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A history conference, organised by the History Department of the University of Malta will be taking place in Gozo on Friday and Saturday, the 19th and 20th of October.
The conference, which is being held in the Exhbition Hall of the Ministry for Gozo, St Francis Square, Victoria, is open to the public, entrance is free and all the papers will be delivered in English.
The programme for the conference, entitled ‘A Wonderful Future Beckons’ with Young Gozitan Historians, is as follows:
FRIDAY, 19 OCTOBER 2012
Session A Chair: Victor Mallia-Milanes
6.30pm Welcome by Dominic Fenech Head, Department of History, University of Malta, followed by the Inaugural Address by the Minister for Gozo, Giovanna Debono.
6.45pm Keynote Address I
House and Home in Late Nineteenth-Century Malta: An Asset and an Institution – MICHAEL REFALO
7.25pm Coffee Break
7.40pm Communication 1
Imperial Policy in Malta, 1934-1939: Britain’s Need for Benevolent Despotism – SIMONE AZZOPARDI
8.00pm Communication 2
Bridging the Gap: Overcoming Insularity in the Island of Gozo, 1930-2000 – AMELIA DEBRINCAT
8.20pm Communication 3
Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’: The Influence of Classical History – STEFAN SAID
Question Time
End of Proceedings
SATURDAY, 20 OCTOBER 2012
Session B Chair: Paul G. Pisani
9.00am Communication 4
Skyjacking: its Character, Effects, and Decline – CHARLES DAVID SALIBA
9.20am Communication 5
The Order of St John and its Contribution to Progress in Gozo- MARIA ABELA
9.40am Communication 6
The Knights of Malta and Health Care in Gozo – CHRISTOPHER GALEA
10.00am Communication 7
From a Committee to a Civil Council: The Inauguration of Local Government in Gozo – PAUL SIMON PORTELLI
10.20am Coffee Break
Session C Chair: Michael Refalo
10.40am Communication 8
Abbot Luca Celli: A Little Known Hospitaller Historian – PAUL G. PISANI
11.00am Communication 9
Censu Tabone (1913 – 2012): A study in spatial mobility and social dynamism in Gozo through ancestral research – SIMON MERCIECA
11.20am Communication 10
The Order of St John’s Approach to the Plague after Rhodes – MONIQUE JACQUELINE GRECH
11.40am Keynote Address II
Intersections and Insularity: An ‘island approach’ to Hospitaller history in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries – EMANUEL BUTTIGIEG
Question Time
Concluding Remarks – End of Proceedings.
