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Precarious Lives, Uncertain Futures

                         Elisabetta Marino, University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy)
                         Om Prakash Dwivedi, Auro University (India)
                         Janet Wilson, University of Northampton (UK)
                         Convenors
Challenging Precarity:
  A Global Network

                         UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA
                         “AREA CONGRESSI”, SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING,
                         VIA DEL POLITECNICO 1, 00133, ROME
Challenging Precarity:
                                                       A Global Network

                                                                              Wednesday, January 29, 2020

8:30-17:00 – REGISTRATION
MAIN HALL – AREA CONGRESSI – SECOND FLOOR

9:15-10:00 –WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS
Orazio Schillaci, Rector, Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”
Giorgio Adamo, Dean of the Department of History, Humanities, and Society
Elisabetta Marino, Om Prakash Dwivedi, Janet Wilson, Convenors
AULA CONVEGNI – EDIFICIO DELLA DIDATTICA – GROUND FLOOR

10:00-12:00– PARALLEL SESSIONS
Session 1-AULA ARCHIMEDE                       Session 2-AULA LEONARDO                         Session 3-AULA PITAGORA                         Session 4-AULA GALILEO
The Production of Marginal                     Literary Representations of the                 European Perspectives on Precarity              Redefining the “Precarious” Self
Identities I                                   Refugee “Crisis”                                and Institutional Culture
Chairperson: Janet Wilson                      Chairperson: Carla Francellini                  Chairperson: Dhananjay Rai                      Chairperson: Sabrina Vellucci
Terrorism, Precarity and the Idea of           Leaving without Arriving: Uncertain Presents,   Boundaries & Belonging, a View from Athens      Fatherhood, Education and
Hospitality                                    Obstructed Futures in the Contemporary          Vasiliki Gavra, Independent scholar             Cosmopolitanism. The Bangladeshi
Emmanouil Aretoulakis, National and            Refugee Literature                                                                              Diaspora between Rome and London
Kapodistrian University of Athens              Teresa Botelho, Nova University of Lisbon                                                       Piero Vereni and Simone Cerulli,
                                                                                                                                               Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor
                                                                                                                                               Vergata”
Unsettling Precarity: The Representation of    Imagining Precarity: The Language and Utility   The Role of Education and Migration in          New Generations Conquering a Voice.
Migrants and Xenophobia in                     of Contemporary Homelessness Fiction            Evolution of Romanian Society. 30 Years after   Italian and German “Second Generations”
Contemporary South African Writing             Joseph Anderton, Birmingham City                1989 Revolution                                 Organize Themselves
Johan Jacobs, University of KwaZulu-           University                                      Mihaela Gligor, The Romanian Academy,           Veronica Pastorino, Sachverständigenrat
Natal, Durban                                                                                  Cluj-Napoca                                     Deutscher Stiftungen für Integration und
                                                                                                                                               Migration
Inclusive, Exclusive and Exceptional: On the   Benjamin Zephaniah’s Refugee Boy:               Uncertain Future of the Humanities. The Case    When Housing Insecurity Means “Stable
Aporia of Citizenship                          Representing Refugee ‘Crisis’ in Literature     of Poland                                       Precarity”: The Example of a Roman Squat
Lobna Ben Salem, Manouba University            Sercan Hamza Bağlama, Çanakkale                 Halina Marlewicz, Jagiellonian University       Chiara Cacciotti, Sapienza Università di
                                               Onsekiz Mart University                                                                         Roma
Challenging Precarity:
                                                        A Global Network

Daoud’s Picasso in ‘Time of Cholera’:           Precarious Lives and the Refugee “Crisis” in    Feeling Precarity: Cultivating Flexibility,     Global Population Ageing: Triumph or
Between “Cultural Genocide” &                   Contemporary English Drama                      Balance, and Openness at Tattva Yoga            Disaster?
(Im)Possibilities in the Arab World             Giovanna Buonanno, Università di Modena         Amsterdam                                       Laura Tommaso, Università degli Studi
Bootheina Majoul, ISLT, University of           e Reggio Emilia                                 Alexandra Brown, University of                  del Molise
Carthage                                                                                        Amsterdam
The Geography of Uncertainty: A Model to        Beyond Invisibility and Isolation: Asylum and   The Uses of Precarity: Figuring Self as Other   Precarious Lives, Challenging Futures:
Interpret Globalization                         Exile: The Hidden Voices of London by           in Hungarian Political Discourses Today         Reviewing the Rights of Nachni in West
Alessandro Ricci, Università degli Studi di     Bidisha                                         Thomas Cooper, Károli Gáspár University,        Bengal
Roma “Tor Vergata”                              Elisabetta Marino, Università degli Studi di    Budapest                                        Monami Nag, Principal, Tarakeswar
                                                Roma “Tor Vergata”                                                                              Girls High School

12:00-12:30
COFFEE BREAK - MAIN HALL – AREA CONGRESSI – SECOND FLOOR
12:30-13:30
KEYNOTE
WRITING THE TRESPASSER: PERMITTED MIGRATION, PROHIBITED PERSONHOOD
JOHN MCLEOD, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
Chairperson: Janet Wilson
AULA CONVEGNI – EDIFICIO DELLA DIDATTICA – GROUND FLOOR

13:30-14:30
LUNCH - MAIN HALL – AREA CONGRESSI – SECOND FLOOR
14:30-15:50– PARALLEL SESSIONS
Session 5-AULA ARCHIMEDE                        Session 6-AULA LEONARDO                         Session 7-AULA PITAGORA                         Session 8-AULA GALILEO
Writing and Translation as                      “Frames of War”: Precarity in the               Historical Representations of                   Exiles, Migrants, and Diasporic
Material Practices                              Transnational, Post-9/11 World                  Precarity                                       Perspectives on Violence
Chairperson: Bootheina Majoul                   Chairperson: Richard Ambrosini                  Chairperson: Jaydeep Sarangi                    Chairperson: Veronica Thompson
“When It Rains, It Pours Down”. Migrant         Civilization Configurations and Global          Talking about Utopia and Dystopia: The Fall     Ideological Borders and Insecurity:
Workers and Precarious Lives in Steinbeck’s     Precariousness in Post-9/11 Fiction             of Ancient Carthage                             Transformation of Political Self
Of Mice and Men                                 Olga Bandrovska, Ivan Franko National           Alessandro Campus, Università degli Studi       in Vedat Turkali’s Kayıp Romanlar (The Lost
Carla Francellini, Università degli Studi di    University of Lviv                              di Roma “Tor Vergata”                           Novels)
Roma “Tor Vergata”                                                                                                                              Mehmet Ali Çelikel, Pamukkale University
“But, my God! It Was My Material, and It        Transnational and Intergenerational Uncertain   A Tragedy of Precarity: The Mourning Bride      To Resist Means (Not) to Survive
Was All I Had to Deal with”. The Precarity of   Legacies in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely    by William Congreve                             Challenging a Butlerian Critique of
Writing a Text: The Case of Tender Is the       Loud & Incredibly Close                         Valentina Rossi, Università degli Studi di      Minoritarian Violence on the Case of Marielle
Night                                           Sabrina Vellucci, Università degli Studi di     Roma “Tor Vergata”                              Franco
Marta Lucari, Università degli Studi di         Roma Tre                                                                                        Carla Schriever, University of Oldenburg
Roma “Tor Vergata”
Challenging Precarity:
                                                    A Global Network

Precarious Translators, Uncertain           The Elusive Sense of National Affiliation:    Hilary Mantel’s Trilogy. A Literary and         “The Burning City”: The Memory of the Fall
Translations: From Invisible to Automated   Mohsin Hamid’s Precarious Characters          Historical Vision of Unstable Human Lives       of Saigon in the Works of Diasporic
Translators                                 Carla Fusco, Università “G. D’Annunzio”       Rossana Sebellin, Università degli Studi di     Vietnamese Authors
Angela Sileo, Università degli Studi di     Chieti-Pescara                                Roma “Tor Vergata”                              Giacomo Traina, Sapienza Università di
Roma “Tor Vergata”                                                                                                                        Roma

