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XII ANNUAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE IN ITALIAN STUDIES, 9-10 June 2023

 

 

FRIDAY, 9th JUNE

The Hub, The Dr Dora Allman room 

10.00-10.30 Registration 

10.30-10.45 Welcome 

10.45-12.15 Session 1: Medieval Imaginaries 

Chair: Dr Daragh O’Connell 

  1. Gianluca Caccialupi (Trinity College Dublin) – The Idea of Crusade in Dante’s “Commedia”
  2. Elsina Caponetti (University College Cork) – La telepatia di Virgilio nella “Commedia” dantesca
  3. Ylenia Papa (Università per Stranieri di Perugia) – Traces of macabre iconography in Federico Frezzi’s “Quadriregio”
  4. Chiara Valcelli (University College Cork) – Dante in Joyce’s Workshop: The “Inferno” and Linguistic Experimentation

12.15-13.15 Lunch

13.15-14.45 Workshop on Postdoctoral Applications 

By SIS ECR Representatives (Dr Federica Coluzzi and Dr Paolo Saporito)

With Dr Allen White (University College Cork), Dr Rebecca Bowen (University of Oxford),

Dr Eleonora Lima (Trinity College Dublin), Dr Valentina Mele (University of Leeds)

Join Zoom meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85897456543?pwd=UlV5Q25ZVmNVK0xVYmhtM1ZDUkpVZz09

14.45-15.00 Coffee Break

15.00-16.30 Session 2: Methodologies for Italian Studies 

Chair: Dr Chiara Giuliani 

  1. Chantal Pivetta (Università di Lund) – Edizione Critica Digitale di “Uberto e Filomena”: opera ponte tra la tradizione orale dei cantari e quella scritta delle corti
  2. Annamaria Azzarone (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon) – From the «Scena» to the «Teatro del Mondo». Editing Giovan Battista Andreini’s theatre
  3. Dario Galassini (University College Cork) – Coordinate teoriche per un approccio condiviso agli studi della ricezione di Dante
  4. Tommaso Verga (University College Cork) – Masking Modernity: Pirandello, Welles, Kurosawa 

16.30-16.45 Break

16.45-18.00 Session 3: Women’s Writing 

Chair: Dr Silvia Ross 

  1. Paola De Piante Vicin (Università di Zurigo) – Rappresentazioni della diversità nei testi giovanili di Alice Ceresa e Rezia Tencalla-Bonalini
  2. Francesca Nieddu (University College Cork) – The contamination between the anti-bildungsroman and the family novel in “L'acqua del lago non è mai dolce” by Giulia Caminito: outlining a hybrid postmodern family novel
  3. Stefani Scimeca (Ohio State University) – Capitalismo è il nuovo colonialismo nel “L’Iguana” di Anna Maria Ortese

 Social dinner (The Abbey Tavern)

SATURDAY, 10th JUNE

Main Quad, Council room 

9.30-11.00 Keynote Lecture by Prof Emma Bond (University of Oxford)

Museum Methods and World Literature: From Salvage Aesthetics to Post-Object Futures

11.00-11.15 Coffee Break 

11.15-12.30 Session 4: Colonial and Postcolonial Italy

Chair: Dr Chiara Giuliani 

  1. Noreen Kane (University College Cork) – The Representation of Intergenerational Trauma as Expressed through the Female Protagonists’ Relationships to Food in Maaza Mengiste’s “Beneath the Lion’s Gaze” and Igiaba Scego’s “La mia casa è dove sono”
  2. Brandon Michael Cleverly Breen (University of Cagliari) – Between Propaganda and Nostalgia: Coloniality in Travelogues and Reportage of the Horn of Africa
  3. Luca Fiorito (Università di Genova) – Il razzismo fascista strumento della politica estera in Europa orientale 1938-1940 

12.30-13.30 Lunch 

13.30-14.45 Session 5: Literature and Landscapes

Chair: Dr Silvia Ross 

  1. Michele Gandolfi (Università di Pisa) – «Cead mile failte sa bhaile romhat». L’Irlanda di Behan e Donleavy nei romanzi di Luciano Bianciardi
  2. Jacopo Turini (University College Cork) – Borders and Identities in Contemporary Italian Literature. A Geo-Literary Reading of Northern Frontier Areas
  3. Giulia Bernuzzi (University of Amsterdam) – Tra letteratura e architettura: come le opere di Calvino aiutano a ripensare il conglomerato urbano 

14.45-15.00 Coffee Break 

15.00-16.15 Session 6: Identity and Space

 Chair: Dr Marco Amici 

  1. Laura Mattioli (University of Durham) – Utopian urbanism and the male body: gendered space in Doni’s “Mondo Savio e Pazzo”
  2. Lorenzo Sabatino (Università di Bologna) – Il Corpo nello Spazio: l’identità frammentata di C. E. Gadda
  3. Marco Ceravolo (University College Cork) – ‘Galeone & Alonso’. Creature stellari e autorità a confronto in “Il cane che ha visto Dio” di Dino Buzzati e “Alonso e i visionari” di Anna Maria Ortese 

16.15-16.30 Break 

16.30-17.45 Session 7: Narratives and Counter-Narratives

Chair: Dr Mark Chu 

  1. Diletta Pasetti (Rutgers University) – Exploiting Mary. How Giorgia Meloni conjures images of the Virgin as a counter-narrative to a feminist proposition
  2. Pia Carmela Lombardi (Università degli Studi di Trento) – Tra vecchi e nuovi stereotipi: quotidiani e corrispondenti italiani durante la Grande Guerra e modalità di narrazione del nemico
  3. Salvatore Taibi (Rutgers University) – A Wooden Boy and a Lesson in Free Market Economics: How Pinocchio becomes an entrepreneur 

 17.45-18.00 Closing remarks

Downloadable programme: XII Annual Graduate Conference

 

 

 

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