Weekly programs

    Week 1. Risorgimento and Liberal Italy

    Monday 29th June 2015 Tuesday 30th June 2015 Wednesday 1st July 2015 Thursday 2nd July 2015 Friday 3rd July 2015
    9:00-10:15 The Italian Nation: meanings and history Patriotic Literature and SongsThe Italian Reign and the Catholic Church: a   difficult relationship. Visit   to the Museo del Risorgimento, Vittoriano (Roma) Political Life in Liberal Italy. Making Italy and the Italians: the Role of Education
    10:30-11:45 Imagining Italy in the 1830s-40s:   conflicting projects. The Risorgimento in Early Italian Cinema Feminist Movements in Nineteenth-Century Italy The Shock of Modernity: Italians in the Great War
    Lunch Break
    13:30-14:45 How Did They Become Heroes? Francesco Ferrucci, Giuseppe   Garibaldi and the Others The Italian Reign and the Catholic Church: a   difficult relationship. Discussion & students’ presentations
    15:00-16:15 The Wars of Independence: 1848-1866 Religious Minorities in the Risorgimento.

    Week 2. Fascism and the Post-war

    Monday 6th July 2015 Tuesday 7th July 2015 Wednesday 8th July 2015 Thursday 9th July 2015 Friday 10th July 2015
    9:00-10:15 The Invention of Fascism and the Mistery   of the “Fascist” Ideology I Fascist Racism and Anti-Semitism Visit   to the Museo della Resistenza – Via Tasso (Roma). Italy’s Economic Miracle: Social and Cultural   Transformations Crisis and Collapse of the Italian Political System   (1978-1992)
    10:30-11:45 The Invention of Fascism and the Mistery of the “Fascist” Ideology II The Wars of Fascism Feminist Movements in Twentieth-Century Italy The Triumph of Tv: Italy in the Last Twenty Years
    Lunch Break
    13:30-14:45 Repression and Opposition under the   Fascist Regime The Civil War of 1943-1945 and its Political and Intellectual Legacies Discussion & students’ presentations
    15:00-16:15 Italian Antifascism in the European   Context of the 1930s The Building of the Democratic Republic and the Mass   Political Party System