Our next event of the Transylvania Lectures series explores the intersection of law, art, and totalitarianism, focusing on how Mussolini and Ceaușescu crafted and controlled their public images. The participants will examine the legal frameworks and artistic tools that sustained these regimes, revealing how authoritarian leaders use visual culture and legal structures to cement power, shape ideology, and manipulate historical narratives. By analyzing portrayals of these figures in monuments, propaganda, and media, the lecture highlights how law and art converge to legitimize totalitarian authority. Comparing Fascist Italy and Ceaușescu's Romania provides insight into how autocratic systems deploy cultural and legal structures to control societal identity.  

Our invited speaker, Prof. Dr Giacomo Pace Gravina, is Professor of Legal History at the Department of Law, University of Messina. He has also taught at prestigious private universities, such as LUISS. He is the author of monographs and several articles, and a member of numerous editorial and scientific committees. His studies range from the history of legal thought to that of real rights, from the history of the University to that of military law. He is an expert on the interactions between Law and Art and started and is co-editor of the international journal Lawart. Journal of Law, Art and History.  

The partner in discussion will be Prof. Dr Emőd Veress, lawyer, university professor at Sapientia University in Kolozsvár/Cluj-Napoca.

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