public spaces and the Material presence of Empire’s Memory in Italy
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Public Spaces and the Material Presence of Empire’s Memory in Italy
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Online Event
9:10 pm – 11:00 pm CET/GMT+1Although Italy’s colonial empire had been small and short-lived, today numerous material traces - street names, monuments, buildings etc. - can be found in Italian public spaces. By marking physical locations on a digital map, the project Postcolonial Italy (►https://postcolonialitaly.com) aims at making historical knowledge available to a large audience to stimulate a public debate on Italy’s silenced colonial past. Material traces are not only geographically captured, but also - and this is crucial - historically contextualized. The map intends to recall the manifold connections between Italian public spaces and the colonial and fascist past, which often remains absent from collective memory.
This event is offered by Bard College, Annandale, as part of the Modernism and Fascism: Cultural Heritage and Memory course in cooperation with Bard College Berlin through Global Modernisms, an OSUN Network Collaborative Course.
Affiliations: Daphné Budasz (European University Institute, Florence), Markus Wurzer (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale)
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#conférence #colonialisme #impérialisme #passé_colonial #mémoire
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▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/23549
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