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Day 2 – Thursday 25 September 2025
09:15-09:45 (Room 2) Coffee
09:45-11:15 (Room 2) Panel 5: Literary Perspectives 2
Chair: Fanny Clemente (University of Oxford)
Maddalena Tirabassi (AltreItalie): I “ritorni” nella storia e nella letteratura
Laura Giurdanella (University of Catania): L’isola che attende: il ritorno nella scrittura siciliana
Alessio Aletta (University College Cork): Being (Not Quite) Here. Impossible Returns in Pirandello and Camilleri
11:30-13:00 (Room 2) Panel 6: Economic, Social, Political Aspects 2
Chair: Guido Bonsaver (University of Oxford)
Francesca Frisone (University of Messina): “…perhaps they were not away too long enough for contact with the new to have left its mark upon them”. La Cee e la questione dell’emigrazione di ritorno in Sicilia (1960-1965)
Antonio Martino (University of Messina): “Non odiano, ma ricordano”. Aspetti sociali ed economici dell’emigrazione di ritorno nel Mezzogiorno liberale
Stefano Luconi (University of Padova): “Powerful America Will Make You a True Revolutionary Comrade”: The Return of Radicals Who Became Politicized Abroad
13:00-14:00 (Main Hall) Lunch Break
14:00-15:15 (Main Hall) Keynote: Martino Marazzi (University of Milan La Statale): Italian Immigrants’ Return Fiction
15:15-15:30 (Room 2) Coffee Break
15:30-17:15 (Room 2) Panel 7: Personal and Collective Memories
Chair: Martino Marazzi (University of Milan La Statale)
Lucia Cristina Tirri (University of Salerno): The Multiple Shades of Return in Italian Diaspora Self-Writings
Moira DiMauro-Jackson (Texas State University): Letters Across the Atlantic: Correspondence and the Emotional Geography of Return among Sicilian “Birds of Passage” (1876-1929)
Ugo De Polo (Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France): L’Italia che non c’è. Il rientro dei giovani fuorusciti nei ricordi di Giorgio Mario Bergamo e di Franca Schiavetti
Paolo Speranza (SNCCI): Dall’East Coast a Napoli: Santa Lucia luntana, un film-manifesto sull’emigrazione italiana di ritorno
17:20-17:30 (Main Hall) Closing Remarks
17:30-19:00 (Main Hall) Neapolitan Songs of Return Migration – A Musical Event with Diego Cantore and Drinks Reception
