At 10:45 PM on July 25th, 1943, Italians learned that Benito Mussolini had been removed from power. Almost instantaneously, it seemed, Fascism had been consigned to the past tense. In this talk, Joshua Arthurs explores the ways in which Italians of all stripes responded to the regime’s collapse, and how they confronted the relationships, memories, and legacies left behind by two decades of dictatorship. More broadly, he is interested in the lived experience of regime change, as well as its implications for memory politics in Italy and beyond.

Arthurs is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellow in Modern Italian Studies at the American Academy in Rome and associate professor in the Department of History at West Virginia University.

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