THURSDAY 27 JUNE
9:15 – 10:00 am
INTRODUCTION – Martin Baumeister (Rome), Roberto Sala (Basel) –
10:00 am – 1:30 pm
SESSION I – HISTORICAL REGIONS AND MENTAL MAPPING IN POSTWAR-EUROPE
Chair: Johannes Paulmann (Mainz) – Discussant: Bernhard Struck (St Andrews)
- “Centre” and “Periphery” in Western Europe – Patricia Hertel (Basel) (with Martin Lengwiler, Basel)
- The Master Narratives of ‘Modernization’ and ‘Modernity’ – Wolfgang Knöbl (Göttingen)
- Unsettling the Divide: Postcoloniality, Multiple Modernities, and Europeanization on the Mediterranean Periphery – Gisela Welz (Frankfurt)
- Southern Europe and Historical Regions in Post-War Europe: Fragmentation and Conceptualization - Guido Franzinetti (Alessandria)
3:00 – 3:30 pm:
LOOKING AT “SOUTHERN EUROPE SINCE 1945” TWO DECADES LATER A conversation between Giulio Sapelli and Martin Baumeister
3:30 – 7:00 pm
SESSION II – STRUCTURES, DISCOURSES, AND BORDERS
Chair: Stefano Cavazza (Bologna) – Discussant: Martin Baumeister (Rome)
- Italy, Portugal, Greece and Spain in Social Scientific Studies – Martin Rhodes (Denver)
- Southern Eastern Europe and Southern (Western) Europe – Marie-Janine Calic, (Munich)
- Southern France: Algeria and the Midi between Colonization and Decolonization – Manuel Borutta (Bochum)
- The Edges of What, the Periphery of Whom? Practising Discourses of Modernity in Turkey, 1950s to 1980s – Heinrich Hartmann (Basel)
7:30 – 8:30 pm
EVENIG LECTURE
Alexander Stille (New York) – Southern Europe at the Beginning of the 21th Century. Crisis of the European Model?
FRIDAY 28 JUNE
9:15 – 12:45 am
SESSION III – BETWEEN AUTHORITARIANISM AND DEMOCRACY
Chair: Roberto Sala (Basel) – Discussant: Federico Romero (Florence)
- The Cold War, Southern Europe, and the Democratic Transitions of the 1970s – Mario Del Pero (Bologna)
- Southern European Dictatorships in Transnational Discourse and Historiography – Till Koessler (Bochum)
- Patterns of European Integration in Southern Europe. A Political-historical Study of the Impact of the Periphery on the Development of the European Union – José M. Magone (Berlin)
- Is there a Southern European Political Culture? – Leonardo Morlino (Rom)
2:15 – 6:15 pm
SESSION IV – ECONOMY AND SOCIETY
Chair: Martin Rhodes (Denver) – Discussant: Roberto Sala (Basel)
- From Endemic Poverty to Consumer Society – Stefano Cavazza (Bologna)
- Public Debt and Economic Development in Southern Europe – Alexander Nützenadel (Berlin)
- Welfare Balance Between State and Family. A Southern Configuration? – Claude Martin (Rennes)
- Education and Economic Development – Antonio Schizzerotto (Trient)
- From Emigration to Immigration Countries – Michele Colucci (Neapel)
6:45 pm – 7:45 pm
ROUND TABLE AND CONCLUSIONS
Mario Del Pero (Bologna), Claudio Fogu (San Diego), Johannes Paulmann (Mainz), and Martin Rhodes (Denver)
Moderation: Martin Baumeister (Rome)