[UPCOMING] International Conference “Marginalities/Marginalità” (9-11.10.2024)

International Conference/Convegno Internazionale
Marginalities/Marginalità
9-11 October 2024 / 9-11 ottobre 2024
Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata (IT)

Indice / Table of Contents

    Call for Papers [EN]

    (To download the Call for Papers in PDF format click here)

    Margins are the kingdom of change, transformation, fluidity, and (re)location. To stand on the margins is to be transgressive, interdicted, eccentric. To prefer the margins over the central/centralised dominant culture is to take up a space of resistance. Therefore, it is crucial to embody marginality and counterpower in order to construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct the complexity of reality.

    Thinking and rethinking the borders means re-evaluating space from a geocritical perspective, combining language, identity, and setting representation – be it home, a rural or urban landscape, or even a digital or scientific/science-fiction space. Strictly connected with female writing, the household space, for instance, is remarkably ambivalent: a familiar place that provides protection but also requires it, the household often becomes a “prison”, and the inside-outside dialectic eventually leads to subversion dynamics. Because of the possibilities provided by semanticization, walls – namely, dividing lines between indoors and outdoors – become somewhat destabilising despite their function to support other elements and define space. Therefore, a house can also become a place of the eccentric and the unsettling, the so-called Freudian Unheimliche.

    The notion of margin opens up a wide range of possibilities. Margins are frontiers that become a space of transition where different forces and individuals come in contact and alter their identities. As geographical borders, margins generate dividing lines that protect well-established political, social, and symbolic spaces. The crossing of borders, limits, and marginalities leads to issues of citizenship and belonging; and suffice it to think that some identities in movement, in the making, in transition, find it more complex to develop a sense of belonging towards a certain space, as well as to recognise themselves within it. Yet, crossing borders means opening a breech in the self, to enhance the possibilities for that self, to come to life once again.

    The notion of margin opens up a wide range of possibilities. Margins are frontiers that become a space of transition where different forces and individuals come in contact and alter their identities. As geographical borders, margins generate dividing lines that protect well-established political, social, and symbolic spaces. The crossing of borders, limits, and marginalities leads to issues of citizenship and belonging; and suffice it to think that some identities in movement, in the making, in transition, find it more complex to develop a sense of belonging towards a certain space, as well as to recognise themselves within it. Yet, crossing borders means opening a breech in the self, to enhance the possibilities for that self, to come to life once again.

    This international conference aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogues on the diverse linguistic, literary, and cultural manifestations that margins can assume within the Humanities. Suggested topics are:

    AREA #1 – Queering Gender(s)

    • Gender identities and sexual orientations on the margin;
    • the performativity of non-normative bodies;
    • spaces and places of masculinity, femininity, and queerness;
    • intersectional vulnerability.

    AREA #2 – Precarious Lives

    • Crossing borders: diasporas and migrations;
    • discrimination and oppression: the marginalisation of the Other;
    • Medical Humanities and Disability Studies;
    • Trauma Studies and the redefinition of the Self.

    AREA #3 – On the Edge of the Canon: Linguistic, Textual, and Digital Metamorphoses

    • Adaptations and appropriations;
    • languages, hybridisation, and identity;
    • digital performance and virtual reality;
    • audiovisual and intermedial translation.

    AREA #4 – Sustainability, Ecology, and Animal Studies

    • Climate changes and ecocides;
    • Ecofeminism;
    • the connection(s) between human and non-human animals;
    • literature and animals.

    Abstracts/Panels Submission [EN]

    Proposals for individual presentations, in either English or Italian, must be submitted by 10 July 2024 15 July 2024, to the following email address: marginalities.conference@gmail.com. Each proposal should include a title, an abstract (maximum 250 words), a concise bibliography (up to five references), the selected thematic area, affiliation details, email address, and a brief biographical note (maximum 150 words).

    Panel proposals, in either English or Italian, must be submitted by 10 July 2024 15 July 2024, to the following email address: marginalities.conference@gmail.com. Each proposal should include the name of the chairperson, their affiliation, and email address, along with the selected thematic area and pertinent details for each presenter.

    Notification of acceptance will be sent by 23 July 2024Due to the large amount of abstracts we received, notification of acceptance will be sent by 25 July 2024.

    20 minutes will be allocated to each presentation.

    Registration [EN]

    • Early-bird fee (25/07/2024-26/08/2024): 70 euros
    • Regular fee (27/08/2024-20/09/2024): 100 euros

    • Registration is available here: https://forms.gle/StbbsG9dJ42TtBP2A
    • To register, it is necessary to have a Gmail email address.

    • On-site registration is not available.

    • We regret to inform you that, in case of cancellations, no refunds will be processed.

    Travel and Accommodation [EN]

    The conference will be held at the School of Engineering (“Area Congressi”), Tor Vergata University of Rome.

    Venue
    “Area Congressi” (School of Engineering)
    Via del Politecnico 1
    00133 Rome (IT)

    How to reach us
    Information on how to reach Tor Vergata University of Rome can be found here.


    Please note that the #20 bus will stop at CAMBRIDGE/COLUMBIA. From there, please follow our video instructions. ⬇

    Accommodation
    Reduced-rate rooms are available at CX Rome (Campus X), upon booking via email: booking.rome@cx-place.com. Subject line: International Conference “Marginalities/Marginalità” (Professor Elisabetta Marino).

    Shuttle for those staying at CX Rome (Campus X): CX Shuttle and UniTV Shuttle.

    Info [EN]

    Scientific Coordination:

    Scientific Committee:

    • Giuseppe Balirano (L’Orientale – Università di Napoli, IT)
    • Ratan Bhattacharjee (Dum Dum Motijheel College, IN)
    • Leonardo Buonomo (Università degli Studi di Trieste, IT)
    • Giuseppe Capalbo (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, IT)
    • Mariaconcetta Costantini (Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara, IT)
    • Carla Fusco (Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara, IT)
    • Patricia García (Universidad de Alcalá, ES)
    • Jean-Philippe Imbert (Dublin City University, IE)
    • C. Bruna Mancini (Università della Calabria, IT)
    • Elisabetta Marino (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, IT)
    • Bilge Mutluay (Hacettepe University, AL)
    • Alessandra Ruggiero (Università degli Studi di Teramo, IT)
    • Daniela Carmen Stoica (“Fan S. Noli” University of Korçë, AL)
    • Carla Tempestoso (Università della Calabria, IT)
    • Janet Wilson (University of Northampton, UK)

    Organising Committee:

    • Giuseppe Capalbo (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, IT)
    • Marta Lucari (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, IT)
    • Elisabetta Marino (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, IT)
    • Virginia Pellegrini (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, IT)
    • Carolina Piccoli (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, IT) 
    • Francesca Scaccia (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, IT)

    For any information, please send an email to marino@lettere.uniroma2.it and marginalities.conference@gmail.com.

    Plenary Speakers [EN/IT]

    Plenary speaker #1:
    Ligia Tomoiaga

    Technical University Cluj-Napoca (RO)
    The North University Centre of Baia Mare
    The Faculty of Letters, Department of Philology and Cultural Studies

    Ligia Tomoiaga has been teaching literature and cultural studies for many years at her university, covering especially the American and British 19th century and Contemporary literature. She has also taught American and British Popular Culture. She has founded an MA on English Literature for Children and Young Adults, where she proposed a few research themes regarding gender roles, tomboys, adventure and the role of music in early and teen education. She has published many academic articles, academic manuals, and a books. The most well-received books are dedicated to the picaresque in British contemporary fiction and television series as mirrors of contemporary life. Ligia Tomoiaga has also organized 18 international conferences, on themes related to literature and contemporary forms of propaganda. She is a translator, she has translated many volumes both from Romanian into English and from English into Romanian. Ligia Tomoiaga’s activity is completes with her editorial activity, both as permanent member of editorial boards of various national and international journals, and as editors of volumes with international authors at national and international publishing houses.

    Plenary Lecture: Fredrik Backman’s Britt-Marie: When the “Just” a Housemaker Becomes the Central Focus of the Narrative

    Plenary Speaker #2
    Bootheina Majoul

    University of Carthage (TN)
    High Institute of Languages of Tunis (ISLT)

    Bootheina Majoul is currently Associate Professor of English Literature at the High Institute of Languages of Tunis (ISLT), University of Carthage. She holds an MA in Cross Cultural Poetics (ISLT, University of Carthage) and a PhD in English Literature (FLAHM, University of Manouba).
    She is a former member elect of ISLT Scientific Council. Former Coordinator of a Professional Master in English for Communication- ISLT. She is currently the Head a Research MA program in Cross-Cultural Studies.
    She taught at eight different Tunisian institutions and has more than 25 years of teaching experience. Her areas of specialization are World Literature, English Literature, Maghreban Studies, Comparative Literature, Film Studies, Art History, Digital Pedagogy and Intercultural Communication. She is certified in digital pedagogy and serves as the coordinator of online teaching and UVT referent at ISLT. She designed and tutored several online courses with the Tunisian Virtual University (UVT). As a former referent at PEEC (Pôle de l’Étudiant Entrepreneur de Carthage), she designed and ensured several trainings to prepare students in the field of entrepreneurship. She is also the Editor-in Chief of the University of Carthage Magazine.

