In association with the Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh and the Stirling Media Research Institute
The Media in Italy: Historical Perspectives and Future Challenges
Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh, 21-22 November 2008
From the development of newspapers in the 18th and 19th Centuries to the emergence of the internet and other digital technologies, the media have had a significant impact across the Italian peninsula. But if the media have influenced political and social institutions and democratic processes, social developments have also played a central part in Italian media development. From Fascist domination of the mass media to post-war partition of public service broadcasting and party-controlled newspapers, political patronage of media institutions has remained a strong feature of Italian life. The development of social utility or networking sites means that Italian consumption of media is changing, especially among the young. Recent years have also witnessed the rapid growth in academic research examining relations between media development and collective memory, identity and nation-building. The development of new technologies has altered irrevocably the ways in which politicians communicate with their electorates and how Italians engage with one another. The 2008 ASMI Conference will bring together leading academics from history, the political and social sciences, film and media studies to examine issues relating to the conference theme: the media in Italy: historical perspectives and future challenges.
For further details please contact Matthew Hibberd at m.j.hibberd@stir.ac.uk.
Garibaldi: The Politics of Radical Fame
23-24 November 2007
Italian Cultural Institute, London
To mark the bicentenary of the birth of Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI) dedicated its annual conference to the theme of: 'Giuseppe Garibaldi: the politics of radical fame'.
Conference Programme
Conference Programme (Word File)
Consuming Italy: Consumption in Italy and the Consumption of Italy
17-18 November 2006, Italian Cultural Institute, London The conference was organised in conjunction with the exhibition: The Cappuccino Conquests: The History of Italian Coffee
Italy at War
Since the end of the nineteenth century Italy has participated in a variety of wars. These include the colonial expansion of Liberal and then Fascist Italy, the First World War, the Spanish Civil War, the occupation of Albania, and the Second World War alongside and then against Germany. After 1945 the new Republican constitution 'repudiated war', but Italy nevertheless participated in the 1991 Gulf War as well as the 2003 war in Iraq. The aim of this conference is to bring together scholars working on a wide variety of different aspects of Italy's participation in these conflicts during the period 1935-2005.Edinburgh, 25 - 26 November 2005
The Second Italian Republic Ten Years On: Prospect and Retrospect
26-27 November 2004 - The Italian Cultural Institute
Assassinations, Murders and Mysteries in Modern Italy
22 November 2003 - Italian Cultural Institute, London
This conference analyse a series of assassinations and murder cases that have in one way or another represented turning points in Italian public life.
Nationalism in Europe, 1789-1914
24-25 April 2003 at the German Historical Institute, London
A conference sponsored by the British Academy, the German History Society, the Association for the Study of Modern Italy, the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies at Sheffield University, and the German Historical Institute London
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The 2002 conference was held between 22nd and 23rd November 2002 at the Italian Cultural Institute in London. The Conference was on 'Gender and the Private Sphere in Italy: Home, Family and Sexuality'The organisers were Dr. Paola Filippucci (Univ of Cambridge) and Dr. Perry Wilson (Univ. of Edinburgh)
The ASMI Annual Conference 2001 was on Italian Colonialism and Post-Colonial Legacies. It was held at the Italian Cultural Institute on Friday 30th November and Saturday 1st December
Details of paper abstracts can be found at the Italian Colonialism and Post-Colonial Legacies Conference Web-Site
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