Program 

ALL EVENTS (except when noted):
Centro Aldo Moro -  Sala Lauree, 3rd floor

Via Sant'Ottavio 18, TORINO

Day 1

Thursday, March 21

Registration 8.45-9.00 a.m.

9.00 a.m.–9.15 a.m.

Opening Remarks

Egidio DANSERO - Dean for Sustainability and Development Cooperation, Università di Torino
Matteo MILANI - Chair, Dipartimento Lingue e Letterature Straniere e Culture Moderne
Chiara VENTURA - Area Ricerca e Istruzione, Fondazione CRT
Andrea CAROSSO - Conference Co-organizer

9.15 a.m.–10.30 a.m.

Keynote #1
Alison GLASSIE (Northeastern University)

TITLE: Olokun's Aquarium: Corals and Climate in the Caribbean Sea

Introduction: Sonia Di Loreto

10.30 a.m.–12.30 p.m.

PANEL #1: FLOW AND ORDER

Andrea HOLEŠOVÁ (University of Ostrava). Keeping Your Head Above the (Dirty) Water: the Power of Water in Erika Dickerson-Despenza’s Cullud Wattah.

Teresa GIBERT (UNED). Margaret Atwood’s Poetics and Politics of Water.

Olusegun TITUS (Konstanz University). Musicking Oil Spillage on the Blue Communities in the Niger Delta of Nigeria.

Enrico MARIANI (Ca' Foscari University of Venice). “Water! Water! Water!”: Literary and Cinematic Representations of 20th Century’s Water Problem in Los Angeles.


PANEL CHAIR:  Virginia Pignagnoli

Lunch 12.30 p.m.–2.00 p.m.

2.00 p.m.–3.45p.m.

PANEL #2: AQUATIC ARCHIVES

Carmen CONCILIO (Università di Torino). "To the lighthouse! If it’s fine tomorrow!"  Water agency from R. Carson to J. Urquhart, via V. Woolf.

Yesmina KHEDHIR (University of Debrecen). “Only the Water knows all, but the Water does not speak”: Waterscapes in Jesmyn Ward’s Let Us Descend.

Cydney PHILLIP (University College London). Through Hell and High Water: The Liquid Plantationocene and Jesmyn Ward's Let Us Descend.

Svetlana STEFANOVA (Universidad Internacional de La Rioja). “She was more than what she was and less than what she was presenting, like a double exposed photo”: The Ebb and Flow of Spatiality in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon.


PANEL CHAIR:  Marco Petrelli

3.45 p.m.–5.30p.m.

PANEL #3: WATER AND/AS LIVING BODIES

Elisa PESCE (University of Glasgow). Care, Love, and Gestational Floods in the Embodied Hydrocommons.

Georgiana DE RHAM (McGill University). Rivers in Resistance: River Poetics and Performance in and beyond the Poetry of Natalie Diaz.

Stefano Maria CASELLA (Independent Scholar). “…on the edge of that mysterious immensity”:  the Atlantic Ocean in Henry Beston’s The Outermost House.

Stefano FRANCESCHINI (Università degli Studi Roma Tre). The river’s been used up”: The Role of Water in Richard Powers’ The Echo Maker.


PANEL CHAIR: Pietro Deandrea

6.00 p.m.–7.00 p.m.

SPECIAL EVENT  #1:
"Troubled Waters": performance delle acque

AUDITORIUM, CENTRO ALDO MORO

8 p.m. - Conference Dinner

Day 2

Friday, March 22

9.00 a.m.–11.00 a.m.

PANEL #4: BEYOND THE ATLANTIC

Dorothea FISCHER-HORNUNG (University of Heidelberg). Reimagining Oceanic Currents: Reading George R. Steward, J. G. Ballard, Nathaniel Rich, and Amitav Ghosh.

Alessandro BRUNAZZO (University of Oslo). “That Sinking Feeling”: Water and Mourning in the Po River Delta.

Lia ZOLA (Università di Torino). Lakes, River and the Arctic Ocean as Kin: Indigenous Views on Water Bodies in Eastern Siberia.

Alessandra VANNUCCI (Università di Torino). "Water Bodies". Report of a Co-creation Process on River Cities.

Mary O'NEILL (De Montfort University). Flotsam, Jetsam, Lagan, Derelict. The Things We Have Lost.


PANEL CHAIR:  Masturah Alatas

Break 11.00 a.m.–11.30 a.m.

11.30 a.m.–12.45 p.m.

Keynote #2
 Giorgio MARIANI (Sapienza Università di Roma)

TITLE: Moby-Dick, the “Oceanic Turn,” American Studies

 
INTRODUCTION: Andrea Carosso

Lunch 12.45 p.m.–2 p.m.

2 p.m.–3.45 p.m.

PANEL #5: DESIGNING WATERSCAPES

Gabriele PISARZ-RAMIREZ (University of Leipzig). Spectral Presences at the Isthmus: The Panama Canal Construction in the Work of Melva Lowe de Goodin and Giana de Dier.

Bryan NORWOOD (The University of Texas at Austin). Below the Levee: The Mississippi River and Infrastructural Confidence.

Steffen WÖLL (Leipzig University). Imperial Torrents and Literary Undertows: Liquifying America’s Transoceanic Empire.

Madeline BECKER (University of Rostock). Taming the Ocean Through its Visual Mediation: Underwater Documentaries and Google Earth's Underwater Streetview.


PANEL CHAIR:  Cristina Di Maio

4.00 p.m.–5.45 p.m.

PANEL #6: FLUID FUTURES

Rocio DAVIS (University of Navarra). Waterworlds and Colonial Entanglements in Popular Culture: An Examination of James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water and Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

Hanna MASSLICH (University of Jena). Noah’s Ark Revisited: Investigating Flood Mythology in Contemporary Climate Fiction.

Daniela FARGIONE (Università di Torino). Mermaids: Immersive Narrations and Hydrofeminist Medi(t)ations.

Scott ZUKOWSKI (University of Graz). Travel Narratives, At-Sea Abstraction, and the Origin of (our) Species.


PANEL CHAIR:  Valentina Romanzi

6.00 p.m.–7.00 p.m.

SPECIAL EVENT #2:
Cultural Marathon for a New Generation: A Conversation with Masturah Alatas
Featuring students and teachers of:
Liceo A. Volta, Torino; Liceo V. Alfieri, Torino;
Liceo V. Gioberti, Torino


7 p.m. - Thanks & Arrivederci