Conference

The international conference Electricdreams – New Weird between Literature and Technologies, curated by Silvia Zangrandi and Alberto Sebastiani and promoted within the Department of Humanities project In Search of the ‘New Weird’: Towards a Narrative between Word, Image, and Artificial Intelligence, will take place on Wednesday, 28 October 2026, in Sala dei 146 – IULM Open Space, starting at 11:00. Admission is free, and the presentations will be in Italian.

PROGRAMMA

11:00-11:30 - Opening of the conference
Welcome remarks
Prof. Elena Liverani, Director of the Department of Humanities
Stefano Locati, organiser of Sognielettrici

11:30-13:00 - (New) Weird - theoretical issues
Marco Malvestio (University of Padova), Weird reloaded. La letteratura di genere come scrittura d’avanguardia
Valentina Romanzi (University of Verona), (A)maze: Gli spazi ludici della letteratura anglofona New Weird
Discussant: Silvia Zangrandi

14:30-16:00 - (New) Weird - European case studies
Alessandro Fambrini (University of Pisa), New Weird, Old Weird. La nuova stagione del fantastico tedesco di inizio Novecento
Fabio Camilletti (University of Warwick), Il ritorno della Quinta Dimensione
Discussant: Federica La Manna, Giovanna Neiger

16:30-18:00 - Weird , philosophy, and technology
Luisa Damiano (IULM University), Francesco Bianchini (University of Bologna), Fabio Puglia (CEO of Oversonic Robotics), Robot filosofici: tra Weird Colleagues e Peri-human Design
Discussant: Stefano Locati, Davide Mezzino