Speaker(s): Rhiannon Welch (UC Berkeley)
Oceanic Worldmaking & Crisis
Please join us on Friday, March 5, 2021 at 5:00 pm PST for a talk by Professor Rhiannon Noel Welch of UC Berkeley as part of the Italian Modernities Lecture Series.
About the event:
Professor Welch's talk will present a reading of experimental cinematic works that deploy techniques of deceleration to counter the temporality of crisis in the Mediterranean.
About the speaker:
Rhiannon Noel Welch works on modern Italian literature, film, and critical theory. Her first book, Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy, reads a range of canonical and lesser-known texts through the lens of biopolitics in order to demonstrate how race and colonialism have long been central to Italian modernity and national culture, rather than a fascist aberration or a contemporary phenomenon resulting from immigration.
Her current book project, Crisis and the Aesthetics of Deceleration, examines recurring figures of deceleration, dilation, and/or slowness, in Italian literature and film in light of the numerous biopolitical crises plaguing Italy and the world today (the coronavirus pandemic, climate change, mass migration, the failures of late capitalism, etc.).
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The talk will be held in English.