RESEARCH SEMINAR
European Perspectives on the History of Transatlantic Relations. New Directions and Case Studies
December 14-15, 2015 – Vercelli, Torino.
Organized by Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici and CISPEA.
Supported by Transatlantic Studies Association
Info: marco.mariano@uniupo.itRound-table discussion on Maurizio Vaudagna (ed.), Modern European-American Relations in the Transatlantic Space. Recent Trends in History Writing, (Otto: Turin, 2015).

December 14, 2015
Piccolo Studio, Chiostro di Sant’Andrea – Vercelli
h. 2:30 pm

Maurizio Vaudagna, Main Issues in Transatlantic History Writing
Edoardo Tortarolo, Euro-American Approaches to Universal/World History in the 20th Century
Filippo Chiocchetti, The Civilization of Synthesis. The West and America in the Writings of Carroll Quingley (1910-1977)
Simone Cinotto, Transatlantic consumer cultures: Italy and the US in the Twentieth Century
Cristina Iuli, American Literature beyond the Nation: the Return of the Trans-Atlantic as a Research Paradigm
Marco Mariano, Long, Dense, Connected. The Atlantic World and US History 

RESEARCH SEMINAR

European Perspectives on the History of Transatlantic Relations. 
New Directions and Case Studies
December 15, 2015
Fondazione “Luigi Enaudi” – Turin

Session I
h. 9.15 am

Giles Scott-Smith (University of Leiden), The Transnational Transatlantic: Private Organisations and Governmentality
Ferry de Goey (Erasmus University – Rotterdam), Characteristics of American Diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Nineteenth Century
Dario Fazzi (Roosevelt Study Center – Middelburg), The Transatlantic Roosevelts: How the Atlantic Became a Space of Security, Freedom and Equality, 1901-1948
Ludovic Tournes (Université de Genève), The United States and the League of Nations: Coproducing a World Order (1919-1946) 
Mario Del Pero (Sciences Po, Paris), Ten Texan Evangelicals in Rome: Micro-History, Religion and the Cold War

Session II
h. 2:30 pm
David Ellwood (Johns Hopkins University – Bologna Center) The Hard Effects of Soft Power: from Hollywood to TTIP
Alessandra Bitumi (Universitè Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3), “The Fox in the Henhouse”? The United States, France and the Transatlantic Cultural Divide, 1981-1994
Dorota Dakowska (Universitè Lyon II), So Close, so Distant. American and German Political Foundations between Cross-fertilization and Competition
Saverio Giovacchini (University of Maryland – College Park), Producing the Celluloid Atlantic after World War Two: Joe Levine meets Giancarlo Pajetta

This event is supported by the Transatlantic Studies Association (TSA). The TSA actively supports all initiatives that build links between scholars across the Humanities and Social Sciences who use the ‘transatlantic’ as an important reference point for their research and teaching. All participants are welcome to become a member and attend the TSA’s annual conference held in early July every year. For more information please go to www.transatlanticstudies.com’
Info: marco.mariano@uniupo.it