MONDAY, JULY 4
 
10.00-12.00 am

Panel 01 – Chair: LUCA JOURDAN

Xuenan Cao, Borges’ Essays and Lu Xun’ Zawen: a Hypothesis
Aino Korvensyrjä, Illegal citizens? – On state racism and the Duldung (suspension of deportation) in the BRD 1982–2014
Ashanti Kunene, The South African student project of decoloniality and the notion of Authentic Blackness

Panel 02 – Chair: PAOLA RUDAN

Sudeshna Chatterjee, Agency, Identity and Consent in Bare Life: Post Structural Feminist study of global sex work governance
Ege Selin Islekel, Poetics of Relation: Centering and De-centering of Earth
Dinara Podgornova, When did you realize you are… a border thinker?

2.00-4.00 pm

Panel 03 – Chair: PAOLO CAPUZZO

Jiyon Byun, European boy in Asian Metropolis
Simone Vegliò, The ‘Paris Of South America’: Buenos Aires (1880-1930), A Postcolonial Frontier
Yuan Xianxin, The Countryside as a Problem: Nation, Class and the Emergence of Youth

Panel 04 – Chair: ROBERTO DAINOTTO

Eduardo Altheman Camargo Santos, Periodizing capitalism through the Frankfurt School: from the Welfare State to Neoliberalism
Bruna Della Torre De Carvalho Lima, Art and philosophy in Adorno’s late work
Mónica González García, Rubén Darío and the Chilean Subaltern Modernity: Fetishism and Consumer Counterculture

Panel 05 – Chair: RAFFAELE LAUDANI

Bedour Alagraa, What Makes the World Turn Against Me?: Human as Praxis, Human as Narrative in Caribbean Fiction
Daniel Henry, Sympathy and Leadership in the Early Du Bois
Martina Mallocci, “All Art is propaganda”. W.E.B. Du Bois’s Crisis and the construction of a black public image, 1910-1934
Lorenzo Ravano, Conceptual Foundations of the Black Radical Tradition
 
WEDNESDAY, JULY 6
 
4.30-6.30 pm

Panel 06 – Chair: ROBERTO DAINOTTO

Yvonne Ortiz Moran, Borders and Crossings: Pedro Paramo and the fine line between reality and fiction
SA Smythe, Esser Etiolana: Towards a Critical Theory of Meticciato
Lorenza Starace, Elena Ferrante’s Troubling Love: The City as the Mother

Panel 07 – Chair: PAOLA RUDAN

Matilde Cazzola, A Practitioner of the Empire in the Age of Revolutions: Space and Colonial Governance in Thomas Pownall’s Political Thought
Carol Guarnieri, Who is the Subject of the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean Novel?
Francesco Orlandi, Heritage and Rights: searching for a relationship out of the coloniality frame from the De Thesauris by Bartolomé de las Casas
 
FRIDAY, JULY 8
 
2.00-4.00 pm

Panel 08 – Chair: CRISTINA DEMARIA

Matthew Elia, The Image is a Gathering, but the Gathering is Haunted: Black Studies, Bruno Latour, and Reimagining Critique as ‘Wake’
Rachel Greenspan, Psychoanalytic Praxis in Latin America: Reparative Politics and the Socialization of Loss
Stéphanie Najjar, Politicizing the Physics of Turbulence
Cristopher Vázquez, Be Trail: Colonial Masks and Traveling Identities

Panel 09 – Chair: RITA MONTICELLI

Michelle Murray, The African Dreams of Migration: Poetics of the Black Diaspora in Donato Ndongo’s “El sueño”
Scott P. Newman, Between Haitian and World Literature in Jacques-Stéphen Alexis’s Literary Theory
Holly Runde, The Pest of Capitalism: championing hybridity in Lawrence Scott’s Witchbroom