Thursday, February 25, 2:30-4:00pm (Zoom)
Dominique Reill, University of Miami
Book talk on The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire (Harvard University Press, 2020)
The Fiume Crisis recasts what we know about the birth of fascism, the rise of nationalism, and the fall of empire after World War I by telling the story of the three-year period when the Adriatic city of Fiume (today Rijeka, in Croatia) generated an international crisis.
Thursday, March 11, 3:30-5:00pm (Zoom)
Pamela Ballinger, Michigan
Book talk on The World Refugees Made: Decolonization and the Foundation of Postwar Italy (Cornell University Press. 2020)
In The World Refugees Made, Pamela Ballinger explores Italy's remaking in light of the loss of a wide range of territorial possessions—colonies, protectorates, and provinces—in Africa and the Balkans, the repatriation of Italian nationals from those territories, and the integration of these "national refugees" into a country devastated by war and overwhelmed by foreign displaced persons from Eastern Europe.
*This series is organized by the Department of History.
