YOUNG PEOPLE AND ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY
Series of seminars organized by CNR-ISMed with SISAm (Italian Society of Environmental History):

The other side of the “miracle”. For an environmental history of the “glorious thirties” in Italy

May 27, 2024 10 a.m.

CNR-ISMed
Humanities Pole (VI floor)
Via Cardinale Guglielmo Sanfelice, 8
80134 Naples

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Told in terms of a “miracle”, the development process that affected Italy in the first decades after World War II is striking in its intensity and rapidity: in the span of a few years, a productive system of advanced capitalism was structured in the peninsula. Much has been written about the limits and contradictions of that transformation, but a comprehensive look at the environmental impacts it caused has yet to emerge. A number of monographic studies have examined specific cases and aspects; a few attempts at synthesis have outlined interpretative schemes and proposed undoubtedly useful lines of research. And yet an environmental history of Italy’s “glorious thirty” remains unfinished.

But on the basis of what sources and approaches would it be possible? And who would be its protagonists, what trend lines and dynamics would they have given rise to? Without any claim to exhaustiveness, the seminar aims to offer a reflection on these and other questions in an attempt to contribute to a unified reading of a crucial phase in the history of Italy.

THE SPEAKER. Salvatore Romeo is a researcher in contemporary history at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. His prevailing interests include environmental history, industrial history and urban history. He is the author of “Steel in Smoke. L’Ilva di Taranto dal 1945 ad oggi” (Donzelli 2019), winner of the ANCI-SISSCO 2020 award.

INSTITUTIONAL GREETINGS

Gabriella Corona
Director of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the National Research Council
(CNR-ISMed)

SPEAKER

Salvatore Romeo
University of Rome Tor Vergata

INTRODUCES AND MODERATES

Valerio Caruso
CNR-ISMed

FINAL DEBATE

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:
Alessandro Agosta, Valerio Caruso, Gabriella Corona, Giovanni Ferrarese, Walter Palmieri
CNR-ISMed

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC until seats are available

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INFO AND CONTACTS
valerio.caruso@ismed.cnr.it
www.ismed.cnr.it
www.storiaambientale.it

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