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Organizer and Chair: K. von Wittelsbach, Cornell University, wittelsbach@cornell.edu
The goal of the session is to bring together methodologies, T.A.-supervisors and trainers, second-language acquisition specialists and graduate teaching assistants, and provide a forum for an exchange on best practices, trends, and potential for improvement in T.A. training in Italian Studies programs in North America. The participants come from small colleges and large research institutions in the United States:
1. Enza Antenos-Conforti, Montclair State University, antenosconfe@mail.montclair.edu
2. Annalisa Mosca, Purdue University; ammosca@yahoo.com
3. Rosetta D'Angelo, Ramapo College; rdangelo@ramapo.edu
4. Luca Trazzi, Dickinson College; trazzil@dickinson.edu
5. Valeria Dani, Cornell University; valeria.dani@yahoo.it
6. Sylvia Hakopian, Cornell University; sth53@cornell.edu

Organizer: Valerio Cappozzo, University of Mississippi; Department of Modern Languages, vcappozz@olemiss.edu
Lezioni americane di Giorgio Bassani vuole indagare i rapporti intellettuali e pedagogici dello scrittore ferrarese con gli Stati Uniti. La sessione è dedicata allo studio del lavoro di Bassani come traduttore dall’inglese, come redattore delle riviste in cui curava la parte relativa alla narrativa americana, dell’influsso della letteratura d’oltreoceano nelle sue stesse opere e infine della sua esperienza di insegnamento in università statunitensi.
Questi temi di ricerca sono maturati in seguito alla pubblicazione del volume Poscritto a Giorgio Bassani. Saggi in memoria del decimo anniversario della morte (LED Edizioni Universitarie 2012) e in seguito alla conferenza Le voyage américain de Giorgio Bassani svoltasi a Parigi nel 2013 con gli stessi relatori della sessione che si sta ora proponendo.
Chair: Paola Bassani, Fondazione Giorgio Bassani, bassanipacht@wanadoo.fr
1. Roberta Antognini, Vassar College, roantognini@vassar.edu: Giorgio Bassani, traduttore dall'inglese
2. Sergio Parussa, Wellesley College, sparussa@wellesley.edu: Tra modernità e tradizione: scrittori e scritture americane nell'opera di Giorgio Bassani
3. Valerio Cappozzo, University of Mississippi, vcappozz@olemiss.edu: Il gran segreto di Giorgio Bassani
4. Alessandro Giardino, McGill University, alessandro.giardino@mcgill.ca: Giorgio Bassani, lettore di James Joyce e Heman Melville. Il maestro dimenticato di Gianni Celati

Moderator: Clarissa Clò, San Diego State University, cclo@mail.sdsu.edu
This panel explores the emergence of contemporary forms of cinematic realism and their relationship with Neorealism and other previous notions of mimesis. How do contemporary filmmakers reinterpret the relationship between cinema and the real?
1. Fulvio Orsitto, California State University, Chico, orsitto@gmail.com: Emanuele Crialese: un neorealismo per il nuovo millennio?
2. Mark Epstein, Independent Scholar, mwepstein@verizon.net: L'anti-figuralesimo materialista nel realismo di Pier Paolo Pasolini
3. Luca Barattoni, Clemson University, lbaratt@clemson.edu: Tra dominio etico e dominio estetico: il reagente realista nel cinema italiano
4. Simona Bondavalli, Vassar College, sibondavalli@vassar.edu: From Gomorra to Reality: Realism in the Cinema of Matteo Garrone

Organizer: Fulvio Orsitto, California State University, Chico, orsitto@gmail.com
This panel explores the evolution of Italian realism from the emergence of a Neorealist politics and poetics in the 1940's to the recent resurgence of realism in literature, philosophy, and the arts (Nuovo realismo, New Italian Epic, etc.). How do we theorize the recent reemergence of realism? How do contemporary intellectuals reconfigure previous notions of realism?
Moderator: Fulvio Orsitto, California State University, Chico, orsitto@gmail.com
Papers:
1. Clarissa Clò, San Diego State University, cclo@mail.sdsu.edu: New Italian Critic
2. Loredana Di Martino, University of San Diego, ldm@sandiego.edu: Resisting Inexperience: Antonio Scurati and The Ethics of Storytelling
3. Sabrina Ovan, Scripps College, sovan@scrippscollege.edu: La tigre della camorra: la figura di Sandokan tra avventura e realismo
4. Gloria Pastorino, Fairleigh Dickinson University, gloria.pastorino@gmail.com: Reale iper-reale in «Un consiglio a Dio» di Sandro Dionisio

