A Day to Remember Paolo Prodi

    FBK is hosting an event dedicated to the memory of the intellectual who founded ISIG. Among the guests are Romano Prodi and Massimo Cacciari
    13/12/2017 | 10:00 — 18:00

    Aula Grande, FBK Sede

    FBK-Trento

    On Wednesday, December 13, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, at its location on via Santa Croce 77 in Trento, will be hosting an event that will remember the figure of historian Paolo Prodi, who died last year, founder and director (from 1973 to 1997) of the Italian-German Historical Institute (ISIG).

    The event will see as a particularly significant moment the proclamation of the winner of the first edition of the Paolo Prodi Prize, an acknowledgment for the best PhD thesis on topics related to the history of the Churches in the modern and/or contemporary ages, the relations between States and Churches in the first modern age and the history of the Reformation and its repercussions in the modern and/or contemporary ages.

    Applications for the Paolo Prodi Prize can be submitted by no later than October 31. Eligible candidates are young scholars under the age of 35 who have defended their doctoral thesis from November 1, 2013 to October 31, 2017 at a European University (the thesis can be written in Italian, French, English, Spanish or German). The winner will receive a gross prize of €3200, and the possibility to publish his/her work in the FBK-ISIG series. Candidates must submit their application form, a PDF copy of their PhD thesis and their cv with a list of publications to

    Remembering Paolo Prodi
    Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Wednesday, December 13, 2017

     

    10.00 am – 10.30 am Introductory greeting
    Francesco Profumo, FBK President
    Ugo Rossi, PAT President
    Paolo Collini, Chancellor of the University of Trento
    Christoph Cornelißen, Director of FBK-ISIG

    10:30 am – 12:00 pm The Person and the Intellectual Chairmen: Francesco Profumo and Paolo Collini
    Romano Prodi, The Reflections of a Brother
    Massimo Cacciari, Prophecy and utopia in the thought of Paolo Prodi

    12.00 pm – 1.00 pm 2017 “Paolo Prodi Prize” prize-giving ceremony

    2.30 pm – 3.30 pm Personal memories Chairman: Christoph Cornelißen
    Paolo Pombeni
    Pierangelo Scaffa
    Cecilia Nubola
    Roberto Bizzocchi

    3.30 pm – 4.00 pm Break

    4.00 pm – 5.00 pm Report on scientific results Chairman: Marco Bellabarba
    Birgit Emich
    Massimo Carlo Giannini

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