Biennial Conference of the Society for Italian Studies

Biennial Conference of the Society for Italian Studies

4-6 July 2007

Keynote speakers

Prof. Mair Parry (Bristol)

Prof. Robert Lumley (UCL)

Silvia Ricci Lempen (Swiss writer)

Pietro De Marchi ( Swiss writer)

PROGRAMME

Wednesday 4 July

09.30-10.45 Registration (Main Arts Foyer)

10.45-11.00 Welcome (Powis): Dr Carol Tully (Head of Modern Languages) & Laura Rorato (conference organizer)

11.00-12.00 Plenary Session

Silvia Ricci Lempen: Swiss Writer

Sembra un romanzo. Modeste considerazioni sull'universale in letteratura

(Chair: Laura Rorato)

12.00-13.30 Lunch (Lecture Room 5)

13.30-15.00 Three Parallel Sessions

Figuring Hysteria
Chair: Ruth Glynn
Lecture Room 1 / Representing the Other
Chair: Claudia Nocentini
Lecture Room 2
/ Giacomo Leopardi
Chair: Catherine O’Brien
Lecture Room 3
§  Kate mitchell (University of Warwick), ‘Reconfiguring the hysteric in domestic realist fiction.’
§  Paola Ugolini (NYU), ‘Aetiology and the Representation of Male Hysteria: the Case of the Rivista Sperimentale di Freniatria.’ / §  Joanne Lee, (University of Bristol), ‘The Writings of Bamboo Hirst: Italy, China and the limits of identity.’
§  Annunziata Videtta (University of Warwick), ‘From Italy to Glasgow: the Identity Formation of Scots Italian Women in Ann Marie Di Mambro’s Tally’s Blood.’
/ §  Cosetta Veronese (University of Birmingham), ‘Twins in Disparity: Leopardi and Byron.’
§  Paola Cori (University of Birmingham), ‘Paragonarmi meco medesimo: affetti e memoria nelle similitudini dello Zibaldone.’
§  Pam Williams (University of Hull), ‘Leopardi’s atheism, Madame de Staël, and the German philosophers.’

15.00-15.30 Tea/Coffee Break (Lecture Room 5)

15.30-17.00 Four Parallel Sessions

Transmissions and transformations of Italian literary culture:
Boccaccio
Part One
(Chair: John Usher)
Lecture Room 1 / Language, Location and Identity
(Chair: Laura Rorato)
Lecture Room 2 / Il Giallo: Part One
(Chair: Lucia Rinaldi)
Lecture Room 3 / Writing and Reading Lyric Verse in the Cinquecento
Part One
(Chair: Erika Milburn)
Lecture Room 4
§  Stephen Milner (University of Manchester), ‘Boethius and Boccaccio's Metaphorical Translations: Language, the Body, and Place.’
§  Cristiana Fordyce (Scuola superiore di mediazione linguistica, Pisa), ‘La trasparenza politica dell’ “uomo di vetro” Giovanni Boccaccio.’
§  Rhiannon Daniels (University of Leeds), ‘A Moment in the Critical History of the Decameron Reconsidered.’ / §  Roberto Bertoni (Trinity College, Dublin), ‘Location, Language and Politics in Luigi Faccini.’
§  Francesco Capello (University of Leeds), ‘Una lettura del primo Moretti: spazio materno, spazio cittadino e ideologia poetica.’
§  Corrada Biazzo Curry (John Cabot University), ‘The Representation of Sicilianità and the Problems of Language in Giovanni Verga’s Malavoglia.’ /

§  Jane Dunnett (University of Swansea), ‘Giallo, non rosa: Scerbanenco’s Transitional Detective Stories (1940-42).’

§  Marco Paoli (University of Salford), ‘Physical and Psychological Violence in Giorgio Scerbanenco's Duca Lamberti series.’

/ §  Brian Richardson (University of Leeds), ‘Evidence for the Oral Performance of Lyric Poetry in the Cinquecento.’
§  Luca Marcozzi (Università di Roma Tre), ‘Le rime e il suono: la percezione dello stile di Petrarca nei commenti cinquecenteschi al Canzoniere.’
§  Lisa Sampson (University of Reading), ‘Poetic Practices within the Italian Academy.’

