School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures / Eco-Humanities Research Group

Scholars from the field of Anthropocene, Literary and Cultural Studies, Italian Studies

24.-25. February, CACSSS seminar room (ORB G.27) and the Dora Allman Room (The Hub)

https://www.ucc.ie/en/italian/events/geographiesofthepresentspacesandplacesoftheanthropoceneinitaly/

The term Anthropocene, which initially emerged in the early 2000s to describe the current epoch of the Earth’s history characterised by the geological impact of human activities, has also established itself as a category of the literary and non-literary imagination. If, as pointed out by Ryan et al. (2016), the richest source of data for narratives of geography are always “the stories people create involving space and place”, what narrative forms have been used to explore the Anthropocene and its consequences in the Italian environmental and social landscape? Addressing this question, this conference aims to explore Italian forms of imagination and representation – including fiction and non-fiction, poetry, visual arts – engaging with the production of spaces and places at the time of the Anthropocene. The Keynote Speaker of the conference is Niccolò Scaffai (Università degli Studi di Siena). The languages of the conference will be Italian and English. This is a joint initiative of the UCC School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures and the UCC Eco-Humanities Research Group affiliated with the Environmental Research Institute. The event is kindly sponsored by the Department of Italian (UCC); CASiLAC - Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (UCC); The Society for Italian Studies; Istituto Italiano di Cultura – Dublino.