Pre-Workshop Events
Thursday, October 26
Lidia Santarelli (Princeton University): “The Fascist War on Screen: Gender, Generation and Trauma in post-WWII Italy (1945-1965)." McGill University, MacDonald Engineering Building, Room 276, 2:35pm-4:00pm.
Screening of Des filles pour l'armée (Le Soldatesse) by Valerio Zurlini, 1965 (French version), with an introduction by Lidia Santarelli. Cinémathèque Québécoise, 335 Boul de Maisonneuve Est, 6:30 pm.
Workshop
Friday, October 27 (GEM Lab, FB 630.15, 1250 Rue Guy)
2pm-5pm
Opening remarks: Luca Caminati (Concordia University): "Geopolitics as Method."
Shelleen Greene (UCLA): "Everson’s Rhinoceros: Reading the Italian-Libyan Political Constellation Through the Afro-Surrealist Imaginary."
Simona Wright (The College of New Jersey): "The Weight of the Body. Historical Dystopias and the Empire."
Ara Merjian (New York University): "'Negro-intellettuale': The Expanded Topography of Pasolini's Third World between Africa and America."
Saturday, October 28 (GEM Lab, FB 630.15, 1250 Guy Street)
10am-1pm
Rhiannon Welch (Rutgers University): "Crisis, Cinema, and Forms of Life."
Alan O’Leary (University of Leeds): "Spaces and Times in The Battle of Algiers."
Alberto Zambenedetti (University of Toronto): "Space and im/mobility in the Mediterranean Noir."
1pm-2pm
Lunch
2pm-5pm
Derek Duncan: (University of St Andrews): "Class-room: Sites of transnational pedagogy and discipline."
Vetri Nathan (University of Massachusetts Boston): "Ghosts of Cinemas Past in Italy’s New Migrant Cinema."
Concluding remarks: Luca Caminati & Shelleen Greene
5pm-7pm
Reception at Kafein, 1429a Rue Bishop.
Thursday, October 26
Lidia Santarelli (Princeton University): “The Fascist War on Screen: Gender, Generation and Trauma in post-WWII Italy (1945-1965)." McGill University, MacDonald Engineering Building, Room 276, 2:35pm-4:00pm.
Screening of Des filles pour l'armée (Le Soldatesse) by Valerio Zurlini, 1965 (French version), with an introduction by Lidia Santarelli. Cinémathèque Québécoise, 335 Boul de Maisonneuve Est, 6:30 pm.
Workshop
Friday, October 27 (GEM Lab, FB 630.15, 1250 Rue Guy)
2pm-5pm
Opening remarks: Luca Caminati (Concordia University): "Geopolitics as Method."
Shelleen Greene (UCLA): "Everson’s Rhinoceros: Reading the Italian-Libyan Political Constellation Through the Afro-Surrealist Imaginary."
Simona Wright (The College of New Jersey): "The Weight of the Body. Historical Dystopias and the Empire."
Ara Merjian (New York University): "'Negro-intellettuale': The Expanded Topography of Pasolini's Third World between Africa and America."
Saturday, October 28 (GEM Lab, FB 630.15, 1250 Guy Street)
10am-1pm
Rhiannon Welch (Rutgers University): "Crisis, Cinema, and Forms of Life."
Alan O’Leary (University of Leeds): "Spaces and Times in The Battle of Algiers."
Alberto Zambenedetti (University of Toronto): "Space and im/mobility in the Mediterranean Noir."
1pm-2pm
Lunch
2pm-5pm
Derek Duncan: (University of St Andrews): "Class-room: Sites of transnational pedagogy and discipline."
Vetri Nathan (University of Massachusetts Boston): "Ghosts of Cinemas Past in Italy’s New Migrant Cinema."
Concluding remarks: Luca Caminati & Shelleen Greene
5pm-7pm
Reception at Kafein, 1429a Rue Bishop.