This year’s Languages of the Anthropocene conference will be jointly hosted by the British School at Rome, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, and Sapienza Università di Roma.
18 June 2024 – Sala Ignazio Ambrogio, Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature Culture Straniere, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Via del Valco di San Paolo 19, 00142 Rome
11:20 WELCOME
11:30 INTRODUCTIONS
Florian Mussgnug (University College London | Roma Tre University)
11:45 OPENING KEYNOTE LECTURE
Anais Maurer (Rutgers University | CAPAS), Fighting Nuclear Colonialism and Climate Imperialism from the Empire’s Edge
12:45 LUNCH
14:15 AGAINST CLIMATE COLONIALITY
Chair: Vincenzo Maggitti (Roma Tre University)
Cydney Phillip (University College London), Liquid Plantationocene: Narratives of Water from the U.S. Gulf Coast
Eleonora Rossi (Birkbeck University London), Flows of Change: Resistance in Contemporary Indigenous Australian Fiction
15:45 COFFEE
16:15 INHABITATION, ENTANGLEMENT, LANDSCAPE
Chair: Luca Marcozzi (Roma Tre University)
Felicitas Loest (Heidelberg University | CAPAS), Troubling Coloniality: the Sublime and Haunting in Mexican Landscape Poetry
Silvia Vittonatto (University College London), Uomini e sterpi: Ecological Precarity and Plant-Human Entwinements
17:45 CONCLUDING REMARKS (DAY ONE): THE LANGUAGES OF WATER
“Moby Dick”, Via Edgardo Ferrati, 3a, 00154 Roma
18:15 Concept concert with Juliano Abramovay (fretless guitar), Chrysanthi Gkika (lyra), Stefano Nencha (guitar), Stefano Nunzi (bass), Alessandro Luccioli (percussion), Maddalena Pennacchia (voice).
19 June 2024 – Sainsbury Lecture Theatre, British School at Rome, Via Antonio Gramsci 61, 00197 Rome
9:00 WELCOME
9:10 VOICES OF THE ANTHROPOCENE
Chair: Courtney Quaintance (British School at Rome)
Michael Dunn (Heidelberg University | CAPAS), Singing Through the Slothocene: The Voice(s) of Apocalyptic Prophecy
Maddalena Pennacchia (Roma Tre University) and Juliano Abramovay (Durham University | Codarts University for the Arts), Human Landscapes, Transcreation, and Music
10:30 COFFEE
10.50 CREATIVE-CRITICAL INTERVENTION
Caitríona Ní Dhúill (University of Salzburg), Andiamo / Let’s Get Out of Here: Kinetic Thinking and Radical Relocalisation
11:30 NARRATIVES OF DIVERSITY AND DISSENT
Chair: Caterina Romeo (Sapienza University of Rome)
Robert Folger (Heidelberg University |CAPAS), Cannibals: Indigenous Apocalypse and Colonialism
Simona Corso (Roma Tre University), Decolonial Indignation: Voices from the Caribbean
13:00 LUNCH
14:00 SPECULATIVE TEMPORALITIES
Chair: Emilia Di Rocco (Sapienza University of Rome)
Gero Bauer (University of Tübingen), Facing the Present: Narrative and Critical Moods in Times of Crisis
Giulia Magro (Sapienza University of Rome), Future (Im)Perfect: Ecomedievalist Temporalities in Science Fiction
Abigail Bleach (University College London), Out of Time: Nuclear Semiotics and the Medieval(ish) Anthropocene
15:45 COFFEE
16:15 CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES
Chair: Giuseppe Episcopo (Roma Tre University)
Birgit Neumann (Düsseldorf University), “Neatly Dismantled” Infrastructures in Speculative Fiction:
The Pharmakon of the Anthropocene
Rhys Williams (University of Glasgow), Feeling Our Way Through: Imaginaries, Communities, and Infrastructures of Energy
17:45 BREAK
18:00 PUBLIC KEYNOTE LECTURE
Chair: Simona Corso
Shaul Bassi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Othello in the Anthropocene – Register here
19:30 DRINKS
20:00 CONFERENCE DINNER
20 June 2024 – Dipartimento di Studi Europei, Americani e Interculturali, Edificio Marco Polo, Viale dello Scalo San Lorenzo 82, 00159 Rome
9:00 WELCOME
9:15 CARTOGRAPHIES OF THE (POST)MODERNIST ANTHROPOCENE
Chair: Iolanda Plescia (Sapienza University of Rome)
Florian Mussgnug (University College London | Roma Tre), Unlearning the End of History: from Postmodernism to Early Anthropocene
Asia Battiloro (Sapienza University of Rome), Ec[h]ologies of Modernism in Amy Sackville’s Polar Novel The Still Point
Adam Stock (York St John University | CAPAS), Colonial Cartographies and Apocalyptic Imaginaries: Deserts at the End of the World
11:15 COFFEE
11:45 GENRES OF THE (POST)MODERNIST ANTHROPOCENE
Chair: Ali Deharidad (Sapienza University Rome)
Rosanne Gallenne (University College Dublin), Sheila Wingfield’s Ecopoetry: Preserving Class or Preserving Nature?
Annamaria Elia (Sapienza University of Rome), Voices from the Elsewhere: Surrealism and Posthumanism in Antoine Volodine
Daniel Finch-Race (University of Bologna), Postmodern Currents in Beate Geissler and Oliver Sann’s How Does the World End (for Others)?
13:30 CONCLUSIONS AND LUNCH
Confirmed speakers: Juliano Abramovay (Durham); Shaul Bassi (Venice); Gero Bauer (Tübingen); Abigail Bleach (UCL); Simona Corso (Roma Tre); Caitríona Ní Dhúill (Salzburg); Michael Dunn (CAPAS Heidelberg); Daniel Finch-Race (Bologna); Robert Folger (CAPAS Heidelberg); Felicitas Loest (CAPAS Heidelberg); Anais Maurer (Rutgers); Florian Mussgnug (UCL | Roma Tre); Birgit Neumann (Düsseldorf University); Maddalena Pennacchia (Roma Tre University); Cydney Phillip (UCL); Eleonora Rossi (Birkbeck); Adam Stock (York St John University); Silvia Vittonatto (UCL); Rhys Williams (University of Glasgow).
Download the detailed programme here.
UCL website here.
