Organized with the Graduate Studies Seminar.
This lecture is related to an exhibition of photographs and films curated by David Forgacs and first shown at the British School at Rome (2010) and then in New York (2012) as well as to his book Italy’s margins (Cambridge University Press, 2014; Italian edition, Laterza, 2015). It contends that certain photographic acts contribute to the creation or reproduction of ideas of social marginality and exclusion in united Italy. It examines this process with examples of photographs of urban poverty, colonies, the rural south, mental hospitals and Roma encampments.