World Expositions. Tra Nation-Building e processi di globalizzazione. Interventi di Robert W. Rydell, Christiane Demeulenaere-Douyère, Peter H. Hoffenberg, Luis Ángel Sánchez-Gómez, Anna Pellegrino, Iain Chambers

This forum addresses some of the key issues regarding the historical analysis of the great world expositions: how did the great expositions developed over a 150 years history and how was it attempted to regulate them ? have world fairs a future ? how did expositions reflect a reality of conflicts much more than of cosmopolitan integration ? which is the Future of Exhibition Studies ? which was the the participation of Christian Churches at the colonial and international Exhibitions, 1851-1958 ? how did the expositions work as a socially inclusive device ? and finally, what was the meaning of exhibiting Humanity ? These are questions put by the coordinator of the forum and which some internaitonal specialists answer to trying to make the point to an extrenmely update subject, awaiting the opening of Expo 2015 in Milan