Daniele Serapiglia
Dr Serapiglia is currently a Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Department of Political History, Theories and Geography of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid. Until January 2021 he was a postdoctoral researcher in História Contemporânea at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa working on the project entitled “A social revolution. Football and fascism in southern Europe from 1922 to 1975” (79.149,00 €). Dr Serapiglia is himself a good example of a 'European researcher' and a representative of the 'Erasmus generation'. His Erasmus exchange in Coimbra during the academic year 2000-2001 was the starting point of his international academic career. After graduating in Humanities and specializing in Modern History in 2004, Dr Serpaiglia earned a PhD in European History at the University of Bologna and at University of Coimbra in 2009. His doctorate focused on corporatism in the New Portuguese State. From 2012 to 2013, he received a grant from the Gulbenkian Fundation of Lisbon to work on the project “Italian fascism in Portugal. The regime of Mussolini seen through Portuguese newspapers and magazines between 1922 and 1945” (11.000,00 €). Dr Serapiglia has published in 5 different languages (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English). He is the author of several essays on the Portuguese Estado Novo; in 2011 he published a monograph entitled La via portoghese al corporativismo [The Portuguese Way to Corporatism]. In 2014 he edited and wrote the introduction to the Italian edition of Antonio Ferro's Interviews with Salazar. Since 2011, he has focused on the social history of sport, publishing articles, book chapters, and editing the book “Tempo libero, sport e fascismo” [Free Time, Sport and Fascism], published in 2016. Additionally, Dr Serapiglia worked at the University of Bologna until May 2016 on the post-doctoral project “Social History of Italian Volleyball” (58.101,00 €). In 2018, he published the monograph “Uno sport per tutti. Soria sociale della pallavolo italiana (1918-1990)” [A Sport for Everyone. Social History of Italian Volleyball (1918-1990)]. This book has been adopted by the University of Bologna for its courses on sports education. This book was also of interest for important Italian newspapers and magazines such as Wired, Vanity Fair, and La Gazzetta dello Sport. The article "Il Barca̧ 'meś que un club': le radici del catalanismo blaugrana nel contesto della sportivizzazione spagnola", was published in the leading Italian peer-reviewed journal Spagna contemporanea; while the article "Fé e Futebol. Muscular Catholicism between Italy and Portugal in the European Identity (1922-1958)" was published in the impactful journal Lusotopie. The article “In Memory of the 1934 World Cup" has recently been accepted for publication in the prominent journal Soccer&Society. In 2022, Dr Serapiglia and Dr Juan Antonio Simón will publish the book Football and Fascism in the Iberian Peninsula, 1926-1975 as part of the Peter Lang Sport, History and Culture series. From 2013 to 2016 Dr Serapiglia led undergraduate seminars on the history of sport at the University of Bologna. He has also given papers at international conferences on the history of sport and the history of fascism in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Belgium, England and France. Dr Serapiglia is editor-in-chief of the Italian journal Storia dello Sport. Rivista di studi contemporanea and a member of the Scientific Committee of European Studies in Sport History. He is currently a member of four international research networks (see CV). He was a visiting scholar in the Departamento de Motricidad, Rendimiento Humano y Gestión del Deporte at Universidad Europea de Madrid, the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University, Leicester and the Remarque Institute of New York University (thanks to a prestigious and highly competitive grant created by Tony Judt). Dr Serapiglia is a highly mature, professional and independent young scholar producing and disseminating high-quality interdisciplinary research.
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moments of national mourning in post-war Italy. Indeed, the Christian
democrat government attempted to turn the funeral of the “Grande Torino”
players into a symbol of a new republican Catholic identity. Starting from
this prospective, through the study of press and archival sources, this
article, for the first time and in an original form, aims to interpret the event
from a gender standpoint, analyzing the allegorical function of the women
close to the players who died in the tragedy.
the litmus test of the new democratic Spain. To achieve this goal, alongside
the sporting event, a series of cultural events (art exhibitions, concerts, folkloristic
initiatives, etc.) were organized throughout the country aimed at presenting
to the globe a model of transition to democracy perceived as exemplary and a
new idea of nation. In reality, starting from the inaugural ceremony of the World
championship, a certain continuity with the Francoist regime was traceable in the
representation of the Spanish “imagined community”. The 1982 championship was,
in fact, awarded to Spain in 1966 and, although the work on its organization had
begun in 1978, Raimundo Saporta, a personality close to the previous regime, was
placed at the helm of the organizing committee of the event. The present work
therefore proposes to reflect on what were continuities and discontinuities with
Francoism in the football presentation of the new and imagined democratic Spanish
community.
imagined Catholic community. On 4 May 1949, all the players of the top Italian team of the time, Il Grande Torino, died in an air crash. The tragedy of Superga seemed to be representative of Italy in the immediate post-war period and for this reason it managed to connect with almost the entire nation. The images of the carcass of the plane at the base of Turin’s basilica evoked the war images broadcast by the newsreels between
1940 and 1945. The Torino players were heroes and as heroes were celebrated at their funeral, which seemed to indirectly refer to the cult of the fallen in fascist culture. The funeral held in Turin was attended by 500,000 people and managed to unite a large part of the population in a public rite, during which not only did the deaths of the Grande Torino appear to be celebrated, but also those who had died in the Second World War. Public funerals such as those of the Grande Torino gave Italians the
opportunity to openly vent intimate emotions linked to personal experience, helping to build the new national Catholic post-war community.