Organizer: David Bowe, University of Oxford, Italian Sub-faculty, david.bowe@st-hildas.ox.ac.uk
This is the first of two panels exploring two faces of Dantean dialogue, not only that of Dante with himself and his precursors but also that instigated with him by by later writers. Attention to these conversations enables the dialogic and relational nature of Dante's oeuvre to come newly into focus. The three papers in this panel will introduce the concept of Dante in dialogue with himself, with his poetic past, and with the poetic future. The contributions share a focus on conceptualising poetics: Elena Lombardi will offer a wide-ranging exploration of the rationale behind Dante’s dialogical tendencies and the disproportionately self-reflexive nature of his dialogues; David Bowe will then explore the processes and problems of Dante’s genealogical canon formation in Purgatorio XXVI through a discussion of its combination of internally staged and intertextual dialogue; Francesca Southerden will then close the first session and offer a bridge to ‘Dante in Dialogue II’ by exploring concepts of affective discourse and poetic language as expressed in Purgatorio XXIV, 52-4 and examining the dialogue between this passage and Petrarch’s engagements with it at key moments in the Canzoniere. The papers will trace the path from Dante’s engagement with medieval forebears to the first modern engagements with Dante, beginning a discussion which will be continued by Jennifer Rushworth’s opening contribution to ‘Dante in Dialogue II’.
Moderator: Jennifer Rushworth, St John’s College, University of Oxford, jennifer.rushworth@sjc.ox.ac.uk
Speakers:
1. Elena Lombardi, Balliol College, University of Oxford, elena.lombardi@balliol.ox.ac.uk: Dante Dialoga
2. David Bowe, St. Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, david.bowe@st-hildas.ox.ac.uk: Dante’s dialogisms: Guittone, tenzone, and tension in Purgatorio XXVI
3. Francesca Southerden, Wellesley College, fsouther@wellesley.edu: “A quel modo / ch’e’ ditta dentro”: Dante, Petrarch, and the Origins of Affective Discourse

Organizer: Jennifer Rushworth, St John's College, University of Oxford, jennifer.rushworth@sjc.ox.ac.uk
This is the second of two panels exploring two faces of Dantean dialogue, not only that of Dante with himself and his precursors but also that instigated with him by later writers. Attention to these conversations enables the dialogic and relational nature of Dante's oeuvre to come newly into focus. The three papers, detailed below, shift the concern of the first panel, ‘Dante in Dialogue I’, to twentieth-century engagements with Dante. Petrarch acts as a bridge between medieval and modern dialogues with Dante, connecting the last paper of the first panel (Southerden’s contribution) to the first paper of the second panel (by Rushworth). The papers are united in a continuing attention to language, not only to Dantean language taken up and transformed by later writers, but also to the very limits of language’s power, whether these limits fall at the depths of Hell (Kay), the heights of Paradise (Gragnolati), or in the linguistic category of the proper name (Rushworth). Different critical forms of engaging with disparate authors are also proposed, namely interpolation (Rushworth) and diffraction (Gragnolati).
Moderator: David Bowe, St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, david.bowe@st-hildas.ox.ac.uk
1. Jennifer Rushworth, St John’s College, University of Oxford, jennifer.rushworth@sjc.ox.ac.uk: What’s in a name? Interpolating Dante, Petrarch, Proust, and Derrida
2. Tristan Kay, University of Bristol, Tristan.Kay@bristol.ac.uk: Subumanar per verba: Language in and after Hell in Primo Levi and Dante
3. Manuele Gragnolati, Somerville College, University of Oxford; manuele.gragnolati@some.ox.ac.uk: ‘Between Transformation and Identity: For a Diffractive Reading of Dante, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Elsa Morante

