Event Host: FRIT, FIGSA
Short Description: How might we broaden the horizons of what is usually understood as Italian media studies to ask questions Italianists might not normally pose? Is the field one, or a multiple assemblage? What new insights can the field bring to the pressing global questions of our day through critical race theory and ecocriticism? What would it mean to cross-pollinate the study of film and television, the usual purview of Italianists, to include digital studies and the digital humanities?
How might we broaden the horizons of what is usually understood as Italian media studies to ask questions Italianists might not normally pose? Is the field one, or a multiple assemblage? What new insights can the field bring to the pressing global questions of our day through critical race theory and ecocriticism? What would it mean to cross-pollinate the study of film and television, the usual purview of Italianists, to include digital studies and the digital humanities?
This conference brings together scholars doing exciting work in these fields, who do not necessarily take (Italy) as its object. To switch up methodologies and frameworks, the conference will be structured as a series of conversations, not rigid papers, so that we can think fluidly about where our fields are, how they converge and where they are going.