2361. The effect of exotic plants on taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity of common reeds communitiesmaster's thesis Abstract: Macrophytes have a pivotal role as point of interaction between many of the organisms, and the water and sediment chemistry in a freshwater system. Despite their low floristic diversity, reeds beds can support a wide range of wildlife, and provide a variety of functions for the wetland ecosystems. Recent studies show the existence of a threshold effect of alien plant cover or density on plant communities dominated by P. australis, whereby more increased the alien plant impact is, more reduced may be the native plant species diversity. However, many of these studies were based on taxonomical or traits information, whereas no investigations have considered the phylogenetic dimension so far. This study aims to investigate the incidence of alien species on the phylogenetic diversity of wetland vegetation dominated by P. australis. To do this, we investigated the floristic composition of a total of 98 natural reeds beds from Tuscany, Umbria, and Lazio, analysing separately lentic and lotic communities. We constructed a phylogenetic tree of the plant species and compared the differences in taxonomic/functional/phylogenetic diversity, evaluating the role of the incidence of the alien species. The results showed that the relative abundance of exotic plant species is positively related to the taxonomic diversity of the common reeds communities and doesn’t affect the phylogenetic diversity. Probably, the human impact promoted the entrance of the exotic species already represented at evolutionary level. Also, the presence of exotic species influenced functional diversity, especially it promoted the adaptive strategies ruderals of the communities.
Keywords: Phylogeny, Phragmites australis, wetlands, exotic species, taxonomic diversity, functional diversity
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2362. The Multicultural Cities of Plovdiv and Ruse Through the Eyes of Elias Canetti and Angel Wagenstein. Two “Post-Ottoman” Jewish WritersGiustina Selvelli, 2019, published scientific conference contribution abstract Abstract: The aim of my presentation is to illustrate the cosmopolitan setting of the Bulgarian cities of Ruse and Plovdiv during the first half of the 20th Century, as depicted in the memoirs of two Sephardic Jewish writers: Elias Canetti (born in Ruse) and Angel Wagenstein (born in Plovdiv). Particular attention will be devoted to the role played by the Jewish communities during the Ottoman and post-Ottoman period, in terms of their contribution to the economic
and cultural life of the cities. Canetti was born in 1905, in post-Ottoman Ruse, while Wagenstein was born in Plovdiv in 1922, in the after-war period. Notwithstanding
these years of difference, the situation in the two cities appeared rather similar: the Sephardic Jews were still living as a distinct unity in terms of religion and language, being able to keep their own cultural identities alive. The memoirs of Canetti and Wagenstein
are quite significant as they come from a later period, expressing a principle of “nostalgia” as the process of “de-Ottomanization” had almost completely been carried out.
For what concerns Canetti, the memories of Ruse occupy a special place in his novel Die Gerettete Zunge (The tongue set free,1977): the writer recalls a fascinating setting, characterized by a Babylonian confusion of languages, where the most diverse nationalities
crossed and met, such as Russians, Jews, Romanians, Roma and Armenians. In relation to Plovdiv, in his novel Dalech ot Toledo (Far from Toledo, 2002), apart from the Bulgarian majority, Wagenstein describes the lively presence of the Turkish, Jewish, Armenian, Greek and Roma communities, defining their patterns of daily interactions as a specific model of interethnic coexistence. By relating to the composite legacy of their home towns, Canetti and Wagenstein stand out as highly multicultural Jewish personalities, acknowledging the importance of the different cultural worlds they were exposed to, not only the Jewish and
Bulgarian, but also the Turkish and in general the “Oriental” ones.
Keywords: Elias Canetti, Angel Wagenstein, Plovdiv, Ruse, Bulgaria, Multiethnic cities, Post-Imperial Legacy
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2363. The role of the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) in supporting literacy in the minority language among the Bulgaria diasporaGiustina Selvelli, 2019, published scientific conference contribution abstract Abstract: In this presentation I will illustrate the question of the Armenian language preservation among the diaspora members of the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv, where the community counts approximately 3500 members (1% of the total urban population).
To this aim, I will employ data gathered during ethnographic fieldwork as well information emerged from the analysis of the Armenian diaspora media in order to highlight the fundamental role of the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU), the largest Armenian non-profit organization that operates at a global level. Based in New York, the AGBU embodies the main educational institution across the Armenian diaspora worldwide and supports a number of social activities related the preservation of this minority language. In particular, I will focus the attention on the importance of the (Western) Armenian language classes organized by the AGBU Plovdiv Saturday School (in addition to the ones held at the local Armenian School Tiutiundjian) and the contents and articles published by the AGBU Bulletin (Parekordzagani Tzain), a bi-weekly and bilingual (Bulgarian-Armenian) newspaper.
