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CALL FOR PAPERS University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Department of Italian Terra e mare Land and Sea Graduate Student Conference January 13-14, 2017 Keynote Speakers: Serenella Iovino, University of Turin Roberto Dainotto, Duke University The symbiotic but often troubled relationship between land and sea is crucial to the formation of the cultural and geopolitical identities of the Italian peninsula and its islands. These elements have shaped Italian ethnographic diversity and they have influenced agricultural, urban, and maritime activities. They have fueled developments and changes in civilization and cultural traditions, differentiating the internal regions from the coasts, while fostering their interconnectedness. The land’s openness to the surrounding seas has been a source of anxiety and fear, as well as colonial ambition, and now of dreams and expectations by migrants and refugees. As a mark of mediterraneity, the bond of land and sea has been a continuing source of inspiration for literary, philosophical, artistic, and cinematic representations. It has deepened ontological connections between humans and nature, but also promoted critical and even anguished reflections about changes linked to industrial, technological, and geopolitical developments. Landscapes and seascapes are not merely aesthetic representations, but socio-political constructions. The political stakes at play include not only exploitations of land and sea, but also ecological concerns for the environmental preservation of Italian coasts and territory. The UCLA Department of Italian and the Italian Graduate Student Association invite papers from a variety of disciplines to investigate how the duality of land and sea plays a central role in political, historical, literary, and visual representations as well as negotiations and configurations of Italian identities. EXAMPLES OF TOPICS INCLUDE: Land and Sea in Italian Identities • Language and Dialects • Food and Eating Practices • Religion and Rituals • Music • Clothing and Fashion • Ethnography; Local and Regional Traditions • Rootedness and Sense of Belonging • North vs. South • Visual Representations • Mediterranean Literature Mobility, Travelling, Commerce and Exploration, Tourism, Migration • Travel writing • Maps • Trade • Grand Tour • Expeditions and Colonizations • Piracy • Hospitality • Shipwrecks Islands, Port Cities, and Towns through the Ages • Venezia, Trieste, Pisa, Ravenna, Genova, Napoli, Amalfi, Ostuni, Taranto, Livorno, Messina… • Sicily, Sardinia, Lampedusa… Landscape, Environment, Architecture and Planning, Ecology, Ecocriticism • Ecological Movements • Building, Restoration, Development, and the Landscape • Agriculture and Landscape • Preservation and Development • Fishing and Fisheries • Mafia, Camorra, ‘Ndrangheta, Sacra Corona Unita, and the Exploitation of Land and Sea • Animal and Human Mythology, Archetypes, Symbolism, and Folklore • Genius Loci • The Fluidity of the Sea, Fixity of the Land • Humans and Nature • Humus and Humanity • Maritime Monstrosity • Nymphs, Naiads, Nereids • Nomos and Chaos • Geophilosophy • Ideas of Homeland, Fatherland, and Motherland Geopolitics • • • • • War by Land and by Sea Borders and Border Conflicts Migration Policies in Europe Italy’s Position in the Mediterranean “Southern Thought” Please submit an abstract (300 words maximum) to [email protected] with contact information (name, affiliation, and email address) by September 15, 2016.
