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Friday, March 11, 2016
9:30-10:30 am: Registration / Breakfast
10:30 am: Opening Remarks:
Mitchell Greenberg (Cornell University)
Location: Romance Studies Lounge (K164 in Klarman Hall)
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11:00-12:30 pm: The Southern Question in Italy
Chair: Karen Pinkus (Cornell University)
Location: Conference Room (K155 in Klarman Hall)
Margherita Bellucci (University of Oxford) – “The Southern question in Italian literature. The route
from Catania’s Viceroy to Eboli’s Christ”
Alexander Bruski (Princeton University) – “Prosecuting Cannibals: Brigand Trials and the
Criminalization of Southern Italy”
Ernesto De Cristofaro (University of Catania, Italy) – “The ‘evil race.’ The path from cursing the
South of Italy to the ‘questione meridionale’”
Caroline Paganussi (University of Maryland College Park) – “National Identity Construction and the
Death of Regionalism in Corrado Cagli’s Battle of San Martino and Solferino (1936) and Renato
Guttuso’s Battle of the Ammiraglio Bridge (1952)”
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12:30-1:30 pm: Lunch Break
Location: Romance Studies Lounge (K164 in Klarman Hall)
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1:30-3:00 pm: Autonomy and Territory in the Americas
Chair: Raymond Craib (Cornell University)
Location: Conference Room (K155 in Klarman Hall)
Nick Myers (Cornell University) – “A Lawless Mot: Anonymity and Resistance in Territorial New
Mexico”
Gina Malagold (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) – “The Jewish Community Conflict during the
20th century ‘Dirty War’ and Jacobo Timerman’s Testimony – The ‘Jewish Question’”
Santiago Acosta (Columbia University) – “Contesting Sovereignty in the Bolivarian Revolution”
Enzo Vasquez (Princeton University) – “Cannibalistic Ollantay: The Cultural Creation of a Neo-
Incan Colonial Drama”
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3:00-4:30 pm: Break
Location: Romance Studies Lounge (K164 in Klarman Hall)
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4:30 pm: Keynote Address: María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
(New York University) — “It Remains to be Seen: Indians in the Landscapes of America”
Location: A. D. White House (Guerlac Room)
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6:00 pm: Reception, followed by Dinner with Keynote Speakers
Saturday, March 12, 2016
Location: all events will take place in the A. D. White House (Guerlac Room)
9:00-9:30 am: Breakfast
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9:30 -11:00 am: The South of Diaspora: Francophone literatures
Chair: Gerard Aching (Cornell University)
Salim Ayoub (University of Miami) – “Immigration, Global Influence & Alienation in the Literature
of the South: The Case of Fatou Diome’s Le Ventre de l’Atlantique”
Celine Kodia (McGill University, Montréal, Canada) – “In Search of The Afropean Soul”
Jackqueline Frost (Cornell University) – “‘The sheer tremendous tidal wave of desperate living’:
Édouard Glissant, Créolité, and the US South”
Jonathan Solarte Espinosa (Harvard University) – “Tyranny of the Border: The Trujillo Massacre
and the Modern/Colonial Gender Binary in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones”
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11:00-11:30 am: Coffee Break
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11:30-1:00 pm: Keynote Address: Roberto Dainotto
(Duke University) — “Literature and the South”
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1:00-2:00 pm: Lunch Break
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2:00-3:30 pm: Cases of the Mediterranean
Chair: Simone Pinet (Cornell University)
Patrick Kozey (Cornell University) – “‘Southern’ Troubadours: Medieval Iberian Lyric and the
Mediterranean”
Benedetta Carnaghi (Cornell University) – “Hegemony Is Not Dead: Gramsci, Political Islam, and
the Contradictory Nature of Consent”
Gabriele Montalbano (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and Ecole normale supérieure, Paris,
France) – “‘Colonize the colonizers!’ Southern question, internal colonialism and orientalism in the
Italian community in Tunisia (19th – 20th century)”
Claudia Sbuttoni (Columbia University) – “The Mediterranean as movement: mobility in the
contemporary Mediterranean and the migrant crises of the 21st century”
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3:30- 4:00 pm: Break
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4:00-5:30 pm: Southern tensions: between Economy and Sovereignty
Chair: Diane Brown (Cornell University)
Conall Cash (Cornell University) – “What is ‘Southern Theory’? Some Critical Reflections”
Richard LeBlanc (Cornell University) – “Philip and Lyotard: Postcolonial and Postmodern”
Massimo Piermattei (University of Tuscia, Italy) – “How many South in the Eec/Eu? The Southern
