Public Lecture: Why Postcolonial Classics Matter
Scholars in Classics and in neighbouring disciplines are increasingly aware of the importance of colonial and postcolonial histories to their work. European colonisers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries went out to their colonies with ‘the Bible in...
Public Lecture: Myths of the Voiceless. Heroes, Ancestors, and the Management of Power in pre-Roman Italy
Our knowledge of Italian societies before the Roman conquest is not what we would like, as a consequence of a fundamental lack of first-hand literary sources. In fact, annalistic sources basically provide us with a narrative of wars, and not much more. We have...
Public Lecture: The Ecologies of Italian Colonialism: Fascist Enterprises in North and East Africa
This KNIR Research Dialogue offers an interpretation of fascist colonial rhetoric and practices in North and East Africa between 1922 and 1943 from the perspective of the environmental history. On the one hand, it highlights the historic paramount role played by the...
Public Lecture: The Afterlives of Italy’s Fascist Party Headquarters from 1945 to Today
Since the end of the Second World War, Italians have faced the question of what to do with the physical traces of the Fascist regime, and whether to preserve, demolish, alter, or renovate buildings and monuments of that era. Fascist sites represent a difficult...-
Datum
15 februari 2023
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Tijd
17:00 - 18:30
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