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70th Anniversary of the Italian Constitution

On the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the Italian Constitution a conversation with Nadia Urbinati and David Forgacs.

 

Nadia Urbinati (Ph.D., European University Institute, Florence, 1989) is a political theorist who specializes in modern and contemporary political thought and the democratic and anti-democratic traditions. She co-chaired the Columbia University Faculty Seminar on Political and Social Thought and founded and chaired the Workshop on Politics, Religion and Human Rights. She is co-editor with Andrew Arato of the journal Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Foundation Reset Dialogues on Civilization-Istanbul Seminars.

Winner of the 2008-9 Lenfest/Columbia Distinguished Faculty Award,  in 2008 she received from  the President of the Italian Republic the award of Commendatore della Repubblica “for her contribution to the study of democracy and the diffusion of Italian liberal and democratic thought abroad.” In 2004 her book Mill on Democracy received the David and Elaine Spitz Prize as the best book in liberal and democratic theory published in 2002. Professor Urbinati is also an editorial contributor of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica and publishes articles in the culture section of the Italian newspaper Il Sole24ore.

David Forgacs  PhD., holds the endowed Guido and Mariuccia Zerilli-Marimò Chair in Contemporary Italian Studies at NYU. He earned both his M.A. in English and his M.Phil. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Oxford (1975, 1977) and his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (1979). Previously, he taught at University College London, where he held the Panizzi Chair of Italian, established in 1828; before that he was at Royal Holloway University of London, where he was Reader in Film Studies, at University of Cambridge, where he was a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, and at University of Sussex.

His most recent book is Italy’s Margins: Social Exclusion and Nation Formation since 1861 (Cambridge University Press, 2014; an Italian edition has being published by Laterza in 2015). His other books include Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War, with Stephen Gundle (Indiana University Press, 2007), L’industrializzazione della cultura italiana 1880-2000 (Il Mulino, 2000), The Antonio Gramsci Reader (NYU Press, 2000). His work on cinema includes a co-edited book on Rossellini (2000), essays on Antonioni (2000, 2009, 2011) and Pontecorvo (2007), and full-length audio commentaries for the DVD and Blu-ray discs of Ossessione, Il Gattopardo, Il deserto rosso and Il conformista.

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  • Organized by: ICI