Events

Current Events

Organisation: Francesca Nieddu and Noreen Kane

Colloquium Programme

9.15 - 9.45 Greetings and registration

9.45 - 10.00 Welcome remarks

10.00 - 11.15 Panel 1: Problematising Postcolonial, Migratory and Marginalised Memory

Michele Baldaro (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Alpen Adria University in Klagenfurt):
“Memory and Narrative Positionality: Depicting the Italian Doctor/Colonial Other Relationship in the
Post-war Period”
Elisabetta Visaggio (King’s College London): “Sea Memory Environments: Ernesto De Martino’s orizzonte mitico-rituale as a Method to
Transnationally Remember Economic Migrations from Southern Italy to North and South America
1890-1930”
Francesca Passaseo (University of Texas at Austin): “Archive as Memory: The Role of Repositories in Shaping the History of the Wages for Housework
Movement”
Chair: Silvia Vari (University of Warwick)

11.15 - 11.45 Coffee break

11.45 - 13.00 Panel 2: From the Second World War to the Present Day: (Re)mediating Memory and Historical Trauma

Matilde Piu (University of Pisa): “Memory and Imagination: Renegotiating Holocaust Narratives in Włodek Goldkorn’s Il bambino nella
neve”
Cristian Bergonzo and Giuliana Pala (University of Bologna): “An ‘Improper Medium’ for Memory: Exploring Two Recent Cases of Memory Remediation”
Irene Ros (University of Edinburgh and University of Strathclyde): “Performing the Collective Memory of Stragismo”
Chair: Dr Chiara Giuliani (UCC)

13.00 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 15.00 Keynote 1
Dr Stefania Lucamante (University of Cagliari): “The Natural History of Defuncts: From Ernest Hemingway’s WW1 Narratives
to Contemporary Historiographic Novels: Nicoletta Verna’s I giorni di Vetro
and Ilaria Rossetti’s La fabbrica delle ragazze”

15.00 - 15.15 Coffee break

15.15 - 16.30
Panel 3: Reshaping the Past and the Future through the Urban Environment

Zoe Fox (University of Birmingham): “The Eternal(ly) Changing City: Demolition and Roma Sparita in Visual Culture from the Risorgimento to Fascism”
Claudia Sbuttoni (Columbia University): “Remembering Villaggio Giuliano: Postwar Memory and Resettlement in Rome”
Giulia Bernuzzi (University College Cork): “Memory and Resistence: Contesting Climate Crisis and Identity in Antonio Scurati’s La seconda mezzanotte”
Chair: Elisa Vivaldi (University of Edinburgh)

16.30 - 16.45 Break

16.45 - 17.45 Keynote 2
Dr Silvia Ross (University College Cork): “Re-membering World War II through Ruins: Wounded Bodies, Memory and
Regeneration in the Postwar Florence of Aldo Palazzeschi and Michael Ondaatje”

17.45 - 18.00 Closing Remarks