Modern Italian History Seminars, IHR, 2025–26

We are delighted to share the programme for this term’s IHR Modern Italian History Seminars, sponsored by ASMI. This year, the series will take place exclusively online via Zoom. Registration is required and can be completed here, where you will also find further details about each talk. 

Here is the programme:

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22 October 2025, 5.30-7 pm

The Red Brigades and Political violence in the 1970s: A discussion around the recent book by John Foot, The Red Brigades. The Terrorists who brought Italy to its knees

Prof. John Foot (University of Bristol), in conversation with Prof. Petra Terhoeven (University of Göttingen and German Historical Institute, Rome)

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5 November 2025, 5.30-7 pm

African American Women on RAI: Transmitting Female Blackness to Italian Television Audiences in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s

Dr Jessica L. Harris (St John’s University)

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3 December 2025, 5.30-7 pm

Roundtable: Neofascism and the Memory of Italy’s Years of Lead

Prof. Simone Brioni (Stony Brook University) and Dr Amy King (University of Bristol), in conversation with Prof. John Foot (University of Bristol)