Mapping Colonial Heritage
Mapping Colonial Heritage
Publications about Postcolonial Italy Budasz, Daphné. (2023) “Relocating violence: a reflexion on the mapping of colonial traces in Italy,”Austrian Jour-nal of Historical Studies (OeZG), 34(1), 256–265. Wurzer, Markus. (2023) “(Counter-)Narratives of Violence. Colonial Legacies and Activism in Italy’s Public…
On occasion, we organise guided tours of colonial traces in Florence. For a self-guided tour of colonial traces in Florence listen to our audio guide (free to download). More info in the post below.
“Mapping colonial Florence: A history of violence and its remains”, February 2025, European University Institute On the occasion of BHMF 2025, Daphné Budasz organised a poster exhibition at the European University Institute based on Postcolonial Italy. This exhibition was made…
The neighbouring communes of Affile and Filettino are small rural localities nestled in the green hills of Lazio about 60 km from Rome. With only around 1,000 inhabitants each, these forgotten miniscule communities have only hit the headlines in the…
Parma, a provincial city in the region Emilia Romagna, and its history share many links with Italian colonialism; mostly due to its fellow citizen Vittorio Bottego, one of the best-known Italian explorers in the late 19th century. As in many…
Trieste is the capital of the autonomous region Friuli-Venezia-Giulia. As a very important port of the Habsburg Empire, Trieste was – and still is – a multi-ethnic and multireligious city. It became part of Italy after the First World War…
On 20th September 2021 at 17:00, Daphné Budasz and Markus Wurzer are invited to an online event organised by the University of Cagliari as part of the “Notte Europea dei Ricercatori” (European Researchers’ night). They will discuss colonial heritage in…
Markus Wurzer and Daphné Budasz will present ‘Postcolonialitaly: A Digital Public History Project Unveiling Italian Colonial Heritage’ during the online conference “Unwanted Histories: The legacies of contested monuments and objects: new homes, new interpretations, new meanings” on the 14th June…
On the 1st of June, Markus Wurzer, MPI for Social Anthropology, and Daphné Budasz, European University Institute will present a paper called “Mapping Dark Heritage: Traces of Fascist Colonialism in Italian Cityscapes” as part of the panel “How to remember…
On the 10th February at 5:30pm (UK time), the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) organised a online event “History and Memory of Italy’s Colonial Past” with historians Ilyas Azouzi and Flaminia Bartolini. Ilyas Azouzi is currently a PhD student at…