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Intersecting Colonial and Postcolonial Humanitarian Dynamics (1950-1980)

International Workshop, 1-2 December 2022

Intersecting Colonial and Postcolonial Humanitarian Dynamics (1950-1980)

1 – 2 December 2022

Università di Firenze – Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Campus di Novoli

Building D5 - Room Spreafico (2.29)

 

THURSDAY 1 DECEMBER

Welcome remarks 10.15 – 10.30

Silvia Salvatici (University of Florence)

First Session 10.30-13.00

Chair: Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (University of Coimbra)

José Pedro Monteiro (University of Minho) – Disputed Meanings: Self-determination, Universal Human Rights and Imperial Powers' Strategies to Resist Decolonization (1945-1962)

Kalliopi Geronymaki (University of Florence) – A Precedent of Humanitarianization? Rethinking the Greek Allegations of British Violence in the European Court of Human Rights and the United Nations (1952-1960)

Dora Tot (University of Bologna) – Translating Humanitarian Aid into a Long-term Commitment: Yugoslav Medical Assistance to Algeria (1959 – 1965)

Discussion

Lunch 13.00-14.30

Second Session 14.30-18.00
Chair: José Pedro Monteiro (University of Minho)

Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (University of Coimbra) – Social (in)Securities: Interimperial Organizations and the Problem of Welfare in the 1950s

Ana Guardião (University of Florence - University of Coimbra) – A Window for Neutrality? Portuguese “Imperial Uses” of Humanitarianism during the Nigeria-Biafra War (1967-1971)

Alba Martín Luque (University of Florence) – The Missing Picture. Visual Humanitarianism, Catholic Missionaries and FRELIMO’s Victory in Mozambique (1967 – 1974)

Coffee Break 16 – 16.30

Silvia Salvatici (University of Florence) – Agents of Humanitarianism? Italian Enterprises in Ethiopia

Discussion

 

FRIDAY 2 DECEMBER

Third Session 9.30-12.00

Chair: Silvia Salvatici (University of Florence)

Roundtable: Agnieszka Sobocinska (King’s College), Annalisa Urbano (University of Florence), Corinna Unger (European University Institute)

Coffee Break 10.30 - 11

Discussion and concluding remarks

 

Workshop program

28 Novembre 2022 (Archiviata)

 

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