This essay explores the & laquo;moment & raquo; of Italian Fascism and the mobility of fascist models between 1919 and 1933. It emphasizes practices, exchanges, adaptations, and hybridizations linking Fascist Italy and Kemalist Turkey. By analyzing political, institutional, and cultural transfers, it argues that fascism functioned as an unavoidable paradigm for Kemalism, revealing a significant proximity between the two regimes.
The essay surveys key historiographical trends on organized Pan-Africanism, using W.E.B. Du Bois's Pan-African Congresses and Marcus Garvey's Unia as a privileged vantage point. It traces three phases: early narratives produced by activists and leaders; wide-ranging syntheses produced during decolonization and its aftermath; and recent scholarship that adopts a smaller analytical scale to explore underexamined networks, grassroots actors, and transnational circulations. The essay highlights how changing analytical scales have reshaped interpretations of Pan-Africanism.
The essay presents a wide-ranging historical exploration of terrestrial borders, later extending to maritime frontiers, from antiquity to the contemporary world. It examines how boundaries have been marked, administered, celebrated and contested, and how they have shaped, and been shaped by, political authority, local practice, migration, memory and monument. Tracing both continuities and significant transformations, it illuminates the enduring material, legal and imaginative power of borders and the evolving perceptions of the borderlands they create.
& laquo;Cancel cultured has become a key yet deeply contested notion in contemporary culture wars, mobilizing history, memory, and identity in political struggles over the present. This roundtable brings together Valeria Deplano, Giovanni Orsina, Deborah Paci, and Silvana Patriarca to discuss & laquo;Cancel cultured as a historical and historiographical problem, examining its genealogy, its uses in public history, and its implications for historical method. Moving between Us and Italian debates, the discussion reflects on moralization, presentism, and the evolving relationship between past and present.
