Presentations, Lectures and Workshops

  • “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.
  • “Iconoclasm, Insult and Memory during the Fall of Mussolini” Invited lecture, Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, April 2016.
  • “The Figure in Fascist Italy: The Foro Italico.” On-site lecture, American Academy in Rome, February 2016.
  • "‘Eccola qui, la mi’ merda: Emotion, Memory and the Fall of Fascism.” Invited lecture, American Academy in Rome, December 2015.
  • Contributor, Photographic Archives and Contemporary Art: Investigation, Interpretation, Inspiration, American Academy in Rome and Università degli Studi Roma Tre, December 2015.
  • “‘Everything Within the State, Nothing Against the State, Nothing Outside the State’: Toward the History of Everyday Life in Fascist Italy.” Invited lecture, Graduate Studies Seminar, NYU-Florence, November 2015.
  • “Excavating Modernity: Archaeology and the Fascist Cult of Rome.” Babcock Lecture, Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, Rome, November 2015.
  • "The Fall of Mussolini: Violence, Emotion and Memory." Invited lecture, Columbia University Seminar in Modern Italian Studies, New York, April 2015.
  • “Violenza quotidiana nel Regno del Sud, 1943-1944.” Giustizia legale e giustizia sommaria, session of the two-year research seminar Political and Social Violence in Postwar Europe: Outcomes and Research Perspectives, ISTORECO, Reggio Emilia, Italy, June 2014.
  • Organizer of the panel “Everyday Life under Fascism: New Perspectives on Mussolini’s Italy.” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, DC, January 2014.
  • “Cultural History from Below: Meaning-Making and Experience in Fascist Italy.” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, DC, January 2014.
  • Contributor to the two-year workshop Political and Social Violence in Postwar Europe: Outcomes and Research Perspectives, coordinated by the Istituto per la Storia della Resistenza e della Storia Contemporanea, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2013-2014.
  • “Violence, Denunciation and Iconoclasm in the Aftermath of Dictatorship: Italy, 1943.” Social Sciences Café, West Virginia University, September 2013.
  • “The Excavatory Intervention: Archaeology as Practice, Performance and Rhetoric in Fascist Rome.” Revolution and Eternity: Workshop on Fascism’s Temporality, Italo-German Center for European Excellence, Villa Vigoni, Italy, March 2013.
  • “The Fall of Mussolini: Italy’s ‘Forty-Five Days’ in History and Memory.” Memories of Conflict, Conflicts of Memory, Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory, University College London, UK, February 2013.
  • Panel Chair and Commenter, “Urban Experiences of War: Military Occupations of Cities since 1800.” Annual Conference of the Urban History Association, New York, October 2012.
  • “After Mussolini: Roma capitale, the Fall of Fascism and the ‘Death of the Nation.’” Nationalism and the City, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge, UK, February 2012.
  • “’Down with the Balconies!’ Regime Change in Italy and its Legacies since 1943.” Invited lecture, University of Tartu, Estonia, September 2011.
  • “Presente! Iconoclasm, Preservation and the Afterlife of Fascist Monuments since 1943.” 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 Travelers, 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, New York, 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, December 2005.
  • “Back to the Future: Antiquity and Modernity in Fascist Italy.” Invited lecture, Wolfsonian Museum, Miami, May 2005.
  • “‘Let the Pick-Axe Speak!’: Urban Surgery in Mussolini’s Rome.” Invited lecture, Florida International University, Miami, 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.