Description: Participation: This conference will serve a double purpose: on People who want to attend the conference for one, Catholicism and the one hand participants will present research two or three days should pre-register and pay the on the general theme of the relationship between attendance fee (15 euros/1 day, 25 euros/2 days, 35 Fascism(s) in Europe Catholicism and fascism in Europe in the period euros/3 days). For pre-registration and payment, 1918-45; on the other hand the discussion will please contact Jan Nelis ([email protected], with be taken to a theoretical level. Participants will 1918-1945: a ‘cc’ to [email protected]). We urge tho- cover a number of geographical contexts which se who want to attend the conference to register as is unprecedented in a conference of this size. soon as possible; registration closes on September The final aim is to further develop an interpretive 3rd, 2010. Admittance subject to availability. Beyond a Manichean ‘cluster’ model that will incorporate a series of investigative matrixes, thus inspiring future Approach research. Organised by: With support from and thanks to: 15 - 17 September 2010 Centre interdisciplinaire d’étude des Keynote speakers: religions et de la laïcité (CIERL-ULB) EMILIO GENTILE (La Sapienza) ROGER GRIFFIN (Oxford Brookes) RENATO MORO (Roma Tre) Scientific committee: • Roger Griffin (Oxford Brookes) • Patrick Loobuyck (Antwerp) • Anne Morelli (ULB-CIERL) • Jan Nelis (Ghent-CSCT) Accademia d’Ungheria in Roma • Danny Praet (Ghent-CSCT) Via Omero 8 • Jeffrey Tyssens (VUB-BHIR) 00197 Roma • Paul Wynants (FUNDP) www.academiabelgica.it WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15th, 2010 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16th, 2010 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17th, 2010 09.00-09.30: coffee and registration 09.30h-10.30h: ROGER GRIFFIN: Religion secular and 09.30-10.30: RENATO MORO: La Chiesa, i cattolici 09.30-10.00: welcome address (conference profane: the contorted relationship between the revealed e i movimenti di tipo fascista in Europa: un tentativo di organizers) religion of Catholicism and the sacralized politics of analisi comparativa 10.00-11.00: EMILIO GENTILE: Sacralizzazione fascism in inter-war Europe della politica e totalitarismo: Cristo con Cesare o contro 10.30-12.00: VII: Theoretical Approaches and Cesare? coffee break Considerations 11.00-12.30: I: Fascism and Political Catholicism 11.00-13.00: IV: The Vatican and Totalitarianism • CONSTANTIN IORDACHI: Fascism and Religion: The Case of the Iron Guard • MARK BIONDICH: From Antemurale christianitatis • ANNIE LACROIX-RIZ: Le Vatican et le fascisme • OLEKSANDR ZAYTSEV: The Heuristic Value of the to Antemurale humanitatis: Fascisticizing Catholi- français 1938-1945 Theory of Political Religion for the Study of Ukrainian cism in interwar Croatia • ALFONSO BOTTI: Il rapporto tra S. Sede, chiesa Integral Nationalism and its Relations with the Greek- • EGON PELIKAN: Ideology of Slovene Political spagnola e fascismo spagnolo (Falange) negli anni Catholic Church in the 1920-30s Catholicism in the Light of Ideological Premises of della guerra civile • HANS OTTO SEITSCHEK: Katholische Kirche und Fascism Between the Two World Wars • HANS DE VALK: The Vatican and Dutch National- Totalitarismus. Ein ideengeschichtlicher Überblick • MARTINO PATTI: Il dilemma fra collaborazione Socialism in the 1930s. Pages from a Hidden Agenda e resistenza. Il cattolicesimo tedesco di fronte alla • DONATELLO ARAMINI: Istituti culturali, regime e Machtergreifung hitleriana Vaticano nel ventennio fascista 14.30-16.00: VIII: Catholicism and Fascism-Nazism as Seen From Abroad 14.00-15.30: II: National Churches 1 14.30-16.00: V: Fascism, Catholicism and the • BORUT KLABJAN: Fascism, Catholicism, Nazism. • MANUEL LOFF: God, Fatherland, Authority: Intellectuals The Case of Interwar Slovakia Catholic Church and Iberian Fascisticized Regimes, • FEARGHAL MCGARRY: Catholicism and fascism in 1933-45 • CLAUDE PIERRE PEREZ: Le cas Claudel Ireland, 1933-45 • CSABA FAZEKAS: The Roman Catholic Church and • MICHEL FINCŒUR/CÉCILE VANDERPELEN: • ANNE MORELLI: L’emprise du fascisme sur Extreme Right-Wing Ideologies in Hungary, 1920- L’arc-en-ciel. Une revue belge d’ordre nouveau l’encadrement religieux des émigrés italiens en 1945 catholique pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale Belgique (1922-1940) • BETH ANN GRIECH-POLELLE: The Catholic • CYNTHIA PACES: Catholics and Nationalism: Episcopacy and the National Socialist State Forging a New Identity in Interwar Czechoslovakia 16.00-16.40: JAN NELIS, Concluding Remarks coffee break coffee break 16.00-17.30: III: Catholicism and Fascism in Italy 16.30-18.00: VI: National Churches 2 • PAUL ARPAIA: Converging and Diverging • MIHAELA GRANCEA /CORNEL MOSNEAG: Parallels: The Case of the Gerarca Luigi Federzoni The Romanian United (Greek-Catholic) Church and (1878-1967) Right-Wing Extremism • MATTEO BARAGLI: Il ‘Centro Nazionale Italiano’ • DANIELE SERAPIGLIA: Estado Novo: il fascio, la e la figura di Filippo Crispolti: profili e progetti del corona e la croce clerico-fascismo italiano (1922-1930) • LOTHAR HÖBELT: Austrian Catholicism and the • JAN NELIS: Italian Catholic opinion and the Advent Fascist Options of the 1930s of Fascism: ‘L’Avvenire d’Italia’ 1922-25.