Among the many commemorations of World War I, little was made of the 100th anniversary of the secret Treaty of London between Italy and the Western War Allies in April 1915, which sealed the fate of South Tyrol for the duration of the twentieth century by passing it from Austria to Italy. In May 2015, a symposium was held in the medieval Prösels Castle in the Italian Dolomites to mark this historical moment. Contributors set out to explore the political, social and cultural impact of South Tyrol's existence «on the threshold» during the twentieth century.

CONTENTS: Georg Grote/Hannes Obermair: Introduction: South Tyrol: Land on a Threshold. Really? - Rolf Steininger: 1918/1919. Die Teilung Tirols - Carlo Moos: Südtirol im St. Germain-Kontext - Nina F. Caprez: Economic Hurdles after the Great War: How the South Tyrol-based Swiss Monastery Muri-Gries Overcame an Existential Crisis - Sabine Mayr: The Annihilation of the Jewish Community of Meran - Markus Wurzer: Genesis of the South Tyrolean Iconic Figure Sepp Innerkofler: Actors, Narrative, Functions - Georg Grote: Challenging the Zero-Hour Concept: Letters across Borders - Eva Pfanzelter: The (Un)digested Memory of the South Tyrolean Resettlement in 1939 - Sarah Oberbichler: «Calcutta lies ... near the Rombrücke»: Migration Discourse in Alto Adige and Dolomiten and their Coverage of the Bozen «Immigrant Barracks Camps» of the Early 1990s - Julia Tapfer: Ankommen, verbinden, vernetzen: Vereine und Vereinigungen von Migrant_innen in Südtirol. Eine Gegenüberstellung der Donne Nissà, der Associazione Panalbanese Arbëria und der Rumänischen Gemeinde - Friederike Haupt: Beobachtungen aus musiksoziologischer Sicht - Bettina Schlorhaufer: Historicism and the Rise of Regionalism as «Style»: South Tyrol's Successful Special Path - Gareth Kennedy: Die Unbequeme Wissenschaft (The Uncomfortable Science) - Johanna Mitterhofer: Border Stories: Negotiating Life on the Austrian-Italian border - Paolo Bill Valente: Sulla soglia. Leggende meranesi, storie di confine - Marta Villa: Identità e riconoscimento attraverso i culti della fertilità e il paesaggio agricolo nel Tirolo del Sud. Il case study della popolazione giovane maschile di Stilfs in Vinschgau - Antonio Elorza: Alsace, South Tyrol, Basque Country (Euskadi): Denationalization and Identity - Lucio Giudiceandrea/Aldo Mazza: Living Together is an Art - Hans Karl Peterlini: Between Stigma and Self-Assertion: Difference and Belonging in the Contested Area of Migration and Ethnicity - Barbara Angerer: Living Apart Together in South Tyrol: Are Institutional Bilingualism and Translation Keeping Language Groups Apart? - Siegfried Baur: Grenzregion Südtirol. Schwierigkeiten und Möglichkeiten einer Erziehung zur Mehrsprachigkeit für ein vielsprachiges Europa - Chiara De Paoli: Redefining Categories: Construction, Reproduction and Transformation of Ethnic Identity in South Tyrol.