Promised Land of Populism? ‘Populist’ Culture and Politics in Italy 1800-2019
Keynote Speakers
Federico Finchelstein (New School for Social Research)
Nadia Urbinati (Columbia University)
The Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI) was founded in 1982 by Christopher Seton-Watson, to bring together individuals and organisations from the UK and abroad with teaching, research, professional or general interests in modern Italy from all disciplinary angles.
The conference will explore the historic and cultural role of populism and in particular the discursive construction of “the people” against a perceived group of “elites” in political narratives from the Risorgimento until the present day.