INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
Department of Human Studies, University of Eastern Piedmont
Società Italiana di Storia Internazionale
Interuniversity Center for European-American History
and Politics
Joint Research Project of University of Eastern Piedmont and San Paolo Bank.
THE HISTORICAL “DISPUTE OF THE NEW WORLD.”
European Historians of the United States and European History,
Culture and Public Life.
THURSDAY-FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10-11, 2015
TORINO,Italy
Fondazione Luigi Einaudi,
Via Principe Amedeo 38
The conference takes place in English.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
9,00 am
SESSION n.1
Chair: to be indicated
Welcome Address:
Raffaella Baritono, Director, CISPEA
Introductory Remarks:
Maurizio Vaudagna, CISPEA, University of Eastern Piedmont
Presentations:
Stephen Tuck, Oxford University
British Historians of the United States and British History, Culture and Public Life(to be confirmed)
Phillip Gassert,University of Mannheim
Representing the Most Significant Other: German Historians View the United States
Sylvia Hilton,Complutense University in Madrid
Writing U.S. History in Contemporary Spain
discussion
3,00 pm
SESSION n.2
Chair:to be indicated
Ivan Kurilla,State University of St. Petersburg
Russia and the United States: Diplomacy, Technological Exchanges and Mutual Image Construction
Tvrko Jacovina, University of Zagreb
"Where, in Hell, is America?"Yugoslav Historians on the USA: Between Migration and Selected
Political Topics.
Marcin Fatalski, Jagellonian University, Krakow
From Politicized Historiography to Pluralistic Debate? Studies on US history in Poland after the
Second World War
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
9,00 am
SESSION n.3
Chair: Michael Heale,Lancaster University
Dag Blanck, Uppsala University
The Significance of Location: Practicing American History in Sweden
Paul Schor, Université Paris VII “Denis Diderot”
French Historians and the History of the State and Society in the United States.
Ferdinando Fasce,University of Genoa
Italian Historians of the United States and Italian History, Culture and Public Life (to be confirmed)
3,00 pm
SESSION n.4
Chair: to be indicated
Roundtable:
European Historians of the United States,European-Wide Views of the American Past, and
European History, Culture and Public Life.
Alexander Etkind (European University Institute,Florence)
Federico Romero (European University Institute,Florence)
Edoardo Tortarolo (University of Eastern Piedmont)
Participants: Matteo Battistini (University of Bologna), Elisabetta Bini (University of Triest), Alessandra
Bitumi (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), Simone Cinotto (university of Gastronomic Sciences), Marco
Mariano (University of Eastern Piedmont), Matteo Pretelli (Warwick University), Giovanni Borgognone
(University of Torino),.........