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Benedetta Carnaghi

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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

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Benedetta Carnaghi @benecarnaghi.bsky.social · Aug 24

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!

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

Benedetta Carnaghi @benecarnaghi.bsky.social · Sep 1

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!

Benedetta Carnaghi @benecarnaghi.bsky.social · Sep 1

1 / Do I know anyone who was a successful recipient of a Fulbright scholarship?

Benedetta Carnaghi @benecarnaghi.bsky.social · Aug 24

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Durham History @durhamhistory.bsky.social · Jun 16

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...

Why does Hitler still cast a shadow over the world? - BBC World Service

YouTube video by BBC World Service

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Benedetta Carnaghi @benecarnaghi.bsky.social · Jun 10

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

Benedetta Carnaghi @benecarnaghi.bsky.social · May 16

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!

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Benedetta Carnaghi @benecarnaghi.bsky.social · May 16

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 😉

Communication d’André Gunther sur Tintin au Congo - conférence « Pouvoir du rire, rire du pouvoir », Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, 16 mai 2025

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Benedetta Carnaghi @benecarnaghi.bsky.social · May 16

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

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

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Centre Marc Bloch @centremarcbloch.bsky.social · May 9

😂 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...

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Benedetta Carnaghi @benecarnaghi.bsky.social · May 15

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 😉

Schedule of the “Power of Laughter. Laughing about Power” conference - May 14-16, 2025 - Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin

Alexandra Oeser’s conference introduction

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André Gunthert @gunthert.bsky.social · May 10

Colloque "Pouvoir du rire/Rire des pouvoirs" au @centremarcbloch.bsky.social, Berlin, les 15 et 16 mai prochains!
cmb.hu-berlin.de/kalender/ter...

Die Macht des Lachens/Lachen über die Mächtigen

Humour is generally overlooked in the analysis of political discourse and practices. Yet satire and caricature accompany, but also criticise the manifestations of power since immemorial times....

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Benedetta Carnaghi @benecarnaghi.bsky.social · Apr 25

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 ❤️

Photo of the Adidas Runners London group’s tempo session at Lincoln’s Inn Fields on 24 April 2025

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Benedetta Carnaghi @benecarnaghi.bsky.social · Mar 29

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!

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Benedetta Carnaghi @benecarnaghi.bsky.social · Mar 29

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.”

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Benedetta Carnaghi @benecarnaghi.bsky.social · Mar 29

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.”

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Benedetta Carnaghi @benecarnaghi.bsky.social · Mar 29

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?

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Benedetta Carnaghi @benecarnaghi.bsky.social · Mar 29

The 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.

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Benedetta Carnaghi @benecarnaghi.bsky.social · Mar 29

Such an engaging, illuminating panel! (And we’re all still laughing.)

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Benedetta Carnaghi @benecarnaghi.bsky.social · Mar 29

Simbarashe bringing the house down with popular Zimbabwean jokes from Whatsapp and Facebook (social media a release for so much pent-up expression)

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Benedetta Carnaghi @benecarnaghi.bsky.social · Mar 29

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”!

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Benedetta Carnaghi @benecarnaghi.bsky.social · Mar 29

Radio 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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Benedetta Carnaghi @benecarnaghi.bsky.social · Mar 29

Katharina Friege picks up the baton and brings us to radio comedy (and the postwar scene): “Broadcasting Humour: Rubble, Reconstruction, and the Radio in Great Britain and Western Germany, 1945-1960.” Humour on the airwaves brought people into the society after the war

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Benedetta Carnaghi @benecarnaghi.bsky.social · Mar 29

Sophie Dubillot kicks things off with “Visual Humour by Returning French Prisoners of War and Forces Workers in Liberation France.” A complex history of return, disappointment, and critical humour

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Benedetta Carnaghi @benecarnaghi.bsky.social · Mar 29

Lunch over, coffee cups refilled, we begin again with our panel on Postfascism. Our featured speakers are Sophie Dubillot, Katharina Friege Simbarashe Marowa and Ushe Kufakurinani (sadly, Xiaofei Tu withdrew because of illness). From France to Zimbabwe, visual humour to radio!

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Benedetta Carnaghi @benecarnaghi.bsky.social · Mar 29

The panel sums up!

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