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Modern Italian History
Convenors: Ilaria Favretto (Kingston), John Foot (UCL), Maurizio Isabella (QMUL), Axel Körner (UCL), Carl Levy (Goldsmiths), Lucy Riall (Birkbeck).
All meetings will take place on Wednesdays at 5:30. Due to ongoing works at Senate House the venue of our seminar has changed to Stewart House (32, Russell Square, WC1B 5DN), adjacent to the main Senate House building. The Stewart House seminar rooms can be accessed via the Russell Square entrance. Ask reception for directions to the second floor seminar rooms.
Venue: Stewart House
Time: Wednesday, 5.30pm
| 11 January | Mia Fuller (Berkeley) History and Loyalty in Italy's Pontine Marshes: Abiding Affection for Mussolini, and Other Attitudes Toward Fascism
Chair: Lucy Riall Room ST270 (Stewart House, second floor) |
| 8 February | Catharine Rossi (Edinburgh College of Art) Designing Craft and Crafting Design in Post-War Italy: Furniture in Milan and Brianza in the 1950s
Chair: John Foot Room STB5 (Stewart House, basement, room 5) |
| 7 March | Enrico dal Lago (Galway) Mazzini and Abolitionism between Europe and America: 'Thought and Action' in the Antislavery Struggle
Chair: Axel Körner Room ST273 (Stewart House, second floor) |
| 21 March | Patrick Bernard (Freiburg) Forgotten war crimes. Italy and the ill-treatment of allied POWs of the Second World War
Chair: Lucy Riall Room ST273 (Stewart House, second floor) Joint with the Rethinking Modern Europe seminar |
