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International Conference Narrating EU Integration: Speeches and
Speakers from 1946 to 2018
DISPO (Unige)Albergo dei Poveri, Piazzale E. Brignole, 2/A
Genoa
Genoa, 3-5 February 2021
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Programme
3 February: 9.30-13.00
Presentation of a series of “Speeches on Europe” selected by the
students of the high schools involved in the Jean Monnet Projet
Liceo Classico Andrea D’Oria-GenoaLiceo Linguistico Grazia
Deledda-GenoaLiceo Linguistico Della Rovere- Savona
4 February
9.00 - Welcome address by the Head of the School of Social
Sciences - Prof. Luca Beltrametti
9.15 - Welcome address by the Director of the Department -
Prof.ssa Daniela Preda
Video with the results of the research project with the High
Schools
Speeches on the birth of the European Communities
(1946-1969)
9.45 -11.00 Chair: Eleonora Guasconi, University of Genoa
• Daniela Preda, Les pierres angulaires du discours européen
d’Alcide De Gasperi: Bruxelles, 20 novembre 1948; Strasbourg 10
décembre 1951, University of Genoa
• Piero Graglia, «Atlantic Pact or European Unity». When
«Foreign Affairs» met Altiero Spinelli (1962) and vice versa,
University of Milan
• Gilles Grin, Discours de Jean Monnet, Jean Monnet Prési-dent
de la Haute Autorité de la CECA: analyse de deux discours
fondateurs, Fondation Jean Monnet, Lausanne
Discussion
11.30 -13.00 Chair: Michael Gehler, University of Hildesheim
• Francesco Pierini, Friends and Sponsors of the New Europe: A
Discourse Analysis on Churchill’s speech at the University of
Zurich 19 September 1946, University of Genoa
• Giuliana Laschi, “La Communauté européenne est l’une des plus
grandes conceptions politiques de l’Occident”.
Walter Hallstein et l’Europe, University of Bologna • Jean-Marie
Palayret, The Schuman Declaration of 9th May
1950: Memory and Topicality of a founding speech, Historical
Archives of the EU, Florence
Discussion
Speeches on Europe from the “Long 1970s” to the Recovery of the
European Community
14.30 -16.00 Chair: Massimiliano Guderzo, University of
Siena
• Michael Gehler, Hans-Dietrich Genscher “European Commu-nity -
Towards the European Union - The whole of Europe Towards itself,
University of Hildesheim
• Elena Calandri, Per un’Europa dei popoli e dei lavoratori”:
Enrico Berlinguer’s Speeches to the European Parliament, University
of Padua
• Jussi Hanhimaki, An all-time-low”? Henry Kissinger, the Year
of Europe, and the Reconfiguration of Transatlantic Relations,
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies,
Geneva
• Ilaria Poggiolini, Edward Heath’s ‘Greater United Europe’:
understanding a very ‘special’ Europeanism,
University of Pavia
Discussion
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16.30 - 18.00 Chair: Massimiliano Guderzo, University of
Siena
• Marinella Neri Gualdesi, Jacques Delors et “L’Europe du
possible”. Vision et méthode d’un leader européen,
University of Pisa• Eva Garau, Once we were Europeans. Margaret
Thatcher
and the EU: from cornerstone to burden (1966-1990), University
of Cagliari
• Eleonora Guasconi, “Europe is not a mechanical process, nor is
it on an automatic time switch”, Emilio Colombo’s vision of
European integration, University of Genoa
• Deborah Cuccia, Helmut Kohl: a Master Builder of a United
Europe in Words and Deeds, University of Hildesheim
Discussion
5 FebruaryNew Visions of Europe: the Transformation of the
European Community9.00-11.00 Chair: Eleonora Guasconi, University
of Genoa
• Antonio Varsori, Giulio Andreotti’s Commitment to the
Euro-pean Construction from the European Monetary System to the
project for a constitutional treaty, University of Padua
• Frédéric Bozo, La vision européenne de François Mitterrand à
travers ses vœux du Nouvel An aux Français (1981-1995), Université
Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris
• Simone Paoli, “A Third Europe? Ralf Dahrendorf and a liberal
road to reforming and relaunching the European project”, University
of Pisa
• Lara Piccardo, 6 July 1989: Gorbachev’s European Common Home,
University of Genoa
Discussion
New visions of Europe: the Challenges of the XXI Century
11.30-13.00 Chair: Eleonora Guasconi, University of Genoa
• Antonio Moreno Juste & Carlos Sanz, To be Europe, to build
Europe: the European Speech of Felipe González, Universidad
Complutense de Madrid
• Daniele Pasquinucci, Restoring Trust: Prime Minister Mario
Monti and Italy’s Role in Europe, University of Siena
• Laura Fasanaro, The Community method “must remain the beating
heart of the Union”. Purpose and vision of an
enlarged EU, through the lenses of Romano Prodi’s European
speeches, University of RomaTre• Andrea Catanzaro, “What Kind of
Relationship? A rea-
ding of Silvio Berlsuconi’s speeches concerning the EU,”
University of Genoa
New visions of Europe: the Challenges of the XXI Century
14.30-16.30Chair: Lara Piccardo, University of Genoa
• Jan van der Harst, Mark Rutte: the Pragmatic European,
University of Groningen
• Fabrizio Coticchia, The scrapper and the “euro-burocrats”.
Italian Foreign Policy during Matteo Renzi’s Government, University
of Genoa
• Andrea Becherucci, The European Unification Process is the
most Positive Legacy that the 20th Century bequeathed to polity
Europe in Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa’s Speeches, Historical Archives of
the EU, Florence
• Elena Dundovich, Boris Eltsin’s Vision of Europe, University
of Pisa
Discussion
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17.00-18.30 Chair: Francesco Pierini, University of Genoa
• Mara Morini, Putin’s attitudes towards EU (2000-2020),
University of Genoa• Guido Levi, Matteo Salvini’s Nationalist
Vision of
Europe, University of Genoa • Sante Cruciani, L’Europe de Carlo
Azeglio Ciampi:
de la Banque d’Italie au Quirinale (1979-2006), University of
Tuscia
• Giorgio Grimaldi, Throwing a Stone in the Pond: Joschka
Fischer’s Federal Proposal to Relaunch European Integration,
University of Genoa
Final Discussion
Project coordinator: Prof. Maria Eleonora Guasconi (Unige) Vice
coordinator: Prof. Daniela Preda (Unige)
Scientific committee: Prof. Andrea Catanzaro (Unige)Prof.
Michael Gehler (University of Hildesheim)Prof. Guido Levi
(Unige)Prof. Lara Piccardo (Unige)Prof. Francesco Pierini
(Unige)
Secretariat: Dr. Alessandra
[email protected] Dr. Francesco Massardo
[email protected](Unige alumni)
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