Scientific Direction

Antonello Folco Biagini Giovanna Motta

Centro di ricerca Cooperazione con l'Eurasia, il Mediterraneo e l'Africa sub sahariana

Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia Dipartimento di Storia, Culture, Religioni Editing

Antonello Battaglia Diana Shendrikova Anida Sokol

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Dominique Arel, Ottawa University

Annette Becker, Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, Museum of the Great War and Research Centre

Francesco Benvenuti, University of Bologna Antonello Folco Biagini, Sapienza University of Rome Stefano Bianchini, University of Bologna, Center for East-Central European

and Balkan Studies Paola Carucci, Manager of Historical Archives of the President of the Republic

Mariam Chkhartishvili, Ivane Javakhishvili, Tbilisi State University Daniele Conversi, University of the Basque Country and Ikerbasque, Bilbao Roberto Pasca di Magliano, Sapienza University of Rome

Pasquale Fornaro, University of Messina Ljubomir Frčkoski, St. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje Altay Goyushov, Baku State University

Ivo Goldstein, University of Zagreb, Ambassador of Croatia to France Cesare La Mantia, University of Trieste Mark Levene, University of Southampton

Andre Liebich, Graduate Institute of International and Development Study, Geneva Giovanna Motta, Sapienza University of Rome

Mario Morcellini, Sapienza University of Rome Matteo Pizzigallo, University of Naples Federico II Julius H. Schoeps, Moses Mendelssohn Centre for European Jewish

Studies, Potsdam Stanislaw Sierpowski, University of Poznan

Cornel Sigmirean, Petru Maior University of Târgu-Mureş

Roberto Sinigaglia, University of Genoa Zafer Toprak, Bosphorus University, Istanbul Luciano Tosi, University of Perugia

John Treadway, University of Richmond Lucio Ubertini, IHP Unesco – Italian Committee

STEERING COMMITTEE

Antonello Battaglia Andrea Carteny

Giovanna Motta Gabriele Natalizia Diana Shendrikova

Anida Sokol Alessandro Vagnini

GENERAL INFORMATION AND PROGRAM

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HOW TO GET HERE

FROM FIUMICINO AIRPORT "LEONARDO DA VINCI"

BY TRAIN: (recommended): The best option is to take the no-stop train “Leonardo Express” to Termini station (travel time: about 30 minutes), which costs 14 euro. From Termini follow the instructions below. The train timetable and fares can be found on the TRENITALIA website. BY TAXI: The official fixed rate (all included) from Fiumicino airport to any destination within the ancient Roman walls (Mura Aureliane), including Sapienza campus, is 48 euro. To Sapienza campus it takes about 50 minutes. FROM CIAMPINO AIRPORT "G. B. PASTINE"

BY BUS (recommended): Connections to Termini station (in about 30-40 minutes) by the bus services ATRAL, COTRAL, SIT and TERRAVISION companies. The fare is about 5 euro. From Termini follow the instructions below. BY TAXI: The official fixed rate (all included) from Ciampino airport to any destination within the ancient Roman walls (Mura Aureliane), including Sapienza campus, is 30 euro. The ride to Sapienza campus takes about 30 minutes. FROM TERMINI TRAIN STATION:

The campus is located within 15 minutes walking distance from Termini station. Leave the station through the right side exit (Via Marsala) and follow these directions. Alternatively take one of the taxi cabs outside the front entrance of the station.

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PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:

SUBWAY: Take the Line B and stop at Castro Pretorio. The campus is within 10 minutes walking distance. BUS: Several bus lines stop in the streets around the campus. The ticket price for a single ride is 1.50 euro and they need to be purchased in advance. To plan your trip, visit the ATAC website. USEFUL LINKS:

PUBLIC TRAIN NETWORK: http://www.fsitaliane.it/homepage_en.html FIUMICINO AIRPORT: http://www.adr.it/web/aeroporti-di-roma-en-/pax-fco-fiumicino

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CIAMPINO AIRPORT: http://www.adr.it/web/aeroporti-di-roma-en-/pax-cia-ciampino BUS AND SUBWAY PUBLIC NETWORK: http://www.atac.roma.it/index.asp?lingua=ENG

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SAPIENZA CAMPUS MAP

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DETAILS:

The panels will take place at Sapienza-University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo

Moro 5, 00185 Rome, in five different rooms (Aula).

Faculty of Humanities (Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia), ground floor:

AULA I, AULA II, AULA III.

