MAY 15 | Palazzo Marescotti

Salone Marescotti | 13.00-14.30
Welcoming and registration

Salone Marescotti | 14.30-15.00
Welcome Addresses Riccardo Brizzi (Head of the Department of the Arts, University of Bologna)
Opening Remarks Rossella Mazzaglia (Conference Chair, University of Bologna)

Salone Marescotti | 15.00-16.30
Keynote Opening Session
Fugitive Imagination
Shahram Khosravi (Stockholm University)
Chair: Sandro Mezzadra (University of Bologna)

16.45-18.45; Parallel Panels

Salone Marescotti | Panel 1: "Decolonizing Artistic Processes"
Pierluigi Musarò (University of Bologna), It's the End of the World as we Know it. Cosmovisional Justice and Decolonial Narratives
Aleksandra Jovićević (Sapienza University of Rome), Decolonizing Europe
Azadeh Sharifi (Berlin University of the Arts), Beyond Belonging: Postmigrant Theatre, Artistic Negotiations and Nationhood
Wissal Houbabi (Independent Poet and Performer), Imperceptible
Chair: Rosaria Ruffini (Sapienza University of Rome)

Aula Secci | Panel 2: Border Imageries
Paulina Sabugal Paz (University of Bologna), Performing the Border: Representation, Subjectivity, and Power in Tijuana
Lorenzo Donati (University of Bologna), Social Narratives and Documentary Dramaturgy. A Place of Safety. Viaggio nel Mediterraneo centrale by Kepler-452
Jacopo Anderlini & Luca Giliberti (University of Parma), A Counterdictionary of the Border: Words and Images from the Central Mediterranean
Alicja Borkowska (Strefa WolnoSlova Foundation, Warsaw), Advancing Border: Imperium and the Strategies of Survival during Flight
Chair: Annalisa Sacchi (IUAV University of Venice)

19.15; Immersive Walking Performance
School of Ghost Fish - Along Invisible Passages
directed by Pietro Floridia, Cantieri Meticci
Free, booking required: ufficio@cantierimeticci.it Meeting point: via Barberia, 4 

MAY 16 | Palazzo Marescotti

Salone Marescotti | 9.00-9.15; Welcoming

Salone Marescotti | 9.15-10.45
Keynote Plenary Session
Family Lines: Autofiction, Migration, and Intersectional Identity in Contemporary Theatre
Yana Meerzon (University of Ottawa)
Chair: Matteo Paoletti (University of Bologna)

11.00-12.30; Parallel Panels

Salone Marescotti | Panel 3: "Blurring Social Borders"
Giulia Innocenti Malini (University of Pavia), Working with Inner Boundaries: The Social Dramaturgies of Performative Community-Making
Rita Maria Fabris (University of Bologna), Border Tales: Bodies, Dances and Boundaries. A Decade of Action-research in Turin
Ofelia Balogun (Independent Dancer and Choreographer), Terra Intermedia: Body, Pedagogy & Territory in Motion
Chair: Aleksandra Jovicevic (Sapienza University of Rome)

Aula Secci | Panel 4: Relational Performance as Border Crossing
Giulia Allegrini (University of Bologna), Dialogic Arts between Mediation, Power, and Solidarity
Lola Olufemi (Poet and Performer, Goldsmiths, University of London), This Is a Temporal Landscape, You Will Find No Direction Here
Annalisa Sacchi (IUAV University of Venice), Scenes of Hospitality. Conversation, Presence, and Relational Performance in DAAR's Living Room Project
Chair: Elena Lamberti (University of Bologna)

Salone Marescotti | 14.00-15.20;
Screening Pinocchio Nero (Black Pinocchio)
2005, 80', IT, EN Subtitles

Salone Marescotti | 15.30-17.30
Masterclass (IT) Pensare i pensieri dell'altro (Thinking the Other's Thoughts)
Marco Baliani (Actor, Director and Playwright)
Chair: Cristina Valenti (University of Bologna)

Salone Marescotti | 17.30-18.45
Panel Discussion Exposing Structural Borders. An Exchange among Artists Working with Embodied Visual Practices
Dora Garcia (Oslo National Academy of the Arts), Buffer Zone, Gray Area, Limbo, Twilight
Adelita Husni-Bey (Independent Artist and Pedagogue), Chiron: Screening (20') and Talk
Chair: Massimiliano Nicola Mollona (University of Bologna)

DAMSLab | 20.30
Urban Dance Performance (20')
Figlie della terra di mezzo (Daughters of the Middle Ground)
Ofelia Balogun
with the participation of Thiago Dos Santos
Free and open to the public

DAMSLab/Theatre | 21.30
Performance (60') The Ignorant Master
gruppe tag
Post-show discussion with the artists
Chairs: Pietro Floridia and Lorenzo Donati.
Free entry, subject to seat availability

MAY 17 | DAMSLab

9.30-18.00
Exhibition HeART of Gaza
by Mohammed Timraz
With a video screening of In Gaza Pietas by Diego Monfredini

Auditorium | 9.30-11.15
Screening Suppliants of Syria
2024, 105', EN/AR/TR (with subtitles)

Theatre | 10.00-13.00
Workshop Giving Shape to Mobility and Justice
Alicja Borkowska
Only for Unibo students, booking required: ufficio@cantierimeticci.it

Auditorium | 11.15-13.15
Masterclass (EN) 30 Years on the Frontier. The Intercultural Theatre Practices of Border Crossings
Michael Walling (Theatre Director, Border Crossing)
Chair: Roberta Gandolfi (University of Parma)

Auditorium | 14.15-16.15; Plenary Panel Art within Borders
Rosaria Ruffini (Sapienza University of Rome), Thinking and Performing Resistance in Camps and Transit Migration
Pietro Floridia (Theatre Director, Cantieri Meticci, Bologna), Importing Liminality: Participatory Characters, Border Practices, and the Construction of Heterogeneous Communities
Marina Barham (Theatre Director, Al Harah Theater), Theatre as Emotional Resistance and Healing. A Voice from Palestine
Chair: Rita Maria Fabris (University of Bologna)

Theatre | 16.15-18.15; Participatory Meeting
Chair: Giulia Allegrini (University of Bologna)

Theatre | 18.15-18.30
Closing Remarks Rossella Mazzaglia