Summer School The Cultural Heritage and Memory of Totalitarianism. May 27 and June 7, 2024.

WEEK 1

Day 1

 Lecture: The historical and cultural context: Italian Fascism and the Myth of Rome 

Audiovisual excerpts from Istituto Luce and Italian Fascist Cinema

Visit: Sapienza University campus tour; 

Aula Magna, Mario Sironi, L'Italia tra le arti e le scienze (1935); 

Visit to Arturo Martini’s Minerva.

 

Day 2

 Lecture:  Italian Literature from Futurism to Fascism (and anti-Fascism) 

Lecture: Unexpected Spaces of Memory: Remembering the Shoah in Etruria (1962 - 1982)                    

Visit: Tour of Villa Torlonia, residence of Mussolini  

 

Day 3

 Lecture: From Imperialism to Totalitarianism

 Visit: The cartographic series of Palazzo dell’Aeronautica

 

Day 4

Visit: Legacies of Italian Fascism and colonialism at the EUR with a visit to the storages of the former Colonial Museum in Rome 

 Lecture: Visual and Material culture of Fascist Empire

Lecture: Narratives and Memories of Totalitarianism: History, Fragmentation and Remontage in Post-War Italian Art

 

Day 5

 Lecture: Processes of Racialization in Colonial and Postcolonial Italy

 Visit: Curating Fascism - Roundtable at the American Academy in Rome and visit to the studios of artists in residence

Weekend - No activities

 

WEEK 2

Day 8

Lecture:  Hitlerism, Antisemitism: The Different Approches of Levinas, Horkheimer and Adorno

Lecture: What did the Italians read during the Ventennio? On the translation and reception of the authors of the Neuen Sachlichkeit

Visit: Visit to Archivio Cagli and Accademia Nazionale di Danza

 

Day 9

Lecture: Soviet Totalitarianism: a Never-Ending Story

Lecture: The Forbidden City: Tombolo between American Occupation and Italian Imagination

Discussion on final projects with feedback on cultural heritage, memory and intermediality

 

Day 10

Lecture: Jewish diaspora. The experience of refugeedom and the idea of human rights before and after WW2

Lecture: Anti-Semitism and Racial Laws in Italy 

Lecture and visit: Totalitarianisms and Diaspora: Jewish Musicians from Europe to Hollywood

Visit to Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Visit: Tour of the Jewish Ghetto and Sites of Jewish Memory in Rome

  

Day 11

Lecture: Antifascist Resistance and its Postwar Memory: from Literature to Memory Sites

Lecture: Writing, Memory and Forms of Resistance in Orwell’s 1984

Visit: Tour of San Lorenzo

Visit: Museum of the Liberation of Rome

 

Day 12

Final Project presentations