Representations and Narrations of anti-Slavism
in Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Trieste 11-12 May 2017
University of Trieste – DiSU
Sala Atti “Arduino Agnelli”- Androna Campo Marzio 10
11th May – h. 15.00-19.00
Greetings
Tullia Catalan – University of Trieste
Introduction
Chair: Dominique Reill – University of Miami
Emanuela Costantini – University of Perugia
Distrustful allies: the Anti-Russianist attitude in Romania from the birth
of the nation state to the First World War
Marco Bresciani – University of Zagreb
The Ruthless Definition of the Other in a Post-Habsburg Space:
Fascism and anti-Slavism in the Upper Adriatic (1918-1922)
Discussant: Jessica Reinisch – Birkbeck University of London
Discussion
Coffee break
Chair: Elisabetta Vezzosi – University of Trieste
Marta Verginella – University of Ljubljana
Anti-Slavism in the Slovenian Mirror
Bojan Mitrovic – University of Trieste
Sister from an inferior race: the image of Serbia in Italian anti-Slav
propaganda at the eve of WWI
Discussant: Anne Deighton – Wolfson College. University of Oxford
Discussion
12th May – h. 14.00-18.00
Chair: Borut Klabjan – European University Institute (Marie Sklodowska
Curie Fellow) and Science and Research Centre of Koper
Francesco Toncich – University of Tübingen
The Origins of Italian-speaking anti-Slavism in Trieste between
City and Countryside (1850-1871)
Irena Selišnik – University of Ljubljana
Uncivilized Slovenians
Erica Mezzoli – Institute for Mediterranean Studies – Foundation for
Research and Technology-Hellas (I.M.S./FO.R.T.H. – ERC Fellowship)
Anti-Slavism in “Blueshirt”: The Slavophobic Narration of
“The Italian Nationalist Association” in the pages of “L’Idea Nazionale”
Discussant: N. Piers Ludlow – The London School of Economics
and Political Science
Discussion
Coffee break
Chair: Tullia Catalan – University of Trieste
Borut Klabjan – European University Institute (Marie Sklodowska Curie
Fellow) and Science and Research Centre of Koper
Anti-Slavisms in Trieste/Trst. Continuity and Change of anti-Slovene
narratives and practices at the beginning of the Twentieth Century
Tommaso Chiarandini – University of Teramo
Images and rhetorics of fascist anti-Slavism (1919-1934)
Discussant: Katherine Lebow – University of Oxford
Discussion
Conclusions
Emily Greble – Vanderbilt University
