Renato Moro, “A Disputed Resistance: The Memory of Anti-Fascism in Italy (1945-2025)”
20 March 2026, 11:00AM CET
Rome Mosse Lecture
Rettorato, Building CU001, piazzale Aldo Moro 5
Aula Organi Collegiali
Welcome Address:
Umberto Gentiloni (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Maria Cristina Marchetti (Direttrice DiSp, Sapienza Università di Roma)
Skye Doney (George L. Mosse Program in History)
Moderator:
Umberto Gentiloni (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Sponsored by:
Global Mosse Lecture Series
Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche
Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali ed Economiche
Dipartimento di Storia, Antropologia, Religioni arte Spettacolo
Renato Moro is a Emeritus Professor of Contemporary History at Roma Tre University. At Roma Tre, Prof. Moro has been Vice-Rector for Research from 2004 to 2008 and Director of the Ph.D. Program in Political Studies. He is now a member of the Ethical Board of the University. Since 2005 he has been co-editor of the quarterly journal Mondo contemporaneo: Rivista di storia. His studies concern the relationship between politics and religion in twentieth-century history, specifically Catholic political culture; the relationship between Italian (and international) Catholicism and Fascism; Catholic anti-Semitism and anti-Protestantism; and the history of peace and anti-nuclear movements. His publications include La formazione della classe dirigente Cattolica (1979); G. Bottai–G. De Luca, Carteggio 1940-1957 (1989); Renzo De Felice. Studi e testimonianze (2002); La Chiesa e lo sterminio degli ebrei (2002; sp. transl. 2004); Cattolicesimo e totalitarismo (2004); Fascismo e franchismo (2005); Guerra e pace nell’Italia del Novecento (2006); Aldo Moro negli anni della FUCI (2008); L’immagine del nemico (2009); Una vita, un paese. Aldo Moro e l’Italia del Novecento (2014); Salire a Barbiana. Don Milano dal Sessantotto a oggi (2017); Il mito dell’Italia cattolica. Nazione, religione e cattolicesimo negli anni del fascismo (2021); and Storia di una maestra del Sud che fu la madre di Aldo Moro (2022).
Maria Cristina Marchetti is a Full Professor of Sociology of Political Processes at Sapienza University of Rome. Since 2021, she has been Director of the Department of Political Sciences. She is co-editor of the biannual journal Studi politici and a member of the scientific board of the PhD Program in Political Studies at Sapienza. Her research focuses on social and cultural change, with particular reference to political processes and the context of complex societies, the analysis of the European integration process and the governance of its institutions, and the relationship between cultural forms, fashion phenomena, and dimensions of power in contemporary societies. She is the author of numerous essays and journal articles, as well as the following books: Il consenso nelle società complesse (2001); Attori economici e mutamento sociale. Un’indagine nell’area romana (2004); Il processo di integrazione europea. Comunicazione interculturale e ruolo dei media (2006); Tempo, spazio e società (with Donatella Pacelli, 2007); Democrazia e partecipazione nell’Unione europea (2009); L’Europa dei cittadini. Cittadinanza e democrazia nell’Unione europea (2015); Le dimensioni del potere (2018); Moda e Politica. La rappresentazione simbolica del potere (2020).
Umberto Gentiloni is a Full Professor of Contemporary History in the Department of History, Anthropology, Religions, Art, and Performing Arts at Sapienza University of Rome. He is a member of the Board of Governors of Sapienza University of Rome and of the scientific board of the PhD Program in History, Anthropology, and Religions at Sapienza. He is editor of the biannual journal Dimensioni e problemi della rivista storica. He taught at the University of Teramo and was Adjunct Associate Professor of History of Contemporary Italy at the University of California, Berkeley (USA) and at the University of California Rome Study Centre. He has been a Visiting Professor at the following universities: Italian Academy at Columbia University, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, New York University, University of Connecticut, Harvard University, University of Barcelona, Waseda University in Tokyo and Nagoya, Peking University, Academia Sinica, and the Institute of European and American Studies in Taipei.
His books include: L’Italia e la nuova frontiera. Stati Uniti e centro-sinistra 1958-1965 (1998), Conservatori senza partito. Un tentativo fallito nell’Italia giolittiana (1999), Bombardare Roma (con M. Carli, 2007), Sistema politico e contesto internazionale nell’Italia repubblicana (2008), L’Italia sospesa. La crisi degli anni Settanta vista da Washington (2009), l’edizione dei diari di Manlio Brosio (2008-2011), Contro scettici e disfattisti. Gli anni di Ciampi (2013), Bombardare Auschwitz (2015), Il giorno più lungo della Repubblica (2016), Storia dell’Italia contemporanea 1943-2023 (2019, en. trans: The History of Contemporary Italy 1943-2019, 2022), Dal buio del Novecento. Diari e memorie di ebrei italiani di fronte alla Shoah (con S. Palermo, 2024), 2 Giugno (2025).
