Francesco Vizzarri (francesco.vizzarri@geschichte.uni-giessen.de) ha studiato storia e scienze politiche in Italia e in Germania. Dal 2019 è dottorando e assistente alla ricerca e alla didattica presso la cattedra di Storia contemporanea dell’Università Justus Liebig di Giessen (Prof. Dr. Hannah Ahlheim). Il suo progetto di dottorato si concentra sulla storia della migrazione italiana in Europa dopo il 1945 e in particolare sulle attività sociali e politiche delle organizzazioni di migranti italiani nella Repubblica Federale Tedesca dagli anni ’60 agli anni ’90.
Journal articles and book chapters:
Europe makers from below? Italian migrant organizations in West Germany and their ideas of „Europe’ in the 1970s. In: Katja Gorbahn and Marcus Otto (ed.): Concepts of Europe from the 19th to the 21st Century: Between Continuity and Change, Amsterdam: Brill 2025 (in preparation, 2025).
“Eine Reise ins Ungewisse”. Überlegungen zur Migration und Integration von Italienerinnen und Italienern in den 1960/70er Jahren. In: Alexander Kraus, Aleksandar Nedelkovski und Anita Placenti-Grau (Hg.): Percorsi di vita. Lebenswege nach Wolfsburg. 1. Auflage. Göttingen, Niedersachs: Wallstein (Stadt Zeit Geschichte, 8), 2022, S. 44–51. ISBN 978-3-8353-5350-3.
‘No longer exiled, but protagonists’. The FILEF (Italian Federation of Migrant Workers and Families) and European human rights discourse in the 1970s. In: Modern Italy 26 (3), 2021, S. 331–351. DOI: doi.org/10.1017/mit.2021.27.
“Entkolonialisieren” der Migration. Die Italienische Föderation der emigrierten Arbeiter und ihrer Familien (FILEF) in der europäischen Arbeiterbewegung in den 1970er-Jahren. In: Arbeit – Bewegung – Geschichte. Zeitschrift für historische Studien 2021/I, 2021, S. 125-143. ISBN: 978-3-86331-565-8.
Conference presentations and workshops:
25.9.2025: From Lecce to Wolfsburg and Back: Return Migration, Artistic Practice, and Collective Memory in the Work of Crocifisso Sisinni, International Conference “Torna a Surriento”: Return Migration to Southern Italy from 1876 to Today, University of Oxford, 24-25 September 2025.
20.3.2025: “Towards Social Citizenship in Europe!”: Social Rights and European Integration in the Debates of Italian Migrant Organizations during the 1970s and 1980s, GHS-Workshop 2025: „Migration und soziale Rechte im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert“, Interdisziplinärer Workshop und Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Historische Sozialpolitikforschung 2025, organisiert in Kooperation mit dem SFB 1604, „Die Produktion von Migration“, Bremen University (Germany), 20-21 March 2025.
16.5.2024: Maria Agamben Federici (1899-1984). Vita, pensiero e azione di una “donna europea”, Conference Series: Donne celebri nella storia dell’Abruzzo (‘Women in the History of the Abruzzi’), 5 December 2023 to 13 June 2024, University Museum Auditorium, Chieti (Italy).
2.11.2023: “United, as Protagonists in the New Europe”. Migrants’ Visions and Ideas of Europe in West Germany in the 1970s, Exploratory Workshop: Narrating (Other) Europe(s): Polyvocal Connections across Europe’s Competing Histories, Research Centre for the Study of Culture (RCSC), Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (Germany), 2–3 November 2023.
6.9.2023: The Other Europe of Migrants. Italian Workers’ Organizations in Western Europe in the 1970s and their ideas of “Europe”, International Conference: Limits of Europeanness? Contested Notions of Difference and Belonging (16th–21st Centuries), Innsbruck University (Austria), 6-9 September 2023.
3.3.2023: “No Longer Foreign Workers, but European Citizens!”. The idea of “Europe” in Italian migrant organisations in the 1970s, International Conference: Changing concepts of “Europe” since the 18th century: Between the national, the transnational, and the global, Universität Aarhus (Denmark), 2-4 March 2023. Research Network: Exploring Interconnectedness – EurEd.
28.6.2022: Restoring memories of Italian migration in Europe after 1945? The ‘forgotten’ archives of the Christian Association of Italian Workers (ACLI) in Germany, Workshop CITIDEN, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (Germany), 27-28 June 2022.
15.7.2021: School, education and vocational training for Italian migrants in the Federal Republic of Germany. The case of Stuttgart (1960-1990), International conference: Educazione, scuola e politica culturale nelle migrazioni italiane, University of Turin (Italy), 14-16 July 2021.
4.12.2020: Il Corriere d’Italia e la promozione della scuola e della cultura italiana nella RFT degli anni Settanta e Ottanta, Online international conference: Migration and Education. Sources, Researches and Methodologies, University of Turin (Italy), 2-4 December 2020.
Reviews:
29.1.2022: Vor Ort: Fotogeschichten zur Migration, 19.06.2021 – 03.10.2021 Köln, in: H-Soz-Kult. Link: www.hsozkult.de/exhibitionreview/id/rezausstellungen-384.
6.9.2019: Jacob Moleschott. A transnational biography. Science, Politics and Popularization in Nineteenth-Century Europe, by Laura Meneghello, Bielefeld, Transcript, 2017, 488pp., € 49,99. ISBN 978-3-8376-3970-4, in: Modern Italy, 24(4), pp. 490-491. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/mit.2019.43.
31.8.2019: Migration bewegt die Stadt. Perspektiven wechseln, 21.09.2018 – 29.12.2019 München, in: H-Soz-Kult, 31.08.2019, www.hsozkult.de/exhibitionreview/id/rezausstellungen-336.
Blog posts, talks and others:
15.7.2021: Presentation of the blog “Migration erinnern” in Turin. In: Migration Erinnern. Link: https://doi.org/10.58079/rfgh
13.4.2022: Erinnerungen der Sozialarbeiterin Laura Mosconi an das Italienische Zentrum in Stuttgart, Teil 1: Laura Mosconis akademische Abschlussarbeit (1965/66), zusammen mit Bettina Severin-Barboutie. In: Migration Erinnern. Link: https://migrer.hypotheses.org/306.
1.12.2021: Reflections on the “toponomastic memory” of Italian migrants in West Germany in the 1960s, in: Migration erinnern. Link: https://migrer.hypotheses.org/265.