15:50-16:15
TEA BREAK - MAIN HALL – AREA CONGRESSI – SECOND FLOOR
16:15-17:15
KEYNOTE
DIGGING INTO PRECARIOUS LIVES IN THE ANTHROPOCENE. STRATIGRAPHY IN POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE
CARMEN CONCILIO, UNIVERSITÀ DI TORINO
Chairperson: Om P. Dwivedi
AULA CONVEGNI – EDIFICIO DELLA DIDATTICA – GROUND FLOOR
18:00 CONCERT
SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES-AUDITORIUM

                                                                           Thursday, January 30, 2020
8:30-17:00 –REGISTRATION
MAIN HALL – AREA CONGRESSI – SECOND FLOOR

9:30-11:30– PARALLEL SESSIONS
Session 9-AULA ARCHIMEDE                    Session 10-AULA LEONARDO                      Session 11-AULA PITAGORA                        Session 12-AULA GALILEO
The Socioeconomic Impacts of                The Production of Marginal                    Challenging Precarity in Canadian               Neoliberal Dystopias
Neoliberalism                               Identities II                                 Literature
Chairperson: Esterino Adami                 Chairperson: Syed Haider                      Chairperson: Lisa Bloom                         Chairperson: Daniela Guardamagna
Scopic Economy and the Spectacle of Labor   Suspended Life in the Wait of Citizenship:    Vulnerable Refugees: Precarity and Resistance   Islands, Borders and the Architecture of
Minoo Moallem, University of California,    L’Afrance or the Story of Non-Belonging       in Sharon Bala’s The Boat People                Precarity in John Lanchester’s The Wall
Berkeley                                    Adriana Simoncelli, Jagiellonian University   Sara Casco-Solis, University of Salamanca       (2019)
                                                                                                                                          Lidia A. De Michelis, Università degli Studi
                                                                                                                                          di Milano
Precarity and Neoliberal Self               Precarity, Marginality and Dispossession:     Community Resurgence: Challenging               Speculative Friction, or, Neoliberalism
Dhananjay Rai, Central University of        Crossing Borders in Babel (Inarritu,          Indigenous Precarity through Lee Maracle’s      Rhymes with Nothing: The Un-Poetic Turn of
Gujarat                                     2006) and Frozen River (Courtney Hunt,        Fictions                                        Resistance Writing and the Works of Derrick
                                            2008)                                         Lucía López Serrano, University of              Jensen
                                            Gilles Menegaldo, University of Poitiers      Salamanca                                       Roger Davis, Red Deer College
Challenging Precarity:
                                                     A Global Network

Neoliberal Discourse and Its Glamour         The Precarious Body as Savior for the            Precarity and the Ethics of Love in the         Dystopian Settings and Climate Change on
“Trappings”. On Revealed Precariousness      Professional Class in Once Upon a Time in        Canadian City                                   Stage: Images of Twentieth Century Theatre
Sorin Ciutacu, West University of            Hollywood                                        Ana Mª Fraile-Marcos, University of             Susana Nicolás Román, University of
Timisoara                                    Ilias Ben-Mna, Humboldt University, Berlin       Salamanca                                       Almeria
What Future for Social Rights under the      Freedom Lost or Found? Neoliberal                Responses to Planetary Precarity in Larissa     Populism and Planetary Precarity in Contemporary
Global Trade? Reflections and Scenarios      Expulsions and City Transformations in Aman      Lai’s The Tiger Flu                             Indian Dystopian Fiction: The Case of Nayantara
Antonella D’Andrea, Università degli Studi   Sethi’s A Free Man                               Lidia María Cuadrado Payeras, University        Sahgal’s When the Moon Shines by Day (2017)
di Roma “Tor Vergata”                        Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández, University          of Salamanca                                    and Prayaag Akbar’s Leila (2018)
                                             of Córdoba                                                                                       Dolores Herrero, University of Zaragoza
Temporary Occupancy as an Urban Indicator    Migrations, Re-locations, Border Crossings       Settling in Precarity: Paradoxicality in Yann   “Britain Had Become a Country of Winners
of Precariousness in Brussels. An            Bruna Mancini, Università della Calabria         Martel’s Life of Pi                             and Losers”: John Lanchester’s Capital or the
Homological Comparison between Socio-                                                         Bennett Yu-hsiang Fu, National Taiwan           Crippling Power of Neoliberalism
Economic and Urban Fields                                                                     University                                      Alice Borrego, Paul-Valéry University
Marie-Charlotte Dalin, UCL-LOCI                                                                                                               Montpellier 3
Bruxelles

