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In dialogue with Global Visions of ’68 (spring 2024), this event focuses on the screening of Gillo Pontecorvo’s film The Battle of Algiers (1967). The goal is to introduce this film to new audiences and understand its connections to the present. This very popular film was the subject of criticism when it won the best movie award at the Venice Film Festival. On this occasion, part of the Italian press accused the film of being political, claiming that art was supposed to be apolitical. Keeping all this in mind along with the impression of the audience, this even will foster a conversation on how to represent anti-colonialism.

Dr. Giusi Russo is an associate professor of History at MCCC, Blue Bell, PA. She is interested in the bodily representations of colonialism as well as in the history of postwar leftist solidarity between Europe and the global South. Her published works include articles and chapters on imperial cultural history and a monograph titled, Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946-1975 (University of Nebraska Press, 2023). She is currently working on a book project on the aesthetics of Third Worldism in Italy under contract with Routledge.