Recent Workshops and Conferences

  • “The Moral Economy of the Italian Crowd in the Summer of 1943.” Everyday Dictatorship Project Workshop, University of St. Andrews, 2024.
  • “The Fascist City.” Cambridge Urban History of Europe, Technische Universität Berlin, 2021-2022.
  • “The Confederate Monument Debate: International Perspectives on the Future of Monuments with Difficult Pasts.” Past/Forward, National Trust for Historic Preservation and the World Monuments Fund, 2020.
  • ​“From the Monumental to the Everyday: Shifting Perspectives on the Cultural History of Italian Fascism.” Comparing the Cultural History of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, Freie Universität Berlin, March 2019.
  • “Kicking a Dying Lion: Revolutionary Iconoclasm and Damnatio Memoriae after the Fall of Mussolini.” A Difficult Heritage: The Afterlife of Fascist-Era Architecture, Monuments and Works in Italy. American Academy in Rome and the Biblioteca Hertziana/Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome, March 2019.
  • “Burning Paper and Crushing Bedbugs: Iconoclasm, Memory and Expectation during the Fall of Mussolini.” What Remains? Fascist and National Socialist Antiquities and Materialities from the Interwar to the Post-war Era, University of Cambridge, June 2018.
  • “July 25th, 1943: The Fall of Mussolini as Affective Experience.” International Conference of Europeanists, Glasgow, July 2017.
  • “Il dopoguerra sbagliato: speranze, recriminazioni e conflitti durante i 45 Giorni.” 1945: Violenza e costruzione della legalità, Istituto Storico di Modena/ISTORECO, Reggio Emilia, April 2016.

Recent Lectures

  • “Bella ciao and the Power of Salutary Fictions.” Resisting Silence: Unveiling the Legacy of the Italian Resistance, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University, 2025.
  • “Against Redemption: Democracy, Memory, and Literature in Post-Fascist Italy.” Society of Fellows, American Academy in Rome, 2023.
  • “Romanità after Romanità.” Keynote address, Costruire la nuova Italia: Miti di Roma e fascismo, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa/Newcastle University, 2022.
  • “Material Culture Wars: Lessons from Italy.” Centre for European and Eurasian Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, 2021.
  • “Everyday Violence.” Violence and Fascism: 1921 e ditorni seminar series, British School at Rome, 2021.
  • “Everyday Life under Fascism.” Italian Fascism: History of a Dictatorship, University of Padua, 2021.
  • “Negotiating Fascism after Mussolini.” Center for Italian Studies, Stony Brook University, April 2019.
  • “Challenges: Communism, Fascism and Totalitarianism.” Wheeling Academy of Law and Science Foundation, Wheeling, WV, November 2018.
  • "Teach-In on Anti-Semitism and Cultural Bias.” Humanities Center, West Virginia University, October 2018.
  • Teaching History and Politics in the Age of Trump.” Honors College, West Virginia University, November 2017.
  • “Historical Perspectives on Charlottesville: Heritage, Hate, History and Memory.” West Virginia University, August 2017.
    ​“Iconoclasm, Insult and Memory during the Fall of Mussolini.” Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, April 2016.
  • “The Figure in Fascist Italy: The Foro Italico.” American Academy in Rome, February 2016.