armies at war

Scientific Direction Antonello Folco Biagini Giovanna Motta

Centro di ricerca Cooperazione con l'Eurasia, il Mediterraneo e l'Africa sub sahariana

Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia Dipartimento di Storia, Culture, Religioni Editing Antonello Battaglia Diana Shendrikova Anida Sokol

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Dominique Arel, Ottawa University Annette Becker, Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, Museum of the Great War and Research Centre Francesco Benvenuti, University of Bologna Antonello Folco Biagini, Sapienza University of Rome Stefano Bianchini, University of Bologna, Center for East-Central European and Balkan Studies Paola Carucci, Manager of Historical Archives of the President of the Republic Mariam Chkhartishvili, Ivane Javakhishvili, Tbilisi State University Daniele Conversi, University of the Basque Country and Ikerbasque, Bilbao Roberto Pasca di Magliano, Sapienza University of Rome Pasquale Fornaro, University of Messina Ljubomir Frčkoski, St. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje Altay Goyushov, Baku State University Ivo Goldstein, University of Zagreb, Ambassador of Croatia to France Cesare La Mantia, University of Trieste Mark Levene, University of Southampton Andre Liebich, Graduate Institute of International and Development Study, Geneva Giovanna Motta, Sapienza University of Rome Mario Morcellini, Sapienza University of Rome Matteo Pizzigallo, University of Naples Federico II Julius H. Schoeps, Moses Mendelssohn Centre for European Jewish Studies, Potsdam Stanislaw Sierpowski, University of Poznan

Cornel Sigmirean, Petru Maior University of Târgu-Mureş Roberto Sinigaglia, University of Genoa Zafer Toprak, Bosphorus University, Istanbul Luciano Tosi, University of Perugia John Treadway, University of Richmond Lucio Ubertini, IHP Unesco – Italian Committee

STEERING COMMITTEE

Antonello Battaglia Andrea Carteny Giovanna Motta Gabriele Natalizia Diana Shendrikova Anida Sokol Alessandro Vagnini

GENERAL INFORMATION AND PROGRAM

HOW TO GET HERE FROM FIUMICINO AIRPORT "LEONARDO DA VINCI" BY TRAIN:

(recommended): The best option is to take the no-stop train “Leonardo Express” to Termini station (travel time: about 30 minutes), which costs 14 euro. From Termini follow the instructions below. The train timetable and fares can be found on the TRENITALIA website. BY TAXI: The official fixed rate (all included) from Fiumicino airport to any destination within the ancient Roman walls (Mura Aureliane), including Sapienza campus, is 48 euro. To Sapienza campus it takes about 50 minutes.

FROM CIAMPINO AIRPORT "G. B. PASTINE" (recommended): Connections to Termini station (in about 30-40 minutes) by the bus services ATRAL, COTRAL, SIT and TERRAVISION companies. The fare is about 5 euro. From Termini follow the instructions below. BY TAXI: The official fixed rate (all included) from Ciampino airport to any destination within the ancient Roman walls (Mura Aureliane), including Sapienza campus, is 30 euro. The ride to Sapienza campus takes about 30 minutes. BY BUS

FROM TERMINI TRAIN STATION: The campus is located within 15 minutes walking distance from Termini station. Leave the station through the right side exit (Via Marsala) and follow these directions. Alternatively take one of the taxi cabs outside the front entrance of the station.

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PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: SUBWAY: Take the Line B and stop at Castro Pretorio. The campus is within 10 minutes walking distance. BUS: Several bus lines stop in the streets around the campus. The ticket price for a single ride is 1.50 euro and they need to be purchased in advance. To plan your trip, visit the ATAC website.

USEFUL LINKS: PUBLIC TRAIN NETWORK: http://www.fsitaliane.it/homepage_en.html FIUMICINO AIRPORT: http://www.adr.it/web/aeroporti-di-roma-en-/pax-fco-fiumicino 8

CIAMPINO AIRPORT: http://www.adr.it/web/aeroporti-di-roma-en-/pax-cia-ciampino BUS AND SUBWAY PUBLIC NETWORK: http://www.atac.roma.it/index.asp?lingua=ENG

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SAPIENZA CAMPUS MAP

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DETAILS: The panels will take place at Sapienza-University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, in five different rooms (Aula). Faculty of Humanities (Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia), ground floor: AULA I, AULA II, AULA III. Faculty of Humanities (Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia), floor –1 Aula “a vetri”. The Rectorate Building, ground floor: Aula Organi Collegiali

CONFERENCE FLOOR MAP: GROUND FLOOR

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CONFERENCE FLOOR MAP: - 1 FLOOR

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CONFERENCE FLOOR MAP: RECTORATE BUILDING

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CONFERENCE FLOOR MAP: RECTORATE BUILDING–AULA ORGANI COLLEGIALI

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REGISTRATION, DINNER, LUNCH

REGISTRATION: Registration will be held at the Faculty of Humanities (Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia), on the ground floor. The Information desk will be open on Thursday starting from 12:30 and Friday starting from 9:00.

