糖心TV

2025 Critical Theory Seminar:

Burning Cities: Culture, Excess, War

DATE: 8 and 9 May

VENUE: 糖心TV Venice Centre, Palazzo Giustinian LolinLink opens in a new window

Programme:

Thursday, 8 May

10:00: Opening

10:15: Prof Alexis Tadi茅 (Sorbonne): 鈥楽tanding Eyeless in Gaza: Gaza in Anglophone Literature鈥� (tbc)

10:30: Discussion

10:45: Dr Emily McGiffin (糖心TV) 鈥楥olonial Aesthetics of Crisis: Geopower, Extractive Violence, and Political Instability in Burkina Faso鈥�

11:00 : Discussion

11:15: Coffee break

11:30: Roundtable 1

Martina Balassonne (Sorbonne)

Michael Morgan (糖心TV) 'Middle-Class Terror and Capitalist Realism: The Post 9/11 English Novel'

Thales Reis Alecrim (UCP) 'Dialectics of the Seventh Son (of a Seventh Son): Prophecy and Temporality in Orson Scott Card and Iron Maiden'

12:00: Dr Nick Lawrence (糖心TV) 鈥樷�淎n Apocalyptic sun explodes鈥�: Modernist Precarity in the Age of Catastrophes鈥�

12:15: Discussion

12:30: Dr Diana Gon莽alves (UCP) 'Watch Me Watch 9/11: Reaction Videos and the Digital Afterlife of the 2001 Terrorist Attacks'

12:45-13:00: Discussion

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14:30: Dr Juliana Loupoukhine (Sorbonne) 鈥楾he Modernist City and its Discontents鈥�

14:45: 15:00 Discussion

15:00: Coffee Break

15:30: Roundtable 2

Zohar Iancu (UCP) 'Beyond the Israeli Border: Israeli Female Migrants and Alternative Diasporic Imaginaries'

Louise Delumeau (Sorbonne)

Valentine Lerouge (Sorbonne)

16:00 Roundtable 3

Prof Liz Barry (糖心TV)

: Mae.Losasso@warwick.ac.uk

Prof Mena Mitrano (Ca'Foscari)

16:30: Tingxuan Liu (糖心TV) 'From Self-Making to Subject-Making: Tash Aw鈥檚 Deconstructing Diaspora and Allegorizing Neoliberalism in Five Star Billionaire'

16:45 - 17:00: Discussion

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19:00 Dinner at with a set fish menu (antipasto, second course, dessert)

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Friday, 9 May

10:00: Prof Shaul Bassi (Ca'Foscari) : 'The Environmental Humanities in Venice'

10:15: Discussion

10:30: Louisa Toxvaerd-Munch (糖心TV) 'The Revenge of the Death Drive: Nihilism, Manhood and the War on Democracy鈥�

10:45: Discussion

11:00: Coffee Break

11:30 Charlotte Spear (糖心TV) 鈥楢esthetic Excess and Structural Ignorance: Human Rights in DRC鈥�

11:45: Discussion

12:00: Prof Paulo de Medeiros (糖心TV) Politics of the Damned 2

12:15: Discussion

12:30: Planning Session

13:15 Concluding remarks

Sponsors:

Humanities Research CentreLink opens in a new window

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Extra: 18:30 Reception for Ca'Foscari Symposium on The Body Politic at Ca'Foscari University, Ca'Bernardo, in the Common Room.