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Chiara Xausa

Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Interpretazione e Traduzione (DIT), Post-Doc

University of Warwick, English and Comparative Literary Studies, Alumna

Università degli Studi di Padova, Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari (DISLL), Alumna

Universiteit Utrecht, Gender and Ethnicity, Alumna

Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Moderne (LILEC), Alumna

Bath Spa University, Research Centre for Environmental Humanities, Visiting PhD fellow

Università di Bologna, DIT (Dipartimento Interpretazione e Traduzione), PhD candidate

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Dottoressa di ricerca in Traduzione, Interpretazione, Interculturalità (curriculum Interculturalità) presso l'Università di Bologna, svolgo le mie ricerche nell'ambito degli studi di genere e delle letterature e culture anglofone. Impegnata nell'ambito degli studi di genere fin dal precedente percorso accademico all'Università di Padova, ho approfondito la mia formazione prendendo parte tra il 2016 e il 2018 al programma d'eccellenza della Commissione Europea "GEMMA - Erasmus Mundus Master's Degree in Women's and Gender Studies" presso l'Università di Bologna e l'Università di Utrecht. La mia ricerca di dottorato ha riguardato la rappresentazione del cambiamento climatico in diverse scrittrici contemporanee del mondo anglofono, da una prospettiva critica femminista.
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Poesie di lotta e di sopravvivenza: i testi di Oodgeroo Noonuccal in traduzione

«FROM THE EUROPEAN SOUTH», 10, pp. 111 - 115, 2022

Poems of struggle and survival: Oodgeroo Noonuccal's texts in translation. Oodgeroo Noonuccal's M... more Poems of struggle and survival: Oodgeroo Noonuccal's texts in translation. Oodgeroo Noonuccal's My People is considered a classic of postcolonial literature, in that it reconstructs the memory of an older Indigenous past and intertwines it with official and hegemonic Australian history. The first critical edition in Italian of her 1970 anthology, which gives voice to the experiences of Australian Aboriginal people, is now available to the Italian reader thanks to the thorough work of Margherita Zanoletti. The volume My People, La mia gente (Mimesis 2021) featuring the original poems by Oodgeroo alongside the Italian translation, includes a detailed introduction, an extensive glossary, and a text by Alexis Wright suggesting that Oodgeroo's poetry can crack the nexus of indifference that characterizes these times of planetary rupture. In introducing her poems to the Italian audience, Zanoletti highlights the fusion of protest and language as well as the profound communicative intent of Oodgeroo's poetry and takes into consideration her own experience of translation.

Climate Fiction and the Crisis of Imagination: Alexis Wright's Carpentaria and The Swan Book

Exchanges: The InterdisciplinaryResearch Journal, 8(2), 99-119, 2021

This article analyses the representation of environmental crisis and climate crisis in Carpentari... more This article analyses the representation of environmental crisis and climate crisis in Carpentaria (2006) and The Swan Book (2013) by Indigenous Australian writer Alexis Wright. Building upon the groundbreaking work of environmental humanities scholars such as Heise (2008), Clark (2015), Trexler (2015) and Ghosh (2016), who have emphasised the main challenges faced by authors of climate fiction, it considers the novels as an entry point to address the climate-related crisis of culture-while acknowledging the problematic aspects of reading Indigenous texts as antidotes to the 'great derangement'-and the danger of a singular Anthropocene narrative that silences the 'unevenly universal' (Nixon, 2011) responsibilities and vulnerabilities to environmental harm. Exploring themes such as environmental racism, ecological imperialism, and the slow violence of climate change, it suggests that Alexis Wright's novels are of utmost importance for global conversations about the Anthropocene and its literary representations, as they bring the unevenness of environmental and climate crisis to visibility.

“Decolonizing the Anthropocene: ‘Slow Violence’ and Indigenous Resistance in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves”. Il Tolomeo, 22, 87-100

Through a reading of Cherie Dimaline's 2017 young adult novel The Marrow Thieves, a survival stor... more Through a reading of Cherie Dimaline's 2017 young adult novel The Marrow Thieves, a survival story set in a futuristic Canada destroyed by global warming, this article explores the conceptualization and reimagination of the Anthropocene in contemporary postcolonial and Indigenous theory and fiction. Firstly, I will argue that literary representations of climate change can be complicit in producing hegemonic strands of Anthropocene discourse that consider human destructiveness and vulnerability at undifferentiated species level. Secondly, I will suggest that the novel's apocalypse reveals the processes of colonial violence and dispossession that have culminated in the eruptive event of environmental catastrophe, rather than portraying a story of universal and disembodied human threat that conceals oppression against Indigenous people.

Alessandra Luccioli; Ester Dolei; Chiara Xausa, "Wise nurses e beautiful professors: r-esistenze al linguaggio inclusivo nella traduzione automatica dall’inglese all’italiano"

by Chiara Xausa, Ester Dolei, and Alessandra Luccioli

M. M. Coppola; A. Donà; B. Poggio; A. Tuselli, Genere e R-esistenze in Movimento: Soggettività, A... more M. M. Coppola; A. Donà; B. Poggio; A. Tuselli, Genere e R-esistenze in Movimento: Soggettività, Azioni, Prospettive, Trento, Università degli Studi di Trento, 2020, pp. 309 - 323 (atti di: Genere e R-esistenze in Movimento: Soggettività, Azioni, Prospettive, Università degli Studi di Trento, 31 gennaio - 1 febbraio 2020)

Cambiamento climatico, genere e intersezionalità: narrazioni r-esistenti alla climate fiction apocalittica

M. M. Coppola; A. Donà; B. Poggio; A. Tuselli, Genere e R-esistenze in Movimento: Soggettività, A... more M. M. Coppola; A. Donà; B. Poggio; A. Tuselli, Genere e R-esistenze in Movimento: Soggettività, Azioni, Prospettive, Trento, Università degli Studi di Trento, 2020, pp. 309 - 323 (atti di: Genere e R-esistenze in Movimento: Soggettività, Azioni, Prospettive, Università degli Studi di Trento, 31 gennaio - 1 febbraio 2020)

Feminist intersectional perspectives on pandemic narratives: Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu

Socially-constructed roles affect women’s experiences of and vulnerability to the broad impacts o... more Socially-constructed roles affect women’s experiences of and vulnerability to the broad impacts of pandemics. Although women are on the frontline of the Covid-19 response, as health-care workers and caregivers, they have less decision-making power than men in pandemic planning and post-pandemic recovery, and their voices and experiences go unheard. This article considers Larissa Lai’s visionary novel, The Tiger Flu (2018), as an entry point for conceptualising the gendered nature of the current Coronavirus emergency. A novel about the world to come, after climate change and mass death, The Tiger Flu brings women’s voices to the forefront of a flu pandemic that has jumped from animals to humans. By creating a world where men are vulnerable and women survive, Lai consciously writes against traditional end-of-world narratives that tend to rely on tiring gender narratives based on the tension between active male heroism and female fragility. Furthermore, The Tiger Flu explores the intersectional experiences of a global disease outbreak and imagines a new beginning from the viewpoint of queer voices of colour from marginalised communities. A feminist framework will be employed to shed light on the ongoing possibilities of life in the wake of patriarchy, environmental change and capitalism’s consumptive force.

Xausa C., Badaloni S., Oboe A., Padovani C., Perini L., Centro di Ateneo Elena Cornaro per i saperi, le culture e le politiche di genere, Università di Padova (2020). "Le donne, le ragazze e il mondo che verrà".

In Agenda 2030 a scuola. La scienza per lo sviluppo sostenibile, a cura di A. Bachiorri e M. Ferr... more

Integrating an intersectional climate justice perspective in the mainstream Anthropocene discourse through the climate change novel

PLOTINA FIinal Conference Book of Abstracts. Regendering Science for an Inclusive Research Envir... more PLOTINA FIinal Conference Book of Abstracts. Regendering Science for an Inclusive
Research Environment, Bologna, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, 2020,
pp. 80-82. (atti di: PLOTINA Final Conference, ReGendering Science. For an inclusive
research environment, Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agro-alimentari,
Università di Bologna, 27-28 gennaio 2020).

Chiara Xausa, «Nello schedario del mio cuore». I racconti di memoria di Giacoma Limentani, in «Altrelettere» (2018), Digital Journal Of Italian Literature And Gender Studies – Issn 1664-6908, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5903/al_uzh-40

Chiara Xausa, “Il poco che sorregge il molto”, in Il mosaico della memoria. Omaggio a Giacoma Limentani, a cura di Adriana Chemello, Roma, Iacobelli, 2017, pp. 66-81 (ISBN: 978-88-6252-403-2).

Conference Presentations by Chiara Xausa

Environmental Humanities e saperi di genere

Conversazioni a casa Cornaro, 2020

Chiara Xausa approfondirà il ruolo che le discipline umanistiche sono chiamate a svolgere nella s... more Chiara Xausa approfondirà il ruolo che le discipline umanistiche sono chiamate a svolgere nella sfida globale posta dalla crisi climatica e dalle trasformazioni in atto a livello planetario. Le Environmental Humanities, o scienze umane ambientali, sono un campo di studi basato sull'intreccio tra discipline umanistiche, scienze sociali e scienze ambientali, e rispondono all'esigenza di un approccio multidisciplinare che affronti la complessità della crisi coniugando saperi diversi. In questa cornice, particolare attenzione sarà dedicata ai saperi di genere e al contributo dato dalle teorie femministe al ripensamento del canone culturale in prospettiva ecologica. Le prospettive di genere delineate nel corso della conversazione verranno riprese in conclusione per proporre una lettura femminista della climate fiction, la narrativa che esplora le conseguenze dei cambiamenti climatici. Chiara Xausa, è dottoranda in Studi di Genere presso l'Università di Bologna. Dal 2018 svolge le sue ricerche nell'ambito delle teorie femministe, delle letterature e culture anglofone e delle Environmental Humanities. Dopo una formazione all'Università di Padova, ha preso parte tra il 2016 e il 2018 al Master GEMMA -Erasmus Mundus Master's Degree in Women's and Gender Studies presso l'Università di Bologna e l'Università di Utrecht. La sua ricerca si concentra sulla rappresentazione del cambiamento climatico nell'opera di diverse scrittrici contemporanee del mondo anglofono, da una prospettiva critica femminista.

“A legacy of not evacuating.” Intersectionality and flood catastrophe in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the bones and C. Morgan Babst’s The floating world.

CONFERENZA “FLOWS AND FLOODS: CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS AND CULTURES” (UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK, 22 FEBB... more

Cambiamento climatico, genere e intersezionalità: narrazioni resistenti alla climate fiction apocalittica.

CONVEGNO NAZ IONALE “GENERE E R-ES I STENZE IN MOVIMENTO: SOGGETTIVITÀ , AZIONI, PROSPETTIVE” (UN... more

Wise nurses e beautiful professors: resistenze al linguaggio inclusivo nella traduzione automatica dall’inglese all’italiano (con Ester Ione Dolei e Alessandra Luccioli).

CONVEGNO NAZ IONALE “GENERE E R-ES I STENZE IN MOVIMENTO: SOGGETTIVITÀ , AZIONI, PROSPETTIVE” (UN... more

A feminist analysis of the effects of climate change on precarious lives: Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the bones and C. Morgan Babst’s The floating world.

"P R E C A R I O U S L I V E S , U N C E RTA I N F U T U R E S : AN I N T E R N AT I O N A L CONF... more

Integrating an intersectional climate justice perspective in the mainstream Anthropocene discourse through the climate change novel.

