Settimana della storia edizione 2010
Birth of a Nation, the Risorgimento and the Italian identity
Screenings, lectures and keynote by professors, journalists and historians such as Lucio Villari, Giovanni Sabbatucci, Emilio Gentile, Francesco Perfetti, Carlo Ghisalberti, Maurizio Degl'Innocenti, Marcello Veneziani, Andrea Riccardi and many others.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2
10.00 am: Film screening: Storia d’Italia. Dal 1815 al 1870 (I episode)
11.00 am: Inaugural address of the History Week
Umberto CROPPI
Councillor for Culture and Communication of the City of Rome
11.15 am: Opening Lecture
Emilio GENTILE
Professor of Modern History, Sapienza - University of Rome
Le radici dell’identità italiana (The Roots of Italian Identity)
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3
10.00 am: SENTIRSI ITALIANI OGGI (Feeling Italian Today)
Presentation of the results of a survey conducted among young people of secondary schools in Rome
Stefano FOLLI
Journalist
Marilena NOVELLI
Regional Education Director
Francesco MARCOLINI
President of Zètema Progetto Cultura
11.00 am: Conference
STORIA D’ITALIA E IDENTITÀ NAZIONALE (The history of Italy and the national identity)
Marina FORMICA
Professor of Modern History, Tor Vergata - University of Rome
1796/1799: triennio rivoluzionario e questione italiana (The revolutionary period and the Italian question)
Andrea RICCARDI
Professor of Contemporary History, University of Roma Tre
Pio IX, la Chiesa e il Risorgimento (Pius IX, the Church and the Risorgimento)
Lucio VILLARI
Professor of Contemporary History, University of Roma Tre
L’unità della nazione come ideale politico e come cultura del Risorgimento (The unity of Italy as a political ideal and culture of the Risorgimento)
Roberto VIVARELLI
Professor of Modern History, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa
Risorgimento e storia d’Italia (The Risorgimento and the history of Italy)
5.00 pm: Film screening: Giuseppe Garibaldi. Il diavolo rosso
6.00 pm: Conference
L’ITALIA RIVOLUZIONARIA: GARIBALDI E MAZZINI (Revolutionary Italy: Garibaldi and Mazzini)
Giovanni BELARDELLI
Professor of History of Political Thought, University of Perugia
Giuseppe Mazzini e l’idea di Patria (Giuseppe Mazzini and the idea of Homeland)
Mauro CANALI
Professor of Contemporary History, University of Camerino
Il mazzinianesimo nell’Italia unita (Mazzinianism and the Unity of Italy)
Maurizio DEGL’INNOCENTI
Professor of Contemporary History, University of Siena
Giuseppe Garibaldi: nazione, popolo e volontarismo (Giuseppe Garibaldi: nation, people and voluntarism)
Paolo MIELI
President of RCS Books
L’idea di Italia da Foscolo a Mazzini (The idea of Italy, from Mazzini to Foscolo)
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4
10.00 am: Film screening: Storia d’Italia. Dal 1870 al 1914 (II episode)
11.00 am: Conference
L’ITALIA COSTITUZIONALE (CONSTITUTIONAL ITALY)
Aldo Alessandro MOLA
Historian and President of the European Centre Giovanni Giolitti
Casa Savoia, il Risorgimento e la storia italiana (The House of Savoy, the Risorgimento and the history of Italy)
Guido PESCOSOLIDO
Professor of Modern History, Sapienza - University of Rome
Camillo Cavour: Risorgimento nazionale ed Europa (Camillo Cavour: the national Risorgimento and Europe)
Marcello VENEZIANI
Journalist and Essayist
Lo Stato Italiano tra Nord e Sud (North and South in Italy)
5.00 pm: Film screening: La tragedia delle Modernità. Nazionalismo e violenza
ore 18.00 Conference
L’ITALIA E GLI ITALIANI (ITALY AND THE ITALIANS)
Fernando GARCIA SANZ
Professor of Modern History, CSIC Madrid
La costruzione della nazione: Crispi e Giolitti (The construction of the nation Crispi and Giolitti)
Carlo GHISALBERTI
Professore di Storia Contemporanea Sapienza Università di Roma
La nazionalizzazione delle masse e la Grande Guerra (The nationalization of the masses and the Great War)
Giovanni SABBATUCCI
Professor of Contemporary History, Sapienza - University of Rome
La grande guerra e il mito del Risorgimento (The Great War and the myth of the Risorgimento)
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5
10.00 am: Film screening: Leggere scrivere e far di conto
11.00 am: Conference
TRA STORIA E MEMORIA (HISTORY AND MEMORY)
Cosimo CECCUTI
Professor of Contemporary History, University of Florence
La costruzione dell’identità nazionale: biografie popolari e romanzi (The construction of a national identity: popular biographies and novels)
Mirella SERRI
Writer and Professor of Journalism, Sapienza - University of Rome
Le donne nel Risorgimento: salotti culturali e impegno politico (Women in the Risorgimento: cultural salons and political commitment)
Bruno TOBIA
Professor of Contemporary History, Sapienza - University of Rome
L’Italia di marmo
5.00 pm: Film screening: La contessa di Castiglione
6.00 pm: Plenary Lecture
Francesco PERFETTI
Professor of Contemporary History, Luiss Guido Carli University of Rome
L’unità d’Italia tra mito e realtà (The Unity of Italy between myth and reality)
9.00 pm
FRATELLI DI SCUOLA: COME L’ISTRUZIONE HA CREATO L’ITALIA UNITA
Show based on the Italian literature, by the Liceo Classico "Socrates" and the Institute of Higher Education "Sandro Pertini".
Free admission: subject to availability. Booking Required: tel. +39 060608
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Free admission: first come, first seated (Subject to availability), except for the show on November 5, 2010 which requires an advance booking: tel. +39 060608 (daily from 9.00 am to 9.00 pm)
+39 060608 (daily from 9.00 am to 9.00 pm)