DINNER: June 19, 20:30. The dinner will be held near the University at Casa dell’Aviatore, Viale dell’Università 20, 00185 Rome. Dinner and lunch are included in the price of the participation fee.

LUNCH: June 20, 13:15-14:30. The lunch will be served at the campus of Sapienza-University of Rome, Rectorate Buildig - aula degli Organi Collegiali.

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Full Program

JUNE 19, 2014

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OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE Antonello Folco Biagini Vice Rector, Sapienza University of Rome

June 19, 2014 AULA I 15:00

June 19, 2014 AULA I 15:15-16:45 Session A

THEORY, HISTORIOGRAPHY, MEMORY Panel A-1 CHAIRMAN ANTONGIULIO DE’ ROBERTIS ALEXANDER TSURTSUMIA

Geopolitical Changes Before and After WWI

DMITRY SHLAPENTOKH

WWI and the Birth of Russian Eurasianism

MARTA TURKOT

The Memory of World War I: Diverse European Perspective

VALERIO TORREGGIANI

Decentralizing Political Powers: G.D.H. Cole and the Guild Socialism Reaction Against the State (1915-1919)

ALBERTO BECHERELLI

Remembering Gavrilo Princip

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June 19, 2014 AULA I 17:00-18:30 Session A

THEORY, HISTORIOGRAPHY, MEMORY Panel A-2 CHAIRMAN ALESSANDRO SAGGIORO RADU MÂRZA NIKOLA BECKER

ELENA DUNDOVICH

MATTIA GUSELLA

NATALIA TRUBNIKOVA

OKSANA V. PETROVSKAYA

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Year 1914 Reflected in Romanian Historiography Writing about World War I after the Holocaust – Autobiographies of German Jews Russian Memory of the First World War Rethinking the Great War: The Case of Padua World War I and the Russian Revolution of 1917: Frames and Debates in Russian Studies’ Historiography The Origin of World War I in the Modern Historiography of PostCommunist Eastern Europe

June 19, 2014 AULA II 15:15-16:45 Session B

NATIONALITIES AND MINORITIES Panel B-1

CHAIRMAN GIUSEPPE MOTTA

MARK LEVENE

DANIELE CONVERSI

FRANCESCA DI GIULIO

EHUD MANOR

MARTIN ARNDT

Armenians and Jews and the Crystallization of the Minorities Question during World War I Prelude to Obliteration: Minorities, Cultural Homogenization and the Modern State’s Eliminationist Drive The Uprooting of a Community: The Armenian Catholics of Cilicia The War to End all Wars and Then What?: Some Jewish Insights into the “Jewish Question,” New York and Stockholm, 1915-1919 Ideological Debate on Aspects of Jewish Identity

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June 19, 2014 AULA II 17:00-18:30 Session B

NATIONALITIES AND MINORITIES Panel B-2

CHAIRMAN MARK LEVENE

PASQUALE FORNARO

Loyalty to the Hasburgs or Slavic Solidarity? Masaryk’s Dilemma in 1914

GIUSEPPE MOTTA

The Great War and the Jews in Eastern Europe

RUSLAN ASLANOVICH TLEPTSOK

World War I: The Perception of Russian Muslims

MARIAM CHKHARTISHVILI ZURAB TARGAMADZE SOPIO KADAGISHVILI

The Impulse of the Great War on the Georgian Identity Development

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June 19, 2014 AULA III 15:15-16:45 Session C

