Colloque Exile and Knowledge Transfer Networks, Agents, Disciplines in the Italian Case (1940-1960)
Chères et chers collègues,
La semaine prochaine, l’Université de Vérone accueillera le colloque international « Exile and Knowledge Transfer: Networks, Agents, Disciplines in the Italian Case (1940-1960) ».
International Conference
Exile and Knowledge Transfer: Networks, Agents, Disciplines in the Italian Case (1940-1960)
University of Verona, June 17-18-19, 2026
The conference represents the final phase of the PRIN 2022 research project Exile, Transnational Intellectual Networks, and Knowledge Transfer: The Italian Case from the 1940s to the 1960s (Principal Investigator: Renato Camurri), developed by research groups at the University of Verona, coordinated by Renato Camurri, and at the University of Milan, coordinated by Irene Piazzoni. Based on recent international studies on exile, the project reexamined the Italian case from a comparative perspective with France and Germany, highlighting both the relative lag in Italian historiography in this field and the specific characteristics of Italian intellectual emigration during the interwar period. The research adopted a methodological approach that interprets exile not simply as migration, but as a complex phenomenon involving intellectual, political, and Jewish exile. Rather than focusing only on departure and arrival, the project emphasized the circulation of ideas, the formation of scientific and cultural networks, and the innovative character of the cultures of exile. This perspective challenges traditional and often rhetorical representations of exile by analyzing the exchanges, hybridizations, and forms of creativity generated by this specific type of mobility. Using a translocal approach, the project reconstructed the circulation of knowledge and the emergence of cosmopolitan communities of scholars, artists, and scientists connected through transnational academic and cultural networks. Particular attention was devoted to reconstructing biographical trajectories, the supporting systems created by international foundations that assisted refugee scholars, the integration of exiles into American academic life, and their role as mediators between different intellectual traditions. The conference focuses in particular on three main themes: the contribution of exile to the deprovincialization of European culture and the reinforcement of transatlantic dialogue; the innovative and creative potential generated by the “view from afar”; and the multidirectional mobility of ideas between Europe, the United States, and South America. Finally, the conference examines the impact that cultures of exile had after 1945 on disciplines such as the social sciences, history, political thought, the arts, publishing, and the formation of new scientific and cultural networks during the Cold War.
Ici le programme en anglais <cdn.docs.univr.it/documenti/Iniziativa/dall/dall910101.pdf> et en italien <cdn.docs.univr.it/documenti/Iniziativa/dall/dall172562.pdf>.
Il sera possibile de suivre le colloque à distance.
Bien cordialement,
La semaine prochaine, l’Université de Vérone accueillera le colloque international « Exile and Knowledge Transfer: Networks, Agents, Disciplines in the Italian Case (1940-1960) ».
International Conference
Exile and Knowledge Transfer: Networks, Agents, Disciplines in the Italian Case (1940-1960)
University of Verona, June 17-18-19, 2026
The conference represents the final phase of the PRIN 2022 research project Exile, Transnational Intellectual Networks, and Knowledge Transfer: The Italian Case from the 1940s to the 1960s (Principal Investigator: Renato Camurri), developed by research groups at the University of Verona, coordinated by Renato Camurri, and at the University of Milan, coordinated by Irene Piazzoni. Based on recent international studies on exile, the project reexamined the Italian case from a comparative perspective with France and Germany, highlighting both the relative lag in Italian historiography in this field and the specific characteristics of Italian intellectual emigration during the interwar period. The research adopted a methodological approach that interprets exile not simply as migration, but as a complex phenomenon involving intellectual, political, and Jewish exile. Rather than focusing only on departure and arrival, the project emphasized the circulation of ideas, the formation of scientific and cultural networks, and the innovative character of the cultures of exile. This perspective challenges traditional and often rhetorical representations of exile by analyzing the exchanges, hybridizations, and forms of creativity generated by this specific type of mobility. Using a translocal approach, the project reconstructed the circulation of knowledge and the emergence of cosmopolitan communities of scholars, artists, and scientists connected through transnational academic and cultural networks. Particular attention was devoted to reconstructing biographical trajectories, the supporting systems created by international foundations that assisted refugee scholars, the integration of exiles into American academic life, and their role as mediators between different intellectual traditions. The conference focuses in particular on three main themes: the contribution of exile to the deprovincialization of European culture and the reinforcement of transatlantic dialogue; the innovative and creative potential generated by the “view from afar”; and the multidirectional mobility of ideas between Europe, the United States, and South America. Finally, the conference examines the impact that cultures of exile had after 1945 on disciplines such as the social sciences, history, political thought, the arts, publishing, and the formation of new scientific and cultural networks during the Cold War.
Ici le programme en anglais <cdn.docs.univr.it/documenti/Iniziativa/dall/dall910101.pdf> et en italien <cdn.docs.univr.it/documenti/Iniziativa/dall/dall172562.pdf>.
Il sera possibile de suivre le colloque à distance.
Bien cordialement,
Marion Labeÿ Docteure en Histoire contemporaine orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-1928