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Giovanni Contini
Director of Audiovisual Archives for the Region of Tuscany, Italy "Memories from the Italian Civil War: Partisans, Fascists, Survivors of Nazi Massacres and the Shoah" Monday, 20 November 2006 4:00 p.m. 206 Ingraham Hall Sponsored by the Center for European Studies The Center for German and European Studies and the Legacies of Violence Research Circle Giovanni Contini is Director of Audiovisual Archives for the Region of Tuscany, and an internationally renowned oral historian. He has published widely both in Italian and English on historical memory, the use of oral and video sources, and the social, cultural, and political history of modern Italy. His books include La memoria divisa (Rizzoli, 1997), a study of conflicting memories of the 1944 Nazi massacre at Civitella in Val di Chiana, Tuscany, which won the annual book prize of the Italian Society of Contemporary Historians; Memoria e storia. Le officine Galileo nel racconto degli operai, dei tecnici, dei manager (FrancoAngeli, 1985); Verba manent. L'uso delle fonti orali in storiografia (with Alfredo Martini, Nuova Italia Scientifica, 1993); and Aristocrazia contadina. Sulla complessità della società mezzadrile: fattoria, famiglie, individui (Protagon, 2005).
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