PLOTINA FINAL CONFERENCE "REGENDERING SCIENCE. FOR AN INCLUSIVE RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT (UNIVERSITÀ ... more

Intersectional climate justice in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves: an alternative to the apocalyptic discourse of Western cli-fi.

"CLIMATE FICTIONS / INDIGENOUS STUDIES" CONFERENCE (UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, 24-25 GENNAIO 2020

The co-existing struggle of black swans, Aboriginal people and a young woman: human and nonhuman agency in Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book.

ASLE-UKI (ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT – UK AND IRELAND) BIENNIAL ... more

Past, present and future environmental change in Indigenous dystopian literature: Keri Hulme and Alexis Wright.

“FORMING THE FUTURE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE” (UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH, 2-3 SETTEMBRE 2019)

Finding green hope in Indigenous dystopian present: Keri Hulme’s Stonefish and Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book.

20TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE UTOPIAN STUDIES SOCIETY, EUROPE - "UTOPIA, DYSTOPIA AND CLIM... more

Poesie di lotta e di sopravvivenza: i testi di Oodgeroo Noonuccal in traduzione

«FROM THE EUROPEAN SOUTH», 10, pp. 111 - 115, 2022

Poems of struggle and survival: Oodgeroo Noonuccal's texts in translation. Oodgeroo Noonuccal's M... more Poems of struggle and survival: Oodgeroo Noonuccal's texts in translation. Oodgeroo Noonuccal's My People is considered a classic of postcolonial literature, in that it reconstructs the memory of an older Indigenous past and intertwines it with official and hegemonic Australian history. The first critical edition in Italian of her 1970 anthology, which gives voice to the experiences of Australian Aboriginal people, is now available to the Italian reader thanks to the thorough work of Margherita Zanoletti. The volume My People, La mia gente (Mimesis 2021) featuring the original poems by Oodgeroo alongside the Italian translation, includes a detailed introduction, an extensive glossary, and a text by Alexis Wright suggesting that Oodgeroo's poetry can crack the nexus of indifference that characterizes these times of planetary rupture. In introducing her poems to the Italian audience, Zanoletti highlights the fusion of protest and language as well as the profound communicative intent of Oodgeroo's poetry and takes into consideration her own experience of translation.

Climate Fiction and the Crisis of Imagination: Alexis Wright's Carpentaria and The Swan Book

Exchanges: The InterdisciplinaryResearch Journal, 8(2), 99-119, 2021

This article analyses the representation of environmental crisis and climate crisis in Carpentari... more This article analyses the representation of environmental crisis and climate crisis in Carpentaria (2006) and The Swan Book (2013) by Indigenous Australian writer Alexis Wright. Building upon the groundbreaking work of environmental humanities scholars such as Heise (2008), Clark (2015), Trexler (2015) and Ghosh (2016), who have emphasised the main challenges faced by authors of climate fiction, it considers the novels as an entry point to address the climate-related crisis of culture-while acknowledging the problematic aspects of reading Indigenous texts as antidotes to the 'great derangement'-and the danger of a singular Anthropocene narrative that silences the 'unevenly universal' (Nixon, 2011) responsibilities and vulnerabilities to environmental harm. Exploring themes such as environmental racism, ecological imperialism, and the slow violence of climate change, it suggests that Alexis Wright's novels are of utmost importance for global conversations about the Anthropocene and its literary representations, as they bring the unevenness of environmental and climate crisis to visibility.

