@benecarnaghi.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of History @usf.edu 📚 previously postdoc @durhamhistory.bsky.social & @ucddublin.bsky.social | PhD @cornelluniversity.bsky.social 👩🎓 Historian of spies, humor, and fascism in modern Europe 🕵️ Website: https://benedettacarnaghi.com
Initial slide of the third EDGE workshop - University of South Florida, February 27, 2026
Ready for the third session of the EDGE workshop! Looking forward to more discussion about teaching and student engagement 👩🏫 @usf.edu
27.02.2026 14:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I contributed a chapter on Silvio Trentin’s activism in the antifascist movements from 1926 to 1935: www.academia.edu/145880235/La...
A big thank you to Franco Ippolito for his editorial work!
I’m delighted to see that our book, “L'antifascismo di Silvio Trentin. Diritto, etica e politica” (“Silvio Trentin’s Antifascism: Law, Ethics, and Politics”), has finally been published: www.libreriauniversitaria.it/antifascismo...
10.01.2026 00:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Poster of the panel about “Neofascism and Democracy” at the 38th International Meeting of Social Sciences, part of Guadalajara’s 2025 International Book Fair.
It is a great honor to be invited by the #UniversidaddeGuadalajara to speak about “Neofascism and Democracy” at @filguadalajara.bsky.social. I look forward to discussing the resurgence of authoritarian ideologies with co-panelists Silvia Bolgherini and José Florencio Fernández Santillán.
05.12.2025 18:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Benedetta Carnaghi presents a paper entitled “Persecuted Satirists: How Dissident Laughter Could Get You in Trouble, 1922-1945” at the 91st Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association in St. Petersburg, Florida.
The panel on “Courts and the State” with Benedetta Carnaghi, Antonio Grilli, and Stephen Stillwell at the 91st Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association in St. Petersburg, Florida.
A photo of the sunset in St. Petersburg, Florida, on Friday, November 7, 2025.
As a 1st-time presenter at @thesouthernsha.bsky.social’s Annual Meeting, I thoroughly enjoyed the conference and our panel on “Courts and the State” with Antonio Grilli & Stephen Stillwell. St. Pete treated us to a beautiful sunset after a long day of work #2025SHA
12.11.2025 18:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Talk at Café con Tampa on October 31, 2025
Talk at Café con Tampa on October 31, 2025
Talk at Café con Tampa on October 31, 2025
I had so much fun speaking at #CafeconTampa this morning! It was wonderful to meet so many engaged members of the Tampa community from all walks of life. Thank you for asking brilliant questions and giving me excellent suggestions about my work 🙏
31.10.2025 16:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Are you in Tampa? Want to enjoy breakfast and have an early morning chat about spies? Join us at the Portico this Friday, October 31, at 8:00 am!
Tickets available here: www.mytbtickets.com/events/caf-c...
My History Dept. @usf.edu @casatusf.bsky.social is hiring for a new position in US Public History: networks.h-net.org/jobs/69272/u...
Applications from scholars with experience or interest in community-engaged practice and/or oral history are especially encouraged. Please share widely! #Skystorians
My History Dept. @usf.edu @casatusf.bsky.social is hiring for a new position in Early Modern Europe: networks.h-net.org/jobs/69273/u...
It is a wonderful research-focused opportunity: a 2-2 teaching load and the chance to teach graduate courses and supervise graduate students #Skystorians
2 / I am helping a student from @usf.edu who is applying for a Fulbright graduate study grant and plans to hold the award at @durham-university.bsky.social in the UK. If you were a successful Fulbright recipient, I would be very grateful if I could ask you a few questions. Thank you so much!
01.09.2025 15:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 01 / Do I know anyone who was a successful recipient of a Fulbright scholarship?
01.09.2025 15:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Benedetta Carnaghi and Ben Fried at the orientation for new faculty of the USF College of Arts and Sciences
All the new faculty members at the 2025 New Faculty Orientation at USF
We officially started our new roles as Assistant Professors at the @usf.edu @casatusf.bsky.social. We are excited to join a wonderful group of new faculty members and look forward to the adventures ahead!
24.08.2025 18:42 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Why does Hitler still cast a shadow over the world? Benedetta Carnaghi (@benecarnaghi.bsky.social) features in this BBC feature: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzXM...