    She published 2 books Doris Lessing: Poetics of Being and Time (2016), The Genetic and Generic Affiliations of Rushdie’s Satire in Midnight’s Children (2017) and edited 3 volumes: On Trauma and Traumatic Memory (2017) and Terrorism in Literature: Examining a Global Phenomenon (2019), and Roots and Routes of Maghrebean Voices in Literature and Art (2024). She also co-edited 4 volumes: On History & Memory in Arab Literature & Western Poetics (2020), Poetics of the Native (2020), Poetics and Hermeneutics of Pain and Pleasure (2021) and Precarity in Culture: Precarious Lives, Uncertain Futures (2023). She also co-edited a special edition of Gitanjali and Beyond Volume 8 (2023).
    She is the author of several academic articles and collections of poems. She delivered presentations in several national and international conferences in Tunisia and other foreign countries. She also organized several academic events: conferences, workshops, study days and webinars.
    She is the Vice-Chair of the international research network Global Network of Liberal Arts, Steering Committee Member of the international research network Challenging Precarity Network. Member of the Scientific Committee of the Research Laboratory Language & Cultural Forms (University of Carthage). She is an Executive Committee Member of Doris Lessing Society and chair of Doris Lessing Society North Africa Chapter.

    Plenary Lecture: Literature’s Hostipitable Marginality

    Conference Programme [EN/IT]

    To download the Conference Programme in PDF format click here.

    Call for Papers [IT]

    (Per scaricare la Call for Papers in formato PDF clicca qui)

    I margini sono il regno del cambiamento, della trasformazione, della fluidità, del (ri)posizionamento. Essere al margine rappresenta la trasgressione, l’interdetto, l’eccentrico. Scegliere il margine, che si oppone alla centrale/accentrata cultura dominante, vuol dire occupare uno spazio di resistenza. Incarnare la marginalità e il contropotere è essenziale, dunque, per costituire, decostruire e ricostruire la complessità del reale.

    Pensare e ripensare il confine significa anche riconsiderare lo spazio in una prospettiva geocritica che lega linguaggio, identità e rappresentazione al setting, sia casa, paesaggio urbano o rurale, o finanche (fanta)scientifico o digitale. L’universo domestico, ad esempio, strettamente connesso alla scrittura femminile, assume un carattere ambivalente: luogo familiare, da proteggere e che protegge, si trasforma a volte in casa-prigione, dove la dialettica dentro/fuori crea dinamiche di eversione. Le pareti, linee di demarcazione tra esterno e interno, grazie alle possibilità di semantizzazione dell’“al di qua” e “al di là”, assumono una cifra destabilizzante a dispetto della loro funzione di sostenere altri elementi e delimitare uno spazio. E così, la domus può anche assolvere una funzione eccentrica e diventare luogo dell’inquietante, il freudiano Unheimliche.

    L’idea di margine apre molteplici possibilità. Il margine è frontiera che diventa spazio di transizione dove forze e soggetti diversi entrano in relazione e modificano la propria identità. Il margine come confine crea una linea di divisione a protezione di spazi politici, sociali e simbolici costituiti e consolidati. L’attraversamento dei confini, dei limiti, delle marginalità pone questioni di cittadinanza e appartenenza. Basti pensare quanto per alcune identità in movimento, in divenire, in trasformazione sia più difficile sviluppare un senso di appartenenza verso un determinato spazio, così come riconoscervisi al suo interno. Eppure, superare quella linea di confine rappresenta un’apertura nel sé, un accrescimento di ciò che è possibile essere, un venire a nuova vita.

    Abitare i margini è forza propulsiva, di cambiamento, di movimento, di rinascita. I testi che abitano e danno voce a questi margini e restituiscono complessità alle pratiche che partono dal confine, dalla condizione della soglia, dell’ibridazione, dell’impurità testimoniano esperienze artistiche disorganiche e destabilizzanti rispetto a possibili classificazioni e oppongono ai concetti di sicurezza, frontiera, purezza, le forme mobili legate alla extra-territorialità e alla trans-territorialità. Hanno la capacità, insomma, di elaborare e promuovere un processo continuo di trasformazione ed evidenziano il movimento verso l’altrove, la tensione verso lo sconfinamento.

    Il convegno vuole essere un momento di incontro e di riflessione interdisciplinare sulle diverse declinazioni – linguistiche, letterarie e culturali – che i margini possono assumere nelle discipline umanistiche. Le proposte potranno riguardare le seguenti aree tematiche:

    AREA #1 – Queering Gender(s)

    • Identità di genere e orientamenti sessuali al margine;
    • la performatività dei corpi non normativi;
    • spazi e luoghi del maschile, del femminile, del queer;
    • vulnerabilità intersezionale.

    AREA #2 – Esistenze precarie

    • Attraversare i confini: diaspore e migrazioni;
    • discriminazione e oppressione: la marginalizzazione dell’Altro;
    • Medical Humanities e Disability Studies;
    • Trauma Studies e ridefinizione del sé.

