to the IV World Youth Forum “Right to Dialogue”,
that took place in Trieste from September 23rd
to the 25th, 2011.
Participants were left completely free to address the
topic proposed according to the rhythm of their inner need
and according to the point of view of their most lively experience
(human, personal, subjects studied or read).
Presentations were intensively and keenly discussed.
From the introduction by Gabriella Valera:
"Few more sentences, to draw from this foray through
the texts of the young participants to the Forum, from
this ‘culture of justice’ they have represented, some moments
of synthesis and some suggestions for work.
As we have seen, two models of Justice/justice have
been represented here.
The first vertical one, is founded on Authority/Punishment:
whether in the religious form of ‘fate’ – “That
sky owns us all” (Duli) – or whether in various cultural
forms, from those in which the “disenchantment”
of modernity hasn’t yet begun, to those in which personal
responsibility remains within the vertical system
of state/institutions/individuals-subjects.
The second one instead is horizontal: the “horizontal
freedom”, justice among equals.
In order to give substance, through the issue of rights,
to the construction process of justice the question “justice:
how?” and the further questions deriving from
it – “who needs justice?”, “justice for whom?”, “justice
how now? Justice how after now?” – seem to indicate
a path, which engages all our individual and collective
resources, and gathers all our needs for rights (individual
rights and rights of the people, which so often in
history incorporated individual rights).
The initial suggestion by Vladimir Perić that justice
lies in the same condition as democracy, i.e., they
are both produced by majorities against minorities (as
the several texts focusing on the right of minorities
prove – Zeeba, Querin, and others), can therefore provide
the basis for a new attempt to rethink the issue of
democracy, as far as a change in the form of democracy
means a change in the form of justice. This is an ancient
and difficult issue, that was already raised by the fathers
of democracy, but in the texts of these young people, in
their experiences, worries, anxieties for change, it acquires
a new and urging actuality.
Networked Institutions: History, Languages, Applications
In its dual meaning, as a WEB and as a Network, "Net" is a key word of contemporary practices: from the construction of knowledge to the organization and institutional governance, from communication and information to the regulation of national and international exchanges ( even criminals!)
At a more deeply conceptual and theoretical niveau, "network", "space", "field", "frame", "form" are all competing modes (a competition between scientific methods and paradigms) for the elaboration of "models" and re-readings of historical, physical, moral world; of modulation and management of "inhabited places" and "moving bodies", with repercussions in the disciplinary elaborations and in their histories.
The theme can be dealt with in very different ways and above all according to a great multiplicity of perspectives, especially if we start from specific cases: precisely, as it is said in the title, from the applications.
The aim of the School will be to address at least some of the theoretical profiles and applications of the theme “network”: an "exercise" useful for the acquisition of skills and "looks" that re-orient the specific competences of each disciplinary and professional area of the participants in a new and transversal sense.
The courses suggest in fact a critical review of the network experience that each participant can have in their work, with the acquisition of a deep awareness of the function that the "network" and its statutes have as "statutes" of doing and thinking, as well as "communicating" (sharing) and the "informing" (putting in form).
"Networked Institutions" also becomes "Networked Disciplines", the same "institutional" theme is illuminated by allowing us to reflect on the relationship between "institutions", "public sphere", "bureaucracy", all of which are at the heart of every democracy in transformation.
The "School" certainly cannot exhaust the themes that will be proposed below. Space will be given to the final debate.
Papers produced for the courses of the School or any other type of scientific product and the contents of the debates can be published in a book or in the appropriate section of the Digital Library of the Center (which will soon be online).
Target
The Summer School
- according to its transversal contents and methods, the Summer School is addressed to young professionals, or undergraduate and postgraduate students, doc and post doc of various disciplines (history, philosophy, pedagogy, sociology, anthropology, communication sciences ... urban planning, law ...) who are prepared with their curricula for the professions of teacher, social worker, trainer, sociologist, manager of culture, historian, to those who are inserted or tend to fit into the different levels of public administration, and of course to those who research in related fields;
- it is conceived as an integrated whole of different modules to give a broad and articulated competence able to face different situations in which the single professional figures can find themselves;