Wednesday 16th July 2025
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Aula Poeti, Palazzo Hercolani
Strada Maggiore 45, Bologna
10.00-10.30 Greetings and Opening Remarks
Prof. Francesco Niccolò Moro, Director, Dept. of Political and Social Sciences; Prof. Francesca Biancani, SPS; Prof. Lorenzo Bertucelli, Dept of Languages and Culture, UniMORE.

10.30-12.30 Panel 1
Revisiting Egyptian Cosmopolitanism in Nostalgic Counter-Revolutionary Times
Chair: Francesca Biancani, UniBO
Amro Ali, AGYA
Pascale Ghazaleh, AUC
Mina Ibrahim, University of Marburg and SARD, Egypt
May Hawas, University of Cambridge
Discussant: Lucie Ryzova, Birmingham University

14.00-16.30 Panel 2- Shared Histories of Subalternity in Colonial Egypt
Chair: Costantino Paonessa, UniBO
Anthony Gorman, University of Edinburgh
Angelos Dalachanis, CNRS
Eftychia Mylona, University of Cyprus
Olga Verlato, Cornell University
Joseph Viscomi, Birkbeck College
Discussant: Will Hanley, Florida State University

17.00-18.00 Keynote Speech
Hanan Hammad, University of Houston

Thursday 17th July 2025
9.30-11.00 Roundtable- Archiving the history of the Italian Community of Egypt.
Chair: Maria Chiara Rioli, UniMoRe Francesca Biancani, UniBO; Lorenzo Bertucelli, UniMoRe; Costantino Paonessa, UniBO; Costanza Lisi, UniMoRe; Wafaa Raouf el Beih, University of Helwan; Mahmoud Abdelnasser, al Azhar University; Lucia Carminati, University of Oslo.

11.30-13.00- Gender and Cosmopolitanism – Afriche e Orienti – Special Issue Launch
Chair: Lucia Carminati, University of Oslo
Angelos Dalachanis, CNRS; Francesca Biancani,UniBo; Costantino Paonessa, UniBo; Rim Naguib, EUME; Alessandra Marchi, University of Cagliari.