November 19, 2020: Thursday, 12 pm (Zoom) Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley
BOOK CHAT: ITALY’S SEA
Respondent: Christine Philiou (UC Berkeley, History)
Moderator: Mia Fuller (UC Berkeley, Italian)
November 1, 2018: Thursday, 6 pm, Hamilton 501
The Italian and Mediterranean Colloquium at Columbia University
ITALY’S EASTERN QUESTION: OTTOMAN COLLAPSE AND ITALIAN MOBILITIES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN, 1895-1945
Respondent: Ruth Ben-Ghiat (New York University)
Moderator: Konstantina Zanou (Columbia University)
Recent debates in European history have highlighted that discourses of empire persisted within nation-states well into the twentieth century, and indeed, were spurred on by the First World War and collapse of the Ottoman empire, the decline in whose authority had opened up vast new territories for the expansion of liberal markets. Yet Italian empire has remained marginal to such discussions. Countering this tendency in the historiography, I introduce a new perspective of Italian colonialism by linking together its Balkan and African ambitions through a Mediterranean framework and showing how the rise of an ‘Eastern Question’ in Europe occasioned discourses in Italian culture of reclaiming emigrants and markets the Mediterranean.
June 16-19, 2018, Sorrento, Italy
American Association of Italian Studies 2018 Conference
SIX LINKED SESSIONS ON “GLOBAL APPROACHES TO ITALIAN STUDIES”
Italian Studies engages intently with local and global networks in Italian culture and history. As recent scholarship on (post-)colonial Italy, the Mediterranean, and Italian mobilities demonstrates, the local can be studied from a global perspective and vice versa. This session aims to examine case studies from any time period which focus on how transnational, regional, national, and local processes in Italian culture and society are articulated through global processes. Ultimately, we wish to assess the methodological, theoretical, or cognitive gains we may obtain from approaching Italian Studies in global frameworks.