Metis Summer School 2016

“Communicating Politics. Media, Communication, Activism from the French Revolution to the present”

19th September – 24th September 2016

University of Padova, Italy

The Summer School aimed at creating an international and highly qualified learning environment, which allowed participants to be actively involved in workshops and seminars and to experiment innovative ways of collaborative learning under the supervision of re-known academics and experts from different Universities and Research Centres.

The Summer School was promoted by the University of Padova – Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World, Italy and is offered in cooperation with the University of Paris – Versailles St. Quentin, France. The initiative has been designed in the framework of the existing cooperation activities that partner institutions have undertaken in the field of cultural history. The course was held in Padova, Italy, and lasted one week.

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Programme 

Monday 19th September

9.00-11.00 Participants welcome and registration | Introductory Lectures : Jean Claude YON, Le théâtre, une affaire politique en France au XIXe siècle | Carlotta SORBA, Theater, theatricality and politics in XIX century Europe

11.00-11.30 BREAK

11.30 – 13.00 Reading groups: The Media System in the Long XIX Century

13.00 – 14.30 LUNCH

14.30 – 16.00 Case Studies and Laboratory withAlessio PETRIZZO and Elena BACCHIN | Giulio TATASCIORE, La terra promessa dei briganti. Storia di un immaginario (1782-1876) | Fabiana LICCIARDI, Echi nei Theater-Kino-Varieté di un confine in guerra: Trieste 1914-1918

16.00 – 16.30 BREAK

16.30-18.00 Visit to the University historic building Palazzo Bo and its Anatomical Theatre

Tuesday 19th September

9.00-11.00 Introductory Lectures : François VALLOTTON, Edition et engagement politique : cartographie d’un champ de recherche | Philippe KAENEL, Society on the move : an Iconology of  fin-de-siècle urban wandering (as seen by Jules Adler and Th.-A. Steinlen)

11.00-11.30 BREAK

11.30 – 13.00 Reading groups: The Media System in the Long XIX Century

13.00 – 14.30 LUNCH

14.30-16.00 Case Studies and Laboratory with Gian Luca FRUCI and Sandro MORACHIOLI | Pol DALMAU PALET, Press and Politics in Modern Spain. The case of the Godó family and the founding of La Vanguardia | Giulio ARGENIO, Mass Media in American Science Fiction Magazines: the Case of “Galaxy Science Fiction”

16.00 – 16.30 BREAK

6.30-18.00 Katarzyna MATUL, La légitimation culturelle de l’affiche après 1945 | Jessica Lynn HARRIS, Exporting Mrs. Consumer: The American Woman in Italian Culture, 1945-1975

Wednesday 21st September

9.00-13.00 WORKSHOP: Political objects in Nineteenth-Century Europe |

Chair: Enrico FRANCIA | Speakers: Rolf REICHARDT, Gianenrico BERNASCONI, Roberto BALZANI, Maria LOUSADA

13.00 – 14.30 LUNCH

14.00-18.00 Visit to the Museum of  precinema and the Botanical Garden

Thursday 22nd September

9.00-11.00 Introductory Lectures : Caroline MOINE, Ecrire l’histoire des festivals internationaux de cinéma : au cœur des relations entre cinéma et politique| Alberto Mario BANTI, Rock narratives and politics

11.00-11.30 BREAK

11.30-13.00 Cinema, Archives and Sources Chair: Alessandro FACCIOLI | Speakers: Michela ZEGNA, La Cineteca del Comune di Bologna | Paolo SIMONI, L’Archivio Nazionale dei film di famiglia

13.00 – 14.30 LUNCH

14.30-16.00 Case Studies and Laboratory withAlessandro FACCIOLI,  Damiano GAROFALO | Boris RUZIC, The Gaze Behind the Screen: Perception of Images in Media Texts | Dunja JELENKOVIC, The Cultural and Political History of the Yugoslav Documentary and Short Film Festival 1954-2004. From Yugoslav Socialism to Serbian Nationalism.

16.00 – 16.30 BREAK

16.30-18.00 Johanna AMAR, La médiatisation des premiers festivals de musique pop français et italiens en 1970 : représenter les cultures contestataires | Ivan PAGLIARO, Il PCI e la popular music. Ascesa e declino del partito pedagogo, 1943-1991.

Friday 23rd September

9.00-11.00 Introductory Lectures : François ROBINET, Les interventions militaires françaises en Afrique (1994-2014) : des usages stratégiques des narrations médiatiques | Ferdinando FASCE, As if he were a patent medicine. The Rise and Development of Political Consulting in Twentieth Century U.S.

11.00-11.30 BREAK

11.30-13.00 Radio and Television Sources. Chair: Caroline MOINE | Speakers: Nelly VALSANGIACOMO, Sources radiotélévisuelle pour l’histoire contemporaine: le cas des migrations| Raffaela PERIN, Sources pour une histoire de Radio Vatican dans la Seconde Guerre Mondiale

13.00 – 14.30 LUNCH

14.30-16.00 Case Studies and Laboratory withDamiano GAROFALO, Federico MAZZINI | Alexander GOLOVLEV, Comparative analysis of Soviet and French musical promotion in occupied Austria after World War II | Ascanio CECCO Les expositions organisées par l’administration américaine en Europe, entre 1949 et 1952.

16.00 – 16.30 BREAK

16.30-18.00 Cyril MICHAUD, Le Réarmement moral en Suisse (1945-1965) : implantation, réseau et militance d’un mouvement politico-religieux anticommuniste | Christophe KEROSLIAN, Etude sur l’évolution des stratégies communicationnelles du P.C.F. à la fin des années 1960

Saturday 24th September

9.00-11.00 Case Studies and Laboratory on Collective memory and mediawith Mirco CARRATTIERI | Costanza CALABRETTA, Rivoluzione pacifica e Unità. Celebrazioni nella Germania riunificata (1990-2014)

11.00-11.30 BREAK

Franziska KOLS, War crimes in the collective memory. The trials for nazi massacres in Italy after 1994 from a German-Italian perspective | Maria Luisa MIRAGLIA, Politiche di segregazione tra Kosovo e Sud Africa |

11.30-14.30 Students present their contribution to a Summer School blog | Award of diplomas