THE FIRST WORLD WAR IN NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN COLLECTIONS:
MATERIALS, IMAGES, TESTIMONIES
PROGRAMME
27th March 2014 (National Central Library of Rome, conference hall)
9.00 - 9.30
Welcome coffee - Registration
9.30 - 9.50
Opening session
Rossana Rummo Director General for Libraries, Cultural Institutes, and Copyright MIBACT
Osvaldo Avallone Director National Central Library, Rome
9.50 – 13.00
Chair Antonio Carioti (Corriere della Sera)
Speakers
 Franco Marini Senate of the Republic, President of the “Comitato storico scientifico per gli
anniversari di interesse nazionale” Presidency of the Council of Ministers
 Flavia Nardelli Piccoli Chamber of Deputies - Culture Commission
 Rossella Caffo Director ICCU
 Jill Cousins Executive Director Europeana Foundation
 Thorsten Siegmann Coordinator “Europeana Collections 1914-1918”
 Piergaetano Marchetti President Fondazione Corriere della Sera
 Ferruccio de Bortoli Director Corriere della Sera
 Silvia Calandrelli Director RAI Educational
Conclusions Antonia Pasqua Recchia Secretary General MIBACT
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 18.00
Round table: National and International collections on the First World War
Chair Rossella Caffo
Speakers
 Frédéric Lemmers Royal Library of Belgium, Bruxelles
 Zsuzsanna Brunner Austrian National Library, Wien
 Marco Pizzo Museum of the Risorgimento, Rome
 Maria Letizia Sebastiani Central National Library, Florence
 Agostino Attanasio Central State Archive, Rome
 Silvana De Capua National Central Library, Rome
 Simonetta Buttò Modern and Contemporary History Library, Rome
 Flavia Cristiano Alessandrina University Library, Rome
Short communications
Simultaneous translation English / Italian / English
19.00 Guided tour at Museo of the Risorgimento