Political Prisoners and Transnational Solidarity during the 20th century

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Program

16 September

2.30: Welcome and Introduction
Umberto Tulli - Elena Bacchin - Stefania Ventra

3.00: Keynote Address:
Jessica Stites Mor (British Columbia University) Rendering Solidarity Visible: Representational Strategies of
Tricontinentalism

4.45: Art in Jail; Art against Jail (chair Stefania Ventra, Università Ca’ Foscari)
Lorenzo Carletti (MIUR - Liceo artistico "Russoli", Pisa) “Vile te e la tua Italia”. Political Prisoners in Vicopisano jail between the 19 th and the
20 th centuries

Harriet Atkinson (Brighton University) Allies Inside Germany? Solidarity exhibitions mounted in Britain
during World War Two

Umberto Tulli (Università di Trento) The Venice Biennale between Chile and Communist Europe, 1974-1977

17 September

09:00: In the Shadow of totalitarianism (chair: Simon Levis Sullam, Università Ca’ Foscari)

Anna Shapovalova (SciencesPo Lyon) When the Figure of the Political Prisoner Sparks Debate: Entangled
Histories of the Federation of the Human Rights League and the International Red Aid in Interwar Europe

Anna Veronica Pobbe (Università Sapienza di Roma) Red Women against Nazi Terror. Histories of
Activism and Martyrdom

Luca Polese Remaggi (Università di Salerno) From Red Terror to NEP. The International Left in Defense of the
Political Prisoners of the Bolshevik Regime

11.15: Humanitarian Aid During the 1930s (chair Roberto Tesei, Università di Trento)

Elena Bacchin (Universität Wien) Humanitarianism and Political Activism in Interwar America: the
Foundation of the International Committee for Political Prisoners

Francesca Piana (Università di Trento) The Limits of Humanitarian Aid. The International Red Cross and
Political Prisoners in Germany (1933-1938)

3.00: Solidarity with Western Political Prisoners (chair: Gabriele Siracusano, Università di Trento)

Ariel Mond (Villanova University) Political Prisoners in Law and Legal Solidarity: The Case of the
Madagascar Six

Tom Buchanan (Oxford University) Peter Benenson, Amnesty International and the Appeal for an Amnesty
in Spain, 1959-1968

4.30: Transnational Solidarity with Political Prisoners in the Communist Bloc (chair Laura Chiara Cecchi,
Università di Trento)

Bent Boel (Aalborg University) Western (Non-)Encounters with Political Prisoners in the Soviet Bloc:
Narratives and Approaches

Maddalena Valacchi (Università di Trento) Beyond the Iron Silence: How Solidarnosc’s Political Prisoners
Called the World to listen

6.30: Final Roundtable