Department of Sociology and Social Research

Faculty of Sociology

WARS, COSMOPOLITANISM AND

LOCAL CONTEXTS

International and Multimedia Events

14_25 November 2005

University of Milano - Bicocca and Bicocca District

Some issues of global significance can be difficult to understand in an unequivocal way: more viewpoints, life experiences, theories, practices, voices, competences, abilities, sensitivities are needed. New forms of war, diversified strategies of terrorism and the devastation of the environment do not seem to be so far from our lives: testimonies, survivors, photo reporters, journalists report these news. Yet globalization is not the sole cause of this kind of connection. It is determined also by the fact that we feel that we are participants involved in these more general experiences, aware that we are part of global conflicts. We are being more and more subjected to unexpected and unforeseen catastrophes caused by humans as well as by Nature itself.

The University of Milano-Bicocca with the Bicocca District will address these topics of widespread significance. Over the course of a week, a variety of intellectual, educational, scientific, artistic and residential resources will be employed in a series of activities aimed at showing the potential of a university and cultural district opened to civic engagement in a spirit of cosmopolitanism and responsibility to future generations.

I.
Monday 14 - Wednesday 16 November 2005

International and Multimedia Conference
From Conflicts to Peace?
Instruments, interventions and limits of the international community
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Piazza delle Scienze
Building U2
Galleria delle Scienze and Room U2/7

New forms of war and diffuse conflicts characterize the global age and project into the new millennium a lethal inheritance of the 20th century. In the conference organized last year ("Violence Without Law", November 2004), protagonists, testimonies, journalists and photo-reporters, as well as researchers and experts, reflected upon the causes of these conflicts, which broke out in the last decade of the 20th century.
This year the main topic of the conference concerns the meaning of the "international community" as understood by supranational institutions (such as the United Nations, the international criminal tribunals and the European Union) as well as by diverse groups that compose a global civil society (peacekeepers, institutional officers, journalists, writers, artists, scholars, teachers, experts in international relations, students and activists). An interchange between them will be developed in order to understand the significance and the different modalities of "humanitarian intervention" and to individuate the possible limits of the action of the "international community".
A crucial point will be a reflection upon the role that the university, teaching and research, can assume in analyzing, understanding, discussing and raising public awareness about collective issues and collaborating with different social actors at the international and local level, with the aim of combating violence that seems to be more an more globally spread.
Key concepts of the conference are cosmopolitanism, civic solidarity, and humanitarianism. Another topic that will be debated is the issue about the use and abuse of human rights, the role of public sphere, the significance of cross-borders networks and the effective capacity of NGOs.
Next the narration and theoretical analysis testimonies of fieldwork and workshops conducted by teachers, students and artists will explained.If it is true that globalization has changed the perception and nature of conflicts, it is also true that it has led to the growth of new post-national social actors and increased cooperation among populations who were until recent years cut off from each other.

Ø Monday 14 November 2005

>    Post-national constellationsh.

9:30
Welcome
Marcello Fontanesi
Rector of the University of Milano-Bicocca
Giorgio Grossi
Director of the Department of Sociology and Social Reseach
Enzo Mingione
Dean of the Faculty of Sociology
Irma DioliCouncillor responsible for participation, peace, international cooperation, sport, policies for youth, Province of Milan

h. 10:00 > 13:00
Opening of the pictures exhibition Envoys of War, produced by Seven.Introduction by the co-directors of Crimes of War:
o      Anna Cataldi (Messenger for Peace for the United Nations)
o      Gary Knight (photojournalist)
o      Marina Calloni (Università di Milano-Bicocca): Introduction to the conference: Research, public discourse and global civil society

Limits of national sovereignty
o      Antonio Cassese (University of Florence): The intervention of criminal justice in international and internal wars
o      Hauke Brunkhorst (Universitœt Flensburg, Flensburg): Crisis of legitimization of the global society: democracy and constitutionalism

Debate
Chairman: Walter Privitera (University of Milano-Bicocca)

Lunch

h. 15:00 > 18:30
Global civil society: social actors and supra-national institutions
o      Gajo Sekulić (University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo): Conflicts and interventions for peace: problems and perspectives o      Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa (European University Institute, Florence): Humanitarian interventions and the limitation of spaces for civil society

Pause

o      Angela Liberatore (European Commission, Brussels): Democracy, security and expertise: is the EU shifting from a technocratic to a pluralist polity?
o      Giovanni Moro (Active Citizenship Network, Roma): Towards a post-national citizenship

Debate
Chairwoman: Daniela Belliti (University of Milano-Bicocca and Regional Council of Tuscany)

Ø Martedì 15 Novembre 2005

>    Security and humanitarianismh.

h. 9:30 > 13:00
Violation of human rights
o      Manuela Dviri (Tel Aviv): Women can make a difference (sometimes).
o      Andrej Mironov (Memorial, Mosca): From the violation of human rights to terrorism: how can get out from the crisis. The Russian-Chechenian experience: 1994-2005.

