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Please join us in the Transnational Resources Centre (FAB 4.76) at 3pm on Tuesday 10th February for our first Italian Studies research seminar of this term with guest speaker, Dr Fabio Simonetti. His talk will be in English and the material is likely to be of interest to researchers and teachers across the Faculty.

Title: Occupying liberated Italy: Living with the British 

Dr Fabio Simonetti has taught Italian and European History at the University of Reading, where he completed his PhD in Italian Studies in 2021, and at Brunel University of London, where he worked as Lecturer in European History and Politics until 2025. His research focuses on the social history of mid-twentieth-century Italy, with particular attention to soldier–civilian and gendered encounters in military occupation contexts, and the broader social impact of occupation on people鈥檚 lives.

He has published widely, including two monographs, on the history and memory of both the German and Allied occupations of Italy. His recent work includes an article in Modern Italy titled '鈥淔or me, it was life-changing鈥�: the Italian contact zone of occupation and the encounter with otherness in oral history recollections', and his latest monograph, , recently published with Oxford University Press, which he will discuss in his talk.

10 February (week 5), 5 pm: Simon Smets (KU Leuven), title tbc.