On Friday 12 June, there will be a workshop on ‘Historical Cultures of Extremism’, organised by the Histories and Cultures of Conflict research group.  The event will include PhD students working on the multi-institutional ‘Visual Cultures of Fascism’ project, as well as speakers from the universities of Liverpool and Manchester.  Proceedings begin at 10.50am, in 3.13 Grosvenor East. 

10.50am Welcome

11am Panel One – Visual Cultures of Fascism. Chair: Chris Millington (MMU)

Alexandra Niculae (Liverpool), ‘Between old and new visual strategies: The visual culture of the Greater Romania Party (1991–2000)”.

Dario Sciascia (Keele), ‘On Fascism’s cultural assault on liberal democracy through modernist photography of Italianità’.

Rika Canaway (MMU), ‘Democratic depictions of an anti-democratic Republic: Photography, respectability and Croix-de-Feu in ‘Le Document’ (1935)’.

12.15pm Lunch

1pm Panel Two: Chair: Roland Clark (Liverpool)

Anna Saunders (Liverpool) ‘The slow path to remembrance: Memorial spaces and post-unification right-wing violence in eastern German cityscapes’.

Claire Morelon (Manchester) ‘War and revolution from the streetscapes: the case of Prague during the First World War’.

2 pm close