Convegno internazionale “Conscription and Armed Volunteers. A Historical Reflection on the Modern Era”.
Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

L’evento si svolge nell’ambito del progetto Prin PNRR – Returning Foreign Fighters (ReFF). The Demobilisation of Italian Transnational War Volunteers, 1860s-1970s

29 febbraio, Ca’ Foscari – Sala Marino Berengo:

15:00 Keynote, Nir Arielli (University of Leeds) “Returning Foreign Fighters: a Short History”
16:30 Marco Rovinello (Università della Calabria) “Conscripts and Volunteers in Pre- and Post-Unification Italy”
Elena Bacchin (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) “Myth, Representations, and Shortcomings of Transnational Volunteers: Garibaldi’s British Legion”
Alessandro Bonvini (Università degli Studi di Salerno) “Garibaldians of New York: Adventurism, Republicanism, and Volunteerism in the American Civil War”

1 marzo, Palazzo Malcanton-Marcorà-Sala Geymonat

9:30 Francesco Frizzera (Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra) “‘Austria e preti e soldati si equivalgono’. Italian war volunteers during WWI”
Morten Rievers Heiberg (University of Copenhagen) “The Spanish Civil War after 1939. Mobilizations and demobilization of Spanish Civil War Volunteers in the 20th Century”
Nina Janz (NIOD, Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies) “The Waffen-SS Volunteers from Western Europe (Belgium, Luxemburg and the Netherlands): Preliminary Results on a Transnational Approach to War Experiences during Wolrd War II”
11:30 Enrico Acciai (Università di Roma Tor Vergata) “Transnational anti-fascist fighters an the early Cold War: the case of the Indian War”
Umberto Tulli (Università di Trento) “The Last Cold War Volunteers. Chilean War Volunteers and the Sandinista Revolution”
Alessandra Russo (Università di Trento) Ervjola Selenica (Università di Bologna) “The (Geo-)Politics of Paramilitary Actors in Ukraine”
15:30 Presentation of the Research Project: Returning Foreing Fighters (ReFF). The Demobilisation of Italian Transnational War Volunteers, 1860s-1970s”. Principal Investigator Università di Trento: Umberto Tulli. Capo Università di Roma Tor Vergata: Enrico Acciai. Capo Unità Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia: Elena Bacchin
Debate with the participation of Francesco Fusi (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) and Gabriele Siracusano (Università di Trento).
Interverranno: Nir Arielli, Marco Rovinello, Elena Bacchin, Alessandro Bonvini, Francesco Frizzera, Morten Rievers Heiberg, Nina Janz, Enrico Acciai, Umberto Tulli, Alessandra Russo, Ervjola Selenica, Francesco Fusi e Gabriele Siracusano.

Info: elena.bacchin@unive.it