Research Group on Contemporary Italy - GRIC

Research theme: Government | Institutions, Knowledge, Norms
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HISTORY, MEMORIES AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES IN CONTEMPORARY ITALY

Like most countries in Western Europe, Italy is involved - and often divided - by intense debates on what remembrance policies should be. Although there is no agreement on their content, politicians are unanimous in considering them to be essential for ensuring the cohesion of society - without, however, being able to verify whether they actually have such a virtuous effect... For this second year, the focus will be on the question of collective identities, at different scales: local, regional, national and transnational. The relationship between political memory and collective identities will be analyzed from the angle of public policy and the practices and mobilizations of social actors. 

What do the policies of memory and the public use of history tell us about contemporary Italy, its political parties and its various social actors? To what extent does obsession with memory represents a substitute for forms of commitment that are in crisis? Do they help to recreate social links, and ultimately lead to new forms of political mobilization?

Provisional calendar 2023-2024

  1. October 12, 2023
    Romain Descendre (ENS Lyon), Jean-Claude Zancarini (ENS Lyon), La postérité d'Antonio Gramsci dans la vie politique italienne.
  2. November 9, 2023
    Antonin Durand (Sorbonne-Université), Verdi dans la mémoire nationale
  3. November 23, 2023 
    Marcello Flores, Le memorie rimosse della Repubblica: il colonialismo fascista, i crimini del comunismo.
  4. December 21, 2023
    Charlotte Moge (Lyon 3), « L'antimafia » : un combat fondateur d’une nouvelle identité politique ?
  5. January 18, 2024
    Anna Lisa Tota (Université Rome 3) [to be confirmed], La mémoire de l’attentat de Bologne dans l’Italie républicaine
  6. February 8, 2024
    Alexandre Chabert (Sciences Po, Centre d'histoire), "Mémoire et oubli du passé communiste, du PCI au PD".
  7. March 7, 2024
    Francesca Socrate (La Sapienza) [to be confirmed], Les mémoires de 68 en Italie.
  8. March 28, 2024
    Rosario Forlenza, ( LUISS), Un second Risorgimento : la mémoire de la Résistance dans l'Italie républicaine.
  9. April 11, 2024 
    Armelle Girinon (La Sapienza), L’orientalisme littéraire italien et la glorification de l’identité nationale (XIXe - début XXe)
  10. May 23, 2024
    Marcello Ravveduto (università di Salerno, Digital Public History) : Immaginari e rappresentazioni. L'identità delle mafie tra XX e XXI secolo
  11. May 30, 2024
    Suzy Toson, (Paris8-Sciences Po, CHSP) : Femmes et fascisme : quelle mémoire ?
  12. June 13, 2024
    Colloque Gaetano Salvemini [to be confirmed] : Quelle place dans la mémoire de l’antifascisme ? 
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