Francesco Leoncini's profile

Affiliation: Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
Full title: Prof. PhD.
Address: Via Panciera 21
31100 - Treviso - Italy
Tel.: 0039.0422.55306
Fax: 0039.0422.639035
E-mail: leonfran@libero.it

 

Main scientific activities

• Since 1970 he has worked at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Venice, where he now is Professor of Slavic History and History of Central Europe and runs the Masaryk Seminar
• he has conducted research in Germany, Austria, former Czechoslovakia and Hungary and has lectured in various Italian and foreign universities
• he is Honorary member of the 'Masarykova společnost' (Masaryk Society) at Prague
• he is a member of the Italian Association of Slavists, the Società di Studi Trentini di Scienze Storiche, the Istituto per le Ricerche  di Storia Sociale e Religiosa (Vicenza), the Istituto per gli Incontri Culturali Mitteleuropei (Gorizia), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde (DGO, Berlin), and is on the international editorial board of the following reviews: Historický Časopis (Slovak Academy of Sciences), Poligrafi (Primorska University,  Koper, Slovenia), Crisia (Muzeul Ţarii Crisurilor, Oradea, Romania.), Valahian Journal of Historical Studies (“Valahia” University of Târgovişte, Romania). He is on the board of the Société Européenne de Culture (SEC) of Venice, and was a founder member of the Italian Association for the Study of the History of East and Central Europe (AISSECO), and,  due to his international relationships, he is an advisory correspondent with the Carlo Collodi National Foundation. Since December 2009 he has been the President of the First World War Historical Documentation Centre, at S. Polo di Piave, Treviso. He is honorary member of the Associazione culturale italoungherese “Pier Paolo Vergerio” at Duino Aurisina, Trieste

Books and other main pubblications

• L’Europa del disincanto. Dal ’68 praghese alla crisi del neoliberismo, [A Europe of Disenchantment. From Prague 1968 to the Crisis of Neoliberalism], Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli (Cz), 2011
• Alexander Dubček e Jan Palach. Protagonisti della storia europea, [Alexander Dubček e Jan Palach. Leading figures in European History], Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli (Cz), 2009
• L'opposizione all'Est 1956-1981 [The Opposition in the East 1956-1981], Lacaita, Manduria, Bari - Rome, 1989; reprint by Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina, Venice, 2007
• Che cosa fu la "Primavera di Praga"? Idee e progetti di una riforma politica e sociale, [What was the “Prague Spring”? Ideas and Programmes for Political and Social Reform], Lacaita, Manduria, Bari - Rome, 1989; reprint Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina, Venice, 2007
• La questione del Sudeti (1918 - 1938), [The Sudeten German Question (1918-1938)], Liviana, Padua 1976; reprint by Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina, Venice, 2005
• L'Europa centrale. Conflittualità e progetto. Passato e presente tra Praga, Budapest e Varsavia, [Central Europe. Conflicts and Proposals. Past and Present in Prague, Budapest and Warsaw], Cafoscarina, Venice, 2003
• Primavera di Praga e dintorni. Alle origini dell'89, [Prague Spring and Neighbourhood. On the Origins of 1989], Edizioni Cultura della Pace, S. Domenico di Fiesole, 2000
• Die Sudetenfrage in der europäischen Politik. Von den Anfängen bis 1938, [The Sudeten German Problem in European Politics. From the Origins to 1938], Hobbing, Essen, 1988
• Il problema delle minoranze tedesche tra le due guerre, [The Problem of the German Minorities between the Two World Wars], il Mulino, Bologna, 1980
• I Sudeti e l'autodeterminazione 1918 - 1919 (Aspetti internazionali), [The Sudeten Germans and Self determination 1918-1919 (The International Standpoint)], Ceseo, Liviana, Padua 1973

Edited Books

• Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, La Nuova Europa. Il punto di vista slavo [The New Europe. The Slav Standpoint], Edizioni Studio Tesi, Pordenone - Padua, 1997 (now by Edizioni Mediterranee, Rome). Translation from Czech [Nová Evropa. Stanovisko slovanské] and first critical edition
• with Giuseppe Goisis, Il metodo interdisciplinare nella scuola, nel lavoro, nella politica, [The Interdisciplinary Method in School, Work and Politics], Liviana, Padua, 1978