Francesca Rolandi (PhD)

Research fellow

Masaryk Institute and Archive of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Gabčíkova 2362/10

CZ

182 00 Prague 8

rolandi@mua.cas.cz

https://www.mua.cas.cz/en/institute-111

Research and projects

Current position(s)

Research fellow at the Masaryk Institute and Archive of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Current project(s)

ERC project 'Unlikely refuge? Refugees and citizens in East Central Europe in the Twentieth Century'

Former position(s)

Joint postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe and the University of British Columbia Okanagan

Publications

Monographs (and dissertation)

Con ventiquattromila baci. L'influenza della cultura di massa italiana in Jugoslavia (1955-1965), Bononia University Press, 2015.

Articles

Francesca Rolandi. "Un trionfo mai richiesto? Partecipazione politica femminile e rappresentazioni di genere nella stampa locale di Fiume e Susak dopo la Grande guerra" [A Never-Requested Triumph? Political participation and gender representations in the local press in Fiume and Susak after the Great War], Italia contemporanea, 293 (2020), 73-98.

Francesca Rolandi. "Rotte di transito. Profughi jugoslavi nell'Italia del secondo dopoguerra" [Transit routes. Yugoslav refugees in post-WW2 Italy]. Memoria e ricerca, 61, (2019), 349-370. [https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.14647/93545 ]

Francesca Rolandi. "Il prezzo del sudore jugoslavo. I lavoratori frontalieri jugoslavi nel Nord Est italiano”. [The price of the Yugoslav sweat. Yugoslav frontier workers in North-Eastern Italy]. Archivio storico dell'emigrazione italiana, 12 (2016), 58-66.

Francesca Rolandi. "Heading Towards the West. Yugoslav Asylum Seekers in Italy (1955-1968)". Acta Histriae, 23, n. 3, (2015), 555-574. [https://zdjp.si/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Pages-from-Acta-Histriae-%C5%A1t.-3-letnik-23-2015_ROLANDI_LOWRES.pdf]

Edited volumes

Francesca Rolandi, "Culinary Encounters in the Adriatic Area: Cultural Exchanges and Consumer Practices Between Italy and Socialist Yugoslavia". In Brotherhood and Unity at the Kitchen Table. Food in Socialist Yugoslavia, edited by Ruža Fotiadis, Vladimir Ivanović and Radina Vučetić. Zagreb: Srednja Europa, 2020.

Francesca Rolandi. “Escaping Yugoslavia. Italian and Austrian Refugee Policy Towards Yugoslav Asylum Seekers after World War II”. In The “Alps-Adriatic” Region 1945–1955. International and Transnational Perspectives on a Conflicted European Region, edited by Maximilian Graf, Karlo Ruzicic Kessler, Philipp Greilinger, 85-109. Wien: New Academic Press, 2018.

Francesca Rolandi. “Yugoslavia Looking Westward: Transnational Consumer Contact with Italy during the 1960s”. In The Cultural Life of Capitalism in Yugoslavia: (Post)Socialism and its Other, edited by Dijana Jeleča, Maša Kolanović, Danijela Lugarić, 191-207. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Francesca Rolandi. “A Filter for Western Cultural Products. The Influence of Italian Popular Culture on Yugoslavia 1955-1965”. In Beyond the Curtain: Entangled Histories of the Cold War Era in Europe, edited by Simo Mikkonen and Pia Koivunen, 277-294. Oxford-New York: Berghahn, 2015.

Areas of research

History of Southeastern Europe, Social History, Gender History, History of migration, History of refugees

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