Preliminary Program^*

* Some minor changes may still be made

The Conference venue is the "Teatro degli Astrusi" in Montalcino

Wednesday 7 July

PRESIDENT : Giancarlo PABA - Università di Firenze (I)

DISCUSSANT: Jean Francois PERNOT- Collège de France, Paris (F)

1. LA THEMATIQUE DU SIEGE DANS LES TRAITES MILITAIRES EUROPEENS DEPUIS Delle espugnatione et difesa delle fortezze par Busca (1598) AU Traité de l’attaque et la defense des Places DE VAUBAN (1704) -Emilie de Thonel d’Orgeix - Metropolitan Museum of Art New-York - USA

2. RILIEVO DEL TERRITORIO E RAPPRESENTAZIONE DELLE AZIONI DI GUERRA NEL XVII SEC. Glorieuses conquetes de Louis Le Grand 1643-1673 - Vera Comoli Mandracci - Politecnico di Torino (I)

3. INGEGNERI MILITARI E FORTIFICAZIONI NEL DUCATO SABAUDO FRA MEDIOEVO ED ETA MODERNA - Micaela Viglino Davico - Politecnico di Torino - (I)

4. IL SISTEMA DIFENSIVO TOSCANO DURANTE IL PRINCIPATO MEDICEO - Luigi Zangheri - Facoltà di Architettura di Firenze - (I)

5. IL COMPLESSO FORTIFICATO DELL’ESSEILLON (SAVOIA), TRA IL 1827 E IL 1830 - Vilma Fasoli - Politecnico di Torino - (I)

6. "AVERE IN VICINANZA UNA CASERMA ASSAI CONSIDERABILE PER LA DIFESA DEL PALAZZO IN CASO DI TUMULTO" IL NUOVO REGIO PALAZZO IN GENOVA PER VITTORIO EMANUELE I - Paolo Cornaglia - Politecnico di Torino - (I)

7. LE SIEGE DANS L’ART MILITAIRE ESPAGNOL DU XVIII SIECLE - Manuel-Reyes Garcia Hurtado - Universidad de La Coruna - (E)

8. QUEBEC, VILLE FORTIFIEE OU SIMPLE FORTIFICATION URBAINE? QUAND LA PLACE FORTE IMPOSE SES SERVITUDES Yvon Desloges - Parc Canada - CANADA

Thursday 8 July

PRESIDENT: Claudio GREPPI - Università di Siena (I)

DISCUSSANT: Ofelia REY - Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (E)

1. THE SIEGE OF CUZCO IN 1536-37 - Vincent C. Renstrom - Departement of Modern Languages - University of Maryland - USA

2. L'ASSEDIO DI MONTALCINO DEL 1553 ALLA LUCE DELLA DOCUMENTAZIONE SPAGNOLA - Francisco Andujar Castillo - Universidad de Almeria - (E)

3. WRITING THE CITY UNDER ATTACK: SIEGE WARFARE AS VICARIOUS EXPERIENCE DURING THE FRENCH WARS OF RELIGION - Michael Wolfe - Pennsylvania State University Altoona - USA

4. EL ASITIO DEL CASTILLO DE SALCA (ROUSSILLON, 1639) - Louis Pablo Martinez et Luis Arcon, Universidad de Valencia - (E)

5. THE MENTALITE OF THE MUGHAL EMPEROR AWRANGZEB IN INDIA (1685-1707) - David Damrel - Departement of Religious Studies - Arizona State University - USA

6. THE 1781 SIEGE OF BRITISH TROOPS AT YORKTOWN, VIRGINIA: A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE COMMUNICATION PRACTICES WHICH LED TO A FRENCH AND AMERICAN VICTORY. - Martin Herring - Department of Communications - University of Southern Indiana, Evansville - USA

7. SIEGE OF THE SILK ROAD: RUSSIAN ANTI-ISLAMIC STRATEGY AS MODUS OPERANDI IN CENTRAL ASIA: 1860-1950 - Valerie Orlando - Purdue University - Indiana - USA

