joint winners: Ferdinand Goehde, for "A new military history of the Italian Risorgimento and Anti-Risorgimento: the case of ‘transnational soldiers’”. Stephen C. Bruner, for "Conflicting obituaries: the Abyssinian ‘outlaw’ Debeb as treacherous bandit and romantic hero in late nineteenth-century Italian imagination”.
ASMI 2019 - Conference
Modern Italian History Seminar Series - Spring term 2019 Sponsored by ASMI, 13 March 2019, 5.30-7pm. UCL, Gordon House, room 308, 29 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PP, London.
University of Milan 28 – 29 June 2019
The winner of the 2018 prize, announced at the ASMI conference in November, is Caterina Scalvedi, of the University of Illinois at Chicago, for her essay 'Catholic Missionaries in Italian Somalia: Baptisms, Education, and the "Problem" of Meticci (1924–1930)'. The deadline for submissions for the 2019 prize is 31 July.
Mahidol Thai House Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia (RILCA) Mahidol University, Salaya, Thailand 28-29 June 2018