Furthermore, I will treat the topic of the recent creation of the AGBU Armenian virtual college, an advanced online platform for learning the Armenian language, in line with the most modern technologies in language teaching, that has been employed in the last years during the classes at the AGBU Saturday School and which represents a significant innovation in the promotion of literacy in the mother tongue.
Finally, I will consider the importance of diaspora institutions such as the AGBU in fostering a specific language ideology that is inscribed in a discourse on ethnic identity and community’s survival in the context of globalization and which proves crucial in the improvement of the minority’s relationships with the Republic of Armenia.
Keywords: Armenian Diaspora, Literacy, Bulgarian Armenians, Armenian Minority, Minority Media, Plovdiv
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2364. DE BELLA ALPHABETICA. L' “IDEOLOGIZZAZIONE” DEGLI ALFABETI IN BULGARIA E CROAZIA NEL CONTESTO POST-IMPERIALE E POST-SOCIALISTAGiustina Selvelli, 2017, doctoral dissertation Abstract: La mia tesi analizza il rapporto fra sistemi di scrittura e coesione etnica nei processi di costruzione identitaria nazionale in Bulgaria e Croazia. Viene esplorato il ruolo svolto dalle questioni alfabetiche nel corso di alcuni momenti critici di passaggio sociopolitico in entrambi i paesi, ovvero il periodo interbellico e post-imperiale e quello più recente post-socialista. A tal fine, vengono presi in esame numerosi tesi relativi a “polemiche alfabetiche” (in riferimento alla disputa cirillico/latino, in entrambi i paesi), provenienti da esponenti del mondo intellettuale e culturale, integrati in alcuni casi con documenti ufficiali giuridici relativi a problematiche di scrittura ed inseriti nel relativo spazio di significazione a livello ideologico nazionale ed internazionale. Lo scopo è quello di evidenziare come le delicate questioni in ambito di sistemi di scrittura e le relative scelte in merito riflettano il posizionamento dei rispettivi paesi in contesti politici e culturali diversi, e rappresentino il tentativo di costruire una narrativa nazionale in linea con il momento storico e l'ideologia identitaria dominante. Inoltre, emergerà come la costruzione nazionale si serva dell'elemento dell'alfabeto per affermare in maniera altamente simbolica la sua identità in relazione ad un “Altro” di rilievo, in quello che può essere interpretato come il sintomo di un timore assimilatorio mai placato caratteristico dell'area balcanica.
Keywords: Alfabeto cirillico, alfabeto latino, ideologie alfabetiche, Croazia, Bulgaria, Jugoslavia, nazionalismo, minoranze etniche, diritti linguistici
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2365. Search for Correlations of High-energy Neutrinos and Ultra-high Energy Cosmic RaysA.M. Barbano, Andrej Filipčič, Gašper Kukec Mezek, Jon Paul Lundquist, Samo Stanič, Marta Trini, Serguei Vorobiov, Lili Yang, Danilo Zavrtanik, Marko Zavrtanik, Lukas Zehrer, 2019, published scientific conference contribution Keywords: ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR), high-energy neutrinos, arrival directions, correlation search, IceCube neutrino
observatory, Pierre Auger Observatory, Telescope Array, ANTARES neutrino observatory
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2366. Working Group Report on the Combined Analysis of Muon Density Measurements from Eight Air Shower ExperimentsLorenzo Cazon, Andrej Filipčič, Gašper Kukec Mezek, Jon Paul Lundquist, Samo Stanič, Marta Trini, Serguei Vorobiov, Lili Yang, Danilo Zavrtanik, Marko Zavrtanik, Lukas Zehrer, 2019, published scientific conference contribution Keywords: extensive air showers (EAS), muon density measurements in EAS, EAS-MSU array, IceCube neutrino observatory, KASCADE-Grande, NEVOD-DECOR, Pierre Auger Observatory, SUGAR, Telescope Array, Yakutsk EAS array
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2369. Zofka Kveder as a Cultural TransmitterKatja Mihurko, 2020, original scientific article Abstract: The article presents the forms and ways in which the cultural transmission of Zofka Kveder took place. It explains in which cultural spaces she worked and how she established personal contacts with artists. Zofka Kveder worked in a multidirectional way, as she promoted Slovene culture in the new cultural environments she moved into, and acquainted the Slovene cultural space with the achievements of foreign artists. She was also a mediator of ideas: feminism, Yugoslavism, and ideas about coexistence and mutual respect between different cultures. Zofka Kveder's translation oeuvre is very rich and almost unexplored so far, which opens up possibilities for new research.
Keywords: Zofka Kveder, cultural transmission, feminism, cultural transfer, multiculturalism
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