“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.
“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.