Conference Presentations and Lectures
"Down with the Balconies!": Revolutionary Iconoclasm and Regime Change in Italy, 1943-1947." The Politics of Architectural Destruction, National University of Ireland Maynooth, May 2011.
"Presente! Iconoclasm, Preservation and the Afterlife of Fascist Monuments since 1943." Italy and its Pasts, Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy, London, UK, November 2010.
"Modern Ruins: Mussolini's Rome after Fascism." Contemporary Rome: Changing Faces of the Eternal City, the American University of Rome, November 2010.
Panel Chair, “Rome: City of Travellers, Global Metropolis.” Annual Meeting of the American Association for Italian Studies, New York, May 2009.
“The Eternal Parasite: Anti-Romanism in Italian Politics and Culture since 1870.” Annual Meeting of the American Association for Italian Studies, New York, May 2009.
“Vergangenheitsbewältigung Italian Style: Fascist Monuments in Postwar Italy.” Annual Meeting of the Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, February 2009.
“Monumental Memories: the Architectural Heritage of Fascism in Postwar Italy.” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New York, January 2009.
“Roads, Arches and Aqueducts: Fascism and the Material Culture of Empire.” From Africa to the Balkans: New Perspectives on the History and Material Culture of Modern Italy, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University, October 2008.
“The Universal Mission: Latin Imperialism in Fascist Italy, 1935-1943.” European History Section of the Southern Historical Association Conference (Richmond VA), November 2007.
“Storia, memoria e modernità in Roma fascista: il Museo di Roma e la Mostra Augustea della Romanità.” I Musei della Città, Centro di Ateneo per lo Studio di Roma (Rome, Italy), December 2005.
“Back to the Future: Antiquity and Modernity in Fascist Italy.” Invited lecture, Wolfsonian Museum (Miami FL), May 2005.
“‘Let the Pick-Axe Speak!’: Urban Surgery in Mussolini’s Rome.” Invited lecture, Florida International University, April 2005.
“History and Hygiene in Roma Mussolinea.” The City in Italian Literature and Culture, University of Chicago, April 2005.
“Exhibiting Roman History in Italy, 1911-1955.” Nationalism, Historiography and the (Re)Construction of the Past, University of Birmingham (UK), September 2004.
“‘The Italy of Augustus and the Italy of Today’: Excavating Roman Modernity in Fascist Italy.” Modernity and Modernism in the Mediterranean World, University of Toronto, November 2003.
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