Osudy slavistiky na Univerzitě „L’Orientale“ v Neapoli (1989–2015)

In the late 1980’s, Slavonic studies at the Istituto Orientale in Naples were well established. A large number of lecturers, assistant professors, associate professors and world-renowned professors worked in the Department of East-European studies, producing scientific literature of a high quality. After a quarter century, however, this human and scientific heritage has been vaporized. The little that remained of the former Slavonic Studies was dissolved into the new baccalaureate curriculum of Comparative Languages and Cultures and into the master curriculum of European and American languages and literature. In the last few years, no specific doctoral study programme has been active and since 2003, no Slavonic magazines have been published in Naples. Through the study of primary and secondary sources, our study aims to trace the last years of Neapolitan Slavonic studies and conduct interviews with witnesses to discover the reasons for its decline.