80 Years of the Italian Republic

In 1946, Italian voters chose a republic over a monarchy. The Italian Academy marks the anniversary with a talk by , who spoke here last year with David Forgacs of New York University in .

Opening remarks
Barbara Faedda, Executive Director; Ad Interim Director, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University

Speakers
, Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory, Columbia University

This event is part of the Italian Academy’s “Rule of Law” initiative, conceived by Barbara Faedda, which includes the 2023 roundtable People, Rule of Law, and Supreme Courts Now, the 2024 dialogue Tales from the Legal Front Line: Philippe Sands in conversation with Monica Hakimi, and two events in 2025—the dialogue Liberation! 80 Years Since the End of World War II in Italy (with David Forgacs and Nadia Urbinati) and the symposium Universal Rights in Practice: International Frameworks and Domestic Legal Systems—as well as the 2021 collection of essays titled .

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Italian Academy, Columbia University, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, United States

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