Ghilarza Summer School
PREVIOUS EDITIONS
A look back at previous editions of the Ghilarza Summer School: themes, voices, and moments that have shaped the School’s development over time. A living archive that brings together the work of study, dialogue, and research carried out year after year by an international community in conversation.
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8-13 September 2025
DateS
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Literature and National Life
Theme
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Mauro Pala — The Limits of Modernity: From the Role of Italian Intellectuals to Gramsci’s Global Epigones
Lectio magistralis
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Giuseppe Cospito and Fabio Frosini — GSS 2025 in the Path Traced by Gianni Francioni
Introductory Lecture
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Working Sessions
- Giuseppe Cospito – Fabio Frosini – GSS 2025 in the Path Traced by Gianni Francioni
- Roberto M. Dainotto – ““Popular Literature”: A Reading of Notebook 21
- Romain Descendre – “Literary Criticism”: A Reading of Notebook 23
- Giancarlo Schirru – Literature and the Language Question: A Reading of Notebook 29
- Anxo Garrido – Language, Politics and History in Gramsci’s Reading of Alessandro Manzoni
- Giuseppe Cospito – Form” and “Content” between Philosophy and Literature
- Fabio Frosini – Writers and Reality in the History of the “Bourgeois Spirit” in Italy
- Ingo Pohn-Lauggas – Literature, Politics, Ideology
- Daniela Mussi – Gramsci and Gobetti: Between Politics and Culture
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SILVIA DE LAUDE — Gramsci and Twentieth-Century Italian Writers
Concluding Lecture / Public Event
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Participants
- Andrea Ampollini (Italy)
- Renato Brito (Brazil)
- Silvia Carlesimo (Italy)
- Cristina Carnemolla (Italy)
- Giuseppe D’Angelo (Italy)
- Federico Di Blasio (Italy)
- Alessio Frau (Italy)
- Saskia Kroonenberg (Netherlands)
- Camille Lauridon (France)
- Anna Chiara Mezzasalma (Italy)
- Massimiliano Muci (Italy)
- Maria Chiara Pozzoni (Italy)
- Alfonsina Santolalla (Argentina)
- Priscilla Santoro (Italy)
- Angela Schipani (Italy)
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Publication in the International Gramsci Journal
Publication
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4–9 September 2023
Dates
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School and National Education
Theme
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Massimo Baldacci — Philosophy of Praxis and Education in Gramsci
Lectio magistralis
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Gianni Francioni — Gramsci: Questions and Method
Introductory Lecture
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Working Sessions
- Giuseppe Cospito – Conformism, Spontaneity and Conscious Leadership
- Giuliano Guzzone – “Ethical or Cultural State”
- Marcello Mustè – Gramsci and the Educational Reforms of Idealism
- Chiara Meta – “The Search for the Educational Principle”
- Pietro Maltese – Taylorism, Fordism and the Construction of “a New Type of Human Being”
- Giulio Azzolini – Political Parties as “Schools of State Life”
- Leonardo Rapone – “Integral Journalism” as a School of Politics
- Fiamma Lussana – Political and Ideological Formation: Gramsci’s “Schools”
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Public lecture by Fabio Frosini — Gramsci: Pedagogy Beyond the State
Concluding Lecture / Public Event
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Participants
- Dante Ariel Aragón Moreno (Mexico)
- Federica Elena Cela (Italy)
- Federico Di Blasio (Italy)
- Emilie Faedo Della Giustina (Brazil)
- Clara Figueiredo de Freitas (Brazil)
- Sebastián Gómez (Argentina)
- Saskia Kroonenberg (Netherlands)
- Anna Chiara Mezzasalma (Italy)
- Sebastiano Pirotta (Italy)
- Francesco Pontarelli (Italy)
- Maria Chiara Pozzoni (Italy)
- Alfonsina Santolalla (Argentina)
- Marina Simakova (Russian Federation)
- Andrés Tzeiman (Argentina)
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Publication in the International Gramsci Journal, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2025)
Publication
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6–11 September 2021
Dates
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Nation, People, National-Popular
Theme
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Giancarlo Schirru — Languages and Nationalities
Lectio magistralis
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Working Sessions
- Giuseppe Cospito – Nation, People, People-Nation
- Marcello Mustè – Education and the Unification of the People-Nation
- Alessio Gagliardi – Corporatism as a Project for the Unification of the “People”
- Fabio Frosini – Intellectuals and the “People-Nation”
- Roberto M. Dainotto – The Novel, the People, and Narrative Perspective
- Romain Descendre – Popular Serial Literature and Fascism
- Fabio Dei – People and Folklore
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Public lecture by Salvatore Cingari — People and Populism in Gramsci
Concluding Lecture / Public Event
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Gramscian Conversations (Frosini, Vacca, Righi, Izzo) at the Reading Circle and the open-air theatrical monologue Gramsci Antonio Known as Nino (Niccolini and Saccomanno)
Parallel Activities / Public Initiatives
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Participants
- Lorenzo Alfano (Italy)
- Giulio Azzolini (Italy)
- Diego Alberto Biancolin (Italy)
- David Cardozo Santiago (Spain)
- Cristina Carnemolla (USA)
- Dario Clemente (Argentina)
- Simone Coletto (Italy)
- Alice De Matteo (Italy)
- Anxo Garrido Fernández (Spain)
- Sebastián Gómez (Argentina)
- Danilo Lampis (Italy)
