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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
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
Conference Paper
Branding the Non-Aligned Expert: Socialist Yugoslavia's Citizen Diplomacy in the Global South, By Dora Tot. Philadelphia, 2 December 2023.
2.12.2023
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Talk
From recipients to donors? Southern European states and international aid, by Silvia Salvatici. Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, Manchester, 7 December 2023.
27.11.2023
New Article (Open Access)
'The Tana-Beles Project in Ethiopia and the Making of Postcolonial Humanitarianism, 1938–1994', by Silvia Salvatici. The Historical Journal.
31.10.2023
Conference Paper
Gli aiuti internazionali spagnoli al Cile di Pinochet, by Grazia Sciacchitano. Trondheim, 27 October 2023.
27.10.2023
New Article (Open Access)
"Researching post-independence Africa in regional archives", by Alexander Keese and Annalisa Urbano. Africa: Journal of the International African Institute.
26.10.2023
Conference Paper
Geographies of Orthodox missionary humanitarian aid in Africa. The presence of the Churches of Greece and Cyprus (1950-1989), by Kalliopi Geronymaki. Athens 30-31 October 2023.
17.10.2023
Conference Paper
Yugoslavia's 'Battle for Algiers': Intra-Socialist Competition in Colonial and Post-Colonial Algeria (1958-1965), by Dora Tot. Pisa 25-27 October 2023.
11.10.2023
Talk
Aiuti internazionali e passato coloniale, by Silvia Salvatici. Festival Dialoghi di Pandora Rivista Quale sviluppo? Scegliere l'orizzonte, October 11, 5 pm, Sala Stabat Mater Biblioteca dell’Archiginnasio in cooperation with Fondazione Gramsci Emilia-Romagna
6.10.2023
Workshop
The Past, Present, and Future of International Institutions?, organised by the UNDP Human Development Report Office, The Nuffield “Long Humanitarian Century” programme, and the Oxford Martin Programme on “Changing Global Orders", New York 17-18 October, participation of Silvia Salvatici
1.10.2023
Conference Paper
Global Solidarity. The Ethics, Policies and Practices of INGOs, by Silvia Salvatici, Oxford 14-15 September 2023
12.09.2023
New Chapter
'Between War and Productivity: Facets of Agricultural Training and Land Restoration in the Villages of Northern Greek Macedonia from the Civil War to the AMAG, 1944-53', by Kalliopi Geronymaki.
9.09.2023
Book Chapter
'Transforming Agriculture and Rurality: The Common Agricultural Policy, Actors, National Adaptation and Responses to Policy Challenges', by Kalliopi Geronymaki and Carine Germond Carine.
9.09.2023
New Article
'Missing the Global Turn: Italy, the 1951 Refugee Convention, and the Belated Removal of the Geographical Limitation', by Silvia Salvatici. European History Quarterly
8.06.2023
Book
Comparative research on Refugees, Human Rights and Humanitarianism during the decolonization process of Algeria, Angola and Kenya, by Ana Guardião.
5.06.2023
ECAS 2023
Alba Martín Luque participates in the round-table Eastern Europe, Soviet Union and African Decolonization: New Perspectives. Cologne, 1 June 2023.
1.06.2023
International Workshop
Mediterranean Solidarity. International Aid Between Southern European Countries (1945-1990). Florence, 30 May 2023.
8.05.2023
Book Launch
Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and Africa, with the participation of Alba Martín Luque. University of Évora, 17 May 2023. Also on Zoom.
3.05.2023
New Chapter
“We Have Made History”: Yugoslav Visual Solidarity with FRELIMO’s Struggle (1967–1975), by Alba Martín Luque. From the book Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and Africa
21.04.2023
International Workshop
Humanitarianism, human rights and development during global decolonization (1945-1980). Coimbra, 12-13 April 2023
31.03.2023
Workshop
With Stefano Picciaredda, Silvia Salvatici, Annalisa Urbano. Florence, Novoli Campus, 31 March 2022
22.03.2023
International Conference
Anticolonial Struggle, Transnational Solidarity and Agency of Individual Actors. Lisbon, 26-27 January 2023.
24.01.2023