Living underground as a strategy for political struggle. Modes, discourses and social dynamics from the 19th century until today

Living underground as a strategy for political struggle. Modes, discourses and social dynamics from the 19th century until today

Veranstalter
Tullio Ottolini, PhD student University of Bologna; Virgile Cirefice, PhD student University of Paris 8; Grégoire Lequang, PhD student University of Paris 8
Veranstaltungsort
Aula Gambi, History Department at University of Bologna, Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2, Bologna
Ort
Bologna
Land
Italy
Vom - Bis
09.02.2017 - 10.02.2017
Deadline
15.11.2016
Von
Università di Bologna - Université Paris 8

International Day of Studies Bologna, Thursday 9th and Friday 10th February 2017. The seminar will be held in Italian, French and English.

Living underground as a strategy for political struggle. Modes, discourses and social dynamics from the 19th century until today.

Submissions deadline: 15th November 2016

To choose to hide in order to accomplish certain actions in the political perspective of resisting and opposing a constituted power, is a political choice that historically has never ceased to be actual, from the first Christians hiding in the catacombs to the FARC guerrilla in the Colombian forests. Our interest on the topic of clandestinity arises from having observed that the main body of work of historians regarding underground organizations has focused on the political or religious reasons of this radical choice, on the practices of dissimulation or on certain historical periods – in particular on the Resistance movements during the WWII10 –. So far living underground has not been investigated as an analytical criterion able to emphasize common characteristics of groups born in very different contexts.

We define clandestine struggle as the political and social action conducted in hiding by groups who act within a prolonged illegal status. Therefore, we exclude from this interpretation the single action executed illegally, not continually but rather exceptionally, despite its political aim. What we want to focus on is the group that, by choice and/or by necessity, operates underground in order to pursue its political goals

This call is addressed to PhD students, master students or young researchers, who are hereby invited to submit papers related to the following themes:
- The discourses that justify the choice of living underground usually presented as a complete refusal of the constituted authority.
- The modalities of the underground organization, the internal functioning of the groups and its changes imposed by the clandestine situation.
- Another interesting aspect to investigate would be the relationship these clandestine groups have with civil society.

Paper Submission Process:

We invite the PhD students, master students or young independent researchers to submit:
1) one abstract of approximately 4 000 characters (with spaces), deadline 15th November 2016 (included) in PDF or Doc format, in either Italian, French or English
2) a brief academic and personal profile – specifying your language abilities – of approximately 1 500 characters (with spaces), in PDF format.
Submissions has to be sent by email to all the following addresses in one single message:
virgile.cirefice@gmail.com
glequang@gmail.com
tullio.ottolini@unibo.it

The seminar will be held in Italian, French and English.
The results will be announced directly to the participants by email before the 10th December 2016.

Accommodation expenses (one overnight) will be covered for the selected participants (within budget limits). The transportation expenses, instead will be not covered. Although in case of complications or for any special request please contact the organizing committee. The seminar will take place on two days: Thursday 9th February and Friday 10th February 2017 at the Department of Cultural History and Civilization, Università di Bologna, Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2, Bologna, Italia.

Organizing Committee:
Virgile Cirefice, PhD student (Université Paris 8 - Università di Bologna) virgile.cirefice@gmail.com
Grégoire Le Quang, PhD student (Université Paris 8 - Università di Macerata) glequang@gmail.com
Tullio Ottolini, PhD student (Università di Bologna) tullio.ottolini@unibo.it

Academic Panel:
Paolo Capuzzo, Contemporary History Professor, Università di Bologna. Patrizia Dogliani, Contemporary History Professor, Università di Bologna. Marie-Anne Matard-Bonucci, Contemporary History Professor, Université Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis.
Marica Tolomelli, Contemporary History Professor, Università di Bologna.

Programm

The seminar will take place on two days: Thursday 9th February and Friday 10th February 2017 at the Department of Cultural History and Civilization, Università di Bologna, Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2, Bologna, Italia.

The seminar will be held in Italian, French and English.
The results will be announced directly to the participants by email before the 10th December 2016.

Kontakt

Tullio Ottolini

Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2
Bologna, Italy

tullio.ottolini@unibo.it

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