ARMIES AT WAR: STRUCTURES, OPERATIONS, INNOVATIONS Panel C-1

CHAIRMAN DONATELLA STRANGIO

LJUBOMIR FRČKOSKI ALEKSANDAR STOJČEV

The Macedonian Front in the Great War

ANNA KATTI

Greece and the Macedonian Front in World War I

ANDREEA EMILIA DUȚĂ

The Battles for the Moldavian Gates

ANTON VACHARADZE

FEDERICO CIAVATTONE

The Caucasus Front During World War I According to the Materials Kept in the National Archives of Georgia The Royal Carabinieri in the First World War: The Case of Vittorio Bellipanni and the Carabinieri Section of the 45th Infantry Division on the Isonzo Front 27

VANDA WILCOX

The Idea of “Duty” and Military Service in the First World War

June 19, 2014 AULA III 17:00-18:30 Session C

ARMIES AT WAR: STRUCTURES, OPERATIONS, INNOVATIONS Panel C-2

CHAIRMAN ANDREA GIANNOTTI

PATRICK CAVALIERE

IONELA ZAHARIA

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The Italian Magistracy and the Great War 1915-1918: Political Criminal Justice and the Concept of the Personality of the State The Romanian Military Clergy from Austria-Hungary: Their Activities in the Prisoner-of-War Camps (POWC) during World War I

AGNESE ACCATTOLI FRANCESCA ROMANA LENZI

The Forgotten Prisoners: Russian Soldiers of the Great War in the Asinara Concentration Camp (1918-1920) The Role of Sezione R of the High Command Information Service during the Great War in the Documents of the Italian Army Historical Office

June 19, 2014 AULA a Vetri 15:15-16:45 Session C

ARMIES AT WAR: STRUCTURES, OPERATIONS, INNOVATIONS Panel C-3

CHAIRMAN STEFANO BIANCHINI

JACOPO LORENZINI MARCO CRISTANTE

Planned War and Actual War: General Staff Officers, Junior Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers of the Italian Royal Army and the Impact on the Great War

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DAVID BURIGANA ALESSANDRO MARRONE ANTONELLO BATTAGLIA

METIN VENXHA

GIUSEPPE PERRI

CESARE LA MANTIA

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The Lack of Innovation, Representation, Myth and Realty of a “Mass” Technology: The Airplane and the Great War The Great War and the Rise of Air Power: An Italian Perspective From Titan against the Titans: The Republic of San Marino and the Great War Albania during the First World War: The Autonomous Region of Korçë The Peace on the Eastern Front and the Hetmanate of Skoropads’kyj (April-November 1918) in the Ukrainian Sources Danzig’s Issue in the Files of the Italian Military Mission to Poland and Italian Military Representatives in the Inter-Allied Commissions

June 19, 2014 AULA a Vetri 17:00-18:30 Session C

ARMIES AT WAR: STRUCTURES, OPERATIONS, INNOVATIONS Panel C-4

CHAIRMAN MATTEO PIZZIGALLO The Italian Red Cross in WWI: An ALESSANDRO PISTECCHIA Analysis of a Volunteer Nursing Unit’s Role A Different View? Reflexes of Militarism and World War One in MAIKE ROTZOLL Works of Psychiatric Inmates in the Prinzhorn Collection ALESSANDRO VAGNINI

STEFANO ORAZI

Mad in the Mud: Psychiatry and the War on the Italian Front Mobilization for War: The Health Service in the Support of the Italian Forces in the Archive of the Historical Office of the Italian Navy

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June 20, 2014 AULA Organi Collegiali (Rectorate Building – ground floor) 10:00-11:30 Session D

COMMUNICATION, PROPAGANDA, PERCEPTION Panel D-1

CHAIRMAN MARIO MORCELLINI

TAMÁS MESZERICS

CATERINA BASSETTI KAMIL RUSZAŁA

MANRICA ROTILI

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How to Vilify an Unexpected Enemy? Italy in the Hungarian Press, May 1915 World War I Propaganda on the Home Front in Britain and America War Cemeteries in Galicia as a Heritage of the Great War: Between Commemoration and Propaganda The Power of Images/The Images of Power: A Study about the Iconographic Propaganda of the First World War and about its Legacies in the Modern Era

June 20, 2014 AULA Organi Collegiali (Rectorate Building – ground floor) 11:45-14:30 Session D

COMMUNICATION, PROPAGANDA, PERCEPTION Panel D-2

CHAIRMAN ANDREA CARTENY

SANDA KOČEVAR

For the King and Home: Karlovac Citizens Helping the Needy

GIANLUCA PASTORI

A Long Winter of Discontent: Politics and Culture in Italy on the Eve of World War I

