In this third talk of the series we address the political topic of those who were forced to leave Italy because they were antifascists or Jews, or, often, both. Many of them fled to the United States. Two historians, Renato Camurri Italian, and Federico Finchelstein, Argentine but residing in New York, discuss about the American life of two of these intellectual figures: Gaetano Salvemini and Max Ascoli.
Renato Camurri is professor of History of contemporary Europe at the University of Verona. In recent years his research is directed toward the study of the phenomenon of exile and of cultural migration from Europe to the United States in the period between the two world wars. He has been a visiting fellow at various American scientific and academic institutions, including Harvard University. Among his most recent works dedicated to this area of research noteworthy the volume Franco Modigliani. Italy seen from America. Reflections and battles of an exile (Bollati Boringhieri, 2010), the booklet 5 of “Journal of modern Italian Studies”, 2010, Mussolini’s Gifts. Exiles from Fascist Italy, of which he was the curator and author, ha has also curated the volume Max Ascoli. Anti-fascist, intellectual, journalist (Franco Angeli, 2012) and the American letters (1927-1949) of Gaetano Salvemini (Donzelli, 2015). He is among the founders and coordinators of the annual Gaetano Salvemini Colloquium in Italian history and culture, Harvard University. He founded and is in charge of the book series, “Italiani dall’esilio”, published by Donzelli.
Federico Finchelstein is Professor of History at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. He has taught at the History Department of Brown University and he received his PhD at Cornell University. Finchelstein is the author of five books on fascism, populism. Dirty Wars, the Holocaust and Jewish history in Latin America and Europe, From Fascism to Populism in History (University of California Press, September 2017). His latest book, The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War (Oxford University Press, 2014), focuses on the theory and practice of the fascist idea throughout the twentieth century, analyzing the connections between fascism and the Holocaust, antisemitism, and the military junta’s practices of torture and state violence, with its networks of concentration camps and extermination. His previous book, Transatlantic Fascism (Duke University Press, 2010), studies the global connections between Italian and Argentine fascism. Finchelstein has published more than fifty academic articles and reviews on Fascism, Latin American Populism, the relationship between history and political theory, the Cold War, Genocide and Antisemitism in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian publications, both in collective books and specialized peer review journals in the United States, the United Kingdom, Mexico, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Israel, Brazil, and Argentina. He has been a contributor to major American, European, and Latin American newspapers and media, including The New York Times, The Guardian, Reuters, The Washington Post, Politico, Mediapart (France) El Diario (NYC) Clarin (Argentina) and Folha de S.Paulo (Brazil).
In collaboration with Renato Camurri, Professor of Contemporary History at Università di Verona and director of a series of studies entitled “Italiani dall’esilio”, published by Donzelli.
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