PROGRAMME Tuesday 2 December 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 Wednesday 3 December 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 Thursday 4 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?" • Andrei Ionescu (University of Padua) "Crisis of rationale or a different kind of utility? The role of Humanities in contemporary democracies" 15.00 Annalisa Oboe introduces: Va’ pensiero. Storie ambulanti, directed by Dagmawi Yimer, Italy, 2013, 56’. • Presentation of "Archivio delle memorie migranti" by Dagmawi Yimer • Readings by Mohamed Ba • Readings by Pap Khouma 17.00 - 17.30 Coffee break 17.30 Round table and closing Chair: Kathy-Ann Tan (University of Wuppertal) Friday 5 December Cultural tour of Sesto San Giovanni and Villaggio di Crespi d'Adda, Capriate (BG) 9.30 Meet at conference venue. culturalstudiesunimi@gmail.com Venue: Polo di Mediazione Interculturale e Comunicazione Piazza I. Montanelli 14 Sesto San Giovanni, Milano Metro: Sesto Marelli, red line n. 1 Scientific committee: Claudia Roberto Pedretti, Cecile Sandten. Gualtieri, Organising committee: Claudia Gualtieri, Roberto Pedretti, Cecile Sandten, Tobias Schlosser Staff: Marta Baraldi, Sara Cesario, Federica Culicchia, Marta D’Angelo, Giulia Dassi, Mariachiara Deleo, Elena Fiorino, Alessandra Giadone, Carola Grandi, Sara Milaneschi, Giusy Musarò, Federica Palamara, Greta Portaluppi, Rossella Sgambaro, Giulia Vasari, Eliana Zanetti, Serena Zaniolo. Cultural Studies Workshop Crisis, Risks and New Regionalisms in Europe Credits for leaflet design: Daniel Wagner (Chemnitz University) and Roberta Riva (Duerrecomunicazione) Funded by the DAAD - The Federal Foreign Office of Germany Gefördert vom DAAD aus Mitteln des Auswärtigen Amtes (AA) and by the Department of Studies in Language Mediation and Intercultural Communication of the University of Milan 2 – 5 December 2014 Polo Universitario Sesto S. Giovanni Piazza I. Montanelli, 14