10 Settembre 2023

Ecco il programma del convegno Afterlives of Empire, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, 21-22 settembre 2023 (solo in presenza) Thursday, 21 September 2023 9.00 Registration 10.00 Opening remarks (room 105) Camilla Miglio (Head of SEAI, Sapienza Università di Roma) and Riccardo Capoferro (Sapienza Università di Roma) 10.15 – 11.15 Keynote lecture I – Room 105 Chair: Riccardo Capoferro (Sapienza Università di Roma) Corinne Fowler (University of Leicester), Country Walks through Colonial Britain during the Culture War 11.15 – 11.45 Coffee break (room 204, 2nd floor) 11.45 – 13.15 Parallel sessions I Room 105 Panel 1 – Empire Lost, Empire Regained? Chair: Andrea Peghinelli (Sapienza) Caroline Gondaud (MEAE), L’Union européenne et les imaginaires impériaux Katharina Clausius (Université de Montréal) & Claudia Clausius (King’s University College/Western), Imperial Music in the Republican Press: National(ist) Icons in Interwar Austria Valerio Cordiner (Sapienza Università di Roma), Vestiges de l’Empire. De la Françafrique à la Françamérique Room 107 Panel 2 – Visions of India Chair: Asia Battiloro (Sapienza Università di Roma) Arnab Das (Indian Institute of Technology Madras), Spectres of a Colonial Narco-State: 19th-Century Opium Trade and Its Postimperial Afterlives in Contemporary Indian Fiction Rocío G. Davis (University of Navarra), Romancing the Empire: M. M. Kaye’s Memoir and Novels as Imperial Validation Christiane Schlote (University of Basel), Commemorating Care: Indian Ayahs and Emotional Imperialism Room 110 Panel 3 – Cultural Geographies Chair: Paolo D’Indinosante (Sapienza Università di Roma) Katherine Baxter (Northumbria University), Desertification María Fernández Díaz (University of Oviedo), Necropolitics and Colonial State Violence in Nadifa Mohamed’s The Fortune Men (2021) Lamia Mecheri (Université d’Annaba), Avatar 2 : La Voie de l’eau de James Cameron, un film (néo) impérialiste ? 13.15 – 14.45 Lunch (caffetteria, 1st floor) 14.45 – 16.45 Parallel sessions II Room 105 Panel 4 – Fascism and Post-Fascism Chair: Umberto Rossi (Independent Scholar) Franco Baldasso (Bard College, NY), Postcards from the Empire: The Long Journey through Fascism Claudia Sbuttoni (University of New Hampshire), Postwar Italy’s Refugee Re-Housing Projects: Urban Peripheries as Extension of Empire Kerry Gibbons (University of Warwick), Colonial Re-Imaginations: The Liberal Colony as a Narrative Setting in the Fascist-Era ‘Romanzo Coloniale’ Federico C. Simonelli (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia), The Bard of Submerged Imperialism: D’Annunzio and Nationalist Ideology in the Italian Imaginary after the Second World War Room 107 Panel 5 – Post-Imperial Portrayals in Cinema and Television Chair: Luca Valleriani (Sapienza Università di Roma) Teresa Sorolla & Víctor Mínguez (Universitat Jaume I), Afterlife of Queen Victoria in Cinema: Victoria & Abdul (Stephen Frears, 2017) Roxana Elena Doncu (Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy), Prince and Pauper: The British Monarchy, Their Imagined Transylvanian Roots and Imperial Nostalgia in Wild Carpathia Emiel Martens (University of Amsterdam & Erasmus University Rotterdam), Welcome to Paradise Island: The Interwoven History of Film, Tourism and Empire in Jamaica, 1891–1951 Room 110 Panel 6 – Old and New Landscapes Chair: Katherine Baxter (Northumbria University) Mary Booth (University of Liverpool), Strategic Ambiguity: The Continued Influence of Empire and the Interpretive Evolution of Historic Houses in the United Kingdom Elizabeth Dillenburg (The Ohio State University at Newark), The Ozymandias of Delhi: Coronation Park and the Negotiation of Colonial Legacies in India Sean Ketteringham (University of Oxford), Enduring Coloniality: Georgian Heritage and Angus Acworth in the West Indies Leo Kadokura (University of Oxford), Distant Chimeras: The After-Effects of John Galsworthy and the Edwardian Novel 16.45 – 17.15 Coffee break (room 204, 2dn floor) 17.15 – 19.15 Parallel sessions III Room 105 Panel 7 – Displaying Empire Chair: Franco Baldasso (Bard College, NY) Jeremy Walton (University of Rijeka), Between Inter-Imperial Violence and Inter-National Peace: A View from the Military Museums of Vienna and Istanbul Andrea Potts (The University of Brighton), The Afterlives of Imperialism: Public Engagement with Museum Exhibitions Briony Widdis & Emma Reisz (Queen’s University Belfast), Collecting Ambiguity: Material Objects and the Afterlives of Empire in Northern Ireland Rebekah Hodgkinson (University of Oxford), Constructing the Past in the Present: The National Trust and British Colonialism Room 107 Panel 8 – Multimedial Empires Chair: Tiziano De Marino (Sapienza Università di Roma) Oded Feuerstein (Tel Aviv University), ‘I understand colonialism now and it terrifies me’: Ludic Imperialism and Victoria 3 Paolo D’Indinosante (Sapienza Università di Roma), The Afterlife of Colonial Fiction in The Secret Games Company’s Kim Judith Neder (Technische Universität Dresden), Challenging Fundamentalism: Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers and Saints Room 110 Panel 9 – Fiction and Colonial Memory Chair: Alessandra Crotti (Sapienza Università di Roma) Nicoletta Brazzelli (Università degli Studi di Milano), The Poetics of Memory in Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah Eri Kobayashi (Seikei University), Memories of Empire in Caryl Phillips’s Novels Emma Parker (University of Bristol), The Baggage of Empire: Objects, Memory, and Colonial Whiteness in J. G. Ballard’s and Doris Lessing’s Life Writing Carmen Zamorano Llena (Dalarna University), Listening to the Precariousness of Post-Imperial Memory in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Afterlives Friday, 22 September 2023 10.00 – 11.00 Keynote lecture II – Room 105 Chair: Irene Ranzato (Sapienza Università di Roma) Pablo Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Ghosts in the Machine: Famines and Afterlives of Empire 11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break (room 204, 2nd floor) 11.30 – 13.00 Parallel sessions IV Room 105 Panel 10 – Postcolonial Histories and Nation Building Chair: Paolo D’Indinosante (Sapienza Università di Roma) Ann-Sofie Nielsen Gremaud (University of Iceland), New Friendships and Old Ties: Post-Colonial Relations between Iceland and Greenland Skirmantė Biržietienė & Eglė Gabrėnaitė (Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty), The Concept of Empire in Contemporary Lithuanian Public Discourse: A Corpus-Based Research Karl Hele (Mount Allison University), Anishinaabeg Countering Settler Imperial-Colonial Narratives through Performance, c. 1900 to Present Room 107 Panel 11 – Gender, Memory, Empire Chair: Caterina Romeo (Sapienza Università di Roma) Noreen Kane (University College Cork), Intergenerational Memory in the Novels of Maaza Mengiste Nicole Fluhr (Southern Connecticut State University), Revision and/as Revolt: Tackling Empire’s Literary Legacies in Marlon James’ The Book of Night Women Giovanna Buonanno (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia), Afterlives of Empire in Contemporary Black British Women’s Plays: Janice Okoh’s The Gift (2020) Room 110 Panel 12 – Post-Imperial Myths Chair: