AISCLI SUMMER SCHOOL
WORLD CULTURES & LITERATURES IN ENGLISH
AISCLI SUMMER SCHOOL ON
WORLD CULTURES & LITERATURES IN ENGLISH
21-26 SEPTEMBER 2015
WELFARE, WELL-BEING, LIVING WELL
Sala Lauree, Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Modern Cultures, University of Turin,
Via Verdi 10, II floor
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LECTURES |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
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10.00-11.30 |
ANNALISA
OBOE |
ANNALISA
OBOE (10-11) |
ROBERTO BENEDUCE |
ESTERINO ADAMI |
MARTA CARRIELLO |
FRANCESCO CATTANI (9-10) |
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BREAK |
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11.45-13.00
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ROGER BROMLEY |
ROGER BROMLEY (11-12) Seminar ____________ RADHIKA MOHANRAM (12-13) Seminar |
DANIELA FARGIONE
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ROBERTO BENEDUCE Seminar |
PAOLA DELLA VALLE |
NICOLETTA VALLORANI (10-11)Seminar ____________ ALESSANDRA DI MAIO (11.30-13)Seminar |
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LUNCH |
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14.15–15.45 |
RADHIKA MOHANRAM |
LUISA PERCOPO (14-15)Seminar STUDENTS (15-16) Round table
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PAOLA BRUSASCO |
MARIUS CRISAN |
FRANCESCO CATTANI |
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16.00-17.30 |
LUISA PERCOPO |
PIETRO DEANDREA |
CARMEN CONCILIO |
ISABELLA BRUSCHI |
CARMEN CONCILIO |
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| 17.30-19.00 | STUDENTS Round table | PIETRO DEANDREA Seminar | STUDENTS Round table | STUDENTS Round table | NICOLETTA VALLORANI | ||
Students Committee for general info, help, suggestions, comments on past editions:
Maria Festa mfesta@outlook.com, Paola Melloni paola.melloni@gmail.com
* Martina Mendola mendola.marti@gmail.com (* also available to host 1 guest)
LECTURES/ACADEMICS
Esterino Adami, University of Turin, I
Instructions
for welfare in postcolonial South Asia through Mohsin Hamid's
narrative: How to get filthy rich in rising Asia (2013)
Roberto Beneduce, University of Turin, I
Ethnoantropology
Roger Bromley, University of Nottingham, UK
Welfare/well-being of the refugees
Paola Brusasco, University of Turin, I
"Translating Englishes: the (im)possibility of conveying cultural and linguistic difference in Italian"
Isabella Bruschi, (LEND), Turin, I
Teaching Anglophone South Asian Women’s Writing
(Water, God of Small Things, The Namesake)
Marta Cariello, University of Neaples, “L’Orientale”, I
Making Homes, Unmaking Nations. Women (re)building communities.
Docufilm: The Kingdom of Women, by Dahna Abourahm
Francesco Cattani, University of Bologna, I
Songs and Verses of New Ethnicities: Black British Communities and the Politics of Representation
Carmen Concilio, University of Turin, I
Urban environments and photo-essayism (Johannesburg, Mumbai)
Arundhati Roy’s essays and activism
Marius Crisan, West University of Timisoara, RO
Transylvania: A typical case of narrative colonization
Pietro Deandrea, University of Turin, I
Allegories of enslavement in Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Novel and Film)
Paola Della Valle, University of Turin, I
Inhabiting mental disorder in New Zealand Literature
Alessandra Di Maio, University of Palermo, I
Literature from Nigeria
Daniela Fargione, University of Turin, I
Food, Health, and Wellbeing in Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats and Anita Desai’s Fasting, Feasting
Radhika Mohanram, Cardiff University, UK
Sexuality after Partition
Annalisa Oboe, University of Padua, I
Living well in/with migration? Mediterranean crossings and hospitality in recent Italian films
Luisa Percopo, South Wales University, UK
White Justice and Indigenous Wellbeing in Charlie's Country
Film: Charlie's Country by Rolf de Heer (2014)
Nicoletta Vallorani, University of Milan, I
Sport and the city. Gaming Identity from Abebe Bikila to Parcour in Gaza
READING LIST: read at least one text in each group
E. Adami:
Mohsin Hamid, How to get filthy rich in rising Asia
I.Bruschi:
Bapsi Sidhwa, Water
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
M. Cariello:
Suggested Film:
The Kingdom of Women, 2010. [Docufilm] Directed by Dahna Abourahm
F. Cattani:
Salman Rushdie, Satanic Verses
Handsworth Songs, 1986 [film] Directed by John Akomfrah
C. Concilio:
Arundhati Roy, Capitalism: A Ghost Story
Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath her Feet
P. Deandrea:
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
Film: Never Let Me Go, 2010. [film] Directed by Mark Romanek
P. Della Valle:
Janet Frame, Owls Do Cry
Janet Frame, Faces in the Water
Patricia Grace, The Sky People
Patricia Grace, Cousins
Patricia Grace, Potiki
D. Fargione:
Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
Anita Desai, Fasting, Feasting
A.Oboe:
Postcolonial Cinema Studies (eds. Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller), Routledge 2012
SUGGESTED FILMS:
Io sono Li (Shun Li and the Poet), 2011. [film] Directed by A. Segre. Jolefilm with Rai Cinema.
La prima neve (First Snowfall), 2013. [film] Directed by A. Segre. Jolefilm with Rai Cinema.
Terraferma, 2011. [film] Directed by E. Crialese. Roma: Cattleya
Va’ pensiero. Storie ambulanti, 2013. [film] Directed by D. Yimer. Roma: Archivio Memorie Migranti.
L. Percopo:
Film: Charlie's Country, 2014. [film] Directed by Rolf de Heer