Organizer: Beatrice Sica, University College London; Italian Department, School of European Languages, Culture and Society, b.sica@ucl.ac.uk
This session addresses the female fantastic in Italian twentieth-century literature. Its aim is to ascertain to what extent the female fantastic can be clearly described in terms of narrative themes and stylistic features and defined by a theory. Broader theoretical issues as well as the work of single authors such as Matilde Serao, Paola Masino, Elsa Morante, Anna Maria Ortese, and Rossana Ombres will be addressed through the lenses of literary history and gender studies.
Moderator: Francesca Billiani, University of Manchester (francesca.billiani@manchester.ac.uk)
Speakers:
1. Beatrice Laghezza, Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne (bea.laghezza@gmail.com): ‘Il fantastico non è il contrario della vita’. Le autrici italiane riflettono sul genere
2. Beatrice Manetti, Università di Torino (beatrice.manetti@unito.it): Angeli e insetti: il sacro come epifania del fantastico in alcune scrittrici del Novecento
3. Beatrice Sica, University College London (b.sica@ucl.ac.uk): The ‘mysterious realm’ of childhood: Alain Fournier’s ‘Le grand Meaulnes’ and Paola Masino’s ‘Periferia’

Organizers: Christian Uva christian.uva@uniroma3.it e Giancarlo Lombardi GLombardi@gc.cuny.edu
La recente uscita in sala di film come Romanzo di una strage di Giordana, Diaz di Vicari, Viva la libertà di Andò, Benvenuto Presidente! di Milani e lo stesso La grande bellezza di Sorrentino ha riproposto con forza all’attenzione di un’audience sempre più ampia e trasversale questioni di carattere storico/politico attinenti all’identità italiana, così come essa si è strutturata anche in relazione ai nodi più oscuri della storia recente. Nel corso degli ultimi vent’anni, a intervalli quasi regolari, altre opere hanno d’altra parte provocato intensi dibattiti di analogo stampo, imponendo all’opinione del pubblico e degli addetti ai lavori la multiforme vocazione politica di un cinema interessato a raccontare la vita pubblica italiana e le sue trasformazioni sociali e culturali. Prendendo spunto dalla necessaria riconsiderazione del significato stesso della locuzione “cinema politico” alla luce dei nuovi assetti narrativi, estetici e tecnologici assunti dal contesto filmico contemporaneo, la tavola rotonda intende prendere in esame la produzione italiana degli ultimi due decenni (fissando come riferimento storico a quo il fenomeno di “Tangentopoli” e l’avvento della cosiddetta “seconda Repubblica”), analizzando tale orizzonte nell’accezione di fenomeno culturale che racchiude, oltre ad un certo novero di testi filmici, un insieme di pratiche e di modi di produzione da prendere in esame sia in rapporto alla volontà espressiva dei singoli cineasti sia in relazione alle aspettative del pubblico di fronte a questa tipologia di opere.
Roundtable: Nuovo Cinema Politico I
Chair: Giancarlo Lombardi, The Graduate Center/CUNY, GLombardi@gc.cuny.edu
Vito Zagarrio, Università Roma Tre, vito.zagarrio@uniroma3.it
Aine O’Healy, Loyola Marymount University, aohealy@gmail.com
Dana Renga, The Ohio State University, Renga.1@osu.edu
Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Dickinson College, marinin@dickinson.edu
Paolo Russo, Oxford Brookes University, paolo.russo@brookes.ac.uk
Clarissa Clò, San Diego State University, cclo@mail.sdsu.edu
Roundtable: Nuovo Cinema Politico II
Chair: Ellen Nerenberg, Wesleyan University, enerenberg@wesleyan.edu
Gaetana Marrone-Puglia, Princeton University, marrone@Princeton.EDU
Christian Uva, Università Roma Tre, christian.uva@uniroma3.it
Giacomo Manzoli, Università di Bologna, giacomo.manzoli@unibo.it
Gius Gargiulo, Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre La Défense, gargiulo@u-paris10.fr
Amanda Minervini, Salem State University, aminervini@salemstate.edu
Luca Caminati, Concordia University, luca.caminati@concordia.ca
Roundtable: Nuovo Cinema Politico III
Chair: Giacomo Manzoli, Università di Bologna, giacomo.manzoli@unibo.it
Giancarlo Lombardi, The Graduate Center/CUNY, GLombardi@gc.cuny.edu
Laura Di Bianco, Hunter College/CUNY, ldi_bianco@gc.cuny.edu
Ellen Nerenberg, Wesleyan University, enerenberg@wesleyan.edu
Monica Janssen, Universiteit Utrecht, m.m.jansen@uu.nl
Cosetta Gaudenzi, University of Memphis, cgaudenz@memphis.edu
Gloria Lauri-Lucente, University of Malta, gloria.lauri-lucente@um.edu.mt

