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The Luisa Selis Fellowship – Gianmarco Mancosu: Sardinia Outside the Island.

The Italian Cultural Institute is delighted to host Gianmarco Mancosu, the second holder of the Luisa Selis Fellowship. Funded by the Fondazione di Sardegna in memory of anthropologist Luisa Selis, who specialised in the cultural memory of Sardinia, the fellowship enables researchers in this field (ethnography, anthropology and/or literature for example) to conduct research at the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory at the Institute of Modern Languages Research and the Italian Cultural Institute London.

Sardinia, as other Italian regions, has experienced a massive emigration since the nineteenth century. This flux of people moving either to Italy or abroad allows to look at island’s identity ‘from the outside, and to take from the outside world whatever aids in renewing and developing its own roots’, as put by Roberto Esposito.

In this lecture, cultural memory and postcolonial approaches conflate against the background of the personal experience and positionality of the researcher, who uses different theoretical underpinnings to investigate the often-contradictory ideas nurturing narratives and discourses about Sardinian contemporary belongings. By taking the cue from preliminary fieldwork carried out in some Sardinian migrant associations based in Turin, Pavia, and Bologna, the talk will tackle how Sardinia is imagined outside the borders of the island and the intermingling of several forms of belongings (Sardinian, Italian, and European) in the social and cultural activities of those associations.

Event in Italian with simultaneous translation in English

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Dr Gianmarco Mancosu is PhD researcher and teaching assistant at the University of Warwick, where he teaches contemporary Italian history and Postcolonial/Decolonial theories. His research explores the connection between decolonization and de-fascistization in Italy in the aftermath of WWII. Following his first PhD dissertation (Cagliari, 2015), he is working on a monograph about the fascist newsreels and documentaries on the Ethiopian war (1935-1941). He collaborates with the Archivio Storico dell’Istituto Luce (Rome) and with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Addis Ababa. He published extensively on Italian colonial history and visual culture.

  • Organizzato da: Italian Cultural Institute