Alexander Korb, Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University Leicester
26 May – The concepts of the Fascist Empire
9am: Welcome and Opening remarks
9:15am-10:30am Keynote lecture
Paolo Fonzi (University of Eastern Piedmont), Beyond the borders. Italian occupation policies during the Second World War
Remarks by Davide Rodogno (Geneva Graduate Institute)
11am-12:30am The global impact of Fascist Italy’s Empire
Fernando Esposito (University of Constance) and Patrick Bernhard (University of Oslo), Mussolini’s Mediterranean: The Fascist Dream of Empire and its International Impact
Zaib un Nisa Aziz (Yale University), Fascist Imperialism/Imperialist Fascism: The Italo-Abyssinian Crisis, the Right to Sovereignty and the Outlawing of Empire
1:30pm-3:30pm Imaginaries and perceptions of the Fascist Empire
Martin Kristoffer Hamre (Free University Berlin), The Montreux Front and the Abyssinian Crisis: Debating Peace and Imperialism in the mid-1930s
Rastko Lompar (Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade), Fascist Anti-Fascists? How the Fascist Quest for the Mediterranean Empire Influenced the Self-Understanding of the Integral Yugoslav Right Wing
Emanuele Ertola (University of Pavia), Unlike any other Empire. Fascist claim to uniqueness in a transnational perspective
Claudio Fogu (UC Santa Barbara), Fascist Mediterraneanism
3:30pm-4:30pm Breakout room discussion
27 May – The practices of the Fascist Empire
10am-12noon The material realities of the Empire
Luca Castiglioni (ISIG-FBK), A New Order for the Levant? The case of the Italian Dodecanese (1912-1945)
Gabriele Bassi (University of Siena), Continuity and discontinuity in Italian politics overseas: theory and use of violence as an instrument of seizing and maintaining power
Filippo Petrucci (University of Cagliari), A pivotal element of the Italian community in Tunisia: Italian Jews in Tunisia
1pm-3:30pm Parallel sessions
Session 1: Imperial education and culture
Lewis Driver (EUI), Una Coscienza Coloniale: Youth, gender, and the Fascist Colonial Institute of Bologna
Beatrice Falcucci (University of Florence), Creare una patria per le popolazioni locali: Museums in Fascist Italy’s Libya
Gaia Delpino, Rosa Anna Di Lella, Claudio Mancuso (Museo delle Civiltà of Rome), The former Museo di Roma: A museographic Fascist attempt to build imperial colonisers
Caterina Scalvedi (University of Illinois, Chicago), From decentered laboratory to ‘authoritarian harmonization’: Fascist Italy’s education policy in Africa Orientale Italiana (1938-1943)
Session 2: The economics of empire
Pablo del Hierro (University of Maastricht), Mussolini’s bid for Empire in the Mediterranean, 1936-43. A political economy approach to understand Fascist Italy’s foreign policy towards Spain
Robert Corban (Columbia University), A New Agrarian Order: Agronomy and Autonomy in Mussolini’s Mediterranean, 1935 – 1945
G. Bruce Strang (Brandon University), Italian Economic Penetration, Aid Diplomacy, and Arms Sales in Yemen: The Società Anonima Navigazione Eritrea and Italian Colonial Policy, 1931-1939
Diana Garvin (University of Oregon), Agronomy as Biopolitical Control: Farming in Africa Orientale Italiana
3:30pm-4:30pm Breakout room discussion