Barbara Spadaro (TML Team)

Transforming methodologies and disciplinary frameworks. A workshop on mobility and human subjectivities

Summer School Transnational Italian Studies – Venice, 20-21 September 2015

This workshop has brought together scholars whose innovative work on ideas of mobility has challenged disciplinary boundaries and methodological frameworks, opening new and exciting ways of furthering the study of human subjectivities, identities and notions of cultural belonging. From different disciplinary backgrounds and proceeding from a range of critical perspectives, each speaker explores how subjectivity is articulated within transnational spaces where individual and collective identities are constantly shaped and transformed.

The workshop has been organized into the three sessions listed below. To listen to a talk, click on the name of a speaker.

Session One

Narrating and consuming Italian-American Identities

Anthony Tamburri – Dancing on the Hyphen, Trying Not to Fall Off: Narrating and Consuming Italian American Identities

Elizabeth Zanoni – Migrant Marketplace: Consuming Italian Ethnic Identities, 1880-1940

Session Two

Challenging Paradigms in Migration Studies

Donna Gabaccia – Tutto il mondo è paese : Researching Subjectivities from Italy in Global Historical Perspective

Maddalena Tirabassi – Identity and Subjectivity in Italian migrations

Session Three

Memories and Subjectivities in Diasporic Formations

Shaul Bassi – Detours to the Self: How to Run Away from your Subjectivity and Find It at Your Doorstep

Liliana Ellena – Migrations of Memories: Visuality and Subjectivity in Historical Perspective