Handover, the day before yesterday, at the Institute Marche history, which boasts a history spanning over half a century. Born in Ancona in 1970, as a regional institute for the history of the liberation movement in the Marche, it is an important study center of contemporary history, an offshoot of the national institute for the history of the liberation movement in Italy. The Institute, which boasts a library of over 40 thousand volumes, is currently housed in Palazzo Camerata in Ancona, once the headquarters in via Villafranca were declared unusable.
The representatives
The representatives on the Board of Directors and on the Scientific Commission for the three-year period 2024/2027 were therefore elected. And the new president: Professor Fulvio Cammarano has been designated to replace Professor Franco Amatori, who remains a member of the Board, alongside the confirmed Luisella Pasquini, Doriano Pela, Franco Rismondo and Roberta Tarsi. With them, also Roberto Giulianelli and Carla Marcellini, former vice presidents, the former director Amoreno Martellini and two new entries: Matteo Bilei and Salvatore Botta. Of the previous Board of Directors, Valentina Conti was appointed vice-president, together with Riccardo Piccioni; Barbara Montesi has been designated scientific director. The auditors have been confirmed, in the figures of Rinaldo Fanesi, Guido Giambuzzi and Barbara Papa (substitute). The scientific commission is composed of Luca Andreoni, Silvia Benini, Michele Cento, Marco Gualtieri. Marco Labbate, Alessia Masini and Massimo Papini. «The Institute has a long and important history and recognized national prestige», said the newly elected president Fulvio Cammarano, of Ancona origins, columnist and professor of Contemporary History at the University of Bologna, president of the Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History (Sissco). «The objective is to look to the future – he added – to make the history of the 19th and 20th centuries not only an academic basis for reflection, which involves the entire regional citizenship. History is not a pastime, but the backbone of every political and social community.” Cammarano collects an important legacy, the challenging baton, from Franco Amatori, senior professor of Economic History at Bocconi University, who had to deal with the impasse that occurred with the Marche Region on the funding front. «Fortunately, the Municipality of Ancona, which has hosted us for years at Palazzo Camerata, has given us a hand», comments the outgoing president who, during his three-year term, has edited and published some books for the Institute, including “Le Marche 1970-2020. The Region and the territory” and “July 1960. The tensions of change”.
The vocation
«I imagine Ancona as a “citadel of history”, even if there isn’t even a humanities faculty there», comments the new vice-president Valentina Conti, who founded the publishing house Affinità elective 25 years ago. «Her vocation must be relaunched, also under the impetus of the Marche History Institute. This is my commitment”, confirmed by having given life, with authors, intellectuals and journalists, to the Festival of History, the sixth edition of which will be held at the Mole Vanvitelliana from 29 August to 1 September 2024.
