We are happy to share the programme of the conference ‘The Waste Question: Landscapes of Toxicity and Resistance in Southern Italy’ taking place on the 10th of June. More details here.
The Waste Question: Landscapes of Toxicity and Resistance in Southern Italy
9:15-9:30 Welcome Remarks
9:30 – 10:45 Keynote
Chair: Robert Gordon (University of Cambridge)
Marco Armiero (University of Santiago de Compostela)
10:45-11 Coffee Break
11 – 12:30 Southern Landscapes and Imaginaries
Chair: Melissa Calaresu (University of Cambridge)
Damiano Benvegnù (University of St Andrews), “Organic Gramsci? Toward a Gramscian Ecopolitics”
Claudia Lombardo (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), “Wasted Landscapes, Energized Narratives: NATO Nuclear Militarization and Literary Resistance in 1980s Sicily”
Giulia Bellato (University of Cambridge), “Immunditiae and Community in Medieval Southern Italy: Conflict, Collaboration, Cohabitation”
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:45 Keynote
Chair: Alice Parrinello (University of Toronto)
Monica Seger (William & Mary) [online], “Claiming Space with Counternarratives: To Tell a Story of Taranto”
2:45-3:15 Coffee Break
3:15-4:45 Waste and Toxicity
Chair: Luca Peretti (University of Cambridge)
Karl Schoonover (University of Warwick), “Dirtied Air: The Politics of Pollution in the Film Image”
Elena Emma Sottilotta (University of Cambridge), “Fairy Tales against Eco-Crime: Waste and Relationality in Contemporary Italian Cinema”
Alice Parrinello (University of Toronto), “‘Corpo celeste (2011) by Alice Rohrwacher, a Queer Provocation”
4:45-6:15 Taranto
Chair: Erica Bellia (University of Cambridge)
Raffaele Ippolito (UCL), “Beyond Sacrifice: Hopeful Pessimism and Co-Noticing in Taranto”
Selby Wynn Schwartz [online], “Three Margins of Taranto”
Michael Tortorella (Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna), “To Decolonize the Socio-Ecological Crisis in Taranto: Coloniality, Patriarchy and Right to Breathe”