Histories and Bodies. Narratives of War Violence in Post-War Italy -Lidia Santarelli, Lauro De Bosis Post-Doctoral Fellow and Ines Valle Moran, Visiting Scholar

Date: 

Thursday, April 24, 2014, 4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Boylston Hall, Room 335

Lidia Santarelli,  Lauro De Bosis Post-Doctoral Fellow

Lost Images:

Memory and Silence of Fascist Italy's Occupation of Greece during WWII

 

Lidia Santarelli received her Ph.D. in History from the European University Institute (Fiesole, Italy). Her research interests focus on Italian and European colonialism, fascism, WWII and the Holocaust, and its impact in Greece and the Mediterranean world. She was postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University, Columbia University and the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Washington, D.C., and Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow at New York University and Brown University. She is currently completing her book manuscript on "The March on Athens. Culture and Experience of Fascist Italy's Occupation of Greece (1940-43)," and a study on "Memory and Silence of the Fascist War in post-1945 Italy".

 

 

Ines Valle Moran, Visiting Scholar

History as Odor: Primo Levi and the Olfactory World in Concentration Camp Narratives

 

Inés Valle Morán is a PhD candidate in the Department of Contemporary History of the Universidad Complutense of Madrid (Spain). She received her B.A in History and her M.A. in Contemporary History at the Universidad Complutense. She has been a Visiting pre-doctoral  research at the Università degli Studi of Turin (Italy) and  the Collège Inernational de Philosophie of Paris (France). Her doctoral research focuses on the testimonial narrative of Primo Levi.