When Is the Colonial Built Environment Neither in the Past nor Far Away?

Starting from the study of Italian colonial architecture in the Mediterranean and East Africa and how it is related to debates about national Italian architecture under Fascism, the seminar will consider enduring colonial traces in the built environment, in the former colonies and in Italy’s Agro Pontino, which was developed in parallel – ‘colonized’ – in the 1930s.

Mia Fuller is Gladyce Arata Terrill Distinguished Professor of Italian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is also Director of the Institute of European Studies. A cultural anthropologist, she writes on Italian colonial and fascist architecture and urbanism, and the legacies of Italian colonialism and fascism. She is completing a book on Italy’s Pontine Marshes area, titled Monuments and Mussolini: A Cultural History of Fascist Memory.

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Scientific Organization: Federico Marcomini