Mapping Colonial Heritage
Mapping Colonial Heritage
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…
On the 6th of July, Daphné Budasz, co-founder of Postcolonial Italy mapping project, published a post on the corporate blog of the European University Institute. She addresses the debate on removing commemorative monuments through a reflection on the relation between…
On the occasion of the Juneteenth, Daphné Budasz invited Angelica Pesarini, Lecturer at New York University Florence, to talk about Racism and Colonial Memory in Italy. This radio show was broadcasted live by Radio Cavolo, an independent online radio station…
In June 2020, Sebastian De Pretto got interviewed on lieux de mémoire of the 1935-1941 Italo-Ethiopian War in Italy’s province of Bolzano Sebastian De Pretto wrote his PhD thesis at the University of Lucerne on the lieux de mémoire of the 1935-1941 Italo-Ethiopian War…
On 27 February 2020, the House of European History in Brussels organised a panel debate with three historians specialised in the study of colonialism and its legacy: Amandine Lauro (FNRS/Université Libre de Bruxelles), Valika Smeulders (KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast…
On the 4 and 5 November 2019, the Istituto Storico Austriaco in Rome hosted an international and interdisciplinary workshop entitled “Built to last? Material Legacies of Italian Colonialism”. Organised by Markus Wurzer (University of Graz) and Sebastian De Pretto (University…
At the annual conference of the Italian Association for Public History (AIPH) that took place in Santa Maria Capua Vetere e Caserta on the 24 to 28 June 2019, the jury awarded the poster “Imperial Florence: Mapping Colonial Heritage in…
On the 28 May 2019, on the occasion of an interdisciplinary workshop “Environmental Humanities Workshops” organised at the European University Institute by Gilberto Mazzoli (EUI) and George L. Vlacho (EUI), Markus Wurzer and Daphné Budasz organised for the second time…