Mapping Colonial Heritage
Mapping Colonial Heritage
On the occasion of Black History Month Florence (BHMF) 2021, Postcolonial Italy launches a digital self-guided tour that can be downloaded for free! Discover the self-guided tour “Uncovering Italian Colonial Pasts: Florence” The tour is also available in Italian “Alla…
The year Postcolonial Italy became an official partner of Black History Month Florence (BHMF). Check out the full programme of BHMF (below the presentation of Postcolonial Italy pp.27-28).
In the November 2020 issue of The Florentine magazine, Daphné Budasz published “On the traces of Florence’s colonial past”. This short article is part of “Whoever drinks black, earns color”: a column by Black History Month Florence (BHMF). Read it…
Third meeting of the project “I luoghi del fascismo” will be held on the 9 November at 18:00 on Zoom. This project coordinated by the Istituto Nazionale Ferruccio Parri is a research project focusing on the study of fascist material…
First meeting of the project “I luoghi del fascismo” will be held on the 6 October at 18:00 on Zoom. This project coordinated by the Istituto Nazionale Ferruccio Parri is a research project focusing on the study of fascist material…
Watch the new series “Virtual Salons: Discourses on Black Italia” online! On 30 September 2020, writer and translator Candice Whitney moderates a panel discussion featuring Shelleen Greene (UCLA/University of Leeds), Angelica Pesarini (NYU Florence), and novelist/screenwriter Francesca Melandri. How can…
Our map of Roma Imperiale has just been updated with new traces of Italian colonialism! We are delighted to welcome Nikolaos Mavropoulos in our contributors team. Nikolaos is a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Insitute and he contributed…
On 20th July 2020 took place an online debate about embarrassing fascist and colonial monuments in Italy and its former colonies. The event was hosted by politician Massimiliano Smeriglio, organised by activist-author Igiaba Scego, and featuring Ruth Ben-Ghiat (New York…
Italian writer, journalist and activist Igiaba Scego published an article in the European online media Voxeurope on the 10th July 2020. She addresses the question of colonial material legacies in Italy with the example of the Monument to Italians Fallen…
Even though the period of Italian colonial rule is long gone, its material traces hide almost everywhere. Explore cities, their streets, squares, monuments, and find out more about their forgotten connections to colonial history. .Streets, squares and buildings whose names are related to…