“Decolonizing the Anthropocene: ‘Slow Violence’ and Indigenous Resistance in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves”. Il Tolomeo, 22, 87-100

Through a reading of Cherie Dimaline's 2017 young adult novel The Marrow Thieves, a survival stor... more Through a reading of Cherie Dimaline's 2017 young adult novel The Marrow Thieves, a survival story set in a futuristic Canada destroyed by global warming, this article explores the conceptualization and reimagination of the Anthropocene in contemporary postcolonial and Indigenous theory and fiction. Firstly, I will argue that literary representations of climate change can be complicit in producing hegemonic strands of Anthropocene discourse that consider human destructiveness and vulnerability at undifferentiated species level. Secondly, I will suggest that the novel's apocalypse reveals the processes of colonial violence and dispossession that have culminated in the eruptive event of environmental catastrophe, rather than portraying a story of universal and disembodied human threat that conceals oppression against Indigenous people.

Alessandra Luccioli; Ester Dolei; Chiara Xausa, "Wise nurses e beautiful professors: r-esistenze al linguaggio inclusivo nella traduzione automatica dall’inglese all’italiano"

by Chiara Xausa, Ester Dolei, and Alessandra Luccioli

M. M. Coppola; A. Donà; B. Poggio; A. Tuselli, Genere e R-esistenze in Movimento: Soggettività, A... more M. M. Coppola; A. Donà; B. Poggio; A. Tuselli, Genere e R-esistenze in Movimento: Soggettività, Azioni, Prospettive, Trento, Università degli Studi di Trento, 2020, pp. 309 - 323 (atti di: Genere e R-esistenze in Movimento: Soggettività, Azioni, Prospettive, Università degli Studi di Trento, 31 gennaio - 1 febbraio 2020)

Cambiamento climatico, genere e intersezionalità: narrazioni r-esistenti alla climate fiction apocalittica

M. M. Coppola; A. Donà; B. Poggio; A. Tuselli, Genere e R-esistenze in Movimento: Soggettività, A... more M. M. Coppola; A. Donà; B. Poggio; A. Tuselli, Genere e R-esistenze in Movimento: Soggettività, Azioni, Prospettive, Trento, Università degli Studi di Trento, 2020, pp. 309 - 323 (atti di: Genere e R-esistenze in Movimento: Soggettività, Azioni, Prospettive, Università degli Studi di Trento, 31 gennaio - 1 febbraio 2020)

Feminist intersectional perspectives on pandemic narratives: Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu

Socially-constructed roles affect women’s experiences of and vulnerability to the broad impacts o... more Socially-constructed roles affect women’s experiences of and vulnerability to the broad impacts of pandemics. Although women are on the frontline of the Covid-19 response, as health-care workers and caregivers, they have less decision-making power than men in pandemic planning and post-pandemic recovery, and their voices and experiences go unheard. This article considers Larissa Lai’s visionary novel, The Tiger Flu (2018), as an entry point for conceptualising the gendered nature of the current Coronavirus emergency. A novel about the world to come, after climate change and mass death, The Tiger Flu brings women’s voices to the forefront of a flu pandemic that has jumped from animals to humans. By creating a world where men are vulnerable and women survive, Lai consciously writes against traditional end-of-world narratives that tend to rely on tiring gender narratives based on the tension between active male heroism and female fragility. Furthermore, The Tiger Flu explores the intersectional experiences of a global disease outbreak and imagines a new beginning from the viewpoint of queer voices of colour from marginalised communities. A feminist framework will be employed to shed light on the ongoing possibilities of life in the wake of patriarchy, environmental change and capitalism’s consumptive force.

Xausa C., Badaloni S., Oboe A., Padovani C., Perini L., Centro di Ateneo Elena Cornaro per i saperi, le culture e le politiche di genere, Università di Padova (2020). "Le donne, le ragazze e il mondo che verrà".

In Agenda 2030 a scuola. La scienza per lo sviluppo sostenibile, a cura di A. Bachiorri e M. Ferr... more

Integrating an intersectional climate justice perspective in the mainstream Anthropocene discourse through the climate change novel

PLOTINA FIinal Conference Book of Abstracts. Regendering Science for an Inclusive Research Envir... more PLOTINA FIinal Conference Book of Abstracts. Regendering Science for an Inclusive
Research Environment, Bologna, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, 2020,
pp. 80-82. (atti di: PLOTINA Final Conference, ReGendering Science. For an inclusive
research environment, Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agro-alimentari,
Università di Bologna, 27-28 gennaio 2020).

