INVITATION TO THE SEMINAR SERIES
THE HISTORY OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF POLICY MAKING

Environment and work.
A cross reading

discussion based on

Gabriella Corona, L’Italia dell’Antropocene.
Percorsi di storia ambientale tra XX e XXI secolo (Carocci, Rome 2023)

Stefano Gallo and Fabrizio Loreto,
Storia del lavoro nell’Italia contemporanea (il Mulino, Bologna 2023)

October 14, 2025, 10:00 a.m.

CNR-ISMed
Humanities Pole (6th floor)
Via Cardinale Guglielmo Sanfelice 8
Naples

REMOTE ACCESS
on the Teams platform

Poster

The environment and work are not only key players in the process of generating wealth in a country, but are also two areas that are closely connected through the continuous exchange between nature and society, the very driving force of life on our planet. Always studied and analysed separately, they are now the subject of new questions and new interpretative needs.

Gabriella Corona and Stefano Gallo of the Institute of Mediterranean Studies, authors of two books on these topics, engage in dialogue, combining their respective knowledge and expertise to define a new perspective for study and analysis capable of delineating the boundaries of an environmental history of work as a new area of research.

THE SPEAKERS. Gabriella Corona is the director of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies at the National Research Council (CNR) in Naples. She is editor in chief of the international journal Global Environment. “A Journal of Transdisciplinary History” and co-editor of “Meridiana. Journal of History and Social Sciences”. Her latest monographs are the following: Breve storia dell’ambiente in Italia (il Mulino, 2015), I ragazzi del piano. Napoli e le ragioni dell’ambientalismo urbano (Donzelli, 2007).

Stefano Gallo is a senior researcher at the Institute of Mediterranean Studies. He specialises in the social history of contemporary Italy, with research experience in archival sources and documents ranging from the late 19th century to the 1980s. His main fields of research are the history of migration and the history of labour. He teaches “History of Migration in the Contemporary Age” at the University of Pisa. Since 2021, he has been scientific director of the Franco Serantini Library – Historical Institute of the Resistance of the Province of Pisa.

PROGRAMME

SPEAKERS

Gabriella Corona
CNR-ISMed

Stefano Gallo
CNR-ISMed

INTRODUCES AND MODERATES

Alessandro Agosta
CNR-ISMed
University of Tuscia

FINAL DISCUSSION

SCIENTIFIC COMMITEE
Alessandro Agosta, Valerio Caruso, Gabriella Corona, Giovanni Ferrarese, Gabriella Rago
CNR-ISMed

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

HOW TO PARTICIPATE
The seminar is open to the public, subject to availability.
It is possible to participate remotely via the Teams platform.