The Italian Institute of Culture in collaboration with Trinity College Dublin is pleased to presentLa Grande Guerra nella storia d’Italiaa lecture on Italy’s involvement in the Great Warby leading historian Professor Mario Isnenghi Monday 23 February 20156.30pmItalian Institute of CultureIn ItalianFree AdmissionProfessor Mario Isnenghi (Venice, 1938). A graduate in Contemporary Italian Literature at the University of Padua, he taught History of Journalism in the Department of Historical and Political Studies at the same university. Later on he taught at the University of Turin and, eventually, he moved to the University of Venice as Head of the History Department and chair professor in Contemporary History, until his retirement in 2010.The variety of his research topics is very broad: the Great War, Fascism, the conflict between different memories, subjectivity and public discourse. His conspicuous publications on these matters are considered milestones in contemporary historiography.From February to May 2011 he held a series of conferences – in the Santa Margherita Auditorium in Venice – on Italian history between the XIXth and XXth centuries, entitled: Centocinquanta, ma non li dimostra. Divisi e uniti dentro uno stivale.He is currently the President to Iveser (Venetian Institute for the History of the Resistance and Contemporary Society).Amongst his most important books:I vinti di Caporetto nella letteratura di guerra, Padova, Marsilio Editori, 1967.Il mito della Grande guerra. Da Marinetti a Malaparte, Bari, Laterza, 1970; Bologna, Il Mulino, 1989.L’Italia in piazza. I luoghi della vita pubblica dal 1848 ai giorni nostri, Milano, Mondadori, 1994.I luoghi della memoria. Simboli e miti dell’Italia unita, a cura di, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1996.I luoghi della memoria. Personaggi e date dell’Italia unita, a cura di, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1997.I luoghi della memoria. Strutture ed eventi dell’Italia unita, a cura di, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1997.Breve storia dell’Italia unita a uso dei perplessi, Milano, Rizzoli, 1998.La tragedia necessaria. Da Caporetto all’otto settembre, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1999.Gli italiani in guerra. Conflitti, identità, memorie dal Risorgimento ai nostri giorni, a cura di e con al., 4 voll., Torino, UTET, 2008.Passati remoti. 1914-1919 due saggi sulla Grande Guerra, Edizioni dell’asino, 2014.Ritorni di fiamma. Storie italiane, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2014.