CAROLINA GARCÍA SANZ

FRANCESCO GUI

British Merchant Communities in Neutral Italy (1914-1915): a Case of Mobilization from Below The Great War and Europeanism: A Decisive Experience

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June 20, 2014 AULA Organi Collegiali (Rectorate Building – ground floor) 14:30-16:00 Session D

COMMUNICATION, PROPAGANDA, PERCEPTION Panel D-3

CHAIRMAN PATRICK CAVALIERE

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ANDREA CARTENY

The Intervention of Volunteers for the French Front (1914)

FABIO DI GIANNATALE

“The Most Terrible Tragedies Have Fallen on Europe”: The Great War Commented by La Civiltà Cattolica

ROBERTO SCIARRONE

Reportage and Italian Journalism during the Great War

VALENTINA MARIANI

The Flight of Images and Words: The Aviation Press during the First World War

RAFFAELE RIVIECCIO

The First Cinematographic War

June 20, 2014 AULA II 10:00-11:30 Session E

POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Panel E-1

CHAIRMAN MARIAM CHKHARTISHVILI

JASMIN HASIĆ

The United Kingdom’s Foreign Policy before World War I (1901-1914)

DAVID SARKISYAN

Anglo-German Relations 1871-1918: The Steam Engine of War

GABRIELE NATALIZIA

The Security Dilemma in the Balance of the European Great Powers

ENRICO MAGNANI

Neutral Nations, Institutions Building and Security Sector Reforms in the Period of WWI

CATERINA CISCATO

Austrian Foreign Policy during the Treaties of Peace

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June 20, 2014 AULA II 11:45-13:00 Session E

POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Panel E-2

CHAIRMAN GABRIELE NATALIZIA

MARIA FERNANDA ROLLO Portuguese Africa and the First ANA PAULA PIRES World War (1914-1918) ROBERTO REALI MICHAŁ LEŚNIEWSKI DIANA SHENDRIKOVA DOMENICO IERARDO

STEFANO PELAGGI

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Italian and German Colonies during the First World War The Great War and its Influence on the Development of Afrikaner (Boer) Nationalism, 1914-1918 Japan and WWI The First World War Seen by Latin America: The Economic and Social Impact of the Conflict in Argentina The Italian Community in Latin America and the Great War: Migrant Associations and the “Voluntary” Participation in the Conflict

June 20, 2014 AULA II 14:30-16:00 Session E

POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Panel E-3

CHAIRMAN FABIO L. GRASSI

VALENTINA SOMMELLA

JĘDRZEJ PASZKIEWICZ

ROBERTA DE’ ROBERTIS SALVATORE SANTANGELO

ANA ŽIVKOVIĆ

Italian Diplomacy Facing the Irredentist Movement at the Beginning of the Great War Strategic Background of Greece’s Participation in the Great War (1914-1917): Internal and Foreign Context The Sixtus Affair: A Separate Peace The Easter Rising: A National Uprising in the Heart of the Great War Montenegro off the Map: Britain and the Disappearance of Independent Montenegro 19141921

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June 20, 2014 AULA III 10:00-11:30 Session F INTELLECTUALS AND HISTORIOGRAPHICAL DEBATE

Panel F-1

CHAIRMAN DANIELE CONVERSI

MARTINA BITUNJAC

ELENA DUMITRU ALEKSANDRA KOLAKOVIĆ MARTA GARCÍA CARRIóN FERRAN ARCHILÉS CARDONA MARÍA NOGUÉS BRUNO

OLAF GLÖCKNER

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“The Manifesto of the NinetyThree!”: A Symbol of the German Superiority or an Act of Defense? Pacifist Writers and Soldier Writers in Romania of the Great War Intellectuals in the Great War: The French-Serbian Cooperation

War, Peripheral Countries and Core Intellectuals: The Case of José Ortega y Gasset Spain at the Front (1914-1918): The Intellectuals of a Neutral Country Facing the Conflict Walther Rathenau: War Time Economist, Liberal, Murdered German White Hope

ILARIA FALCONI

Gerardo Dottori, Futurist Paining, Aeropittura

ANTONELLA DI

The Great War in Literary Awareness

SPALATRO

June 20, 2014 AULA III 11:45-13:00 Session F INTELLECTUALS AND HISTORIOGRAPHICAL DEBATE

Panel F-2

CHAIRMAN MARTINA BITUNJAC

LORENZO MARMIROLI

ANIDA SOKOL

LJILJANA STOŠIĆ

The July Crisis and the Outbreak of WWI in Cultural Magazines of that Time: A Comparison between Italy and Austria-Hungary The “Forbidden Script”: The Banning of the Serbian Cyrillic in the AustroHungarian South Slavic Territories Works of Serbian War Painters and Photographers in European Picture Postcards (1915-1916)

