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Borders, Captivity, and Memory in Transnational Italy and the Mediterranean: Day 2

April 8, 2022

9:45 am

Over two days, scholars, writers, practitioners, activists, and students across institutions are coming together virtually to explores the relationship between borders, captivity, and memory, and how it shapes the racialization of migration and the construction of national identity.

The first day of the symposium is March 18, 2022 and the second day is April 8, 2022.

Day 2 Schedule:

Welcome and Roundtable 1: Translation, Testimony, and Storytelling across Borders, 9:45–11:30 a.m. (ET)

Keynote: Language, Identity, and Representation in Transnational Italy, 12–1:30 p.m. (ET)

Speakers: Amara Lakhous and Ubah Cristina Ali FarahDiscussants: Ron Kubati and Loredana PolezziStudent Reflection Session, 1:30–2:15 p.m. (ET)

Open to undergraduate and graduate students at any institution

Roundtable 2: Readings and Discussion to Celebrate the Launch of Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives, 2:45–4:15 p.m. (ET)

This symposium is organized through the Central New York Humanities Corridor (LLC35), with co-sponsorship from Montclair State University Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies, the AAIS Critical Race Studies Caucus, Cornell's Migrations initiative, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and its Institute for European Studies, the Cornell Department of Romance Studies, the University of Rochester's Humanities Center, and the Department of Humanities in the Eastman School of Music.

Additional Information

Program

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Institute for European Studies