Pause

o      Laura Boldrini (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Roma): Refugees and places without return   Patrick o      Aeberhard (Médecins sans Frontières, Paris): Human Security, Health and Human Rights. Is there a humanitarian model?

Debate
Chairwoman: Tatjana Sekulić (University of Milano-Bicocca)

Lunch

COMINCIARE A GUARDARE NUOVA TRADUZIONE DA QUI

h. 15:00 > 18:30
Conflicts and Peace-Making
o     Caroline Pailhe (Groupe de Recherche et d'Information sur la Paix et la Sécurité, Brussels): Conflict Prevention in International Institutions: A New Paradigm for Security?
o     Sami Makki (Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherches sur la Paix et d'Etudes Stratégiques, Parigi): Integrated Strategies for Peace? Making multinational civil-military cooperation work for the benefit of civilian populations

Pause

o      Ota de Leonardis (Università di Milano-Bicocca): Public sphere and social action
o      Raffaella Lamberti (Orlando, Bologna): Participative democracy: women's networks in global contexts

Debate
Chairman: Bernard Gbikpi (Gonzaga University, Firenze) Visit to the installations at the Hangar Bicocca.

Ø Wednesday 16 November 2005

>   Imagines and languages of (non)violence

h. 9:30 > 13:00
Representations of violence: inoculation, awareness or spur to aggressiveness
o      Simonetta Agnello Hornby (lawyer and writer, London): Law and literature: Antithesis or new legal discipline? Reflections of an English lawyer transformed into an Italian writer
o      Marco Varvello (RAI correspondent, London): Al Qaida and the strategy of the media terror: the English answer

Pause

o      Filippo Crivelli (Milano), Roberto Miraglia and Anna Maria Morazzoni (Università di Milano-Bicocca): The torment of peace: proposals for a debate with the participation of the actors:
o      Lorenzo Casteluccio ed Ernesto M. Rossi

Debate

Chairman: Paolo Costa Istituto Trentino di Cultura, Trento)

Lunch

Ore 14:30 > 18:30
Knowing and studying the causes of violence: laboratories and work fields
o      Nicola Scognamiglio e Bruna Orlandi (Istituto Tecnico Statale di Comunicazioni Multimediali, Milano): How is it possible to face violence experienced in the 20^th century and its consequences in the new millennium? Some teaching experiences
o      Gabriella Citroni (Università di Milano-Bicocca): The way towards dignity goes through justice.
o      Maya Achì: the massacre of Plan de Sánchez, Guatemala

Pause

o      Valentina Anzoise (Università di Milano-Bicocca): Playing Bosnia HerzegovinaŠ
o      Joshua Massarenti (Vita Giornale No-Profit): From Radio Agatashya to Radio Okapi: war and peace in the area of the African Big Lakes on frequency of modulation
o      Valentina Anzoise, Gabriella Citroni, Andrea Kunkl, Stefano Marras (Università di Milano-Bicocca): Presentation of the photographic reportage: Homes without refuge: Internally Displaced Persons in four continents

Debate

Presiede Roberto Miraglia (Università di Milano-Bicocca)

Concluding remarks and end of the conference

II.
Monday 14 > Friday November 2005

Photographic exhibition

Envoys of War

Opening:
from Monday to Friday: h 9:00 - 19:00; Saturday h. 9:00 - 12:00

Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

Piazza delle Scienze

Edificio U2, Galleria delle Scienze

What does ³watch² mean? What doe it mean to be a witness to atrocities, crimes and genocides? Journalists and photoreporters have the task of not only to inform. Their role is also to ³denounce², through words and imagines, what they saw for avoiding the repetition of what has happened. Nine of the most well known war envoys show what they have captured in the different conflicts they have seen. 9 photographers (produced by Seven) report wars and conflicts in Afghanistan, Chechnya, East Timor, Iraq and former Yugoslavia.

The exhibition collects works by Alexandra Boulat, Lauren Greenfield, Ron Haviv, Gary Knight, Antonin Kratochvil, Joachim Ladefoged, Christopher Morris, James Nachtwey, and John Stanmeyer.

III.
Monday 14 > Saturday 19 November 2005

Totem
District and Bicocca offices at work for the non-violence

Totems and signs aimed at indicating the importance of the participation and civic importance and collective awareness about issues that concern our time, starting from the places of life and work.

In addition:

Spaces for listening, seeing and discussing...

>    Films with music, sounds and visions
o      The torment of peace, edited by Filippo Crivelli, Roberto Miraglia e Anna Maria Morazzoni.
o      Violence and non-. Recital, Conference 2004, edited by Filippo Crivelli.

