5th Collegio Ghislieri Graduate Conference
1st – 2nd March 2019 IDEAS, WORDS, THOUGHTS AND THEIR HISTORY
Scientific Committee: Arianna Arisi Rota (University of Pavia), Flavio Chiapponi(Università di Pavia), Giuseppe Cospito (University of Pavia)
Organizers: Giulia Delogu (Ca’ Foscari University), Antonio Gurrado (University of Pavia), Alessandro Maranesi (University of Pavia), Daniele Amodio (Collegio Ghislieri), Elena Serina (Collegio Ghislieri), Ludovica Taurisano (Collegio Ghislieri)
Keynote speakers: Silvio Pons (Scuola Normale Superiore) and Donatella Campus(University of Bologna)
TOPICS
The Collegio Ghislieri Graduate Conference is a multidisciplinary conference aiming to put together graduate students, PhD candidates and early career scholars from different background. It encompasses the historical analysis of ideas in a broaden chronological dimension. To facilitate the scholarly dialogue and exchange each year a core theme is selected. This edition will
explore the theme of Political Communication from the antiquity to the contemporary age in a multidisciplinary perspective. Proposals in the fields of history, philosophy, literature, linguistics, art, political science and law are welcomed.
Proposals may address the following subjects:
- Reconsideration of concepts (e.g. public, public opinion, ‘political’)
- Communication and representation/misrepresentation of power
- Strategies of communication: creation, manipulation and confutation
- Networks of communication: circulation, spreading and movement
- Media of communication: visual, written and oral sources
APPLICATION
Deadline is December 7th, 2018 (12.00 pm)
Graduate students (Master, PhD students and those who have defended their doctoral thesis not earlier than 2015) can submit proposals for papers of approximately 20 minutes. Participants will be offered accommodation and meals in the college (Collegio Ghislieri, Piazza Ghislieri 5, Pavia). Unfortunately, we will not be able to cover travel expenses. Successful applicants will be notified by December 21st. Please send the following to graduate.conference@ghislieri.it in .doc(x), .rtf, or .pdf format: a cover letter containing the following information: (a) author’s name (b) institutional affiliation (c) contact information, (d) title of the paper.
The title and abstract (around 500 words) of the paper. This should be prepared for blind refereeing i.e. showing no information identifying the author or the author’s institutional affiliation . Pending peer review, the papers will be taken into account for publication
PROGRAM
Ideas, Words, Thoughts and their History – 5th Collegio Ghislieri Graduate Conference
Pavia, March 1-2, 2019
Friday 1st March
2.30 PM
Welcome: Andrea Belvedere (Rector of Collegio Ghislieri)
Arianna Arisi Rota, Giuseppe Cospito, Flavio Chiapponi (University of Pavia)
3.00
Key note speaker: Donatella Campus (University of Bologna), Celebrity politics: the concept of
political stars in the contemporary era
3.30
Ancient and medieval rhetoric
Tadahiro Oota (Kyoto University), The Origin of the “Socratic Method” as Meaning of Consensus-
Building and its Historical Background
Martina Bono (University of Pavia), Not an imperial virtue: civilitas principis as an interpretative
model between senatorial “utopia” and historiographical representation
Pietro Mocchi (University of Kent), ‘Cum adversariis disputando, cum paribus conferendo’. The
Liber de Preeminentia Spiritualis Imperii (1329) by Opicinus de Canistris and its contemporary
political debate
Discussant: Alessandro Maranesi (University of Pavia)
5.00 Break
5.15
Emergency and Risk
Francesco Cutolo (Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa), The manipulation of the news about Spanish
Influenza pandemic by the Italian government and the consequences on the population in Italy (1918-
19).
Eric Repetto (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa), Security, Risk and Enemy Construction in Political
Communication: a New Framework
Discussant: Filippo Magni (University of Pavia)
6.15
Conclusion
Saturday 2nd March
9.30
Languages of power and assemblies
Anna Romsics (Central European University), Communication Breakdown in Feudal France: The
Case of William V of Aquitaine
Daniella Marie Gonzalez (University of Kent), Kepe wel thy tonge’: Communicating authority and
the regulation of seditious speech in 1380s London
Matteo Rategni (University of Pavia), The concept of politics in Germany between XVII and XVIII
Century
Discussant: Giulia Delogu (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
11.00 break
11.15
Generations
Cristopher Morash (University of Cambridge), The Young Ireland generation, communications
technology, and the globalisation of Irish
nationalism.
Pekka Kolehmainen (University of Turku), Towards Conceptual History of Rock Music: Rock in the
U.S. Culture Wars of the 1980s
Discussant: Arianna Arisi Rota (University of Pavia)
2.30
Not only words
Lorenzo Venuti (University of Florence), We have to become like them: football and communist
party if the second Hungarian Republic (1946-1949)
Lewis Scott (University of Nottingham), Investigating Political Party Change through Visual
Branding: The Case of the Austrian People’s Party
Kristiina Salo (University of Oulu), The images and narratives in two Italian weekly newspapers
regarding the question of Trieste 1950-1953.
Margherita Fontana (IULM, Milan), Minimalism and Political Propaganda: a Dilemma in New York
in the aftermath of ‘68
Discussant: Flavio Chiapponi (University of Pavia)
4.30 break
4.45
Key-note speaker: Silvio Pons (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), Reform Communism as a transnational movement of ideas between East and West (1953-1991)
