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Modern Italian History

Convenors: Ilaria Favretto (Kingston), John Foot (UCL), Stephen Gundle (Warwick), Maurizio Isabella (QMUL), Axel Körner (UCL), Carl Levy (Goldsmiths), Lucy Riall (Birkbeck).

Theme: Memories and Transnational Encounters in Contemporary Italy

Venue: Germany Room, IHR

Time: Wednesday, 5.30pm
Spring Term 2010
27 January Bianca Gaudenzi (University of Cambridge)
Commercial Advertising in German and Italy, 1918-1945
Chair: Stephen Gundle

Please note: joint with the Rethinking Modern Europe Seminar and the Modern German History seminar
10 February Filippo Focardi (University of Padua)
The Missing Italian Nuremberg: War crimes Prosecution in Italy (1943-1951)
Chair: Maurizio Isabella
24 February Discussants: Phil Cooke (Strathclyde), Stephen Gundle (Warwick), Robert Gordon (Cambridge).
Round table discussion of Italy's Divided Memory, by John Foot (Palgrave, 2010).
Chair: Lucy Riall

A book stall will be provided by the Italian Bookshop. Wine will be served afterwards
10 March Claudia Capelli (University of Milan)
Communist Memory and Memory of Communism in an Italian Red City after 1989
Chair: Ilaria Favretto
24 March Discussants: Christopher Bayly (Cambridge); Eugenio Biagini (Cambridge)
Round table discussion of 'Risorgimento in Exile' by Maurizio Isabella (OUP, 2009)
Chair: Lucy Riall

Please note: joint with History of Political Ideas Seminar

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