Programme

WEEK 1

June 16

Room V

9.00 - 10.00 Welcoming remarks and orientation with the directors Franca Sinopoli (Sapienza) and Franco Baldasso (Bard College, NY)

10.00 - 13.00 - Lecture:The historical and cultural context: Italian Fascism and the myth of Rome - Franco Baldasso (Bard College, NY)

15.00 - 16.30 - Visit: Mario Sironi, L'italia tra le arti e le scienze (1935), Aula Magna

Lecture: Difficult heritage at Sapienza: the history and restoration of Mario Sironi's mural - Eliana Billi (Sapienza)

16.30 - 17.30 - Virtual tour and roundtable: Arturo Martini and the Art of 1930s Italy at the Museo Bailo in Treviso -  Eleonora Drago (Musei Civici Treviso) and Franco Baldasso (Bard College, NY)

June 17

 Room V

9.00 - 12.00 - Lecture: Literature as document and monument: from memorialization to cultural heritage - Franco Baldasso (Bard College, NY)

13.00 - 14.00 - Visit: Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia

14.00 - 15.00 - Lecture: Unexpected places of memory: remembering the Shoah in Etruria (1962-1982) - Chiara Zampieri (KU Leuven) and Martina Piperno (Sapienza)

16.00 - 17.30 - Visit: Galleria Nazionale in Rome

Lecture: Difficult heritage and the aestheticization of Fascist art - Raffaele Bedarida (Sapienza)

June 18

Room V 

9.00 - 10.30 - Guided tour: EUR

Seminar: Legacies of Italian Fascism: the EUR - Carmen Belmonte (Università di Padova)

10.30 - 12.00 - Guided tour: Museo delle Civiltà in Rome

15.00 - 16.00 - Lecture: Colonialism, totalitarianism, and multi-directional memory: narratives of 20-century violence - Riccardo Capoferro (Sapienza)

16.00 - 17.00 - Lecture: German migration and anti-Fascist narration: Anna Seghers and Bertold Brecht - Daniela Padularosa (Sapienza)

17.00 - 18.00 - Lecture: The Education during the Fascist Ventennio and its Postwar Memory: Meneghello, Fenoglio, Tobino - Umberto Rossi (independent scholar)

June 19

9.00 - 10.00 - Visit: Notre-Dame Villa

Lecture: "The Walls of the School": encountering Jewish Rome under the racial laws - Chiara Sbordoni (University of Notre Dame)

10.00 - 11.00 - Lecture: Coming to Terms with Italy's Totalitarian Past - Charles Leavitt (University of Notre Dame)

14.00 - 15.00 - Visit: Mussolini's bunkers and air-raid shelters at Villa Torlonia

15.00 - 16.00 - Workshop: Villa Torlonia: a site of contested memory - Franco Baldasso (Bard College, NY)

June 20

 Aula archeologia

9.00 - 11.00 - Lecture: Colonial and postcolonial Italy - Caterina Romeo (Sapienza)

11.00 - 12.00 - Screening and Q&A: Asmara, Eritrea (2008) by Caterina Borelli 

12.00 - 13.00 - Roundtable: Caterina Romeo (Sapienza), Caterina Borelli, and Franco Baldasso (Bard College, NY)

 Aula Carlotta Nobile

15.00 - 17.00 - Lecture:  Contemporary art and the legacy of Fascism - Raffaele Bedarida (Sapienza)

Weekend - No activities

WEEK 2

June 23

 Room IV

9.00 - 9.30 - Guided Walk: The urban  planning and memory of Piazza Bologna

10.00 - 12.00 - Roundtable at Villa Mirafiori: Testimony and the archive: racial laws and the emergence of human rights - Orietta Ombrosi (Sapienza), Emmanuel Betta (Sapienza), Giuseppe Motta (Sapienza) and Manuele Gianfrancesco (Sapienza)

14.00 - 15.00 - Lecture: Soviet totalitarianism: a never-ending story - Mario Caramitti (Sapienza)

15.00 - 17.00 - Roundtable: Teaching the difficult heritage of totalitarianism - Mario Caramitti (Sapienza) and Franco Baldasso (Bard College, NY)

June 24

 Room II

10.00 - 12.00 - Lecture: Cartography and power - Riccardo Morri (Sapienza) and Carlotta Bilardi (Sapienza)

12.00 - 13.00 - Visit: The cartographic series of the Geography Department Library

14.00 - 17.00 - Workshop: Discussion on final projects with feedback on cultural heritage, memory and intermediality - Franca Sinopoli (Sapienza), Franco Baldasso (Bard College, NY) and Francesca Medaglia (Sapienza)

June 25

  Room II

10.00 - 11.00 - Visit: Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

11.00 - 12.30 - Lecture: Totalitarianisms and diaspora: Jewish musicians from Europe to Hollywood - Giuliano Danieli (Sapienza)

14.30 - 16.00 - Guided tour: Cinecittà

16.15 - 17.00 - Seminar: Fascism and film institutions: memory and heritage of a national identity building - Damiano Garofalo (Sapienza) and Maria Clara Ghia (Sapienza) 

17.00 - 18.00 - Visit: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia

June 26

 Room II 

9.00 - 11.00 - Lecture: Antifascist resistance and its postwar memory: from literature to memory sites - Franco Baldasso (Bard College, NY)

11.00 - 12.00 - Lecture: Writing, memory and forms of resistance in Orwell's 1984 - Federica Perazzini (Sapienza)

13.00 - 14.00 - Visit: Museum of the Liberation of Rome 

Free afternoon for preparing final project presentations

June 27

 Room V

9.00 - 13.00 - Students' Final Project presentations with directors Franca Sinopoli (Sapienza) and Franco Baldasso (Bard College, NY)

14.00 - 17.00 - Students' Final Project presentations with directors Franca Sinopoli (Sapienza) and Franco Baldasso (Bard College, NY)