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MARIANNE N. PETROVSKAYA

The Battle-Painting Class of the Russian Academy of Arts in the Years of World War I

MARIA TERESA MORELLI

The Theatre and the First World War

GIORDANO ALTAROZZI

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Between Regeneracionismo and Generación del 98: The Spanish Culture at the Time of the First World War

June 20, 2014 AULA A Vetri 10:00-11:30 Session G

CASE STUDIES Panel G-1 Russia

CHAIRMAN ELENA DUNDOVICH

OXANA ZEMTSOVA

Discussion on National Identity and Patriotism in Late Imperial Russia

DARYA SEMENOVA

The Role of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Great War

EMILIO CASSESE

Inarodcy: Non-Russian Subjects in the Tsarist Empire in the First World War

EKATERINA FEDOROVA

GIANLUCA SENATORE

Non-Governmental Organizations in World War I: The Activity of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce in 1914-1915 The Environment Issue and the Origins of Sustainability during and after the Great War

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June 20, 2014 AULA A Vetri 11:45-13:00 Session G

CASE STUDIES Panel G-2 The Ottoman Empire

CHAIRMAN ALTAY GOYUSHOV

GIAMPAOLO CONTE

BARIS ADIBELLI

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The Ottoman Empire towards the War: International Finance and Politics According to the Private Papers of Bernardino Nogara (July 28, 1914-October 31, 1914) The Foreign Policy of the Ittihat ve Terakki Party Government in the Ottoman Empire during the Great War

FABIO L. GRASSI

The Turkish Intellectuals and the Great War

FRANCESCO PONGILUPPI

The Ottoman Empire and the Oil Issue: A Different Perspective

June 20, 2014 AULA A Vetri 14:30-16:00 Session G

CASE STUDIES Panel G-3 The Caucasus

CHAIRMAN ALESSANDRO VAGNINI

REVAZ GVELESIANI EKA LEKASHVILI

The Interests of German Concerns: The Economic Policy of Germany in Georgia before and after World War

DANIEL POMMIER VINCELLI

The World War in Azerbaijan

ALTAY GOYUSHOV

The Republic of Azerbaijan: Unexpected Independence amid War and Revolution

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June 20, 2014 AULA A Vetri 16:15-17:45 Session G

CASE STUDIES Panel G-4 The Middle East

CHAIRMAN ALESSANDRO VAGNINI

MATTEO PIZZIGALLO ANDREA GIANNOTTI JOANNA MODRZEJEWSKALEŚNIEWSKA MANUELA BORRACCINO

JOSAN ION

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The First Steps of Italian Politics towards Arabia: The Negotiations for Article XII of the Treaty of London Central Asia 1915–1919: New Rules for the Great Game The Great War beyond Europe: The Afghanistan Case Identity, Culture and Modernity within the Fall of the Ottoman Empire: The Debate on the Origins of Arab Nationalism The First World War and the Modern Middle East: The Genealogy of Radical Islam

June 20, 2014 AULA Organi Collegiali (Rectorate Building – ground floor) 16:15-17:45 VI session H

ECONOMY AND WAR CHAIRMAN GIOVANNA MOTTA

GIOVANNA MOTTA

War, Economy and Pacifism in the Thought of Rosa Luxemburg

LEANDRA D’ANTONE

The Economic Consequences of War and Peace: The Italian Case

PIERO DI GIROLAMO

Industrial Mobilization and Economic Governance of Italy during the War

DONATELLA STRANGIO MAURO ROTA MARIA CATERINA BRAMATI

The Path of Economic Policies: The Great War and the State

CINZIA CAPALBO ROBERTO PASCA DI MAGLIANO LAURA LIGUORI

Dressing up in Time of War: Women and Fashion during the First World War The Ambitious Attempts of International Cooperation Resulting from the Great War

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FINAL REMARKS Annette Becker Paris West University Nanterre La Défense Museum of the Great War and Research Centre

June 20, 2014 AULA Organi Collegiali (Rectorate Building – ground floor) 18:00-19:00

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