Faculty of Humanities (Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia), floor –1

Aula “a vetri”.

The Rectorate Building, ground floor: Aula Organi Collegiali CONFERENCE FLOOR MAP: GROUND FLOOR

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CONFERENCE FLOOR MAP: - 1 FLOOR

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CONFERENCE FLOOR MAP: RECTORATE BUILDING

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CONFERENCE FLOOR MAP: RECTORATE BUILDING–AULA ORGANI COLLEGIALI

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REGISTRATION, DINNER, LUNCH

REGISTRATION:

Registration will be held at the Faculty of Humanities (Facoltà di

Lettere e Filosofia), on the ground floor. The Information desk

will be open on Thursday starting from 12:30 and Friday starting

from 9:00.

DINNER:

June 19, 20:30. The dinner will be held near the University at

Casa dell’Aviatore, Viale dell’Università 20, 00185 Rome. Dinner

and lunch are included in the price of the participation fee.

LUNCH:

June 20, 13:15-14:30. The lunch will be served at the campus of

Sapienza-University of Rome, Rectorate Buildig - aula degli

Organi Collegiali.

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Full Program

JUNE 19, 2014

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OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE Antonello Folco Biagini

Vice Rector, Sapienza University of Rome

June 19, 2014

AULA I 15:00

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June 19, 2014 AULA I

15:15-16:45 Session A

THEORY, HISTORIOGRAPHY, MEMORY Panel A-1

CHAIRMAN ANTONGIULIO DE’ ROBERTIS

ALEXANDER TSURTSUMIA Geopolitical Changes Before and After WWI

DMITRY SHLAPENTOKH

WWI and the Birth of Russian Eurasianism

MARTA TURKOT The Memory of World War I: Diverse European Perspective

VALERIO TORREGGIANI Decentralizing Political Powers: G.D.H. Cole and the Guild Socialism Reaction Against the State (1915-1919)

ALBERTO BECHERELLI

Remembering Gavrilo Princip

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June 19, 2014 AULA I

17:00-18:30 Session A

THEORY, HISTORIOGRAPHY, MEMORY Panel A-2

CHAIRMAN

ALESSANDRO SAGGIORO

RADU MÂRZA Year 1914 Reflected in Romanian Historiography

NIKOLA BECKER

Writing about World War I after the Holocaust – Autobiographies of German Jews

ELENA DUNDOVICH Russian Memory of the First World War

MATTIA GUSELLA Rethinking the Great War: The Case of Padua

NATALIA TRUBNIKOVA

World War I and the Russian Revolution of 1917: Frames and Debates in Russian Studies’ Historiography

OKSANA V. PETROVSKAYA The Origin of World War I in the Modern Historiography of Post-Communist Eastern Europe

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June 19, 2014 AULA II

15:15-16:45 Session B

NATIONALITIES AND MINORITIES Panel B-1

CHAIRMAN GIUSEPPE MOTTA

MARK LEVENE Armenians and Jews and the Crystallization of the Minorities Question during World War I

DANIELE CONVERSI Prelude to Obliteration: Minorities, Cultural Homogenization and the Modern State’s Eliminationist Drive

FRANCESCA DI GIULIO The Uprooting of a Community: The Armenian Catholics of Cilicia

EHUD MANOR The War to End all Wars and Then What?: Some Jewish Insights into the “Jewish Question,” New York and Stockholm, 1915-1919

MARTIN ARNDT Ideological Debate on Aspects of Jewish Identity

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June 19, 2014 AULA II

17:00-18:30 Session B

NATIONALITIES AND MINORITIES Panel B-2

CHAIRMAN MARK LEVENE

PASQUALE FORNARO

Loyalty to the Hasburgs or Slavic Solidarity? Masaryk’s Dilemma in 1914

GIUSEPPE MOTTA

The Great War and the Jews in Eastern Europe

RUSLAN ASLANOVICH TLEPTSOK

World War I: The Perception of Russian Muslims

MARIAM CHKHARTISHVILI ZURAB TARGAMADZE SOPIO KADAGISHVILI

The Impulse of the Great War on the Georgian Identity Development

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June 19, 2014 AULA III

15:15-16:45 Session C

ARMIES AT WAR: STRUCTURES, OPERATIONS, INNOVATIONS

Panel C-1

CHAIRMAN DONATELLA STRANGIO

LJUBOMIR FRČKOSKI ALEKSANDAR STOJČEV

The Macedonian Front in the Great War

ANNA KATTI

Greece and the Macedonian Front in World War I

ANDREEA EMILIA DUȚĂ

The Battles for the Moldavian Gates

ANTON VACHARADZE The Caucasus Front During World War I According to the Materials Kept in the National Archives of Georgia

