Giacomo Lichtner

Teaching

• HIST 228 - 2024 Special Topic: The Holocaust- Te Patunga Nui o ngā Hūrae mā
  as Coordinator and Lecturer
  HIST 332 - 2024 The Holocaust - Te Patunga Nui o ngā Hūrae mā
  as Coordinator and Lecturer

Qualifications

Bachelor of Arts (Honours), PhD (University of Reading).

Administrative responsibilities

• Oversees undergraduate individual courses of study in accordance with the Academic Progress Statute and all other relevant policies.
• Oversees the enrolment, progression and examination of postgraduate students in the Wellington Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
• Represents the Faculty with regard to postgraduate student issues in the University.
• Participates as appropriate in other initiatives aimed at improving the experience of undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Faculty.

Teaching responsibilities

• Instructor, HIST118: Modern Europe.
• Course Coordinator, HIST237: Mobilising the Masses—Propaganda in Interwar Europe.
• Course Coordinator, HIST339: History on Film/Film on History.
• Course Coordinator, HIST423: Film and the Holocaust.

Boards and committees

• Convenor of the Faculty Postgraduate Committee.
• Ex-officio member of the Wellington Faculty of Graduate Research Board.
• Ex-officio member of the Joint Research Committee.

Research areas

• Cinema’s role in constructing and conveying memories of the ‘long Second World War’ in Europe.
• Holocaust history, representation and the politics of memory.
• 20^th C. Italian history, especially the cultural history of fascist and post-fascist Italy.
• Theoretical and methodological encounters between History and Film.
• Indian cinema; postcolonial cinemas and the representation of the ‘subaltern’.