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Federico Picerni is a PhD candidate at the Department of Asian and North African Studies of Ca? Foscari University of Venice, in a joint degree programme with the Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies of Heidelberg University. His research project investigates the literary production by rural-urban migrant workers in contemporary China, with a special interest in the Beijing-based Picun literature group. He obtained a master?s degree in History and East Asian Studies from the University of Bologna and has spent extensive periods in China for research fieldwork and language training, specifically at Peking University and Xi?an Jiaotong University. He is also engaged in the translation of contemporary Chinese poetry into Italian.

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Gentrification is one of the most controversial and visible urban phenomena of the post-1945 era. With the acceleration of urbanisation and globalisation, urban renewal has taken new forms and grown increasingly complex. The classical account of gentrification, coined by Ruth Glass in her studies of London (1964), was predicated on cities in the West, but today gentrification and displacement can equally be observed worldwide in metropolitan regions as well as in smaller cities, in new-build areas and countryside regions. This calls for new and interdisciplinary approaches to urban change. In this one-day symposium, we call for more systematic attention to artistic representations of urban change in literature and other media, and for investigation of how these relate to other accounts of the phenomenon, including sociological, economic and political ones. While organized by researchers in literary studies and geography, the symposium welcomes discussion of textual or narrative aspects of many sorts of text, including novels and films but also memoirs, journalism, architectural writing, ethnographies, and academic discourse. Here you can watch presentations of the participants of the workshop.