Memory Wars in Italy 1799-2012 Organisers: Lucy Riall (l.riall@mail.bbk.ac.uk) and John Foot (J.foot@ucl.ac.

uk ) (Birkbeck, UCL, IHR Modern Italian History Seminar, ASMI)

Film screening and workshop. 23-24 May 2012 No registration required. Free entry. All welcome. 23 May. 6pm. Birkbeck Cinema. London. Location: 41 Gordon Square (entrance at 43 Gordon Square), London WC1H 0PD http://www.birkbeckcinema.com/filmsociety/whereweare.htm UK premiere of the documentary film From Garibaldi to Berlusconi, 150 years of Italian History (Andante ma non Troppo. 150 anni di Storia dItalia). Written and Directed by Enrico Cerasuolo, Produced by Serge Lalou and Massimo Arvat. (Arte France, Les Films dIci and Zenit Arti Audiovisive, 2011). www.zenit.to.it (118 minutes). Italian, French and English. English subtitles. Enrico Cerasuolo, the director, will be present at the screening. The screening will be followed by a Q and A with the director Drinks will follow this event.

24 May. International Workshop Memory Wars in Italy, 1799-2012

Location: UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies 16 Taviton Street London WC1H 0BW, Room 433. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/locations/ucl-maps/ucl-maps/map2_hi_res (This rooms is on the 4th floor of the SSEES building at 16 Taviton Street just north of

Gordon Square. Enter the main building and take the lifts (or stairs) on the left hand side of the foyer to the 4th floor. On exiting the lift walk down the corridor straight in front of you, past the toilets on your left. Go through the glass doors and through the next set of doors. Room 433 is the first door on your left).

10.00. Opening remarks John Foot, UCL: Memory wars in Italy. History and Methodology. 10.30. Histories and Historians. From the Risorgimento to the Republic (Chair: Axel Korner, UCL) Lucy Riall, Birkbeck: Hidden from History? The South in recent accounts of the Risorgimento Roberta Suzzi Valli, Birkbeck: Italian identity and British historians Phil Cooke, Strathclyde University: The Resistance as a second Risorgimento: a never-ending historical topos 12.00. Nazi Massacres and Italian Memory (Chair: Phil Cooke) Paolo Pezzino, University of Pisa: Massacres, Divided Memories and National Identity (Stragi, memorie divise e identit nazionale)* (*In Italian) 1.00-2.00 Lunch 2.00-3.00 World War Two and Italian Memory (Chair: Lucy Riall) Claudia Baldoli, Newcastle University: The guilt factor: memories of the Second World War bombing in Italy Robert Gordon, University of Cambridge: Italys Holocaust 3.00-4.00 Public Memory (Chair: John Foot) Samantha Owen, University of Reading: What and Who to Celebrate? Defining a National Past in the Historical Exhibition at the Italian Centennial of Unification Commemorations (1961). Andrea Hajek, University of Warwick: Negotiating memories of dissent: debates in local politics about the public memory of Bologna 1977.

Discussant: Carl Levy, Goldsmiths.