Join us for a Mediterranean Studies talk and roundtable featuring Iain Chambers, former Professor of the Sociology of Cultural Processes, Oriental University, Naples.

4:30-5:30  |  “Mediterranean Blues: Colonial Spacetime and Other Archives,” Iain Chambers
Introducer and Respondent: Camilla Hawthorne (Associate Professor of Sociology and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, UCSC)

5:45-7:00  |  “Mediterranean as Materiality, Method, and Geolinguistic Movements”
A Roundtable with Chris Connery (chair and moderator), with Sharon Kinoshita, Susan Gillman, and Camilo Gomez-Rivas (Professors of Literature, UCSC). Four lightning talks followed by plenary discussion and Q&A with Iain Chambers and Camilla Hawthorne.

Iain Chambers has taught cultural, postcolonial, and Mediterranean studies for many years at the University of Naples, Orientale, and is now an independent researcher. Amongst his recent publications are Postcolonial Interruptions, Unauthorised Modernities (2017), and, with Marta Cariello, The Mediterranean Question (2025). In 2022, he was a member of the artistic collective Jimmie Durham & A Stick in the Forest by the Side of the Road at documenta 15. He writes regularly for the Italian daily il Manifesto.