ConferenceLANGUAGES OF THE ANTHROPOCENE 2024

Institutional Partners
The conference is jointly hosted by the British School at Rome, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, and Sapienza Università di Roma, with financial support from University College London and the University of Heidelberg's Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS), and in collaboration with Regione Lazio, Centro Culturale Moby Dick, and PRIN Applied Shakespeare.

Keynote Lectures
Anais Maurer (Rutgers University): Fighting Nuclear Colonialism and Climate Imperialism from the Empire’s Edge
Shaul Bassi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Othello in the Anthropocene

Plenary Speakers
Juliano Abramovay (Durham); Gero Bauer (Tübingen); Abigail Bleach (UCL); Simona Corso (Roma Tre); Caitríona Ní Dhúill (Salzburg); Michael Dunn (Heidelberg); Daniel Finch-Race (Bologna); Robert Folger (Heidelberg); Anais Maurer (Rutgers); Florian Mussgnug (UCL | Roma Tre); Birgit Neumann (Düsseldorf); Cydney Phillip (UCL); Eleonora Rossi (Birkbeck); Adam Stock (York St John); Silvia Vittonatto (UCL); Rhys Williams (Glasgow).

Concept Concert "The Languages of Water"
Curated by Maddalena Pennacchia (Roma Tre), with Juliano Abramovay (fretless guitar), Chrysanthi Gkika (lyra), Stefano Nencha (guitar), Stefano Nunzi (bass), Alessandro Luccioli (percussion), and Maddalena Pennacchia (voice).

Organisers
Florian Mussgnug (UCL | Roma Tre), Simona Corso (Roma Tre University), Iolanda Plescia (Sapienza University Rome)

For further information and a complete conference, please see the conference website