ASMI Annual Conference: Italy and its Environments
29 & 30 November 2024
Senate House, University of London
Organising committee: Roberta Biasillo (Utrecht University), Marzia Maccaferri (Queen Mary, University
of London) Patrizia Sambuco (University of Dundee) Joseph Viscomi (Birkbeck, University of London).
This conference aims to bring together scholars and practitioners across different research areas to discuss the transdisciplinary topic of ‘Italy and its environments’ in modern and contemporary times. In the burgeoning field of the Environmental Humanities, Italian environments represent major areas of inquiry for their critical re-assessment of Italian culture as well as for the interactions and connections of Italian environmental imaginaries at regional, national, and global levels. Environmental issues and sensibility towards threatened eco- and Earth systems are, in fact, inherently without borders and transnational. That is not to exclude diversity and differences in their effects and experiences at regional, national, and global levels.
This conference aims to foster new perspectives and dialogue, bringing these cross-disciplinary approaches and scales of analysis together by seeing Italy through the lens of the environment, and vice versa. The aesthetic appreciation of Italian landscapes and the imaginaries associated with them, environmental disasters past and present, colonial politics of land reclamation, the emergence of issues such as ‘ecomafia,’ Italy’s rural pasts and its transnational food economics, depopulation, and the imbalance in the culture/nature divide are all facets of the Italian historical and contemporary context which speak to wider concerns in the Environmental Humanities.
Plenary Speakers:
Online Keynote Roundtable: Serenella Iovino (University of North Carolina), Elena Past (Wayne State
University), Niccolò Scaffai (Università degli Studi di Siena) and Valeria Siniscalchi (EHESS), Methodological and Theoretical Reflections
Marco Armiero (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona), Through the Eye of the Lake: Recasting Italy’s
History and the Anthropocene at Vajont
Registration Fees
Waged 2 days £85
Waged 1 day (Friday) £55
Waged 1 day (Saturday) £55
Unwaged 2 days £50
Unwaged 1 day (Friday) £38
Unwaged 1 day (Saturday) £38
Online speaker or attendee £25
You will need to register in advance at: https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/asmi-annual-conference-italy-and-its-environments
Registration will close on Wednesday 14 November 2024.
Kindly note that participants are expected to join ASMI.
For further info, please contact the conference organisers at [email protected]
The online zoom link will be emailed to you 2 days before the conference.