Benedetta Carnaghi
@benecarnaghi.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of History @usf.edu 📚 previously postdoc @durhamhistory.bsky.social & @ucddublin.bsky.social | PhD @cornelluniversity.bsky.social 👩🎓 Historian of spies, humor, and fascism in modern Europe 🕵️
Website: https://benedettacarnaghi.com
Website: https://benedettacarnaghi.com
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We officially started our new roles as Assistant Professors at the @usf.edu @casatusf.bsky.social. We are excited to join a wonderful group of new faculty members and look forward to the adventures ahead!
As a 1st-time presenter at @thesouthernsha.bsky.social’s Annual Meeting, I thoroughly enjoyed the conference and our panel on “Courts and the State” with Antonio Grilli & Stephen Stillwell. St. Pete treated us to a beautiful sunset after a long day of work #2025SHA
November 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
As a 1st-time presenter at @thesouthernsha.bsky.social’s Annual Meeting, I thoroughly enjoyed the conference and our panel on “Courts and the State” with Antonio Grilli & Stephen Stillwell. St. Pete treated us to a beautiful sunset after a long day of work #2025SHA
I had so much fun speaking at #CafeconTampa this morning! It was wonderful to meet so many engaged members of the Tampa community from all walks of life. Thank you for asking brilliant questions and giving me excellent suggestions about my work 🙏
October 31, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I had so much fun speaking at #CafeconTampa this morning! It was wonderful to meet so many engaged members of the Tampa community from all walks of life. Thank you for asking brilliant questions and giving me excellent suggestions about my work 🙏
Are you in Tampa? Want to enjoy breakfast and have an early morning chat about spies? Join us at the Portico this Friday, October 31, at 8:00 am!
Tickets available here: www.mytbtickets.com/events/caf-c...
Tickets available here: www.mytbtickets.com/events/caf-c...
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Are you in Tampa? Want to enjoy breakfast and have an early morning chat about spies? Join us at the Portico this Friday, October 31, at 8:00 am!
Tickets available here: www.mytbtickets.com/events/caf-c...
Tickets available here: www.mytbtickets.com/events/caf-c...
My History Dept. @usf.edu @casatusf.bsky.social is hiring for a new position in US Public History: networks.h-net.org/jobs/69272/u...
Applications from scholars with experience or interest in community-engaged practice and/or oral history are especially encouraged. Please share widely! #Skystorians
Applications from scholars with experience or interest in community-engaged practice and/or oral history are especially encouraged. Please share widely! #Skystorians
University of South Florida - Tampa - Assistant Professor - U.S Public History | H-Net
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October 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
My History Dept. @usf.edu @casatusf.bsky.social is hiring for a new position in US Public History: networks.h-net.org/jobs/69272/u...
Applications from scholars with experience or interest in community-engaged practice and/or oral history are especially encouraged. Please share widely! #Skystorians
Applications from scholars with experience or interest in community-engaged practice and/or oral history are especially encouraged. Please share widely! #Skystorians
My History Dept. @usf.edu @casatusf.bsky.social is hiring for a new position in Early Modern Europe: networks.h-net.org/jobs/69273/u...
It is a wonderful research-focused opportunity: a 2-2 teaching load and the chance to teach graduate courses and supervise graduate students #Skystorians
It is a wonderful research-focused opportunity: a 2-2 teaching load and the chance to teach graduate courses and supervise graduate students #Skystorians
University of South Florida - Tampa - Assistant Professor - Early Modern European History | H-Net
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October 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
My History Dept. @usf.edu @casatusf.bsky.social is hiring for a new position in Early Modern Europe: networks.h-net.org/jobs/69273/u...
It is a wonderful research-focused opportunity: a 2-2 teaching load and the chance to teach graduate courses and supervise graduate students #Skystorians
It is a wonderful research-focused opportunity: a 2-2 teaching load and the chance to teach graduate courses and supervise graduate students #Skystorians
1 / Do I know anyone who was a successful recipient of a Fulbright scholarship?
September 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
1 / Do I know anyone who was a successful recipient of a Fulbright scholarship?
We officially started our new roles as Assistant Professors at the @usf.edu @casatusf.bsky.social. We are excited to join a wonderful group of new faculty members and look forward to the adventures ahead!
