The Italian Cultural Institute, in collaboration with the Montréal Committee of the Dante Alighieri Society, are pleased to present the conference, by Filippo Salvatore Professor Emeritus of Concordia University, entitled: “The duties of the citizen according to Giuseppe Mazzini”. Francesco D’Arelli, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute, presents the speaker and the theme of the conference.
Thursday March 21, 2019, 6pm
Istituto Italiano di Cultura,
1200 Avenue du Docteur-Penfield
Montréal (QC), QC H3A 1A9
The conference will be held in Italian
Giuseppe Mazzini, the advocate of a united and republican Italy, does not occupy, as he should, a prominent position in present-day political debate. After the fall of ideologies and in world where globalization has taken over, what can a thinker like Mazzini still offer? Political debate nowadays turns around mostly on lack of human rights. Mazzini reminds us wisely that each citizen has both rights to enjoy but also duties to abide by and respect. The lecture proposes a new analysis of Doveri dell’uomo (On Man’s Duties, 1860) one of Mazzini’s main works. His aim is to prove that Mazzini is an inspiring thinker on women’s condition, on the defence of a united, democratic and republican Italy and of a federated Europe and on the nature of an economic enterprise that enables workers to share profits. Mazzini remains a political thinker to be rediscovered and appreciated.
Filippo Salvatore (BA McGill, MA, Ph.D. Harvard,) is professor emeritus of Italian and Canadian studies at Concordia University in Montreal. Poet, playwright, essay writer, journalist, columnist of the weekly Il Cittadino Canadese and also editor of the magazine PanoramItalia and of the newspaper on line Newsitaliapress. He is currently a columnist for the newspaper online Qui Quotidiano. Previously he was President of the Harvard Club of Québec, Vice President of the Associazione Italiana Scrittori/Canadian Association, Vice President of the Congresso Italiano/canadese, President of the APIQ (Associazione dei Professori di italiano del Québec), board member of AIPI (Associazione Internazionale dei Professori di Italiano), board member of the French Language of Québec, city of Montréal councilor for the district of Loyola, President of the Federazione delle Associazioni Abruzzo of Québec, member of the CoMItES (Comitato degli Italiani all’Estero, Québec and province marittime). He is currently President of the Società Dante Alighieri Comitato of Montréal, member of the Board of Directors of the Centro di Studi Canadesi (Udine University), Visiting Professor at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada), University of Varsavia (Polonia), University of Udine (Italia). Author of about 40 scientific articles on literature, politics, cinema, published in Canada, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Italy, Romania, United States and over 600 (six hundred) editorials and newspaper articles.
Filippo Salvatore he is also the author of books: Tufo e Gramigna/ Suns of Darkness, La Fresque de Mussolini, Tra Molise e Canada, Ancient Memories/ Modern Identities, Italian Roots in Contemporary Canadian Authors, Le Fascisme et les Italiens à Montreal, Le Cinéma de Paul Tana, parcours critique (con Anna Gural), Liborio Lattoni’s Carmina Cordis, Referendum 1995 nel Québec, Breve Storia Illustrata d’Italia/ A Short Illustrated History of Italy (1815-2011), Terre e Infiniti (Histonium poetry award). And also author of the Scienza e Umanità, Civiltà ideologia, Antichi e Moderni in Italia nel Seicento. In 2003 he was made a “Cavaliere” of the Italian Republic by President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.
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