Dr Alice Parrinello: “Water Trouble: Queer Bodies and Fluidity in the Mediterranean”

Event date: 
Wednesday 5 February
Time: 
13:00-14:00
Location: 
Seminar room, 2 Hope Park Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9NW

An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Alice Parrinello (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2024-25) 

Water Trouble: Queer Bodies and Fluidity in the Mediterranean

In recent years, and especially since the arrival on Italian shores in 1991 of the Vlora cargo ship, the Mediterranean has been constructed as a border. This view has fostered necropolitical policies, which create a strict divide between Central Europe and the Global South and reclaim an impossible ownership of the Mediterranean. Simultaneously, queer Italian films promote a different view of the Mediterranean, seeing it as a place of resistance and reclamation. The talk will investigate the films Il padre d’Italia (2017) by Fabio Mollo, La dea fortuna (2019) by Ferzan Özpetek, Misericordia (2023) by Emma Dante, arguing that they promote a porous and queer futurity from Mediterranean waters (Neimanis 2017).

Please join in-person, or click the link below to join the webinar:

https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/83015772676

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