17.00-17.30 Tea/Coffee Break (Lecture Room 5)

17.30-18.30 Three Parallel Sessions

Space, place and landscape in contemporary Italian fiction and the visual arts
Part One
(Chair: Marina Spunta)
Lecture Room 1 / Aspects of Language Teaching: Part One
(Chair: Franca Pellegrini)
Lecture Room 2 / Transmissions and Transformations of Medieval Italian Literary Culture
Part Two
(Chair: Stephen Milner)
Lecture Room 3
§  Luca Pocci (University of Western Ontario), ‘Fuor di luogo: la città nella narrativa di Giusppe Culicchia.’
§  Raffaella Antinucci (Manchester Metropolitan University), ‘Southern Dis-placements: Rubini’s Return to the Apulian Landscape.’ / §  Anna Proudfoot (Open University), ‘Italian at The Open University: The Use of On-Line Tools in a Beginners’ Language Course.’
§  Claudia Borghetti (NUI, Galway), ‘Intercultura e Glottodidattica: Utilizzo dello stereoptipo nella classe di lingua straniera.’ / §  Spencer Pearce (University of Manchester), ‘Dante and Analytical Psychology Revisited.’
§  David Lines (University of Warwick), ‘Philosophical Commentaries and Visual Culture in the Late Renaissance: The Case of Agostino Galesio (†1621).’

21.00 (Powis Hall)

Readings and debate with Silvia Ricci Lempen and Pietro De Marchi, winner of the Schiller prize 2007

Thursday 5 July

09.00-09.30 Registration (Main Arts Foyer)

09.30-11.00 Five Parallel Sessions

The Italian Academies 1530-1650: a themed collection database
(Chair: Jane Everson)
Lecture Room 1 / The Micro and the Macro: Europe and the Province
(Chair: Pierpaolo Antonello)
Lecture Room 2 / Writing the Lyric Verse in the Cinquecento
Part Two
(Chair: Brian Richardson)
Lecture Room 3 / La letteratura svizzera
(Chair: Gianpaolo Giudicetti)
Lecture Room 4 / Influence and Intertextuality
(Chair: Charles Burdette)
Lecture Room 5
§  Part 1 (20 mins): Presentation of the research project, its genesis, aims and proposed outcomes - Jane Everson (RHUL); Denis Reidy (BL).
§  Part 2 (40 mins): Demonstration of the themed collection catalogue and results to date – Simone Testa and Lorenza Gianfrancesco (Research Assistants RHUL/BL).
§  Part 3: (30 mins): Questions. / §  Claudia Nocentini (University of Edinburgh), ‘Pariani’s Literary Representation of Rural Lombardy.’
§  Anna Fochi (University of Glasgow), ‘Oltre Eboli: il ritorno di Rosi nell’universo remoto del Cristo di Levi.’
§  Rossella Riccobono (University of St Andrews), ‘Europe and the Italian Province in Pier Vittorio Tondelli’s Camere Separate.’ / §  Paolo Zaja (Università di Padova), ‘Forme di autocommento alla lirica nel Cinquecento.’
§  Franco Tomasi (Università di Padova), ‘Leggere e commentare i poeti moderni nel Cinquecento.’
§  Erika Milburn (British School at Rome), ‘Tansillo in musica: 1542-1640.’ / §  Andrea Paganini (Università di Zurigo), ‘L’ultima poesia di Remo Fasani.’
§  Pietro De Marchi (Università di Zurigo), ‘Considerazioni sulla sintassi in poesia (con esempi tratti da poeti della Svizzera italiana).’
§  Thomas Stein, (Università di Berna), ‘Solitudini antisentimentali. Sulla “nuova” narrativa femminile svizzera.’ / §  Adalgisa Giorgio (University of Bath), ‘The Legacy of Elsa Morante: Influence and Intertextuality in Mariateresa Di Lascia and Fabrizia Ramondino.’
§  Rosalba Biasini (University of Oxford), ‘Beppe Fenoglio e la letteratura angloamericana: Una crociera agli antipodi.’
§  William Hope (University of Salford), ‘Gabriele Salvatores: Cinematic Interfaces: Culture and Capital.’

