Giunta centrale per gli studi storici
The Giunta centrale per gli studi storici (German: "Central Committee for Historical Studies") is an organization that belongs to the division of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Property . The committee , based in Rome, coordinates several national and regional research institutions active in the field of history . He represents Italian research institutes and historians on an international level, participates in the organization of congresses and conferences, is active as an editor and, to a very limited extent, also in research.
tasks
The Giunta centrale per gli studi storici
- publishes the Bibliografia Storica Nazionale annually, a directory of all historical works, monographs , conference proceedings and journal articles published in Italy ;
- represents Italy at the Comité International des Sciences Historiques (CISH), organizes Italian participation in congresses of the CISH and supports the internationalization of research;
- promotes general historical awareness through its own initiatives and together with historical institutions and the media;
- advises the Ministry of Education on the preparation of curricula and, on request, other public institutions;
- coordinates the activities of the five affiliated research institutes
- and by 30 regional historical associations called Deputazione or Società di storia patria ;
- maintains relations with the foreign research institutes in Rome and for this purpose is a member of the Unione internazionale degli istituti di archeologia, storia e storia dell'arte in Roma .
The Giunta has been suffering for many years to under-funding.
management
The governing body consists of ten members, including the president, who are usually the presidents of the five subordinate research institutes, who are usually university professors like the other members . The President and the other members are appointed by the Italian Prime Minister on the proposal of the Minister for Cultural Property .
history
After the unification of Italy in 1861, historical associations emerged through state initiative in all regions of the country to promote the study of the history of the former Italian states and to publish corresponding monographs and journals. These associations, which in some cases emerged from private historical societies, were given the names Deputazione di storia patria or Società di storia patria (including, for example, the Deputazione di Storia Patria per le Venezie ). The Istituto Storico Italiano was founded in 1883 to coordinate these associations and to better link them with the universities , which also became a national historical research institute. In the further course, various specialized research institutions were founded, including the Istituto Nazionale di Archeologia e Storia dell'Arte and the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici . To represent Italy at the Comité International des Sciences Historiques (CISH) established in 1926 , the Comitato nazionale di scienze storiche was founded in 1928 .
The fascist regime of Mussolini carried out far-reaching reforms at the research institutions mentioned between 1934 and 1936.
With a decree of July 20, 1934, the Giunta centrale per gli studi storici was founded. She took over the tasks of the dissolved Comitato nazionale di scienze storiche and the coordination tasks of the Istituto Storico Italiano vis-à-vis the regional associations, which have now become peripheral organs of the Giunta .
The Istituto Storico Italiano took on the name Istituto Italiano per il Medio Evo in 1934 and specialized in the Middle Ages . At the same time, the Istituto Storico Italiano per l'Età Moderna e Contemporranea for modern times and contemporary history was created . At the beginning of 1935 the Istituto Italiano per la Storia Antica followed for antiquity . In mid-1935, the Società per la Storia del Risorgimento Italiano became the Istituto per la Storia del Risorgimento Italiano , specializing in the history of the unification of Italy in the Risorgimento . These four institutes, together with the Istituto Italiano di Numismatica , which had been created in 1936 from a numismatic association, were directly subordinate to the Giunta centrale .
This centralization, promoted for reasons of cultural policy, went even further when the archaeological section of the Istituto Nazionale di Archeologia e Storia dell'Arte was subordinated to the Istituto Italiano per la Storia Antica . Something similar was also in mind with the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici and the Società italiana per la ricerca dei papiri greci e latini in Egitto, founded in 1908 . The Società archeologica Magna Grecia , however, was dissolved.
From 1935 to 1942 the Giunta centrale published the specialist journal Rivista Storica Italiana . In 1942 the first volume of the Bibliografia Storica Nazionale appeared ; 60 more volumes followed by 2001, and the annual directory has been published online ever since. A total of 17 monographs were published from 1955 to 2015.
After the end of fascism and the Second World War, the regional associations became independent again, the subordinate institutes were given their autonomy again, the Giunta centrale predominantly took over coordination tasks and tried to improve its international relations. On the IX. Congress of the CISH in Paris in 1950 , it was decided to hold the Xth Congress in 1955 in Rome. Federico Chabod , Vice-President of the Giunta centrale , took over the management of the organization of the congress, in which more than 1,600 historians took part. Chabod's achievements earned him the chairmanship of the CISH. The Congress on the History of Religions, also held in Rome in 1955, was similarly positive .
In the 1970s the Giunta centrale came from the division of the Ministry of Education to that of the new Ministry of Cultural Property. Italy's first Minister for Cultural Property (and later President of the Senate ), Giovanni Spadolini , was President of the Giunta centrale from 1983 until his death in 1994 .
At the turn of the millennium, the focus was on digitizing the Bibliografia Storica Nazionale .
In 2012 , Andrea Giardina, Professor of the Scuola Normale Superiore and President of the Istituto Italiano per la Storia Antica , was appointed President of the Giunta centrale . Giardina has also been chairman of the CISH since 2015.