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The Italian Cultural Institute of New York, in collaboration with the Department of Italian Studies and the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, presents:

"150 Years of Italian Government: What has been achieved?” A Seminar

New York,------The most prominent Italian think tanks and a select group of American academics, together with former Italian Prime minister Romano Prodi (Professor at large at Brown University), have been invited by the Italian Cultural Institute of New York to examine how Italy has been governed from unification to the present. Among the topics to be addressed at the seminar are the industrial, labor, education and welfare policies of the last 150 years. Expected participants include: J. A. Davis, R. Ben-Ghiat, D. I. Kertzer, C. Maier, P. Schneider, J. Schneider, C. Ipsen and representatives from the following Italian think tanks: Centro di Formazione Politica, Fond. Democratica, Fond. Liberamente, Fond. Magna Charta, ResPublica, Fond. per la Sussidiarietà, Istituto Bruno Leoni, Istituto Gramsci, Fond. Craxi and Istituto Sturzo.

Saturday, April 16, 2011, 11:00am - 6:00pm Location: Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center for the Arts, Brown University 145 Angell Street, Providence, RI, 02912

Media R.S.V.P. Eva Zanardi Tel: 212 879-4242 ext.333 Email:[email protected] or Italian [email protected]

GUEST SPEAKERS

ROMANO PRODI

Former prime minister of Italy, professor-at-large at Brown University ”Prodi was born in Scandiano, Italy, in 1939. He received his law degree at the Catholic University of Milan and completed postgraduate work at the London School of Economics. Prodi began his academic career at the University of Bologna in 1963, where he served as assistant in political economics and professor of industrial organization and industrial policy until 1999. He has also held research and teaching positions at the Lombard Institute of Economic and Social Studies, Stanford Research Institute, Free University of Trento, and Harvard University. In 1981, Prodi founded Nomisma, the largest Italian institute of economic studies, whose scientific committee he chaired until 1995. During his academic and institutional career, Prodi has received several prestigious awards and holds numerous honorary degrees from universities around the world, including a Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) from Brown, conferred in 1999.Prodi entered politics in 1978, when he was appointed the Italian minister of industry. From 1982 to 1989, he served as chairman of the Institute for Industrial Reconstruction (IRI), at the time Italy's largest holding company. Under his chairmanship, IRI underwent a far-reaching reorganization, embarking on a process of change and preparing its subsidiaries for privatization. Prodi was called back to the helm of IRI in May 1993 and successfully saw through the privatization of large companies such as Credito Italiano and Banca Commerciale Italiana.In 1995, Prodi founded the Ulivo — “The Olive Tree” — the center-left coalition, which made him its candidate for prime minister in the 1996 elections. Ulivo won the general elections that year and the Prodi government remained in office until 1998. One of its achievements was to secure Italy’s place among the first countries to adopt the euro.In 1999, Prodi was appointed president of the European Commission, the executive body of the European Union. During his presidency, the euro was successfully introduced; the Union was enlarged by 10 new countries from central, eastern and southern Europe; and the treaty establishing a constitution for Europe was signed. He served until 2005. In the 2006 parliamentary elections in Italy, Prodi again led the center- left coalition to victory, and again became prime minister, serving until May 8, 2008. Prodi is currently president of the Foundation for Worldwide Cooperation and chairman of the UN-AU Panel for Peacekeeping in Africa.Brown University established the professor-at-large position to invite individuals of exceptional distinction to participate in the intellectual and academic life of the University. Other current professors-at-large include Richard C. Holbrooke, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and Germany and recently appointed special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan for the Obama administration; the distinguished Mexican author Carlos Fuentes; and Ricardo Lagos Escobar, former president of the Republic of Chile.