Chiara Xausa, «Nello schedario del mio cuore». I racconti di memoria di Giacoma Limentani, in «Altrelettere» (2018), Digital Journal Of Italian Literature And Gender Studies – Issn 1664-6908, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5903/al_uzh-40

Chiara Xausa, “Il poco che sorregge il molto”, in Il mosaico della memoria. Omaggio a Giacoma Limentani, a cura di Adriana Chemello, Roma, Iacobelli, 2017, pp. 66-81 (ISBN: 978-88-6252-403-2).

Environmental Humanities e saperi di genere

Conversazioni a casa Cornaro, 2020

Chiara Xausa approfondirà il ruolo che le discipline umanistiche sono chiamate a svolgere nella s... more Chiara Xausa approfondirà il ruolo che le discipline umanistiche sono chiamate a svolgere nella sfida globale posta dalla crisi climatica e dalle trasformazioni in atto a livello planetario. Le Environmental Humanities, o scienze umane ambientali, sono un campo di studi basato sull'intreccio tra discipline umanistiche, scienze sociali e scienze ambientali, e rispondono all'esigenza di un approccio multidisciplinare che affronti la complessità della crisi coniugando saperi diversi. In questa cornice, particolare attenzione sarà dedicata ai saperi di genere e al contributo dato dalle teorie femministe al ripensamento del canone culturale in prospettiva ecologica. Le prospettive di genere delineate nel corso della conversazione verranno riprese in conclusione per proporre una lettura femminista della climate fiction, la narrativa che esplora le conseguenze dei cambiamenti climatici. Chiara Xausa, è dottoranda in Studi di Genere presso l'Università di Bologna. Dal 2018 svolge le sue ricerche nell'ambito delle teorie femministe, delle letterature e culture anglofone e delle Environmental Humanities. Dopo una formazione all'Università di Padova, ha preso parte tra il 2016 e il 2018 al Master GEMMA -Erasmus Mundus Master's Degree in Women's and Gender Studies presso l'Università di Bologna e l'Università di Utrecht. La sua ricerca si concentra sulla rappresentazione del cambiamento climatico nell'opera di diverse scrittrici contemporanee del mondo anglofono, da una prospettiva critica femminista.

“A legacy of not evacuating.” Intersectionality and flood catastrophe in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the bones and C. Morgan Babst’s The floating world.

CONFERENZA “FLOWS AND FLOODS: CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS AND CULTURES” (UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK, 22 FEBB... more

Cambiamento climatico, genere e intersezionalità: narrazioni resistenti alla climate fiction apocalittica.

CONVEGNO NAZ IONALE “GENERE E R-ES I STENZE IN MOVIMENTO: SOGGETTIVITÀ , AZIONI, PROSPETTIVE” (UN... more

Wise nurses e beautiful professors: resistenze al linguaggio inclusivo nella traduzione automatica dall’inglese all’italiano (con Ester Ione Dolei e Alessandra Luccioli).

CONVEGNO NAZ IONALE “GENERE E R-ES I STENZE IN MOVIMENTO: SOGGETTIVITÀ , AZIONI, PROSPETTIVE” (UN... more

A feminist analysis of the effects of climate change on precarious lives: Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the bones and C. Morgan Babst’s The floating world.

"P R E C A R I O U S L I V E S , U N C E RTA I N F U T U R E S : AN I N T E R N AT I O N A L CONF... more

Integrating an intersectional climate justice perspective in the mainstream Anthropocene discourse through the climate change novel.

PLOTINA FINAL CONFERENCE "REGENDERING SCIENCE. FOR AN INCLUSIVE RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT (UNIVERSITÀ ... more

Intersectional climate justice in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves: an alternative to the apocalyptic discourse of Western cli-fi.

