Presentazione del libro “Rome, 16 October 1943. History, Memory, Literature” di Mara Josi e proiezione del film “1938 – Diversi” (2018)
Giovedì 25 gennaio 2024 ore 18.00-20.00
Istituto Italiano di Cultura – Sala Pavilion
Ogni anno la rete delle Ambasciate e degli Istituti di Cultura commemora la ricorrenza del Giorno della Memoria, in ricordo di tutte le vittime dell’Olocausto, delle leggi razziali e di tutti i deportati militari e politici italiani nei lager nazisti.
Il 25 gennaio, all’Istituto Italiano di Cultura, ospiteremo Mara Josi, giovane ricercatrice dell’Università di Gent (già UCD) che presenterà la sua monografia “Rome, 16 October 1943. History, Memory, Literature” (Legenda, 2023) incentrata sulla deportazione degli ebrei italiani, in conversazione con la Prof. Ursula Fanning (UCD).
A seguire verrà proiettato, in italiano con sottotitoli in inglese, il film documentario “1938 – Diversi” (2018 – 60’) di Giorgio Treves, presentato Fuori Concorso nella Selezione Ufficiale della 75a Mostra del Cinema di Venezia e vincitore del Premio Nastro d’Argento 2019 per il Miglior Documentario.
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ABOUT THE BOOK “Rome, 16 October 1943. History, Memory, Literature” (Legenda, 2023) by Mara Josi, Series: Italian Perspectives, Volume: 60, Published by: Modern Humanities Research Association, Legenda Pages: 192. The book: Rome. Saturday 16 October 1943. This is where and when the largest single round-up and deportation of Jews from Italy happened. 1259 people were arrested by the German occupiers and gathered in a temporary detention centre for two days. They were eventually deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau from a local railway station. “Rome, 16 October 1943. History, Memory, Literature” examines Italian cultural memory of the Roman round-up through the unexplored perspective of literary writings. It uses methods of cultural memory studies to analyse the influence of literature on collective and individual memory. It demonstrates that the literary texts dedicated to the Roman round-up have been bearers of historical awareness, and channels of memory; not only outcomes of remembrance but also active ingredients in the process of forging cultural memory.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dr. Mara Josi is a FWO Postdoctoral Researcher at Ghent University. Since her PhD at the University of Cambridge (2017-2021), she has been dealing with the investigation of national, supranational, and transnational recollections of historical events in Italian 20th and 21st-century literature and culture. Her interest in such a field is the outcome of an almost decade-long engagement with Italian Holocaust culture and literary writings devoted to the processes of discrimination and persecution in Italy during the Fascist dictatorship, the Italian Social Republic, and the Nazi occupation.
ABOUT THE FILM “1938 Diversi” (2018) Genre Animation. Running time 62 min. Country Italy. Director Giorgio Treves. Screenwriter Giorgio Treves, Luca Scivoletto Music Lamberto Macchi. Synopsis: 1938-2018: eighty years have passed since the Fascist regime’s promulgation of the racial laws. An important and unfortunately still highly relevant anniversary. Eighty years ago the Italian people, who have not traditionally been anti-Semitic, were induced by Fascist propaganda to accept the persecution of a minority that had been living peacefully in Italy for centuries. What made this possible? And how much do we know about that moment in history today? The film was presented at the 75th Venice Film Festival and won the 2019 Nastro d’Argento Award for Best Documentary.
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