Dr Tommaso Zerbi
Talks
Image courtesy of Commission für Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien
My recent speaking engagements include:
2026
conversation with Maddalena Cataldi on L’art des peuples sans art: Une histoire des gravures préhistoriques du Mont Bégo (1868–1939), Rome Modern Italy Seminars, Academia Belgica, Rome (14 May)
2026
“Renovatio Imperii: Italian Fascism and Byzantium in Colonial Africa,” Annual International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Mexico City (15–19 April)
2025
“Printing Parliaments: Visualizing Italian Parliamentary Architecture,” Visual Representations of Parliamentarism since 1789: A European Panorama conference, German Historical Institute in Paris (26–28 November)
2025
“Lo strano caso di Villa Smith al Palatino: (Ri)costruire un neomedievalismo imperiale,” Roma neomedievale tra Otto e Novecento conference, Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo, Società Romana di Storia Patria, and Ècole Française de Rome (5–7 November)
2025
“The Middle Ages on the Move: Architecture and the Politics of Temporality in Colonial Libya,” Art, Mobility and Border Politics between Italy and North Africa: 1869–1993 workshop, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome (25–26 September)
2025
“Architettura e storicismo come crocevia di istituzioni della colonialità italiana dal Mediterraneo al Corno d’Africa,” Biennial Congress of the Associazione Italiana di Storia Urbana, twelfth edition, Università degli studi di Palermo (10–12 September)
2025
“Rex Utriusque Siciliae: Medievalism, Architecture, and Revolution,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, sixtieth edition, Kalamazoo (8–10 May)
2025
“Historicity, Politics, and the Working Class,” IDEAS Roundtable, Annual International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, seventy-eighth edition, Atlanta (30 April–4 May)
2025
“A Tale of Three Empires: Architecture, Rome, and the Cultural Politics of Historicism from the British to Mussolini,” Using the Past for the Present: Medieval Narratives in Modern Political and Religious Discourse conference, John Cabot University, Rome (28–29 March)