Mediterranean Fractures: Postcolonial Displacements

Mediterranean Fractures: Postcolonial Displacements, Political Insurgencies
Friday 2 May
Peter Brown Room, Darwin College
3.30-4.00
Coffee and Tea
4.00-5.00
Plenary lecture: Professor Stephanos Stephanides, `Mediterranean
Fractures: a minor perspective`.
5.15-6.00
Drinks
6.00-7.15
Poetry Reading
7.30
Dinner Darwin Beagle Restaurant
Saturday 3 May
Peter Brown Room, Darwin College
8.45-9.15
Coffee and Tea
9.30-11.00
Panel 1 : Mediterranean Insurgencies
Luigi CAZZATO (Università di Bari): `Mediterraneanism, Meridionism, migration and
postcolonial resistance`.
Adrian GRIMA (University of Malta): `Alternative Mediterraneans`
Norbert BUGEJA (University of Kent): `Re-articulating the histories of subjection – rebellious
subjectivity in the southeastern Mediterranean`.
11.15-12.30
Panel 2 : Egyptian Unfoldings
Marta CARIELLO (Seconda Università di Napoli): `Revolution from the South: Narrating,
uprising, provincializing`
Ziad ELMARSAFY (University of York): `The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt`
12.30 – 1.45
Lunch
1.45-3.15
Panel 3 : Cypriot Crossings
Bahriye KEMAL (University of Kent): Border-Broader Crossing North-South Checkpoints:
Solidarity and Intimacy in the Spaces of Forbidden Games
Nicoletta DEMETRIOU: Ethnomusicology and Life Writing
Alev ADIL: Aphrodite’s Gas Field
Aydin Mehmet Ali: A Reading from Forbidden Zones
3.30-5.00
Panel 4 : Mediterranean Fractures and Conjunctions
Kim FORTUNY (Bogazici University, Istanbul): `The Street Dog Goes to Gezi: Istanbul and
Post-Humanist Public Space`
Annalisa OBOE (Università di Padova): `Fractured hospitalities in postcolonial Italy: new
cinematic representations`.
Caroline ROONEY (University of Kent): `The Fractured Music of Arab-Jewish Friendships:
Defiance against the Grain of Defiance`