Dr. M. (Mario) Panico
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Profile
Mario Panico is a lecturer and postdoctoral fellow at the Amsterdam School of Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM). He deals with issues related to cultural heritage, memory space, nostalgia and representations of genocide perpetrators in trauma sites and museums. He is currently working on a research project entitled "Perpetrators' Heritage. Material Cultures and Imaginaries" and investigates the strategies of preservation and resemantisation of sites associated with the daily lives of perpetrators of crimes against humanity.
In particular, he is studying how perpetrators' houses and villas built near concentration and transit camps in Europe and detention centers in Latin America have been musealised and/or artistically resemantised to critically discuss accountabilities and complicities.
He has published on the relationship between monumentality and conflict; heritage, nostalgia and urban practices; family memories and the theory of implication. He is currently editing the Italian translation of two articles by Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer (on the relationship between post-memory and nostalgia) and his next monograph will be entitled "Nostalgia, Spatial Consolation and Conflict Heritage" (Palgrave Macmillan).Fields of interest:
- Heritage and Memory Studies
- Narrative Theory
- Visual Studies
- Perpetrator Studies
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Teaching
Mario Panico is a lecturer for the MA in Heritage and Memory Studies. In particular, he teaches
- Heritage and Memory Theory
- Current Issues: Excursion Abroad
- Thesis Seminar -
Publications
2024
- Bellentani, F., Panico, M., & Yoka, L. (Eds.) (2024). Semiotic Approaches to Urban Space: Signs and Cities. (Spatial interventions). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802202984 [details]
Bellentani, F., Panico, M., & Yoka, L. (Eds.) (2024). Introduction to Semiotic Approaches to Urban Space . In F. Bellentani, M. Panico, & L. Yola (Eds.), Semiotic Approaches to Urban Space: Signs and Cities (pp. 1-14). (Spatial interventions). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800887220.00006 [details]- Panico, M. (2024). Spaces for Nostalgia: Difficult Memories and Material Consolations. Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-62929-7
- Panico, M. (2024). Filters, Risks and Ironies: An Inquiry between Nostalgia and Trauma. In L. van Liere, & S. Sremac (Eds.), Trauma and Nostalgia: Practices in Memory and Identity (pp. 57–86). (Heritage and Memory Studies). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789048559220_ch03 [details]
- Panico, M. (2024). Offended by Bronze. Monuments, Speech Acts and Memory Competence. Lexia, 211.
- Panico, M. (2024). Semiotics and Nostalgia. In T. Becker, & D. Trigg (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Nostalgia (pp. 84-95). Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
- Panico, M. (2024). Violence and Domesticity. Nazi Perpetrators’ Houses between Preservation and Resemantisation. In M. Cassani Simonetti, & R. Mira (Eds.), Transizioni di memoria. Narrazioni della violenza nel XX e nel XXI secolo (pp. 261-278). ( I libri di Viella). Viella. https://www.viella.it/libro/9791254697092
- Panico, M. (2024). “Adapt or Resist?” Narratives of Implication and Perpetration in the Verzetsmuseum in Amsterdam. In Questioning Traumatic Heritage between Europe, Argentina and Colombia Amsterdam University Press.
- Saloul, I. A. M., Berrebi, S. Y., Munawar, N. A., & Panico, M. (2024). Heritage, Memory and Material Culture: Research-Teaching-Society Nexus. (History, Culture and Heritage). Amsterdam University Press. https://www.aup-online.com/content/proceedings/AHM-2024
2023
- Panico, M. (2023). Imaginaries of a Bulletproof Cabin: An Investigation between Law, Semiotics, and Memory. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 36(3), 1059–1079. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-023-09996-9 [details]
- Panico, M. (2023). Interpretation and Use of Memory: How Practices Can Change the Meanings of Monuments. In C. Demaria, & P. Violi (Eds.), Reading Memory Sites Through Signs: Hiding into Landscapes (pp. 55-79). (Heritage and Memory Studies). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048544301.003, https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048544301-004, https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463722810, https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.6695540.6 [details]
- Saloul, I. A. M., Panico, M., Connick, E., & Gaynor, L. J. (2023). Diasporic Heritage and Identity. Amsterdam University Press. https://www.aup-online.com/content/proceedings/AHM-2023
2022
- Demaria, C., & Panico, M. (2022). Remembering the other, repositioning oneself: the right to a biography and autocommunication in perpetrator and collaborator descendant documentaries. Social Semiotics, 32(5), 689-707. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2022.2158620 [details]
2021
- Mazzucchelli, F., & Panico, M. (2021). Pre-emptive Memories. Anticipating Narratives of Covid-19 in Practices of Commemoration. Memory Studies, 14(6). https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980211053984
- Panico, M., & Violi, P. (2021). Difendere la violenza. Le retoriche dei perpetratori. Actes sémiotiques, 125. https://doi.org/10.25965/as.7271
Journal editor
- Panico, M. (editor) (2023). Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher).
- Panico, M. (editor) (2022). Heritage, Memory and Conflict Journal (HMC) (Journal).
- Panico, M. (editor) (2022). Versus : quaderni di studi semiotici (Journal).
Others
- Gaynor, L. (organiser), Panico, M. (organiser) & Connick, E. (organiser) (1-10-2022 - 23-6-2023). Diasporic Heritage and Identity, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://www.ahmdiasporicheritage.humanities.uva.nl
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Bellentani, F., Panico, M., & Yoka, L. (Eds.) (2024). Introduction to Semiotic Approaches to Urban Space . In F. Bellentani, M. Panico, & L. Yola (Eds.), Semiotic Approaches to Urban Space: Signs and Cities (pp. 1-14). (Spatial interventions). Edward Elgar Publishing.