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DESCRIPTION:-------- WEDS TALKS:ARCHAEOLOGICAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE FASCIST 
 APPROPRIATION  OF ROMAN LIBYA [1] ----------------------------------------
 ----------\n\n**\n\n*ABSTRACT:* Roman archaeological material played a cen
 tral role in Italian  Fascist propaganda: Mussolini presented his regime a
 s an extension or rebirth  of the Roman empire and sponsored major excavat
 ion and restoration projects  in and beyond Rome. Italian colonial archaeo
 logy in Libya extended this  project and archaeological remains were posit
 ioned as Italian cultural  heritage and mobilized to justify colonial occu
 pation by drawing explicit  parallels between ancient Roman and modern Ita
 lian\n\n\nexpansion. This talk examines the important role photography pla
 yed in this  Fascist appropriation of the Roman past in Libya; by tracing
  histories of the  production, circulation, reception, and assembly int
 o archives of such  images, I argue that archaeological photographs were 
 not merely documentary  objects but rather functioned aspolitical tools wh
 ich transformed Libya’s  archaeological heritage into monumental symbols o
 f Italian Fascism.\n\n*BIO:* Taylor Carr-Howard is a Ph.D. candidate in Ar
 chaeology at UCLA.  Her dissertation, “Archaeological Photographs and the
  (De)Colonial  Imagination,” examines the role that archaeological photog
 raphy played in  the history of French and Italian colonial archaeology in
  North Africa  and,drawing on this history,explores theways in which thi
 s photographic  archivecan be used to decolonize the discipline of classic
 al archaeology. Her  research has been supported by the Archaeological Ins
 titute of America.\n\nDate: Wednesday, May 20, 2026 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Contact Name: Sumiji Takahahshi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Conta
 ct Phone: 310-825-4169\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Contact Email: sutakahashi@ioa.uc
 la.edu\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Registration: registration not required\n\n\n\n\n
 \n\n\n\n Events Tags: Pizza Talk [2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Location: Fowler A2
 22 (Seminar Room)\n\n[1] https://www.ioa.ucla.edu/content/weds-talksarchae
 ological-photography-and-fascist-appropriation-roman-libya [2] https://www
 .ioa.ucla.edu/event-tags/pizza-talk
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LOCATION:Fowler A222 (Seminar Room)
SUMMARY:WEDS TALKS:Archaeological Photography and the Fascist Appropriation
  of Roman  Libya
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.ioa.ucla.edu/content/weds-talksarchaeological-phot
 ography-and-fascist-appropriation-roman-libya
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