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Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere e Culture Moderne
Centro Aldo Moro
Sala Lauree, 3rd floor
Via Sant'Ottavio 18, TORINO
Day 1
Thursday, March 23
Thursday, March 23
Registration 8.30 a.m.–9.15 a.m.
9.15 a.m.–9.45 a.m.
Opening Remarks
Opening Remarks
Egidio DANSERO - Vice-Rector, Università di Torino
Matteo MILANI - Chair, Dipartimento Lingue e Letterature Straniere e Culture Moderne
Christina TOMLINSON - Minister Counselor for Public Affairs, U.S. Mission To Italy, Rome
Sonia DI LORETO - Conference Organizer
10 a.m.–11.15 a.m.
Keynote 1 - Elizabeth MADDOCK DILLON (Northeastern University, USA)
Keynote 1 - Elizabeth MADDOCK DILLON (Northeastern University, USA)
"Racial Capitalism and the Story of Sweetness: Milk, Sugar, Honey and the Food Chain"
Break 11.15 a.m.–11.45 p.m.
11.45 a.m.–1.00 p.m.
Round Table 1 - Racism and the Afterlives of Slavery
Round Table 1 - Racism and the Afterlives of Slavery
CHAIR: Andrea Carosso (Università di Torino, Italy)
Anna CADONI (Università Roma Tre, Italy), "De boat we on called de Clotilde:' The Community of Africatown and the Heritage of Slavery through the Reading of Hurston’s Barracoon"
Matteo M. ROSSI (Università di Torino, Italy), "Abolitionism, Political Economy and the Conflict over Emancipation before the Civil War"
Lee HERRMANN (Università di Torino, Italy), "On the Historical Continuity of Coerced Black Prison Labor"
Bohdan SZKLARSKI (Warsaw University, Poland), "How is Willie Horton Doing? - Uses of 'Politicized racism' in Mainstream Political Discourse in American Democracy in 21st Century"
Lunch 1 p.m.–2 p.m.
2.15 p.m.–3.30 p.m.
Keynote 2 - Nic[o] BRIERRE AZIZ (Interdisciplinary artist and curator, USA)
Keynote 2 - Nic[o] BRIERRE AZIZ (Interdisciplinary artist and curator, USA)
"I’d Rather Get Out Of Jail Than Get $1,000,000"
3.30 p.m.–4.45 p.m.
Round Table 2.1 - Challenging the Infrastructures: Paths of Resistance (part 1)
Round Table 2.1 - Challenging the Infrastructures: Paths of Resistance (part 1)
CHAIR: Leslie Eckel (Suffolk University, USA)
Jan BENEŠ (University of Ostrava, Czechia), "Artistic Responses to the Flint Water Crisis: Poetry as Infrastructure of Environmental Justice"
Cristina DI MAIO (Università di Torino, Italy), "Sport Architectures and the Impossible Playing Field: the Case of Colin in Black and White"
Valentina RAPETTI (Università della Tuscia, Italy), "Staging Discipline, Punishment, and Resistance in the U.S. Educational System: Anna Deavere Smith’s 'Pipeline Project'"
Lisa MARCHI (Università di Trento, Italy), "'Why Is There Under that Poem Always Another Poem?:' Environmental Justice in Contemporary African American Poetry"
Break 4.45 p.m.–5.15 p.m.
5.15 p.m.–6.30 p.m.
Round Table 2.2 - Challenging the Infrastructures: Paths of Resistance (part 2)
Round Table 2.2 - Challenging the Infrastructures: Paths of Resistance (part 2)
CHAIR: Vincenzo Bavaro (Università di Napoli "L'Orientale", Italy)
Lisa SEUBERTH (University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, Germany), "Literary Awards as Systemic Infrastructures of (Anti-) Racism"
M. Ilaria TONELLI (Università di Torino, Italy), "Refashioning American Philosophy: Harriet Jacobs's Struggle as Organic Intellectual"
Lee FLAMAND (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany), "Para-texts, Para-infrastructures, and Platforms: On 'Building the Underground Railroad'"
Leslie ECKEL (Suffolk University, USA), "An Antiracist Approach to Teaching Self-Reliance"
7.30 p.m. - Conference Dinner
Day 2
Friday, March 24
Friday, March 24
9 a.m.–12 a.m.