Organizer: Saskia Ziolkowski, Duke University, Romance Studies, sez6@duke.edu
This panels will be dedicated to exploring the rich literary and cultural connections between Italy and Austria. “Austro-Italian Encounters” includes Italy in a historical, geographic configuration that goes beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries. Starting from the significant geographical, historical, political, and cultural ties between Austria and Italy, “Austro-Italian Encounters” provides a fuller and more complex view of the Italian literary and cultural landscape.
Austro-Italian Encounters I
Chair: Thomas Harrison, UCLA harrison@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU
1. Robert Dassanowsky, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, rvondass@uccs.edu: A Familiar Difference: The Image of the Austrian in Films by Rossellini, Visconti, Fellini and Cavani
2. Francesco Bono, University of Perugia francescobono@email.it: The Rome-Vienna Film Axis: Austro-Italian Film Relations During the 1930s
3. Irene Maria Schrattenecker, Abendakademie für Wirtschaftsberufe Salzburg, irene.schrattenecker@aon.at: In All Eternity: The Afterlife of Empress Sissi in Trieste
Austro-Italian Encounters II
1. Susanne Knittel, Utrecht University, susanne.c.knittel@gmail.com: Südtirol/Alto Adige: Liminal Identities, Hyphenated Memories
2. Elena Coda, Purdue University, ecoda@purdue.edu: Socialism and Irredentism in Trieste, a Feminine Perspective
3. Elizabeth Schächter, University of Kent, GB, e.a.schachter@kent.ac.uk: Arthur Schnitzler and Italo Svevo: Two Ironic Jewish Writers
4. Mimmo Cangiano, Duke University, cangiano.mimmo@gmail.com: Between the Cracks of Tragedy: Sprachkritik as a Social Act, Hofmannsthal vs. Michelstaedter

Organizer: Ilenia Imperi, Università della Tuscia, DISUCOM - Dip. studi sulla comunicazione, ilenia@curunas.com
La sessione offre uno sguardo interdisciplinare su un decennio cruciale nella storia dell’Italia repubblicana. Gli anni ’70 segnano un’importante fase di passaggio che coinvolge tutti gli attori politici e sociali del paese. Sono gli anni bui della crisi economica e del terrorismo ma anche i tempi più fecondi per fondamentali conquiste sociali e aneliti forti di libertà e di cambiamento. I mezzi di comunicazione emergono con forza e si pongono al centro degli eventi storici che su più fronti scuotono profondamente la società italiana, fino ad arrivare ad assumere un ruolo determinante all’interno delle dinamiche politiche e culturali che caratterizzeranno quel decennio e influiranno pesantemente su quello successivo.
Presidente di sessione: Giovanni Fiorentino, Università degli Studi della Tuscia di Viterbo, gfiorentino@unitus.it
1. Raffaello Ares Doro, Université Paris 2, Panthéon-Assa, raffaello.doro@gmail.com: Le radio libere nell’Italia degli anni Settanta
2. Ilenia Imperi, Università della Tuscia, ilenia@curunas.com: Gli italiani e la Tv degli anni ’70: la parabola del terrorismo e il preludio ai consumi
3. Giovanni Fiorentino, Università della Tuscia, fiorentino@unitus.it: L’immagine fotografica, tra cultura e comunicazione. Guardando il 1977

Organizer and Chair: Francesca Savoia, University of Pittsburgh, savoia@pitt.edu
Questa sessione raccoglie contributi che esplorano la grande varietà di impieghi, forme e registri espressivi che lo scriver lettere assunse in Italia fra il Sette e l’ Ottocento. Si tratta di indagini diacroniche e trasversali, così come di studi concentrati su autori e momenti particolari; si tratta inoltre di sondaggi dei motivi sottostanti ad epistolari sette-ottocenteschi, così come dell’esposizione delle ragioni che possono averne stimolato la consultazione.
Tipologie epistolari fra Sette e Ottocento I
1. Bartolo Anglani, Universita` di Bari, anglbar@hotmail.com : I carteggi di Gianmaria Ortes
2. Franco Arato, Università di Torino, franco.arato@unito.it : Fede, profetismo e pìa impostura nel carteggio tra G.L. Oderico e F. Carrega (1790)
3. Fabio Forner, Università di Verona, Fabio.forner@univr.it : Le Lettere scelte di Pietro Chiari e il successo delle raccolte di lettere fittizie nel secondo Settecento
4. Irene Zanini-Cordi, Florida State Univesity, izaninicordi@fsu.edu: Bizzarri commerci nelle lettere private di Elisabetta Mosconi Contarini all’abate Aurelio De’ Giorgi Bertola
Tipologie epistolari fra Sette e Ottocento II
Organizer: Francesca Savoia, University of Pittsburgh, savoia@pitt.edu
Chair: Irene Zanini-Cordi, Florida State Univesity, izaninicordi@fsu.edu
1. Gianmarco Gaspari, Università dell’Insubria, gianmarco.gaspari@uninsubria.it : Tra Milano e Parigi: il carteggio Verri-Beccaria (1766-1767)
2. Roberto Risso, robrisso@gmail.com: “Scrisse la lettera, e la riscrisse”. Idea e pratica della scrittura epistolare di Tommaseo
3. William Spaggiari, Università di Milano, wisp@bluewin.ch: Bettinelli, Algarotti, Frugoni e la lettera in versi
4. Francesca Savoia, University of Pittsburgh, savoia@pitt.edu: “Un galantuomo che sa giocar di penna bene”. Note sulla Scelta di lettere familiari di Baretti

