Conference / Meeting

Third generation Holocaust denial. From the protection of memory to the protection of the truth?

1 March 2022
Start time 
6:00 pm
Collegio Clesio - Via Santa Margherita 13, Trento
Seminar Room
Organizer: 
Scientific Committee - Collegio Clesio
Target audience: 
UniTrento students
Attendance: 
Free – Registration required
Registration deadline: 
28 February 2022, 12:00
Contact details: 
collegioclesio@unitn.it -
0461 - 282345

The lecture will focus on the relationship between time, memory and criminal law. The topic is broad and cannot be restricted to the repression of Holocaust denial, and in particular to its legitimacy and appropriateness.

Today denialism as a crime increasingly refers to international crimes in general, but historical denial is the matrix of new and diversified phenomena, that include conspiracy theories to the so-called fake news.

Welcome address:

  • Paolo Carta, Director of Collegio Clesio

Guest speaker:

  • Emanuela Fronza (University of Bologna)

Emanuela Fronza is Associate Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Bologna.
She was a Principal Investigator of the MELA project (Memory Laws in European and Comparative Perspective) from 2016 to 2019; she was also responsible for international research programs and, as scientific coordinator, directed the Law Clinics in international criminal law of the University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne and of the University of Naples Federico II, funded by the European Commission within the LINCS project - European Laboratory for International Criminal System.
She was a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin (Germany). She collaborates with several universities in other countries, that she visits for research purposes and as an invited lecturer. She is a member of executive and editorial committees of Italian and international law journals.
She is the author of numerous contributions published in Italy and abroad. She has edited several collective works in Italian and French on international criminal law. Among these, on the subject of the conference, please note: Memory and Punishment. Historical Denialism, Free Speech and the Limits of Criminal Law, 2018.