An international interdisciplinary conference on "The Myth of the Great War - World War I: Myth and Reality" will be hosted in Philadelphia by the Center for Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, April 24-25, 2014, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of World War I.

The conference is organized by Fabio Finotti, Christine Poggi, Jonathan Steinberg, Cristina Benussi, and Luca Badini Confalonieri with the collaboration of the Università degli Studi di Trieste, the Università degli Studi di Torino, and the Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia, and under the auspices of the Italian Embassy in Washington DC.

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