>    Audio-visual documents
o      Video on the conference 2004 Violence without Law.
o      Documentaries on Bosnia Herzegovina, sul Rwanda, on international cooperation many other issues...
o      Reportage and movies by Sabina Fedeli, Marco Varvello, David Yates and others.
o      Photographs by Geert van Kesteren from Iraq and fron the countries devasted by the tsunami.

>    Information by Internet
o      Connection with the most important web sites concerning war and peace.

>    Exhibition
Photographic Reportage by
Collaborators and students of Milano-Bicocca:
Homes without refuge: Internally Displaced Persons in four continents
o      Valentina Anzoise: Playing Bosnia HerzegovinaŠ
o      Elías Regueira (Vigo, Spagna): The way towards the dignity goes through justice. A visit to the community of Plan de Sánchez, Rabinal (Guatemala)
o      Andrea Kunkl: Perceptions... Memories... Hopes... Palestina 2005
o      Stefano Marras: Escape from Sud Š. Of South IDPs in Khartoum (Sudan)

>    Tables, panels and pads
Spaces where it is possible to display materials, books, documents and where it's possible to express their own points of view in order to combat violence in local as well as global contexts.

IV.
Thursday 17 and Friday 18 November 2005

Film
World wars and cinematographic viewpoints

Ore 9:30-13:00
EuroPlex Cinemas Bicocca 18
17 November

Wars of the 20th century: an Italian view.
Edited byBarbara Bracco (Università di Milano-Bicocca).

"El Alamein The fire line" (Enzo Monteleone, 2002): A movie that interprets the complex transformations of the Italian society during the 20th century, through the reelaboration of a dramatic period of the recent past: that of the World War Second.

Free entrance

18 November
"Altre" visioni della guerra.
Edited by Elena dell'Agnese Università di Milano-Bicocca).
"A tomb for fireflies" (Isao Takahata, 1988) an animated movie that shows the vicissitudes of Japanese people at the end of the Second Worlds War, stressing "other" visions, which are non-western, of war, starting from the perspective of victims and aggressors.

Free entrance

EuroPlex Cinemas Bicocca 18
Viale Sarca, 336 (Ingresso Breda)
20126 Milano
www.europlexcinemas.it

V.
24 September > 27 November 2005

Multimedia Exhibition
Mark Wallinger: Easter
h. 11:00-18:00
Hangar Bicocca

"A terrible beauty is born" are the concluding words of the poem Easter (1916) by Williams Butler Yeats. This frame inspires the exhibition of Mark Wallinger, a well-known British artist. The multitude of expressive voices of art are employed in order to reconceptualize the meaning of religion, mythology, art history, class relations, sport, folk music and the human condition in its complexity. Sixteen emblematic flags are reinvented in their significance: blue and red are substituted by their complementary colours: green and orange, which the colours of the flag of the Irish Republic. The symbolic meaning is evident: it is the tragic memory of the struggles in North Ireland, but it is also the perspective for a peaceful conflict resolution, building a fair and free society.
Two installations of the author are displayed: Angel (1997)
e The Underworld (2004), and a sculpture: Ecce Homo (1999).

For further information:
www.bicocca-e.org
Hangar Bicocca
Viale Sarca, 336 (Ingresso Breda)
20126 Milano

VI.
28 October > 23 December 2005

Ludospace
Playground & Toys
h. 11:00-19:00
Hangar Bicocca

The exhibition Playground & Toys, edited by Adelina von Fürstenberg, gathers projects of playgrounds and a series of plays realised by artists, architects and designers of different countries. They are addressed to children, who live in conditions of poverty and marginalisation.
The exhibition is supported by Art for the World, a NGO affiliated to the Department for the Public Information of the United Nations. This organisation is interested in contemporary art, meant as a bridge able to transmit the universal values of the human rights.

For further information:
www.bicocca-e.org
Hangar Bicocca
Viale Sarca, 336 (Ingresso Breda)
20126 Milano

The event is part of the activities connected to the research:

Genocides and War Crimes:

What is the role of humanitarian intervention and the international community?

Supported by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research.

The research and the event are coordinated by Marina Calloni

Organisation

Scientific Committee: Marina Calloni, Anna Cataldi, Walter Privitera, Tatjana Sekulić, Roberto Miraglia, Daniela Belliti, Bernard Gbikpi, Paolo Costa.

Technical support and audio-visual production: Laboratorio di Sociologia Visuale, Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

Addresses:

Scientific Project:

Prof. Marina Calloni

Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale

Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi, 8

20126 Milano

Tel. 02 - 6448 7585

Email: [email protected]

Scientific secretary, press, booking

for visiting the exhibitions, displaying of materials:

Dr. Myriam Giargia

Tel. 02 - 6448 6770