PRESIDENT: Flavia CARLE - Università di Ancona (I)

DISCUSSANT: Antoinette FAUVE-CHAMOUX - EHESS - Paris (F)

1. IL PIEMONTE SOTTO ASSEDIO: DA SUSA A TORINO (1704-1706) - Paola Briante - Archivio di Stato di Torino - (I)

2. THE EXPERIENCE OF SIEGES DURING THE BRITISH CIVIL WARS, 1638-1651 - Charles Carlton - North Carolina State University - USA

3. RUMOR AND REVOLUTION IN BESIEGED PARIS, 1871 - Dal Martin P. Johnson - University of Nevada - Las Vegas - USA

4. EL SITIO DE VIGO POR LOS INGLESES EN 1719: DIARIO DE UN ASEDIADO - Ofelia Rey - Universidad de Santiago de Compostela - (E)

5. DES VOIX OUBLIEES PAR L’HISTOIRE: MEMOIRES ET RECITS DES FEMMES PENDANT LE SIEGE DE PARIS ET LA COMMUNE -

Juliette Parnell-Smith - Department of Foreign Languages - University of Nebraska at Omaha - USA

6. "WE MUST SHOOT THE PRIESTS": REVOLUTIONARY WOMEN AND ANTI-CLERICALISM IN THE PARIS COMMUNE OF 1871 - Carolyn J.

Eichner - Departement of Women’s Studies - University of South Florida - USA

7. THE CITY OF LIGHT GOES DARK: PARIS AND THE GREAT WAR - W. Scott Haine - University of California - Santa Cruz - USA

8. THE EDGE OF THE FRONTIER ON THE EVE OF THE REVOLUTION: THE LAST DAYS OF COLONIAL ALBANY Stefan Bielinski N.ew York State Museum - USA

9. THE SIEGE OF BOSTON IN 1704-1705 - Michael J. Prokopow - Harvard University - USA

10. THE UTAH WAR. SIEGE AND REMEMBERED VICTORY - Joe Richardson - University of Utah - USA

Friday 9 July

PRESIDENT: Stuart WOOLF - Università di Venezia (I)

DISCUSSANT: Isidro DUBERT - Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (E)

1. LES SIEGES PENDANT LES GUERRES CIVILES EN BOURGOGNE (FIN XVI SIECLE): LA VISION DES VAINQUEURS ET CELLE DES VAINCUS -Jean-Paul Desaive - CRH - EHESS - Paris - (F)

2. MEDITERRANEAN CITIES: FROM DEPENDENT SIEGE TO INTERDEPENDENT COMMUNITY - Charles T. Barber - Departement of Philosophy & Political Science - University of Southern Indiana - USA

3. CITIES IN NEED: AFTERMATH IN CENTRAL ITALY 1944-1948 -Victoria Belco - Department of History - University of California, Berkely - USA

4. RAIDING THE CITY: URBAN LANDSCAPES IN CONTEMPORARY IRISH FICTION - Glenn Hooper, St. Mary's University College, Belfast - UKT

5. THE AFTER EFFECTS OF THE REVOLUTION IN MEXICO (CA.1910) FOR TEXAS Myron Gutmann - History departement - University of Texas at Austin - Texas - USA

PRESIDENT: Maurice AYMARD - EHESS - Paris (F)

1. L'ETRURIA: ALLE ORIGINI DELL'ASSEDIARE - Maurizio Martinelli - Regione Toscana - (I)

2. KING JOHN AND THE SIEGE AS HERMENEUTICS - Rocco Coronato - Università di Firenze - (I)

3. LES RITUELS DE REDITION DES VILLES AU COURS DES DERNIERS SIECLES DU MOYEN AGE - Jean-Marie Moeglin - Université de Paris XII - (F)

4. DEFENDIENDO LA TIERRA Y COINSTRUYENDO EL MITO. MUYER Y ASEDIOS EN GALICIA, 1589-1850 - Isidro Dubert et M.C. Saavedra - Historia II - Universidad de Santiago de Compostela - (E)

