Study Days in honor of Elena Aga Rossi
A two-day event scheduled for September 25 and 26, organized by the Luiss School of Government
September 25, 2025, 10:00 AM
Institutional greetings
from Gaetano Quagliariello, Dean of the Luiss School of Government
Giovanni Orsina, Head of the Department of Political Science, Luiss
World War II and its various facets
Discussant:
Ernesto Galli della Loggia, Professor Emeritus of Contemporary History at the Italian Institute of Human Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Speakers include
Antonella Salomoni, Professor of Contemporary History at the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in Russian historiography: interpretations, revisions, and distortions
Paolo Pezzino, Professor of Contemporary History, University of Pisa
Unity and contrasts in the Italian Resistance
Luciano Zani, Professor of Contemporary History, Sapienza University of Rome
The historiographical perspective on the Resistance of Italian military internees
Giovanni Orsina, Head of the Department of Political Science, Luiss
The historiographical debate on September 8, 1943
3:00 PM: The Italian Communist Party and its relationship with the international context and the national political system
Discussant:
Silvio Pons, Professor of Contemporary History, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Speakers include
Patrick Karlsen, Professor of Contemporary History in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Trieste
Togliatti's PCI and the “popular powers” in 1944: a “Yugoslav” solution for the country's liberation?
Emanuele Bernardi, Professor of Contemporary History, Sapienza University of Rome
International trade, East-West relations, and funding for the Italian Communist Party in the early Cold War period
Andrea Spiri, Senior Lecturer, Luiss School of Government
The United States and the Italian Communist Party at the end of the Cold War
Gaetano Quagliariello, Dean of the Luiss School of Government
Allies and rivals: the Communist strategy toward the Italian Socialist Party in the 1948 elections
Simona Colarizi, Professor Emeritus of Contemporary History, Sapienza University of Rome
Elena Aga Rossi's historiography on Palmiro Togliatti
Marc Lazar, Professor Emeritus of History and Political Sociology at Sciences Po and holder of the BNP-BNL-Paribas Chair “Italian-French Relations for Europe”
French and Italian communism: divided memories or inexorable oblivion?
Presentations and testimonials by
Mariella Guercio, Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione
Elena Aga Rossi's contribution to the School of Public Administration
September 26, 2025, 10:00 AM
The Cold War and its thematic shifts in the works of Elena Aga Rossi
Discussant:
Andrea Graziosi,
Professor of Contemporary History, University of Naples Federico II
Speaker:
Tommaso Piffer, Professor of Contemporary History, University of Udine
The Allies and European resistance at the dawn of the Cold War (1939–1945)
Maria Teresa Giusti,
Professor of Contemporary History at the “G. d'Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara
Albanian and Yugoslav bases in Italy. The forced recruitment and repatriation of Russians and Yugoslavs on the eve of the Cold War
Andrea Guiso, Professor of Contemporary History, Sapienza University of Rome
Democracy and depoliticization in Italy during the Cold War
Daniela Felisini, Professor of Business Economics History, University of Rome Tor Vergata
The rediscovery of a liberal ambassador. Alberto Tarchiani in Washington (1945–1955)
Armando Pitassio, Professor of Eastern European History at the University of Perugia
The Balkans and the Cold War through the diary of Georgi Dimitrov
Antonio Varsori, Professor of the History of International Relations, University of Padua
Elena Aga Rossi's historiographical contribution on the origins of the Cold War
Scientific Committee:
Maria Teresa Giusti, Professor of Contemporary History at the “G. d'Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara; Giovanni Orsina, Head of the Department of Political Science at Luiss; and Gaetano Quagliariello, Dean of the Luiss School of Government.
Organizing Secretariat:
Vera Capperucci, Professor of Contemporary History, Luiss School of Government
Gaia Di Martino, Head of the Luiss School of Government Office