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by Tea Markovic
In order of appearance…
Danica Maljavac (Lipa) is a retired History and Geography teacher. She was born in Lipa and after finishing her formal education in Rijeka, she returned to Lipa for good. Today, she is the curator and custodian of the Lipa Memorial Museum, a job she started doing as a graduate student in 1969. Her special interest is in history of her village and WWII, especially the events that took place on April 30th 1944. During her research she collaborated with many scientists, produced several ethnographic viewpoints and has also published an article on events in Lipa during WWII.
Katia Pizzi (Basovizza / Bazovica) is a senior lecturer in Italian Studies as well as a director of Centre of Cultural Memory Studies at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is also an author of many scientific articles and books regarding Memory Studies, with a special focus on the cultural history and identities of Trieste and the Italian northeastern borders. She has interests in Italian language and Literature and also Modernism and Modern History (especially Italian Futurism). She speaks 5 different languages, has organized and attended 12 international conferences (since 1999) as well as having supervised PhD projects in Memory Studies. She travels quite a lot and attends relevant conferences and seminars and has given 3 lectures as a guest lecturer so far, one of them for the University of Rijeka, Department for Cultural Studies where she spoke of the foibe sites and the Risiera di San Sabba. Rijeka students recall Dr. Pizzi for her openness and cordiality, as well as for her wonderful conversations on Trieste identity.
Gaetano Dato (Basovizza / Bazovica) was born in Rio de Janeiro on January 26th 1981. He is enrolled in the University of Trieste PhD program in Humanistic Sciences with a special concentration in History. Since 2010, he has been examining the relationship between politics and religion through many sites in Trieste, between the 1940s and 1960s, under the scientific direction of Anna Vinci and Aleks Kalc. To this day, Gaetano Dato has carried out research in numerous archives, including the Central Archives of the State and the Archives of the Presidency of the Council in Rome, and the National Archive and Record Administration in Washington D.C., USA. The central topic of his research is the relationship between religion and politics as observed through the study of memorial places in the Trieste area between 1945 and 1965. During summer of 2012, Gaetano Dato has been involved in working for the development of the relationship between University of Trieste and University of Nanjing as well as for the organization of an exchange of expositions between the Risiera di San Sabba Museum (in which he is part of the managing commission) and the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall. Apart from being fluent in English and his two mother tongues (Italian and Brazilian Portuguese), Gaetano Dato speaks 2 more languages and is working on his Chinese as a fourth foreign language.
Borut Klabjan (Basovizza / Bazovica) was born in Trieste on October 6th 1976. He is an associate professor at University of Primorska, Faculty of Humanities, Science and Research Centre. He graduated from the University of Trieste and received a PhD in Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. He was the recipient of several study and research scholarships, the most prominent being the Humboldt Scholarship from the Institute for South-East Europe of the Humboldt University in Berlin. He is an author of many scientific articles, co-author and editor of numerous scientific publications. He organized several international scientific conferences. He also participates in national and international projects dealing with themes of Contemporary History. His special interest is political, diplomatic and cultural history of Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries; his specialties being the Northern Adriatic area, history of Trieste, Italian–Slovene relations as well as history of the Bohemian lands, nationalism, national identities and minority issues.
Nejc Šerbec (Kobarid) was born on September 26th 1984 in Brežice, Slovenia. As a young boy, his family moved to Kobarid where he grew up surrounded with Alpine mountains and Soča River valley – sites that have marked his professional affiliations as well as his life. As a young student, Nejc became interested in the historical events that surround his hometown and this affiliation especially developed when he started to work as a guide of the Museum Of WWI in Kobarid. Nejc’s interests are versatile and are completely marked with the beautiful place he lives in: apart from being a student of Defense Studies at University of Ljubljana, and a Kobarid Museum custodian, he is a canoeing guide, sport climber, trekking guide and a whitewater kayaker combining his two main affiliations and specialties: adrenalin sports and history. This combination, in Nejc’s own words creates an activity in nature and history as a bonding link between younger and older generation. Nejc Šerbec is also president of Krajevna Skupnost Kobarid-Svino-Sužid, an organization dedicated to taking care of the three villages’ infrastructure and ecology. His vision is to present Kobarid in all its significance to as many people as possible.
Marko Klavora (Log pod Mangartom) has been involved with the Science and Research Centre in Koper from 2006 to 2010 as a young researcher as well as being an assistant at Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska. He is interested in social and migration aspects of history, his specialty being the application of oral history method and Memory Studies. In 2011, Marko Klavora submitted his PhD paper titled Allied Military Government and Memory of Inhabitants in Upper Soča Valley. Today, dr. sc. Marko Klavora collaborates with Slovenian Migration Institute at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU).
Stefano Fattorini (Risiera di San Sabba) is an expert on the Risiera di San Sabba site. In 1991 he earned a degree in History at the University of Trieste. His scientific activity is mostly concerned in the National Monument of the Risiera di San Sabba on which he has done extensive work (which he began during the 90s) and has resulted in several publications including a teaching guide and the actual brochure on the Risiera site. During 2010-2011 Stefano Fattorini embarked a research group, collaboration between cities Corfu and Trieste which resulted in the publication Evraiki. Since the establishment of Giornata della Memoria (Day of Memory), Stefano Fattorini has been working on educating and commemorating this day in Italian schools; he has and is guiding student groups during visits to the Risiera as well as supervising many initiatives surrounding the topic of this site. He is an author of several scientific publications among which is the Triangolo Rosso (The Red Triangle) – an initiative of delegates of from Europe as well as those from United States (experts on Hebrew Studies). The main focus of this initiative was the experience of former emigrants and their views of the Nazi Lagers.
Alessandra Kersevan (Gonars) was born in Monfalcone, Italy. She worked as a high school professor of Literature in Udine. A few years ago, Alessandra Kersevan decided to study the history and culture of her region of origin (Friuli Venezia Giulia) and has produced extensive material on these topics so far. She is an author and co-author of numerous scientific articles and books as well as an extensive study of one of the most controversial events of Italian resistance, published in 2003. Her interests also cover the Gonars Memorial and research on Gonars concentration camp. Alessandra Kersevan is the author of a documentary film presented in Udine in 2005. The film is titled Gonars 1942-1943: the Symbol of the Italian Lost Memory; it was endorsed by the municipality of Gonars and the European Commission. In 2008 she published a book on Italian Lagers and fascist camps in Yugoslavia during 1941-1943 events. Presently, Alessandra Kersevan is coordinator and editor in chief for the Italian publishing company Kappa Vu, which published several books on the history of this region.
Fabio Todero (Redipuglia) is a researcher of the Trieste History Institute IRSML FVG (Institute for the History of the National Liberation Movement in Friuli Venezia Giulia). He in particular studies the Great War, its memory and the history of the Italian Eastern border. Among his publications are: Pagine della Grande guerra. Scrittori in grigio verde (Pages of the Great War. Writers in Grey Green Uniform, Milano, 1999), Le metamorfosi della memoria. La grande guerra tra modernita' e tradizione (The Metamorphoses of Memory: The Great War between Modernity and Tradition, Udine, 2002), Morire per la patria. I volontari del Litorale austriaco nella grande guerra (To Die for the Fatherland: the Volunteers of the Austrian Littoral in the Great War, Udine, 2004), Orizzonti di guerra. Carso 1915-1918 (Horizons of War. The Carst 1915-1918, Trieste, 2008); along with Raoul, he edited Fiume, D'Annunzio e la crisi dello stato liberale in Italia (Fiume, D'Annunzio and the Crisis of the Italian Liberal State, Trieste, 2010).