Marco Duranti
I am Senior Lecturer in Modern European and International History at the University of Sydney. I work on the history of twentieth-century Western Europe from a number of perspectives – global, imperial, transatlantic, and transnational. I have recently published, The Conservative Human Rights Revolution: European Identity, Transnational Politics, and the Origins of the European Convention (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017). The book traces the involvement of British and French conservatives, including Winston Churchill, in the genesis of the European project and European human rights system.
I received my BA from Harvard University and my PhD from Yale University. I've been a Fulbright Scholar at the European University Institute in Florence, a Fox Fellow at Sciences Po in Paris, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Max Planck Research Group on History and Memory at the University of Konstanz, and a Visiting Fellow in the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge.
For more information on my research and teaching interests, visit my University of Sydney webpage: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/history/staff/profiles/marco.duranti.php
Address: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
I received my BA from Harvard University and my PhD from Yale University. I've been a Fulbright Scholar at the European University Institute in Florence, a Fox Fellow at Sciences Po in Paris, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Max Planck Research Group on History and Memory at the University of Konstanz, and a Visiting Fellow in the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge.
For more information on my research and teaching interests, visit my University of Sydney webpage: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/history/staff/profiles/marco.duranti.php
Address: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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[For a more in-depth analysis of the Holocaust origins of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, see my 2012 article in the Journal of Genocide Research]
With the effects of war echoing in the empty spaces of the pavilions of 'orphan nations', silences and nostalgic motifs disrupted the original forward-looking theme of the Fair's planners. Towards the end of the Fair's first season, with the war unsettling the utopian premise of the World of Tomorrow, the exposition's organizers increasingly invoked nostalgic themes related to a harmonious pre-industrial past. As the organizers embraced ethnic folk traditions, the particularism characteristic of nostalgia replaced universalist assumptions of progress during the exposition's second season. Similarly, the 1940 Fair organizers rejected the universalistic blurring of ideological distinctions between democratic and totalitarian systems promoted during the first season. The spectre of war cast a growing shadow across the fairgrounds and in the consciousness of fair-goers. War-related discontinuities and anxieties allowed the more troubling aspects of modernity to emerge from the Fair's imaginative cocoon.
Teaching Documents by Marco Duranti
Blog posts and other writings by Marco Duranti
https://sydney.edu.au/education-portfolio/ei/teaching@sydney/integrating-text-and-data-mining-into-a-history-course/
[For a more in-depth analysis of the Holocaust origins of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, see my 2012 article in the Journal of Genocide Research]
With the effects of war echoing in the empty spaces of the pavilions of 'orphan nations', silences and nostalgic motifs disrupted the original forward-looking theme of the Fair's planners. Towards the end of the Fair's first season, with the war unsettling the utopian premise of the World of Tomorrow, the exposition's organizers increasingly invoked nostalgic themes related to a harmonious pre-industrial past. As the organizers embraced ethnic folk traditions, the particularism characteristic of nostalgia replaced universalist assumptions of progress during the exposition's second season. Similarly, the 1940 Fair organizers rejected the universalistic blurring of ideological distinctions between democratic and totalitarian systems promoted during the first season. The spectre of war cast a growing shadow across the fairgrounds and in the consciousness of fair-goers. War-related discontinuities and anxieties allowed the more troubling aspects of modernity to emerge from the Fair's imaginative cocoon.
https://sydney.edu.au/education-portfolio/ei/teaching@sydney/integrating-text-and-data-mining-into-a-history-course/