Framing Souths
Literatures and Languages, Cinema and Photography,
Phototext and New Media
University of Torino
24-26 May 2023
Programme
DAY 1 (May 24, 2023)
DAY 2 (May 25, 2023) DAY 3 (May 26, 2023)
R1 Room 1 / Auditorium R2 Room 2 / Sala lauree
R1 8:30 – 9:00 Registration
R1 9:00 – 11:00 PLENARY SESSION
9:00 – 9:20 Greetings from the Authorities
Giulia Carluccio (Vice Rector, Univ. of Torino)
Matteo Milani (Head of Dept., Univ. of Torino)
R1 PANEL 1
Starting from the South: relations, migrations and sympoiesis
Chair Maria Cristina Caimotto (Univ. of Torino)
1A 9:20 – 9:50
Keynote speaker Serenella Iovino (Univ. of North Carolina)
South of the human. Animal life, the Anthropocene and Calvino’s gorilla
1B 9:50 – 10:10
Carmen Concilio (Univ. of Torino)
Oceanic agency and South to North multispecies co-migrations. On the wake of Carson and Haraway
1C 10:10 – 10:30
Miriam Begliuomini (Univ. Jean Moulin – Lyon 3)
(De)Costructing alterity: the Mediterranean in French and Francophone graphic novel
Q/A 10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00PARALLEL SESSION
R1 PANEL 2
Representing the South: landscapes, sceneries and simulacra
Chair Alberto Baracco (Univ. of Basilicata)
2A 11:30 – 11:50
Manuela Gieri (Univ. of Basilicata)
Nature as simulacrum: urban landscapes in contemporary Italian cinema
2B 11:50 – 12:10
Simona Arillotta (IUAV Univ. of Venezia)
A cinema of cement. For a re-reading of Calabrian landscape
2C 12:10 – 12:30
Pietro Ammaturo (Univ. of Basilicata)
Passages to (landscapes of) the South: (extra)urban and social environmental scenarios in Matteo Garrone’s cinema
Q/A 12:30 – 13:00
R2 PANEL 3
Reimagining the South: stories, tales and narratives
Chair Carmen Concilio (Univ. of Torino)
3A 11:30 – 11:50
Annie Gagiano (Stellenbosch Univ.)
Ruthlessness; greed; vanity: an old southern African tale of enduring relevance
3B 11:50 – 12:10
Pietro Deandrea (Univ. of Torino)
Nonhuman, non-living: developments in African magic landscape realism
3C 12:10 – 12:30
Angelo Monaco (Univ. of Bari)
Fluid transcorporeal entanglements in contemporary fictions from the South of the world
Q/A 12:30 – 13:00
13:00 – 15:00Break
15:00 – 16:30PARALLEL SESSION
R1 PANEL 4
Expressing the South: languages, styles and statements
Chair Daniela Fargione (Univ. of Torino)
4A 15:00 – 15:20
Annarita Taronna (Univ. of Bari), Dora Renna (Univ. of Ferrara)
‘Humanising’ the English language: sustaining the Global South through teaching
4B 15:20 – 15:40
Giulia A. Disanto (Univ. of Salento)
Meridian tree imaginary: from Goethean phenomenology to Joseph Beuys
4C 15:40 – 16:00
Arianna Del Gaudio (Univ. of Napoli)
From climate action to climate justice: the case of COP27 statements by political leaders from the Global South
Q/A 16:00 – 16:30
R2 PANEL 5
Photographing the South: images, imaginaries and agency
Chair Chiara Simonigh (Univ. of Torino)
5A 15:00 – 15:20
Alberto Baracco (Univ. of Basilicata)
Cartier-Bresson’s Lucania. Photography, eco-agency and visual ecocriticism
5B 15:20 – 15:40
Douglas Ponton (Univ. of Catania)
Tourism and nature photography in Sicily. The ecological imaginary
5C 15:40 – 16:00
Lavinia Torti (Univ. of Bologna)
“Present fossils”. The photo-textual story of nostos in Sicily, from Elio Vittorini to Giorgio Vasta
Q/A 16:00 – 16:30
16:30 – 17:00Coffee break
17:00 – 18:30PARALLEL SESSION
R1 PANEL 6
Sharing the South: networks, websites and social media
Chair Elisa Bricco (Univ. of Genova)
6A 17:00 – 17:20
Valentina Domenici (Univ. of Roma Tre), Lorenzo Denicolai (Univ. of Torino)
Green generation and the South: TikTokers, creators and climate change
6B 17:20 – 17:40
Katherine E. Russo (Univ. of Napoli)
Reframing climate change: a critical social media discourse analysis of indigenous Australian activism
6C 17:40 – 18:00
Lucia Di Girolamo (Univ. of Campania)
Multidimensional South. Campania between cinema,the web and ecocritical awareness: projects in progress
Q/A 18:00 – 18:30
R2 PANEL 7
Enclosing the South: islands, isolations and infertility
Chair Maria Teresa Imbriani (Univ. of Basilicata)
7A 17:00 – 17:20
Lorenzo Marchese (Univ. of Palermo)
For or against life? Ecologies of refusal in post-1945 Sicilian narrative (Sciascia, D’Arrigo, Bufalino)
7B 17:20 – 17:40
Giulia Po DeLisle (Univ. of Massachussets Lowell)
Environmental crisis and reproductive health in Cutrufelli’s L’isola delle madri
7C 17:40 – 18:00
Francesca Nardi (Univ. of Bologna)
An exposed island: eco-critical reading for a counternarrative of Sardinia
Q/A 18:00 – 18:30
R1 18:30 – 19:30Conference concert (poster)