Workshop_Migrating Italy_Oxford 27 February 2009

Dear all,
the 27th of February a very interersting interdisciplinary workshop on "Media and Narrative Represenattions of Immigration in italy", will take place in Oxford.
On that occasion I will present a paper "Writing the Mediterranean: Amara Lakhous and the Translation of Cultures".
There'll be speakers from all over UK and they will present interesting papers on various aspects of immigration in Italy, with a special concern to the media and narrative representations.
For further details and for dowloading the programme click here.

Abstract of my paper:
WRITING THE MEDITERRANEAN: AMARA LAKHOUS AND THE TRANSLATION OF CULTURES

This paper aims at investigating the possibility of talking about a ‘Mediterranean alternative’ in a cultural and literary horizon. In particular, it will analyse the Italian case, whose Mediterranean heredity has recently been rediscovered through the contributions of those writers who, coming from other Mediterranean countries, are challenging the borders of a Westernized and controversial reality, such as the Italian one. Amara Lakhous, a contemporary Algerian-Italian writer, living in Italy and writing in Italian, is a good example of this attempt. His writing is, in fact, transgressing the bounded Italian national culture, by challenging its monolithic view and by offering a new transcultural gaze into the Italian whole way of life.

Amara Lakhous in London_13 February 2009

Dear all,
it is my pleasure to invite you to the presentation of the algerian-Italian writer,
Amara Lakhous's book "Scontro di civiltà per un ascensore a Piazza Vittorio"
(Clash of Civilization over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio), that I have organized
for the UCL Mellon Programme. It will take place at the UCL,
Friday 13 February 2009, 17.30 (Pearson LT, main campus).
For all details click on the image or visit the Mellon Programme website.
The event is free and you are all welcome.

                        
           ***THE AUTHOR WILL BE PRESENT***

THE EVENT WILL BE CONDUCTED IN ITALIAN.


Looking forward to seeing you there!

Best Regards
Federica

CALL FOR PAPER_ITALIAN CULTURAL STUDIES

***ITALIAN CULTURAL STUDIES***
May 6-7-8, 2010 Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA

ORGANIZED BY DARTMOUTH COLLEGE (Graziella Parati) AND THE UNIVERSITY OF BARI (Patrizia Calefato.)

This interdisciplinary conference will focus on the state of the field of Cultural Studies in Italian Studies. We invite presentations on Cultural Studies as practiced in Italian Studies, and on topics focusing on Italy and Cultural Studies in all fields. We invite submissions from colleagues in: anthropology, art history, economics, geography, history, literary studies, Mediterranean studies, religion, semiotics, sociology, visual studies, the sciences etc.
Presentations will last 20 minutes. Participants will bring a final, longer version of their presentation for publication (Please follow the Chicago Style Manual for the publishable essay). Final essays will be refereed and those recommended for publication by independent readers will become part of the volume: Italian Cultural Studies (2010).
All presentations and final essays must be in English (Please let us know if you need to contact translators.)
No registration fees.

Please send a one page abstract with title of presentation by October 31 2009 to both: graziella.parati@dartmouth.edu and p.calefato@lingue.uniba.it