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Luca Bertolani Azeredo @luca1994.bsky.social · 10d

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

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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 18d

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

Irish Studies Seminar: Dom Bryan 22/09/25

YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies

www.youtube.com

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Luca Bertolani Azeredo @luca1994.bsky.social · 18d

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!

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Luca Bertolani Azeredo @luca1994.bsky.social · 18d

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

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Luca Bertolani Azeredo @luca1994.bsky.social · Jul 23

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

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Luca Bertolani Azeredo @luca1994.bsky.social · Jul 23

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

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Luca Bertolani Azeredo @luca1994.bsky.social · Jul 22

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

Luca Bertolani Azeredo @luca1994.bsky.social · Jun 18

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”)

Luca Bertolani Azeredo @luca1994.bsky.social · Jun 18

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

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Luca Bertolani Azeredo @luca1994.bsky.social · Jun 18

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)

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Luca Bertolani Azeredo @luca1994.bsky.social · Jun 18

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

Discussant @mariodelpero.bsky.social

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Luca Bertolani Azeredo @luca1994.bsky.social · Jun 18

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

Discussant Mauro Campus (University of Firenze)

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Luca Bertolani Azeredo @luca1994.bsky.social · Jun 18

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

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Luca Bertolani Azeredo @luca1994.bsky.social · Jun 18

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)

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Luca Bertolani Azeredo @luca1994.bsky.social · Jun 18

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)

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Luca Bertolani Azeredo @luca1994.bsky.social · Jun 17

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)

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Luca Bertolani Azeredo @luca1994.bsky.social · Jun 17

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”)

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Luca Bertolani Azeredo @luca1994.bsky.social · Jun 17

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)

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Luca Bertolani Azeredo @luca1994.bsky.social · Jun 17

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

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Luca Bertolani Azeredo @luca1994.bsky.social · Jun 17

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)

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Luca Bertolani Azeredo @luca1994.bsky.social · Jun 17

@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”)

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History at Queen's University Belfast @qubhistory.bsky.social · Jun 17

Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · Jun 17

It's always a good day to revisit this one.

Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?

Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?

contingentmagazine.org

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Luca Bertolani Azeredo @luca1994.bsky.social · Jun 17

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

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Luca Bertolani Azeredo @luca1994.bsky.social · Jun 16

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)

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