Dear friends,
I have been invited to Manchester to chair and introduce a panel within a conference called 'A New Italian Political Cinema?", that will take place on the 27th and 28th of January 2012. You can find al details here
The panel is titled 'Sguardi diversi sul dramma della migrazione'. Find below an abstract of my introductory paper.
L’ACCENTO MANCATO.
Il cinema della migrazione in Italia
Nell’ultimo decennio, l’etichetta di ‘cinema italiano della migrazione’ è stata adoperata per indicare una produzione cinematografica che volge lo sguardo a questioni legate all’arrivo in Italia - almeno dagli anni Ottanta in poi - di un numero sempre crescente di ‘ospiti’, ‘stranieri’, ‘immigrati’, ‘extracomunitari’, ‘clandestini’, ecc.
Da Amelio in poi, passando per Placido, Garrone, Mazzacurati, Comencini, Munzi fino ad arrivare all’ultimo Crialese, la questione degli immigrati in Italia è stata affrontata in modo più o meno ‘cronicistico’, con l’intento di offrire uno sguardo più ‘intimo’ sui soggetti migranti, la cui rappresentazione sarebbe altrimenti limitata a quella della sola TV e della stampa, mezzi quest’ultimi che fanno spesso da eco ad un discorso politico mirato a strumentalizzare la questione dell’immigrazione in Italia.
Per quanto lo sforzo di gran parte di questi registi italiani sia apprezzabile, anche semplicemente per aver contribuito a risvegliare l’attenzione del cinema sui soggetti migranti in Italia, resta il fatto che per la maggior parte dei casi si tratta di tentativi fini a se stessi che limitano lo sguardo ad aspetti poco innovativi, soprattutto riguardo ai modi di produzione. Siamo lontani, in Italia, dal cinema ‘accentato’ di cui parla Hamid Naficy, dove l'accento emana dalla dislocazione (displacement) del regista e dai modi di produzione ‘interstiziali’. Pochi e timidi tentativi (Theo Eshetu, Hedy Krissane, Mohamed Zineddaine), suggeriscono che un cinema accentato sarà forse possibile anche in Italia.
Looking forward to this event!
This is a weblog of my work and interest in cultures of migration
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Monday, October 31, 2011
London World Film Festival - 8-10 November 2011

Dear all,
this year I have been involved in the organization of the exhiting London World Film Festival (8-10 November 2011). The theme of this 5th edition is 'Glocal Communities', and for the occasion we have invited two Italian directors Sergio Basso (director of 'Giallo a Milano'), e Agostino Ferrente (director of 'L'Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio').
The 8th of November, the screenings fo the two films will be followed by a round table, with the directors, that I will chair.
I am looking forward to this!
Please find details of the whole programme here.
ALL WELCOME - FREE EVENT
Mitchell's event in Podcast
Dear all,
the event 'Migration Law and the Image' with prof. WJT Micthell that I have organized in June 2011 is now available in UCL iTunes:
ENJOY IT!
the event 'Migration Law and the Image' with prof. WJT Micthell that I have organized in June 2011 is now available in UCL iTunes:
ENJOY IT!
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Politics of Visibility Mediating the global, local and the in-between
A one day conference to be held on the 4th of November 2011 at the Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, in London.
Find details here.
Find details here.
Being In-Human: The Critical Theory and Law of Human Rights
A very exciting conference with Slavoj Zizek and Paul Gilroy among others will take place in London from Thursday 17 to Saturday 19 November 2011. Find all details here.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Podcast of lecture in Princeton
Dear all,
for those of you who are interested in my lecture at the Symposium in Princeton last March, here is the podcast
for those of you who are interested in my lecture at the Symposium in Princeton last March, here is the podcast
Friday, April 15, 2011
W.J.T. MITCHELL Migration, Law and the Image. Beyond the Veil of Ignorance 16 June 2011

it's my pleasure to announce an upcoming event that I have organized at UCL on the 16th of June 2011.
Prof. W.J.T. Mitchell (University of Chicago) will give a lecture on
"Migration, Law and the Image. Beyond the Veil of Ignorance".
There will be two respondents: Prof. Parvati Nair (Queen Mary Hispanic
Cultural Studies) and Dr Ingrid Boccardi (UCL Laws).
Please find all details here. The event is free but a registration is required.
For any further information please contact me
Hope to see you there!
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