Fascism(s), War, Economic Reconstruction.
Japan and Italy between the 1920s and the 1960s
Day 1
June 29, 2023
(all times are in CEST - Rome time)
13:30 - 13:45
Opening and initial greetings
13:45 - 14:45
Federico MARCON (Princeton University) – ‘Fascism’: Limits and Affordances of a Heuristic Category
Break 14:45 - 15:00
15-16.30
Panel 1
Raimondo NEIRONI (Università di Torino, TWAI - Torino World Affairs Institute) – The Rise of Militant Totalitarianism in the Japanese Army: Masaki Jinzaburō’s Statements at the Tokyo Trial
Reto HOFMANN (Curtin University) – The Afterlife of Fascism in Twentieth-century Japan
Marta MARGOTTI (Università di Torino) – To the Left of God. The Catholic Progressivism in the ‘long Sixty-Eight’ in Italy (link to abstract; link to full paper in English)
Break 16.30-17
17-19
Wally RUSSO, Iole SCAMUZZI, Stefania DI CARLO (Università di Torino) – Spanish National Myths in Italian Fascist Press. [1. Miguel De Unamuno: the Vanishing Mediator; 2. Don Quixote Meets Mussolini; 3. Don Quixote in theatre as a Spanish National Mythologem]
Noemi LANNA (Università di Napoli l’Orientale) – Broadcasting the Meiji Centennial
Alessio PONZIO (University of Saskatchewan – Università di Torino) – Media and Non-Conformity in 1960s Italy
Day 2
June 30, 2023
(all times are in CEST - Rome time)
9-11
Panel 3
ISHII Motoaki (Osaka University of Arts) – Representations of Italy in Japan and of Japan in Italy during the Last Years of Fascism
MURATA Mariko (Kansai University) – The Role and Significance of Museums in Japan during Fascism
Corrado MOLTENI (Università degli Studi di Milano Statale) – Leonardo, a Cultural Link Between Italy and Japan during Wartime
Stefano TURINA (Università di Torino) – Some notes on exhibitions between Italy and Japan after the Second World War
Break 11-11.30
11.30-13.30
Panel 4
Beatrice MANETTI (Università di Torino) – Paola Masino’s Subversive Surrealism (link to full paper in English)
Stefano ROMAGNOLI (Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza") – Fascination with Fascism: The Japanese Woman Poet and the “Duce”
HIRAISHI Noriko (University of Tsukuba) – D'Annunzio in 1960s Japan: the implications of Mishima Yukio's translation of Le Martyre de saint Sébastien
Federica CAVAZZUTI (Università di Torino) – Women and photography. Japanese images in transformation before and after the war