Thursday, October 17th

09.00 – 09:30 | Opening & Welcome 09:30 – 10:45 | Panel Session

PANEL 1: A THIRD NUCLEAR AGE: GEOPOLITICAL CONTEXT

Chair:

Giordana Pulcini (Roma Tre University) Discussant:
Rhys Crilley (University of Glasgow)

• Andrew J. Futter (University of Leicester) Europe in the Third Nuclear Age

• Gregory F. Giles (Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)) Italy and the Global Nuclear Order: An American Perspective

  10:45 – 11:00 | Coffee Break 11:00 – 12:30 | Panel Session

  PANEL 2: ITALY AND THE RISE OF THE GLOBAL NUCLEAR ORDER

  Chair:

  Marilena Gala (Roma Tre University) Discussant:
  Barbara Curli (University of Turin)

• Austin R. Cooper (Purdue University)
  “Particularly Dangerous”: EURATOM, Radiation Monitoring, and Italian Nuclear Policy in the early 1960s
• Robin Möser (University of Potsdam) & Anna-Mart Van Wyk (University of Johannesburg) Italy, South Africa, and the Nuclear-Military Nexus: A Clandestine Relationship during the Cold War, 1964-1974
• Carlo Patti (University of Padua)
  Latin American-Italian Nuclear Encounters (1962-1985)
• Giordana Pulcini (Roma Tre University)
  Squaring the Circle? Italy, the NPT and NATO, 1966-1969

13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch
14:00 – 15:15 | Panel Session

PANEL 3: ITALY AND THE GLOBAL NUCLEAR ORDER: A PEDAGOGICAL VIEW

Chair:

Daniela Huber (Roma Tre University) Discussant:
Ludovica Castelli (University of Leicester)

• Laura Ciglioni (Sapienza University of Rome)
  Education for Peace and the Nuclear Threat in Italy in the 1980s

• Giacomo Cassano (Uppsala University)
  The Scientist Formation. Historical Trends and Future Perspectives of Arms Control Pedagogy in Italy

  15:15 – 15:30 | Coffee Break 15:30 – 17:00 | Panel Session

  PANEL 4: ITALY AND THE TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES OF THE NUCLEAR AGE

  Chair:

  Andrew J. Futter (University of Leicester) Discussant:
  Leopoldo Nuti (Roma Tre University)

• Mauro Elli (University degli Studi di Milano Statale)
  A Maverick in Fusion Research? Italy, the European Fusion Programme and the Controversy on an Alternative R&D Line
• Matteo Gerlini (University of Siena)
  The European Salient: the Joint Nuclear Research Centre in Ispra and its Role in the Italian Nuclear History

• Elisabetta Bini (University of Naples Federico II)
  Italian Scientists against Nuclear Power: Building a Transnational Community of Counter-Experts in the Field of Radiation Protection (1970s-1980s)

  17:15 – 18:30 | Keynote Session – Joseph F. Pilat (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
  The End of the Global Nuclear Order? Endemic Challenges and the Impact of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

  20:00 | Dinner

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18TH

09:30 – 11:00 | Panel Session

PANEL 5: ITALY’S NUCLEAR POLITICS IN THE COLD WAR

Chair:

Oliver Barton (Ministry of Defence, UK) Discussant:
Andrew J. Futter (University of Leicester)

• Lodovica Clavarino (Roma Tre University)
  Italy and Nuclear Sharing at the time of the Multilateral Force (MLF) Proposal. An Analysis through the Documents of the Archivio Andreotti
• Leopoldo Nuti (Roma Tre University) The Nuclear Ship that Wasn’t, 1958-1973

• Marilena Gala (Roma Tre University)
  What Order in the 1980s. Italy and the Challenges of a Transformative Decade

  11:00 – 11:15 | Coffee Break 11:15 – 12:45 | Panel Session

  PANEL 6: DETERRENCE AND DISARMAMENT IN ITALY’S THIRD NUCLEAR AGE

  Chair:

  Ludovica Castelli (University of Leicester) Discussant:
  Matthew Evangelista (Cornell University)

• Rhys Crilley (University of Glasgow)
  Frame Alignment and Disarmament in the Third Nuclear Age: the Case of Italy
• Nicolò Miotto (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)) & Lara Maria Guedes Gonçalves Costa (SIPRI)
  Faith and Disarmament: Pope Francis’ Stance on Nuclear Weapons and its Impact on Italian Civil Society

• Niccolò Petrelli (Roma Tre University)
  Italy, the F-35 Lightning II and Italy’s Nuclear-Sharing Missions

  12:45 – 13:00 | Greetings