International conference

Rome, 20 September 1870: a turning point in modern history? The legacy and relevance of the secular state.

Chaired by: Emma Bonino, Lucy Riall, Eugenio Biagini e Marco Pannella

Friday 19th September 2008, 3pm – 7pm

European Parliament Office of London

2 Queen Anne’s Gate

London SW1H 9AA

3pm, Greeting and Introduction by

Graham Watson, MEP, Leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in the European Parliament

1st session 3.30pm – 5pm

Luca Tedesco

“Anticlericalismi europei e rapporto Stato-Chiesa nella ricostruzione e valutazione del Congresso romano del 1904 della Federazione internazionale del Libero Pensiero”

(European anticlericalisms and State-Church relationship at the 1904 Rome Congress of the International Federation of Free Thought)

John Pollard

“Mussolini and the abolition of the Twentieth of September as a national holiday”

(Mussolini e l´abolizione del 20 settembre come festività nazionale)

Serge Berstein

“Les conséquences de l’événement sur les relations entre Eglise et Etat en France depuis 1870 et la définition de la laïcité à la française”

(The consequences of the event on the relations between the Church and the French State since 1870 and the definition of French laïcité)

Coffee Break

Antonello Biagini

“Il pensiero mazziniano e le costituzioni di ispirazione liberale nell’Europa Orientale”

(Mazzini’s thought and the liberal-inspired constitutions in Eastern Europe)

Andras Gerö

“Hungarian freedom and the influence of Risorgimento”

(Libertà ungherese e l´influenza del Risorgimento)

Maurizio Isabella

“La politica inglese, la questione Romana, e gli esuli italiani, 1815-1835”

( The English Politics, the Roman Question and the Italian exiles to London, 1815-1835)

Saturday 20th September 2008, 9am – 7pm

Italian Culture Institute

39 Belgrave Square

London SW1X 8NX

9am

Greeting by Pierluigi Barrotta, Director at the Italian Cultural Institute

2nd session 9am - 10.30am

Giuseppe Galasso

“Gli avvenimenti del 1870 non costituiscono forse una svolta epocale? Eredità e attualità di quell´evento”

(Are not the 1870´s events a turning point in modern history? On their legacy and continuous relevance)

Eugenio Biagini

“Libertà religiosa e processo costituzionale nel Risorgimento”

(Religious freedom and the constitutional process in the Risorgimento)

Rocco Pezzimenti

“Lord Acton, Newman, Rosmini Manzoni e la questione romana”

(Lord Acton, Newman, Rosmini Manzoni and the Roman Question)

Coffee Break

3rd Session. 11am – 12.30pm

Robert Tombs

“Voila l’ennemi!’: Clericalism, anti-clericalism and the Roman Question in France, c. 1870-1877”

“Ecco il nemico!: Clericalismo, anti-clericalismo e la Questione Romana in Francia, 1870-1877”

Lucy Riall

“Victims and heroes: Italy, the Pope and the question of Rome”

(Vittime ed eroi: l´Italia, il Papa e la questione di Roma)

Vincent Viaene

“Mazzinismo a modo nostro. La risposta vaticana al XX Settembre”

Jean-Yves Frétigné

“Débats au sein de l’émigration politique à Londres dans les années 1840 et 1850”

  (The debate among the political migrants in London in the years 1840 and 1850)

Lunch

4th Session 2pm-4.30pm

Laszlo Csorba

“Il pensiero e l’opera Lajos Kossuth nel contesto (Austro) Ungarico, Londinese, italiano”

(The thought and work of Lajos Kossuth in the (Austro)-Hungarian, Londoner , and Italian contest)

Nadia Ciani

“Ernesto Nathan londinese e romano: gli anni della formazione a Londra delineano un percorso di vita”

(Ernesto Nathan, Londoner and Roman: the London years shape a life path)

David Howarth, MP

“Liberalism and the Secular State: A Reflection on Spiritual Power”

(Liberalismo e Stato Laico: Una riflessione sul Potere Spirituale)

Coffee Break

5th Session, 5pm-7pm

Round table and final debate

Emma Bonino

Marco Pannella

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