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Renato Moro, "A Disputed Resistance: The Memory of Anti-Fascism in Italy (1945-2025)"
Friday, 20 March 2026
11:00AM EST
Rome Mosse Lecture
Rettorato, Building CU001, piazzale Aldo Moro 5
Aula Organi Collegiali
Welcome Address:
Umberto Gentiloni (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Maria Cristina Marchetti (Direttrice DiSp, Sapienza Università di Roma)
Skye Doney (George L. Mosse Program in History)
Moderator:
Umberto Gentiloni (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Sponsored by:
Global Mosse Lecture Series
Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche
Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali ed Economiche
Dipartimento di Storia, Antropologia, Religioni arte Spettacolo
Renato Moro is a Emeritus Professor of Contemporary History at Roma Tre University. At Roma Tre, Prof. Moro has been Vice-Rector for Research from 2004 to 2008 and Director of the Ph.D. Program in Political Studies. He is now a member of the Ethical Board of the University. Since 2005 he has been co-editor of the quarterly journal Mondo contemporaneo: Rivista di storia. His studies concern the relationship between politics and religion in twentieth-century history, specifically Catholic political culture; the relationship between Italian (and international) Catholicism and Fascism; Catholic anti-Semitism and anti-Protestantism; and the history of peace and anti-nuclear movements. His publications include La formazione della classe dirigente Cattolica (1979); G. Bottai–G. De Luca, Carteggio 1940-1957 (1989); Renzo De Felice. Studi e testimonianze (2002); La Chiesa e lo sterminio degli ebrei (2002; sp. transl. 2004); Cattolicesimo e totalitarismo (2004); Fascismo e franchismo (2005); Guerra e pace nell’Italia del Novecento (2006); Aldo Moro negli anni della FUCI (2008); L’immagine del nemico (2009); Una vita, un paese. Aldo Moro e l’Italia del Novecento (2014); Salire a Barbiana. Don Milano dal Sessantotto a oggi (2017); Il mito dell’Italia cattolica. Nazione, religione e cattolicesimo negli anni del fascismo (2021); and Storia di una maestra del Sud che fu la madre di Aldo Moro (2022).
Maria Cristina Marchetti is a Full Professor of Sociology of Political Processes at Sapienza University of Rome. Since 2021, she has been Director of the Department of Political Sciences. She is co-editor of the biannual journal Studi politici and a member of the scientific board of the PhD Program in Political Studies at Sapienza. Her research focuses on social and cultural change, with particular reference to political processes and the context of complex societies, the analysis of the European integration process and the governance of its institutions, and the relationship between cultural forms, fashion phenomena, and dimensions of power in contemporary societies. She is the author of numerous essays and journal articles, as well as the following books: Il consenso nelle società complesse (2001); Attori economici e mutamento sociale. Un’indagine nell’area romana (2004); Il processo di integrazione europea. Comunicazione interculturale e ruolo dei media (2006); Tempo, spazio e società (with Donatella Pacelli, 2007); Democrazia e partecipazione nell’Unione europea (2009); L'Europa dei cittadini. Cittadinanza e democrazia nell'Unione europea (2015); Le dimensioni del potere (2018); Moda e Politica. La rappresentazione simbolica del potere (2020).
Umberto Gentiloni is a Full Professor of Contemporary History in the Department of History, Anthropology, Religions, Art, and Performing Arts at Sapienza University of Rome. He is a member of the Board of Governors of Sapienza University of Rome and of the scientific board of the PhD Program in History, Anthropology, and Religions at Sapienza. He is editor of the biannual journal Dimensioni e problemi della rivista storica. He taught at the University of Teramo and was Adjunct Associate Professor of History of Contemporary Italy at the University of California, Berkeley (USA) and at the University of California Rome Study Centre. He has been a Visiting Professor at the following universities: Italian Academy at Columbia University, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, New York University, University of Connecticut, Harvard University, University of Barcelona, Waseda University in Tokyo and Nagoya, Peking University, Academia Sinica, and the Institute of European and American Studies in Taipei.
His books include: Bombardare Roma (con M. Carli, 2007), Sistema politico e contesto internazionale nell'Italia repubblicana (2008), L'Italia sospesa. La crisi degli anni Settanta vista da Washington (2009), l’edizione dei diari di Manlio Brosio (2008-2011), Contro scettici e disfattisti. Gli anni di Ciampi (2013), Bombardare Auschwitz (2015), Il giorno più lungo della Repubblica (2016), Storia dell’Italia contemporanea 1943-2023 (2019, en. trans: The History of Contemporary Italy 1943-2019, 2022), Dal buio del Novecento. Diari e memorie di ebrei italiani di fronte alla Shoah (con S. Palermo, 2024), 2 Giugno (2025).
