A lecture by Jennie Hirsh, Maryland Institute College of Art, on a series of highly provocative posters produced by the state-sponsored Ente Radio Rurale, which, beginning in 1933, broadcast a weekly series of educational radio programs aimed at children living in Italian rural communities, and especially Mussolini’s so-called “new towns” (città nuove), or communities developed through land reclamation (bonifica). As such, these radio…