Organizer: Stefania Lucamante, The Catholic University of America, Modern Languages
This session invites papers that consider the way Morante’s fictional and essayistic writings shape classical oppositions such as engagement and enchantment with the world, sin and repentance, self-reflection and corporality in her unique and poetic writings.
Chair:: Gaetana Marrone-Puglia, Princeton University, Marrone@princeton.edu
1. Gabrielle Orsi, Colorado Mountain College, gep2002@caa.columbia.edu: Disenchanted Nature: ‘Assurdità infernale’ in Menzogna e sortilegio
2. Sharon Wood, University of Leicester, slw26@leicester.ac.uk: From Sophocles to beat: Staging the modern self in Elsa Morante’s Una serata a Colono
3. Claudia Karagoz, St. Louis University, ckaragoz@slu.edu: Peccati: Sin, Abjection, and the Body in Elsa Morante's Early Writing
4. Stefania Lucamante, The Catholic University of America, lucamante@cua.edu: Propaganda, pregiudizio, e totalitarismo: Arendt e il mondo della Storia

Organizer: Maria Bonaria Urban, Universiteit van Amsterdam; Italiaanse Taal en Cultuur; Monica Jansen, University of Utrecht
Nell’immaginario collettivo l’Italia continua ad essere percepita come un paese in cui il passato si identifica con casi misteriosi e insoluti, con le tante ingiustizie perpetrate da uno stato incapace di garantire la legalità e spesso neanche in grado di offrire, a posteriori, un risarcimento (materiale e/o morale) alle vittime. Eppure il bisogno acuto di rielaborare l’esperienza della sofferenza e del danno subito non si affievolisce affatto nella coscienza collettiva, anzi cerca altre vie, insolite e creative, per esprimere il disagio di fronte all’ingiustizia. Dinnanzi all’oblio che tende a confondere le responsabilità di vittime e carnefici, l’atto creativo della giustizia, facendo ricorso alla memoria, si configura come un processo che può restituire una voce ai testimoni, individuare i colpevoli e sancire il ristabilimento della verità. La sessione affronta, da diversi punti di vista, il tema della giustizia nella scrittura e nella creazione artistica. Le proposte si soffermano su testi contemporanei (letterari, filmici, teatrali, etc.) elaborati nel periodo compreso approssimativamente dagli anni Settanta ad oggi.
L’Italia divisa: Narrazioni di una giustizia contestata I: tribunali di carta
Chair: Monica Jansen, University of Utrecht, m.m.jansen@let.uu.nl
1. Maria Bonaria Urban, University of Amsterdam, m.b.urban@uva.nl: In nome delle leggi: il topos della giustizia nelle narrazioni sarde contemporanee
2. Sarah Vantorre, vantorre.sarah@gmail.com: Verità. Giustizia. Libertà. Il processo all’anima meridionale come struttura narrativa nel teatro di Giuseppe Fava
3. Margherita Mesirca, mesirca@teletu.it: Tre giudici in cerca di giustizia. Strategie testuali ed effetti performativi nella raccolta Giudici
L’Italia divisa: Narrazioni di una giustizia contestata II: modi e generi
Chair: Maria Bonaria Urban, University of Amsterdam, m.b.urban@uva.nl
1. Inge Lanslots, KU Leuven-Antwerpen, inge.lanslots@telenet.be: Carlo Giuliano, né eroe né martire. Gli ingranaggi della memoria del ragazzo ribelle nella fumettistica
2. Maria Pia Paulis, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, maria-pia.dalembert@univ-paris3: Parole e immagini della strage di Piazza Fontana: storia e memoria per una giustizia incompiuta
3. Elena Paroli, Università di Aix-Marseille, parolielena@libero.it: L’allegoria come forma etica della poesia. La poetica di Fortini nella sua teleologia di verità e chiarezza