Renato Moro, "A Disputed Resistance: The Memory of Anti-Fascism in Italy (1945-2025)"
Friday, 20 March 2026
11:00AM EST
Rome Mosse Lecture
Rettorato, Building CU001, piazzale Aldo Moro 5
Aula Organi Collegiali
Welcome Address:
Umberto Gentiloni (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Maria Cristina Marchetti (Direttrice DiSp, Sapienza Università di Roma)
Skye Doney (George L. Mosse Program in History)
Moderator:
Umberto Gentiloni (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Sponsored by:
Global Mosse Lecture Series
Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche
Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali ed Economiche
Dipartimento di Storia, Antropologia, Religioni arte Spettacolo
Renato Moro is a Emeritus Professor of Contemporary History at Roma Tre University. At Roma Tre, Prof. Moro has been Vice-Rector for Research from 2004 to 2008 and Director of the Ph.D. Program in Political Studies. He is now a member of the Ethical Board of the University. Since 2005 he has been co-editor of the quarterly journal Mondo contemporaneo: Rivista di storia. His studies concern the relationship between politics and religion in twentieth-century history, specifically Catholic political culture; the relationship between Italian (and international) Catholicism and Fascism; Catholic anti-Semitism and anti-Protestantism; and the history of peace and anti-nuclear movements. His publications include La formazione della classe dirigente Cattolica (1979); G. Bottai–G. De Luca, Carteggio 1940-1957 (1989); Renzo De Felice. Studi e testimonianze (2002); La Chiesa e lo sterminio degli ebrei (2002; sp. transl. 2004); Cattolicesimo e totalitarismo (2004); Fascismo e franchismo (2005); Guerra e pace nell’Italia del Novecento (2006); Aldo Moro negli anni della FUCI (2008); L’immagine del nemico (2009); Una vita, un paese. Aldo Moro e l’Italia del Novecento (2014); Salire a Barbiana. Don Milano dal Sessantotto a oggi (2017); Il mito dell’Italia cattolica. Nazione, religione e cattolicesimo negli anni del fascismo (2021); and Storia di una maestra del Sud che fu la madre di Aldo Moro (2022).
Maria Cristina Marchetti is a Full Professor of Sociology of Political Processes at Sapienza University of Rome. Since 2021, she has been Director of the Department of Political Sciences. She is co-editor of the biannual journal Studi politici and a member of the scientific board of the PhD Program in Political Studies at Sapienza. Her research focuses on social and cultural change, with particular reference to political processes and the context of complex societies, the analysis of the European integration process and the governance of its institutions, and the relationship between cultural forms, fashion phenomena, and dimensions of power in contemporary societies. She is the author of numerous essays and journal articles, as well as the following books: Il consenso nelle società complesse (2001); Attori economici e mutamento sociale. Un’indagine nell’area romana (2004); Il processo di integrazione europea. Comunicazione interculturale e ruolo dei media (2006); Tempo, spazio e società (with Donatella Pacelli, 2007); Democrazia e partecipazione nell’Unione europea (2009); L'Europa dei cittadini. Cittadinanza e democrazia nell'Unione europea (2015); Le dimensioni del potere (2018); Moda e Politica. La rappresentazione simbolica del potere (2020).
Umberto Gentiloni is a Full Professor of Contemporary History in the Department of History, Anthropology, Religions, Art, and Performing Arts at Sapienza University of Rome. He is a member of the Board of Governors of Sapienza University of Rome and of the scientific board of the PhD Program in History, Anthropology, and Religions at Sapienza. He is editor of the biannual journal Dimensioni e problemi della rivista storica. He taught at the University of Teramo and was Adjunct Associate Professor of History of Contemporary Italy at the University of California, Berkeley (USA) and at the University of California Rome Study Centre. He has been a Visiting Professor at the following universities: Italian Academy at Columbia University, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, New York University, University of Connecticut, Harvard University, University of Barcelona, Waseda University in Tokyo and Nagoya, Peking University, Academia Sinica, and the Institute of European and American Studies in Taipei.
