Framing Souths
Literatures and Languages, Cinema and Photography,
Phototext and New Media
University of Torino
24-26 May 2023
Programme
DAY 2 (May 25, 2023)
DAY 1 (May 24, 2023) DAY 3 (May 26, 2023)
R1 Room 1 / Auditorium R2 Room 2 / Sala lauree
R1 9:00 – 11:00 PLENARY SESSION
9:00 – 9:20 Opening remarks
R1 PANEL 8
Inhabiting the South: multispecism, coexistence and coevolution
Chair Carmen Concilio (Univ. of Torino)
8A 9:20 – 9:50
Keynote speaker Marco Armiero (KTH, Stockholm)
Multispecies alliances against capitalism
8B 9:50 – 10:10
Daniela Fargione (Univ. of Torino)
From Manhattan to Arizona, from the city to the desert:
walking to the South and framing multispecies coexistence
in Lydia Millet’s Dinosaurs
8C 10:10 – 10:30
Chiara Rolla (Univ. of Genova)
Thirty-one stories for thirty-one different animal and plant species. Voyages en sol incertain by Matthieu Duperrex
Q/A 10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00PARALLEL SESSION
R1 PANEL 9
Declaiming the South: tradition, expression and ecopoetry
Chair Maria Margherita Mattioda (Univ. of Torino)
9A 11:30 – 11:50
Graziella Acquaviva (Univ. of Torino)
Ecological activism in East Africa: the fight against environmental degradation between written verses and sung words in Swahili language
9B 11:50 – 12:10
Paola Della Valle (Univ. of Torino)
Performance poetry in the Pacific: between literature and the new media
9C 12:10 – 12:30
Nicola Sileo (Univ. of Basilicata)
Ecopoetic elements in the later Leopardi
Q/A 12:30 – 13:00
R2 PANEL 10
Narrating the South: topoi, environmental geometries and ecological disasters
Chair Silvia Ulrich (Univ. of Torino)
10A 11:30 – 11:50
Maria Teresa Imbriani (Univ. of Basilicata)
Literary fortune of the “Lucan peasant” from Giustino Fortunato to Scotellaro (passing through Nitti and Levi and starting with Orazio)
10B 11:50 – 12:10
Wanda Balzano (Wake Forest Univ.)
Ankle boot and truncated cone: the contours of home in the Vesuvian tales of Maria Orsini Natale
10C 12:10 – 12:30
Annalucia Cudazzo (Univ. of Messina)
“The bad taste of steel”. The environmental havoc of Taranto in Cosimo Argentina’s works
Q/A 12:30 – 13:00
13:00 – 15:00Break
15:00 – 16:30PARALLEL SESSION
R1 PANEL 11
Decategorizing the South: perspectives, visions and philosophies
Chair Carmen Concilio (Univ. of Torino)
11A 15:00 – 15:20
Gaetano Albergo (“B. Pascal” High School, Torino)
Literatures of the South according to J.M. Coetzee
11B 15:20 – 15:40
Gabriel Serbu (Univ. of Rijeka)
Vision and/as hermeneutical violence: a case for “literary thinking”
11C 15:40 – 16:00
Leonardo Nolé (City Univ. of New York)
Capitalist violence and multispecies relationships in the world-novel
Q/A 16:00 – 16:30
R2 PANEL 12
Emancipating the South: genders, diversities and hybridizations
Chair Paola Della Valle (Univ. of Torino)
12A 15:00 – 15:20
Fernando Gonçalves (State Univ. of Rio de Janeiro)
Uýra Sodoma and the reforestation of the world
12B 15:20 – 15:40
Mattia Mantellato (Univ. of Udine)
Redrawing the Atlantic: a multimodal dance-theatre adaptation of David Dabydeen’s Turner
12C 15:40 – 16:00
Víctor Martín García (Polytechnic Univ. of Valencia)
“Mater Natura” or the inversion of the everyday: dysphoria and utopia through the character of the “femminiello” Europa
Q/A 16:00 – 16:30
16:30 – 17:00Coffee break
17:00 – 18:30PARALLEL SESSION
R1 PANEL 13
Defending the South: sustainibility, activism and ecocinema
Chair Paola Brusasco (Univ. of Chieti-Pescara)
13A 17:00 – 17:20
Marina Niceforo (Univ. of Napoli)
Assessing local ecological conscience through words, images, and narratives: the case of Voglio un mondo pulito
13B 17:20 – 17:40
Raquel Sardá Sánchez (Rey Juan Carlos Univ. of Madrid)
William Kentridge: when the South comes into play
13C 17:40 – 18:00
Alberto Spadafora (Univ. of Torino)
(Meta)Film ecology and techno-aesthetic sustainability in Honeyland (2019)
Q/A 18:00 – 18:30
R2 PANEL 14
Cohabiting the South: human, nonhuman and posthuman
Chair Lia Emilia Zola (Univ. of Torino)
14A 17:00 – 17:20
Biancamaria Rizzardi (Univ. of Pisa)
Unidirectional rivers and reversible seas. Metaphors of water and the Global South in Brathwaite, Walcott and Zadie Smith
14B 17:20 – 17:40
Alessio Mattana (Univ. of Torino)
Experimenting with nonhuman points of view: Smollett’s prose fiction and Scotland as Global South
14C 17:40 – 18:00
Roberto Paolo Ormanni (IUAV Univ. of Venezia)
Meridian landscapes and animal vulnerabilities. Posthuman ethics in Pietro Marcello’s Lost and Beautiful (2015)
Q/A 18:00 – 18:30