10th of May 2024
Agenda
Francesca Morganella, CEIPES – SOLREM project presentation
Maria Letizia Colajanni, ANPI Palermo – Italian women Resistance
Renato Franzitta, COBAS – Workers‘ and students’ struggles and the new Resistance to Fascism
Bruno Madeira, CITCEM, Lisbon – Portuguese Resistance and Corporatism in Portugal
Coffee break
Q&A
Report
On the 10th of May 2024, CEIPES together with IMCULTURAL, Young Educators and the University of Porto, Literature Faculty, the Portuguese partners of the project, held in the respective countries the Transnational Memory Forum .
The partners held the first session in the respective countries, hosting local speakers and one expert coming from the partner country. Then, in the second part of the event, there has been a live streaming to connect the 2 events and exchange feedback and comments.
Specifically, the first session of the event in Italy, had approximately 15 participants in person and additional six online. At CEIPES, several guests gathered including Maria Letizia Colajanni, honorary president of the National Association of Italian Partisans (A.N.P.I.), Renato Franzitta, COBAS representative and a guest from Portugal, Bruno Madeira, University Professor in contemporary history at the University of Lisbon. They discussed and reflected together on the history of the anti-fascist Resistance in the two countries and the links with current events.
In the opening session of the forum, Francesca Morganella, the project manager of the SOLREM project on behalf of CEIPES, provided a comprehensive overview of the project, its partners, activities, and achievements. Her presentation included insights from prior events, thereby setting the stage for the discussions that followed.
M.L. Colajanni talked about the still lesser-known history of the women partisans, the different roles they played during the Resistance, and the courage that characterized their voluntary adhesion to the Resistance. She mentioned the number of women involved and the names of women, to provide a consistent historical speech.
Then, Renato Franzitta spoke about the workers’ and students’ struggles, of the new resistance to fascism, bringing this more recent history closer to contemporary times.
Indeed, he retraced the history, dealing with the highlights that brought the drift of the extreme right back to power in Italy and Europe.
Finally, Bruno Madeira told those present the story of the Portuguese resistance, and of the Portuguese colonies, which in this phenomenon of struggle, in Portugal as well as in Angola, Cape Verde-Guinea Bissau, and other countries for the liberation, for the first time people found themselves as companions.
Furthermore, one Sicilian lady from the audience shared a story from her family. Indeed, she recently discovered that one of her relatives was a brave partisan who lost his life while joining the Resistance.
Thus, in the second part, there has been a live streaming to connect Italy and Portugal where an event was happening, hosting the Italian speakers Giuseppe Lipari, ANPI, and Hugo Barreira, University Professor of Porto.
To conclude, an interesting dialogue took place with the audience, allowing participants to reflect on the importance of the Resistance’s memory and the connection with the Portuguese Liberation, that the two countries celebrate on the same day, the 25th of April.
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