issues in the European integration process”
Nathaniel Boling (Cornell University) – “From Silence to World-Historical Significance: The Haitian
Revolution and the Question of Rights”
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Closing Remarks: Laurent Dubreuil (Cornell University)

Ideas of South Schedule

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    2 Friday, March 11,2016 9:30-10:30 am: Registration / Breakfast 10:30 am: Opening Remarks: Mitchell Greenberg (Cornell University) Location: Romance Studies Lounge (K164 in Klarman Hall) *** 11:00-12:30 pm: The Southern Question in Italy Chair: Karen Pinkus (Cornell University) Location: Conference Room (K155 in Klarman Hall) Margherita Bellucci (University of Oxford) – “The Southern question in Italian literature. The route from Catania’s Viceroy to Eboli’s Christ” Alexander Bruski (Princeton University) – “Prosecuting Cannibals: Brigand Trials and the Criminalization of Southern Italy” Ernesto De Cristofaro (University of Catania, Italy) – “The ‘evil race.’ The path from cursing the South of Italy to the ‘questione meridionale’” Caroline Paganussi (University of Maryland College Park) – “National Identity Construction and the Death of Regionalism in Corrado Cagli’s Battle of San Martino and Solferino (1936) and Renato Guttuso’s Battle of the Ammiraglio Bridge (1952)” *** 12:30-1:30 pm: Lunch Break Location: Romance Studies Lounge (K164 in Klarman Hall) *** 1:30-3:00 pm: Autonomy and Territory in the Americas Chair: Raymond Craib (Cornell University) Location: Conference Room (K155 in Klarman Hall) Nick Myers (Cornell University) – “A Lawless Mot: Anonymity and Resistance in Territorial New Mexico” Gina Malagold (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) – “The Jewish Community Conflict during the 20th century ‘Dirty War’ and Jacobo Timerman’s Testimony – The ‘Jewish Question’” Santiago Acosta (Columbia University) – “Contesting Sovereignty in the Bolivarian Revolution” Enzo Vasquez (Princeton University) – “Cannibalistic Ollantay: The Cultural Creation of a Neo- Incan Colonial Drama”
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    3 3:00-4:30 pm: Break Location:Romance Studies Lounge (K164 in Klarman Hall) *** 4:30 pm: Keynote Address: María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo (New York University) — “It Remains to be Seen: Indians in the Landscapes of America” Location: A. D. White House (Guerlac Room) *** 6:00 pm: Reception, followed by Dinner with Keynote Speakers Saturday, March 12, 2016 Location: all events will take place in the A. D. White House (Guerlac Room) 9:00-9:30 am: Breakfast *** 9:30 -11:00 am: The South of Diaspora: Francophone literatures Chair: Gerard Aching (Cornell University) Salim Ayoub (University of Miami) – “Immigration, Global Influence & Alienation in the Literature of the South: The Case of Fatou Diome’s Le Ventre de l’Atlantique” Celine Kodia (McGill University, Montréal, Canada) – “In Search of The Afropean Soul” Jackqueline Frost (Cornell University) – “‘The sheer tremendous tidal wave of desperate living’: Édouard Glissant, Créolité, and the US South” Jonathan Solarte Espinosa (Harvard University) – “Tyranny of the Border: The Trujillo Massacre and the Modern/Colonial Gender Binary in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones” *** 11:00-11:30 am: Coffee Break *** 11:30-1:00 pm: Keynote Address: Roberto Dainotto (Duke University) — “Literature and the South”
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    4 1:00-2:00 pm: LunchBreak *** 2:00-3:30 pm: Cases of the Mediterranean Chair: Simone Pinet (Cornell University) Patrick Kozey (Cornell University) – “‘Southern’ Troubadours: Medieval Iberian Lyric and the Mediterranean” Benedetta Carnaghi (Cornell University) – “Hegemony Is Not Dead: Gramsci, Political Islam, and the Contradictory Nature of Consent” Gabriele Montalbano (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and Ecole normale supérieure, Paris, France) – “‘Colonize the colonizers!’ Southern question, internal colonialism and orientalism in the Italian community in Tunisia (19th – 20th century)” Claudia Sbuttoni (Columbia University) – “The Mediterranean as movement: mobility in the contemporary Mediterranean and the migrant crises of the 21st century” *** 3:30- 4:00 pm: Break *** 4:00-5:30 pm: Southern tensions: between Economy and Sovereignty Chair: Diane Brown (Cornell University) Conall Cash (Cornell University) – “What is ‘Southern Theory’? Some Critical Reflections” Richard LeBlanc (Cornell University) – “Philip and Lyotard: Postcolonial and Postmodern” Massimo Piermattei (University of Tuscia, Italy) – “How many South in the Eec/Eu? The Southern issues in the European integration process” Nathaniel Boling (Cornell University) – “From Silence to World-Historical Significance: The Haitian Revolution and the Question of Rights” *** Closing Remarks: Laurent Dubreuil (Cornell University)