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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: Histories of Violence: Killing, Communication and Memory in United Italy Wednesday, September 27, 2017 Episodes of public violence have recurred at several key moments in the formation and consolidation of the modern Italian state: wars of unification, colonial wars, labor protests and social unrest repressed by police or the military, civil conflicts during the rise and subsequent fall of fascism, terrorism, stragismo, mafia violence. The lecture examines the long history of violence in contemporary Italy, from 1848 to 2015, and suggests that several of these instances of public violence are linked to problems of legitimation of political authority. The lecture looks also at the communication and transmission of memory in connecting or separating different moments of violence, as well as at the near-total erasure of certain episodes of mass violence from the historical record. Time: 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Location: Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Sponsor: Division of Languages and Literature; Human Rights Program; Italian Studies Program; Literature Program Contact: Franco Baldasso. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 845-758-7337 If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: http://www.bard.edu/academics/programs/literature_dev/events