The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography: Special Session

The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography has reached its third year of life, bringing to Clare Hall almost forty outstanding historians from the United Kingdom and the United States of America.

To celebrate this achievement, thanks to the Italian Research Project “Exile, Transnational Intellectual Networks, Knowledge Transfer: The Italian Case between 1940s-1960s”, funded by the European Union – Next Generation EU, we acknowledge the work of a great historian who escaped from Fascist Italy and established his career both in the United Kingdom, at the University College London, and in the United States, at the University of Chicago. Interestingly, one of the most significant starting points of Arnaldo Momigliano’s academic journey can be found precisely in his first lectures given at Cambridge in 1940 on “Peace and Liberty in the Ancient World”.

To address his contribution to the creation of a cultural bridge between Italy and England (along with the United States), the Betty Behrens Seminar will present a special session entitled “Arnaldo Momigliano’s Historiography between Italy and England” on Friday, May 16th 2025 (2-6 pm), with two main lectures given by internationally renowned intellectuals Carlo Ginzburg and Oswyn Murray.

The following discussions will be coordinated by Davide Cadeddu and animated by respected historians Valentina Arena, Carol Atack, Mirko Canevaro, Paola Ceccarelli, Tim Cornell, Serafina Cuomo, Giovanni Giorgini, Nino Luraghi, John Marincola, Tim Whitmarsh. The proceedings will be published in the international journal Storia della storiografia.

Please note that to attend the seminar, booking is strictly required at eventbrite.com

The seminar will also be streamed at the following Teams channel: http://bit.ly/4cxiQbx

For more information, please contact davide.cadeddu@unimi.it