05.06.2023, 09:30-A ‘New Diplomatic History’: methods and research perspectives

In person lesson
Conference room, third floor, building D3

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Abstract
Within the profound renovation in the study of diplomacy in recent years, the New Diplomatic History (NDH) proposes new interpretative models that integrate, in addition to political- institutional history, the social, cultural and economic one. The ‘New Diplomatic History’ favours interdisciplinary, global, international and transnational research perspectives; scholars of different periodizations are called to confrontation, debate and group work. The conference, therefore, analyses, in the long term, the recent developments of diplomacy studies in Italy and in the international context focusing on the most original aspects and methodologies of the New Diplomatic History, reflecting on the opportunities and challenges of this new way to investigate the diplomatic practice. The conference would like to mark some aspects of diplomacy such as: -languages and communication; -places and spaces; -norms and practices; -culture; -diplomatic and para-diplomatic personnel; -evolutions and functioning of diplomatic institutions; -diplomatic corps and diplomatic milieus.
The event is aimed at an audience of scholars and Ph.D. of different disciplines and will be part of a cycle of conferences and seminars on methodologies of research organised by the Doctorate in Literary, Linguistic and Historical Studies (DILLS), active at the Department of Humanities (DIPSUM) of the University of Salerno and the Historical research into urban transformation processes (HOST) of Vrije Universiteit of Brussels.
QUESTIONS:
1 What is the New Diplomatic History?
2.Where, how and when does it develop?
3.What are the major innovations from the point of view
of methodology and historical research?
4.New perspectives, then, new methodologies?
5.What are the recent themes and trends?
6.Interdisciplinarity and synergy between scholars of different eras: some examples

Speaker

• Stefano Andretta
  Università Roma Tre
• Alessandro Bonvini
  Scuola Superiore Meridionale
• Michele Campopiano
  University of York
• Malika Dekkiche
  University of Antwerp
• Bart Lambert
  Vrije Universiteit of Brussels
• Isabella Lazzarini
  Università degli Studi del Molise
• Imma Petito
  Università degli Studi di Salerno/Vrije Universiteit of Brussels
• Giles Scott-Smith
  Leiden University
• Francesco Senatore
  Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
• Alessandro Silvestri
  Università degli Studi di Salerno
• Silvia Siniscalchi
  Università degli Studi di Salerno
• Alfonso Tortora
  Università degli Studi di Salerno
• Paola Volpini
  Università degli Studi di Parma

Coordinator
Imma Petito
University of Salerno  and Vrije Universiteit Brussels