1 Place and date of birth Born in Aci Bonaccorsi (CT), Italy April 29, 1972 Contact Office: University Roma Tre Department of Political Science via G. Chiabrera, 199, 00145 Roma, Italy Tel. 0039 347 300 4989 (mob.); 06 5733 5308 (office) Email: lfasanaro@uniroma3.it; fasanarolaura@gmail.com Skype: laura.fasanaro Current Title/Position PhD in History of International Relations Lecturer (Ricercatrice) in History of International Relations at the University Roma Tre (Rome), Department of Political Science Education 2006-2008: Post-doctoral research fellow at the University Roma Tre (Rome), Department of International Studies 1999-2003: PhD in History of International Relations at the University of Florence (Italy). Dissertation on: La questione del carbone renano come problema internazionale nel primo e nel secondo dopoguerra 1998: Degree in Political Science (Laurea) at the University of Catania (Italy). Grade: 110/110 cum laude. Degree thesis on: Il fenomeno dell Eurocomunismo nelle carte della SED Fellowships/Scholarships 2014: Erasmus Teaching Grant at the Freie Universität (Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut), Berlin 2006-2008: Post-doctoral research fellowship at the University Roma Tre (Rome), Department of International Studies 2004: DAAD Research scholarship. Research topic: The Euromissiles crisis and the reaction of the GDR 2001-2002: Giovani ricercatori Scholarship, awarded by the University of Florence Research topic: Il carbone come motivo di conflitto internazionale; il caso tedesco-francese nel primo e nel secondo dopoguerra
2 1993-94: ERASMUS student at the University of Liège (Faculty of Law) Research and teaching interests Cold War History History of European integration History of Italian foreign policy Contemporary German history History of Communism Teaching Experience In Italian 2013-14: History of International Relations, University Roma Tre, Department of Political Science) 2011-13: History of European integration, University Roma Tre, Department of Political Science) 2012-14: Lectures to PhD students in Political Studies at the University Roma Tre, Department of Political Science. Subject: Historical research methodology 2003-2011: History of European integration course seminars, University Roma Tre, Department of International Relations In English 2009-2014: Italy and the US: history of a long-standing interaction course, at the Institute for the International Education of Students (IES) Rome 2003-2012: Italy and the EU course at the Institute for the International Education of Students (IES), Rome 2009-2011: Politics and Economics of the EU course at the Umbra Institute, Perugia 2003-2005: Model EU training. Simulation of the European Council organized by IES centres in Europe. Organization, students coordination and teaching In German 2014: Guest lecturer, summer semester. Lectures on: Die Siebziger Jahre in der Geschichte der Ost-West Beziehungen: Détente und Krise des internationalen Systems ; Die deutsche Einheit im Ausland: Frankreich und Italien im Vergleich, Freie Universität (Friedrich- Meinecke-Institut), Berlin 2004: Seminar Die deutsch-französischen Beziehungen 1945-1951: der Weg zum Schuman Plan und zur EGKS, University of Marburg Research Experience Archival research o Archivio Centrale dello Stato, Rome o Historical Archives of the European Community, Florence o Stiftung Archiv der Parteien und Massenorganisationen der DDR im Bundesarchiv (SAPMO), Berlin o Politisches Archiv des Auswärtigen Amtes, Berlin; o Helmut-Schmidt-Archiv e Willy-Brandt Archiv, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), Bonn o BStU (Stasi Unterlagen), Berlin o The National Archives, London o Archives Nationales, Paris
3 o PCI Archive at the Gramsci Institute, Rome o Bettino Craxi s Archive at the Fondazione Craxi, Rome o Giulio Andreotti s Archive at the Istituto Sturzo, Rome Conferences o Conference The Italian Left and Foreign Policy, Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Cambridge, June 9, 2014. Conference paper: Eastern European perspectives on the PCI, 1976-84 o Conference Studiare Aldo Moro per capire l Italia, Accademia di Studi storici Aldo Moro, Rome, May 9-11, 2013. Conference paper on: Aldo Moro e la questione tedesca negli anni della distensione internazionale. 1963-1972 o International Conference Italia 1977. Ambivalenze di una modernità, Senato della Repubblica, Rome, April 18-19, 2013. Conference paper: 1977: Italien steht nicht stille. Immagini ed enigmi di un paese in trasformazione nella stampa tedesca o Conference Europa oggi e domani, organized by TIA Association, the European Commission in Italy, University Roma Tre November 30, 2012. Conference presentation: La crisi attuale dell UE come leva di una migliore integrazione politica o International Workshop The Long Détente: Changing Concepts of Security and Cooperation in Europe from the 1950s to the 1980s, University of Copenhagen, April 20-21, 2012. Workshop paper: Italian politics and international détente in a long-term perspective: Developments, interpretations and protagonists 1960s-80s o Annual Conference of the Italian Society of International History (Società Italiana di Storia Internazionale, SISI), Florence, December 15-16, 2011. Conference paper: La Repubblica Democratica Tedesca e l'italia negli anni Ottanta: vincoli tradizionali e nuove opportunità nel cerchio stretto dei rapporti Est-Ovest o International Conference The Presidents of the European Commission, University of Groningen (The Netherlands), November 18-19, 