Giovanni Orsina
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Giovanni Orsina is an associate professor of Contemporary History
at LUISS-Guido Carli University in Rome. His main fields of research and teaching are the history of political parties, comparative history of European political systems and the history of journalism. For the academic year 2008/2009 he was director of the new Master in European Studies
programme.
Before that, he taught contemporary history at the Universities of Bologna, L’Aquila and Roma La Sapienza.
As Scientific Director of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi in Rome, he coordinated research projects about Italian post-war liberalism. He was also involved in the Luigi Einaudi exhibition, which opened at the Quirinal Palace on May 12, 2008.
Orsina has held different academic positions in Great Britain and France. He was Italian visiting fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford in 1997-98, visiting professor at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris
in 2004, and at the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan
in 2006.
Starting from academic year 2010/11, he will teach in the first English-taught Master Degree Course in International Relations at LUISS. At LUISS University he is also deputy director of School of Government, the new graduate school of the university aimed at creating the new public policy elite of Europe.
He is presently working on a revision of the history of the Italian Republic, trying to interpret it from a liberal point of view.
Contemporary history
Contemporary history describes the period timeframe that is without any intervening time closely connected to the present and is a certain perspective of modern history. The term "contemporary history" has been in use at least by the early 19th century. In the widest context of this use,...
at LUISS-Guido Carli University in Rome. His main fields of research and teaching are the history of political parties, comparative history of European political systems and the history of journalism. For the academic year 2008/2009 he was director of the new Master in European Studies
European studies
European studies is a field of study offered by many academic colleges and universities that focuses on current developments in European integration....
programme.
Before that, he taught contemporary history at the Universities of Bologna, L’Aquila and Roma La Sapienza.
As Scientific Director of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi in Rome, he coordinated research projects about Italian post-war liberalism. He was also involved in the Luigi Einaudi exhibition, which opened at the Quirinal Palace on May 12, 2008.
Orsina has held different academic positions in Great Britain and France. He was Italian visiting fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford in 1997-98, visiting professor at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris
Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
The Institut d'études politiques de Paris , simply referred to as Sciences Po , is a public research and higher education institution in Paris, France, specialised in the social sciences. It has the status of grand établissement, which allows its admissions process to be highly selective...
in 2004, and at the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan
École Normale Supérieure de Cachan
The École Normale Supérieure de Cachan is one of the most prestigious French Grandes Écoles. Like all the other Grandes Écoles, this higher education institution is not included in the mainstream framework of the French public universities...
in 2006.
Starting from academic year 2010/11, he will teach in the first English-taught Master Degree Course in International Relations at LUISS. At LUISS University he is also deputy director of School of Government, the new graduate school of the university aimed at creating the new public policy elite of Europe.
Publications
- Senza Chiesa né classe. Il partito radicale nell’età giolittiana, Rome, 1998; edited (with G. Quagliariello);
- La formazione della classe politica in Europa, 1945–1956, Manduria-Bari-Rome, 2000;
- La crisi del sistema politico italiano e il Sessantotto. Una ricerca di storia orale, Soveria Mannelli, 2005;
- Etudiants universitaires et politique en Italie, 1945–1968, «Parlement(s). Histoire et Politique», 2007;
- Quando l’Antifascismo sconfisse l’antifascismo. Interpretazioni della resistenza nell’alta cultura antifascista italiana (1955–65), «Ventunesimo secolo», 2005;
- The United States according to the Italian Communist Press (1945–53), «Telos», 2004 (with Elena Aga Rossi);
- L’Ottocento politico inglese nella storiografia di fine Novecento, «Ricerche di storia politica», 1999;
- Il dito e la luna. Politica, cultura e società nella storiografia inglese degli anni Novanta, in G. Orsina (ed.), Fare storia politica, Soveria Mannelli, 2000.
He is presently working on a revision of the history of the Italian Republic, trying to interpret it from a liberal point of view.