Patterns of Protest
in Modern Italy
History, Agents and Representation
Annual Conference of the
Association for the Study of Modern Italy
23rd – 24th November 2012
University of London
Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies
Conveners:
Dr. Rada Bieberstein
Anne Bruch M.A.
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Friday, 23rd November
9.00 – 9:30 am Registration and Coffee
9.30 – 10.00 am Welcome, Room G22/26
10.00 – 11.00 am Keynote I: Donatella Della Porta, Room G22/26
Session I
1968 – The Unheard
Individual Protest
Early Workers Protest
11 – 12.30 pm
Room G22/26
Room G34
Room G35
12.30 – 12.45 pm Tea and Coffee Break
12.30 – 1.30 pm Poster Session, Room G22/26
1.30 – 2.30 pm Lunch
Session II
2.30 – 4 pm
The Other 1968 +
New Media
Arts
Room G22/26
Room G34
Room G35
4,00 – 4.15 pm Tea and Coffee Break
4.15 – 5.15 pm Keynote II: William Hope, Room G22/26
5.15 – 6.15 pm ASMI Annual General Meeting
6.30 – 7.30 pm Wine reception in occasion of the 30th anniversary of ASMI, venue: tba
8 pm Conference Dinner
Saturday, 24th November
9 .00– 9.30 am Registration and Coffee
Session III
9.30 – 11.00 am
Film 1
Migrants
Women
Room G22/26
Room G34
Room G35
11.00 – 11.15 am Tea and Coffee Break
11.15 am – 12.15 pm Keynote III: Lucy Riall, Room G22/26
12:15 – 1.15 pm Lunch
Session IV
1.15 – 2.45 pm
Film 2
Education
Peasant Protest
Room G22/26
Room G34
Room G35
2.45 – 3.00 pm Tea and Coffee Break
Session V
3.00 – 4.30 pm
Arts 2
Case Studies
Left Politics
Room G22/26
Room G34
Room G35
4.30 – 5.15 pm Discussion with Manuel Cecchinato Posadas
Summing up and Future Plans, Room G22/26
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Friday, 23rd November
9 .00– 9.30 am Registration and Coffee
9.30 – 10.00 am Welcome, Room G22/26
10.00 – 11.00 am Keynote I: Donatella Della Porta
“Social Movements and Transformations in Democracy”
European University Institute, Florence
Room G22/26
Session I
11..00 – 12.30 pm
1968 – The Unheard
Individual Protest
Early Protest Cases
Room G22/26
Chair:
Room G34
Chair:
Room G35
Chair:
Danilo Breschi
(LUSPIO Libera Università)
Francesco Chianese
(Università di Napoli)
Marco Manfredi
(Università di Pisa)
The 1968 protest in Italy: A
creature of three crisis
Italians who protest: The
individual position of Pier
Paolo Pasolini in Porcile
Rivolta e protesta sociale
nell’Italia di fine secolo: I
moti del 1894 fra i
lavoratori del marmo delle
cave di Carrara
John Foot
(University College London)
Paul Furlong
(Cardiff University)
Paolo Raspadori
(Università di Perugia)
Neglected institutions? The
anti-asylum movement in
Italy 1961–1978
‘Fighting from positions
that are lost’: Julius Evola
on the principles of Far
Right protest between
1949 and 1972
Workers, not servants:
Strikes and union actions of
hotel and restaurant
workers in Italy
(1902–1923)
Luigi Ambrosi
(Università della Calabria)
Mario Quaranta
(Istituto Italiano di Scienze
Umane, Florence)
Claudia Baldoli
(Newcastle University)
The delegitimization of the
protest in Italy during 1968
How is protest politics
changing in Italy? An
analysis 1980–2009
‘White Bolshevism’: The
peasant protest in the Po
Valley 1914–1922
Friday, 23rd November
12 .30 – 12.45 pm Break
Poster Session
12.30 – 1.30 pm
Room G22/26
Chairs:
Roberto Baldoli (Exeter University)
From protest to project: Learning lessons from the Italian Peace March of 1961
Fabio Capano (West Virginia University)
Patterns of protest in post-war Trieste
Sophia Gerber (Chemnitz University)
No alla riforma e stop ai tagli: Student protests against the Decreto No 137
Marta Musso (Eni)
Comedians have the power: Communication strategies and political contents of the “Nuovo
che avanza“
Alexandra Tommasini (Courtland Institute of Art)
The photobook as agent of protest and reform in Italy
1 .30– 2.30 pm Lunch
Friday, 23rd November
Session II
Ignored, neglected,
rediscovered – The
1960s and 1970s beyond
1968
2.30 – 4.00 pm
New media protest from
the edges
Re-acting arts
Room G22/26
Chair:
Room G34
Chair
Room G35
Chair:
Ilaria Favretto (Kingston
University, London)
Valentina Cuzzocrea and
Alessia Zabatino
(XXX)
Simone Varriale
(Warwick University)
Rough music and factory
workers’ protest
repertoires in post-1945
Italy
Protesting ‘on the edge’:
Telling political activism in
contemporary Italy
Personal or political?
