The Modern Europe Colloquium presents Pamela Ballinger, Professor of History and the Fred Cuny Chair in the History of Human Rights, University of Michigan, on “Fascism and Imperial Excess.”
Location: HQ Rm 132, 320 York St.
The Modern Europe Colloquium is generously sponsored by the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund; and the European Studies Council of the Yale MacMillan Center
Bio: Pamela Ballinger is Professor of History and the Fred Cuny Chair in the History of Human Rights at the University of Michigan. She is the author of History in Exile: Memory and Identity at the Borders of the Balkans (Princeton, 2003), La Memoria dell’Esilio (Veltro, 2010), and the World Refugees Made: Decolonization and the Foundation of Postwar Italy (Cornell, 2020). During a fellowship this academic year at the Institute for Advanced Study, she is at work on two book projects: An Intimate Sea: Sovereignties, Cartographies and Nature along the Modern Adriatic and Materializing Mussolini’s Mediterranean: Infrastructures of Fascist Empire.