The Afterlives of Fascist Monuments in Contemporary Italy

Professor and historian Joshua Arthurs traces the afterlife of Fascist monuments, architecture, and iconography, from the fall of Benito Mussolini's regime to the present day. In this lecture, Arthurs explores how these sites have been interpreted—as infrastructure to be adapted, heritage to be conserved, and problematic symbols to be erased—and considers the implications of these debates for contemporary Italian society and culture.

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Joshua Arthurs
Joshua Arthurs is an Associate Professor of History and Museum Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of “Excavating Modernity: The Roman Past in Fascist Italy” (Cornell University Press, 2012) and the forthcoming “Forty-Five Days: The Fall of Mussolini and Italy's Reckoning with Fascism” (Oxford University Press, 2027). He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, past President of the Society for Italian Historical Studies, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Modern Italian Studies.

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