August 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
We officially started our new roles as Assistant Professors at the @usf.edu @casatusf.bsky.social. We are excited to join a wonderful group of new faculty members and look forward to the adventures ahead!
Reposted by Benedetta Carnaghi
Why does Hitler still cast a shadow over the world? Benedetta Carnaghi (@benecarnaghi.bsky.social) features in this BBC feature: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzXM...
Why does Hitler still cast a shadow over the world? - BBC World Service
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June 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Why does Hitler still cast a shadow over the world? Benedetta Carnaghi (@benecarnaghi.bsky.social) features in this BBC feature: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzXM...
Huge thanks to Amanda Hsieh and Friedemann Pestel for inviting me to participate in a workshop that brings together historians and musicologists! We reflect on the recent global turn in fascism studies, and we do it in the most beautiful place! @unituebingen.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Huge thanks to Amanda Hsieh and Friedemann Pestel for inviting me to participate in a workshop that brings together historians and musicologists! We reflect on the recent global turn in fascism studies, and we do it in the most beautiful place! @unituebingen.bsky.social
We have reached the final roundtable of the ‘Power of Laughter. Laughing about Power’ conference at the @centremarcbloch.bsky.social, feat. David Slucki and Alexandra Oeser, and moderated by Aurélia Kalisky. Huge thanks to both organizers and presenters for such a rich and stimulating conference!
May 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
We have reached the final roundtable of the ‘Power of Laughter. Laughing about Power’ conference at the @centremarcbloch.bsky.social, feat. David Slucki and Alexandra Oeser, and moderated by Aurélia Kalisky. Huge thanks to both organizers and presenters for such a rich and stimulating conference!
Très belle communication de @gunthert.bsky.social sur Tintin au Congo ! Impossible de ne pas penser à @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social et ton amour pour Tintin 😉
May 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Très belle communication de @gunthert.bsky.social sur Tintin au Congo ! Impossible de ne pas penser à @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social et ton amour pour Tintin 😉
Wonderful to speak about antifascist satire in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany & Vichy France, in conversation with Olga Galanova’s paper on political laughter in the GDR, contemporary Russia, Belarus & China. Sometimes, humor makes the unbearable bearable @centremarcbloch.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Wonderful to speak about antifascist satire in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany & Vichy France, in conversation with Olga Galanova’s paper on political laughter in the GDR, contemporary Russia, Belarus & China. Sometimes, humor makes the unbearable bearable @centremarcbloch.bsky.social
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😂 Power of Laughter / Laughing about Power
📆 Two-day international conference at Centre Marc Bloch
on May 15 and 16 in Englisch, French and German
Find more information and the full programme here: cmb.hu-berlin.de/kalender/ter...
📆 Two-day international conference at Centre Marc Bloch
on May 15 and 16 in Englisch, French and German
Find more information and the full programme here: cmb.hu-berlin.de/kalender/ter...
May 9, 2025 at 9:13 AM
😂 Power of Laughter / Laughing about Power
📆 Two-day international conference at Centre Marc Bloch
on May 15 and 16 in Englisch, French and German
Find more information and the full programme here: cmb.hu-berlin.de/kalender/ter...
📆 Two-day international conference at Centre Marc Bloch
on May 15 and 16 in Englisch, French and German
Find more information and the full programme here: cmb.hu-berlin.de/kalender/ter...
Delighted to present my research on ‘Persecuted Satirists: How Anti-Fascist Laughter Could Get You in Trouble, 1922-45’ at the ‘Power of Laughter. Laughing about Power’ conference at the @centremarcbloch.bsky.social. We even have a box of jokes that is going around! That looks very promising 😉
May 15, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Delighted to present my research on ‘Persecuted Satirists: How Anti-Fascist Laughter Could Get You in Trouble, 1922-45’ at the ‘Power of Laughter. Laughing about Power’ conference at the @centremarcbloch.bsky.social. We even have a box of jokes that is going around! That looks very promising 😉
Reposted by Benedetta Carnaghi
Colloque "Pouvoir du rire/Rire des pouvoirs" au @centremarcbloch.bsky.social, Berlin, les 15 et 16 mai prochains!
cmb.hu-berlin.de/kalender/ter...
cmb.hu-berlin.de/kalender/ter...
