2024 SIS Postgraduate Colloquium | Memory and Italian Culture

28 Nov 2024

The Department of Italian warmly invites you for the Society of Italian Studies Postgraduate Colloquium which will take place this year at UCC and is organised by 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