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From: Francesco VISENTIN <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 at 10:04
Subject: Conference on: Living, Narrating and Representing Venice and its
Lagoon (Venice 7th-9th May 2020)

Apologies, as ever, for cross-postings.

Dear all,

Conference on: Living, Narrating and Representing Venice and its Lagoon
(Venice 7th-9th May 2020) - The deadline for submissions is
*Monday 20TH January 2020 -*

Link to the webpage of the conference:
https://shimajournal.org/conferences/venice/



Wetlands, lagoons and the islands and shorelines within and around them
have long been regarded as threshold spaces where earth, sky and water meet
in dynamic states of materiality. The essential liminality of these spaces
extends well beyond the environmental contexts for human and non-human
interactions and involves continuously changing lived spaces.



The island city of Venice and its Lagoon have become an iconic space where
the connections between a fragile environment and human adaptations to this
can be seen. The cultural imagination of Venice represents it as a space
where humans connect with the landscape, themselves and other beings, in
constant balance between the longue durée of geomorphology and the
evolution of societies. The urban ecosystem of Venice and its Lagoon, with
its peculiar island features, is among one of the most studied urban and
environmental systems in the world. If the interface between water and land
is archetypically realized within the island city and in the islands scattered
in the Lagoon, we also recognize that the river and canal network
surrounding and flowing into the lagoon is also a complex and contested
space, dynamically shaping and reflecting our living with water.


Moreover, new interdisciplinary approaches are required in order to face
the challenges of the Anthropocene epoch: climate change, loss of
biodiversity, drastic reduction of fish stocks and fishing activity,
cultural and social changes, management of mass tourism and watery cultural
heritage recovery and protection.

We invite scholars to examine the confluence of waterscapes in Venice in
narrative, in politics, in culture, in art and in everyday lives and
welcome submissions the following sub-topics:



*- Epistemological and Theoretical Discussion concerning the Venetian urban
archipelago and its lagoon;*



*- Examinations of Venice and its Lagoon through the prism of new cultural
concepts, such as that of the aquapelago and almost-islandness (as explored
in previous issues of *Shima *in 2012-2019);*



*- Oral History and narrations about Venice and its Lagoon;*



*- Embodied engagement with Venice and its Lagoon (e.g. by boating,
walking, running, cycling, fishing);*



*- Environmental and cultural heritage in watery urbanities in the Venice
area, with a special focus on **traditional boats, way of sailing and
rowing traditions; *



*- Representations of Venice and its Lagoon in cultural texts: art,
literature, film, TV, (social) media;*



*- Waterfront and post-industrial regeneration and its contribution to
gentrification or to the community wellbeing;*



*- Social changes and the everyday discourses on climate change, flood
events** and ecosystem fragility;*



*- Tourism in Venice and its Lagoon: excesses and alternatives;*



*- Non-human perspectives and bio-cultural issues;  *



*- The gigantic approach: from the big ships to the big dikes. *



*Convenors: *Federica Letizia Cavallo, Francesco Vallerani, Francesco
Visentin (Ca’ Foscari University). and Philip Hayward (University
Technology Sydney



Best wishes,
Francesco Visentin



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