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Please see below the CFP for a workshop on protest movements, January 2013. I received it from the University of Padua. See at the very bottom for contact details.
Regards

Paolo Ghirardini
PhD student, University of Reading




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CALL FOR PAPERS
International workshop
Department of Political Sciences, Law and International Studies
Padua (Italy), 17-18 January 2013
Deadline: 31 July 2012

Italian protest movements and their international dimension after 1968:
a comparative historical approach

The chair of History of Italian foreign policy - Department of Political
Sciences, Law and International Studies (University of Padua) invite
scholars to submit research paper proposals dealing with the International
political culture of protest actors from the late 1960s to the 1980s.
During the second half of the 1960s, among the younger generations –
especially in the Western world – there appeared a growing consciousness
of the dramatic changes which were characterizing the international
situation, as well as of the economic and social changes that had shaped
their countries. The protest movements in the US and in Western Europe had
as primary targets of their activities, not only their own governments,
but also their foreign policies. The protest against US involvement in
Vietnam shaped the second half of the 1960s and the first half of the
1970s and, although local Western Communist parties played an important
role in organizing manifestations (e.g. pro North Vietnam campaigns), the
impact was wider and deeper than what the Communist parties could achieve.
Moreover the Vietnam war was not the only international issue which
characterised the interest of the protest movements and their initiatives
involved opposition to other forms of western “imperialism”, the
activities non-governmental bodies such as the multinationals, the
survival of fascist regimes in Europe (e.g. Spain and Portugal) or the
creation of right-wing military regimes in Europe and in Latin America
(e.g. Greece and Chile), neo-colonialism, etc.
Moreover some protest movements bordered or had some contacts with
minority groups which advocated violent forms of “resistance” against
“international imperialism” and terrorist organizations were active in
various parts of the world and developed some cooperation.
Last but not least, during the 1970s and the early 1980s, also as a
consequence of the economic crisis and of the growing consciousness of the
environmental problems posed by previous economic growth, protest
movements began to focus their attention on issues such as pollution, the
consequence of the exploitation of nuclear energy, etc.
New political actors emerged in the international arena, constituting a
watershed in terms of political and cultural identities, as well as new
ways to do politics.

The workshop aims at analysing the international political culture of
protest actors that emerged in the period between the late 1960s and the
early 1980s, focusing on the Italian case but also on European and
non-European study cases, in a comparative perspective.

The initiative, pursued by the Department of Political Sciences, Law and
International Studies of the University of Padua, is the second event of a
wider project which aims at networking junior and senior scholars who are
working on such a topic.
The network already includes scholars from  the University of Bologna –
Forlì, the University of Augsburg, the New York University, SciencesPo
Paris, LUISS University Rome and IMT Lucca, Bruno Kessler Foundation
Trento, University of Trento, Gramsci Institute Rome, European University
Institute Florence, and the University of Padua.

The working languages will be English and Italian.
The Scientific Committee is committed to the publication of papers’
selection, based on scientific criteria.

Applicants should submit to [log in to unmask] and
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containing 400-word (about 2000 characters) abstract of the proposed
research paper and a brief academic CV.  Please, remember to highlight
your email address on the top of your CV.
The file should be titled: “Your Name Padua workshop 2013”.
Notification of acceptance will be made by 15 September 2012.
Successful applicants will be expected to email their papers by 15
November 2012.

The Organization will provide lodging and meals at the conference; within
the limits of the workshop budget will also meet traveling expenses.



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Valentine Lomellini
Assegnista di Ricerca
Ph.D in Political Systems and Institutional Change

Dipartimento di Studi Internazionali - Università di Padova
http://www.dsi.unipd.it/docenti/lomellini.htm



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