International Conference
Università degli Studi di Palermo
Institut français Palermo
Via Paolo Gili 4, 90138, Palermo
30th - 31rst October
Thursday, October 30th
Institut français Palermo (Via Paolo Gili 4)
09.15-09.30
Institutional Greetings
9.30-9.45 OPENING
Massimo Canevacci and Stefano Montes
- SESSION I
9.45-10.05
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, Listening as Witnessing
10.05-10.25
Susann Ludwig, Learning from chance: On indifference, play and the aha! moment
10.25-10.45
Luca Pandolfi, Interdisciplinarietà e transdisciplinarietà come rigore indisciplinato
10.45-11.15 DISCUSSION
11.15-11.30 COFFEE BREAK
11.30-11.50
Vandana Bhaskar, Alexios Tsigkas, Care-full Critique: Rethinking Ethnography as a Praxis of Care
11.50-12.10
Wanjing Jiang, Care and Struggle: Migrant Women’s Commonality and the Indiscipline of Militant Anthropology
12.10-12.30
Giorgia Rubera, Decolonial Perspectives on Islam. Self-Representation and Women’s Resistance in Contemporary Art
12.30-13.00 DISCUSSION
13.00-14.30 LUNCH BREAK
- SESSION II
14.30-14.50
Marie Melody Vidal, An Undisciplined “Space on the Side of the Road”: Everyday Practices of Imagining in a College Town
14.50-15.10
Giancarlo Germanà Bozza, Archeologia e antropologia, due prospettive diverse per una nuova metodologia dello studio del passato
15.10-15.30
Matilde Zambon, Practices of Undiscipline in Disciplinary Spaces: the Use of Object Probes in Prison Ethnography
15.30-16.00 DISCUSSION
16.00-16.15 COFFEE BREAK
16.15-16.35
Igor Petričević, Sensing Climate Change in the Adriatic Sea: Spearfishers’ Embodied Knowledge and Shifting Multi-Species Entanglements in the Anthropocene
16.35-16.55
Aïko Cappe, Intuition as Indiscipline: Learning from the Tarkine Rainforest (Tasmania, Australia)
16.55-17.15
Marc Ghazali, Brewing Unseens: A Participatory, Sensory, and Un-disciplinary Research Project
17.15-17.35
Maria Rosaria Di Giacinto, Geografie creative. Luoghi, corpi e pratiche dell’arte come dispositivi indisciplinati
17.35-18.05 DISCUSSION
Friday, October 31rst
Via Paolo Gili 4, 90138, Palermo
- SESSION III
9.10-9.30
Federica Scrollini, Colme di vita. L’indisciplina dei saperi come antidoto alla violenza di genere
9.30-9.50
Andrea Gacanin, L’indiscipline des usages numériques : entre micro-surveillance et perte de savoirs
9.50-10.10
Natasha Nedelkova, Anthropologie radicale indisciplinée dans Irani Bag de Maryam Tafakory
10.10-10.30
Scott Sprenger, Anthropology before Anthropology: 19th-Century French Novelist Imagines a New Science
10.30-11.00 DISCUSSION
11.00-11.15 COFFEE BREAK
11.15-11.35
François Thoreau, Wild inquiries. Propositions to derail the catastrophic ordinary
11.35-11.55
Alexis Zimmer, La disparition des microbiotes. Pour une biologie anti-coloniale
11.55-12.15
Graziella Vella, Faire collectif avec les morts problématiques
12.15-12.45 DISCUSSION
12.45-14.30 LUNCH BREAK
- SESSION IV
14.30-14.50
Hugues Henri, L’Anthropophagie brésilienne, 1929/2025, avant-garde artistique et anthropologie decoloniale, multiple et engagée socialement ?
14.50-15.10
Alessandro Questa, Etecologies of Resistance: Maseual Praxis and Alternative Terraformation in Mexico
15.10-15.30
Alessandro Lutri, Il cane e le cicogne: decolonizzare l’Antropocene da un luogo siciliano simbolo dell’Antropocene
15.30-16.00 DISCUSSION
16.00-16.15 COFFEE BREAK
16.15-16.35
Arrigo Musti, Lo “slow looking” e l’arte “impegnata” come espressione di indisciplina
16.35-17.15
Alexandra D’Onofrio, Meghan Rose Donnelly, Gaudenz Metzger, Unruly encounters between theatre and anthropology - a performative intervention
17.15-17.45 DISCUSSION
17.45-18.00 CLOSING REMARKS
Massimo Canevacci and Stefano Montes
Scientific Board
Eric Biagi, Institut Français, Palermo, Italy
Massimo Canevacci, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy
Lorenzo Cañás Bottos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Vincent Crapanzano, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA
Hanna Geara, artist
Giancarlo Germanà, Accademia di Belle Arti, Palermo, Italy
Salvatore Giusto, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Claudio Gnoffo, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Unimarconi
Michael Jackson, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, USA
Alessandro Lutri, University of Catane, Italy
Stefano Montes, University of Palermo, Italy
Arrigo Musti, artist
Anand Pandian, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Kristiina Rebane, University of Tallinn, Estonia
Nataša Rogelja, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana
Paul Stoller, Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen/Nuremberg and University of Pennsylvania
Michael Taussig, Columbia University, USA
Organizing Committee
Massimo Canevacci, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy
Stefano Montes, University of Palermo, Italy