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SUMMARY:BerlusconItaly's Immor(t)ality - Dr Georg Schedereit\, Wolfson Pre
 ss Fellow 2012\, Broadcaster and Commentator at RAI Sender Bozen (South Ty
 rol/Italy)
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CONTACT:DJ Goode
DESCRIPTION:What is the secret of the persisting popularity of two charism
 atic "clowns" (courtesy The Economist et.al.) like Silvio Berlusconi\, Eur
 ope's most powerful media tycoon\, and Beppe Grillo\, Europe's most influe
 ntial blogger?\n\nAt least one of these terribles simplificateurs\, of the
 se two rivalling role models of 21st Century populism\, is now crucial to 
 the future of the most unstable of Europe‘s biggest countries.\n\nGiven 
 Italy’s historical role as a laboratory of Alta Moda not only in fashion
 \, but also in politics (Fascism and Eurocommunism docent)\, Mr Berlusconi
 's and Mr Grillo’s electoral successes may be illuminating (obscuring?) 
 the future of Western-style parliamentary democracy itself.\n\nOur initial
  question should be apt to stimulate debate on Italy\, and beyond. Being p
 ut at lunchtime\, however\, it should provide some exhilarating answers to
 o\, be it from Italy’s best political cartoonist\, be it straight from t
 he horses mouths\, as it were\, namely from various DVD's featuring live p
 erformances of both the most successful Italian narcisists themselves.\n \
 nBuon appetito con Silvio Berlusconi e Beppe Grillo!\n\n*Dr Georg Schedere
 it is a broadcaster and commentator who learned his trade decades ago at t
 he BBC's German Language Service in London\, and is still practising it at
  RAI's Sender Bozen in his Alpine home province South Tyrol/Italy.\n\nHis 
 dissertation in political science at the University of Salzburg/Austria de
 alt with the enigmatic jargon of Italian political discourse in pre-Berlus
 conian times.\n\nAs a Wolfson Press Fellow 2012\, researching on Anglophon
 e Fascist Studies\, he produced the trilingual blog www.faschistensindimme
 rdieanderen.wordpress.com \n("The Fascist is always the other“)*
LOCATION:Combination Room\, Wolfson College
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