Organizer: Grace Russo Bullaro, City University of New York
This panel will present papers that address issues on the subject of transnationalism as it is related to individual and/or national identity, and literature in Italy today.
Chair: Grace Russo Bullaro, City University of New York, grace.bullaro@lehman.cuny.edu
1. Laura Dolp, John J. Cali School of Music Montclair State University AND, Evelyn Ferraro- Santa Clara University (California), dolpl@mail.montclair.edu: Resounding Memories: Gabriella Ghermandi’s Transnational Storytelling
2. Elena Benelli, Concordia University- Montreal, Canada, elena.benelli@concordia.ca: Come diventare italiani in 24 ore: Reconfiguring Italian Identity in Laila Wadia’s Narrative
3. Marianna Deganutti, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, marianna.deganutti@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk: Fulvio Tomizza: hybridity as origin
4. Mahmoud Jaran, University of Jordan (Amman), jaran@hotmail.it: Tawfik e Lamri: Letteratura di viaggio tra canonicità e riscrittura dell'altro

Organizers: Damiano Garofalo (Università di Padova, Fondazione Museo della Shoah) and Luca Peretti (Yale University)
Come è stata rappresenta o non rappresentata la Shoah in Italia nei musei, al cinema, in televisione, sui muri delle città, su internet? Quali sono le immagini simbolo, se ce ne sono, che si sono imposte nell'immaginario collettivo italiano? A partire da queste domande questo panel indaga la posizione ambigua e complessa dell'Italia nei confronti della Shoah dal punto di vista visuale, non limitandoci solo al cinema ma dedicando al contrario speciale attenzione alla televisione (serie tv e programmi di altro tipo), al web, ai musei, targhe e memoriali sparsi nelle città italiani o all'estero. Ci pare fondamentale infatti proporre un'analisi intermediale che tenga conto di più piattaforme visive, anche molto diverse tra di loro, cercando veramente di indagare quanto alcune immagini e rappresentazioni si siano imposte, o abbiano tentato di imporsi, nell'immaginario italiano.
Chair: Robert Gordon, University of Cambridge, Department of Italian, rscg1@cam.ac.uk
1. Damiano Garofalo (Università di Padova, Fondazione Museo della Shoah), damiano.garofalo@gmail.com: La memoria della Shoah nello spazio intermediale. Per un immaginario storico del presente
2. Andrea Minuz (Sapienza – Università di Roma), andrea.minuz@hotmail.it: Memoria della Shoah, defascistizzazione e costruzione del 'bravo italiano' nei documenti della censura cinematografica (1945-1951)
3. Vanessa Roghi (Sapienza – Università di Roma, Rai Tre), vanessa.roghi@uniroma1.it: Making of di un documentario (mai fatto) sulla Shoah

Organizer and Chair: Professor Joseph Francese, Michigan State University, francese@msu.edu
1. Nicolò Messina, Universitat de València, "Esercizi di cronaca o di stile?" (nmessinac@gmail.com)
2. Daragh O'Connell, University College Cork, "The Night of Reason: Between Melancholy and Epiphany in the Narrative of Vincenzo Consolo" (Daragh.OConnell@UCC.IE)
3. Joseph Francese, Michigan State University, "Consolo and Utopia" (francese@msu.edu)

