March, 16th-17th 2017
Organising Committee: Javier Rodrigo, David Alegre and Miguel Alonso
Location: Sala Plató, Pati Manning, c/Montalegre, nº 7, Barcelona (Spain)
PROGRAMME
Thursday 16th
09:00 – 09:30 - Introduction and welcome to the conference
Josep Lluis Martín Ramos (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Javier Rodrigo (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona)
09:30 – 11:00 - “Fascist War, Total War, Nazi War? The German Conduct of the Second World War”
Jeffrey Rutherford (Wheeling Jesuit University)
11:00 – 11:30 - Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00 - “Italian Fascism at War”
Amedeo Osti (Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom – Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma)
13:00 – 16:00 - Lunch
16:00 – 17:30 - “What makes Violence ‘Fascist’ in Times of War? Critical Reflections on Fascist Warfare in Colonial, Conventional and Civil Wars, 1936-1946”
Alexander Korb (University of Leicester)
17:30 – 18:00 - Coffee break
18:00 – 20:00/20:30 - Presentation of the papers proposed and debate
Daniel Hedinger (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen): “The Power of Myth. Blitzkrieg, Fascist Warfare and the Formation of the Axis”
Franziska Zaugg (Centre for War Studies – University College Dublin): “From the Milizia Fascista Albanese to the 21st SS ‘Skandernerg’-Division: Between Adapting Local Warfare and Imposing Fascist Ideology”
Lovro Kralj (Central European University): “The Ustasha Politics of Mass Violence: From Grassroots Wild Ustashe to State-oriented Methods of Destruction”
Nicolas Virtue (King’s University College – Western University): “Heavy Weapons, Terror and Non-Combatants in Italian Counterinsurgency Operations: Ethiopia and Yugoslavia, 1936-43”
Friday 17th
09:00 – 10:30 - “The Axis War in Spain: Combat, Experience, Fascistizzazione”
Javier Rodrigo (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
10:30 – 11:00 - Coffee break
11:00 – 13:00/13:30 - Roundtable: “Debating the concept of Fascist Warfare” (all the participants in the conference)
13:30 – 14:30 - Concluding Remarks
Alan Kramer (Trinity College Dublin)