Italian/Centre for Health, Humanities and Science Research Seminar

 

4 February 2025

 

Fascism’s Forgotten Victims - Interned LGBT People in Italian psychiatric hospitals, 1922 - 1943

 

5.00-6.30pm

 

Venue: ARTS CMPLX G.H01, Woodland Road, University of Bristol

 

Gabriella Romano (Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London, Temple University, Rome.)

 

Author of: Italian Fascism’s Forgotten LGBT Victims: Asylums and Internment, 1922 – 1943, Bloomsbury, London, 2024.

 

Dr Gabriella M. Romano is an independent historian and a documentary film-maker, whose main areas of interest are the history of sexuality and homosexuality in Italy focussing on Fascism, and women’s history. On these two topics, she has written, produced and directed several documentaries, and published books and essays. Among her most recent publications: Italian Fascism’s Forgotten LGBT victims. Asylums and Internment, 1922–1943. London: Bloomsbury 2024; ‘Talking About Silence’, Cadmus, European University Institute, 2020, pp. 1 – 10; The Pathologisation of Homosexuality in Fascist Italy. The Case of G. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2019.

 

In 2022, she received a Gerda Henkel Foundation Grant to expand her research on the repression of sexuality through internment in Southern Italy.

 

For information about this event please contact John Foot at j.foot@bristol.ac.uk