Je n'ai pas pu assister au colloque à l'Université de Lausanne, mais j'ai tout de même réussi à contribuer à l'ouvrage.
Antonio Costa Pinto
@acostapinto.bsky.social
Research Professor, Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon, and media commentator. Comparative Authoritarianism and fascism, political elites, democratization. Latest book The Fascist Zenith, Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Free for the next two weeks! "The year 2024 marked a century since socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti's assassination. Widely commemorated in Italy, he's often remembered within a national narrative of antifascist resistance. But how was this narrative built and how has the far right responded?"
The Afterlife of a Fascist Murder
Cambridge Core - Twentieth Century Regional History - The Afterlife of a Fascist Murder
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Profondément attristé par la nouvelle du décès soudain de Didier Musiedlak, Prof. émerite à L'université Paris X-Nanterre, italianiste français et auteur d'ouvrages de référence sur le fascisme, le corporatisme et les élites politiques. Il a participé à plusieurs de mes projets, et réciproquement.
Lo stato fascista e la sua classe politica 1922-1943
Lo stato fascista e la sua classe politica 1922-1943 : Musiedlak, Didier, De Ritis, A.: Amazon.it: Books
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Open Access for the next two weeks! New title of the series "The history and politics of Fascism", Cambridge University Press.
Italian Fascism in the Nordic Countries (1919–1945)
Cambridge Core - Comparative Politics - Italian Fascism in the Nordic Countries (1919–1945)
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On Saturday 20, in Lisbon, Goffredo Adinolfi and I had the pleasure of presenting our edited volume Building Dictatorships under Axis Rule: War, Military Occupation and Political Regimes at the Eighth Convention of COMFAS, discussed by Angel Alcalde from the the University of Melbourne.
Introducing Janis Mimura, from Stonybrook University, at the COMFAS Convention, University of Lisbon, the she presented a plenary lecture on the "Fascist Origins of Axis".
Melissa Teixeira, University of Pennsylvania, Keynote lecture, introduced by Mario Sznajder, Emeritus, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, COMFAS Convention, ICS-University of Lisbon.
I thank my colleagues and friends who organized this tribute to my work as a researcher and professor in the context of the COMFAS Convention at ICS - Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa yesterday.
Discussion of my book, The Fascist Zenith, with comments by Janis Mimura, from the State University of New York, at the COMFAS Convention in Lisbon, yesterday.
Coming soon at the Series "The History and Politics of Fascism", Cambridge University Press, editors of the series, Federico Finchelstein and Antonio Costa Pinto.
The Myth of Rebirth in Fascist Ideology
Cambridge Core - Comparative Politics - The Myth of Rebirth in Fascist Ideology
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Stephen Sawyer, from the American University Paris, today at LusoGlobe Annual Event on Global Challenges, Lusófona University-Campus of Lisbon. I strongly recommend his book, Demos Assembled Democracy and the International Origins of the Modern State, 1840–1880, The University of Chicago Press, 2018
Octavio Amorim-Netto, from the Getulio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, giving the opening Lecture "Beyond the Civil-Military Divide: Patterns of National Defense Leadership Selection Around the World", today at LusoGlobe Annual Event on Global Challenges, Lusófona University-Campus of Lisbon.
If you are in Lisbon next week, participating in the Eighth Convention of the International Association for Comparative Fascist Studies.
Coming soon: Luca Manucci, The Fascist Zeitgeist. Authoritarian Legacies and the Iberian Far Right; Series "The History and Politics of Fascism", Cambridge University Press, editors Federico Finchelstein and Antonio Costa Pinto.
The Fascist Zeitgeist
Cambridge Core - Twentieth Century Regional History - The Fascist Zeitgeist
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LASA-Paris, this time with Philippe Schmitter (Emeritus EUI-Florence), Andrés Malamud (ICS-University of Lisbon), Gerardo Munck (University of Southern California) and Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida (USP-Brazil).
On the occasion of the awarding of the LASA "Guillermo O'Donnell Democracy Award" to Philippe Schmitter, with Terry Karl (Stanford University); Andrés Malamud (ICS-Ulisboa) and Enrique Peruzzotti (Torquato Di Tella University).
Panel "Antifascism: National and Transnational Frameworks", at Lasa-Latin American studies Association, in Paris, with Jorge A. Nallim, University of Manitoba; Sebastian Rivera, El Colegio Mexiquense, and Sandra McGee Deutsch, University of Texas, El Paso.
LASA-Latin American Studies Association, Paris. An unexpected encounter. Ronald Chilcote was already a veteran Marxist scholar of Brazilian and Portuguese politics, and African liberation movements, when I met him in the USA. He began in 1967 with the book Portuguese Africa. A long academic life...
International Congress of the Latin America Studies Association (LASA), Paris. Replacing the Official Reception with an excellent gastronomic experience.
João Abel Manta, the greatest cartoonist of the Portuguese democratization, has died. When I published my first academic book in English on Salazar's "Estado Novo" I asked him one of his caricatures for the cover. The publisher's designer converted the caricature of the Dictator into a negative.
Seminar-book presentation by Odilon Caldeira Neto, from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, on the Radical Right in Brazil, at the ICS - Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon.
Survey on the attitudes towards democracy in Portugal. in a nutshell: satisfied with April 25th, dissatisfied its functioning today. The themes of dissatisfaction are classic, notably perception of corruption, but the fear of "party extremism" is new and interesting. Report bellow.
Sondagem «50 Anos de Independências — A descolonização portuguesa e os seus legados»
A sondagem «50 Anos de Independências — A descolonização portuguesa e os seus legados» foi desenvolvida por uma equipa do CESOP – Universidade Católica Portuguesa, coordenada por João António e Antóni...
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Survey on attitudes towards democracy and democratization in Portugal (in Portuguese) I've co-autored with Mario bacalhau and Tom Bruneau for the Official Commission of the celebration of 50 years of Portuguese Democracy.
Sondagem: funcionamento da democracia deixa portugueses divididos. Corrupção e extremismo são as maiores ameaças
Inquérito sobre o 25 de Abril e a democracia portuguesa revela que o número de portugueses satisfeitos com a forma como funciona a democracia é praticamente equivalente àqueles que dão nota negativa. ...
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