The borders dividing the territory of the Southern Alps offer a fertile subject of study. Between France, Italy, and the Principality
of Monaco, they shape complex identities.
An economic, social, diplomatic, political, and military reality, they generate a cross-border culture that will be at the heart of the discussions in this conference.
Grimaldi, Wednesday, December 14, Hameau de Vintimille
-9:00 AM – Opening Session
Session Chair: Christiane Garnero-Morena (Alpes-Ligures)
Albert Marouani (President of the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis)
Luciano Barillaro (Consul General of Italy in Nice)
Ramzi Tadros (Biennale RHMIT)
Raimondo Pittaluga (SOMS Grimaldi)
Ladislas Polski (Regional councilor PACA)
-10:00 AM – Situating the border in space and time
Session Chair: Robert Escallier (UNS)
Introduction by Marc Bouiron (Alpes Ligures) Delimiting sovereign space in the Southern Alps: the evolution of the border from the Roman conquest to the present day
Anne Brogini (UNS / CMMC) A threatened border: the case of Nice during the siege of 1543
Lionel Rezio (Association Amont) The border during the eighteenth-century wars in the County of Nice
Martine Le Gal and Catherine Veran (Municipal Archives of Beausoleil) Between Beausoleil and Monaco, another border? (1860-1920) with Carole Laffont (CCAS Beausoleil)
Sandro Rinauro (University of Milan) Central and local policies of France towards Italian clandestine immigrants: tolerance, exemptions, regularization, prohibition (1945-1960)
Tiziana Caponio and Gaia Testore (University of Turin) Integration as a new frontier of immigration? An analysis of the link between control and integration policies in Italy and France
Discussants: Enzo Barnabà (writer) Grimaldi, coexisting with the border and Daniel Delministro, presentation of a theatrical itinerary Il sentiero dei vestiti.- sui passi dei migranti di ieri e di oggi
-2:30 PM – Working and living around the border: what identities?
Session Chair: Pedro Vianna (CIEMI)
Marc Ortolani (UNS / ERMES) Border surveillance faced with the risks of espionage at the turn of the (19th and 20th centuries)
Eric Gili (Association Amont) The border man. The customs officer in the Alps Maritimes mountains (1860-1980)
Anne-Marie Granet-Abisset (University of Grenoble/LAHRA) Weaving territory: cross-border immigration between Piedmont and Briançonnais
Paolo Viazzo (University of Turin) and Giulia Fassio (University of Grenoble), Borders e frontiere, historiographical and experiential of a variable geometry concept: the perception of the Franco-Italian border for Italians in Grenoble
Alain Bottaro (Departmental Archives 06) Border populations caught in the displacements of the border in 1947 through oral archives: the inhabitants of the hamlet of Libre or the immobile migrants.
Thierry Rosso (UNS / LASMIC) Testimonials around the border in the Roya Valley: from sound corpus collection to source exploitation
Valentina Zingari (University of Siena) Stories about the Alps border, from Geneva to Vintimille: challenges and identity recompositions
Hélène Homps (Museums of the Ubaye valleys) From Ubaye emigration to the Americas to Italian immigration in Ubaye: what links through the prism of the border?
Discussant: Piero Galloro (University of Metz)
- Nice, Thursday, December 15: University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis
Saint-Jean d’Angély Site (Clock Building)
-9:00 AM – Opening Session
Session Chair: Ralph Schor (UNS / CMMC)
Jacques Basso (President of IREP COME) Tatiana Sagatni (Generics Association) Manuela Bertone (Vice-President of UNS, delegate to PRES and European Affairs) Bernard Gastaud (Mayor of La Brigue)
Agnès Arquès-Roth (National City of Immigration History)
-9:30 AM – Crossing the border
Session Chair: Jocelyne Streiff-Fenart (UNS/Director of URMIS)
Patricia Prenant (UNS / ERMES) Banditry in the County of Nice under Sardinian Restoration: justice confronted with criminals fleeing across borders
Philippe Hanus (CPIE Vercors) The Montgenèvre border post between instituted space and lived space: modes of control, modes of passage, “border rituals” (late 19th-20th century)
Stéphane Kronenberger (UNS / CMMC) Crossing the border in wartime: the case of Italian farmers in southeastern France during the First World War
Jean-Christophe Labadie (Director of the Departmental Archives of 04) Beyond the border: Italian presence in the Basses-Alpes from the early 20th century to the Second World War
Mikaël Petitjean (UNS / URMIS) Vintimille, international station: a border issue
Ralph Schor (UNS / CMMC) The exodus of foreign Jews from Italy to the Maritime Alps. Illegal entries and public sympathy (1938-1940)
Stéphane Mourlane (University of Provence/French School of Rome) The resolution of border disputes in the Maritime Alps between France and Italy during the 1960s
Riadh Ben Khalifa (University of Tunis) The arrival of Yugoslavs in the Maritime Alps (1955-1968)
Discussant: Pierre Sintès (University of Provence / TELEMME)
-2:30 PM – In the spotlight
Session Chair: Yvan Gastaut (UNS / URMIS)
Introduction by Catherine Wihtol de Wenden (Centre for International Studies and Research / Sciences-Po Paris) The border in international relations: the Franco-Italian dispute about Schengen.
Philippe Poutignat (UNS / URMIS) The public emergence of the case of Tunisian migrants in France
Julien Gaertner (UNS / URMIS) When the news broadcast reinvents the border: the treatment of “the case” on French television
Marinella Belluati (University of Turin) The Italian media and the case of Tunisian migrants at the French border
Discussant: Christian Rinaudo (UNS / URMIS)
Ryzlène Dahhan and Yumico Tahata (UNS / URMIS) A cross-border mobilization: the movement supporting Tunisian migrants
Robert Matthey (photographer) and Jean-Claude Fraicher (director) presentation of the film Dalla Stazione alla spiaggia
Witness panel discussion moderated by R.Dahhan and Y.Tahata: Teresa Maffeis, Renaud Marson, Martine Landry, Giuseppe Fama, Rebecca Marshall, Giacomo Lombardi.
–Menton, Friday, December 16, Salons of the Hôtel Méditerranée
9:00 AM – Opening Session
Session Chair: Vera Boltho (Alpes Ligures) Jean-Claude Guibal (Mayor of Menton) Fabio Capocaccia (CISEI Genova-Member of the Italian Emigration Museum) Hanafi Chaabi (DRJSCS PACA)
-9:30 AM – Perceptions of the border: images and heritage
Session Chair: Paola Corti (University of Turin)
Jean-Baptiste Pisano (UNS / LASMIC) Artists’ itineraries across the border (15th-16th centuries)
Jean-Loup Fontana (Heritage conservationist) Hospices and refuges: public solicitude towards migrants in the Hautes-Alpes in the 19th century
Christiane Garnero-Morena (ICOMOS Monaco, Alpes Ligures) A vacation territory on both sides of the border. The invention of the Riviera’s landscape image
Yvan Gastaut (UNS / URMIS) The Menton border post, a heritage?
Augusta Molinari (University of Genoa) Crossing the border through culture: southeastern France in the literary magazine La
Riviera ligure (1895-1919)
Isabella Vasile (UNS / University of Genoa) Theater troupes on both sides of the border in the 19th century
Alessandro Bergamaschi (UNS / UFR STAPS) A mountain imaginary crossed by the border: the Mercantour Park and the Maritime Alps Natural Park
Discussant: Daniel Thérond (Council of Europe)
Conclusion of the conference, by Vera Boltho
Perspectives and upcoming projects, by Yvan Gastaut, Christiane Garnero Morena, and Vera Boltho
