The seminar series, organized by Annaclaudia Martini and Martina Tazzioli, runs from October 2024 to June 2025, concluding with a Summer school scheduled for September 2025. As per the title of the seminars, the leading theme of the seminar series refers to the dual nature of Cluster 5 “Transcultural Spaces and Memories,” which is divided into “Dissonant Spaces and Memories ‘ and ’Memory, Movements and Places.”
The seminar series involves internationally renowned scholars - historians, anthropologists, geographers - and goes to investigate different aspects related to how critical memory studies problematizes the construction, negotiation, management and resistance to “authorized” memories, and the processes of memory creation in relation to migration and social movements.
The confirmed speakers are:
Oct. 21, 2024: Prof. Karen Till, Professor of Geography at Maynooth University, Dublin, will give the first talk titled “Decolonizing Berlin: Memory-Work and Anticolonial Practice in a Wounded City.”
Dec. 2, 2024: Prof. Divya Tolia-Kelly, Professor of Geography & Heritage Studies at the University of Sussex. Her research focuses on postcolonial and anti-racist approaches to cultural geographies, migration, landscape, memory and heritage.
Feb. 14, 2025: Prof. Ann Laura Stoler, Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at the New School for Social Research. Prof. Stoler is the author of books such as Along the Archival Grain, and Duress: Imperial Durabilities in our Times.
Early March 2025 (tbd): Prof. Roberta Altin, anthropologist and Associate Professor at the University of Udine and Trieste, where she works on mobility and migrations. Author of the book “Border Heritage” (2024).
March 26, 2025: Prof. Judith Revel, philosopher and Professor at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, specialist in the thought of Michel Foucault and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, will present on Foucault, memory and the archive.
May 2025 (tbd): Prof. Roberto Beneduce, anthropologist and Full Professor at the University of Turin. Author of texts such as Archelology of Trauma, and Franz Fanon: Psychiatry and Politics, he works on the relationship between ethnopsychiatry and migration.
June 2025 (tbd): Prof. Marcus Rediker, Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History and historian at the University of Pittsburgh, and author of multiple books including The Many Headed-Hydra (with Peter Linebaugh), The Rebellion of Amistadt, and Outlaws of the Atlantic. He works on piracy, the history of slavery and social struggles during the Middle Passage.