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SUMMARY:'What Remains?': Fascist and National Socialist Antiquities and Ma
 terialities from the Interwar Era to the Present Day - See Programme Below
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CONTACT:Timothy J. Schmalz
DESCRIPTION:Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany\, along with other twentieth-ce
 ntury authoritarian regimes\, have often attempted to create consensus thr
 ough propagandistic reinterpretations of the classical past. As recent sch
 olarship has shown\, the Fascist appropriation of romanità and Nazi philh
 ellenism were not only conditioned by prior cultural receptions of antiqui
 ty\, but were also a key political tool in motivating and mobilizing citiz
 ens to fulfill the aims of the fascist state.\n\nOnce Fascism and Nazism h
 ad fallen\, the material legacies of both regimes then became the object o
 f destruction\, reinterpretation and memory work. Thus\, the archaeologica
 l and architectural heritage of these regimes\, now tainted by their ideol
 ogy\, has not only suffered the consequences of damnatio memoriae in the a
 ftermath of regime change\, but continues even today to inflame contempora
 ry public debate.\n\nThis interdisciplinary workshop will bring together a
  group of international experts\, including historians of Germany and Ital
 y\, classicists\, archaeologists and art historians\, to explore the compl
 ex relationships between antiquity and materiality\, both during and after
  Fascism and National Socialism. Our aim is to examine the shifting condit
 ions of the reception of antiquity under dictatorial regimes\, and the fat
 e of fascist material legacies from the aftermath of the Second World War 
 to the present day.\n\nThe workshop is a joint collaboration between the C
 ambridge Heritage Research Centre\, the Department of Archaeology\, and th
 e Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge. It will be the first 
 of a series of workshops on the theme of Heritage and Dictatorship\, and h
 as been awarded generous funding by the new Cambridge DAAD Research Hub fo
 r German Studies. It will also form a launchpad for ‘Claiming the Classi
 cal’\, a new network for scholars interested in political appropriations
  of the classical past.\n\nOrganized by Dr. Helen Roche (Faculty of Histor
 y)\, Flaminia Bartolini (Department of Archaeology)\, and Timothy J. Schma
 lz (Faculty of History)\n\nProgramme\n\nSTART OF WORKSHOP [10-10.30 am]\nH
 elen Roche / Flaminia Bartolini: Introduction: On Fascist and National Soc
 ialist antiquities and materialities\n\nPART I - FASCIST ANTIQUITIES \n\n[
 Chair: Tim Schmalz]\n\nJan Nelis (Ghent) - On Fascist and National Sociali
 st Classicism\n\nHan Lamers (Oslo) / Bettina Reitz-Joosse (Groningen) - Ar
 chitecture and Material Culture in the Latin Literature of the ventennio f
 ascista\n\nHelen Roche (Cambridge) - German Philhellenism and the receptio
 n of Winckelmann during the Third Reich\n\nLUNCH BREAK\n\nPART II - FASCIS
 T MATERIALITIES\n\n[Chair: Helen Roche]\n\nJoshua Arthurs (West Virginia):
  Burning Paper and Crushing Bedbugs: Iconoclasm\, Memory and Expectation d
 uring the Fall of Mussolini\n\nClare Copley (Central Lancashire) - Nationa
 l Socialist Prestige Buildings and the Postwar Urban Landscape\n\nFlaminia
  Bartolini (Cambridge): From Iconoclasm to Heritage: Renegotiating the Fas
 cist Past in Contemporary Italy\n\nTEA BREAK\n\nPART III - ROUND-TABLE DIS
 CUSSION\n\n[Chair: Flaminia Bartolini]\n\nAristotle Kallis (Keele)\n\nHann
 ah Malone (FU Berlin)\n\nJimmy Fortuna (Cambridge)\n\nMartijn Eickhoff (NI
 OD)\n\nDonna Storey (Melbourne)\n\nOPEN DISCUSSION - including all of the 
 participants\n\nEND OF WORKSHOP
LOCATION:Old Library\, Sidney Sussex College
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