David Kertzer, Provost Brown Univeristy David I. Kertzer joined the Brown faculty in 1992 as the Paul Dupee Jr. University Professor of Social Science. He is professor of anthropology and Italian studies and served as chair of the Department of Anthropology. He developed and directed the Anthropological Demography program at Brown and was founding director of the Politics, Culture, and Identity research program of the Watson Institute for International Studies.A Brown alumnus (A.B., 1969) and a Brown parent, Kertzer received a Ph.D. in anthropology from Brandeis University in 1974. He was William R. Kenan Jr. Professor at Bowdoin College from 1989 to 1992. He twice won the Marraro Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies for the best book in Italian history, and co-founded and for eleven years co-edited the Journal of Modern Italian Studies.Provost Kertzer served as the 2006-2007 President of the Social Science History Association. His book The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1997 and served as the basis of a play by Alfred Uhry. His many books have been translated into over a dozen languages.Provost Kertzer's many honors include a Guggenheim fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, two Fulbright fellowships, many National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health research awards, a fellowship year at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavior Sciences, Stanford, and a residency at the American Academy of Rome . In 2005 he was elected to be a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

John Davis

D.Phil., Oxford; Emiliana Pasca Noether Professor of Modern Italian History and Director, Center for European Studies: Modern Italy; Comparative European Social and Economic History since 1750

Jane Schneider (PhD U Michigan, 1965; Prof) Political economy, material culture, social movements; Mediterranean, Europe In 1965, having completed a PhD in political theory at the University of Michigan, Jane Schneider embarked on two years of anthropological fieldwork in Sicily, then became an anthropologist. Her career has been an interdisciplinary one, in which she has self-consciously considered the political, social, cultural and economic dimensions of whatever problem she undertook to study. The problems she has wrestled with fall into two categories: those related to the modern transformation of Sicilian society, and those related to selective strands of world history -- textiles, in particular. Her interest in the latter grew out of invitations, in the mid-1970s, to critically review and teach on Immanuel Wallerstein's The Modern World System. Concerned to demonstrate, but also to understand, what she perceived to be a Euro-centric bias in this path-breaking work, she went on to examine in the history of cloth important challenges to the triumphalist story of the "rise of Europe." Her essays, "Peacocks and Penguins, the Political Economy of European Cloth and Colors," "Was There a Pre-capitalist World System?" and "Spirits and the Spirit of Capitalism" explore these challenges.The fieldwork project that took her to Sicily in 1965 lasted for two years and initiated for her, as for her collaborator, Peter Schneider, a deep involvement with this region of Italy. Several periods of residence and research in a rural town of the Western interior led to two co- authored books: Culture and Political Economy in Western Sicily(1976) and Festival of the Poor; Fertility Decline and the Ideology of Class in Sicily(1996).During the last phase of the research for Festival of the Poor in the early 1980s, Sicily was convulsed by the entry of several prominent mafiosi and their allies into the global traffic in heroin. This development, and the responses to it, in the form of a police-judicial crackdown and the emergence of an antimafia social movement, have been the foci of her most recent research. A series of fieldtrips beginning in 1987, again in collaboration with Peter Schneider, underlie their third book, Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia and the Struggle for Palermo, University of California Press, 2003. It is hoped that this exploration of the connections between organized crime, politics and social movements will shed light on similar interactions elsewhere. New writing, concerned with crime and criminalization, and with cities damaged by organized crime, is under way. Peter T. Schneider, Ph.D .

Professor Emeritus of Sociology B.A., Antioch College; Ph.D., Michigan, 1965 Research Interests Cultural and political economy; historical demography; organized crime; social movements. Publications Jane C. Schneider and Peter T. Schneider. 2003. Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Anti- Mafia, and the Struggle for Palermo. University of California Press, Berkeley. Jane C. Schneider and Peter T. Schneider. 1999. "Is Transparency Possible? The Political-Economic and Epistemological Implications of Cold War Conspiracies and Subterfuge in Italy." In Josiah McC. Heyman, ed., States and Illegal Practices. Berg Press, Oxford. Peter T. Schneider and Jane C. Schneider. 1998. "Il Caso Sciascia." In Jane C. Schneider, ed.,Italy's Southern Question: 'Orientalism' in One Country, pp. 245- 261. Berg Press, Oxford. Jane C. Schneider and Peter T. Schneider. 1996. Festival of the Poor: Fertility Decline and the Ideology of Class in Sicily, 1960-1980. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. Jane C. Schneider and Peter T. Schneider. 1976. Culture and Political Economy in Western Sicily. Academic Press, New York. Revised, translated and published in Italy by Rubbettino Press, 1989.

