JOSHUA ARTHURS
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Recent Workshops and Conferences

  • ​“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.
  • “Photojournalism as a Historical Source.” Photographic Archives and Contemporary Art: Investigation, Interpretation, Inspiration, Università degli Studi Roma Tre and the American Academy in Rome, December 2015.
  • “The Fall of Mussolini: Violence, Emotion and Memory.” Seminar in Modern Italian Studies, Columbia University, April 2015.
  • “Violenza quotidiana nel Regno del Sud, 1943-1944.” Violenza politica e sociale nell'Europa del secondo dopoguerra, Seminario nazionale SISSCO, Reggio Emilia, June 2014.
  • “Cultural History from Below: Meaning-Making and Experience in Fascist Italy.” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, DC, January 2014.
  • Panel organizer, Everyday Life under Fascism: New Perspectives on Mussolini’s Italy, Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, DC, January 2014.
  • “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, Menaggio, March 2013.

Recent Lectures

  • “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.
  • “‘Eccola qui, la mi’ merda: Emotion, Memory and the Fall of Fascism.” American Academy in Rome, December 2015.
  • “‘Everything Within the State, Nothing Against the State, Nothing Outside the State’: Toward the History of Everyday Life in Fascist Italy.” Acton Lecture, NYU-Florence, November 2015.
  • “Excavating Modernity: Archaeology and the Fascist Cult of Rome.” Babcock Lecture, Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, Rome, November 2015.
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