This research seminar aims to investigate the ways in which Fascist colonialism endeavored to construct a coordinated public image of its colonies and occupied territories through a “media convergence”.
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The instrumental relationship between Fascism and mass media has received increasing attention in recent decades, and continues to spark particular interest. At the same time, the debate on the cultural, visual, and material dimensions of Italian colonialism has intensified in the last years. The research seminar Building the exotic through transmedial practices aims to investigate the ways in which Fascist colonialism endeavored to construct a coordinated public image of its colonies and occupied territories through a “media convergence”. Numerous scholars have highlighted the importance of the media in conveying and communicating the imperial idea of Fascism, from cinema to radio broadcasting. This research seminar aims to broaden the field of investigation on several strands: in addition to, for example, cinema and literature, the seminar will also consider the consistent role played by archaeology, architecture, exhibition spaces, music, school books, and so on. The seminar will adopt a transmedial perspective, which investigates the “invention” of the “colonial exotic” through the simultaneous construction of meanings across different platforms and formats that converged into each other, highlighting, in particular, its function as a story-telling of “otherness”.
Confirmed speakers: lyas Azouzi (UCL University College London); Maddalena Carli (Università di Teramo); Gianpaolo Chiriacò (University of Innsbruck); Beatrice Falcucci (Università dell’Aquila-KNIR); Gianluca Gabrielli (ricercatore indipendente); Stefano Maltese (Biblioteca IsIAO); Gianmarco Mancosu (Università di Cagliari); Simona Troilo (Università dell’Aquila).
Some presentations will be in English, others in Italian.
PROGRAMMA
10.30-10:45 Caffè
10:45-11:00 Benvenuto del KNIR e introduzione al workshop
Maria Bonaria Urban (KNIR)
Beatrice Falcucci (KNIR Fellow, Università dell’Aquila)
11.00-13.30 Prima sessione – chair: Matthijs Jonker (KNIR)
Gianmarco Mancosu (Università di Cagliari) Aetiophia 1924. Aetiophia 1950. Esplorare, filmare e ricordare l’impero nella produzione transmediale di Guelfo Civinini
Gianpaolo Chiriacò (Universität Innsbruck) “La leggenda del Negus”. How Radio and Record Companies Aired the Exotic
Beatrice Falcucci (Università dell’Aquila-KNIR) Big game hunting in the colonies: depicting African fauna in books, films and museums
Gianluca Gabrielli (Novecento.org) Colonie e “razze” sopra e sotto il banco
15.00-17.30 Seconda sessione – chair: Maria Bonaria Urban (KNIR)
Stefano Maltese (Biblioteca IsIAO-Università della Tuscia) Conoscenza e rappresentazione. Sguardi sull’alterità nei materiali fotografici della fototeca della “Biblioteca IsIAO”
Maddalena Carli (Università di Teramo) Before and after the proclamation of the Empire. The Italian colonies in the exhibitions, pavilions and displays of the 1930s
Simona Troilo (Università dell’Aquila) La mediatizzazione delle rovine romane di Libia tra età liberale e fascista
Ilyas Azouzi (UCL University College London) Displaying the opere del regime. Imperial propaganda and architectural depictions in newsreels and magazines
