2025 Edition

2025 COURSES AND ACTIVITIES

Lectures and seminars

This intensive four-day program is an immersive experience that offers a blend of lectures, scholarly conversations with an international faculty, meetings with the professionals of the audiovisual and cultural industry, and visits to local institutions.

• Opening Remarks
  Fabio Pollice (Università del Salento)

• Course Presentation. How to Study the Mediated Italy
  Luca Barra (Università di Bologna)
• A Country Called Italy: Stereotypes and New Narrative Horizons on Screen
  Elisa Farinacci & Emiliano Rossi (Università di Bologna)

• Investigating Representation, Inclusivity and Social Responsibility in Italian Public Service TV: Trends and Case Studies
  Paola Brembilla (Università di Bologna)

• These Italians Are Everywhere! Worldwide Dissemination of Italian Cinema during the Silent Era
  Paolo Tosini  (Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia)

• The Languages of Italian Fashion
  Eugenia Paulicelli (CUNY, Queens College)

• Autonomia Abroad: the Politics and Mediation of “Laboratory Italy”
  Jonathan Mullins (The Ohio State University)

• Chiara Ferragni’s Journey: Authenticity, Fame, and Shame in the Digital Age
  Nicoletta Marini-Maio (Dickinson College)

• “Indeed There Is Magic in Casting”: Contemporary Italian Seriality, Casting, and Gendered Labor
  Dana Renga (The Ohio State University)

• The Racial Politics of Summertime’s Reception
  Catherine O'Rawe (University of Bristol)

• Italy for Beginners. How the Essayists of the XXth Century Have Portrayed Italy
  Claudio Giunta (Università di Torino)

• Pop and the Popes: Vatican Politics and Intrigues in Audiovisual Fiction (1968-2024)
  Matteo Marinello (Università di Bologna)

• The Eternal Temptation of Populism in Italian Cinema
  Giacomo Manzoli (Università di Bologna)

• The AI Emergence/Emergency: a Conversation
  Massimo Riva (Brown University)

Guided tours, special events, and social activities

• Show Cooking experience in partnership with Gambero Rosso Academy
• Nature tour, beach trip and sunset aperitivo
• Arts & culture promenade with Manuela De Giorgi
• daily book presentations

Student presentations

A full schedule of the poster presentations planned for the 2025 edition is available as a downloadable document.