Marking one hundred years since the March on Rome and the rise of fascists to power, IES is proud to announce a Zoom lecture by Roger Griffin, one of the greatest experts on the theory and history of fascism. On November 4th Professor Griffin will give a lecture entitled:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prof. Dr. Roger David Griffin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201eMarciare e marcire\u201c: a \u201cdekatych\u201d of the marches proliferating from 28 October 1922 in Rome<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In this brief talk Roger Griffin offers ten snap-shots of the significance of the aborted assault of squadristi<\/em> on the Italian state in the autumn of 1922: i) the (farcical) facticity of the actual events; ii) their immediate propagandist transformation into Fascism\u2019s foundation myth of the conquest of power; iii) the affective and symbolic contribution of the socio-political myth of The March and its regenerative \u201cSorelian\u201d force; iv) the modernist interpretation of the March as the enactment of the Futurists' dynamic concept of reality; v) the counterfactual reading of the establishment of the Fascist regime in January 1925 as the culmination of the March; vi) the transfiguration of the March into the inaugural event of the \u201cFascist Era\u201d and its apotheosis in the 1932 Mostra della Rivoluzione Fascista<\/em>; vii) the mythic power exerted by the futural vision of an imminent \u201cfascist era\u201d on the rise of fascism and the anti-democratic and anti-communist radical right; viii) the impact of the mythicized march on Rome on the rise of Hitler; ix) the continuing resonance of the myth of the March today in the critical response to the rise of Giorgia Meloni and he Brothers of Italy; x) the contemporary decay of populist politics into various forms of illiberal democracy in histrionic displays of the militant nationalist spirit of the original Fascist \u201cMarch\u201d and subsequent \u201cRally\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Roger David Griffin is professor emeritus at Oxford Brooks University and the author of The Nature of Fascism, A Fascist Century, Modernism and Fascism, International Fascism and many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Audience will be able to follow the lecture after registering at the following link:<\/p>\n\n\n\n