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THE RISORGIMENTO REVISITED
19th-Century Italian Nationalism at the Intersection of Culture and Politics

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

The Italian Academy at Columbia University
New York City, 11-12 April 2008


Programma:

FRIDAY, 11 APRIL

10:00 - 10:30 am: Welcoming Remarks

10:30-11:15 am Keynote Lecture
Paul Ginsborg (Università* di Firenze)
Romanticism and the Risorgimento

11:30 - 1:00 pm: Publics and Voices of the Risorgimento
Chair: John Davis (University of Connecticut, Storrs)
Michael Caesar (University of Birmingham)
The poet on stage: improvisation and the Risorgimento public
Carlotta Sorba (Università* di Padova)
Staging the Risorgimento: the melodrama of Italian independence
Simonetta Chiappini (Florence)
From the people to the masses

1:00-2:30 pm: Lunch Break

SEGNALO:

2:30 - 4:00 pm: Gender, Nation, and Political Emotions
Chair: Mary Gibson (CUNY, Graduate Center)

Arianna Arisi Rota (Università* di Pavia), Falling in love with the
patria: the Risorgimento first generation
Ros Pesman (University of Sydney)
Mazzini and love (Sara and Janet Nathan)
Marina d'Amelia (Università* La Sapienza, Roma)


Personal and political passions: the difficult challenge for women

4:00-4:30 pm Coffee Break

SEGNALO:

4:30-6:00 pm: War, Revolution, and Political Identities
Chair: Marta Petrusewicz (CUNY, Graduate Center)
Agostino Bistarelli (Università* La Sapienza, Roma)
Brothers and Fratellanza
Lucy Riall (Birkbeck, University of London)
Soldiers, martyrs and the male ideal
6:00- 7:00 pm: Keynote Lecture
Chair: Victoria De Grazia (Columbia University)

Alberto M. Banti (Università* di Pisa)
Towards an historical anthropology of the Italian Risorgimento
SATURDAY, 12 APRIL



9.15 - 10:45 am: Uses of History
Chair: Nelson Moe (Barnard College, Columbia University)
Giovanna Ceserani (Stanford University)
Greek pasts and Italian uses of history: the case of Magna Graecia
from Vincenzo Cuoco to Ettore Pais
Emanuel Rota (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Imagining a small community: Michele Amari and Sicilian nationalism
Manhaz Yousefzadeh (NYU)
Anti-hegemonic Nationalism: the Dante Centenary of 1865

10.45 - 11.00 am: Coffee Break


11.00 - 1.00 pm: Empires, Nations, and Beyond
Chair: Gilles Pecout (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris)
Maurizio Isabella (Queen Mary, University of London)
Italy's Civilizing Mission? Risorgimento, European Empires, and the
Mediterranean
Steven Hughes (Loyola College, Baltimore)

A tale of two nationalisms: Ticino and the Risorgimento
Dominique Reill (University of Miami)

The Risorgimento: A movement against independence?
Nadia Urbinati (Columbia University) & Stefano Recchia (Columbia University)
Nation building and democracy beyond borders: The legacy of Giuseppe Mazzini

1:00-2:00 pm: Lunch Break

2:00-4:00 pm: Religions and Identities
Chair: David Kertzer (Brown University)
Manuel Borutta (University of Cologne)
War against the clergy: the anticlericalism of the Risorgimento, 1843-1870

José David Lebovitch Dahl (European University Institute)
Between intransigence and nationalism: "the Jew" and the "Honest
Italy" in the rhetoric of La Civilità* Cattolica during the Risorgimento

SEGNALO:

Tullia Catalan (Università* di Trieste)
Italian Jews and the revolution of 1848: patriotisms, conflicts and
multiple identitiesCarlotta Ferrara degli Uberti (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)


Religion, family, nation: how the Jewish minority viewed itself

4:00-4:30 pm: Coffee Break

4:30 - 5.30 pm: Roundtable: How to Revisit the Risorgimento?
Chair and Moderator: Silvana Patriarca (Fordham University)
Discussants: Catherine Brice (Université de Paris XII), Adrian
Lyttelton (Johns Hopkins University, Bologna Center), Glenda Sluga
(University of Sidney)

5:30 pm: Closing Reception
Co-sponsored by:
The University Seminars- Columbia University
Calandra Italian American Institute - Queens College, CUNY
The Italian Cultural Institute of New York
The Journal of Modern Italian Studies, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, NYU

For further information please visit www.italianacademy.columbia.edu