Research Group on Contemporary Italy - GRIC

Research theme: Government | Institutions, Knowledge, Norms
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ITALY AND THE WORLD

Provisional Calender 2024-2025

The Italian peninsula's unique geographical position has partly determined its history, which has been marked by conflict but also by cultural and commercial exchanges with the rest of the world. Mainly centred around the Mediterranean in ancient times, the peoples and rulers of the peninsula then turned their attention to the European continent and the Orient. In modern times, the relationships forged with other continents and the geopolitical upheavals taking place around the world make it essential to adopt an international perspective. Looking at Italy and its relationship with the world, from Unity to the present day, enables us to broaden our focus to see how the Bel paese has lived through the high points of its national history and faced up to the challenges of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Italy has long been a country of emigration, before recently becoming a land of immigration. We therefore need to look at the formation and presence of Italian diasporas in many countries since the 19th century. What links have these Italian communities maintained with their countries and regions of origin? How have they integrated into the countries where they have settled? What forms of Italianness have they exported? But also how have Italy been viewed from abroad? And how has Italy (authorities, parties, associations, public opinion) reacted recently to the migration crisis? In terms of international relations, how has Italy interacted with its partners, particularly in Europe, on geopolitical and strategic issues, as well as political and cultural ones? Are these relations characterised over the long and medium term by continuities or by ruptures? These are some of the questions that will guide the GRIC's seminar in 2024-2025, and will be the focus of contributions from the researchers taking part in its activities.

  1. October 10, 2024
    Béatrice Falcucci (Université de L’Aquila), L’Italia e il mondo post-coloniale. Politica, cooperazione e mobilità tra decolonizzazioni e guerra fredda.

  2. October 24, 2024
    Fabrice Langrognet (CNRS), “L'italianité des Ciociari de passage 
    à la Plaine-Saint-Denis, 1880-1930”.
  3. November 14, 2024
    Andrea Martini (Paris 8), 
    Fascisme et démocratie en Italie après 1945. Regards extérieurs sur une coexistence difficile.
  4. November 28, 2024
    Carolina Simoncini (Université Lyon 3), 
    L’Italie face à la crise migratoire.
  5. December 12, 2024
    Giovanni Lella (LUISS), “Inventer l'avenir". La France, l'Italie et la construction européenne (1981-1995).
  6. January 23, 2025
    Stéphane Mourlane (Université Aix-Marseille), Le fascisme à 
    l’étranger : La Casa d’Italia de Marseille.

  7. February 13, 2025
    Elisa Pareo (Université de Vérone-Paris 8), La politisation des immigrés italiens dans le Nord-Pas de Calais entre 1938 et 1948.

  8. March 20, 2025
    Federico Varese (Sciences Po), L’espansione e l’insediamento delle mafie italiane all’estero.

  9. April 10, 2025
    Thibault Bechini (EFR), “Migrations et capitaux italiens à travers le monde, du milieu du XIXe siècle à la Première Guerre mondiale”.

  10. April 17, 2025
    Claire Lorenzelli (ENS de Lyon), Les lecteurs de langue et littérature italiennes dans les universités allemandes et européennes (1922-1945) : agents d’une diplomatie culturelle sous le fascisme ?

  11. May15, 2025
    Caroline Douki (Paris 8), La tradition en suspens ? Femmes italiennes en migration au début du XXe siècle.

  12. June 5, 2025
    Serge Noiret (Institut Européen de Florence), L’émergence et le succès de la Public History en Italie.

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