World wars and forgotten civilians
On Tuesday, May 6, the Bocconi Dondena Centre hosts The Civilian Victims of War panel discussion to look, eighty years after the end of World War II, at the price paid by those who suffered the war without ever fighting. Special guest speaker will be Cormac O'Grada, professor emeritus at University College Dublin, an internationally renowned economist and historian who has long been engaged in the study of the long-term effects of wars, famines and demographic shocks.
O'Grada will debate with Alessio Fornasin (University of Udine) and Tamás Vonyó (Bocconi), two scholars who have researched history and demography of conflicts. Letizia Mencarini will be the moderator. The event will be introduced by Guido Alfani, director of the Dondena Centre, who notes, “Eighty years on, it is time to restore the central role of the forgotten histories of civilians. Without them, the memory of conflicts remains incomplete.”