GLOBAL F(R)ICTIONS | Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

GLOBAL F(R)ICTIONS

December 6-7, 2018 • Aula Prodi • Piazza San Giovanni in Monte, 2 • Bologna (Italy)

The Conference is organised by the research group Millennium Novels, Global Readers, stemming from a call for ideas of the Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory. In partnership with the Centro di ricerca sull’Utopia at the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, the group hosts members from various Humanities Departments at the University of Bologna. Among its research interests: Global cultural ecology; Rethinking the posthuman in a global perspective; Global narratives and counter-narratives; Gendering the global; Global science fiction.

Board: Maurizio Ascari, Giuliana Benvenuti, Rita Monticelli
Organizing Committee: Maurizio Ascari, Giuliana Benvenuti, Francesco Cattani, Cristina Gamberi, Rita Monticelli

PROGRAM

Thursday, December 6, 2018

9.30 – Welcoming Adresses
Antonino Rotolo, Vice Rector for Research
Raffaele Laudani, Director of The Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory
Rita Monticelli, Maurizio Ascari, Giuliana Benvenuti, Research Group Millennium Novels, Global Readers

10.00-11.00
Chair: Rita Monticelli
Nancy Armstrong, The Migrant Novel: On Becoming What We Are Not

11.00-11.30 – Coffee Break

11.30-13.00
Chair: Alessandro Zironi
Vita Fortunati, Cosmopolitanism as an Educational Project: Towards a Concrete Utopia?
Patrizia Violi, Traumatic Memories in the Global Era
Antonella Ceccagno, Frictions and Narratives of Discontent from the Local to the Global

13.00-14.30 – Lunch Break

14.30-15.30
Chair: Roberto Mulinacci
Paulo De Medeiros, Four Questions Concerning World-Literature Now

15.30-17.00
Chair: Monica Turci
Patrizia Caraffi, Christine de Pizan artista globale
Serena Baiesi, Jane Austen as Global Cultural Icon
Lilla Maria Crisafulli, Why Frankenstein still Matters?

17.00-17.30 – Coffee Break

17.30-18.30
Chair: Raffaella Baccolini
Francesco Cattani, Black British: Global British
Eleanor Drage, Science Fictional ‘Planetarity’ as a Critique of the Global

20.30 – Conference Dinner

Friday, December 7, 2018

9.00-11.00
Chair: Cristina Gamberi
Angela Balzano, Biolavoratrici, cyborgfare e riproduzione postumana
Valentina Greco, Una questione non privata. L’aborto in una prospettiva globale
Fabio Zagonari, Only Religious Ethics Can Help Achieve Global Environmental Sustainability

11.00-11.30 – Coffee Break

11.30-13.00
Chair: Donata Meneghelli
Federica Muzzarelli, Global Feminist Photography
Cristina Demaria, Narrazioni post- femministe e post-mediali: L’essere se stesse ai tempi della globalizzazione
Paola Scrolavezza, The Age of Precarity: Global Trends in New Japanese Literature

13.00-14.30 – Lunch Break

14.30-15.30
Chair: Maurizio Ascari
Tim Parks, Literature, Language and Community

15.30-17.00
Chair: Francesco Cattani
Marco Cucco, Giacomo Manzoli, National, World, Global: Sempre lo stesso cinema?
Roy Menarini, Periferie globali del reale: rappresentazione e narrazione della emarginazione tra cinema italiano e internazionale
Edoardo Balletta, L’originale è sempre migliore? Note sull’americanizzazione della serie dano-svedese Bron/Broen