Carl Ipsen, Professor, Department of History, Indiana University

I began my academic life as a historian of science interested in the social sciences and in particular demography. My dissertation work on population policy in Fascist Italy turned me into more of an historian of social policy and social problems. My second book on children’s issues in c.1900 Italy (abandonment, labor, delinquency, emigration) continues more or less in that vein. I have also done some work on emigration and ideas about emigration in that same period. I am a member of The Nineteenth Century Forum at Indiana University. Beyond the academy, I have worked as a consultant on the issues of contemporary child immigration and integration in Italy (an EU project) and on smoking in post- World War II Italy (for a law firm). My teaching has focused on nineteenth- and twentieth- century Europe and Italy (soon to include specific courses on the mafia and fascism), though I have also looked at the very long-term question of Europe’s place in the world and taught several times a course on world history since 1945. I grew up in Berkeley and have spent a number of years in Rome on various research trips and as a fellow of the American Academy in Rome.Research Interests - Italy: Fascism, population, children

Charles Maier Position: Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History Field: Modern Europe, International Specialty: Comparative 20th century European political, economic, and social history; global and international history including comparative empires; Cold War and European-American relations; German and Italian national histories Charles S. Maier served as Director of the Center for European Studies from 1994 to 2001 and fall 2006, and as Chair of the undergraduate Social Studies Program from 1991 to 1995, and served as acting Chair during 2007-08. Guest Directeur des Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris in sprin 2007. He published Among Empires in spring 2006 and is currently collaborating with William Kirby and Sugata Bose on a world history of the twentieth century and writing on the rise and decline of territoriality and on the history of the modern state. Maier currently teaches undergraduate courses on world history in the modern era, on World War I and World War II, on political trials, and together with Niall Ferguson, a two-semester sequence on international history. He supervises graduate reading fields in early modern and modern international history, modern social and economic history, and German and Italian history. He has directed dissertations on the comparative history of the welfare state, aspects of the Nazi Regime, and the history of the German Democratic Republic, among other topics, and encourages research in the era since 1945.

Adrian Lyttelton Senior adjunct professor of European Studies , John Hopkins University Background and Education Visiting professor at the American Academy in Rome (Fall 2003); visiting professor at the department of History, University of California, Berkeley (1997 and 2000); professor of European history, University of Pisa (1990-2000); associate of the Center for European Studies at Harvard University (1987); member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (1985-86); academic director of Research Institute, Bologna Center (1980-85); acting director, European program, SAIS Washington (Spring 1983); professor of history at the SAIS Bologna Center (1979-90); professor of modern history at the University of Reading, UK (1976-79); B.A. (Honours) in Modern History, Magdalen College, Oxford University (UK); fellow, All Souls College, Oxford (UK); fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford (UK) Publications The Seizure of Power: Fascism in Italy 1919-1929 (1973, 2nd edition 1988, 3rd edition 2004) - Italian translation, La conquista del potere(1974); editor of the volume on "Liberal and Fascist Italy" in the Short Oxford History of Italy (2002); "Creating a National Past: History, Myth and Image in the Risorgimento," in Making and Remaking Italy, (2001); "La dittatura fascista," in Storia d'Italia (1997); "Society and Politics - 1860-1915," in Oxford Illustrated History of Italy (1997); "The National Question in Italy," in The National Question in Europe(1990); "Society and Culture in the Italy of Giolitti," in Italian Art in the 20th Century (1989); The Language of Political Conflict in Pre-Fascist Italy, Bologna Center Occasional Paper (1988); editor ofItalian Fascisms (1973) Languages English Italian

Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Professor of Italian, History; Chair, Department of Italian Studies Ph.D. (comparative history), Brandeis; B.A., University of California at Los Angeles (history). Areas of Research/Interest: Modern Italian culture and history, twentieth-century European politics and culture; film history; fascism and the politics of its memory; colonialism and empire.External Affiliations: Editorial Board of the Journal of Modern Italian Studies; Editorial Board of the Journal of Romance Studies; American Association of Italian Studies, American Historical Assocation, Modern Language Association, Association for Studies in Modern Italy (UK), Societa per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea (Italy) Society for Italian Historical Studies, New York Film and Video Council; Advisory Board, European History Quarterly. Fellowships/Honors: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship; National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship; Mellon Foreign Area Fellowship, Library of Congress; Fulbright Research Fellowship; Getty Research Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship; Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant; American Philosophical Society Grant.

Prof. Alberto Mingardi is Director General of Istituto Bruno Leoni Institute, the Italian free-market think tank, which he contributed to found in late 2003.He holds a PhD from University of Pavia. His last book is an introduction to the political thought of "Herbert Spencer" (New York, Continuum, 2011). He is a regular columnist for the dailies Il Sole 24 Ore and Il Riformista and he writes frequently for The Wall Street Journal Europe.

Prof. NICOLA PASINI He is Associate Professor at the Università degli Studi di Milano since 2006 (www.sociol.unimi.it/persone ). He teaches Politics and Public Administration, Local Government, Comparative Public Administration at the Faculty of Political Sciences. Since 2004 he is director of Centro di Formazione Politica, Milano (www.formazionepolitica.org ); Since 1999 he is the coordinator of Ethics and Public Administration Section of Centro Studi Politeia, Milano ( www.politeia- centrostudi.org ); Since 1995 he is the coordinator of Welfare, Health and Immigration Unit of Foundation ISMU, Milano ( www.ismu.org ). His research interests are focused on: analysis of public administration and local government; transformation of relationship between politicians and civil servants in Italy and in Western Europe (spoils and merit system); ethical frontiers in public and private management with an interdisciplinary approach;rethinking the welfare state and citizenship (i.e. health policy and immigration) in the liberal and democratic societies;transformation of parties and party systems in Italy.

Luigino Bruni is Associate Professor in Economics at University of Milan-Bicocca, Economics Department. In 1998, Luigino completed his first PhD in the History of Economics at the University of Florence, Italy. He then went on to do a second PhD in Economics at the University of East Anglia in 2004. From 1996 to 1997, Luigino was a visiting student at the London School of Economics, London, and from 1997 to 1998, a Visiting Scholar at the University of East Anglia. In 1989, he graduated with a degree in Economics from the University of Ancona, Italy. In the last 15 years Luigino’s research has covered many areas, from Microeconomics to Ethics and Economics, to History of Economic Thought, and from Methodology of Economics to Sociality and Happiness in Economics. Recently his interests have turned to Civil Economy and economics-related categories, such as Reciprocity and Gratuitousness. On these topics, Luigino has written many books and some of these have been published in English (e.g. Reciprocity, altruism and civil society, Routledge, London, 2008; A Handbook on The Economics of Happiness, edited with P. Porta, Elgar, 2007; Civil Economy, with S. Zamagni, Peter Lang, Oxford, 2007; Civil Happiness, Routledge, London, 2006). In 2008, Luigino won Silver Prize at the “Templeton Enterprise Awards” for Civil Happiness (2006). This prize is annually awarded to the best books and articles on the culture of enterprise published that year. It is open to young scholars aged forty or younger at the time of publication. Luigino’s current research interests focus on the role of intrinsic motivation in economic and civil life.

Benedetto Ippolito is a researcher and docent of History of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Rome III. He teaches the same course at the Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose all’Apollinare and the Pontificia Università della Santa Croce in Roma. He is on the Board of Directors and member of the Scientific Committee of the Telecom Italy Foundation. He is a member of the Strategy Board of IPALMO (Institute for relations between Italy, Africa, Latin America and Middle and Far East), component of the technical- scientific committee of the Centro Studi Militari Aeronautici of the Association Arma Aeronautica and member of the Economic and Social Committee of the Bettino Craxi Foundation. He has worked with "Foglio "and "Avvenire" and is currently a lead writer for "Riformista" and author of numerous scientific publications. He is member of the Società Italiana per lo Studio del Pensiero Medievale, the Società Filosofica Italiana, and is on the Executive Committee of the Associazione Romana di Studi e Solidarietà and a consultant to the Fondazione Accademia di Educazione e Formazione Familiare.

Event: "150 Years of Italian Government: What has been achieved?”

Date: Saturday April 16, 2011 at 10:00AM – 6:00PM

Location: Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center for the Arts, Brown University 145 Angell Street, Providence, RI, 02912

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