Happening now at @ilcs.bsky.social an engaging event on academic, artistic and social practices to critically tackle Italian colonial legacy @saslondon.bsky.social ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Here a thorough review of my book #vederelimpero about fascist imperial visual propaganda www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Exciting news: 𝐑𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲. 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐠𝐢𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐲, my article in the #JournalOfContemporaryHistory exploring Italy’s politics of colonial memory and related social practices, is now available! 🎉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Here the CfP for the ASMI-SISSCO conference 'The Transnational Making of Italy. Methods, Opportunities and Challenges', to be held in Florence in June 2025 - just a few days left to send your proposal www.sissco.it/wp-content/u...

The long tail of Italian colonialism. Layers of history in this article, and one recalcitrant auction house. 🗃️📜🇮🇹

Just in time for Christmas, my article on the 1947 Italian Christmas film Natale al Campo 119. It's a movie about Italian prisoners of war in California. But it's also a movie about the aftermath of Italian colonialism. That makes it a far more important film than it seems. doi.org/10.1080/0161...

Funded PhD opportunity in photographic history starting in October 2025 “War, Photography & Empire: Visual Propaganda and British India, c.1941-47” www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk/collaborativ... Deadline for applications 20 January 2025

My latest article examines how Fascism film propaganda exalted ruins, archaeological excavations and technology to shape Italy's imperial identity here: journals.openedition.org/anabases/18347 #Fascism #Archaeology #Propaganda #CinematicHistory #Anabases

New article out (with Charles Burdett): "The Dialectics of (Post)Colonial Memory" on how nostalgic memories shape contemporary perspectives on the imperial past in Italy and beyond here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #ItalianColonialism #MemoryStudies #PostcolonialItaly @ilcs.bsky.social

Marco Armiero splendid keynote address on Vajont tragedy concluding the annual conference of the Association of the Study of Modern Italy #ASMI #armiero @eseh.bsky.social @earth-science.bsky.social

A bold reading of the great documentary #Dahomey about the restitution of colonial-looted Benin objects www.ecodelnulla.it/perche-dahom...

This article explores the #transimperial politics and meanings of Fascist material legacies in between #Italy and #Ethiopia. Connecting troubled restitutions and international aid, it examines (post)colonial reworkings of imperial objects and relations, here in OA! www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

The Fall #concurrences seminar series is live! Have a look below at our invited speakers, and how to join us remotely on Zoom. All welcome! #AcademicSky

The Meloni government’s deportation of migrants to a former Italian colony is an uttermost evidence of how colonial legacies still operate both politically and symbolically in Italy and beyond (with #elonmusk endorsing it) #meloni #albania #deportation www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

First @bsky.app post to share this publication on mass-mediated projections of post-WWII reconstruction in Europe. My essay compares UK, France, and Italy's film propaganda on African trusteeship mandates. The book is Open Access here www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... @amsterdamupress.bsky.social