Fascism, Resistance and Memory in the 21st Century 

Giulia Albanese is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Padua, Italy.  She works on fascism, the crisis of the liberal state and political violence in Italian and European history in the first half of the 20th century. Among her publications, we mention here her book "The March on Rome: Violence and the Rise of Italian Fascism," published in Italian in 2006 and in English in 2020. She is also a member of the Scientific Committee of the Ferruccio Parri National Institute and president of the Venetian Institute for the History of Resistance and Contemporary Society.

Ken Ishida is Professor of contemporary history at Chiba University, Tokyo, Japan. His studies have comparatively addressed numerous aspects of the political, diplomatic and constitutional history of Italy, Japan and Germany in the first half of the 20th century. Author of numerous publications, we mention here one of his most recent volumes in English, "Japan, Italy and the road to the Tripartite Alliance," published in 2018.

Philip Cooke is Professor of Italian History and Culture at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. His research interests have focused on the long-term impact of the Italian Resistance movement and, more generally, on 20th-century Italian social and cultural history, with an interest in the interaction between history and culture and the "political use of history."  His publication The Legacy of the Italian Resistance (2011) provides an interpretation of the movement in the public sphere in the decades following World War II. Cooke is also Chair of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy. ASMI aims to promote, in the United Kingdom and abroad, the study and knowledge of Italian history, politics, culture and society from the 18th to the 21st century, in any discipline.