This research has been realized through the investigation of various types of sources, for example dossiers classified in the public and private archives of the Italian Volleyball Federation or records from Italian State Statistical Office. Chronicles of volleyball matches, cartoons and advertisements have been very helpful for this study. In addition, I’ve realized some interview with the principles federal managers and players of the time.
moments of national mourning in post-war Italy. Indeed, the Christian
democrat government attempted to turn the funeral of the “Grande Torino”
players into a symbol of a new republican Catholic identity. Starting from
this prospective, through the study of press and archival sources, this
article, for the first time and in an original form, aims to interpret the event
from a gender standpoint, analyzing the allegorical function of the women
close to the players who died in the tragedy.
the litmus test of the new democratic Spain. To achieve this goal, alongside
the sporting event, a series of cultural events (art exhibitions, concerts, folkloristic
initiatives, etc.) were organized throughout the country aimed at presenting
to the globe a model of transition to democracy perceived as exemplary and a
new idea of nation. In reality, starting from the inaugural ceremony of the World
championship, a certain continuity with the Francoist regime was traceable in the
representation of the Spanish “imagined community”. The 1982 championship was,
in fact, awarded to Spain in 1966 and, although the work on its organization had
begun in 1978, Raimundo Saporta, a personality close to the previous regime, was
placed at the helm of the organizing committee of the event. The present work
therefore proposes to reflect on what were continuities and discontinuities with
Francoism in the football presentation of the new and imagined democratic Spanish
community.
imagined Catholic community. On 4 May 1949, all the players of the top Italian team of the time, Il Grande Torino, died in an air crash. The tragedy of Superga seemed to be representative of Italy in the immediate post-war period and for this reason it managed to connect with almost the entire nation. The images of the carcass of the plane at the base of Turin’s basilica evoked the war images broadcast by the newsreels between
1940 and 1945. The Torino players were heroes and as heroes were celebrated at their funeral, which seemed to indirectly refer to the cult of the fallen in fascist culture. The funeral held in Turin was attended by 500,000 people and managed to unite a large part of the population in a public rite, during which not only did the deaths of the Grande Torino appear to be celebrated, but also those who had died in the Second World War. Public funerals such as those of the Grande Torino gave Italians the
opportunity to openly vent intimate emotions linked to personal experience, helping to build the new national Catholic post-war community.
This research has been realized through the investigation of various types of sources, for example dossiers classified in the public and private archives of the Italian Volleyball Federation or records from Italian State Statistical Office. Chronicles of volleyball matches, cartoons and advertisements have been very helpful for this study. In addition, I’ve realized some interview with the principles federal managers and players of the time.
The common Catholic matrix, the authoritarian past and the intense cultural relations of the three countries (Italy, Spain and Portugal) makes an interesting case study within the framework of the history of European circulation of ideas.
The transnational nature of sport can provide the perspective from which to analyse the political and social past of Southern Europe, allowing us to highlight even the most contradictory facets about the relationship between the masses, leisure and the State.
Scholars from the University of Bologna, of the European University of Madrid and representatives from British and Portuguese universities were invited to attend the conference and discuss this questions at length, aiming at analysing the similarities and differences between the various cases; they will also discuss the role of arts and social politics in order to understand if an idea of sport beyond national borders was also present. In this way, it will be possible to overcome the traditional interpretation of sport as an instrument at nations’ service, it will instead be considered, an important element in the chain of relations between the three countries under study.
This moment of knowledge sharing is open to who want to participate and present papers related with this thematic.
ambito amatoriale che agonistico. Il presente volume racconta come la pallavolo sia entrata in connessione con gli italiani, diventando nel tempo
la seconda disciplina di squadra più praticata dopo il calcio, ma soprattutto quella più diffusa tra le donne.
Quais as ideias que os formaram e que veicularam? Em que circuitos se moveram? Que influência tiveram na política corporativa do Estado autoritário?
Estas são algumas das questões que orientam este seminário.
Il risultato è un affresco interessante e complesso: tempo libero e sport si accreditano come argomenti efficaci per la costruzione di una storia transnazionale del fascismo latino.