FEDERICO CIAVATTONE

The Royal Carabinieri in the First World War: The Case of Vittorio Bellipanni and the Carabinieri Section of the 45th Infantry Division on the Isonzo Front

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VANDA WILCOX

The Idea of “Duty” and Military Service in the First World War

June 19, 2014 AULA III

17:00-18:30 Session C

ARMIES AT WAR: STRUCTURES, OPERATIONS, INNOVATIONS

Panel C-2

CHAIRMAN ANDREA GIANNOTTI

PATRICK CAVALIERE The Italian Magistracy and the Great War 1915-1918: Political Criminal Justice and the Concept of the Personality of the State

IONELA ZAHARIA The Romanian Military Clergy from Austria-Hungary: Their Activities in the Prisoner-of-War Camps (POWC) during World War I

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AGNESE ACCATTOLI

The Forgotten Prisoners: Russian Soldiers of the Great War in the Asinara Concentration Camp (1918-1920)

FRANCESCA ROMANA LENZI

The Role of Sezione R of the High Command Information Service during the Great War in the Documents of the Italian Army Historical Office

June 19, 2014 AULA a Vetri 15:15-16:45 Session C

ARMIES AT WAR: STRUCTURES, OPERATIONS, INNOVATIONS

Panel C-3

CHAIRMAN STEFANO BIANCHINI

JACOPO LORENZINI

MARCO CRISTANTE

Planned War and Actual War: General Staff Officers, Junior Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers of the Italian Royal Army and the Impact on the Great War

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DAVID BURIGANA

The Lack of Innovation, Representation, Myth and Realty of a “Mass” Technology: The Airplane and the Great War

ALESSANDRO MARRONE

The Great War and the Rise of Air Power: An Italian Perspective

ANTONELLO BATTAGLIA From Titan against the Titans: The Republic of San Marino and the Great War

METIN VENXHA Albania during the First World War: The Autonomous Region of Korçë

GIUSEPPE PERRI The Peace on the Eastern Front and the Hetmanate of Skoropads’kyj (April-November 1918) in the Ukrainian Sources

CESARE LA MANTIA Danzig’s Issue in the Files of the Italian Military Mission to Poland and Italian Military Representatives in the Inter-Allied Commissions

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June 19, 2014 AULA a Vetri 17:00-18:30 Session C

ARMIES AT WAR: STRUCTURES, OPERATIONS, INNOVATIONS

Panel C-4

CHAIRMAN

MATTEO PIZZIGALLO

ALESSANDRO PISTECCHIA The Italian Red Cross in WWI: An Analysis of a Volunteer Nursing Unit’s Role

MAIKE ROTZOLL A Different View? Reflexes of Militarism and World War One in Works of Psychiatric Inmates in the Prinzhorn Collection

ALESSANDRO VAGNINI

Mad in the Mud: Psychiatry and the War on the Italian Front

STEFANO ORAZI Mobilization for War: The Health Service in the Support of the Italian Forces in the Archive of the Historical Office of the Italian Navy

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June 20, 2014 AULA Organi Collegiali

(Rectorate Building – ground floor) 10:00-11:30 Session D

COMMUNICATION, PROPAGANDA, PERCEPTION Panel D-1

CHAIRMAN

MARIO MORCELLINI

TAMÁS MESZERICS How to Vilify an Unexpected Enemy? Italy in the Hungarian Press, May 1915

CATERINA BASSETTI World War I Propaganda on the Home Front in Britain and America

KAMIL RUSZAŁA War Cemeteries in Galicia as a Heritage of the Great War: Between Commemoration and Propaganda

MANRICA ROTILI

The Power of Images/The Images of Power: A Study about the Iconographic Propaganda of the First World War and about its Legacies in the Modern Era

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June 20, 2014 AULA Organi Collegiali

(Rectorate Building – ground floor) 11:45-14:30 Session D

COMMUNICATION, PROPAGANDA, PERCEPTION Panel D-2

CHAIRMAN

ANDREA CARTENY

SANDA KOČEVAR

For the King and Home: Karlovac Citizens Helping the Needy

GIANLUCA PASTORI A Long Winter of Discontent: Politics and Culture in Italy on the Eve of World War I

