Srdjan Milosevic lecture "Holidays revisited. Biopolitical view on leisure time in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany"

The event will take place on the 22nd of June, 2015 from 7:15 pm in Contemporary art centre (Vokiečių str. 2, Vilnius). 

Totalitarian regimes in Soviet Union, Italy and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s tried to seize every opportunity to establish full control over the lives and actions of their population, in both public and private sphere and from birth until the death. The idea of holiday camps originated in mid-XIX century, but totalitarian regimes took it to new heights (and depths). Originally a beneficial idea (although it could be argued as well), the idea of holiday camps gradually acquired a more sinister role of a formation place. Holiday camps architecture became a powerful tool in the regimes’ biopolitical intentions, as it was specifically designed to intimidate, to dwarf, to subjugate the individual to the might of the state, to shape it into a powerful and unbreakable collective. 

Srdjan Milosevic is a PhD student (Management and Development of Cultural Heritage) at the IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy.