DAY 1 | 21st APRIL 2026 | Lecture Room 1 - Salvecchio

9:00-10:00 Opening remarks and institutional greetings

10:00-11:30 PANEL 1 Chair: Laurence Denooz
Collective Memory and Place in the Artistic Expression of Palestinian Artists, Hind Abushkhadim (University of Bari Aldo Moro and Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies - Pisa) and Tala Hashim (University of Pavia)
National Imagination of Palestine after 2007: A Focus on Visual Art, Ghadir AbuMiddain (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
Palestinian Art and the Puff Pastry of Colonial Space, Yazan Alloujami (Sorbonne Université, Paris)

11:40-13:10 PANEL 2 Chair: Martina Censi
Learning to Read the Media: Digital Activism and Counter-Pedagogy in Palestine, Ruba Khalaf (Birzeit University)
Re-creating Presence: Memory, Feminist Resistance, and the Poetics of the “Present-Absentee”, Izza Abu Haija (Freie Universität Berlin)
Digital Testimony and the Re-Creation of Palestinian Memory: Bisan Owda’s Instagram as Feminist Lifewriting and Resistance, Hanan Alawna (Columbia Global Centre, Amman)

14:30-16:00 PANEL 3 Chair: Elisabeth Vauthier
Archiving the Unspoken: Intimacy, Trauma, and Memory in the Play «Yes Daddy», Annamaria Bianco (MCF Aix-Marseille Université, DEMO–IREMAM)
Raconter l’exil, inventer le peuple: pratiques artistiques palestiniennes contemporaines, Aya Chriki (Université Rennes 2, PTAC, EUR CAPS)
Du traumatisme de l’effacement et du génocide palestiniens à la naissance d’une voix poétique arabe multiple et consubstantielle, Laurence Denooz (Université de Lorraine-Nancy, CERCLE)

16:10-17:20 PANEL 4 Chair: Annamaria Bianco
Résister à l’effacement de Gaza à travers l’encre de chine et reconfigurer les traumatismes par le cubisme: 30 secondes à Gaza de Mohammad Sabaaneh, Muller Catherine (Université Grenoble Alpes, Lidilem)
Trauma et résistances artistiques à Gaza. Les dessins de guerre de Basel Al Maqosui, Sohail Salem, Raed Issa et Majed Shala, Isabelle Bernard (University of Jordan)

17:20-17:40 PRESENTATION OF THE EXHIBITION
HeART of Gaza | Children’s Art from the Genocide, Federica Sossi

18:00-19:00 VISIT TO THE EXHIBITION
HeART of Gaza | Children’s Art from the Genocide, University of Bergamo – Via Pignolo

21:00 FILM SCREENING (UniBg-Lab80)
A State of Passion. Ghassan Abu Sittah (2024, a film by Carol Mansour & Muna Khalidi), Auditorium, Piazza della Libertà

DAY 2 | 22nd APRIL 2026 | Lecture Room 1 - Salvecchio

9:30-11:00 PANEL 5 Chair: Jacqueline Jondot
Gendered Trauma, Perfect Victims, and the Politics of Memory: Palestinian Women Artists Reframing Recognition, Rabab Rzini (UMR: Citeres, Université de Tours)
Virtual Tatreez Communities: Stitching the Present in the Face of Erasure, Sophia Kelsch (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, OPal Observatory for Palestine Studies, Iscte-iul)
Solidarity in a Picture: The Role of Movement Photographers in Visualising and Materialising Solidarity, Franca Marquardt (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)

11:10-13:10 PANEL 6 Chair: Arianna Tondi
Re-writing Palestine through Memories from Childhood - Two Self-biographies by Aḥlām Bishārāt, Astrid Otosson al-Bitar (Stockholm University)
Enter Ghost de Isabella Hammad ou Hamlet le long du mur, Jacqueline Jondot (Université Toulouse 2)
Poetics and the Chronicling of Atrocity, Sophie Chamas (SOAS, University of London)
Stateless Selves: Trauma, Memory, and Cultural Healing in Mo, Linda Maloul and Rizwana Amin (Effat University, Saudi Arabia)

14:30-16:00 PANEL 7 Chair: Giuseppe Previtali
Ricreare Jaffa. Archivio, memoria e resistenza visiva nella trilogia di Kamal Aljafari, Samuel Antichi (University of Calabria)
Annemarie Jacir: recreating Palestine?, Thomas Richard (Université Paris-1, Boston University)
Elli baqi minnak: Visualizing and Narrating Nakba and First Intifada Traumas, Aldo Nicosia (University of Bari Aldo Moro)

16:15-18:15 PANEL 8 Chair: Anna Chiara Cimoli
Memorizing Resistance or Resisting Memory? Exhibiting the Art of the Palestinian Museum, Enji Matar (The British University in Egypt)
«L’ADN: un code de vie et d’identité»: Ressusciter l’oeuvre gazaouie détruite, Tej El molk Aouicha (Institut Supérieur des Beaux-arts de Nabeul)
Al Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art: a Hub for the Palestinian Art Revival and Practices of Memory and Resistance in Jerusalem, Tamar Mosiashvili (Ilia State University)
Battere i piedi, ricostruire un popolo: la Dabke come pratica politica della diaspora, Andrea Zardi (University of Turin)

DAY 3 | 23rd APRIL 2026

9:30-11:00 PANEL 9a Chair: Lucia Avallone | Lecture Room 2 - Salvecchio Scrivere per continuare a esistere. Il caso di Diario da Gaza di Wi’am Qudaih, Roberta Stracquadanio (University of Bergamo)
Ana ṣawt hāḏā al-ǧidār: écrire dans l’anéantissement identitaire de l’univers carcéral chez Nāṣir Abū Srūr et Bāsim Ḫandaqǧī, Noemi Linardi (Université Lumière Lyon 2/CERC)
De Camus à Chibli, Tafṣīl Thanawī ou le «détail secondaire» comme contre-stratégie d’effacement colonial, Dassine Haroun (Aix-Marseille Université, Université Jean Moulin Lyon III)

9:30-11:00 PANEL 9b Chair: Martina Censi | Lecture Room 1 - Salvecchio
Que peut l’art face à la confiscation structurelle de la mémoire? Une lecture croisée des textes de Majd Kayyal mis en musique par Faraj Suleiman et du cinéma d’Elia Suleiman, Sana M’selmi (Université de Jendouba et Université de Tunis)
Trauma, memoria e urbicidio: il documentario Janin, Jenin (2024) di Muhammad Bakri come atto di resistenza, Giorgia Pometti (Sapienza University of Rome)
Transforming Oral History into Lyric Kat Abdallah (Oklahoma State University)

11:10-13:00 PANEL 10 Chair: Aldo Nicosia | Lecture Room 1 - Salvecchio
Habiter l’archive: archéologie de l’intime et remploi de films de famille dans le cinéma diasporique palestinien, Kenza Mellouki (Université du Québec à Montréal UQAM)
Écouter la guerre: bruit, témoignage et mémoire dans From Ground Zero, Yamine Alem (Université Rennes 2)
Politics of the Archive and Cinematic Justice in the Films of Kamal Aljafari, Bahar Sarioglu (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Palestinian Identity and Counter-Archives of Memory and Trauma in Shahd Alshammari’s work, Emanuela Buscemi (Zayed University Abu Dhabi, UAE)

Final remarks