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PROGRAMME Cultural tour and warm up • Museo del Novecento - Piazza del Duomo • Museo Nazionale della Scienza e Tecnologia “Leonardo da Vinci” - Via S. Vittore 21, Milano 10.00 Meet at Museo del Novecento entrance Department of Studies in Language Mediation and Intercultural Communication - Aula Magna 9.30 Official opening 10.30 Keynote lecture Lawrence Grossberg (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) "Making culture political, again" 12.00 Workshop I - Cultural Studies: General theory Chair: Itala Vivan • Roberto Pedretti (University of Milan) "Intellectuals, where are you?" • Sebastian Berg (University of Bochum) "Against 'populism': Cultural Studies, power, and the post-political" • Claudia Gualtieri (University of Milan) "Teaching as cultural practice: Pedagogy and the life of Cultural Studies" • Eike Kronshage (Chemnitz University) "Crisis of the Humanities. The first 150 years" 13.30 - 14.30 Lunch break 14.30 Workshop III – The post-industrial city Chair: Cecile Sandten • Alexander Bergmann (Bauhaus-University Weimar) "Chemnitz: Quality of life in a city of declining populations and constrained budgets. Can civil society actors make the difference?" • Roberta Garruccio (University of Milan) "Rust never sleeps: A historical perspective on deindustrialization" • Henriette Dausend (Chemnitz University) "Street Art as a mirror of crisis? A look behind the scenes" • Annika Bauer (Chemnitz University) "Metropolitan subversion: Appropriating English urban signifiers in Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger" 16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break 16.30 Workshop I - Cultural Studies: General theory Chair: Lidia De Michelis • Itala Vivan (University of Milan) "The cultural museum as a generator of narrations in our modernity" • Gianpiero Piretto (University of Milan) "Museums of everyday life between nostalgia and derision: European gazes upon the socialist past" • Mandy Beck (Chemnitz University) Reading culture through affect: Sarah Hall's How to paint a dead man (2009) • Roberta Sassatelli (University of Milan) "Commoditization, consumption and work: Profane creativity and the circuit of the commodity" Dinner 19.00 Meet at conference venue Tuesday 2 December Wednesday 3 December 9.30 Keynote lecture Sandro Mezzadra (University of Bologna) "A historical-geographical materialism? Staging a dialogue between Marx and Gramsci" 11.00 Workshop II - Crisis and risk societies in Europe: Culture of precariousness, migration and globalisation Chair: Roberto Pedretti • Lidia de Michelis (University of Milan) "Challenging dominant discourses of risk and crisis: Verbatim drama and the 2011 British riots" • Federico Tomasello (University of Bologna) "Collective violence in contemporary metropolis: A political reading" • Sara Pahor (University of Padua) "Regional violence and global risk in the literary futures of London" 12.30 – 13.30 Lunch break 13.30 Workshop II - Crisis and risk societies in Europe: Culture of precariousness, migration and globalisation Chair: Claudia Gualtieri • Annalisa Oboe (University of Padua) "Risking in/hospitality in the European South: New Italian representations" • Jana Beinhorn (Chemnitz University) "Human rights, hospitality and European border control" • Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju (Universities of Ilorin and Chemnitz), "Towards a transcultural Africa-Europe paroemiology?" Thursday 4 December
