Filippo Focardi

filippo.focardi@unipd.it

Place

Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Giuridiche e Studi Internazionali - SPGI
VIA DEL SANTO, 28 - PADOVA

Reception

Mer12:3013:45Studio docente (Via del Santo, 28 - primo piano - corridoio davanti alle scale principali - penultima porta a sinistra)Si avvertono gli studenti che il ricevimento questa settimana è sospeso.

Profile

Born in Florence on December 28, 1965In 1993 I graduated in Literature and Philosophy at the University of Florence. In 2000 I obtained my PhD in contemporary history at the University of Turin. Subsequently, I studied at the University of Cologne in Germany and at the German Historical Institute in Rome.I was a research fellow in History of International Relations at the University of Florence (2001-2003), a postdoctoral fellow in History of International Organization at the University of Padua (2003-2005), a research fellow in Contemporary History at the University of Siena (2005-2006). I have carried out teaching activities in bachelor's, doctoral and master's courses at the Université Libre di Bruxelles (ULB), the Universities of Florence, Roma Tre, Siena, Viterbo and Bologna, where I was visiting professor in February 2006. From 1 March 2006 I became a Researcher in Contemporary History at the Department of Historical and Political Studies of the University of Padova.In 2014 I held the International Chair of Studies on the Second World War at the ULB. Since January 2015 I have been serving as Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies (SPGI) of the University of Padova.In January 2015 I obtained the national qualification as Full Professor for Contemporary History. I have participated in numerous research projects in Italy and abroad, collaborating among others with the Gramsci Institute Foundation in Rome, the Sturzo Institute in Rome, the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento, the Isec Foundation, the Max Planck Institute in Frankfurt, the University of Munich, the University of Jena. In 2008 I was a visiting researcher at ULB for two months; in March 2016 I was a visiting professor at the Université Paris VIII.I am a member of the editorial board of the journal "Ricerche storiche", of the editorial staff of the journal "Italia Contemporanea"; of the board of directors of the Italian Society for the Contemporary History of the German-speaking area (Siscalt), of the scientific committee of two series ("Antidoti" published by Viella and "Le ragione di Clio" published by Pacini). I am a member of the steering committee of the University Center for the History of the Resistance and the Contemporary Age of the University of Padua and of the scientific council of the Center of Competence for Regional History at the Free University of Bolzano.My main research topics are the memory of fascism and the Second World War in Italy, the politics of memory in Europe, the question of the punishment of German war criminals in Italy and the question of the punishment of Italian war criminals, the reparations to the victims of National Socialism, the relations between Italy and Germany from the nineteenth century to the present dayMain publications: The War of Memory. The Resistance in the Italian Political Debate from 1945 to Today, Laterza, 2005; War criminals on the loose. A secret agreement between Italy and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-1955, Carocci, 2008; The bad German and the good Italian. The Removal of the Faults of the Second World War, Laterza, 2013.Il volume won the 2014 Baron Velge International Prize awarded by the ULB and has been translated into French and German.