CAROLINA GARCÍA SANZ

British Merchant Communities in Neutral Italy (1914-1915): a Case of Mobilization from Below

FRANCESCO GUI The Great War and Europeanism: A Decisive Experience

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June 20, 2014

AULA Organi Collegiali (Rectorate Building – ground floor)

14:30-16:00 Session D

COMMUNICATION, PROPAGANDA, PERCEPTION Panel D-3

CHAIRMAN

PATRICK CAVALIERE

ANDREA CARTENY The Intervention of Volunteers for the French Front (1914)

FABIO DI GIANNATALE “The Most Terrible Tragedies Have Fallen on Europe”: The Great War Commented by La Civiltà Cattolica

ROBERTO SCIARRONE

Reportage and Italian Journalism during the Great War

VALENTINA MARIANI The Flight of Images and Words: The Aviation Press during the First World War

RAFFAELE RIVIECCIO

The First Cinematographic War

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June 20, 2014 AULA II

10:00-11:30 Session E

POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Panel E-1

CHAIRMAN

MARIAM CHKHARTISHVILI

JASMIN HASIĆ The United Kingdom’s Foreign Policy before World War I (1901-1914)

DAVID SARKISYAN Anglo-German Relations 1871-1918: The Steam Engine of War

GABRIELE NATALIZIA The Security Dilemma in the Balance of the European Great Powers

ENRICO MAGNANI Neutral Nations, Institutions Building and Security Sector Reforms in the Period of WWI

CATERINA CISCATO Austrian Foreign Policy during the Treaties of Peace

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June 20, 2014 AULA II

11:45-13:00 Session E

POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Panel E-2

CHAIRMAN

GABRIELE NATALIZIA

MARIA FERNANDA ROLLO ANA PAULA PIRES

Portuguese Africa and the First World War (1914-1918)

ROBERTO REALI Italian and German Colonies during the First World War

MICHAŁ LEŚNIEWSKI The Great War and its Influence on the Development of Afrikaner (Boer) Nationalism, 1914-1918

DIANA SHENDRIKOVA Japan and WWI

DOMENICO IERARDO The First World War Seen by Latin America: The Economic and Social Impact of the Conflict in Argentina

STEFANO PELAGGI

The Italian Community in Latin America and the Great War: Migrant Associations and the “Voluntary” Participation in the Conflict

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June 20, 2014 AULA II

14:30-16:00 Session E

POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Panel E-3

CHAIRMAN

FABIO L. GRASSI

VALENTINA SOMMELLA Italian Diplomacy Facing the Irredentist Movement at the Beginning of the Great War

JĘDRZEJ PASZKIEWICZ Strategic Background of Greece’s Participation in the Great War (1914-1917): Internal and Foreign Context

ROBERTA DE’ ROBERTIS

The Sixtus Affair: A Separate Peace

SALVATORE SANTANGELO The Easter Rising: A National Uprising in the Heart of the Great War

ANA ŽIVKOVIĆ Montenegro off the Map: Britain and the Disappearance of Independent Montenegro 1914-1921

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June 20, 2014 AULA III

10:00-11:30 Session F

INTELLECTUALS AND HISTORIOGRAPHICAL DEBATE Panel F-1

CHAIRMAN

DANIELE CONVERSI

MARTINA BITUNJAC “The Manifesto of the Ninety-Three!”: A Symbol of the German Superiority or an Act of Defense?

ELENA DUMITRU Pacifist Writers and Soldier Writers in Romania of the Great War

ALEKSANDRA KOLAKOVIĆ Intellectuals in the Great War: The French-Serbian Cooperation

MARTA GARCÍA CARRIóN FERRAN ARCHILÉS CARDONA

War, Peripheral Countries and Core Intellectuals: The Case of José Ortega y Gasset

MARÍA NOGUÉS BRUNO Spain at the Front (1914-1918): The Intellectuals of a Neutral Country Facing the Conflict

OLAF GLÖCKNER Walther Rathenau: War Time Economist, Liberal, Murdered German White Hope

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ILARIA FALCONI Gerardo Dottori, Futurist Paining, Aeropittura

ANTONELLA DI

SPALATRO

The Great War in Literary Awareness

June 20, 2014 AULA III

11:45-13:00 Session F

INTELLECTUALS AND HISTORIOGRAPHICAL DEBATE Panel F-2

CHAIRMAN

MARTINA BITUNJAC

LORENZO MARMIROLI

The July Crisis and the Outbreak of WWI in Cultural Magazines of that Time: A Comparison between Italy and Austria-Hungary