His books include: Bombardare Roma (con M. Carli, 2007), Sistema politico e contesto internazionale nell'Italia repubblicana (2008), L'Italia sospesa. La crisi degli anni Settanta vista da Washington (2009), l’edizione dei diari di Manlio Brosio (2008-2011), Contro scettici e disfattisti. Gli anni di Ciampi (2013), Bombardare Auschwitz (2015), Il giorno più lungo della Repubblica (2016), Storia dell’Italia contemporanea 1943-2023 (2019, en. trans: The History of Contemporary Italy 1943-2019, 2022), Dal buio del Novecento. Diari e memorie di ebrei italiani di fronte alla Shoah (con S. Palermo, 2024), 2 Giugno (2025).









![Sven Reichardt, Fascist Violence: Paramilitarism and Radicalized Warfare
60 Years: Fascism Seminar Revisited
mosseprogram.wisc.edu/rome
11 January 2025
Session VIII: Violence and War
Annette Becker, The Great War: A Laboratory of Violence for the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century
Moderated by Manuela Consonni
Responses by Sven Reichardt, Omer Bartov
Sponsored by:
George L. Mosse Program in History
American Academy in Rome
Sapienza Università di Roma
Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism
Leo Baeck Institute
Manuela Consonni is the Pela and Adam Starkopf Chair in Holocaust Studies at the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is also the current director of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism. Her books include: Resistance or Holocaust: The Memory of the Deportation and Extermination in Italy, 1945-1985 (2010); L’eclisse dell’antifascismo. Resistenza, questione ebraica e cultura politica in Italia dal 1943 al 1989 (2015); Three Faces of Antifascism: Narratives of Resistance in Italian Political Culture, forthcoming in spring-summer 2024, and a forthcoming book on Primo Levi, titled: Shedding Skins: Primo Levi on Human Evil, Suffering, and the Power to Resist.
Annette Becker is Professor Emerita of Modern History at Paris-Nanterre and a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. She has written extensively on the Two World Wars and the extreme violence they nurtured, with an emphasis on military occupations. She is now devoting her research to genocides (against the Armenians, against the Tutsi in Rwanda, and the Holocaust) including humanitarian politics, trauma and memory, particularly among intellectuals and artists. Her latest publications include Messagers du désastre: Raphaël Lemkin, Jan Karski et les genocides (2018) (Messengers of Disaster: Raphaël Lemkin, Jan Karski and Twentieth-Century Genocides [2021]); L’Immontrable. Guerres et violences extrêmes dans l’art et la littérature (2021); Des Juifs trahis par leur France, 1939-1944 (2024); and Le choc. Le génocide des Tutsi du Rwanda, 1994, with Jean-Philippe Schreiber, Samuel Kuhn, Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau (2024).
Sven Reichardt is Distinguished Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Konstanz. He has published widely on the history of fascism, the history of war, civil war and terrorism and on social movements and civil societies in late twentieth century history. He has several international awards and fellowships. In summer 2025 he will be senior fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna.
Omer Bartov is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. Born in Israel and educated at Tel Aviv University and St. Antony’s College, Oxford, his early research concerned war crimes in World War II and the links between war and genocide. He has also written on representations of antisemitism in twentieth-century cinema. More recently he has focused on interethnic relations, violence, and population displacement in Europe and Palestine. His latest books include Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018), Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past (2022), and Genocide, The Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis (2023). He is currently writing a book tentatively titled “The Broken Promise: A Personal-Political History of Israel and Palestine,” which is dedicated to investigating the first generation of Jews and Palestinians in Israel, a generation to which he also belongs. His novel, The Butterfly and the Axe, was published in 2023 in the United States and Israel.
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In 1963, historian George L. Mosse led a landmark seminar at Stanford University, bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines and countries to analyze the history of Nazism and Italian Fascism, just eighteen years after World War II. Their discussions defined the early parameters of European fascism amidst the post-war era’s intellectual landscape.
Sixty years later, the George L. Mosse Program in History organized a multi-day conference from January 9 to January 12, 2025, to reassess fascism in the context of contemporary European movements. More than thirty scholars from the US, Europe, the UK, and Israel gathered to critically examine and redefine “fascism” in light of present-day populist, anti-democratic, illiberal, and authoritarian ideologies. Sven Reichardt, Fascist Violence: Paramilitarism and Radicalized Warfare](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MAkm1lT-V-k/mqdefault.jpg)