5. LE SIEGE DU LONG-SAULT ET SA REACTUALISATION MYTHIQUE DANS L'IDENTITE QUEBECOISE - Patrice Groulx - Université Laval - CANADA

6. LES FEMMES GUERRIERES OU L'IDENTITE FEMININE A L'EPREUVE DE L'INVERSION DES ROLES. DE JEANNE HACHETTE A MADELEINE DE VERCHERES - Diane Gervais - I.R.E.P., et Serge Lusignan - Université de Montreal - CANADA

7. ENTRE TEMPS ET ESPACE. LA MEMOIRE DES PLAINES D'ABRAHAM - Jacques Mathieu - Université Laval - CANADA

8. WHY "HOW HE DIED" BECAME "WHO WE ARE": THE TEXAN IDENTITY AND THE CONTESTED ICONOGRAPHY OF DAVY CROCKETT'S DEATH AT THE ALAMO - James E. Crisp - North Carolina State University - USA

9. SIEGE AMNESIA : THE SIEGE OF BOSTON AND THE LOSS OF HISTORICAL MEMORY - Mark A.Peterson - University of Iowa - Iowa - USA

10. MEMORIES UNDER SIEGE: RITES OF POWER AND COMMEMORATION IN OCCUPIED BOSTON - Eric Hinderaker - University of Utah, Salt Lake City - USA

11. THE FEMALE OBSERVER AND THE CITY UNDER SIEGE - Jean Gallagher - Dep of Humanities - Polytechnic University - Brooklyn - USA

Saturday 10 July

PRESIDENT: Jean-Paul DESAIVE - EHESS - Paris (F)

DISCUSSANT: Maurice AYMARD - EHESS - Paris (F)

12. LE SIEGE, MODELE D'AGRESSION DES DOMAINES BIOLOGIQUES, PSYCHOCOGNITIFS, TECHNOLOGIQUES, SOCIAUX, DE L'HOMME. COMPARAISON DES STRATEGIES UTILISEES POUR FAIRE FACE A L'AGRESSION DANS CES DIFFERENTS DOMAINES. GUIDE POUR UNE APPROCHE CURATIVE DE L'AGRESSION ET DE SES CONSEQUENCES. - E.A. Nunez - Faculté de Médecine X. Bichat -Université Denis Diderot - Paris - (F)

13. THE AFRICAN ENSLAVEMENT AS THE AFRICAN PEOPLE UNDER SIEGE Antonio McDaniel - University of Pensylvania - Philadelphia - USA

14. THE SIEGE AS SYMBOL: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE WORKS OF ALBERT CAMUS AND ORHAN PAMUK - Daphne Haney - Eastern Mediterranean University - Famagusta - TURKEY

15. BESIEGED OR BESHRED BY PLAGUE: THE SATYRICAL VISION OF EARLY MODERN LONDON - Nat W. Hardy - University of Alberta - CANADA

16. THE LITERATURE OF AIDS: CITIES IMAGINED AND PORTRAYED AS BIESEGED AND UNDER ATTACK - Mark Turner - Faculty of Arts and Humanities - Roehampton Institute London - University of Surrey - UK

17. VIRTUAL SIEGE: CYBERSPACE, HYPERREAL CITIES - William S.Haney II - Eastern Miediterranean University - Famagusta - TURKEY

18. INSIDE THE NUCLEAR THEATER: DOMESTIC SECURITY IN AMERICAN ATOMIC AGE CITIES - Kristina Zarlengo - Columbia University -San Francisco - USA

ABSTRACTS

The Proceedings of the Symposium will be published in due course.

YOUNG RESEARCHER PRIZE

The best paper submitted by a young researcher and relevant to the themes studied in the Conference will be rewarded by a prize of 1.000.000 (one million) lire and will be published. The scientific Committee will be sole and sovereign judge in awarding the prize.

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