The Future of Europe: Italy’s Perspective @ Georgetown University

Minister Enzo Amendola

Italian Minister of European Affairs

Born in Naples on 22 December 1973, in 1998 he is entrusted with the foreign affairs of the Sinistra Giovanile movement (left youth) and is designated vice president of the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY).

In 2001 he is elected Secretary General of the IUSY. Member of the Presidium and the Executive of the Socialist International he participates as a delegate in the most relevant international fora, from the Council of Europe to the World Social Forum.  In 2006, he joins the National Secretariat of the Democratici di Sinistra (Left Democratic) Party and takes the lead of the party’s Regional Secretariat in the Campania Region. In October 2009, he wins the Campania’s primary elections and becomes Regional Secretary of the Democratic Party (PD), a post that he holds until February 2014.  In 2009 he joins the National Secretariat of the party and is entrusted with coordinating the Conference of Regional Secretaries. In March 2013, he is elected to the Chamber of Deputies. As a member of the Parliament, he is the party’s group leader to the Committee on Foreign and EU Affairs and a parliamentary delegate to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).  In June 2013, he is confirmed in his role of coordinator of the Conference of Regional Secretaries for the Democratic Party. In September 2014, as a member of the PD national secretariat, he is in charge of Foreign and European Affairs and of the relations with the European Socialist Party.

Christopher S. Celenza, Ph.D., Dr.phil.

Dean of Georgetown University
Professor of History and Classics
Georgetown University

Christopher S. Celenza is Dean of Georgetown College at Georgetown University, where he is also professor of History and Classics. Previously, he served as Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at Johns Hopkins University, where he held the Charles Homer Haskins Professorship. At Johns Hopkins he also served a Vice Dean for Humanities and Social Sciences. He served as the 21st Director of the American Academy in Rome from 2010-14.

Celenza holds two doctoral degrees, a PhD in History (Duke University, 1995) and a DrPhil in Classics and Neo-Latin Literature (University of Hamburg, 2001). He is the author or editor of ten books and over forty scholarly articles in the fields of Italian Renaissance history, post-classical Latin literature and philosophy, and the history of classical scholarship.

An Italian translation of his book, The Lost Italian Renaissance, appeared with the publisher Carocci in 2014.  His most recent books are The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance: Language, Philosophy, and the Search for Meaning (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018); Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer (London: Reaktion, 2017); and Machiavelli: A Portrait(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015).

He has held Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the ACLS, Villa I Tatti, the American Academy in Rome, and the Fulbright Foundation.