Description
80 years on from the Paris Agreement. The protection and promotion of linguistic minorities in the Autonomous Province of Trento
A dialogue between the Cimbrian, Ladin and Mòchena communities, drawing on the memory of the past, to jointly develop new approaches to promoting the linguistic, historical and ethnographic heritage of the three minorities of Trentino.
PROGRAMME
The event will take place on 12 September 2026 at 3.00 pm in the Bacher Hall, Via Costalta – Luserna/Lusérn
Official welcome
Monica Pedrazza, President of the Istituto cimbro/Kulturinstitut Lusérn
Simone Marchiori, Provincial Councillor for Housing Policy, Heritage, Public Property and the Promotion of Knowledge of the Autonomous Region
Introduction
Giuseppe Ferrandi, Director-General of the Trentino Historical Museum Foundation
Speakers:
Jens Woelk, University of Trento
The linguistic minorities of Trentino: between original invisibility and multi-level protection – eighty years after the Paris Agreements
Anselmo Vilardi, Trentino Historical Museum Foundation
The Cimbri of Luserna. The view of others (1946–2004)
Willy Nicolussi Paolaz, Istituto cimbro/Kulturinstitut Lusèrn
The Kulturinstitut: A Matter of Language.
The role of the Cimbrian Institute in the preservation and modernisation of the language
Sabrina Rasom, Ladin Cultural Institute, Majon de Fascegn
We Ladins. Reflections on a responsible language policy for minorities
Leo Toller, Mocheno Cultural Institute/Bernstoler Kulturinstitut
Is there a future for the Mocheno-Cimbrian language?
The Institute on the eve of its 40th anniversary
The initiative forms part of the programme of events“Sentinelle di Pietra”– the rich cultural programme that will bring the Forts of Trentino to life between late August and the first half of October, promoted by the Department of Culture of the Autonomous Province of Trento, in collaboration with the Trentino Historical Museum Foundation and the Santa Chiara Cultural Services Centre.
Press release:Trentino’s linguistic minorities in Luserna, 80 years after the Paris Agreement
