The aim of the workshop is to bring together scholars whose innovative work on ideas of mobility has challenged disciplinary boundaries and methodological frameworks, opening new and exciting ways of furthering the study of human subjectivities, identities and notions of cultural belonging. From different disciplinary backgrounds and proceeding from a range of critical perspectives, each speaker will explore how subjectivity is articulated within transnational spaces where individual and collective identities are constantly shaped and transformed.
The workshop will be organized into three sessions: in each of the three sessions, the speakers will give a talk about their own research and how it addresses the question of subjectivity. The following discussions will be facilitated by members of the project team of Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures.
The presentations will take place at the beginning of the Transnational Italian Studies Summer School at Warwick Venice Centre, University of Warwick Palazzo Pesaro-Papafava, Venice, 21-24 September 2015.
Venue: Palazzo Pesaro-Papafava, Venice, 20-21 September 2015
Programme:
Welcome: Charles Burdett and Barbara Spadaro
Session One (Sunday 20 September, 4.15-6 pm)
Narrating and consuming Italian-American Identities
Chair: Loredana Polezzi
Speakers: Anthony Tamburri and Elizabeth Zanoni
Session Two (Monday 21 September, 9-11 am)
Memories and Subjectivities in Diasporic Formations
Chair: Derek Duncan
Speakers: Shaul Bassi, Liliana Ellena
Session Three (Monday 21 September 11.15am – 1.15pm)
Challenging Paradigms in Migration Studies
Chair: Jenny Burns
Speakers: Donna Gabaccia and Maddalena Tirabassi
Attendance at the Workshop is free and open to all. To register, please email Dr. Barbara Spadaro: b.spadaro@bristol.ac.uk