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‘The Filangieri-Franklin Correspondence: Visions of Unity for Europe and America’- A talk

Filangeri Talk
  • Event date: From October 29 2024, 18:00 To October 29 2024, 19:30 (Local time)
  • Place: IIC-NY 686 Park Avenue, NY
  • For a fee: No

“The Filangieri-Franklin Correspondence:

Visions of Unity for Europe and America”

A talk by

Prof. AMEDEO ARENA

 

Welcome:

Antonio Giordano,
National Italian American Foundation / Sbarro Health Research Organization

Introduction:

Filangieri’s Naples: a retrospective.

Elda Buonanno, St. John’s University.

 

Between 1782 and 1788, Gaetano Filangieri and Benjamin Franklin engaged in a remarkable correspondence, an exchange of letters that revealed a deeper, more profound correspondence of ideals and values. Their written dialogue uncovers a shared commitment to peace, trade liberalization, human rights, and good government. This talk will present the letters composing the correspondence and other historical documents that illustrate not just their exchange of ideas, but also their shared values, which played a crucial role in the formation of the American federation and, more recently, have shaped the process of European integration.

The talk will be based on a chapter of the upcoming book edited by Amedeo Arena “Cittadino di tutti i luoghi, contemporaneo di tutte l’età: l’universalità del pensiero di Gaetano Filangieri” (Editoriale Scientifica, Napoli, 2024).

 

Amedeo Arena is Full Professor of European Union Law and Delegate for International Relations at the University of Naples “Federico II” Faculty of Law. In that capacity, he coordinates the academic MoUs with UC Berkeley, the University of Denver, and Vrije Universiteit Brussels. He is also De Gasperi Fellow at the Historical Archives of the European Union at the European University Institute in Florence. An Italian qualified lawyer admitted to practice before Italy’s highest courts, with experience in European Union, competition, regulatory and State aid matters, he has visited at, inter alia, Oxford, Berkeley, Tokyo, and London University (UCL).

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  • Organized by: IIC-NY