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"18th April 1948: Italy between continuity and rupture" 18-19 April 2008, 
University of Reading and Italian Cultural Institute in London


Friday, 18 April 2008 - Palmer Building, University of Reading

10:30-11:00 Registration

11:00-11:30 Welcome (Risso/Duggan)

11:30-1:00 Parallel sessions
Session A: Elections in context
Mark DONOVAN (University of Cardiff), 'The 1948 election: A decisive
event, but an anomalous election within a transitional political
phase'.
Manuela WILLIAMS (University of Strathclyde), 'The Red Scare: American
propaganda, the Cold War and the Italian election of 1948'.
Robert VENTRESCA (University of Ontario), 'Defining political identity
after fascism: Catholics, Communists and the Democratic Process in the
Italian Election of 1948'.

Session B: 1948: Rupture or continuity?
Daniela FELISINI (Università di Roma 'Tor Vergata'). 'Italian economy
between continuity and openness: The State-owned sector in the new
Italian Republic'.
Michela PONZANI (INSMLI), 'Trials against partisans in the Italian
Republic. The consequences of the 18 April 1948'.
Grazia DE MICHELE (University of Reading), 'A difficult memory.
Italian colonialism in the school textbooks of Republican Italy'.

1:00-2:30 Lunch

2:30-4:00 Plenary session
Key-note address by Sergio Romano, The temptations of neutrality.

4:00-4:15 Coffee break

4:15-5:45 Plenary session
Ilaria POGGIOLINI (Università di Pavia), 'Italy's Peace Settlement and
the Origins of the Cold War.'
David ELLWOOD (Università di Bologna), 'A cold war propaganda battle.'
Antonio VARSORI (Università di Padova), 'The 1948 Italian Elections in
Cold War history.'

7:30 Dinner for speakers and chairs only.

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Saturday, 19 April 2008 -
Italian Cultural Institute, London

9:30-9:45 Welcome

9:45-11:15 Parallel sessions
Session A: Intellectuals and 1948.
Guido TINTORI (FIERI), 'Outsider's vision: Gaetano Salvemini and the
1948 elections.'
Paolo Orlando FERRARA (Università di Trento), 'The engagement of the
Catholic journals during the one-year political campaign for the
elections of 18 April 1948.'
Theodore ELL (University of Sydney), 'Piero Bigongiari, intellectual
partisan and idealistic European.'

Session B: Political and social actors.
John POLLARD (University of Cambridge), 'Fresh thoughts on the factors
determining the role of the Vatican in the run-up to the 1948 general
elections in Italy.'
Sara LORENZINI (Università di Trento), 'De Gasperi and the Renewal of
Italian Foreign Policy, 1943-1954.'
Roger ABSALOM (Sheffield Hallam University), 'Coming from afar:
Italian peasants in 1948.'

11:15-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-1:00 Plenary session
Stephen GUNDLE (University of Warwick), 'Alida Valli, Fosco Giachetti
and the star system in 1948.'
John FOOT (University College London), 'The Bartali Myth: 1948 and the
Tour de France.'
Lorenzo SANTORO (Freie Universität Berlin), 'Music and Ideology, 1948
as year zero of Italian 20th century classical music.'

1:00-2:30 Lunch

2:30-5:00
Chris WAGSTAFF (University of Reading), 'Scola, De Sica and 1948.'
Screening of C'eravamo tanto amati (1977) by Ettore Scola, with
English subtitles.

Contact: Dr Linda Riso ([log in to unmask])

To register: 
http://www.reading.ac.uk/humanities/conferences/hum-event-ItalyContinuityRupture.asp