AISCLI WEBINAR SERIES 2026. Presentation of the book “More-Than-Human Diasporas: Topologies of Empire, Settler Colonialism, Slavery”. The author, Joseph Pugliese, in conversation with Marilena Parlati. 30 April at 12.30 p.m. CET.
- 30 April 2026, at 12.30 p.m. CET
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Joseph Pugliese (independent scholar) will talk about his book More-than-Human Diasporas: Topologies of Empire, Settler Colonialism, Slavery (Routledge, 2024) with Marilena Parlati (University of Padua). Meeting ID: 983 490 3178 Passcode: sqV0RX (Attention: after V, it is a zero)
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Joseph Pugliese is an independent scholar. He has been Professor of Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Selected publications include Biometrics: Bodies, Technologies, Biopolitics (Routledge, 2010), which was shortlisted for the international Surveillance Studies Book Prize 2010, and State Violence and the Execution of Law: Biopolitical Caesurae of Torture, Black Sites, Drones (Routledge, 2013). With Suvendrini Perera and a team of international collaborators, he established the digital project Deathscapes: Mapping Race and Violence Across Settler States. With Suvendrini Perera, he co-edited Mapping Deathscapes: Digital Geographies of Racial and Border Violence (Routledge, 2022). His Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human: Forensic Ecologies of Violence (Duke University Press, 2020) was awarded the Transdisciplinary Humanities Book Award 2022, presented by the Institute for Humanities Research, Arizona State University, USA.
Marilena Parlati is Full Professor of British and Anglophone Literatures at the University of Padua (Italy). Her main areas of research are British and Australian literatures and cultures of the long nineteenth century, namely thing culture, commodity culture and waste issues; she also works on contemporary fiction related to trauma, disability, environmental and postcolonial cultural issues, suspended and altered embodiment, with a book on these issues forthcoming, and essays on contemporary authors such as Jim Crace, Hanif Kureishi, J.M. Coetzee, Eva Figes, Rosa Cappiello, Christos Tsiolkas. With Joseph Pugliese, she edited a special issue of From the European South, dedicated to Aftermaths. Vulnerable Times, Vanishing Places, Toxic Erasures and she is currently working on a book tentatively entitled T/Rubble. Toxic Legacies, Fraught Memoyscapes, dedicated to nuclearity, trauma and slow violence in contemporary diasporic and indigenous cultures.
