Giulia Quaggio
Giulia Quaggio completed her doctoral dissertation in European Contemporary History at the University of Florence in 2010. From 2011 to 2012 she worked as postdoc researcher at the Departamento de Historia del Pensamiento y de los Movimientos Sociales y Políticos (Universidad Complutense of Madrid), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education. From 2013 to 2015 she collaborated with UNED (Centro de Investigaciones de la Democracia históricas Española-Madrid), coordinating a programme of workshops on the return of exiles during the transition to democracy in Spain. She was also a consultant for a series of television documentaries broadcasted by RTVE in 2015. In 2010 and in 2016 she received two grants funded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture to collaborate with the Fundación Francisco Ayala. In 2012 she was a Fellow at the Cañada Blanch Centre of the London School of Economics and in 2016 she has held a Remarque Institute Fellowship at New York University. Starting in February 2017, she is a Max Batley Research Associate in the project "Protest as democratic practice: peace movements in southern Europe, 1975-1990".
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Portugal decided to celebrate their new democratic national identities
through similar mega cultural events. Following the end of the
Cold War, in 1992, Spain commemorated the Fifth Centenary of the
first voyage of Columbus to the Americas, overlapping the event
with the Seville Expo; six years later; Portugal planned a universal
exhibition in Lisbon whose slogan was “The Oceans: a heritage for
the future”. The shared desire to connect their current liberal democratic
identity with a past of male transatlantic maritime expeditions
is not accidental. This article aims to address the socio-cultural
links among national representation, domestic political circumstances
and international connections within the Iberian
Peninsula after the long-lived European dictatorships. First, I will
consider the entangled relations between the two Iberian countries
and their former colonies. Second, I will disambiguate to what
extent this postcolonial present helped in the construction of
neo-liberal and cosmopolitan self-perceptions and identities. This
was in accordance with the globalisation trends, the rhetoric of
modernisation and urban regeneration within a post-industrial era.
Third, I will analyse the two world's fairs in light of the process of
European integration.
The key objective of this exhibition is to shed light on anti-nuclear
and anti-militarist peace protests in Southern European
countries during the late 1970s and the 1980s. The focus will
be on Greece, Italy and Spain. Following a
period of détente in the 1970s, the worsening of relations between
the two superpowers during the so called Second Cold
war of the early 1980s and the deepening of the nuclear arms
race, reinvigorated the anti-nuclear movement. During the nuclear crisis, people
in Southern Europe like in the rest of the continent sought
to re-evaluate their own past, present, and future. The societal
response to arms deployment was an expression of rapid
sociocultural and technological changes that started in the
1960s and continued with the transformations of the 1970s and
1980s. As activists united to oppose the dire nuclear threat,
they engaged and responded to core concerns of safety,
peace, democratic participation, mobilisation for disarmament
and vitality of citizen engagement. The Nobel Peace Prize for
2017 to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
(ICAN) acts as a reminder of the existential threat that nuclear
weapons still pose to humanity and the value in harnessing
the power of the people
Portugal decided to celebrate their new democratic national identities
through similar mega cultural events. Following the end of the
Cold War, in 1992, Spain commemorated the Fifth Centenary of the
first voyage of Columbus to the Americas, overlapping the event
with the Seville Expo; six years later; Portugal planned a universal
exhibition in Lisbon whose slogan was “The Oceans: a heritage for
the future”. The shared desire to connect their current liberal democratic
identity with a past of male transatlantic maritime expeditions
is not accidental. This article aims to address the socio-cultural
links among national representation, domestic political circumstances
and international connections within the Iberian
Peninsula after the long-lived European dictatorships. First, I will
consider the entangled relations between the two Iberian countries
and their former colonies. Second, I will disambiguate to what
extent this postcolonial present helped in the construction of
neo-liberal and cosmopolitan self-perceptions and identities. This
was in accordance with the globalisation trends, the rhetoric of
modernisation and urban regeneration within a post-industrial era.
Third, I will analyse the two world's fairs in light of the process of
European integration.
The key objective of this exhibition is to shed light on anti-nuclear
and anti-militarist peace protests in Southern European
countries during the late 1970s and the 1980s. The focus will
be on Greece, Italy and Spain. Following a
period of détente in the 1970s, the worsening of relations between
the two superpowers during the so called Second Cold
war of the early 1980s and the deepening of the nuclear arms
race, reinvigorated the anti-nuclear movement. During the nuclear crisis, people
in Southern Europe like in the rest of the continent sought
to re-evaluate their own past, present, and future. The societal
response to arms deployment was an expression of rapid
sociocultural and technological changes that started in the
1960s and continued with the transformations of the 1970s and
1980s. As activists united to oppose the dire nuclear threat,
they engaged and responded to core concerns of safety,
peace, democratic participation, mobilisation for disarmament
and vitality of citizen engagement. The Nobel Peace Prize for
2017 to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
(ICAN) acts as a reminder of the existential threat that nuclear
weapons still pose to humanity and the value in harnessing
the power of the people
30 May 2022
Organised by Giulia Quaggio, Sergio Molina García (UCM)
There is a growing amount of international literature on the subject of 'retroactive debipolarisation' of the Cold War (Hershberg 2000), and in the light of this, the proposed workshop aims to examine the Spanish experience of entering and remaining in the Western bloc from the margins of Europe during the détente crisis of the late 1970s and the first half of the 1980s. This period of global fracturing (Rodgers 2011) is relevant to Spain because it coincided with the democratisation of its foreign and security policy (1977-1986) and its return to the European Communities (1986). Indeed, the early 1980s saw the breaking of the unofficial pact of silence regarding Spain's position vis-à-vis the Atlantic Alliance that had prevailed during the first stage of transition. It was at this time that the debate on the country's approach to international affairs first began to occupy an important place in public debate, at the same time polarising public opinion. While the country's elites wanted to join the EEC, the relationship with the two superpowers remained rather ambiguous and complex.
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La comunidad científica está utilizando siempre más la historia queer para realizar cruciales intervenciones críticas sobre consolidados análisis de historias sociales y culturales, pero también de historias militares, jurídicas, religiosas, coloniales y económicas. Además, las instituciones culturales y museísticas y los archivos también están empezando a asumir con seriedad las historias y memorias de las comunidades LGBTIQ+ y los aportes de los enfoques queer.
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