11:30-12:00
COFFEE BREAK - MAIN HALL – AREA CONGRESSI – SECOND FLOOR
12:00-13:00
KEYNOTE
THE PRECARITY OF MEANING IN WUTHERING HEIGHTS
TABISH KHAIR, AARHUS UNIVERSITY
Chairperson: Elisabetta Marino
AULA CONVEGNI – EDIFICIO DELLA DIDATTICA – GROUND FLOOR

13:00-14:15
LUNCH - MAIN HALL – AREA CONGRESSI – SECOND FLOOR
14:15-16:00– PARALLEL SESSIONS
Session 13-AULA ARCHIMEDE                    Session 14-AULA LEONARDO                         Session 15-AULA PITAGORA                        Session 16-AULA GALILEO
The Language and Discourses of               Populism, Precarity and Language                 Art as a Form of Resistance                     Challenging Precarity in Indian
Precarity, Development and                                                                                                                    Literature
Environment
Chairperson: Ana Mª Fraile-Marcos            Chairperson: Massimiliano Demata                 Chairperson: Teresa Botelho                     Chairperson: Halina Marlewicz
Going Places? Representing Precarity,        Precarity and Populism in the Brexit Debate in   Precarious Freedoms: The Artist’s Challenges    Narratives of Displacement: Precarious
Postcolonial Tourism and Environmentalism    the British Press                                in Ben Okri’s Writing                           Citizenship in Aruni Kashyap’s Creative
across Texts and Discourse                   Chiara Degano, Università degli Studi di         Mariaconcetta Costantini, Università degli      Imaginary
Esterino Adami, Università di Torino         Roma Tre                                         Studi “G. D’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara            Rimika Singhvi, IIS (Deemed to be
                                                                                                                                              University), Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Challenging Precarity:
                                                       A Global Network

Sūardān (The Gift of the Pig) by Roopnarayan   Brexit and Uncertainty for a Group of Expats    Precarity and Feminist Art Practices in         Precarious Mechanisms in Ravi
Sonkar: A Dalit Dream of Development           in Malta                                        Antarctica in the Age of Climate Change         Subramanian’s Novel Don’t Tell the Governor
against Precarity                              Marianna Lya Zummo, Università di               Lisa Bloom, University of California,           Monali Chatterjee, Nirma University,
Alessandra Consolaro, Università di Torino     Palermo                                         Berkeley                                        Ahmedabad
Andamans and Nicobar: An Indian Colony         Frames “Trump” Facts: An Analysis of            A Feminist Analysis of the Effects of Climate   Are These Lives Real? Precarious Migrants’
Alessandro Vescovi, Università di Milano       Donald Trump’s Use of Language                  Change on Precarious Lives: Jesmyn Ward’s       Existences and Relationality in Kiran Desai’s
                                               Giulia Magazzù, Università degli Studi di       Salvage the Bones and C. Morgan Babst’s The     The Inheritance of Loss (2006)
                                               Roma “Tor Vergata”                              Floating World                                  Alessia Polatti, Università di Verona
                                                                                               Chiara Xausa, Università di Bologna
Ecological Crises and Sociological             Precariat, Precariousness, Precarity: A         Precarity - The Great Unresolved Issue of Our   Gun Island: Amitav Ghosh’s Literary
Gesellschaft/Gemeinschaft in the Literary      Lexicographic Analysis of the Multiple Facets   Time                                            Challenge to the Eurocentric Anthropocene
Representations of Migrant Pastoralist         of Employment Insecurity and                    Sanchita Islam, Artist                          Pilar Royo-Grasa, University of Zaragoza
Community of the Indian Western                Their Implications in the Translating Process
Frontier                                       Laura Diamanti, Università di Cassino e del
Yamini Shah, Ramnarain Ruia                    Lazio Meridionale
Autonomous College

