International Graduate Conference
International Graduate Conference
“Veterans or Socialists? Socialism and Militarism in the Nationalist and Protofascist Movements and Regimes (1918 – 1945)”
Conveners:
Gustavo Corni and Sara Lorenzini (Trento), Robert Gerwarth (Dublin)
Organized by:
Dipartimento di Filosofia, Storia e Beni culturali - Università di Trento
Centre for War Studies - University College Dublin
Programme
Friday, 25 May
h. 14 - 19
Opening remarks by Gustavo Corni & Sara Lorenzini
First Session: Italy And Germany
- Pierluigi Pironti, The “Thanks of the Fatherland”. War disabled Organizations in postwar Germany and Italy (1918-1923)
- Alessandro Salvador, The social politics of the Stahlhelm Veteran's league: between trench- and national-socialism
- Anders G. Kjostvedt, Striking for the Volksgemeinschaft. The National Socialist Movement in Berlin and its Relationship to Labour Conflicts, 1925-1933
- Alban Bargain-Villger, A Challenging Segment: The French and German Socialists and Veteran Associations in Brittany and Bavaria, 1918-1933/40
Commentators: Giulia Albanese, Richard Bessel
Saturday, 26 May
h. 9 – 12.30
Second Session: National and regional cases
- Angel Alcalde Fernandez, Francoist war veterans and the ‘New State’: social benefits and the consolidation of the Franco dictatorship in Spain (1939-1945)
- Adrian Grant, ‘The IRA and the Irish working class, 1923-36: new perspectives on inter-war Irish republicanism.’
- Joanna Urbanek, Memory of the World War I and Veterans in Crisis of Democratic States. The Case of Poland
- John Paul Newman, 'Warriors against Politics: The Failure of Welfare Provisions as a Source of Authoritarianism in Interwar Yugoslavia'
- Victor Lundberg, ‘Workers of Hand and Mind. The Fascist Labour Movement in Sweden 1930-1945’
- Tomas Balkelis, 'Social Activism of the Baltic Paramilitary Movements during the Interwar Period'
Commentator: Friedrich Lenger
h. 14 - 17
Third Session: Ideas and ideologies
- Tommaso Milani, A moral equivalent of socialism? Hendrik De Man and the First World War as a political laboratory
- Floris Daniel Knegt, French Intellectual Fascism and the Discovery of the Social: The Case of Bertrand de Jouvenel and Alfred Fabre-Luce
- Jakub Drabik, „All within the State, none outside the State, none against the State.“Oswald Mosley´s idea of the corporative State in Great Britain
- commentator: Robert Gerwarth
h. 17.30 – 19
Final discussion