Francesca Billiani's Inaugural Lecture – 'The Aesthetics of Modernisation: Italy and the Short Twentieth-Century'
| Dates: | 10 April 2024 |
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| Times: | 16:00 - 18:00 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public |
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Throughout the Twentieth Century, Italy has struggled with the imperative of becoming a modern Nation-State. This lecture will focus on some key historical and political junctions – such as World War One, the Fascist Regime, and the economic boom from the late 1950s to the late 1960s.
Join Professor Francesca Billiani for a fascinating discussion of how diverse political processes of modernization have elicited responses in architecture, the visual arts, and literature – with examples of the unstable link between aesthetic experimentations and political transformations, and illustrations of how they interrogate our perception of history.
Event details:
4.15pm – welcome drinks
5pm to 6pm – Professor Francesca Billiani’s inaugural lecture
6pm – End of inaugural
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Martin Harris Centre
Bridgeford Street
Manchester
