Call for Papers: In the Shadow of the Swastika and the Fascio littorio. Cultural relationships between Italy and Germany in the interwar period, 1919-1938 (deadline May 29, 2022)

Call for Papers

In the Shadow of the Swastika and the Fascio littorio

Cultural relationships between Italy and Germany in the interwar period, 1919-1938

20-21 October 2022

Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, Rome

Fondazione Luigi Einaudi onlus, Turin

On the 100th anniversary of the “March on Rome”, the Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici and the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi jointly promote a one-and-a-half-day conference to shed new light on the dense web of cultural relationships between Italy and Germany in the interwar period, 1919-1938.

The conference intends to investigate reciprocal influences, exchanges and cultural confrontations between Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, looking at their evolution before 1938 and contextualising their genesis in the complex re-establishment of relations that began in the early 1920s.   

The organisers are inviting original papers that encourage discussion and, at the same time, provide an in-depth analysis of the cultural relationship between Italy and Germany.

Scientific Committee: Elisa D’Annibale (Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici), Federico Trocini (Fondazione Luigi Einaudi onlus), Brunello Mantelli (University of Calabria), Elisabeth Galvan (University of Naple “L’Orientale”)

Other Institutional Sponsors: Villa Vigoni - German-Italian Centre for the European Dialogue

How to participate:

The conference will take place on 20-21 October 2022 and will be hosted by the Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici in Rome (Villa Sciarra). 

Historians, political scientists, sociologists, etc. interested in participating are invited to submit a paper (20 minutes) by sending a 300-words abstract with a title and a short biography by Sunday 29 May 2022 to Elisa D’Annibale (dannibale@studigermanici.it) and Federico Trocini (federico.trocini@fondazioneeinaudi.it). The outcome of the selection process will be announced by 15 June. 

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