British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

15.00

Press Conference

18.20

Welcome: Pierluigi Barrotta, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute, London

18.30

Music Concert by some of Mazzini's favourite composers 'La filosofia della musica'
(Those wishing to attend the concert only should register by phoning 020 7396 4430)

20.30

Dinner at the Reform Club (speakers only)

9.30

Coffee

9.45

Welcome: Giancarlo Aragona, Italian Ambassador and Pierluigi Barrotta, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute, London.

10.00

SESSION 1: MAZZINI AND THE IDEOLOGIES OF DEMOCRATIC NATIONALISM

• Mazzini's democracy and the legacy of Immanuel Kant [ABSTRACT]
  Nadia Urbinati (Columbia University, New York)
• The religion of the nation: Mazzini and nationalism as a political religion [ABSTRACT]
  Simon Levi Sullam (Università Ca' Foscari, Venzia)
• Mazzini's internationalism in context: national and international relations in the democratic political thought of the Risargimento [ABSTRACT]
  Maurizio Isabella (Birkbeck College, London)
• Discussion
  Introduced and chaired by C. A. Bayly (St Catherine's College, Cambridge)

12.30

Lunch at the British Academy

13.30

SESSION 2: THE SYMBOLISM OF DEMOCRATIC NATIONALISM

• Mazzini and the Garibaldian democratic tradition [ABSTRACT]
  Lucy Riall (Birkbeck College, London)
• Sacrality and aesthetics in the propaganda of Young Italy [ABSTRACT]
  Alberto M. Banti (Università di Pisa)
• 'Comunicare col popolo': drama, novel and music in Mazzini's works [ABSTRACT]
  Carlotta Sorba (Università di Padova)
• Discussion
  Introduced and chaired by E.F.Biagini (Robinson College, Cambridge)

16.00

Tea break

14.30

SESSION 3: MAZZINI'S LEGACY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD

• Mazzini, the International League, and the London Democratic Manifestoes of 1837-1852
  Salvo Mastellone (University of Firenze) to be discussed by Dr Eugenio Biagini [ABSTRACT]
• Mazzini's legacy in the new Italy, 1860-1915 [ABSTRACT]
  Christopher Duggan (University of Reading)
• Carlo Cattaneo and the Swiss Idea of Liberty [ABSTRACT]
  Jonathan Steinberg (University of Pennsylvania),
• Mazzini and democratic internationalism in the Spanish world, 1849-1879 [ABSTRACT]
  Guy Thomson (University of Warwick),
• Discussion
  Introduced and chaired by Martin Thom (Cambridge)

19.00

Drinks reception at the British Academy
Dinner at the British Academy

9.30

Coffee

10.00

SESSION 4: MAZZINI'S LEGACY IN EUROPEAN POLITICS

• Mazzini and Irish nationalism [ABSTRACT]
  Colin Barr (Ave Maria College, Florida),
• The 'Young Europe' project [ABSTRACT]
  Roland Sarti (University of Massachussets ),
• Discussion
  Introduced and chaired by Gareth Stedman Jones, King's College Cambridge

12.30

Lunch at the British Academy

13.30

SESSION 5: MAZZINI AND THE AMERICAS

• Esteban Echeverria's critique of universal suffrage. The traumatic development of democracy in Argentina, 1821-1852 [ABSTRACT]
  Klaus Gallo (Universitad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires),
• The relevance of Mazzini's ideas of insurgency to the American Sectional crisis of the 1850 [ABSTRACT]
  Tim Roberts (Ankara),
• Giuseppe Mazzini and the emergence of liberal nationalism on the River Plate and Latin America [ABSTRACT]
  Jorge Myers (Universitad Nacional de Quilmenes, CONICET, Buenos Aires)
• Mazzini and Brasil [ABSTRACT]
  U.P.Burke (Emmanuel College, Cambridge),
• Discussion
  Introduced and chaired by Roland Sarti (University of Massachussets)

16.30

Tea break

17.00

SESSION 6: MAZZINI AND THE GLOBALISATION OF DEMOCRATIC NATIONALISM

• Mazzini and early Indian nationalism
  C. A. Bayly (St Catherine's College Cambridge),
• Mazzini and Gandhi [ABSTRACT]
  Fabrizio De Donno (Wolfson College Cambridge),
• Anticlericalism and the Mazzinian tradition [ABSTRACT]
  E.F.Biagini (Robinson College Cambridge),
• Discussion
  Introduced and chaired by Jonathan Steinberg (University of Pennsylvania).

Conclusion: Senator Marcello Pera, President of the Senate of the Italian Republic

19.00

Drinks reception at the Italian Embassy
Dinner at the Italian Embassy (speakers only)