ANIDA SOKOL The “Forbidden Script”: The Banning of the Serbian Cyrillic in the Austro-Hungarian South Slavic Territories

LJILJANA STOŠIĆ Works of Serbian War Painters and Photographers in European Picture Postcards (1915-1916)

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MARIANNE N. PETROVSKAYA

The Battle-Painting Class of the Russian Academy of Arts in the Years of World War I

MARIA TERESA MORELLI

The Theatre and the First World War

GIORDANO ALTAROZZI Between Regeneracionismo and Generación del 98: The Spanish Culture at the Time of the First World War

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June 20, 2014 AULA A Vetri 10:00-11:30 Session G

CASE STUDIES Panel G-1 Russia

CHAIRMAN ELENA DUNDOVICH

OXANA ZEMTSOVA Discussion on National Identity and Patriotism in Late Imperial Russia

DARYA SEMENOVA The Role of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Great War

EMILIO CASSESE Inarodcy: Non-Russian Subjects in the Tsarist Empire in the First World War

EKATERINA FEDOROVA

Non-Governmental Organizations in World War I: The Activity of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce in 1914-1915

GIANLUCA SENATORE The Environment Issue and the Origins of Sustainability during and after the Great War

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June 20, 2014 AULA A Vetri 11:45-13:00 Session G

CASE STUDIES Panel G-2 The Ottoman Empire

CHAIRMAN ALTAY GOYUSHOV

GIAMPAOLO CONTE

The Ottoman Empire towards the War: International Finance and Politics According to the Private Papers of Bernardino Nogara (July 28, 1914-October 31, 1914)

BARIS ADIBELLI

The Foreign Policy of the Ittihat ve Terakki Party Government in the Ottoman Empire during the Great War

FABIO L. GRASSI

The Turkish Intellectuals and the Great War

FRANCESCO PONGILUPPI The Ottoman Empire and the Oil Issue: A Different Perspective

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June 20, 2014 AULA A Vetri 14:30-16:00 Session G

CASE STUDIES Panel G-3 The Caucasus

CHAIRMAN ALESSANDRO VAGNINI

REVAZ GVELESIANI EKA LEKASHVILI

The Interests of German Concerns: The Economic Policy of Germany in Georgia before and after World War

DANIEL POMMIER VINCELLI

The World War in Azerbaijan

ALTAY GOYUSHOV The Republic of Azerbaijan: Unexpected Independence amid War and Revolution

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June 20, 2014 AULA A Vetri 16:15-17:45 Session G

CASE STUDIES Panel G-4 The Middle East

CHAIRMAN ALESSANDRO VAGNINI

MATTEO PIZZIGALLO The First Steps of Italian Politics towards Arabia: The Negotiations for Article XII of the Treaty of London

ANDREA GIANNOTTI Central Asia 1915–1919: New Rules for the Great Game

JOANNA MODRZEJEWSKA-LEŚNIEWSKA

The Great War beyond Europe: The Afghanistan Case

MANUELA BORRACCINO

Identity, Culture and Modernity within the Fall of the Ottoman Empire: The Debate on the Origins of Arab Nationalism

JOSAN ION The First World War and the Modern Middle East: The Genealogy of Radical Islam

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June 20, 2014 AULA Organi Collegiali

(Rectorate Building – ground floor) 16:15-17:45 VI session H

ECONOMY AND WAR

CHAIRMAN GIOVANNA MOTTA

GIOVANNA MOTTA War, Economy and Pacifism in the Thought of Rosa Luxemburg

LEANDRA D’ANTONE The Economic Consequences of War and Peace: The Italian Case

PIERO DI GIROLAMO Industrial Mobilization and Economic Governance of Italy during the War

DONATELLA STRANGIO MAURO ROTA MARIA CATERINA BRAMATI

The Path of Economic Policies: The Great War and the State

CINZIA CAPALBO Dressing up in Time of War: Women and Fashion during the First World War

ROBERTO PASCA DI MAGLIANO LAURA LIGUORI

The Ambitious Attempts of International Cooperation Resulting from the Great War

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FINAL REMARKS Annette Becker

Paris West University Nanterre La Défense Museum of the Great War and Research Centre

June 20, 2014 AULA Organi Collegiali

(Rectorate Building – ground floor) 18:00-19:00