OxTalks is Changing
During Michaelmas Term, OxTalks will be moving to a new platform (full details are available on the Staff Gateway).
For now, continue using the current page and event submission process (freeze period dates to be advised).
If you have any questions, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
Day 2: "Torna a Surriento". Return Migration to Southern Italy from 1876 to Today
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
Date:
25 September 2025, 9:15
Venue:
Taylor Institution Library, St Giles' OX1 3NA
Venue Details:
See programme for rooms
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organiser:
Migration Oxford
Part of:
2-Day Conference: “Torna a Surriento”: Return Migration to Southern Italy from 1876 to Today
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Belinda Clark
