Oct. 11 – What happened in Soviet concentration camps? What has been told on it? Does the world remember the story of the “corrective labor camps”? Filling the memory gaps that for decades, in Italy and Europe, characterized the history of persecutions and exterminations of the Soviet gulag is the University of Macerata’s mission, as it carries out an ambitious educational and scientific program. The European Union has declared its availability to finance the project at the international level, given that the Department of Political Science, Communication and International Relations of the Marche University won a European project under Action 4 (Active European Remembrance) of the “Europe for Citizens” program and will now benefit from a EU fund of € 97.000. The project – titled “Gulag Amnesia in Europe” – is coordinated by Natasha Mattucci, a researcher in Political Philosophy, with the scientific collaboration of Gianluca Vagnarelli, professor of political language analysis, and the technical support from the research office of the Department. The educational and scientific activities will start in December and for the following eighteen months will prepare the exhibition ” Gulag ” by photographer Tomasz Kizny in the towns of Macerata, Ascoli Piceno and in one of the provinces of Trento and Bolzano. More specifically, it will set up guided tours of the exhibitions, training courses for teachers in secondary schools, public lectures and a final scientific investigation day for Italian and Lithuanian scholars. The activities will be oriented towards the involvement of school and university students, teachers, researchers and ordinary
