Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory
INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH
School of Advanced Study • University of London
Friday 1 June 2018, 14:00-16:00
'I myself still remember': Political Memories in Inter-War Europe
Room 246, Second Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Description
In many European countries, the experience of the interwar dictatorships and their bellicose enterprises – such as the Italian Abyssinia campaign during the mid-1930s, the Second World War and the Nazi occupation of Europe in the early 1940s – generated a wave of literary and visual ‘political memories’.
The case study of Italian ‘literary memories’ under Benito Mussolini’s dictatorship has previously been explored in terms of the attitudes among broader sections of Italian society towards Mussolini and the fall of his regime (Duggan 2012). However, there remain several gaps in the investigation of ‘memories’ of Fascism. For example, the ‘memories’ of Fascism understood as a European phenomenon have remained unexplored, as have the different forms through which Fascism has been remembered (or rejected) at a regional level in Italy and elsewhere in Europe.
Linking with Duggan’s pioneering research but conducting its investigation through different frameworks, this event aims to promote interdisciplinary discussion on the connection between politics, political propaganda, literary and visual memories, and dictatorships. In so doing, it explores the different forms through which ‘political memories’ were produced and their different political meanings, leading to a contribution towards analysis from a fresh and more complete perspective of the political life of 20th century Italy, Europe and beyond, as well as a consideration of the impact of memory in interwar and post-war political ideologies.
Convenor: Tamara Colacicco (London/CCM)
Workshop programme
14:00 Introduction - Tamara Colacicco (London/CCM) and Katia Pizzi (London/CCM).
14:10 Tamara Colacicco (London/CCM): Italy, Germany and Britain: Case Studies of ‘Political Memories’ of Interwar Europe and Beyond During the 1930s.
14:30 Gianmarco Mancosu (Warwick, London/CCM): Fascist Empire: Images and Memories,1936-1941.
14:50 Andrea Mariuzzo (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa): The Memory of Fascism in Italian Universities: the Case of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, 1928-1944.
15:10 Ilaria Poerio (Reading): Which Memory? Transitional Justice in Naples, 1943-1945.
15:30-16:00 Conclusions, questions and debate.
All are welcome to attend this free event. Places are limited so please register in advance
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/15850
Best wishes,
Tamara
Tamara Colacicco, Ph. D. in Italian Studies
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory
School of Advanced Study • University of London
Senate House • London WC1E 7HU
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/research-centres/centre-study-cultural-memory/ccm-membership
Monograph
La propaganda fascista nelle università inglesi: la diplomazia culturale di Mussolini in Gran Bretagna, 1921-40 (Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2018).
https://www.libreriauniversitaria.it/propaganda-fascista-universita-inglesi-diplomazia/libro/9788891762788
Major publications
https://universityoflondon.academia.edu/TamaraColacicco
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