ARHIVELE OLTENIEI - Universitatea din Craiova

SCIENTIFIC CHRONICLEThe International Seminary of Historic Studies“From Rome to the Third Rome” Rome, 19-21 of April 2007Since 1981, the University “La Sapienza” of Rome, organizes everyyear, together with the National Council of Italian Research, the InternationalSeminary of Historical Studies From Rome to the Third Rome, celebrating thefoundation of the city.In 1986, The Science Academy of U.R.S.S (nowadays The ScienceAcademy of Russia), joined as an official co organizer. Researchers fromAustria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Switzerland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy,Lebanon, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, Hungary andVatican City State participated at the previous seminaries that took place atRome, Moscow and Istanbul.The main purpose of these seminaries is the study of the most importantmoments of history, in which the idea of Rome is used to discuss, eluding theethnical and statehood of the European people. There are set off the roots of thepolitical, juridical and religious instruments used to fight against nationalism andracism.The 28 th seminary took place between the 19 th and the 21 st of April 2007in Rome, at Campidoglio, when there were celebrated 2760 years from thefoundation of the city. The theme approached was The people in history and law.From Rome to Constantinople and Moscow, divided in three sections: I. Urbs;II. Res publica; III. Populus Dei.The final meeting was dedicated to the 200 year anniversary ofGaribaldi’s birth.Scientific works were presented by historians, jurists and theologiansfrom Bulgaria, France, Romania, Greece, Italy, Russia and Turkey. FromRomania participated Dan Berindei, vice president of The Romanian Academyand prof. univ. dr. Teodor Sâmbrian from the University of Craiova.The opening session took place on 19 th of April in the “Julius Caesar”assembly hall of Campidoglio. After the official salute, presented in the name ofthe mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni, by the assessor Jean Leonard Touadi, theallocutions were held by Andrei N. Sacharov, President of the Russian HistoricInstitute of the Russian Academy, Andrea di Porto, director of the “CulturalIdentity” Institute of the National Council of Research and Romano Cipollini,President of the Commission for Scientific Research of the University “LaSapienza”. Robert Turcan, Professor at l’Académie des Inscriptions et BellesLettres from Paris presented his allocution “The Empire and the Genius populiRomani”.At the ending of the session, there was celebrated the 2500 yearanniversary from the plebeian’s vow on the Sacred Mountain through theallocution presented by Feliciano Serrao, honorific Director of the Course ofARHIVELE OLTENIEI, Serie nouă, nr. 21, 2007, p. 379-382