Guest Speaker: Nathasha Fernando (University of Westminster)
Guest Speaker: Nathasha Fernando (University of Westminster)
Antiracist Pedagogies: a workshop involving high school students, university students, and local initiatives engaged in the protection and support of migrants and new-generation Italians.
Activists from several associations (ASAI, ASGI, Camminare Insieme, Ufficio Pastorale Migranti) will present their work and will involve the audience in role play activities.
The workshop will be followed by a debate based on the podcast Sulla Razza (https://www.sullarazza.it/), featuring Dr. Nathasha Fernando, one of the show's curators.
Lunch 12.15 p.m.–1.15 p.m.
1.30 p.m.–2.45 p.m.
Round Table 3 - Being Alive: Achieving and Releasing Black Joy
Round Table 3 - Being Alive: Achieving and Releasing Black Joy
CHAIR: Cinzia Scarpino (Università di Milan, Italy)
Andrew WILDERMUTH (University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, Germany), "Education, Liberating Violence, and Malleability in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass"
Virginia PIGNAGNOLI (University of Zaragoza, Spain), "'What happens to you doesn't belong to you:' Race and Narrative Worldmaking in Tayari Jones's An American Marriage"
Andrea CAROSSO (Università di Torino, Italy), "Surveilling Communities of Color in the US Post-9/11"
Giuseppe POLISE (Università dell'Aquila, Italy), "Afrikete Ride Me to the Crossroads where we shall Sleep, Coated in Women's Power:' the Lesbian Bar in Zami as a Homoerotic Space of Black Queer Pain and Aliveness"
3 p.m.–4.30 p.m.
Keynote 3 (online) - Kevin E. QUASHIE (Brown University, USA)
Keynote 3 (online) - Kevin E. QUASHIE (Brown University, USA)
"The Matter of Black Sentences"
ONLINE EVENT, at: https://unito.webex.com/unito/j.php?MTID=m222a6af33fb84932dce202030fb8c339
Break 4.30 p.m.–5 p.m.
5 p.m.–6.30 p.m.
Round Table 4 - Black Spacial Politics between Mobility and Habitation
Round Table 4 - Black Spacial Politics between Mobility and Habitation
CHAIR: Carmen Concilio (Università di Torino, Italy)
Joel DUNCAN (University of Konstanz - Germany), "Not Driving While Black: Claudia Rankine and Ta-Nehisi Coates"
Vincenzo BAVARO (Università di Napoli "L’Orientale”, Italy), "Bruce’s Beach, California - Public Land, Private Property, Black Site"
Katherine FAMA (University College Dublin, Ireland), "The Architecture of Single Fiction: Black Women in Modern Rentals"
Ferdinand NYBERG (University of Tübingen, Germany), "Grounding Progress: Black Power and Landed Improvement"
Timo MUELLER (University of Konstanz, Germany), "Racism on the Road: Infrastructural Dimensions of Black Modernist Poetry"
Day 3
Saturday, March 25
Saturday, March 25
LAST-MINUTE CHANGE OF VENUE!!:
Sala Lauree Scuola di Scienze Umanistiche, Palazzo Nuovo, Via S. Ottavio 20, ground floor
10 a.m.–11.15 a.m.
Keynote 4 - M. Giulia FABI (Università di Ferrara, Italy)
Keynote 4 - M. Giulia FABI (Università di Ferrara, Italy)
"The Personal and the Political in African American Fiction of the Early Jim Crow Era"
Break 11.15 a.m.–11.45 p.m.
11.45 a.m.–1 p.m.
Round Table 5 - Literary Iterations of Black Vitality
Round Table 5 - Literary Iterations of Black Vitality
CHAIR: Sonia Di Loreto (Università di Torino, Italy)
Cristina IULI (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy). "'This is not a race problem story. It is the problem of a woman who happens to be colored, whose beauty often gets her into trouble, whose resourcefulness always gets her out of it.' The domestic infrastructure of power in Dorothy West’s stories."
Steve PINKERTON (Case Western Reserve University, USA), "Black Vitality, Black Preaching, and 'Re-membering' in Ellison and Morrison"
Marco PETRELLI (Università di Pisa, Italy), "Parchman Farm Blues: Narratives of Doom and Redemption in Sing, Unburied, Sing"
Dorottya MOZES (University of Debrecen, Hungary), "Black Flânerie as a Practice of Black Vitality and Resistance"
1 p.m. - Thanks & Arrivederci
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