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The main objective of the conference is to study the history, individual and collective, of the officials and experts who collaborated within the International Labour Organization. The conference is focused on the social, political, and epistemic networks where their activity took place, and observe their paths, origins, socio-economic and educational backgrounds, debates, political loyalties, personal motivations, technical skills, and diverse trajectories.

Thursday 27/10/2022

10.30-11.00 Welcome address
Gianni Rosas (ILO's representative for Italy and San Marino)
Salvatore Capasso (Director of ISMed-Cnr )

11.00-12.30 Session 1: “Out of the European Industrial Core (the Interwar Years)"

Discussant: Francesca Piana (Scuola Normale Superiore)

- Judith Rainhorn (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), "Acting behind the scene: Alice Hamilton, a female expert in the early ILO network"
- Dan-Alexandru Săvoaia (University of Iaşi), "Crafting social justice in the margins: aspects of Romania's interaction with the ILO in the interwar period"
- Stephanie van Dam (Cambridge University), "Social networks in the formulation and implementation of injury compensation in the International Labour Organization and the British empire, 1930-1945"

14.00-14.30 Keynote lecture: Lorenzo Mechi (Università di Padova)

14.30-16.00 Session 2: ”Socialist and Catholic Networks"

Discussant: Giacomo Canepa (Scuola Normale Superiore)

- Adeline Blaszkiewicz (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), "A convergence of struggles for social justice? Socialist networks and the ILO during the interwar period"
- Oscar Gaspari (Università LUMSA di Roma), "L'Italia fascista contro i numeri indici per il calcolo del costo della vita, nel congresso di Roma dell’Istituto Internazionale di Statistica del 1925"
- Aurélien Zaragori (Université Lyon III), "For God and social justice: Christian international officers in the International Labour Organization (1920s-1970s)"

Friday 28/10/2022

9.00-11.00 Special session Inail Bric 2019: ”Italian physicians and scientists"

Chair: Michele Riva (Università Milano Bicocca)
Discussants: Franco Carnevale and Alberto Baldasseroni

- Anna Pellegrino (Università di Bologna), "La nebulosa riformatrice in Italia agli inizi del XX secolo e la medicina del lavoro"
- Roberto Mazzagatti (Università di Milano Bicocca), "Luigi Carozzi e l’Industrial Health Service (ILO). Nella rete di tutela della salute dei lavoratori tra 1919 e 1939"
- Stefano Gallo (Ismed-CNR), "Luigi Parmeggiani e i network della Sezione Prevenzione e Igiene nel secondo dopoguerra"
- Cristina Accornero (Università di Torino), "L'ILO a Torino: formazione, sicurezza e igiene del lavoro nella seconda metà del Novecento"

11.30-12.30 Session 3: ”The ILO and the African Continent"

Discussant: Stefano Bellucci (Universiteit Leiden)

- Paul Mayens (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), "Africans in a global epistemic network, the African conferences on social security: 1962-1975"
- Félicité Paho Nya (Université Yaoundé I), "The role of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in the evolution of trade unionism in Cameroon: 1944-1972"

14.00-14.30 Keynote lecture: Daniel Maul (University of Oslo)

14.30-16.00 Session 4: ”Boundaries of labour: forced labour, managers, and self-management"

Discussant: Amalia Ribi Forclaz (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies)

- Mara Marginean (Romanian Academy), "Interconnecting the (semi)peripheries: the Center for the Improvement of Industrial Managers (CEPECA) and Romania’s cooperation with the global south in the 1970s"
- Gabriela Scodeller (University of Cuyo), "Experts, networks and meetings regarding self-management: the role of the ILO in the long sixties"
- Norberto O. Ferreras (Universidade Federal Fluminense), "Brazil and the ILO. Concurring and conflicting interpretations of forced labor"

Scientific commission:

Virginia Amorosi (Università Federico II Napoli), Eloisa Betti
(Università di Bologna), Giacomo Canepa (Scuola Normale Superiore),
Federico Del Giudice (Scuola Normale Superiore), Stefano Gallo
(CNR-ISMed Napoli), Isabelle Lespinet-Moret (Université Paris 1
Panthéon-Sorbonne), Sandrine Kott (Université de Genève), Francesco
Maccelli (Università di Firenze), Daniel R. Maul (University of
Oslo), Roberto Mazzagatti (Università Milano Bicocca), Lorenzo Mechi
(Università di Padova), Francesca Piana (Scuola Normale Superiore),
Bruno Settis (Scuola Normale Superiore), Valerio Torreggiani
(ICS-Universidade de Lisboa)

ORGANIZED BY:
Università degli Studi Milano Bicocca
CNR-ISMed 
ILO History" SISLav working group 

SUPPORTED AND HOSTED BY:
ILO Office for Italy and San Marino

This conference is part of the project Inail Bric 2019 - ID21 "Medici
e scienziati italiani nell'OIL"