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Titolo
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Claudio Fogu e Federica Morelli hanno organizzato tre panel dal titolo
Mediterranean Blue(s), Black and White, or Multicolor? all'interno della conferenza dell'AAIS (American Association for the Italian Studies) (Sassari, 3-5 giugno 2026).
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Descrizione
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Mediterranean Blue(s), Black and White, or Multicolor?
Organizers: Claudio Fogu (UCSB), Federica Morelli (FBK-ISIG)
Description: In recent years, several theoretical paradigms have been mobilized to contextualize Italian history, arts, and culture within a Mediterranean framework of reference. The Black Mediterranean, post-and decolonial theory, metageography. Southern Thought, island studies, ocean studies, and environmental humanities are among the most prominent. Yet, despite their common geographical referent the "Mediterranean", however conceived, researchers have struggled to put their different theoretical orientations in dialogue with each other. This panel aims to start the conversation by calling on scholars exploring the relationship between Italy and the Mediterranean to present specific applications of different theoretical paradigms to their research.
Speakers:
Benedetta Chizzolini (Tel Aviv University,) “Mediterranean Blackness: Sub-Saharan Africans and Baptismal Records in Naples (16th-17th centuries)”
Stephanie Malia Hom (University of California Santa Barbara), “Geographies of Power in a Transnational Mediterranean: Slavery, Colonialism, Italy”
Erica Moretti (Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY), “Intimate Politics: Families, Mobility, and the Afterlife of Empire in the Mediterranean”
Valerie McGuire, (University of Texas, Austin), “Italians in the Maghrebi Archipelago: Between Isolation and Integration in French North Africa”
Federica Morelli (Bruno Kessler Foundation (ISIG-FBK)), “The Italian Peninsula and the Atlantic Slave Trade: A Different Perspective on the Black Mediterranean”
Stefano Muneroni (Università of Alberta, Canada), “Beyond and Beneath the Surface: A Volumetric Approach to Mediterranean Migration”
Lorenzo Fabbri (University of Minnesota), “The White Mediterranean: Power, Race, and Melodrama in the Mare Nostrum”
Laura Sarnelli (UCSB), “Sexing the Mediterranean: Views from Naples”
Jennifer Scappettone (University of Chicago), “Geopoetics of the Mediterranean: Emilio Villa’s Idrologie and the Rejection of ‘Europe’”
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startDate
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03/06/2026
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endDate
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03/06/2026
