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Thursday, July 12, 2012

Seymour, M. ---- Italia

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M. Seymour specialises in modern Italian history (19th and 20th Centuries), with a particular interest in the relationships between personal experience, politics, and modernity.

His first book, Debating Divorce in Italy (Palgrave, 2006), analysed the long struggle to introduce a divorce law in Italy, using the question to explore traditional fault-lines in Italian society from new angles.

In other publications he has explored foreign perceptions of Italy, the construction of Italian MASCULINITY, feminism in Italy prior to the ‘second wave’, late nineteenth-century love letters, and historiographical 'uses' of Giuseppe Garibaldi.

His current research makes microhistorical use of the records of a sensational 1879 murder trial, focusing on the history of emotions.
He is on the editorial boards of Modern Italy and the Journal of Modern Italian Studies.

Select Publications

  • Mark Seymour,
  • ‘Emotional Arenas: From Provincial Circus to National Courtroom in Late 19th-C Italy’, Rethinking History, vol. 16, no. 2, 2012.
  • Penelope Morris, Francesco Ricatti and Mark Seymour (guest co-editors). Italy and the Emotions. Special issue of Modern Italy, vol. 17, no. 2, 2012.
  • Penelope Morris, Francesco Ricatti and Mark Seymour (co-editors), Politica ed emozioni nella storia d'Italia dal 1848 ad oggi [Politics and emotions in the history of Italy from 1848 to the present day], Rome: Viella, 2012.
  • Guest editor, Commemorating Garibaldi and the Unification of Italy, special issue of Modern Italy, vol. 15, no. 4 (October 2010).
  • 'Epistolary Emotions: Exploring Amorous Hinterlands in 1870s Southern Italy', Social History, vol. 35, no. 2 (May 2010), pp. 148-164.
  • 'Steel Capsules and Discursive Monopolies: Noi donne and Divorce in Italy, 1945-1965', StoricaMente, March 2010.
  • Debating Divorce in Italy: Marriage and the Making of Modern Italians, 1860-1974. New York, Palgrave, 2006.
  • 'Condiscendenza con affetto. Le "due culture" e la questione del divorzio in Italia vista dagli anglofoni, 1900-1974', Genesis, December 2005 (Rome).
  • 'Keystone of the Patriarchal Family? Indissoluble Marriage,
Masculinity, and Divorce in Liberal Italy', Journal of Modern Italian Studies, vol. 10, no. 3 (September 2005): 297-313.
  • 'Till Death do them Part? The Church-State Struggle over Marriage and Divorce, 1860-1914', in Gender, Family and Sexuality: the Private Sphere in Italy (1860-1945), edited by Perry Willson. Palgrave-Macmillan, London, 2004.
  • Eleven entries in Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon (eds), Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day, Routledge, London, 2001.

Recent Conference Papers and Presentations

  • December 2011. 'Dilemmas of
VIRILITY: National Character on Trial in Liberal Italy', Association for the Study of Modern Italy annual conference, 'The Italian Character: Virtues and Vices', Institute for Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London.
  • June 2011. ‘Feeling Italian? Emotional Styles between Province and Capital in 1870s Italy’. Colloquium lecture, Center for the History of the Emotions, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.
  • February 2011. ‘Battles, Courts, and Circuses: Arenas of Masculinity in Post-Risorgimento Italy’. University of Glasgow Gender History Seminar, Glasgow, Scotland.
  • February 2011. Roundtable presentation, ‘150th Anniversary Perspectives in Garibaldi and the Unification’, Scottish Modern Italy Lecture Series, Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  • July 2010, 'Emotional Arenas: Love, Lust and Murder between Province and Capital in 1870s Italy'. Article presented at the workshop 'Emotional Styles - Communities and Spaces', Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.
  • November 2009, co-convenor, 'Italy and the Emotions: Perspectives from the 18th C to the Present', annual conference of the Association for the study of Modern Italy, University of London, November 26-27.
  • November 2009, 'Sense or Sensibility? Epistolary Emotions in the Amorous Hinterlands of 1870s Southern Italy', 2009 ASMI Annual conference, London.
  • February 2009, co-convenor, 'Love and its Histories: Italian Perspectives' - a one day interdisciplinary symposium held at the University of Otago's Auckland Centre.
  • November, 2007. 'Nuptial Failure and the National Hero. Garibaldi's BELLA FIGURA and the Veils of History', Association for the Study of Modern Italy Annual Conference, 'Garibaldi: the Politics of Radical Fame', Italian Cultural Institute, London.
  • August 2007, 'The Captain, his Wife, and her Lover: Masculinity on Trial in Late Nineteenth-Century Rome'. Conference: MASCULINITY  and the Other, Balliol College, Oxford University, UK.
  • February 2007, 'Debating Divorce in Italy from the Liberal Era to the Republic', Seminar presentation, Columbia University Seminar in Modern Italian Studies, New York City.
  • October 2006. 'Divorcing Tradition? Women, Noi donne and the Italian Divorce Debates, 1947-1974'. Conference: Women and the Mass Media in 20 th Century Italy. Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London.

Areas of Research Supervision

Europe from 1789; Modern Italy; Italian settlement in New Zealand.
Politica ed emozioni nella storia d’Italia dal 1848 ad oggi
Politica ed emozioni nella storia d’Italia dal 1848 ad oggi
http://www.viella.it/libro/694
debating divorce italy
Debating Divorce in Italy (Palgrave, 2006)
Social History
'Epistolary Emotions: Exploring Amorous Hinterlands in 1870s Southern Italy', Social History 35, 2 (2010): 148-164
http://www.tandfonline.com/
doi/abs/10.1080/
03071021003719139

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