Thursday, April 3, 5pm: Lucy Riall, "Garibaldi: The First Global Hero"

Public Lecture, Exhibit Opening, Reception, Book Signing, Thomas Cooper Library

Friday, April 4, Conference on Garibaldi Abroad
Room 429 Gambrell Hall

9-10:30 am, Session One: America’s Italy

Gabriella Morisco, American literature, University of Urbino "Carlo Bo", Italy, “Garibaldi, Margaret Fuller and the Roman Republic”

Andrea Mariani, American Literature, University "Gabriele d'Annunzio" (Chieti-Pescara) Italy, "Garibaldi and the Italian Risorgimento in 19th century American literature"   

Coffee Break

11-12:30, Session Two: Garibaldi in England & the World

Lanya Lamouria, Literature, Albion College, USA, “Savior of Fallen Empire: England’s Garibaldi”

Sante Matteo, Italian Studies, Miami University of Ohio, USA, “Garibaldi, Sporadic Radical of Two Worlds: Roots, Spores, and Migration in the Making of Italy and Italians”

Lunch Break

2:30-4:00, Session Three: Garibaldi in Spain & Argentina

Guy Thomson, History, University of Warwick, UK, “Garibaldi in Spain, 1859-1882” 

Jorge Myers, History, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes/University of Chicago (Visiting), “Giuseppe Garibaldi and the cosmopolitan republicanism of the Argentine Generation of 1837”

Coffee Break

4:30-6:00, Session Four: Garibaldi in Europe & Brazil

Gilberto Piccinini, History, University of Urbino "Carlo Bo", Italy “Garibaldi e la questione dell'unità italiana di fronte agli altri stati europei”

Núncia Santoro de Constantino, Pontífícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul- Brasil “The hero and the myth: Italian Ethnicity in Southern Brazil and the memory of Garibaldi”

7 pm   Dinner for Conference Guests at Garibaldi Café, 2013 Greene Street

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Saturday, April 5

9-10:30 am, Session Five: Garibaldi & the United States of America

Ann Tucker, History, University of South Carolina, “The Italian Risorgimento and the American Civil War” 

Katherine Moran, History, Johns Hopkins University, “The Italian Risorgimento and the Transformation of the American Anti-Catholic Gothic”

Coffee Break

11-12:30, Session Six: Garibaldi & Europe

Thomas Beurman, History, Ghent University, Belgium, “Fighting Garibaldi. Gender, Religion and Nationalism in the Correspondence of Belgian Pontifical Zouaves” 

Oliver Hemmerle,  History, Chemnitz University, Germany, “Garibaldi and Germany: Between the Risorgimento and 1870/71”

Lunch Break

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