The making of colonialism through law and other fictions

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In the creation of colonies, different discourses and techniques were used to turn fantasies of domination and dispossession into a distinct socio-economic reality. In the Italian case, such fantasies included the utopia of transforming the Southern landless peasants into property owners and regaining the conquests of the Roman empire as a basis for the new national imagination. This conference offers a multidisciplinary perspective to interrogate the colonial roots of Western modernity through the lenses of legal history, postcolonial theory and cultural studies.

PROGRAM:

H16:30 ― Institutional greetings and introduction
Maria Böhmer, Istituto Svizzero
Veronica Pecile, Istituto Svizzero

H16:40-17:00 ― What do we do with Garibaldi’s statues? Italian colonialism and the Southern Question, between public history and competitive memory
Carla Panico, University of Coimbra

17:00-17:20 ― Narratives of the Crossroads: For a Collaborative Global History of Switzerland
Izabel Barros, Université de Lausanne

17:20-17:40 ― Isolated but not Forgotten? Memories of Colonial Deportations from Libya to Italy
Galadriel Ravelli, University of Bath

H17:40 ― Short break

18:00-18:20 ― Aliens at Home: Ex-colonizers’ Attempts to Illegally Return to Libya
Erica Moretti, State University of New York

18:20-18:40 ― Forging a “New Virility”: The 1935-36 Invasion of Ethiopia in Italian Print Cultures
Neelam Srivastava, University of Newcastle

H18:40 ― Discussion and Q&A

H19:00 ― Aperitif