16:00-16:30
TEA BREAK - MAIN HALL – AREA CONGRESSI – SECOND FLOOR

16:30-17:30
KEYNOTE
MYTHS OF MODERNITY: LIVING BETWEEN POVERTY AND THE PAVEMENT
BASHABI FRASER, EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY
Chairperson: Nancy Batty
AULA CONVEGNI – EDIFICIO DELLA DIDATTICA – GROUND FLOOR

17:30-18:30 – CHALLENGING PRECARITY: A GLOBAL NETWORK, GENERAL MEETING
AULA CONVEGNI – EDIFICIO DELLA DIDATTICA – GROUND FLOOR

20:00 – SOCIAL DINNER
Challenging Precarity:
                                                          A Global Network

                                                                                 Friday, January 31, 2020
8:30-11:00 –REGISTRATION
MAIN HALL – AREA CONGRESSI – SECOND FLOOR

9:30-11:00– PARALLEL SESSIONS
Session 17-AULA ARCHIMEDE                         Session 18-AULA LEONARDO                       Session 19-AULA PITAGORA                        Session 20-AULA GALILEO
Imagining Precarious Futures                      Discourses of Migrancy and the                 Precarity and/in Higher Education               Semiotics and Aesthetics of Dalit
                                                  Minor Child                                                                                    Precarity
Chairperson: Om P. Dwivedi                        Chairperson: Mariaconcetta                     Chairperson: Rossana Sebellin                   Chairperson: Lidia A. De Michelis
                                                  Costantini
On the Frictions of the Virtual Frontier: Labor   Sharing Suffering: The Photograph of Jakelin   Women, University and Academic Research.        Broken Lives: Politics and Affect in the
in Cyberpunk                                      Caal Maquin as an Unstable Personal,           A Gender Sensitive Analysis on Research         Semiotics of Untouchability
Salvatore Proietti, Università della Calabria     Political, and Ethical Witness                 Products                                        Sofia Cavalcanti, Università di Bologna
                                                  Diane Zeeuw, Kendall College of Art and        Elvira Lozupone, Università degli Studi di
                                                  Design of Ferris State University              Roma “Tor Vergata”
Globalisation and Eradication of Human            The Case of the “Unaccompanied Alien           “Great Things Are Done when Men and             Towards Dalit Aesthetics
Values: A Study of Manjula Padmanabhan’s          Children”: Precarity, Dehumanization           Mountains Meet”. Taking on                      Jaydeep Sarangi, New Alipore College,
Play Harvest                                      and the Discourse of Immigration in the Age    Precariousness in the Literature Classroom:     Kolkata
Sachin Namdeo Gadekar, SP Pune                    of Trump                                       The Case of William Blake
University                                        Massimiliano Demata, Università di Torino      Marta Fabi, Università degli Studi di Roma
                                                                                                 “Tor Vergata”
Precarity and Its Socio-Political Trends          Uncertain Futures: The Case of                 The ‘Precarious’ Situation of Language Policy   ‘Passing’ and Caste Precarity
Vijaya Sethi, Shri Ramswaroop Memorial            Unaccompanied Foreign Minors                   in Higher Education: Recent Trends and          Toral Jatin Gajarawala, New York
University                                        Giovanna Giurlanda, Università degli Studi     Controversies                                   University
                                                  di Roma “Tor Vergata”                          Beatrice Zuaro, Stockholm University

11:00-11:30
COFFEE BREAK- MAIN HALL – AREA CONGRESSI – SECOND FLOOR
11:30-12:30
KEYNOTE
HIGHER EDUCATION, SKILLS & EMPLOYABILITY: UNCERTAIN FUTURE
ROHIT SINGH, AURO UNIVERSITY
Chairperson: Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández
AULA CONVEGNI – EDIFICIO DELLA DIDATTICA – GROUND FLOOR

12:30− CONCLUSIVE REMARKS
AULA CONVEGNI – EDIFICIO DELLA DIDATTICA – GROUND FLOOR
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