Organizers: Matteo Brera, University of Edinburgh, M.Brera@ed.ac.uk, and Monica Jansen, Utrecht University, m.m.jansen@uu.nl
This panel draws a first map of the policies through which the Holy See tackled the broadly intended ideas of Modern and Modernism in Italian literature and visual arts. Contributions sought for this session aim to explore how the Holy See impacted on Italian public opinion, thus regaining its spiritual and moral authority after being delegitimized by secularism. Possible topics may include (but are not limited to): 'political' alliances, encyclical letters, instructions and decreta of the Holy Office and of the Congregation of the Index (censorship), public campaigns and debates promoted by Catholic journals, excommunications and public condemnations, (forced) conversions to Catholicism.
Mapping Catholic Interventism I: Modernism, Anti-semitism and Book Censorship
Chair: Luca Somigli (University of Toronto, luca.somigli@utoronto.ca)
1. Giuseppe Prigiotti (Duke University, gp47@duke.edu), Mapping the Vatican’s Reaction to Modernity in the Vatican Secret Archives
2. Elena Mazzini (Deutsche Historische Institut in Rome (DHI), lnmazzini@gmail.com), Italian Catholic Church and Anti-Semitism during the Thirties
3. Matteo Brera (University of Edinburgh, M.Brera@ed.ac.uk), The Index Librorum Prohibitorum in The Twentieth Century: A (Proposed) Reform of the Holy Office
Mapping Catholic Interventism II: Cultural Practices and Ideological Debates
Chair: Francesca Billiani (University of Manchester, francesca.billiani@manchester.ac.uk)
1. Francesca Parmeggiani (Fordham University, parmeggiani@fordham.edu), Impegno sociale e questione femminile: Padre Antonio Pavissich, della Compagnia di Gesú, sulle donne
2. Andrea Paganini (BGS Coira, info@andreapaganini.ch), Igino Giordani, Rivolta cattolica e «Parte guelfa»
3. Monica Jansen (Utrecht University/University of Antwerp, m.m.jansen@uu.nl), and Luca Somigli (University of Toronto, luca.somigli@utoronto.ca), Modernism and Conversion in the Wake of the Concordate: Futurist Anticlericalism Reconsidered

Organizer: Chiara Fabbian (University of Illinois at Chicago) and patronized by the Women Studies Caucus, cfabbian@uic.edu
This session, patronized by the Women Studies Caucus, seeks to discuss the work of Grazia Deledda and other women writers of the Novecento, vis-à-vis the crisis of the modern subject and coeval cultural experiences.
Moderator: Ombretta Frau
1. Alberica Bazzoni (University of Oxford, alberica.bazzoni@oriel.ox.ak.uk): Goliarda Sapienza's 'gioiosa forza nomade': Deconstructing and Recostructing Identity from 'Lettera aperta' to 'L'arte della gioia'
2. Chiara Fabbian (University of Illinois at Chicago, cfabbian@uic.edu): Embracing the Body. A Woman's Journey in Il Paese del vento by Grazia Deledda
3. Margherita Heyer-Caput (University of California, Davis mheyercaput@ucdavis.edu): Grazia Deledda's Narrative of S-Confinamento: Annalena Bilsini (1927)
4. Elise Magistro (Scripps College, elise.magistro@scrippscollege.edu): Old Story With a New Twist: Reconfiguring Concepts of Female Honor in Elvira Mancuso’s Annuzza, la maestrina … vecchia storia inverosimile

Organizer and Moderator: Tatiana Crivelli, Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Zürich, Switzerland, tatcriv@rom.uzh.ch
1. Prof. Dr. Pietro De Marchi, Universität Zürich, pietro.demarchi@access.uzh.ch: L'orlo della vita di Giorgio Orelli
2. Dr. Alessandro Zanoli, azanoli@mysunrise.ch: "Libro dell'alpe" vs. "Tempo di marzo", due successi letterari svizzero-italiani
3. Dr. Alessandro Bosco, SNF-Fellow (Post-Doc), Sapienza Università di Roma, abosco@gmx.net: «Carissimo Max…»: Enrico Filippini lettore di Frisch

Organizzatrice e chair: Filomena Fantarella, Brown University, filomena_fantarella@brown.edu
L'intento di questa sessione è quello di esplorare il rapporto tra letteratura e politica tra la seconda metà dell'Ottocento e gli inizi del Novecento: la crisi dei valori risorgimentali, il pessimismo antropologico e la conseguente visione dello Stato, la rivoluzione industriale e le lotte operaie, l'affermarsi delle identita' nazionali, la crisi dei valori del positivismo.
1) Roberto Dainotto, Duke University, dainotto@duke.edu, "Poi falcerem le teste a lor signori": i fasci siciliani e la "fuzione nazionale" del pirandellismo
2) Rosario Castelli, Universita' degli Studi di Catania, rcaste@unict.it, Il romanzo di Consalvo Uzeda: Federico De Roberto e le metamorfosi del potere
3) Rosario Gennaro, Università di Anversa, rosario.gennaro@uantwerpen.be, Stranieri in Patria. I sudditi di Trezza e il Risorgimento dei "Malavoglia"
4) Filomena Fantarella, Brown University, filomena_fantarella@brown.edu, La "Liberta'" di Giovanni Verga. Una analisi critica

