Gianmarco Mancosu

Happening now at @ilcs.bsky.social an engaging event on academic, artistic and social practices to critically tackle Italian colonial legacy @saslondon.bsky.social

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Here a thorough review of my book #vederelimpero about fascist imperial visual propaganda www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Exciting news: 𝐑𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲. 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐠𝐢𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐲, my article in the #JournalOfContemporaryHistory exploring Italy’s politics of colonial memory and related social practices, is now available! 🎉

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Here the CfP for the ASMI-SISSCO conference 'The Transnational Making of Italy. Methods, Opportunities and Challenges', to be held in Florence in June 2025 - just a few days left to send your proposal www.sissco.it/wp-content/u...

Ethiopian resistance hero’s family tries to reclaim medal taken by Italian troops Ras Desta Damtew’s solid gold Imperial Order of the Star of Ethopia failed to sell on auction site this month

The long tail of Italian colonialism. Layers of history in this article, and one recalcitrant auction house. 🗃️📜🇮🇹

“In Mezzo Agli Africani”: Forgetting Fascist Colonialism in Natale al Campo 119 Pietro Francisci’s 1947 film, Natale al campo 119, offers unacknowledged insights into the representation, redirection, and repression of the memory of Italian colonialism in the immediate aftermat...

Just in time for Christmas, my article on the 1947 Italian Christmas film Natale al Campo 119.
It's a movie about Italian prisoners of war in California. But it's also a movie about the aftermath of Italian colonialism.
That makes it a far more important film than it seems.
doi.org/10.1080/0161...

Funded PhD opportunity in photographic history starting in October 2025
“War, Photography & Empire: Visual Propaganda and British India, c.1941-47”
www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk/collaborativ...
Deadline for applications 20 January 2025

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Unburying an Empire: Ruins and Archaeological Discoveries in Italia... Ruins, archaeology, and Fascist Film Propaganda We wanted to govern the nation; we wanted to seize the fate of the nation in our fist, but the task was arduous, the burden heavy because around us t...

My latest article examines how Fascism film propaganda exalted ruins, archaeological excavations and technology to shape Italy's imperial identity
here: journals.openedition.org/anabases/18347

#Fascism #Archaeology #Propaganda #CinematicHistory #Anabases

The Dialectics of (Post)Colonial Memory: Nostalgic Representations of the Imperial Experience in Contemporary Italy This article explores how nostalgic memories of Italy’s colonial past are preserved and re-articulated through Il Reduce d’Africa, the journal of the Associazione Nazionale Reduci e Rimpatriati d’A...

New article out (with Charles Burdett): "The Dialectics of (Post)Colonial Memory" on how nostalgic memories shape contemporary perspectives on the imperial past in Italy and beyond
here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#ItalianColonialism #MemoryStudies #PostcolonialItaly @ilcs.bsky.social

Marco Armiero splendid keynote address on Vajont tragedy concluding the annual conference of the Association of the Study of Modern Italy #ASMI #armiero @eseh.bsky.social @earth-science.bsky.social

Perché Dahomey è un film importante Memoria coloniale e patrimonio culturale nell’opera Orso d’oro a Berlino, in cui la regista Mati Diop affronta il tema della restituzione in uno dei primi esempi di cinema post-coloniale contemporaneo

A bold reading of the great documentary #Dahomey about the restitution of colonial-looted Benin objects www.ecodelnulla.it/perche-dahom...

„Italia si, Italia no“. Materialità transimperiali e soggetti (post)coloniali tra Italia ed Etiopia (1956–1974) Article „Italia si, Italia no“. Materialità transimperiali e soggetti (post)coloniali tra Italia ed Etiopia (1956–1974) was published on November 30, 2024 in the journal Quellen und Forschungen aus it...

This article explores the #transimperial politics and meanings of Fascist material legacies in between #Italy and #Ethiopia. Connecting troubled restitutions and international aid, it examines (post)colonial reworkings of imperial objects and relations, here in OA! www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

The Fall #concurrences seminar series is live! Have a look below at our invited speakers, and how to join us remotely on Zoom. All welcome!

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Italian judges strike another blow against Meloni’s Albania asylum deal Far-right government angrily condemns ruling that seven men detained in Albania must be transferred to Italy

The Meloni government’s deportation of migrants to a former Italian colony is an uttermost evidence of how colonial legacies still operate both politically and symbolically in Italy and beyond (with #elonmusk endorsing it) #meloni #albania #deportation

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Non-Fiction Cinema in Postwar Europe After WWII, cinema was everywhere: in movie theatres, public squares, factories, schools, trial courts, trains, museums, and political meetings. Seen today, documentaries and newsreels, as well as the...

First @bsky.app post to share this publication on mass-mediated projections of post-WWII reconstruction in Europe. My essay compares UK, France, and Italy's film propaganda on African trusteeship mandates. The book is Open Access here www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... @amsterdamupress.bsky.social