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Conference Paper
« Les plantations du palmier à huile de la SONADER au Dahomey/Bénin : une sociale (années 1960 et 1970) by Giovanni Tonolo, Colloque International Les Mutations Rurales en Afrique Pendant le Périodes Coloniale et Postcoloniale, Yamoussoukro, 24-25 mars 2025)
26.03.2025
Conference Paper
“European Tribalism”: the EEC Hospital in Mogadishu (1958–1969) by Giovanni Tonolo, Hamburg 19-21 March 2025
26.03.2025
New Article.
Farmers and the European Common Agricultural Policy in the Delta of the River Po: stories from the Ente Delta Padano, 1962–73 by Kalliopi Geronymaki, just published online, European Review of HIstory
13.03.2025
Lezione
Sicurezza alimentare e organizzazioni internazionali. Lezione di Silvia Salvatici. Corso di formazione della Fondazione Gramsci Emilia-Romagna, 6 Marzo 2025
6.03.2025
New Article (Open Access)
Yugoslavia is (not) a Refugee Country? Refugees between Transit and Integration in an Ever-Changing Socialist State, by Francesca Rolandi. Nationalities Papers. 2025;53(2).
28.02.2025
New Article
Political beneficiaries of humanitarianism? The FNLA and the Angolan refugee crisis in the Congo (1960–1975), by Ana Guardião. Cold War History, 1-20.
12.02.2025
New Article
Between Idealism and Pragmatism: The Cristian Churches' Humanitarian Aid to Biafra in and from Colonial São Tomé (1967-1970), by Ana Guardião. Revista de História da Sociedade e da Cultura, vol 24 no 2.
18.12.2024
New Article
Viragens Humanitaristas para o Desenvolvimento: o Caso dos Refugiados Angolanos no Congo-Léopoldville, 1961-1975, by Ana Guardião, Ler História, vol 85.
18.12.2024
Presentation
Humanitarianism and International Solidarity: Informal Networks and Political Mobilization for Western Sahara in Italy and Spain (1975-1991), by Matilde Miniati. Madrid, 18 December 2024.
18.12.2024
International Workshop
Cyprus at the Crossroads of the Global Cold War, co-organsed by Kalliopi Geronymaki. French School of Athens, 3 December 2024.
3.12.2024
Special Issue
Humanitarianism in the Age of Decolonization: A View from Southern Europe (2024). The International History Review, 46:6. Edited by Silvia Salvatici. Articles by A. Urbano, K. Geronymaki, D. Brydan, D. Tot, A. Guardião, A. Martín Luque, K. O'Sullivan.
18.11.2024
Book Discussion
Alessandro Pes (co-author), Simona Berhe and Annalisa Urbano discuss about "L'Africa e l'espansionismo coloniale italiano nel ventesimo secolo". Chair: Silvia Salvati. Florence, 20 November 2024.
10.11.2024
Conference Paper
Humanitarian Stories of the Partition. Diplomacy of Relief Operations During the First Turkish Invasion of Cyprus, by Kalliopi Geronymaki. London, 7 November 2024.
6.11.2024
International Workshop
Humanitarianism and Southern Europe: New Perspectives in (Re)Thinking the Transitions to Democracy. Florence, 11-12 November 2024.
4.11.2024
New Article
Humanitarianism’s Volunteers: The Italian Lay Missionary Movement in the Long 1960s, by Silvia Salvatici. Emotions: History, Culture, Society.
28.10.2024
Lecture
Going East, Going West. Cultural relations and solidarity ties between Italy and Yugoslavia during the Cold War, by Francesca Rolandi. Belgrade, 23 October 2024.
4.10.2024
Conference Paper
The myth of "Yugoslav exceptionalism" or the real advantage of Yugoslavia in approaching the "Third World"?, by Dora Tot. Belgrade. 17 October 2024.
3.10.2024
New Website
Developing Humanitarian Medicine (DHM), a five-year research project based at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester.
23.09.2024
Paper
L’Italia postcoloniale e gli aiuti internazionali, by Silvia Salvatici. Rome, 18-19 September 2024
9.09.2024
Paper
Expertise, Development, and Natural Resources, by Giovanni Tonolo and Corinna Unger. Geneve, 2 September 2024.
