 |
 |
italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies Dear all, apologies for cross posting. Please find attached the programme for a conference organised by the ASMI and Italian Studies at Oxford on Italy in the First World War. The conference will be held at the Taylorian Institute, University of Oxford, on Saturday 10 October 2015. All welcome! Best wishes, Marzia Maccaferri www.asmi.org.uk/news/italy-first-world-war/ [log in to unmask] _____________________ ITALY AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR Saturday 10 October 2015 Taylor Institution, room 2 University of Oxford St Gilesâ Oxford OX1 3NA To mark the centenary of Italyâs entry into the First World War, the Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI), in conjunction with Italian Studies at Oxford, is holding a one-day international conference to examine the experience of 1915-18 from a variety of perspectives: military, social, political, cultural and comparative. The conference is open to all. 9.15-9.45 Coffee and registration 9.45-10.05 Prof Sir Hew Strachan: Introduction 10.05-11.00 Prof Nicola Labanca: Italy's Great War: history and historiography. 11.00-12.15 Dr John Dillon: Working with allies: the British army in Italy in the First World War. Dr Marcella Sutcliffe: Humanities activists and humanitarian aid in the First World War: an Anglo-Italian experiment. Dr Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti: An Italian-Jewish perspective on the First World War. 12.15-1.10 Prof John Gooch: Guerra all'italiana? The Italian army and the First World War. 1.10-2.10 Lunch 2.10-3.00 Mark Thompson: Remembering Italy's Great War: divided legacies. 3.00-4.15 Lucy Hughes-Hallett: Making war: d'Annunzio's wartime propaganda. Dr Selena Daly: The failure of Futurist interventionism. Dr Hannah Malone: The memory of the Great War and Italyâs fascist monuments to the fallen. 4.15-4.30 Tea 4.30-5.30 round table Prof Oliver Janz (Chair): Italy's Great War: a comparative perspectives 5.30 Conclusion info: [log in to unmask] join ASMI: www.asmi.org.uk/membership/ ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: subscribe italian-studies YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe italian-studies to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/italian-studies