Pamela Ballinger

1 month ago | publicseminar.org | Sonali Chakravarti |Federico Finchelstein |Pamela Ballinger |Jacob Walters

Fernanda Torres as Eunice in I’m Still Here | Image: Adrian Teijido / Courtesy of Sony Pictures ClassicsPut on earrings. Go out for ice cream. Swim. Expose the conditions of torture. For Eunice Paiva, the protagonist of 2024 Brazilian film I’m Still Here, the fight against dictatorship has a rhythm. After being interrogated about her association with communists and terrorists, she must now try to find out where her husband is detained and work with a lawyer to get him our.

Jan 30, 2025 | publicseminar.org | Adam Tooze |Mitchell Abidor |Federico Finchelstein |Pamela Ballinger

German tank in Bosnia (1943) | Wikimedia Commons / CC0Two of the most shocking books about World War II were written by the Italian fascist litterateur and dandy Curzio Malaparte. His “novels” Kaputt and The Skin have been canonized through incorporation into the wonderful series of New York Review Classics. They are hailed by luminaries like Milan Kundera, Gary Indiana, and Rachel Kushner. Kaputt (1944) is a kaleidoscopic vision of Axis Europe’s upper class between 1941 and 1943.

Nov 26, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Pamela Ballinger

AbstractThis essay complicates pervasive claims of amnesia about Italy’s fascist and colonial pasts by examining the “migrated archives” produced by decolonization in tandem with emerging migrant archives designed to give voice to those experiences often excluded from state or other official archives.

Apr 8, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Mitchell Abidor |Federico Finchelstein |Pamela Ballinger |Joseph Matthews

The “Red Poster” of the Vichy Regime (1944) | kitchener.lord / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED On February 21, 2024, the remains of Missak Manouchian and his widow, Melinée, herself a relatively marginal member of the Resistance and best known as the recipient of her husband’s moving final letter, were granted France’s highest honor: transfer to the Pantheon, the magnificent final resting place of Rousseau, Voltaire, Zola, and others to whom the “fatherland is grateful.” It was 80 years to the day since...

Mar 5, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Oana Filip |Liviu Chelcea |Reynard Loki |Pamela Ballinger

Image Credit: “Water Pollution” by HooverStreetStudios is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.Water use has always been an indicator of social relations. In western societies, most treat drinking water as a simultaneously infinite and hyper-individualized resource. But plastic pollution and the climate emergency are forcing us to question our consumption habits. Oana Filip: How did your academic interest in water develop?