The Department of Italian at Warwick is pleased to announce a series of three events on Migrant Cinema and Writing in Post-colonial Italy. These events focus on different aspects of Italian contemporary literature and culture such as migration, post-coloniality, orality, diaspora, ethnicity, multiculturalism, nationhood and subalternity. Writers Ribka Sibhatu and Kaha Mohamed Aden will present at the University of Warwick their literary work as well as the documentaries, in which they tell of the legacy of Italian colonialism and their migratory experience to Italy, respectively from Eritrea and Somalia. The discussion of social and historical themes and questions in post-colonial Italian literature, is helpful in order to determine how the amnesia over the colonial past influences the mis-representation of immigrants to Italy.<\/p>\n
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Thursday 24th February 2011 Organized by the Italian Department in collaboration with the Social Theory Centre, University of Warwick<\/p>\n Ramphal Building – Gillian Rose Room – R3.25 Ribka Sibhatu<\/p>\n Respondents: Friday 25th February 2011 Department of Italian Studies, University of Warwick 15.00 \u2013 16.00 Film Screening: Simone Brioni\u2019s Aul\u00f2 <\/em>(ITA, 2011, 40\u2019) Wednesday 2nd March 2011 Organized by the Italian Department in collaboration with the IAS (Institute of Advanced Studies)<\/p>\n IAS Seminar Room- Milburn House
\nResearch Symposium: A Post-colonial Italian Discourse?<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n17.30 \u2013 19.00 A Post-colonial Italian Discourse?<\/em><\/p>\n
\nNeil Lazarus (University of Warwick)
\nJennifer Burns (University of Warwick)<\/p>\n
\nContemporary Rome: Engaging with the Past, Projecting the Future<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nHumanities Building – Room H545<\/p>\n
\n(Ribka Sibhatu, an Italian writer of Eritrean origins who lives in Rome, tells her story of migration and discusses the history of Italian colonialism. The film is in Italian, without English subtitles.)
\n16.00 \u2013 16.30 Post-colonial Rome<\/em>
\nDiscussion with Ribka Sibhatu
\n16.30 \u2013 17.00 Coffee Break
\n17.00 \u2013 18.00 Il museo diffuso di Testaccio e il progetto Porticus Aemilia<\/em>.
\nRenato Sebastiani, Alessia Contino, Boudewijn Kaiser, Krien Clevis, Gert-Jan Burgers (Royal Netherlands Institute at Rome)
\n18.00 \u2013 19.00 Film Screenings: The Postmodern Palimpsest.<\/em> A series of short documentaries shot in Rome, created by Masters students at the Manchester School of Architecture. This event precedes the conference \u2018The Post-modern Palimpsest: Narrating Contemporary Rome<\/em>\u2019, which will take place at the University of Warwick the following day.<\/p>\n
\nChallenging Official Historiography: Oral History and Migrant Writing in Italy<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n14.00 \u2013 15.00 Orality and Literacy in the Narratives of Some Italian Migrant Writers<\/em>.
\nKombola Ramadhani Moussa (University of Reading)
\n15.00 \u2013 16.00 Oral History and Migrant Writing in Italy<\/em> Videoconference with Alessandro Portelli (Universit\u00e0 La Sapienza, Roma)
\n16.00 \u2013 16.30 Coffee Break
\n16.30 \u2013 17.30 Film Screening: Simone Brioni\u2019s La quarta via<\/em> (ITA, 2009, 40\u2019)
\n(Kaha Mohamed Aden narrates her memories of Mogadishu and reconstructs its story in Pavia, where she currently lives. The film has English subtitles). Introduced by Elizabeth Ramirez Soto (Department of Film Studies, University of Warwick)
\n17.30 \u2013 19.30 Fra-intendimenti<\/em>. Kaha Mohamed Aden presents her collection of short stories Fra-intendimenti <\/em>(Roma, Nottetempo, 2010) Respondent: Federico Faloppa (University of Reading)<\/p>\n