X ANNUAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE IN ITALIAN STUDIES
ITALIAN DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK
O’Rahilly Building, Saturday, 11 March 2017
KEYNOTE LECTURE: PROF. GUIDO BONSAVER (University of OXFORD)
‘CULTURAL CHANGE AND ITS REPRESENTATION: 20TH-CENTURY ITALY BETWEEN FRENCH AND U.S. CULTURE’
FOR INFORMATION AND PROGRAMME, SEE:
https://www.ucc.ie/en/italian/conferences/xannualgraduateconferenceinitalianstudies/
University College Cork, Ireland The Society for Italian Studies Italian Department
PROGRAMME OF CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
8:30-9.00 Registration
(Social area, 1st floor, outside Department of Italian)
9:00-10.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS 1
PANEL 1a: WOMEN’S LIVES: PATHS OF NARRATION
Chair: Dr Alessia Risi (Room 1.23)
• ‘Erratic Schisms: Trauma and Disconnect in Antonioni’s Red Desert’
Eilis Kierans, Rutgers University, New Jersey
• ‘La tradizione orale in All’ombra dei rami sfacciati carichi di rosso vermiglio di Gabriella Ghermandi’
Mafalda Barbuto, University College Cork
• ‘Guilty Subjects and Weak Objects. The Dichotomous Portrayal of Victims and Perpetrators in Italian Journalistic Discourse on Feminicide’
Nicoletta Mandolini, University College Cork
PANEL 1b: ITALIAN PHILOSOPHICAL AND POLITICAL PROJECTIONS – NEW MEDIA AND COLLECTIVE AUTHORSHIP
Chair: Dr Marco Amici (Room 2.12)
• ‘Scuola di Antifascismo: Resistance and Writing in Confino’
Brian Tholl, Rutgers University, New Jersey
• ‘La questione della nazionalità della filosofia. Passato, presente e futuro della filosofia italiana’
Corrado Claverini, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano
• ‘Tra letteratura e web. Wu Ming e la Repubblica democratica dei lettori’
Irene Cacopardi, Université P. Valéry, Montpellier 3
10:30– 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
(An Seomra Caidrimh, Ground Floor)
11:00 – 12:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS 2
PANEL 2a: TRANSLATION AND TRADITION – REDISCOVERY – REINTERPRETATION
Chair: Dr Silvia Ross (Room 1.23)
• ‘Due volgarizzamenti umanistici della Biblioteca Storica di Dioscuro Siculo: tecniche di traduzione a confronto’
Cecilia Sideri, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia
• ‘Tra tradizione e innovazione: la produzione poetica del napoletano Giambattista Valentino’
Maria Di Maro, Università Aldo Moro, Bari
• ‘Hofmannsthal e Arabella all’ombra di Goldoni’
Mariagrazia Farina, Università degli Studi di Salerno
PANEL 2b: PATHS OF IDENTITY – OTHERNESS – IDEALIZED ITALY
Chair: Dr Chiara Giuliani (Room 2.12)
• ‘I bambini delle diverse nazioni a casa loro (1890) di Emma Parodi’
Benedetto Giuseppe Russo, Palacký University di Olomouc (Rep.Ceca)
• ‘The Journey Through Imagination: Francesca’
Valentina Ippolito, Pembroke College, Oxford University
• ‘The Immigrant Other: Colonial Echoes in the Italian Extreme Right’s Discourse’
Marianna Griffini, King’s College London
12:30 – 13:30 LUNCH
(An Seomra Caidrimh, Ground Floor)
13:30 – 14:30 PLENARY SESSION
(CACSSS Seminar Room, Ground floor G. 27)
CULTURAL CHANGE AND ITS REPRESENTATION:
20TH-CENTURY ITALY BETWEEN FRENCH AND U.S. CULTURE
Speaker: Prof Guido Bonsaver, University of Oxford
14:30 – 15:00 COFFEE BREAK
(An Seomra Caidrimh, Ground Floor)
15:00 – 17:00 PARALLEL SESSIONS 3
PANEL 3a: VALUES AND VIRTUES – PHYSICAL, SPIRITUAL AND MORAL CONDITION
Chair: Prof. Guido Bonsaver (Room 1.23)
• ‘Versioni venete del Tesoro dei poveri alla luce della tradizione dei volgarizzamenti italiani del Medioevo’
Sandra Strugala, Università Jagellonica, Cracovia
• “For we gain much from those back there”: tracing the allusions to suffrage in Dante’s Purgatory’
Lisa Tortolani, University of Connecticut
• ‘L’umanesimo civile ne Il libro dell’arte di mercatura di Benedetto Cotrugli’
Paolina Piotrowicz, Università Jagellonica, Cracovia
PANEL 3b: VISUAL TRADITIONS – CORPORAL REPRESENTATION – PERFORMATIVITY
Chair: Dr Mark Chu (Room 2.12)
• ‘Vagerismo e corpo nell’opera di Lorenzo Viani’
Federica Stefanelli, Nice Sophia Antipolis University and Università Federico II, Napoli
• ‘Genesi di un autore: la produzione giovanile di Mario Praz’
Paola Orrù, Trinity College, Dublin
• ‘Drawing Animals: an Art, and Exercise, and a Folly’
Molly Abigail Flynn, Trinity College, Dublin
• ‘Dismantling Non-existent Gender: Performativity and Calvino’s Cavaliere’
Martina O’Leary, University College Cork
19.30 CONFERENCE DINNER in “La Dolce Vita”