AISCLI WINTER SCHOOL

Monday

January 20

Tuesday

January 21

Wednesday

January 22

Thursday

January 23

Friday

January 24

09:00-10:30

Carmen Concilio -

University of

Torino

Welcome and

opening remarks

AISCLI President

Migration Narratives:

Amitav Ghosh,

Christy Lefteri,

Salman Rushdie

Biancamaria

Rizzardi

University of

Pisa

Opening up to

Complexity in

the Global

Era: Translating

Postcolonial

Literatures

Andrea

Carosso

University of

Torino (LLC)

(AMERICAN

STUDIES)

"Natural

Disaster?

Environmental

Crisis and its

Social

Construction:

The Case of

Hurricane

Katrina."

Mirko

Casagranda

University of

Calabria

Why are extreme

meteorological

events named?

Personification

and other

discursive

strategies in the

media

Coffee break

10:45-12:00

Sarah Hickson – UK Photographer

Gerardo
Mazzaferro
University of
Torino
Investigating
Migration and
Language through
Asylum Seekers’
Language Practices,
Identities,
Ideologies and
Narratives

Peter

Wadhams,

Professor of

Ocean

Physics,

Department

of Applied

Maths and

Theoretical

Physics,

University of

Cambridge

The Arctic

Oriana Palusci

University of

Naples

‘Big Oil’:

Canadian Petronarratives

12:00-13:30

Elisabetta Marino
University of Rome
The Vulnerability of
Precarious Lives in
the Narratives of
Monica Ali and
Sunjeev Sahota

Elena & Ibrahim
L’esperienza dei
rifugiati, migranti,
richiedenti asilo.
La professione
del Mediatore
linguisticoculturale

Daniela
Fargione
University of
Torino (SUM)
(AMERICAN
STUDIES)
Cli-Fi,
Speculative
Fiction, Eco-
Fiction: From
Dystopia to
Action

Sonia Di
Loreto
University of
Torino (LLC)
(AMERICAN
STUDIES)
"Disasters at
Sea: Shipwrecks
and Literature

Shaul Bassi
University of
Venice
Venice, India, and
the Environmental
Humanities

Paola Spinozzi

University of

Ferrara

Ecological Minds

for the

Ecological

Humanities:

theories,

methods,

materials

Deandrea

Pietro

University of

Torino

Migration

Studies:

Publications

Alessandro

Vescovi

University of

Milan

The Cry of the

Earth and the

Cry of the

Poor:

Ecocriticism or

Why Literature

Matters?

AFTERNOON

SESSION AT

PAV –PARCO

ARTE

VIVENTE

TORINO

Zasha

Colah:

visit to the

Exhibit of

Navjot Altaf

Michela

Borzaga

University of

Vienna

Coffee break

16:30-18:00

Eleonora

Federici,

University of

Napoli

“L’Orientale”

Closer to Nature?

Speculative

Survival in

Canadian

Ecofeminist

Science Fiction

Irene De

Angelis

University of

Torino

(IRISH STUDIES)

Irish Poetry

AFTERNOON

SESSION AT

PAV

Paola Della

Valle

University of

Torino

Climate

Change in the

Pacific:

Engaged

Militant

Poetry