Dr. Fiore Gives Online Talk about the WWII Allied Landing in Sicily for Liberation Route Italy Series (Sept. 22, 2025)

Are you interested in looking back at the various moments of the 82nd anniversary of the Allied Landing in Licata, from the multimedia evening to the laboratory and the interviews held this past July? Would you like to know more about the wider context of interventions aimed at memorializing the Landing on the Southern coast of Sicily? Join for this Italian-language webinar organized by Liberation Route Italy, Italian chapter of the European transnational network of sites from the Second World War.

When: Monday, September 22 at 6pm
Click here for the WEBINAR’S RECORDING

Speakers:
Teresa Fiore (Montclair State University): “Telling the Story of the Landing through an Accessible Multi-media Approach”
Carmela Zangara (Associazione MEMENTO): “A Project to Recover and Enhance the Memory of WWII on the Central-southern Sicilian Coast”
Mirco Carrattieri (moderator)

Included in the broader initiatives of the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, the webinar aims to illustrating the various languages used to remember the landing in the past, as well as this year, in order to give proper visibility to an event such as the Sicily Landing that deserves to have a more central role in the official narrative of the war.

Based on the questions from the audience, the debate that will follow intends to collect suggestions for future editions of the anniversary and for the creation of sightseeing routes. Please participate actively to make this rediscovery of the past dynamic and shared as a public history project!

In collaboration with Inserra Chair at Montclair State University, Agrigento Capitale della Cultura 2025, Municipality of Licata, MEMENTO Association, and Awen Films.

Other resources: Mirco Carrattieri on WWII and Public History at Montclair State University