On Wednesday, November 20, 2024, at 6 p.m., at the Circolo della Stampa in Trieste, Corso Italia 13, there will be a presentation of the volume “Marco Dogo and the Balkans” (Irsrec FVG, Trieste, 2024) edited by professors Tullia Catalan and Stefano Santoro of the University of Trieste.

The two editors and Armando Pitassio, former professor at the University of Perugia, will speak at the presentation.

Gabriele Mastrolillo, scientific director of Irsrec FVG, will moderate.

Marco Dogo taught History of Eastern Europe for many years at the University of Trieste, contributing to the study and knowledge of the Balkans in modern and contemporary times, from the Serbian community in Trieste, to the multiple national and religious identities in the Ottoman context, to the dissolution of socialist Yugoslavia.

In 2022 the Department of Humanities at the University of Trieste hosted the Study Day “Eastern Europe and the Balkans in the Studies of Marco Dogo”, with the aim of reflecting on Marco Dogo's historiographic production, his cultural and political formation and the evolution of his research interests from the 1970s to the second decade of the 21st century. The volume collects the papers presented on that occasion, to which were added other contributions by scholars active in the field of research on Eastern Europe and the Balkans. The essays range from the figure of Dogo as a scholar, to a critical analysis of his historiographic production, to new avenues of research on Balkan history and on the relations between Italy and certain realities in the Balkan area.