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Department of Philosophy - FILO

Talk On Home, Longing, and the Photograph

9 June 2026

Keynote Lecture by Mariana Ortega (The Pennsylvania State University)

  • 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
  • Online and in person : Bologna
  • Society & Culture In English

Program

This lecture explores the relationship between home, memory, and the photograph through an exploration of the way in which home-traces touch the longing, nostalgic self.   Home-traces become apparitions of “home”—a way of being, location, country, or a past suffused with familiarity and a sense of belonging—that is no longer.  The series Other Stories/Historias Bravas by Ecuadorian-American artist, Koyoltzintli, is interpreted as photographic fabulation in response to home-traces.  Photographic fabulation is an aesthetic praxis through which a self creates a story with images in order to contend with personal and collective histories, especially those marked by displacement as well as colonial erasures. 

Speakers

  • Mariana Ortega

    The Pennsylvania State University

Event Within the Framework of:

The Emotional Aspects of Resistance and Solidarity

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The conference "TEARS - The Emotional Aspects of Resistance and Solidarity" aims to bring together doctoral students, researchers, and scholars whose work on the socio-political aspects of narrative practices, affect, and emotions can offer illuminating perspectives on some of the issues addressed by the TEARS research project. Specifically: affective dimensions of resistance to social oppression (race, class, gender, sexuality, neurodiversity, etc.); affective conditions for solidarity; the role of narrative practices in resistance to oppression; ambiguity and resistance to oppression.