- Rodrigo Molina (Brazil)
- Nicolò Pennucci (Italy)
- Piermarco Piu (Italy)
- Camilla Sclocco (Italy)
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Volume: Nation, People, National-Popular, edited by G. Cospito, G. Francioni and F. Frosini, Como-Pavia, Ibis, 2023
Publication
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10–15 September 2018
Dates
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Crisis and Passive Revolution: Gramsci as an Interpreter of the Twentieth Century
Theme
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Leonardo Rapone — Crisis, War and Revolution, 1914–1920
Lectio magistralis
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Working Sessions
- Giuseppe Cospito – Hegemony and Crisis of Hegemony
- Alvaro Bianchi – The Crisis of Authority and the Theory of Elites
- Francesca Antonini – Rethinking the “Interregnum” through Political and Strategic Categories: Caesarism and Bonapartism
- Pasquale Voza – Passive Revolution
- Fabio Frosini – “Totalitarian Politics” and the Crisis of the State
- Jean-Pierre Potier – The 1929 Crisis and Economic Science
- Roberto M. Dainotto – Culture and Art in Mass Society
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Public lecture by Giuseppe Vacca — Passive Revolution and the History of the Twentieth Century
Concluding Lecture / Public Event
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Conversation series "The Words of Gramsci" at the Reading Circle
Parallel Activities / Public Initiatives
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Participants
- Agustín Artese (Argentina)
- Giulio Azzolini (Italy)
- Simone Coletto (Italy)
- Martín Cortés (Argentina)
- Alessia Franco (Italy)
- Anxo Garrido Fernández (Spain)
- Nicole Gounalis (USA)
- Giuliano Guzzone (Italy)
- Marie Lucas (France)
- Gigliola Mendes (Brazil)
- Daniela Mussi (Brazil)
- José Gabriel Rovelli (Argentina)
- Giacomo Tarascio (Italy)
- Javier Waiman (Argentina)
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Volume: Crisis and Passive Revolution: Gramsci as an Interpreter of the Twentieth Century, edited by G. Cospito, G. Francioni and F. Frosini, Como-Pavia, Ibis, 2021
Publication
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5–10 September 2016
Dates
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The Extension of Ideology: Folklore, Religion, Common Sense, Good Sense, Philosophy
Theme
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André Tosel — “Democracy, Philosophy, Ideology”
Lectio magistralis
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Working Sessions
- Fabio Frosini – Ideology, Superstructures, Language
- Giuseppe Cospito – Common Sense / Good Sense
- Cosimo Zene – Folklore, Religion, Common Sense
- Joseph A. Buttigieg – Gramsci’s Concept of the “Intellectual” and of “Culture”
- Romain Descendre – Jean-Claude Zancarini — Translatability, Hegemony, Ideology
- Francesca Izzo – Philosophy, Democracy, Nation-State
- Anne Showstack Sassoon – State, Politics and Intellectuals
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Public lecture by Gianni Francioni — The Extension of Ideology in Gramsci and the Genesis of its Articulations
Concluding Lecture / Public Event
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Participants
- Francesca Antonini (Italy)
- Sabrina Areco (Brazil)
- Aaron Bernstein (USA)
- Martín Cortés (Argentina)
- Anthony Crézégut (France)
- Clara de Freitas Figueiredo (Brazil)
- Diana Grisel Fuentes De Fuentes (Mexico)
- Natalia Gaboardi (Italy)
- Nicole Gounalis (USA)
- Giuliano Guzzone (Italy)
- Robert P. Jackson (United Kingdom)
- Marie Lucas (France)
- José Gabriel Rovelli (Argentina)
- Deise Rosalio Silva (Brazil)
- Giacomo Tarascio (Italy)
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Monograph — Materialismo storico, Vol. V, No. 2 (2018)
Publication
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Public presentation of the GSS project following the 2013 preview edition
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8–12 September 2014
Dates
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Hegemonic / Subaltern
Theme
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Giuseppe Vacca — On the Gramscian Concept of “Hegemony”
Lectio magistralis
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Working Sessions
- Gianni Francioni – How Gramsci Worked
- Giancarlo Schirru – Hegemonic / Subaltern from the Perspective of Linguistics
- Giuseppe Cospito - Hegemony / Hegemonic in the Prison Notebooks (and Before)
- Giovanni Semeraro - Subaltern Groups and Religion
- Guido Liguori - Subaltern / Subalterns in the Prison Notebooks (and Before)
- Peter D. Thomas - State, Democracy and Culture from the Point of View of the Subaltern
- Fabio Frosini - Utopia, Religion, Democracy, Subalternity
- Marcus E. Green - The Subaltern after Postcolonial and Cultural Studies
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Public round table
Concluding Lecture / Public Event
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Public presentation of the GSS project following the 2013 preview edition
Parallel Activities / Public Initiatives
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Participants
- Luciana Aliaga (Brazil)
- Francesca Antonini (Italy)
- Manuela Ausilio (Italy)
- Eleonora Forenza (Italy)
- Natalia Gaboardi (Italy)
- Robert P. Jackson (United Kingdom)
- Ingo Lauggas (Austria)
- Rodrigo Lima (Brazil)
- Antonia Lovecchio (Italy)
- Camila De Góes (Brazil)
- Daniela Mussi (Brazil)
- Laura Nieto Sanabria (Mexico)
- M. Cecilia Pato (Argentina)
- Deise Rosalio Silva (Brazil)
- Paola Zichi (Italy)
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Monograph Hegemonic / Subaltern, International Gramsci Journal, Vol. 2 No. 1 (2016)
Publication
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