Jonathan Mullins (Ohio State University - Main Campus)
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Irene Hatzopoulos (University of California - Riverside)
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Moviegoers in Italy have long gone to the cinema to make sense of Italian history, particularly in regard to socio-political issues and questions. For the 122nd edition of the PAMLA conference, we would like to ask presenters for the “Italian Cinema” session to think about Italy’s cinema as a mode of collective history-making, but also a collective space where structured forms of forgetting also occur. We thus invite proposals related to this year’s theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion,” as well as those unrelated.

Topics might include:

· Erasures of Italian colonialism and Fascist imperial ambitions

· The history of leftism

· Minoritized internal and external populations

· Queer and feminist film

· Documentary

Moviegoers in Italy have long gone to the cinema to make sense of Italian history, particularly in regard to socio-political issues and questions. For the 122nd edition of the PAMLA conference, we would like to ask presenters for the “Italian Cinema” session to think about Italy’s cinema as a mode of collective history-making, but also a collective space where structured forms of forgetting also occur. We thus invite proposals related to this year’s theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion,” as well as those unrelated.

Topics might include:

· Erasures of Italian colonialism and Fascist imperial ambitions

· The history of leftism

· Minoritized internal and external populations

· Queer and feminist film

· Documentary