Please consider sending an abstract for the Standing Session on Italian Cinema PAMLA 2025. The extended deadline is June 30th, 2025.

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.

We have also extended the topic to include Italian American Film and TV series.

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

· Italian-American identities and other transnational forms of belonging.

Please submit an abstract of 250-300 words to https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19582.

Information on registration fees and hotel reservations are also available on the website.

If you have any questions please contact Irene Hatzopoulos (ireneh@ucr.edu) and Jonathan Mullins (mullins.429@osu.edu).