"CLIMATE FICTIONS / INDIGENOUS STUDIES" CONFERENCE (UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, 24-25 GENNAIO 2020

The co-existing struggle of black swans, Aboriginal people and a young woman: human and nonhuman agency in Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book.

ASLE-UKI (ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT – UK AND IRELAND) BIENNIAL ... more

Past, present and future environmental change in Indigenous dystopian literature: Keri Hulme and Alexis Wright.

“FORMING THE FUTURE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE” (UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH, 2-3 SETTEMBRE 2019)

Finding green hope in Indigenous dystopian present: Keri Hulme’s Stonefish and Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book.

20TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE UTOPIAN STUDIES SOCIETY, EUROPE - "UTOPIA, DYSTOPIA AND CLIM... more

Gender, climate change and mobility: the representation of human and nonhuman displacement in Indigenous Australian literature.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GENDER STUDIES - "GENDER AND MOBILITY (LONDON CENTRE FOR INTERDISCIPL... more

Le italiane sono bianche? Processi di razzializzazione delle donne italiane in alcuni romanzi di età liberale e fascista.

V CONGRESSO INTERNAZIONALE SUGLI STUDI DI GENERE IN CONTESTO LUSOFONO E ITALIANO (FACULDADE DE LE... more

La costruzione dell’identità razziale delle italiane nella letteratura di viaggio a firma di donne in Africa coloniale.

XXII CONGRESSO NAZIONALE ASSOCIAZIONE DEGLI ITALIANISTI: “NATURA, SOCIETÀ, LETTERATURA” (ALMA MAT... more

Challenging the post-raciality of posthumanism: Octavia Butler.

10TH CONFERENCE OF THE BEYOND HUMANISM CONFERENCE SERIES: “CULTURES OF THE POSTHUMAN” (UNIVERSITY... more

Creating tentacular harmony: Octavia Butler and Nnedi Okorafor’s future worlds.

19TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE UTOPIAN STUDIES SOCIETY, EUROPE: “IN SEARCH OF NEW HARMONIES... more

Legacies of Italian colonialism in femonationalist discourses of in/ equalities.

GRADUATE CONFERENCE OF THE GENDER STUDIES DEPARTMENT OF THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY IN BUDAPE... more

Xausa C. (2018). The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability, Kristen Hogan. Duke University Press (2016), (272 pp.), ISBN: 9780822361299, in «Women’s Studies International Forum», Elsevier, DOI 10.1016/ j.wsif.2018.05.010 (disponibile online dal 26/05/2018).

Speculative Imaginaries for Future Worlds: Climate-Fiction in the Arts and Literature

by Emiliano Guaraldo Rodriguez, Alison Sperling, and Chiara Xausa

Speculative imagination and climate fiction provide crucial frameworks for envisioning alternativ... more Speculative imagination and climate fiction provide crucial frameworks for envisioning alternative planetary futures. Literature, visual arts, and other creative forms are vital mediums for discussing massive planetary transformations such as species extinction, climate change, and large-scale environmental violence. The workshop will investigate the potential of climate fiction and speculative methodologies in arts and literature, with the aim to understand how different creative practices contribute to establish shared and inclusive political imaginations for the future.

The workshop will begin with a conversation with artist duo Geissler and Sann, showcasing their installation "How Does the World End (for Others)?" currently on view at Fondazione Prada. Scholars Alison Sperling from Florida State University and Chiara Xausa from the University of Bologna will delve into the connections between climate fiction, speculative arts, and the role of imagination in shaping our perceptions and actions.

How can creative practices contribute to new ways of thinking about climate futures? What do speculative approaches reveal about the variety of possible worlds and futures? And how can narratives in climate fiction orient our collective efforts toward greater social and climate justice?

By bringing together critical thinkers and creative practitioners, this workshop seeks to employ a multidisciplinary approach to speculative imagination, effectively bridging academic and artistic discourse