CYCLE: Lost Horizons
SPEAKER: Valeria Deplano (University of Cagliari)
DATE: October 20, 2025 - 6:00 p.m.
WHERE: VIVE - Vittoriano and Palazzo Venezia, Sala del Refettorio (Palazzo Venezia)
Every colonial project needs imaginaries, ideas, sometimes dreams, capable of convincing both the soldiers who must carry it out and the civilian population who must support it from home. The lecture will illustrate how Italians learned to imagine Africa—even without ever seeing it—from the 19th century up to the establishment of the empire under Fascist Italy.