11.00-11.30 Tea/Coffee Break (Lecture Room 5)

11.30-13.00 Five Parallel Sessions

Transmissions and transformations of medieval Italian literary culture: Transmission and Reception in England
Part Three
(Chair: Catherine Keen)
Lecture Room 1 / Space, place and landscape in contemporary Italian fiction and the visual arts
Part Two
(Chair: Laura Rorato)
Lecture Room 2 / Aspects of Language Teaching: Part Two
(Chair: Anna Proudfoot)
Lecture Room 3 / Anglo-Italian Relations
(Chair: Rossella Riccobono)
Lecture Room 4 / The Italian Academies 1530-1650: a themed collection database
Language Centre
Room B
§  Guyda Armstrong (Cardiff University), ‘Receiving Boccaccio: transmission and translation.’
§  Marianne O’Doherty (University of Leeds), ‘The viaggio in Inghilterra of a viaggio in Oriente: reading the Relatio of Odorico da Pordenone in fourteenth-century England.’
§  Paola Spinozzi (University of Ferrara), ‘Duecento, Trecento or Quattrocento: Italophilia in Pre-Raphaelite Verbal and Visual Art.’ / §  Inge Lanslots (KU Leuven; UA Antwerp), ‘Una planimetria fantastica.’
§  Marina Spunta (University of Leicester), ‘Spazialità, fuga e ritorno nella narrativa di Claudio Piersanti.’ / §  Federico Federici (University of Durham), ‘Italian Translation: Assessment and Feedback.’
§  Anne O’Connor (NUI, Galway), ‘Service Learning: Italian in the Community.’
§  Teresa Oliver (University of Durham), ‘Motivation in Italian Language Learners in Higher Education.’ / §  Giuliana Pieri (RHUL), ‘Giovanni Costa and George Howard: Anglo-Italian artistic relations in Victorian Britain.’
§  Patrizia Piredda (University of Srathclyde), ‘Rapporto tra Estetismo e cultura di massa fin de siécle: dall’Inghilterra all’Italia.’
§  Daniela Cerimonia (RHUL), ‘Making the Foreign Familiar: Nineteenth-century English and Italian Literature in Translation.’ / Drop-in slot, for hands-on access by delegates

13.00-14.15 Lunch (Lecture Room 5)

14.15-16.00 The Italian Academies 1530-1650: a themed collection database (Language Centre: Room B)

14.15-15.15 Plenary session (Lecture Room 3)

Mair Parry, University of Bristol

Turn and turn again: Lexical metamorphoses in the dialects of Italy

(Chair: Martin McLaughlin)

15.15-15.30 Future planning of interim conferences

15.30-16.00 Tea/Coffee Break (Lecture Room 5)

16.00-18.00 SIS Executive Meeting (Council Chamber)

16.00 - 18.00 Bus Tour of Anglesey (pre-booking necessary)

18.00-19.30 Film (Main Arts Lecture Theatre)

Dal Polo all’Equatore, Yervant Giankian & Angela Ricci Lucchi (1986)

Using footage from the archives of Luca Comerio mostly from the period before and during World War I, the film makers have hand-tinted, slowed down and re-worked the images (showing Arctic whalers, Tibetan monks, big game hunters, soldiers at the front) into a hallucinatory film haunted by war and the rise of fascism

20.30 Conference Dinner (Plas Gwyn: Bistro 1)

Friday 6 July

09.00-09.30 Registration (Main Arts Foyer)

09.30-10.30 Plenary Session (Lecture Room 5)

Robert Lumley, University College London

Amnesia and Remembering: 'Dal Polo all'Equatore', an early documentary re-made

(Chair: Stephen Gundle)