Die Macht des Lachens/Lachen über die Mächtigen
Humour is generally overlooked in the analysis of political discourse and practices. Yet satire and caricature accompany, but also criticise the manifestations of power since immemorial times....
cmb.hu-berlin.de
May 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Colloque "Pouvoir du rire/Rire des pouvoirs" au @centremarcbloch.bsky.social, Berlin, les 15 et 16 mai prochains!
cmb.hu-berlin.de/kalender/ter...
cmb.hu-berlin.de/kalender/ter...
One last tempo session with the lovely #AdidasRunners bunch yesterday and… I am marathon ready!
I am so excited to run the @manchestermarathon.bsky.social for #TeamMND @mndassoc.bsky.social. Here is the link to my fundraiser: www.justgiving.com/page/benedet...
Please help us reach the goal ❤️
I am so excited to run the @manchestermarathon.bsky.social for #TeamMND @mndassoc.bsky.social. Here is the link to my fundraiser: www.justgiving.com/page/benedet...
Please help us reach the goal ❤️
April 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
One last tempo session with the lovely #AdidasRunners bunch yesterday and… I am marathon ready!
I am so excited to run the @manchestermarathon.bsky.social for #TeamMND @mndassoc.bsky.social. Here is the link to my fundraiser: www.justgiving.com/page/benedet...
Please help us reach the goal ❤️
I am so excited to run the @manchestermarathon.bsky.social for #TeamMND @mndassoc.bsky.social. Here is the link to my fundraiser: www.justgiving.com/page/benedet...
Please help us reach the goal ❤️
We started day 2 of the ‘Laughter as a Political Coping Mechanism’ conference with Alya Aglan’s wonderful keynote, translated in English by @benfried.bsky.social. Alya tells us that wartime humor changes the unbearable reality. Without words, humor captures the essential @durhamhistory.bsky.social
March 29, 2025 at 10:33 AM
We started day 2 of the ‘Laughter as a Political Coping Mechanism’ conference with Alya Aglan’s wonderful keynote, translated in English by @benfried.bsky.social. Alya tells us that wartime humor changes the unbearable reality. Without words, humor captures the essential @durhamhistory.bsky.social
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And we're away with a joint keynote address from @benecarnaghi.bsky.social and @drhelenroche.bsky.social! Starting with "Undoing the Duce's Myth: Making Fun of Mussolini"
March 28, 2025 at 9:48 AM
And we're away with a joint keynote address from @benecarnaghi.bsky.social and @drhelenroche.bsky.social! Starting with "Undoing the Duce's Myth: Making Fun of Mussolini"
Reposted by Benedetta Carnaghi
"Laughter as a Political Coping Mechanism" begins at @durhamuniversity.bsky.social! All thanks to @benecarnaghi.bsky.social, @drhelenroche.bsky.social , and @durhamhistory.bsky.social. Two days of terrific papers: check out the schedule for today and join us!
March 28, 2025 at 9:43 AM
"Laughter as a Political Coping Mechanism" begins at @durhamuniversity.bsky.social! All thanks to @benecarnaghi.bsky.social, @drhelenroche.bsky.social , and @durhamhistory.bsky.social. Two days of terrific papers: check out the schedule for today and join us!
Reposted by Benedetta Carnaghi
✨ no better time but the present to get on bluesky!
🎵excited to speak tomorrow at @durhamhistory.bsky.social's conference "laughter as a political coping mechanism!"where I'll share my research on the Andrews Sisters. 🎙️
Excited to hear about everyone's work and chat in-person! ☺️
🎵excited to speak tomorrow at @durhamhistory.bsky.social's conference "laughter as a political coping mechanism!"where I'll share my research on the Andrews Sisters. 🎙️
Excited to hear about everyone's work and chat in-person! ☺️
Here's the schedule for 'Laughter as a Political Coping Mechanism', a conference that
@drhelenroche.bsky.social and I are organizing on March 28-29 for @durhamhistory.bsky.social. We'll spark fresh conversations about resistance to power—and have a few laughs too! Please join us!
@drhelenroche.bsky.social and I are organizing on March 28-29 for @durhamhistory.bsky.social. We'll spark fresh conversations about resistance to power—and have a few laughs too! Please join us!
March 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
✨ no better time but the present to get on bluesky!
