Disconnected histories
Workshop and fail fest
9 giugno 2023
Università di Firenze – Dipartimento SAGAS European University Institute
A Cost Action PIMo – People in Motion WG2 workshop
Morning Session
Università di Firenze, Dipartimento SAGAS, Via San Gallo 10, Aula Parva
Afertnoon session
European University Institute, School of Transnational Governance, Palazzo Buontalenti, Via Cavour 65a, Hanna Arendt Room
Programma • Papers
9.30 Lightning Talk
9. 45 – 10.45 • Keynote Speech
How Did Indigenous Peoples Shape European Expansion? Cross-Cultural (Dis)connections and the Birth of the Global World
Zoltán Biedermann (University College London)
11. 15 – 12.30 • Roundtable
Towards an Honest History of Connections and Disconnections
Olivia Adankpo-Labadie (Université Grenoble-Alpes / Villa I Tatti), Zoltán Biedermann (University College London), Martin Dusinberre (Universität Zürich), Beatrice Falcucci (Università de L’Aquila / KNIR Rome), Valeska Huber (Universität Wien), Luc Wodzicki (Freie Universität Berlin)
Lunch
14.15 – 15.30 • Practical Session I
Chair: Martin Dusinberre (Universität Zürich)
Johanna Gautier Morin (European University Institute)
Dissonance in the Concert of Nations: How the Failure of International Cooperation Caused the First Global Crash
Maria Sole Barbieri (European University Institute)
Interrogating 1970s Italian energy policies amid political and archival fragmentation
Adrià Enriquez Alvaro (European University Institute)
The illegal trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. An ocean of disconnected networks
15.45 – 17.00 • Practical Session II
Chair: Beatrice Falcucci (Università de L’Aquila / KNIR Rome)
Vittoria Vaccaro (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
Per una problematizzazione delle pratiche espositive dei musei etnologici missionari: il caso del Museo Etnologico Vaticano Anima Mundi
Luis Alfredo De La Peña Jiménez (Università di Firenze)
The Odyssey of an historical comparative approach. Perks and misadventures of comparing the independence of Greece and Colombia.
Siobhán Amelia Smith (European University Institute)
The role of the United Nations during Southern Rhodesian Decolonisation
17.15 – 18.15 • Practical Session III
Chair: Emanuele Giusti (Università di Firenze)
Lucile Boucher (European University Institute)
The Failed Treaties between the United States of America and the Italian States: On the Political Economy of Post-Independence International Relations (1776-1787)
Gabriel Farrugia (European University Institute)
Lepanto – Faith, Otherness, and Community
Ultimo aggiornamento
31.03.2026