PANEL 20: Americanism vs. Anti–Americanism: the perception of American power abroad

The panel aims at investigating how the perception of American power has been shaping national and international political cultures since the mid-Twentieth Century. In the long andnow apparently declined «American century», the United States represented both a model and an anti-model, which fueled political strategies, movements, parties in Europe as well as in the world. We will particularly welcome proposals relating to:

» America’s impact on national, international cultures (i.e. the perception of American power among nationalist forces in diff erent political context; the effect of the representation of America in the dissemination and reception of development models in the so-called «Global South»)

» The memory and the ri-elaboration of signifi cant and dramatic events in America’s history by foreigners (i.e. the memory the Bay of Pigs, the fall of Saigon, the Iranian hostage crisis, 9/11)

» Cultural, artistic and political representation of the United States in the world (i.e. Graham Greene’s Quiet American or Italian painter Franco Angeli’s series on the United States of America) Proposals tackling other aspects of the perception of American power and culture abroad will be evaluated.

Interested participants should send a 500–word proposal (in any of the three offi cial languages
of the conference) and a short CV.