Bodies Across Borders: Oral and Visual Memory in Europe and Beyond (BABE)

 Luisa Passerini, Emeritus professor, Department of History and Civilisation, European University Institute; Gabriele Proglio, Assistant Professor in Contemporary History, Postcolonial Theory and Italian Studies, University of Tunis

 Claudio Fogu, Associate Professor of Italian Studies, UC Santa Barabara

 Institute of European StudiesDepartment of Italian Studies

The BABE project considers contemporary Europe a crucial point of arrival in a global network designed by mobile human beings and, increasingly, a postcolonial space. The project aims to explore the changes induced by global mobility into visual memories of Europe, focusing on visual art production and on the traces of memory produced by mobile people (oral and visual interviews, maps, objects, drawings). It compares two nations, Italy and The Netherlands, chosen for both their similarities and differences in relation to past and present movements of people, as this “tension” allows for a productive comparative study.

Offering a critical account of stories and practices of movement in, out and through Europe, the research aims to shed new light on the multiplicity of meanings of mobility by examining the interlinked histories of emigration, colonialism and immigration that for long were considered as separate fields of scholar enquiry. In this perspective, new and old forms of intersubjectivity – across both spaces and temporalities – represent also a starting point for a critical assessment of differential mobility regimes and the ways in which stillness and motion are spatialized.

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Ray Savord at rsavord@berkeley.edu or 510-643-4558 with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

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 Ray Savord,  rsavord@berkeley.edu,  510-643-4558