Mar
14
Apr
Seminari e Convegni
Spatiotemporal Interference: theorizing the materiality of recursion from an archipelago of migrant encampments
This seminar will take place on 14 April 2026, at 4:00 pm. The meeting is part of the Beyond Inhabitation Lab seminar series, Spring 2026.
The Beyond Inhabitation Lab provides an infrastructure to facilitate a process of collective study on the shifting terrain and politics of inhabitation globally, and is directed by Michele Lancione, professor at the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning-DIST, and AbdouMaliq Simone.
Abstract
The non-linearity of time and the non-synchronicity of space are well-established themes in critical scholarship; however, how to hold these dimensions together remains, in some respects, a complex question. In the archipelago of migrant settlements within Italy’s agro-industrial enclaves, recurring forms of mobility containment and its excesses materialize in multiple landscapes of inhabitation, where different spatial projects with long genealogies overlap and merge with one another.
This seminar will discuss the notion of interference as a way to interpret how spatial typologies and their temporalities are always contaminated, layered, and multidimensional.
Biography
Irene Peano, PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge, is a research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, and a visiting professor at the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST) at the Polytechnic University of Turin. Her work has focused on different aspects of the nexus between labour (particularly sexual and agricultural work) and migration across Italy, Nigeria, and Eastern Europe, through long-term engagement and practices of solidarity as research methods.
To participate, please register at this link.
The Beyond Inhabitation Lab provides an infrastructure to facilitate a process of collective study on the shifting terrain and politics of inhabitation globally, and is directed by Michele Lancione, professor at the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning-DIST, and AbdouMaliq Simone.
Abstract
The non-linearity of time and the non-synchronicity of space are well-established themes in critical scholarship; however, how to hold these dimensions together remains, in some respects, a complex question. In the archipelago of migrant settlements within Italy’s agro-industrial enclaves, recurring forms of mobility containment and its excesses materialize in multiple landscapes of inhabitation, where different spatial projects with long genealogies overlap and merge with one another.
This seminar will discuss the notion of interference as a way to interpret how spatial typologies and their temporalities are always contaminated, layered, and multidimensional.
Biography
Irene Peano, PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge, is a research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, and a visiting professor at the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST) at the Polytechnic University of Turin. Her work has focused on different aspects of the nexus between labour (particularly sexual and agricultural work) and migration across Italy, Nigeria, and Eastern Europe, through long-term engagement and practices of solidarity as research methods.
To participate, please register at this link.