1.09.2024
Two-Session Panel.
“Dealing in Solidarity” Liberation Movements’ Perspectives on International Aid. Papers by Ana Guardião and Alba Martín Luque. 31 August 2024.
25.08.2024
New Publication.
L'Italia repubblicana e gli aiuti internazionali (FUP, 2024) edited by Silvia Salvatici and Annalisa Urbano. Open Access.
17.07.2024
Call for Papers
Cyprus at the Crossroads of the Global Cold War, École Française d’Athènes. Deadline for Abstracts: 15 September 2024.
12.07.2024
New Publication
Mediterranean Solidarity. International Aid between Southern European Countries (1945-1990), edited by Grazia Sciacchitano, with contributions by Ana Guardião, Ruth Nattermann, Elena Serina, Silvia Salvatici, Kalliopi Geronymaki, Francesca Rolandi.
2.07.2024
Presentation.
Humanitarianism, the Yugoslav Way. Domestic Conceptualizations, Regional Solidarities, Global Ties, by Francesca Rolandi. Konstanz, 20 June 2024.
14.06.2024
Conference
Socialist Humanitarianism in the Long Twentieth Century. Francesca Rolandi and Dora Tot present papers on the Yugoslav Humanitarian Aid Policy and International Solidarity. Manchester, 11 - 12 June 2024.
6.06.2024
Talk
L'umanitarismo e le guerre, by Silvia Salvatici, festival Echi di storia, Lugano, 6 June 2024
5.06.2024
Workshop
Debating Humanitarianism: New Approaches and Methodologies. Florence, 28-29 May 2024.
22.05.2024
Keynote.
The history of humanitarianisms: New geographies, approaches and actors, by Silvia Salvatici. Venice 23-24 May 2024
7.05.2024
Conference Paper
A 'model' to save the Biafran children? Imperial and religious cooperation and the other pictures of the Nigeria-Biafran war (1968-1969), by Ana Guardião. Palermo, 22 May 2024.
6.05.2024
Presentation
Refugees, Migrants, or Citizens? The Categorisation, Aid and “Integration” Policies shaping “Post-Colonial” Portugal, by Ana Guardião. Geneva, 6 May 2024.
3.05.2024
Presentation
Refugees, Migrants, Citizens? Considering Populations Categorization after the End of the Portuguese Empire, by Ana Guardião. Gothenburg, 2-3 May 2024.
2.05.2024
Presentation
Ideological commitment, pragmatism, discretion: Socialist Yugoslavia and refugees against the backdrop of geopolitical and domestic developments, by Francesca Rolandi. Ljubljana , 19 April 2024
18.04.2024
Conference Paper
Refuge within contexted (post)imperial spaces: Refugee movements from the Kenyan, Algerian and Angolan independence wars (1951-1961), by Ana Guardião. Prague, 11-12 April 2024.
11.04.2024
Call for Papers
Humanitarianism and Southern Europe: New Perspectives in (Re)Thinking the Transitions to Democracy, Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2024.
13.03.2024
Conference Paper
A ‘Healthy’ Gateway to Global Markets: Yugoslav Medical Aid as a Commercialization Strategy in the Third World (1960s–1980s), by Dora Tot. Bucharest, 21 March 2024.
8.03.2024
Presentation
'Donor Country? The Postwar Presence of Greece in International Humanitarian Action and Diplomacy (1950-1976)', by Kalliopi Geronymaki. Athens, 20 March 2024.
8.03.2024
Workshop
Italy and International Aid. Andrea Stocchiero and Silvia Salvatici, University of Florence, 15 March 2024. 11 am - 13 am.
7.03.2024
Call for Abstracts
“Dealing in Solidarity” Liberation Movements’ Perspectives on International Aid, Annual Conference of the African Studies Association (UK), Oxford. Deadline: 29 March 2024
7.02.2024
Presentation
Refugees from Albania and Yugoslavia’s ambivalent refugee policies: A mirror for wider societal developments?, by Francesca Rolandi. Graz, 9 February 2024.
7.02.2024