Consuming music
magazines in 1970s Italy
Mathias Heigl
(Munich University)
Maria Teresa Milicia
(Università di Padova)
Barbara Uhlig
(Munich University)
Roma in rivolta: Social
movements in Rome in the
1970s
The Brigand is back: The
“No Lombroso” protest
The Italian student riots of
1977 and their
consequences for the art
scene in Bologna
Maud Anne Bracke
(Glasgow University)
Rosario Cecaro
(XXX)
Sonja Lavaert
(Brussels University)
Re-interpreting the Hot
Autumn and the crisis of
representation: The
centrality of women
workers and their protest
Pioneer of web social claim
New Italian Epic: An
expression of the multitude
4 .00– 4.15 pm Tea and Coffee Break
4.15 – 5.15 pm Keynote II: William Hope
„21st Century Italian Cinema Strategies of Repolitization“
Salford
Room G22/26
5.15 – 6.15 pm ASMI Annual General Meeting, Room G22/26
6.30 – 7.30 pm Wine reception in Occasion of the 30th Anniversary of ASMI,
venue: tba
8 pm Conference Dinner
(TAS Restaurant, 22 Bloomsbury Street, London WC1B 3QJ)
Saturday, 24th November
9.00 – 9.30 am Registration and Coffee
Session III
9.30 – 11.00 am
Opposing arts –
Opposing agents
Migrants and protest
How women protest
Room G22/26
Chair
Room G34
Chair:
Room G35
Chair:
Paolo Russo
(Oxford Brookes
University)
Nicola Montagna
(Middlesex University)
Susanna Ferlito (University
of Minnesota)
The “De Santis case”:
Political boycott to silence
the voice of protest in film
New political subjectivity
and migrants’ struggles in
Italy
Feeling protest: Women’s
resentment against
oppression during the
Risorgimento
Sieglinde Borvitz
(Düsseldorf University)
Federico Oliveri (Università
di Pisa)
Eloisa Betti
(Università di Bologna)
Against videocracy: On
political aesthetics in 21th
century Italy
“Now I strike!”: New
migrants struggles in the
time of crisis in Italy
Women fighting for labour
rights and equal
opportunities in the Golden
Age (1945–1975): The role
of the Union of Italian
Women (UDI)
Clare Watters
(Birmingham University)
Ilenya Camozzi (Universitá
di Milano-Bicocca)
Barbara Romagnoli
(Rome)
From V-Day to Vilipendio:
Comedian-activists in
contemporary protest
spaces
‘We are not illegal
migrants. We are new
citizens’: Migrants’
mobilizations between
citizenship and recognition
Le nuove forme di protesta
dei femminismi nel XXI
secolo: Linguaggi,
immaginari e pratiche
11.00 – 11.15 am Tea and Coffee Break
11.15 am – 12.15 pm Keynote III: Lucy Riall
Titel (tba)
Birkbeck College , London / European University Institute , Florence
Room G 22/26
Saturday, 24th November
12.15 – 1.15 pm Lunch
Session IV
1.15 – 2.45 pm
Visual protest
The fight for and in
education
Peasant protest and the
other
Room G22/26
Chair:
Room G34
Chair:
Room G35
Chair:
John Alcorn
(Trinity College,
Connecticut)
Margherita Angelini
(Università di Firenze)
Enrico Mannari
(Fondazione Memorie
Cooperative)
What makes Peppino tick?
The psychology of protest
in I cento passi
History for “Contemporary
Times”: Social protest and
engagement in Italy after
1945
A history of protest of
Livorno
Sarah Vantorre
(University of Antwerp)
Raffaele Furno
(Arcadia University, Rome)
Amy Hill
(Newcastle University)
Public truth as anti-mafia
Thinking through the
‘We Want Bread!’ Patterns
activism: From Pippo Fava
pedagogy of street protests of civilian protest during
11.15
Tea the
andGelmini
Coffee Break
to graphic journalism 11.00 – in
Italy am
against
the allied occupation of
decree on education
Puglia 1943–1946
11.15 am– 12.15 pm Keynote William Hope
Christian Uva (Università
Ben Mercer
Grazia Prontera (Salzburg
Cinema:
Strategies of Repoliticization
Roma 3) „21st Century Italian
(New
York University)
University) “
Immagini della violenza,
violenza delle immagini:
Gli “anni di piombo” e la
pratica della lotta armata
tra fotografia e video
Salford
The politics
protest in
Room of
G22/26
1968: The case of Trento
Conflitto sociale e
democrazia: Il movimento
contadino nel sud Italia
1949 –1951
Francesco Caviglia (Aarhus
University)
Patterns of resistance in
Vieni via con me (2010)
2.45 – 3.00 pm Tea and Coffee Break
Saturday, 24th November
Session V
3.00 – 4.30 pm
Action between art and
print
Different than it looks
Left politics and
opposition
Room G22/26
Chair:
Room G34
Chair:
Room G35
Chair:
Nick Dines (University
College London)
Michelangela Di Giacomo
(Universitá di Siena)
Environmental
vanguardism or lumpen
jacquerie? Collective
protest, post-political
consensus and
representations of the
Italian South during the
Campania refuse crisis
From immigrants to citizen:
Pci and neighbourhood
associations in Turin
1955–1969
Valentina Dal Cin
(Universitá di Venezia)
Andrea Hajek
(Warwick University)
Valentine Lomellini
(Universitá di Padua)
Forms of political dissent in
Venice: opuscoli, caricature
and the role of censorship
from the democratic
experience of 1797 to the
Austrian domination
Dal basso alla bassa:
Grassroot mobilization in
post-earthquake Emilia
Romagna
Anti-Americanism in the
Italian Left during the
1960s–1970s: From the
traditional Communist
political culture to new
opinion making actors
Maurizio Cocco
(Università di Cagliari)
Elisabetta De Giorgi (New
University of Lisbon)
Tobias Abse
(University of London)
Abbasso tutti!
The Italian parliamentary
opposition today: Changes
for the better?
Rifondazione Comunista:
Party of protest or party of
government?
4.30 – 5.15 pm Discussion with Manuel Cecchinato Posadas
Venice
Summing up and Future Plans,
Room G22/26