
From
4 to 10 October 2001 the Società Indologica "Luigi Pio Tessitori"
organized in Udine a
meeting on the subject of India: tradizione e innovazione,
with the patronage of the Regional Authority of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, the support
of the Provincial Authority of Udine, the Municipal Authorities of Udine and
the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Udine e Pordenone. On 4 October
a lecture on L'antica sapienza delle Upanishad was given by Carlo Della
Casa (University of Milan), Donatella Dolcini (University of Milan) and Agata
Pellegrini Sannino (University of Palermo). Later
that same day at Palazzo Belgrado, Paolo Durisotto (University of London) presented
the documentary Rajasthan. I palazzi del deserto directed by Benedetto
Parisi (Società
Indologica "Luigi Pio Tessitori").
On 5 October in the hall of the Association
of Industrialists the final worshop of the project Europe and India: Past,
Present and Future, co-financed by the European Commission in the framework
of the "EU-India Economic Cross-Cultural Programme", was held. After
the addresses
of welcome by Furio Honsell, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Udine, Sujatha
Singh, Consul General of India and Hans Sabaditsch, Consul General of Austria,
there were speeches by Giovanni
Bianchi (International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Udine), Fausto
Freschi (Società Indologica "Luigi Pio Tessitori"), Peter Hacker
(OFPZ Arsenal, Vienna), Bernhard Schrefler (International
Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Udine), Paolo
Serafini (University of Udine) and B.G. Sidharth (B.M. Birla Science Centre).
Finally,
on 10 October in the hall of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio
di Udine e Pordenone the editorial project Devi Mahatmya: il ms. 4510 della
Biblioteca Civica "Vincenzo Joppi" was officially presented
by the following contributors: Gianfranco Fiaccadori (University of Udine),
Alessandro Passi (University of Bologna), Cinzia Pieruccini (University of Milan),
Elena Preda (University of Bologna) and Romano Vecchiet (Biblioteca Civica "Vincenzo
Joppi").
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