Symposium in Honour of Prof Eduardo Saccone

Giornata di studi in honour of Eduardo Saccone

Monday, 19 May 2008

New Council Room, North Wing, University College Cork

Programme 

9.45-10.00
Welcome: Professor David Cox, Dean of the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, UCC

10.00-11.30
Sante Matteo, Miami University, Ohio. “Sporadic Radicals in Italian Culture, from Marco Polo to Pap Khouma.”
Ita MacCarthy, University of Birmingham. “Ariosto’s Grace”
Douglas Biow, University of Texas at Austin. “Staging Facial Hair in the Candelaio: Theatricality and Sociability in Sixteenth-Century Italy”

11.30-11.45 coffee

11.45-12.45
Patrizia Bettella, University of Alberta. “Paradigmi deviati: la donna bruna tra manierismo e barocco”
Alfonso Procaccini, Smith College. “Galileo’s Open Vistas:  ‘Chi mira più alto...’”

12.45-2.00 lunch

2.00-3.30
Giuliana Minghelli, Harvard University. “L’occhio di Verga. La pratica fotografica nel Verismo italiano”
Matteo Palumbo, Università di Napoli. “Svevo letto e interpretato da Eduardo Saccone”
Silvia Ross, UCC. “Palazzeschi: Gender, Sexuality, Alterity”

3.30-3.45 coffee

3.45-4.45
Mark Chu, UCC. “Il Re di Girgenti: Considerazioni sul romanzo storico di Andrea Camilleri”
Eduardo Saccone, UCC. “Quel che resta del viaggio. I ritorni di Lampedusa”

5.00-6.30 Reception, Staff Common Room
Sponsored by the Department of Italian and the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, UCC.