Friday, February 27 – Sala Poeti, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Strada Maggiore 45
9.30 am: Welcoming Remarks by Pierluigi Stefanini (Presidente Gruppo Unipol)
Fulvio Cammarano (Chair of the Department “Politica, Istituzioni, Storia”, Università di Bologna)
Opening Remarks: Mario Del Pero (Università di Bologna)
10.30 am - 1.30 pm Panel I:
Chair: Tiziano Bonazzi (Università di Bologna)
Silvia Pietrantonio (Università di Bologna), Transatlantic Relations and the Yom Kippur War
Mao Lin (Georgia University), Sino-American Relations and the Diplomacy of Modernization during the 1970s
Discussant: Leopoldo Nuti (Università Roma Tre)
Ulrich Best (Chemnitz University), The Controlled Space of Socialist Internationalism and its Transgression: COMECON Energy Projects Between 1970 and 1990
Christian Henrich-Franke (Siegen University), Cross-Curtain Radio Cooperation in Face of the New Role of the Global South
Discussant: Stefano Cavazza (Università di Bologna)
3pm – 6 pm Panel II:
Chair: Anna Maria Gentili (Università di Bologna)
Candace Sobers (University of Toronto), Angola 1975: Intervention and Fragmentation in the International System
Arrigo Pallotti (University of Bologna), African liberation and postcolonial nation building: the breach of relations between Tanzania and the UK
Discussant: Ian Phimister (University of Sheffield)
Guia Migani (Università di Padova), The Lomé Convention and North/South Relations: The EEC and its Search for a New Role
Simone Paoli (Università di Padova), The Other Cold War. The North/South Clash on a New International Order in the Sectors of Information and Communication, 1970-1980
Discussant: Mario Zamponi (Università di Bologna)
Saturday, February 28 – Sala dell’Aquila, Fondazione Gramsci dell’Emilia Romagna, Via Galliera 26
10 am – 1 pm Panel III:
Chair: Mario Del Pero (Università di Bologna)
Duccio Basosi (Università di Firenze), Oil, Dollars and Power: the Transformation of the International Monetary System in the 1970s
Patrick Sharma (University of California, Los Angeles), International Development in the Age of Global Transformation: the Case of Robert McNamara at the World Bank
Discussant: David Ellwood (Università di Bologna)
Eugenia Baroncelli (Università di Bologna), The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions Revisited: From Tracking Sources to Explaining Reversals
Nicola Melloni & Michele Testoni (Oxford University & Università di Bologna), Action, Reaction and Immobility: How the Superpowers Responded to International Change in the 1970s
Discussant: Gianfranco Baldini (Università di Bologna)