Teacher training school
Ventotene Island, October 29-November 1, 2023

Political migration in contemporary Italy: definitions, boundaries, teaching proposals

CALL

Political migration represents one of the most debated topics in public debate. The boundaries and the differences between political and economic motivations at the root of migration flows are at the basis of discussions, conflicts, and interpretations that significantly affect the reading, perception and governance of international mobility. The objective of the training school is to deepen in a historical key the evolution of political migrations in contemporary Italy, from the Risorgimento to the present day, identifying both effective keys to understand their specificities and educational paths capable of supporting their dissemination in schools.

The training school will include papers and talks given by highly qualified scholars in the morning sessions and presentations of teaching units by teachers in the afternoon sessions.
Teachers presenting teaching units have been selected through a call and will be eligible for reimbursement for their stay in Ventotene.

It is also possible to attend the school as auditors only, without presenting teaching materials, by making reservations at the following addresses: 

michele.colucci@ismed.cnr.it 
donato.disanzo@ismed.cnr.it  
stefano.gallo@ismed.cnr.it

Auditors will benefit from an agreement with an accommodation facility.

A certificate of frequency will be issued to all participants.
The School will be held in the spaces of the Center for Research and Documentation on Political Confinement and Detention Islands of Ventotene and Santo Stefano.


Programme

Sunday, October 29

6 p.m. Welcome, greetings and presentation of the school

Monday, October 30

9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Lecture and discussion

– Stefano Gallo, Exile and migration from the Risorgimento to the Great War
– Alessandra Gissi, The Emigration of Women
– Anthony Santilli, Political mobility and migration between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: differences and contacts

2-6 p.m. Presentation and discussion of the teaching units

– Tommaso Caiazza, From Revolutionary Fever to Gold Fever. Political, entrepreneurial and adventurous spirit in Risorgimento exile in California
– Arianna Onidi, Sardinia land of exiles: journalistic and economic experiments between avant-garde and backwardness
Daniela De Lorentiis, The Libyan war and Italian refugees.

Break

– Caterina Inesi, The illustrated albums of exiles and migrants The narrative of Italians abroad during the fascist regime
– Margherita Marchetti, The encounter with the other in places of political confinement during fascism
– Giulio Massimo Girola Ceccacci, The “fuoriusciti” and antifascism in France

Tuesday, Oct. 31

9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Lecture and discussion
– Simona Berhe, The mobility of international students as political migration
– Donato Di Sanzo, Asylum in Italy from after World War II to the killing of Jerry Masslo
– Valeria Piro, The displacement of migrant labor

2-6 p.m. Presentation and discussion of teaching units
– Roberta Sale, Growing to Welcome
– Cristina Di Cesare, Political migrations in colonial Italy

Break

– Ada Alvaro, Refugees: political migrants or economic migrants? The case of Yugoslav migration after World War II
– Francesca Gori, Crossing borders

Wednesday, November 1

9:30 a.m. Guided tour of the places of imprisonment on the island of Ventotene
12 noon Closing of the School

Scientific Committee: Simona Berhe (University of Calabria), Michele Colucci (CNR ISMed), Donato Di Sanzo (CNR ISMed), Giovanni Ferrarese (CNR ISMed), Stefano Gallo (CNR ISMed), Alessandra Gissi (University l’Orientale Napoli), Valeria Piro (University of Padua), Anthony Santilli (Center for Research and Documentation on Political Confinement and Imprisonment Islands of Ventotene and Santo Stefano)

Technical coordinator: Francesco Di Filippo (CNR ISMed)

Initiative benefiting from the contribution of the Struttura di missione per la valorizzazione degli anniversari nazionali e per la dimensione partecipativa delle nuove generazioni – Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri – Project “Un partito in movimento: il Pci e le migrazioni dalla nascita allo scioglimento” – Project Code “190 PCI” – CUP J61B22002250004