Wednesday, 7 October, 17.00–19.30
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Opening at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome, Villino Stroganoff
17.00
Sybille Ebert-Schifferer - Roma
Welcome Address
Alexander Koller - Roma
Welcome Address
Monica Cioli - Roma
Introduction
18.00
Keynote Lecture
Eric Michaud - Paris
The Many Lives of the New Man, 1914–1945
Followed by a reception
Thursday, 8 October, 9.00–17.00
Deutsches Historisches Institut Rom
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I - Nostalgia and "Futurism" after World War One
Chair: Fabio Benzi - Chieti
9.00 Pierangelo Schiera - Trento-Forlì
La grande crisi europea tra modernità e modernismo
9.30 Roberta Ferrari - Bologna
Da Londra a Mosca: Beatrice Potter e la civilizzazione del carattere
10.00 Sophie Goetzmann - Paris
The Art Gallery "Der Sturm" and German Nationalism during the First World War
10.30 Chiara Di Stefano Frusi - Paris
Ritorno alle origini: echi preistorici nell'arte d'avanguardia dell'entre-deux-guerres
11.00 Break
11.30 Discussion
13.00 Lunch
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II - Human Engineering
Chair: Silvio Pons - Roma
14.00 Maurizio Ricciardi - Bologna
Fordismo, capitalismo, pianificazione: tre risposte alla fine del laissez faire
14.30 Eckhart Gillen - Berlin
Art and Economy: New Objectivity in the Weimar Republic, Precisionism and New Deal for the Arts in the United States of America and the Art of New Economic Policy of the First Five Year Plan in the Soviet Union 1920–1935
15.00 Anja Schloßberger - Berlin
Malevič and the Bauhaus
15.30 Ralph-Miklas Dobler - Roma
Marcello Piacentini and the European Avant-gardes
16.00 Break
16.30 Discussion
Friday, 9 October, 9.00–17.00
Deutsches Historisches Institut Rom
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III - Measure and Invention
Chair: Pierangelo Schiera - Trento-Forlì
9.00 Paolo Napoli - Paris
La nascita del paradigma gestionario (XIX e XX secolo)
9.30 Christian Freigang - Berlin
Vain Art, Mass Culture, and National Unity: Franco-German Discourses around 1930
10.00 Christine Poggi - Philadelphia
Giacomo Balla's Vortex: The Changing Politics of an Abstract Form
10.30 Break
11.00 Discussion
12.30 Lunch
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IV - Machine and Chaos
Chair: Eric Michaud - Paris
13.30 Silvio Pons - Roma
Tempi moderni: Gramsci, Stalin e l'era postbellica come rivoluzione passiva
14.00 Fabio Benzi - Chieti
Macchine, guerre, arte meccanica e città dal futurismo alle avanguardie europee
14.30 Ruth Ben-Ghiat - New York
Creating the Fascist Now: Modernity and Technology in Fascist Empire Film
15.00 Monica Cioli - Roma
Macchina e universo in prospettiva transnazionale
15.30 Break
16.00 Discussion & Conclusion