16.06.2025 15:33 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
View of Tübingen
Huge thanks to Amanda Hsieh and Friedemann Pestel for inviting me to participate in a workshop that brings together historians and musicologists! We reflect on the recent global turn in fascism studies, and we do it in the most beautiful place! @unituebingen.bsky.social
10.06.2025 15:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We have reached the final roundtable of the ‘Power of Laughter. Laughing about Power’ conference at the @centremarcbloch.bsky.social, feat. David Slucki and Alexandra Oeser, and moderated by Aurélia Kalisky. Huge thanks to both organizers and presenters for such a rich and stimulating conference!
16.05.2025 15:53 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Communication d’André Gunther sur Tintin au Congo - conférence « Pouvoir du rire, rire du pouvoir », Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, 16 mai 2025
Très belle communication de @gunthert.bsky.social sur Tintin au Congo ! Impossible de ne pas penser à @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social et ton amour pour Tintin 😉
16.05.2025 12:57 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Benedetta Carnaghi’s presentation at the ‘Power of Laughter. Laughing about Power’ conference - Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, May 16, 2025
Olga Galanova’s presentation at the ‘Power of Laughter. Laughing about Power’ conference - Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, May 16, 2025
Wonderful to speak about antifascist satire in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany & Vichy France, in conversation with Olga Galanova’s paper on political laughter in the GDR, contemporary Russia, Belarus & China. Sometimes, humor makes the unbearable bearable @centremarcbloch.bsky.social
16.05.2025 12:24 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
😂 Power of Laughter / Laughing about Power
📆 Two-day international conference at Centre Marc Bloch
on May 15 and 16 in Englisch, French and German
Find more information and the full programme here: cmb.hu-berlin.de/kalender/ter...
Schedule of the “Power of Laughter. Laughing about Power” conference - May 14-16, 2025 - Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin
Alexandra Oeser’s conference introduction
Delighted to present my research on ‘Persecuted Satirists: How Anti-Fascist Laughter Could Get You in Trouble, 1922-45’ at the ‘Power of Laughter. Laughing about Power’ conference at the @centremarcbloch.bsky.social. We even have a box of jokes that is going around! That looks very promising 😉
15.05.2025 07:38 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Colloque "Pouvoir du rire/Rire des pouvoirs" au @centremarcbloch.bsky.social, Berlin, les 15 et 16 mai prochains!
cmb.hu-berlin.de/kalender/ter...
Photo of the Adidas Runners London group’s tempo session at Lincoln’s Inn Fields on 24 April 2025
One last tempo session with the lovely #AdidasRunners bunch yesterday and… I am marathon ready!
I am so excited to run the @manchestermarathon.bsky.social for #TeamMND @mndassoc.bsky.social. Here is the link to my fundraiser: www.justgiving.com/page/benedet...
Please help us reach the goal ❤️
A wonderful conference comes to an end. We laughed, we learned, we ranged across media, languages, periods. It was such a pleasure to listen to our participants and their groundbreaking research. Deep thanks to them, to our audience, to @durhamuniversity.bsky.social and @durhamhistory.bsky.social!
29.03.2025 17:26 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
And the last speaker of our conference on “Laughter as a Political Coping Mechanism”: Aidan Jones! Aidan is presenting on “The Death Penalty, Humour, and the United States.”
29.03.2025 16:21 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
A. Austin Garvey deepens our focus on Ukraine, comparing wartime Punch cartoons and contemporary Ukrainian memes in “Visual Humour in European Home Fronts: Britain and Ukraine.”
29.03.2025 16:01 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Zlata Osipova speaks first, on “We Against Them: Humor as a Unifying Force in Ukraine’s Resistance.” How does humour build solidarity and a collective opposition?
29.03.2025 15:48 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0The final panel begins! “Humour in Extremis” will go from Ukraine to the United States, with presentations from A. Austin Garey, Zlata Osipova, and Aidan Jones.
29.03.2025 15:47 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Such an engaging, illuminating panel! (And we’re all still laughing.)
29.03.2025 15:10 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Simbarashe bringing the house down with popular Zimbabwean jokes from Whatsapp and Facebook (social media a release for so much pent-up expression)
29.03.2025 14:52 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Rounding off our panel, and taking us into the world of social media, Simbarashe Marowa and Ushe Kufakurinani present on “Social Media and Playful Engagements on the Political Economy: The Case of Zimbabwe”!
29.03.2025 14:33 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Radio comedy gave listeners a way to address the past and negotiate the transition to the postwar world, Katharina argues in her terrific paper.
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