2011. Conference paper (with Leopoldo Nuti ): So much to do at such a critical time : Romano Prodi as President of the European Commission o International Conference Overcoming the Iron Curtain. Visions of the End of the Cold War in Europe, 1945-1990, Université de la Sorbonne, Paris, June 12-14, 2008. Conference paper: Neither in one bloc, nor in the other - Berlinguer and the PCI in Eastern and Western perceptions o International Conference Atlantic, Euratlantic, or Europe-America? The Atlantic Community and the European Idea from Kennedy to Nixon, Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg (The Netherlands), September 20-21, 2007. Conference paper: The Eurocommunism Years: Italy s Credibility in the Eyes of its Western European Allies o Conference Ripensare l Europa a cinquant anni dalla firma dei Trattati di Roma, University of Urbino, April 27-28, 2007. Conference presentation: Alle origini della costruzione europea: le relazioni franco-tedesche e la questione energetica dopo la I e la II Guerra Mondiale o International Conference From Helsinki to Gorbachev 1975-1985. The Globalization of Bipolar Confrontation, sponsored by Centro Interuniversitario Machiavelli (CIMA), Artimino (Firenze), April 27-29, 2006. Conference paper: Eurocommunism in the East-German SED records o Conference Diplomazia delle risorse. Le materie prime e il sistema internazionale nel Novecento, University of Urbino, December 11-12, 2001. Conference paper: Il
4 carbone del bacino renano e i rapporti franco-tedeschi nel primo e nel secondo dopoguerra Publications Books o Energia contesa, energia condivisa. La Francia, il problema tedesco e la questione carbonifera nei due dopoguerra (Firenze, Polistampa, 2008) o Evita Perón, a volume published in the series Icone (Milan, Mondadori Electa, 2004) Articles and essays o 1977, Italien steht nicht stille. Un profilo politico e sociale dell Italia: Der Spiegel, Die Zeit e Frankfurter Allgemeine, in Mondo contemporaneo, n.1, 2014 o Neither in One Bloc, Nor in the Other: Berlinguer s Vision of the End of the Cold War, in F. Bozo et al. (eds), Visions of the End of the Cold War in Europe (1945-1990), New York, Berghahn Books, 2012 o The Eurocommunism Years: Italy s Political Puzzle and the Limits of the Atlantic Alliance, in G. S. Smith, V. Aubourg (eds), Atlantic, Euratlantic or Europe-America?, Paris, Soleb, 2011 o Eurocommunism. An East-German perspective, in L. Nuti (ed), The crisis of Détente in Europe. From Vietnam to Gorbachev, 1975-1985, London, Routledge, 2009 o Franco-German Relations and the Coal Problem in the Aftermath of the First and the Second World Wars: From Bilateral Conflict to European Energy Cooperation, in C. Germond, H. Türk (eds), A history of Franco-German Relations in Europe: from Hereditary enemies to Partners, London, Palgrave, 2006 o L eurocomunismo nelle carte della SED, in Mondo contemporaneo, n.3, 2006 o Il carbone del bacino renano e i rapporti franco-tedeschi nel primo e nel secondo dopoguerra, in M. Guderzo, M. L. Napolitano (eds), Diplomazia delle risorse. Le materie prime e il sistema internazionale nel Novecento, Firenze, Edizioni Polistampa, 2004 o L Italia e l Unione mese per mese, in G. Mammarella, P. Cacace (eds), L Europa nel 2000. Idee e fatti, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2001 Forthcoming works o La DDR e l Italia dal riconoscimento alla riunificazione: vincoli tradizionali e nuove opportunità fra Est e Ovest, 1973-90, Roma, Carocci, 2014-2015 o Aldo Moro e la questione tedesca negli anni della distensione internazionale. 1963-1972, ed. by Accademia di Studi storici Aldo Moro, Roma 9-11 maggio 2013, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2014 o Between continuity and transformation: opposite visions of Italy s thirty-year détente, in P. Villaume, O. Bange (eds), The Long Détente: Changing Concepts of Security and Cooperation in Europe from the 1940s to the 1980s, Budapest/New York, Central European University Press, 2014 o Romano Prodi: so much to do at such a critical time (con Leopoldo Nuti), in J. Van der Harst, G.Voerman (eds), The Presidents of the European Commission, London, J. Harper Publishing, 2014
5 Academic associations Member of the Machiavelli Center for Cold War Studies (CIMA): http://www.machiavellicenter.net/ Member of the Italian Society of International History (SISI): http://storiainternazionale.it/wp/en/ Faculty member responsible for the activity of the International Association of Political Science Students (IAPSS) at the Department of Political Science (University Roma Tre) Academic/administrative experience Organization of international conferences/seminars: o 2006: L Italia e la guerra del Vietnam Riflessioni tra storia e politica trent anni dopo la fine del conflitto (Rome, 2006), sponsored by the Machiavelli Center (CIMA) o 2003: The road to Helsinki. The Early Steps to the CSCE (Florence), sponsored by the Machiavelli Center (CIMA) o 2002: NATO, the Warsaw Pact and the Rise of Détente (Dobbiaco), sponsored by CIMA o 2002: Security in the Caucasus: Stability and Human Rights in the Region (Florence), a seminar sponsored by the Italian Foreign Ministry, the Council of Europe, the Tbilisi School of Political Studies, the Georgian Embassy in Italy and the University of Florence o 2000: Europa e Stati Uniti dopo la fine della Guerra Fredda (Florence), sponsored by the University of Florence and the Stanford University in Florence Languages Italian (mother tongue) English (fluent) German (fluent) French (fluent) Russian (elementary)