international conference

17 NOVEMBER

Organizing Committee

Raphael d'Abdon, Laura Pecoraro,
Piergiorgio Trevisan

Info

raphael_all@yahoo.it
laura.p@libero.it
all@uniud.it

Chair: Antonella Riem Natale

8.30

Registration

9.00

Opening-Music ceremony with Seydou Dao, Kalifa Djarra, Ishaka Sanou (Burkinabe musicians)
Greetings from the authorities
Commemoration of Miriam Makeba

10.30

Round table with:
H.E. Cecilia Obono Ndong (Ambassador of Equatorial Guinea
to Italy), Furio Honsell (Mayor of Udine), Victor Chatuè (Vice-Chancellor's Assistant for Cooperation with Africa,
University of Udine)

11.30

Coffee break

12.00

Keynote speaker: Nduka Otiono (University of Alberta)
Mind Grenades, Verbal Missiles: Spoken Wor(l)d and the Impoverished Generation in Postcolonial Africa

12.30

Lunch break

 

 
 

Chair: Itala Vivan

14.30

Natalia Molebatsi (South African spoken word artist)
From poetry to floetry. The journey of spoken word
from the bassline to digital worlds

15.00

Maria Renata Dolce (University of Salento)
Presentation of the volume: The Goddess Awakened. Partnership Studies in Literatures, Language and Education

15.30

Tea break

16.00

James Tsaaior (University of Ibadan)
Politics, Popular Musical Culture and National Re-Invention in Nigeria

16.30

Alberto Masala (Sardinian spoken word artist)
Street Alphabet

17.00

Giampaolo Gri (University of Udine)
Presentation of visual art exhibition

The Artists of today are

South African poet

Natalia Molebatsi

Sardinian poet

Alberto Masala

Musicians

SEYDOU DAO
KALIFA DJARRA
ISHAKA SANOU


The Scholars of today are

Nduka Otiono

MARIA RENATA DOLCE

James Tsaaior

GIAMPAOLO GRI

ANTONELLA RIEM NATALE

ITALA VIVAN


Authorities

H.E. CECILIA OBONO NDONG

Hurchele Saaiman (Embassy of South Africa)

FURIO HONSELL

SERGIO CAPPELLO

kristian Franzil

Alessia Rosolen