Luca Bertolani Azeredo

Things are about to get real!

(𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 2026)

I just wanted to update a few people (the acknowledgment section is over three pages long) who I have met during the past four years

This was done ONLY thanks to your help, support, and friendship

YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies Irish Studies Seminar: Dom Bryan 22/09/25

If you missed Dom Bryan's talk this week on 'Authenticity, history and everyday nationalism: comparing Irish pubs to McDonald’s restaurants', it's now online at www.youtube.com/watch?v=50e-...
More QUB Irish Studies events at www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris... @domsball.bsky.social

Spend 2 days with other researchers peer reviewing the work of other young scholars and interacting with early careers professors remains one of the best thing you can do during your PhD!

I had the best time and Prague really is a great city, can't wait to be there again!

Just a few words and pictures from the 7th International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies, Prague
@charlesuni.cuni.cz this was my second time and I once more STRONGLY suggest every PhD in #IrishStudies to take part in this event

We hope you will help us in circulate this CFP and inform your colleagues and students who could be interested in participating in this conference

We are happy to present the conference which will take place in Naples, 6 and 7 March 2026, on "Violence and Empire"

Here is attached the CFP including a list of themes we are interested into

Deadline for proposals November 16, authors will be notified by January 9

Here (www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....) you can find my latest review on "Conflict, diaspora, and empire: Irish nationalism in Britain, 1912–1922" by Darragh Gannon

Final paper by William Lesaicherre on "The Student’s Voyage. Training Programs and Propaganda Tours: French Students in Algeria Revolutionary Warfare (1954-
1961)".

Discussant Andrea Brazzoduro (University of Napoli “L’Orientale”)

Massimiliano Del Gaudio on "Italian Americans and Italy in Post-World War II Italy-U.S. Relations: From the Reconstruction to the Consolidation of the Atlantic Alliance (1946-1976)".

Discussant, once again, @mariodelpero.bsky.social

Julius Becker on "Facing Japanese Great Power Aspiration: The Treaty of Shimonoseki, the Yellow Peril and the Triple Intervention".

Discussant Aymeric Xu (Scuola Superiore Meridionale)

Liam Edwards on "More than Munitions: Military Bases, the Cold War, and the Projection of U.S. Power".

Discussant @mariodelpero.bsky.social

Giulio Piumelli on "The Creation and Implementation of the Washington Consensus (1979-1995)".

Discussant Mauro Campus (University of Firenze)

Starting the third (and final) day of this workshop with Fulvia Dellavedova: Neoconservative Catholicism in the United States. The
Neocon Theory of Just War for a New International Order (1991-2003).

Discussant @mariodelpero.bsky.social @sciencespo.bsky.social

Chair Airton Ribeiro da Silva

Coming to the end of this second day, I had the possibility to present my research titled "«There are illegalities that are not crimes» An
investigation into political violence and paramilitary bodies in Ireland before the Great War".

Discussant Brian Huges (Mary Immaculate College of Limerick)

Guido Precchia on "Precarious Li(v)es: the Neapolitan exiles of the
“Masaniello revolt” in the struggle between French and Spanish monarchies (1648-1678).

Discussant Giuseppe Mrozek Eliszezynski (University of Chieti Pescara)

Nicolás Blum Fernandez on "Space, Mobility, and Empires: The northern Rio de la Plata borderlands in the late eighteenth century".

Discussant David Martin Marcos (Universidad Nacional a Distancia)

Claudio Stumpf on "If I dare to take the floor today". Female middle-class speaking in Victorian Britain and Imperial Germany, 1854-1895.

Discussant Elisabetta Bini (University of Napoli “Federico II”)

Tommaso Rossetto on "The ROC'
s Chinese Cultural Diplomacy and Propaganda Abroad in the Late 1960s: The Government Information Office and the Overseas Branches of the Chinese Cultural Renaissance Movement".

Discussant Aymeric Xu (Scuola Superiore Meridionale)

Marta Pecchioli on "The path towards non regression in environmental protection: a comparative study".

Discussant Barbara Guastaferro
(University of Napoli “Federico II”)

Chair Alessia Orlandi

Martina Ricci on "Echoes of the past war: memory, culture, and the politics of commemoration in post-Yugoslav museums".

Discussant Željana Tunić (Halle-Wittenberg University)

@thanosangelopoulos.bsky.social on "The socialist historiography of the Second International (1889-1914) in Germany, France and Great Britain.

Discussant Andrea Graziosi (University of Napoli “Federico II”)

Second day of the Scuola Superiore Meridionale PhD Workshop.

Starting with Pavel Demchenko: "Merchants, privileges, customs: the disputed integration of the Ostsee provinces in the Russian Empire during the eighteenth century".
Discussant Alexey Kraykovskiy (University of Genova)
Chair Ettore Costa

Daniele Colonnetti on "The early stages of the conceptualization of the chichimeco: between civilization and barbarism in the northern novohispanica frontier (1529-1556).

Discussant Manuel Herrero
Sanchez (University of Sevilla @pablodeolavide.upo.es)

Burak Beşir Fındıklı on "Transformation in the Ottoman diplomatic service: Career, Professionalism, and Networks.

Discussant Alexandre Toumarkine (INALCO)

Lukman Saeed Jibril on "Coerced Work: Macroprocesses and Microrealities — The Labour Problem in Infrastructural Development in Northern Nigeria, 1902-1929.

Discussant: Stefano Bellucci @unileiden.bsky.social

Mario Migliaccio on "Guizot's Globe: nation(s), European civilisation and world politics in François Guizot's historical and political discourses (1812-1848)".

Discussant Matthijs Lok (University of Amsterdam)

Alessia Orlandi on "Crossing Oceans and Navigating Identities: Migrations, Status and Reparations during the Age of Revolutions".

Discussing with Friedemann Pastel @uni-freiburg.de

Chaired by That's Gendry

Professors Arturo De Vivo and Gia Caglioti representing the SSM