Wednesday, October 30, 2013
9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Joukowsky Forum
Tuesday, October 29
5 p.m. Keynote address: The Italian Crisis in Perspective
Romano Prodi (Professor at Large, Brown University, former two-time Italian Prime Minister and former President, European Commission)
6:30 p.m. reception
Wednesday, October 30
9 a.m. Panel: The State of Italy’s Economy, a Political Economic Perspective
Lucio Baccaro (University of Geneva)
Julia Lynch (University of Pennsylvania)
Dante Roscini (Harvard University)
Jonathan Eaton (Brown University)
11:30 a.m. North and South in the current crisis of Italy
Carlo Trigilia, Minister of Territorial Cohesion, Italy
Respondent: John A. Davis (University of Connecticut)
2 p.m. Italy and the United States, Reflections on Four Years in Rome
David Thorne, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State; United States ambassador to Italy, 2009-2013
Discussion with David I. Kertzer (Brown University) and Massimo Riva (Brown University)
3:30 p.m. Concluding panel: Whither Italy?
Romano Prodi
David Thorne
Carlo Trigilia