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  • Goodbye Salonikki

    Goodbye Salonikki

    Goodbye Thessaloniki, these wonderful days of study and friendship have come to an end, and with them we also bring to a close the Avalanche project, which over the past two years has allowed us to share many meaningful experiences and accomplish everything we had set out to do. But Thessaloniki is also a city that welcomed…

  • Three study days in Thessaloniki

    Three study days in Thessaloniki

    The three final study days in Greece have come to a close, perfectly organized thanks to the warm and attentive collaboration of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). 🇬🇷 Many contributions from European research were brought together around the chosen theme, “Voices of Liberation.” The first day provided an opportunity for Giovanni Vitali and Maria Dermentzi to…

  • “The Last Note”  a collaboration with the Thessaloniki Film Festival

    “The Last Note” a collaboration with the Thessaloniki Film Festival

    These three days in Macedonia were further enriched by the collaboration with the Thessaloniki Film Festival, which organized a special evening with the director of the film The Last Note, dedicated to the massacres at the Haidari concentration camp. At Round Table discussion have partecipated Giorgos Antoniou- Historian (AUTH), Chryssa Tzelepi – film director, film producer…

  • 19 aprile, from words to maps:  event with the journalist Davide Lerner

    19 aprile, from words to maps: event with the journalist Davide Lerner

    Fondazione CDEC organized a special event in which journalist and author Davide Lerner engaged in discussion with scholars Chiara Renzo and Giovanni Pietro Vitali on the new challenges of digital communication. The event was moderated by Laura Brazzo, Deputy Director of the Foundation. A novel, an essay, a podcast, or perhaps even a map… Whatever the final format, reaching a “narrative” always involves…

  • 15 April: workshop “Digital Emergence” at Turin Heritage Lab

    15 April: workshop “Digital Emergence” at Turin Heritage Lab

    Artificial Intelligence and Linked Open Data: technologies supporting digital processes, knowledge creation, and cultural heritage dissemination. 15 April 2026, 9:30, Italgas Heritage Lab The cultural association Mubat, in collaboration with the partners of the Avalanche Project — Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Fondazione CDEC, and Italgas Heritage Lab — is organizing in Turin the workshop “Digital Emergence”, the eighth edition of…

  • 21-23 April: The Voices of Liberation conference in Thessaloniki

    21-23 April: The Voices of Liberation conference in Thessaloniki

    The Avalanche project concludes with three days of study in Thessaloniki, a city that represents a significant location within the historical and cultural trajectory of the project. From 21 to 23 April, the programme includes a thematic workshop followed by the international conference Voices of Liberation, during which the lexicon developed within the framework of the project will be…

  • 9 April, the Battipaglia Riot Memory Day

    9 April, the Battipaglia Riot Memory Day

    April 9 represents the Day of Remembrance for the city of Battipaglia. It marks the anniversary of the unrest that shook the city in 1969 and led to the deaths of two citizens, Teresa Ricciardi and Carmine Citro. That episode became the prelude to the beginning of one of the darkest periods in the history of the Italian Republic born from the ashes…