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Ilyas鈥檚 PhD focuses on the debates which led to the creation of an imperial architecture in fascist Italy between the proclamation of the Empire in 1936 and its fall in 1943.
His thesis aims to shed light upon the fascist regime鈥檚 attempt to demonstrate cultural hegemony through architecture and urban planning, and to analyse the apparent shift towards a more monumental and classically-inspired architecture. The purpose is to understand the ideological connections between politics and aesthetics which facilitated the proclamation of the Italian Empire in 1936, and which were expressed through the planning of the Empire鈥檚 capital cities, colonial settlements, citt脿 nuove (new towns), and exhibition sites.聽

Overall, Ilyas鈥檚 research looks at the instrumentalisation of the built environment, and seeks to highlight how it became a propaganda tool for the celebration of imperialism, nationalism and even fascist ideologies up to the eve of the Second World War.

PhD

厂耻辫别谤惫颈蝉辞谤蝉:听Axel K枚rner and Edward Denison
Working title:聽'E42: The Fascist claim for universal authority'
Expected completion date:聽2022

Conference papers and presentations

• 鈥淐irculating the review Difesa della Razza. Racist propaganda and Empire in Fascist Italy鈥� in Culture, Things, and Empire, CTE Virtual Seminar Series, July 2022
• 鈥淔rom Fascism to Communism: The afterlife of the Ufficio Centrale per l鈥橢dilizia dell鈥橝lbania鈥� in L鈥橧talia e il mondo post-coloniale: Politiche di cooperazione e mobilit脿 tra decolonizzazioni e Guerra Fredda, SISSCO - Societ脿 Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea, Universit脿 di Cagliari, June 2022
• 鈥淒isplaying the opera del regime. Imperial propaganda and architectural depictions in newsreels and magazines鈥� Building the Exotic Through Transmedial Practices, Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, May 2022
• 鈥淓42: The EUR and the idea of Empire鈥� in ArCHeoM, Swiss Archaeology in the Western World Congress, Rome, February 2022
• 鈥淚mperialist propaganda and architectural publications in the course of the svolta totalitaria鈥� in Costruire la Nuova Italia: Miti di Roma e Fascismo, Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa / Newcastle University, January 2022
• 鈥淓rased Memories: Italian colonialism and its material legacies鈥� in I Venerdi Pomeriggi series, Istituto Svizzero di Roma, January 2022
• 鈥淚l nostro programma: Architettura and the Union of Fascist Architect鈥檚 Quest for Power鈥� in DocTalks, Platform for Architectural History Researchers, ETH Zurich, November 2021
• 鈥淩omanit脿, Civilt脿, Razza: Urbanistica fascista and the rhetorics of imperialism鈥� in Roma Calling, Istituto Svizzero di Roma, September 2021
• 鈥淭races of erased memories: Italian colonialism and architecture in Albania鈥� in Dissonant Echoes of History: Contested and Divided Memory in 21st Century, Europe Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley, March 2021
• 鈥淭aking Control. Imperialist propaganda and architectural publications鈥� in History and Memory of Italy鈥檚 colonial past, Modern Italian History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research (IHR), London, February 2021
• 鈥淲orthy of the Mother Country: British Pavilions on the Eve of the Second World War鈥� in Building Ruptures, Published in conjunction with the Architectural History Symposium, London: The Bartlett School of Architecture, October 2017

Prizes and Scholarships

• Doctoral Scholarship at the Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom given by the Max Weber Foundation, 2022
• Awardee at the British School at Rome given by the Raleigh Radford Rome Award, 2022
• Fellowship at the Istituto Svizzero di Roma, 2021
• 鈥淏rilliant Research-based Education鈥�, given by the 香港六合彩中特网 Student Choice Award, June 2021