CLASS HOURS:
- On site: W 2:15-5:00 PM
- Classroom: C25 W 1:30-4:15 PM
week 1 (September 5th): introductory lecture needs to be in a classroom
week 3 (September 19th): comparative materials and issues require a classroom
week 6 (October 10th): midterm review needs to be in a classroom
week 7 (October 17th) midterm and essay writing workshop need to be in a classroom
- Make-up class: week 5 (no class Wednesday, October 31st)
SCHEDULE:
Course outline and assignments.
Week 1 Introductory lecture: course content, logistics and
“The Myth of National Regeneration from Modernist Avant-Garde to Fascism”
Date Wednesday, September 5th
Meeting place Classroom C25, 1:30-4:15pm
Week 2 Birth of a Nation
Date Wednesday, September 12th
Meeting place Piazza della Repubblica in front of Santa Maria degli Angeli
Itinerary Piazza della Repubblica, Via Nazionale (Palazzo delle Esposizioni), Monument to Vittorio Emanuele
Assigned Reading Terry Kirk, “The Challenge of Tradition, 1750-1900” in The Architecture of Modern Italy. Princeton Architectural Press, 2005:
pp. 87-89; 112-122; 219- 245.
Available as an ebook via Frohring Library.
Week 3 “Revolutionary Tradition” — The State as Patron of the Arts
Date Wednesday, September 19th
Meeting Place Classroom C25, 1:30-4:15pm
Assigned Reading Marla Stone, “The State as Patron: Making Official Culture in Fascist Italy” in Fascist Visions Art and Ideology in France and Italy,
Princeton University Press, 1997: pp. 205-238.
Availablein the Frohring Library: N8846.F8F3
Week 4 “Revolutionary Tradition” — Painting and Sculpture
Date Wednesday, September 26th
Meeting Place 2:15pm at the exit of Metro A Manzoni stop
Itinerary Collezione Cerasi, Palazzo Merulana
Assigned Reading Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi, “Introduction” in Fascist Spectacle:
The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini’s Italy, Berkeley, 1997:
pp. 1 – 14.
Available as an ebook via Frohring Library.
Week 5a Fascist Socialism in the Garbatella
Date *** Monday, October 1st***
Meeting Place 2: 15pm At the exit of Metro B Garbatella stop
Itinerary Garbatella from Piazza Benedetto Brin to Piazza Eugenio Biffi.
Assigned Reading Richard Etlin, “A Modern Vernacular Architecture” in Modernism in Italian Architecture, 1890 – 1940, MIT Press, 1991: pp. 129-161
Available as an ebook via Frohring Library.
Week 5b Prati: A Military History
Date Wednesday, October 3rd
Meeting Place Piazza Mazzini
Itinerary Della Vittoria (post office), Piazza della Libertà, Casa Madre dei Mutilati, Museo dei Carabinieri
Assigned Reading Roger Griffin, ‘I Am No Longer Human. I Am A Titan. A God!’
The Fascist Quest to Regenerate Time, E-seminars in History,
Institute of historical Research, University of London School of
Advanced Study (n.d.)
Available as a PDFhere:
https://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/literature/books_in_PDF/Griffin%20Roger%20-%20The%20Fascit%20Quest%20to%20Regenerate%20Time.pdf
Week 6 Fascist Modernisms&
Mid-term review
Date Wednesday, October 10th
Meeting Place Classroom, 1:30-4:15pm
Assigned Reading Mark Antliff, ‘Fascism, Modernism, and Modernity,’ The Art Bulletin (March, 2002): pp. 148 – 169.
Available as an e-article via Frohring Library.
Week 7 Mid-term examination(1 hr 30 mins) &
Essay writing workshop (1hr 15 min)
Date Wednesday, October 17th
Meeting Place Classroom, 1:30-4:15pm
Week 8 Making History Present: Archaeological excavations under Fascism
Looking/writing exercise due incClass (hardcopy)
Date Wednesday, October 24th
Meeting Place Largo di Torre Argentina, in front the Feltrinelli library
Itinerary Largo di Torre Argentina, Via delle Botteghe Oscure, Piazza Venezia and Palazzo Venezia, Via dei Fori Imperiali
Assigned Reading Charles Burdett, ‘Journeys to the other spaces of Fascist Italy’, Modern Italy, vol. 5, no. 1(2000): pp. 7 – 23.
Onreserveat Frohring library.
Week 9 no class Wednesday October 31st
(this lecture is anticipated by a make-up class on September 21st to visit the Collezione Cerasi)
Week 10 Fascism and the Cult of the Body: Il Foro Italico
Date Wednesday, November 7th
Meeting Place In front of the obelisk at the Foro Italico
Itinerary Academy of Physical Education and Marble Stadium;
Obelisk and Foro Mussolini
Assigned Reading Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi, excerpt from Fascist Spectacle:
The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini’s Italy(op. cit.),
pp. 68-78.
Available as an ebook via Frohring Library.
Week 11 Materials and Design: Casa GIL, Testaccio neighborhood,
Ostiense Post Office, Stazione Ostiense
Date Wednesday, November 14th
Meeting Place Viale Trastevere in front of the Ministry for Public Instruction
Itinerary Casa GIL, walk through Testaccio, Ostiense Post Office, Stazione Ostiense
Assigned Reading Jeffrey Schnapp, ‘The Fabric of Modern Times’, Critical Inquiry,
vol. 24, no. 1 (1997): pp. 191 - 245.
Available as an e-articlevia Frohring Library.
Week 12 Empire Building I: E42 (the EUR district)
Date Wednesday, November 21st
Meeting Place At the exit of Metro B Magliana stop
Itinerary “Square Colosseum”, Restaurant Building, Expo Building,
Palazzo dei Congressi, Piazza Marconi
Assigned Reading Mia Fuller, ‘Wherever You Go, There You Are: Fascist Plans for
the colonial City of Addis Ababa and the Colonising Suburb of EUR ‘42’, Journal of Contemporary History(special issue on the aesthetics of Fascism), vol. 31, no. 2 (1996): pp. 397 – 418.
Available as an e-article via Frohring Library.
Week 13 The Cult of Death under the regime: Piazza Augusto Imperatore
Date Wednesday, November 28th
Meeting Place Via Portico d’Ottavia, in front of the ancient monument
Itinerary Piazza Augusto Imperatore and the Ara Pacis
Assigned Reading Anne Thomas Wilkins, ‘Augustus, Mussolini, and the Parallel Imagery of Empire’, in Claudia Lazzaro and Roger J. Crum (Ed.), Donatello among the Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the Visual Culture of Fascist Italy,Cornell University Press, 2004: pp. 53 – 65.
Availablein the Frohring Library: N8846.I8 D66
Week 14 The 1960s & Postmodern Rome
Term Paper Due in Class (hardcopy)
Date Wednesday, December 5th
Meeting Place Villaggio Olimpico
Itinerary Villaggio Olimpico, Palazzetto dello Sport, Auditorium, MAXXI.
Week 15 DATE, TIME AND LOCATION OF FINAL EXAM TO BE ANNOUNCED
(Final exam session for Fall 2018 runs Monday, December 10th to Friday, December 14th)