Dean's Seminar - From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic

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Speaker(s):
Dr Katia Pizzi, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
Event date:
Wednesday 18 January 2012

School of Advanced Study, University of London

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Description

Trieste played a key role in the early Cold War, mainly due to its geo-political position on a borderline in south-central Europe. Through an examination of film from both sides of the Iron Curtain, this paper explores the ways in which Trieste's fractured and divided identity aligned itself with and came to reflect the polarizations of the Cold War era.

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