10.30-12.00 Four Parallel Sessions

Prospettive Novecentesche
(Chair: Simona Storchi)
Lecture Room 1 / Voices and Concepts from the Renaissance
(Chair: Corinna Lonergan)
Lecture Room 2 / Il Giallo: Part Two
(Chair: Jane Dunnett)
Lecture Room 3 / Memory, Autobiography and Politics
(Chair: Jennifer Burns)
Lecture Room 4
§  Pierpaolo Antonello (University of Cambridge), ‘“How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”: Apocalisse tecnocratica e la minaccia nucleare nella cultura italiana del secondo 900.’
§  Katia Pizzi (Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies), ‘Futurist Machines.’
§  Luciano Parisi (University of Exeter), ‘Che lavoro fanno i personaggi di Moravia?’ / §  Judith Bryce (University of Bristol), ‘A Muted Voice in Quattrocento Florence: Dada degli Adimari’s Correspondence with her Archibishop.’
§  Sarah Cockram (University of Glasgow), ‘“Volemo ch’el maschio habbi nome Metus, la femina Spes”: Animals at the Court of Isabella d’Este.’ / §  Monica Jansen (Università di Anversa), ‘Teneri soggetti noir: criminalità e infanzia tra letteratura e film.’
§  Luca Somigli (University of Toronto), ‘Gruppo 13 e Dintorni: The Bologna School of Detective Fiction.’
§  Nicoletta Di Ciolla (Manchester Metropolitan University), ‘Roma in Noir – The Eternal City as Dystopia. Or Perfect Imperfection.’ / §  Gianluca Cinelli (University College Cork), ‘La memoria, la traccia e la funzione nella memorialistica di Mario Rigoni Stern.’
§  Silvia Boero (Duke University), ‘Fine d’Anno by Paola Drigo: Dissenting and Therapeutic Autobiography.’
§  Giuseppe Vatalaro, (University of Swansea), ‘Berlinguer's 'Aletrnativa Democratica': Continuity, U-Turn or beginning of the end of the Communist Project?’

12.00-13.30 Lunch (Lecture Room 5)

13.30-15.00 Four Parallel Sessions

Transmissions and Transformations of Italian Literary Culture.
Transmission and Reception in Italy
Part Four
(Chair: Spencer Pearce)
Lecture Room 1 / Terrorism, Italian Style
(Chair: Pierpaolo Antonello)
Lecture Room 2 / Women and Italian Cinema
(Chair: Adalgisa Giorgio)
Lecture Room 3 / Avant-Garde: Legacy and New Perspectives
(Cahir: Luca Somigli)
Lecture Room 4
§  Catherine Keen (University College, London), ‘“Va’, mia canzone”: textual transmission and the congedo in medieval exile lyrics.’
§  Susan Gaylard (University of Washington), ‘Gazing upon the ancients: Giovanni Pontano’s rhetoric of appearance.’
§  Jon Usher (University of Edinburgh), ‘Piccolomini as Practical Boccaccista.’ / §  Ruth Glynn (University of Bristol), ‘Screening the Wound: The Madwoman of Italian Terrorism.’
§  Alan O’Leary (University of Leeds), ‘“Qui siamo in pieno fumetto”: Bertolucci, the commedia all’italiana and the Representation of Terrorism.’
§  Mary Wood (Birkbeck College, University of London), ‘Navigating the Labyrinth: Cinematic Representations of Right-Wing Terrorism.’ / §  Paolo Russo (University of Reading), ‘Ideologized Female Bodies in the Films of Giuseppe De Santis.’
§  Serena Marchesi (Università di Lecce), ‘Once Upon a Time in the West and the De-Victorianising of the Fallen Woman.’
§  Patrizia Sambuco (University of St Andrews), ‘Food and Women: The Politics of Eating in Italian Cinema.’ / §  Florian Mussgnug (University College London), ‘Countertransgression: Giorgio Manganelli and the Neoavanguardia.’
§  Luca Paci, ‘A Girl Named Carla by Luca Pagliarini.’
§  Sebastiano Ferrari (NUI, Galway), ‘Pier Paolo Pasolini e la Canzone. Testi scritti da Pasolini per Laura Betti nello spettacolo Giro a Vuoto del 1960.’
§  Alessandro Di Prima (NUI, Galway), “Questa pagina è una stanza disabitata”. Ragione e riflessione poetica nella poesia italiana delgi anni ’80: Valerio Magrelli e Gianni D’Elia.

Concluding Remarks (Lecture Room 5)

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