🎵excited to speak tomorrow at @durhamhistory.bsky.social's conference "laughter as a political coping mechanism!"where I'll share my research on the Andrews Sisters. 🎙️
Excited to hear about everyone's work and chat in-person! ☺️
🎵excited to speak tomorrow at @durhamhistory.bsky.social's conference "laughter as a political coping mechanism!"where I'll share my research on the Andrews Sisters. 🎙️
Excited to hear about everyone's work and chat in-person! ☺️
‘Laughter as a Political Coping Mechanism’—a conference that @drhelenroche.bsky.social and I are organizing on March 28-29 for @durhamhistory.bsky.social—now has a website: laughterasapoliticalcopingmechanism.wordpress.com
Huge thanks to #ASMI and @germanhistsoc.bsky.social for their sponsorship 🙏
Huge thanks to #ASMI and @germanhistsoc.bsky.social for their sponsorship 🙏
Laughter as a Political Coping Mechanism: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Website of the international conference taking place at Durham University on 28 – 29 March 2025
laughterasapoliticalcopingmechanism.wordpress.com
March 24, 2025 at 7:22 AM
‘Laughter as a Political Coping Mechanism’—a conference that @drhelenroche.bsky.social and I are organizing on March 28-29 for @durhamhistory.bsky.social—now has a website: laughterasapoliticalcopingmechanism.wordpress.com
Huge thanks to #ASMI and @germanhistsoc.bsky.social for their sponsorship 🙏
Huge thanks to #ASMI and @germanhistsoc.bsky.social for their sponsorship 🙏
Reposted by Benedetta Carnaghi
I will be in Durham for this vital, timely (to say the least) conference, ready to learn and laugh. Two days' worth of terrific talks, with the sessions open to all!
Here's the schedule for 'Laughter as a Political Coping Mechanism', a conference that
@drhelenroche.bsky.social and I are organizing on March 28-29 for @durhamhistory.bsky.social. We'll spark fresh conversations about resistance to power—and have a few laughs too! Please join us!
@drhelenroche.bsky.social and I are organizing on March 28-29 for @durhamhistory.bsky.social. We'll spark fresh conversations about resistance to power—and have a few laughs too! Please join us!
March 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I will be in Durham for this vital, timely (to say the least) conference, ready to learn and laugh. Two days' worth of terrific talks, with the sessions open to all!
Here's the schedule for 'Laughter as a Political Coping Mechanism', a conference that
@drhelenroche.bsky.social and I are organizing on March 28-29 for @durhamhistory.bsky.social. We'll spark fresh conversations about resistance to power—and have a few laughs too! Please join us!
@drhelenroche.bsky.social and I are organizing on March 28-29 for @durhamhistory.bsky.social. We'll spark fresh conversations about resistance to power—and have a few laughs too! Please join us!
March 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Here's the schedule for 'Laughter as a Political Coping Mechanism', a conference that
@drhelenroche.bsky.social and I are organizing on March 28-29 for @durhamhistory.bsky.social. We'll spark fresh conversations about resistance to power—and have a few laughs too! Please join us!
@drhelenroche.bsky.social and I are organizing on March 28-29 for @durhamhistory.bsky.social. We'll spark fresh conversations about resistance to power—and have a few laughs too! Please join us!
Time for an update on my fundraiser for @mndassoc.bsky.social 😁
www.justgiving.com/page/benedet...
Training is going well: on Sunday I ran a half marathon in Richmond, going up and down the Thames on a sunny morning. We're at 63% of the goal, and I would so appreciate your support!
www.justgiving.com/page/benedet...
Training is going well: on Sunday I ran a half marathon in Richmond, going up and down the Thames on a sunny morning. We're at 63% of the goal, and I would so appreciate your support!
March 12, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Time for an update on my fundraiser for @mndassoc.bsky.social 😁
www.justgiving.com/page/benedet...
Training is going well: on Sunday I ran a half marathon in Richmond, going up and down the Thames on a sunny morning. We're at 63% of the goal, and I would so appreciate your support!
www.justgiving.com/page/benedet...
Training is going well: on Sunday I ran a half marathon in Richmond, going up and down the Thames on a sunny morning. We're at 63% of the goal, and I would so appreciate your support!
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Finally, none of this would have been possible without the powerhouse that is @clarelees.bsky.social What a way to see out 2024!
December 10, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Finally, none of this would have been possible without the powerhouse that is @clarelees.bsky.social What a way to see out 2024!