    AREA #3 – Ai margini del canone: metamorfosi linguistiche, testuali, digitali

    • Adattamenti e appropriazioni;
    • lingue, linguaggi, ibridazioni e identità;
    • performance digitale e realtà virtuale;
    • traduzione audiovisiva e intermediale.

    AREA #4 – Sostenibilità, ecologia e Animal Studies

    • Cambiamenti climatici ed ecocidio;
    • ecofemminismo;
    • relazioni tra persone umane e non umane;
    • letteratura e animali.

    Modalità di adesione [IT]

    Le singole proposte d’intervento, in inglese o italiano, dovranno pervenire entro il 10 luglio 2024 15 luglio 2024 al seguente indirizzo e-mail: marginalities.conference@gmail.com. Al loro interno dovrà essere presente un titolo, un abstract (max. 250 parole), un massimo di cinque riferimenti bibliografici, l’area tematica scelta, l’affiliazione istituzionale, l’indirizzo e-mail e una breve nota biografica (max. 150 parole).

    Le proposte di panel, in inglese o italiano, dovranno pervenire entro il 10 luglio 2024 15 luglio 2024 al seguente indirizzo e-mail: marginalities.conference@gmail.com. Al loro interno dovrà essere presente il nominativo, l’affiliazione e l’indirizzo e-mail del/la moderatore/moderatrice, unitamente all’area tematica scelta e alle specifiche delle singole proposte di intervento.

    L’accettazione della proposta d’intervento o del panel sarà comunicata entro il 23 luglio 2024Data la notevole quantità di proposte ricevute, la notifica di accettazione sarà trasmessa entro il 25 luglio 2024.

    I singoli interventi avranno una durata di 20 minuti.

    Registrazione [IT]

    • Tariffa early-bird (25/07/2024-26/08/2024): 70 euro
    • Tariffa standard (27/08/2024-20/09/2024): 100 euro

    • La registrazione è disponibile al seguente link: https://forms.gle/StbbsG9dJ42TtBP2A
    • Per accedere alla registrazione è necessario essere in possesso di un indirizzo e-mail Gmail.
    • Per richiedere la fattura è obbligatorio inserire un indirizzo e-mail PEC.

    • Non è prevista la registrazione in loco.

    • Purtroppo, in caso di cancellazioni, non saranno emessi rimborsi.

    Informazioni logistiche [IT]

    Il convegno si terrà presso l’Area Congressi della Macroarea di Ingegneria (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata).

    Indirizzo
    Area Congressi (Macroarea di Ingegneria)
    Via del Politecnico 1
    00133 – Roma (IT)

    Come raggiungerci
    Informazioni su come raggiungere l’Università degli Studi di Roma degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata possono essere reperite qui.

    L’autobus #20 prevede una fermata a CAMBRIDGE/COLUMBIA. Da lì, si consiglia di seguire le nostre istruzioni video. ⬇ 

    Alloggio
    Sono disponibili stanze a tariffa agevolata presso CX Rome (Campus X), previa prenotazione tramite e-mail: booking.rome@cx-place.com. Oggetto: Convegno Internazionale “Marginalities/Marginalità” (Prof.ssa Elisabetta Marino).

    Per chi alloggia presso CX Rome (Campus X): CX Shuttle e UniTV Shuttle.

    Info [IT]

    Direzione scientifica:

    Comitato scientifico:

    • Giuseppe Balirano (L’Orientale – Università di Napoli, IT)
    • Ratan Bhattacharjee (Dum Dum Motijheel College, IN)
    • Leonardo Buonomo (Università degli Studi di Trieste, IT)
    • Giuseppe Capalbo (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, IT)
    • Mariaconcetta Costantini (Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara, IT)
    • Carla Fusco (Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara, IT)
    • Patricia García (Universidad de Alcalá, ES)
    • Jean-Philippe Imbert (Dublin City University, IE)
    • C. Bruna Mancini (Università della Calabria, IT)
    • Elisabetta Marino (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, IT)
    • Bilge Mutluay (Hacettepe University, AL)
    • Alessandra Ruggiero (Università degli Studi di Teramo, IT)
    • Daniela Carmen Stoica (“Fan S. Noli” University of Korçë, AL)
    • Carla Tempestoso (Università della Calabria, IT)
    • Janet Wilson (University of Northampton, UK)

    Comitato organizzativo:

    • Giuseppe Capalbo (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, IT)
    • Marta Lucari (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, IT)
    • Elisabetta Marino (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, IT)
    • Virginia Pellegrini (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, IT)
    • Carolina Piccoli (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, IT) 
    • Francesca Scaccia (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, IT)

    Per ulteriori informazioni è possibile inviare una e-mail a marino@lettere.uniroma2.it e marginalities.conference@gmail.com.

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