From the Republics of Virtue to the Republic of Parties

The Transformation of Republicanism in Modern and Contemporary Italy

October 22nd, 2010

9:30am-6:45pm

Italian Academy for Advanced Study in America at Columbia University

 

A workshop organized by Nadia Urbinati (Columbia University) in collaboration with the Journal of Modern Italian Studies, The Columbia Seminar of Italian Studies, The European Institute of Columbia University, and the Department of Political Science at Columbia University.

 

Workshop participants:

 

 

9:30am -- 12:30pm

Anna Maria Rao (University of Naples, Federico II)

“Eighteenth century republicanism to the start of Risorgimento movements”

Adrian Lyttelton (Johns Hopkins SAIS, Bologna Center)

“Sismondi, England and Italy: between the city and the nation”

Nadia Urbinati (Columbia University)

“From theory to ideology: Giuseppe Mazzini’s contribution to the transformation of republicanism” 

 

Chair: John Davis (University of Connecticut- co-editor JMIS)

2:30pm—5:30pm

Mauro Moretti (Università per Stranieri of Siena)

“The construction of the political Italian and republican tradition: 

Pasquale Villari and Gaetano Salvemini”

Michele Battini (University of Pisa)

“The ‘good’ use of utopia: Liberal socialists in Giustizia e Libertá”

Mariuccia Salvati (University of Bologna)

“The Republic of parties”

 

Chair: Nadia Urbinati (Columbia University)

 

5:45pm--6:45pm

 

Round Table

 

John Davis (University of Connecticut)

Pasquale Pasquino (CNRS, Paris- NYU)

Maurizio Viroli (Princeton University)

 

Chair: Marta Petrusewicz (Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center)