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Italy as Europe’s political laboratory? Thirty years of Italian Political History, 1990-2018
Dr. Marzia Maccaferri, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Italian Cultural Institute - Tuesday 4th December 2018, 6.30pm
From the 'economic miracle' to the 'new sick man of Europe', Italy has, in recent times, been portrayed as a 'failed nation' on the margins of Europe. Its history has been interpreted mainly as a series of lost opportunities, divisions and fractures. Whilst these stereotypical interpretations continue to persist, a more balanced analysis of recent political history can put these narratives into perspective and assess Italy’s complexities and contradictions. Far from being at the periphery of Europe’s political development, Italian recent political history - from the end of the so-called First Republic to the experiment of the Lega-5-Star-Movement coalition government – is actually at the centre of political innovation and change: Italy continues to be a political laboratory which should really be recognized and properly understood.
Dr. Marzia Maccaferri (formerly of the University of Bologna, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, LUISS-Guido Carli University, Rome) is Lecturer at the Department of Politics & IR, Goldsmiths, University. Dr. Maccaferri's research interests focus on the history of post-WW2 European intellectuals, intellectual discourse, political debate and the comparative history of the European Left in the 1970s and 1980s. Her recent and forthcoming publications include The Democracy of Affluence: Intellectuals and the Affluent Society in Britain, Italy and the US (1958-1979); The English Way to Italian Socialism: The PCI, Red Bologna and Italian Communist Culture; and Intellectuals, Journals, and the Legitimisation of Political Power: Il Mulino (1950s and 1960s). In collaboration with colleagues and friends, she has recently launched the blog: www.laquartarepubblica.it
Wine reception to follow the Lecture. All welcome.
Attendance is free but registration required: https://iiclondra.esteri.it/iic_londra/it/gli_eventi
Andrea Del Corno' (The London Library)
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