Join us for a virtual round-table, marking the 50th anniversary of the Osimo Treaty – a Cold War milestone in peaceful resolution. Scholars from Italy and the U.S. will explore nationalism, diplomacy, and the legacy of contested borderlands.
Date and time
November 10 · 11pm – November 11 · 12am CET
Location
Online_ REGISTRATION
The four panelists for this discussion include:
Dr. Fabio Capano, is a historian of twentieth-century Europe whose research explores nationalism, identity politics, and Cold War borderlands. He has taught at American University and George Washington University, where he currently serves as Visiting Scholar Practitioner at the College of Professional Studies. His forthcoming book, Cold War Trieste, examines the complex interplay of local, national, and international politics to offer a panoramic view of Trieste’s contestedItalianità and the broader legacy of Cold War diplomacy.
Dr. Maura Hametz, Professor of History at James Madison University, Virginia, USA, researches the Adriatic provinces in the late Habsburg empire and Italy from the nineteenth century to the present with emphasis on the intersections of politics, religion, culture, and law. She is the author of Making Trieste Italian, 1918-1954 (Boydell and Brewer – Royal Historical Society, 2005) and In the Name of Italy: Nation, Family, and Patriotism in a Fascist Court (Fordham U. Press, 2012) and co-editor of Sissi’s World: The Empress Elisabeth in Myth and Memory (Bloomsbury, 2018). She is currently working on Adriatic citizenship after World War I and the impact of cultural and legal exclusion on societies in the region in the interwar and post-World War II periods.
Dr. Borut Klabjan, is Professor of History, with research specialties in the political and social history of Central and Southeast Europe in the 19 th and 20 th Centuries. Currently, he is Principal Investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant Cold War Europe beyond Borders. A transnational history of cross-border practices in the Alps-Adriatic area from World War II to the present hosted at the Science and Research Centre in Koper, Slovenia. He has been Fellow at the Humboldt University in Berlin, at the Institute for Southeast European Studies in Regensburg, at the EUI in Florence, and at the LMU in Munich. His last edited volume Borderlands of Memory. Adriatic and Central European Perspectives was published by Peter Lang Oxford, while his last book The fire that embraced Europe. The story of the Narodni dom in Trieste 1920-2020, has been published in Slovenian in 2021 and Italian in 2023.
Dr. Arrigo Bonifacio, is a historian of International Relations whose research mainly explores Italian foreign policy with a special focus on national minority, border, and security issues. He has held post-doctoral positions at the Sapienza University of Rome and at the University of Udine. He has contributed to the editing of the volume Documenti sulla pace adriatica. Il negoziato per gli accordi di Osimo nelle carte della diplomazia italiana [Documents on the Adriatic Peace: The Negotiations for the Osimo Agreements in the Records of the Italian Diplomacy], a selection of Italian diplomatic records on the negotiations that led to the 1975 Osimo Agreements published by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
This event is proudly co-sponsored by GW’s College of Professional Studies, GW’s Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, and GW’s Romance, German and Slavic Studies (RGSS) Department.