Framing Souths
Literatures and Languages, Cinema and Photography,
Phototext and New Media
University of Torino
24-26 May 2023
Programme
DAY 3 (May 26, 2023)
DAY 1 (May 24, 2023) DAY 2 (May 25, 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 15
Rethinking the South: decolonization, deconstruction and counternarrative
Chair Serenella Iovino (Univ. of North Carolina)
15A 9:20 – 9:50
Keynote speaker Elena Past (Wayne State Univ.)
Colonialism, biodiversity, and Italian cinema. Past, present, future: Ferraniacolor and the Global South
15B 9:50 – 10:10
Alessandro Vescovi (Univ. of Milano)
Amitav Ghosh’s The Living Mountain as a site of environmental resistance
15C 10:10 – 10:30
Emily Antenucci (Vassar College, New York)
Stories from life, land, and cinema: human and nonhuman narratives in In Viaggio con Cecilia
Q/A 10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00PARALLEL SESSION
R1 PANEL 16
Protecting the South: dystopias, ecocides and environmentalism
Chair Irene De Angelis (Univ. of Torino)
16A 11:30 – 11:50
Fabien Landron (Univ. of Corsica)
Italian dystopias: Anna (TV series by Niccolò Ammaniti, 2021) and Mondocane (film by Alessandro Celli, 2021)
16B 11:50 – 12:10
Maria Stella Lomi (Univ. of Torino)
Annihilation and the Southeastern U.S.: a reaction to Florida’s ecocide
16C 12:10 – 12:30
Claudio Panella (Univ. of Torino)
“Let’s go back! Let’s start over!”: Tommaso Di Ciaula’s South between environmentalist fervour and poetic emancipation
Q/A 12:30 – 13:00
R2 PANEL 17
Looking at the South: encounters, relationships and resilience
Chair Pietro Deandrea (Univ. of Torino)
17A 11:30 – 11:50
Vicente Alemany (Rey Juan Carlos Univ. of Madrid)
Chris Ofili and David Adjaye: the pictorial imaginaries of the South and their new scenographic frames
17B 11:50 – 12:10
Lia Emilia Zola (Univ. of Torino)
Bee keeping and multispecies entanglements: a perspective from Southern Europe
17C 12:10 – 12:30
Valérie Tosi (Univ. of Pisa)
Reclaiming language, framing the country: ecolexicography and affective ecology in Tara June Winch’s The Yield
Q/A 12:30 – 13:00
13:00 – 15:00Break
15:00 – 17:30PLENARY SESSION
R1 PANEL 18
Interpreting the South: poems, performance and video art
Chair Carmen Concilio (Univ. of Torino)
18A 15:00 – 15:50
Keynote speaker Anna Maria Gehnyei (aka Karima 2G)
Presentation of the novel Il corpo nero (The black body, Fandango, 2023), with Pietro Deandrea (Univ. of Torino)
18B 15:50 – 16:10
Sabine Forero Mendoza (Univ. of Pau)
“A River Runs Through It”. The river as protagonist in some creations of contemporary Colombian women artists
18C 16:10 – 16:30
Tania Haberland (Univ. of Bruxelles)
Mauritian Entanglements: an ecopoetic diffracted inquiry into Karen Barad’s terms regarding agential realism in her 2007 book Meeting the Universe Halfway, from a poet in Mauritius in 2022/23
Q/A 16:30 – 17:00
17:00 – 17:30 Closing remarks