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                                Organizing Committee
                                Raphael d'Abdon, Laura Pecoraro, Piergiorgio Trevisan 
                                Info
                                raphael_all@yahoo.it laura.p@libero.it all@uniud.it
 
  
				 
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                                        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 
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		                                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 | 
		                             
					    
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		                                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 
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		                                15.30  | 
		                                Tea break | 
		                             		                
		                                16.00  | 
		                                James Tsaaior (University of Ibadan) 
		                                  Politics, Popular Musical Culture and National Re-Invention in Nigeria 
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		                                16.30  | 
		                                Alberto Masala (Sardinian spoken word artist)  
	                                      Street Alphabet | 
		                               
									
		                                17.00  | 
		                                 Giampaolo Gri (University of Udine) 
	                                      Presentation of visual art exhibition | 
		                                                                                      
                                 
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                                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  
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