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PD Dr. Bastian Matteo Scianna

News:

Dr Scianna will not be working for the Chair of Military History in the winter semester 2024/25. During this time, he will be standing in for Professor Geppert from the Chair of 19th/20th Century History.
He is of course still available for you during his consultation hours.


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PD Dr. Bastian Matteo Scianna

Senior Lecturer (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Chair of War Studies

 

Campus Am Neuen Palais
House 11, 1.19

 

consulting hours
during the lecture period
Tuesdays 13:00 to 14:00

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Vita

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Research interests

  • International history of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries
  • European Integration History
  • German foreign relations since 1871
  • History of Italy in the 19th and 20th centuries
  • The Near and Middle East in the 20th and 21st centuries
  • Austrian history in the 20th century
  • History of travel
  • Border, migration and mobility history

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Scholarships and awards

Memberships

Conferences and workshops

  • 2018. „Das italienische Militär nach dem Faschismus und das österreichische Bundesheer nach dem Nationalsozialismus“ : Vortrag gehalten auf dem 52. Historikertag in Münster (Sektion: Gespaltene Erinnerung und Elitenkontinuitäten. Posttotalitäre Gesellschaften im Vergleich) (25.–28. September).
  • 2018. „The German Road to the Schengen Agreement, 1981–1985“, Vortrag gehalten während der Second Annual Graduate Conference on the History of European Integration, European University Institute, Florenz (10.–11. September).
  • 2018. „Farnesina und Vergangenheit. Das italienische Außenministerium zwischen Faschismus und Demokratie“: Vortrag an der Andrássy Universität Budapest im Rahmen der Tagung „Kontinuität und Diskontinuitäten. Wandel der diplomatischen Praxis (1814/15-1946)“ (28.–29. Mai).
  • 2018. „Of Traitors and Perpetrators. Italian POWs in Soviet Captivity and their Political Significance during the Cold War“: Vortrag an der Universität Bern im Rahmen der internationalen Konferenz: „Captivity in War: A Global Perspective“ (23.–24. März).
  • 2017. “The Battle of El Alamein as an Italian lieu de mémoire”: Presentation at the University of Wolverhampton’s conference: El Alamein and the Mediterranean Campaign 1942: Seventy-Five Years On. (6–8 September)
  • 2017. “From Africa to Europe? The Italian Army and Anti-Partisan Operations in Russia, 1941–1943”: Presentation at King’s College London.
  • 2015. “Tracing Role Models in the Desert: the Italian Military’s Narrative of El Alamein as a “Glorious Defeat”: Presentation at the Royal Norwegian Air Force Academy in Trondheim. Conference title: “’The Good Soldier’ – Ideal, Instrument of Manipulation or Contradiction in itself?”.
  • 2014. “Continuity, not Metamorphosis: The Italian Armed Forces after 1943”: Presentation at the German Historical Institute Warsaw; conference entitled: “The Pacification (?) of post-World War II Europe”.
  • 2013. Presentation of the PhD outline at the 39th Annual Conference oft he International Commission of Military History (ICMH) in Turin (Italy)
  • 2011. Student Conference on US Affairs (SCUSA, Nr. 63), US Military Academy, West Point, NY

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Publications

Monographs

Articles

Articles in edited volumes

  • Don’t mention the Wehrmacht. Zur Traditionspflege im Österreichischen Bundesheer 1955-2020, in: Jörg Echternkamp und Christoph Nübel (Hg.), Deutsche Militärgeschichte in Europa 1945-1990. Repräsentation, Organisation und Tradition von Streitkräften in Demokratie und Diktatur (Berlin: Ch. Links, 2022), S. 431-450.
  • Directing the War from Triumph to Disaster. The German and Italian cases: in Paul R. Bartrop (Hg.), The Routledge History of the Second World War (London: Routledge, 2021), S. 181-194.
  • Formative Experiences: Foreign Correspondents in the Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-36), in: Emmanuel Mattiato, Manuelle Peloille und Olivier Dard (Hg.), Correspondants de guerre. 1918-1939. Maroc – Éthiopie – Espagne (Chambéry Cedex: Presses Universitaires Savoie Mont Blanc, 2020), S. 155-171.
  • Italienische Diplomaten zwischen Faschismus, Monarchie und Republik: Eine Annäherung am Beispiel Raffaele Guariglias (1889-1970), in: Kira Almudena Zoé Edelmayer, Martina Mirković und Fanny Orbán (Hg.), Kontinuitäten und Diskontinuitäten. Vom Wandel der diplomatischen Praxis (1814/15-1946) (Wien: new academic press, 2021), S. 215-242.

Short essays and Opinion pieces

Reviews

Diverse Rezensionen in Historische Zeitschrift, War in History, Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift und The Journal of Military History.

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Teaching

SemesterCourse
SS 2023Seminar at the History Department at the University of Potsdam: Germany’s Ost- and Russlandpolitik since 1990
SS 2023Seminar at the History Department at the University of Potsdam:„Nieder mit den Grenzen”: Mobilität, Tourismus und die europäische Einigung
WS 2022/23Seminar at the History Department at the University of Potsdam: Themes and Skills in War and Conflict Studies
SS 2022Seminar at the History Department at the University of Potsdam: The Middle East since the End of the Cold War
WS 2021/22Seminar at the History Department at the University of Potsdam: Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten und Schreiben für Historikerinnen und Historiker
SS 2021Seminar at the History Department at the University of Potsdam: Ein Europa der Bürger? Zivilgesellschaftliche Beteiligung und transnationale Kooperation in der Frühphase der europäischen Integration
WS 2020/21Seminar at the History Department at the University of Potsdam: Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten und Schreiben für Historikerinnen und Historiker

SS 2020

Seminar at the History Department at the University of Potsdam: The Middle East during the Cold War: Conflicts and Crises, 1948–1991

SS 2019

Seminar at the History Department at the University of Potsdam: From Vienna to Dayton: Pacemaking in the 19th and 20th Century

SS 2018

Seminar at the History Department at the University of Potsdam: A History of European Integration, 1948–2003

WS 2017/18

Seminar at the History Department at the University of Potsdam: On War in the Greater Middle East since 1948

SS 2017

Seminar at the History Department at the University of Potsdam: Wandel und Kontinuität in der Geschichte Italiens im Zeitalter der Weltkriege, 1911–1957

WS 2016/17

Seminar at the History Department at the University of Potsdam: Libyen – Krisen und Konflikte von der Kolonialzeit bis zum Bürgerkrieg nach dem Sturz Gaddafis

SS 2016

Seminar at the History Department at the University of Potsdam: An Italian Way of War? Aufstandsbekämpfung und Kulturen der Gewalt in den italienischen Kolonien, 1882–1941

WS/SS 2014/15

Seminar (BA) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE): International History since 1890 (HY 116)

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PhD supervision

ongoing PhDs

NameTitle
Shayan HashemianHelmut Kohl and the Middle East [Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung]