Sep 22
CANCELLED TALK Michael Ebner,Fascist Italy's Conquest of Eastern Libya
Tue, September 22, 2020
• 4:30pm
- 5:30pm (1h) • Leighton 304
MAYBE RESCHEDULED IN FALL 2020-2021?
Genocide in the Desert: Fascist Italy's Conquest of Eastern Libya, 1922-34
a public talk, will be presented by Michael Ebner, Visiting Spring term Distinguished Benedict Professor of History
Wednesday, May 6th, 2020 [MAYBE SEPT 22, 2020?]
4:30 pm
Leighton 304
The Fascist ‘re-conquest’ of Cyrenaica during the 1920s featured escalating levels of atrocity. Ultimately, colonial military authorities decided to destroy the native population’s religious, political, economic, and cultural patterns of life, mainly by interning civilians in desert concentration camps. This talk attempts to uncover the motives behind Fascist atrocity. Was there anything unique about Fascist colonial violence? What purpose did this wholesale destruction serve?
Co-sponsored by European Studies, Middle East Studies, and the History Department Herbert P. Lefler fund. Contact host: David Tompkins dtompkins@carleton.edu
Free and open to the public - everyone is welcome - please mark your calendars!
Event Contact: Nikki Lamberty