Una complessa simbologia viene impiegata da Boccaccio nel Filocolo per rappresentare la personificazione della citta' eterna, con riferimenti che contaminano la tradizione classica e quella medieval, la simbologia pagana e quella cristiana. All'origine di questa immagine, costruita con studiati meccanismi, si può riconoscere un motivo di tipo encomiastico, legato all'esaltazione di casa d'Angiò, e, al contempo, un giudizio favorevole alla forma politica dell'impero, che esibisce continuità col pensiero dantesco. A distanza di un ventennio, nel De Casibus, Boccaccio sembra ricredersi sulla valutazione positiva riguardo la storia di Roma imperiale e pare piuttosto anticipare le posizioni di Leonardo Bruni e dei futuri assertori della florentina libertas. Il trattato si allinea al De viris romano del primo Petrarca nel celebrare la Roma repubblicana, a cui si oppone la decadenza e la corruzione dell'impero. Le virtù degli antichi romani diventano modelli del passato da contrapporre ai Priori fiorentini a Boccaccio contemporanei, abili solo nel furto e nella concussione.
Chair: Maria Frank Esposito, University of Hartford, frank@hartford.edu
Teresa Nocita, Università dell'Aquila, Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, teresa.nocita@libero.it, e Ilaria Tufano, Università di Foggia, Dipartimento di Studi umanistici, ilariatufano@libero.it: Boccaccio junior / Boccaccio senior: l'evoluzione dell'immagine di Roma tra il Filocolo e il De Casibus virorum illustrium

Organizer: Maria Teresa Maenza-Vanderboegh, Creighton University, mtmaenza@creighton.edu
In recent years there has been a great interest in learning more about the culture of food. Since the creation of the Slow Food movement (created in Italy by Carlo Petrini), the academic world has shown a great interest in many aspects of this culture. The fields of Italian Studies and Food Studies share the same aims in their effort to define Italian identity, and in debating the importance of food in Italian society. The rich food culture of Italy has attracted the interest of scholars in many different disciplines, such as literature, history, anthropology, folklore, cinema, gastronomy, and environmental science. The diversity of this attention demonstrates how the discussion of food and research cannot be contained within one given field.
We have acquired a social conscience with regard to food sustainability, a more sophisticated understanding of how food was and is produced, and how it affects our lives. Food is also what defines our cultural identity and ethical choices, as one can see in Dante’s metaphor of bread (Dante, Convivio), Biasin’s use of food as traveling metaphor, (Biasin, The flavors of Modernity. Food and the Novel), food as a definer of cultural identity (Montanari, L’identità italiana in cucina), and much more. Food has also become a relevant theme in films and documentaries (Focaccia Blues, Pranzo di Ferragosto, and more).
Italian Identity that Derives from Food Culture I
Chair: Maria Teresa Maenza-Vanderboegh, Creighton University, mtmaenza@creighton.edu
1.Francesca Calamita, IMLR (School of Advanced Studies, University of London), francescacalamita@libero.it: ‘She Ate Leftovers Alone in the Kitchen': Food, Empowerment and Identity in Neera’s Teresa (1886) and L’indomani (1889)
2. Jessica Cusano, Università degli Studi di Torino, 1979.je@gmail.com: Fame di film. Cibo e cultura nel cinema muto italiano.
3.Mark Bernheim, Miami University, Ohio, bernhema@miamioh.edu: Italian Jewish Culture through the Lens of Food: La Storia Passa dalla Cucina di Jenny Bassani Liscia
The Inclusion of “Food Studies” in “Italian Studies” II
Chair: Francesca Calamita, IMLR, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, francescacalamita@libero.it
1. Elise Canup, Independent Scholar, elise.canup@gmail.com: Diventare cucina tipica: I prodotti italiani del nuovo mondo sulla tavola italiana
2. Rachel Black, Gastronomy Program, Boston University, rblack@bu.edu:Teaching Italian Culture through Food: An Anthropological Approach
3. Elisa Ascione, Food Studies, The Umbra Institute, Perugia, eascione@umbra.org: Food Museums in Italy: Food as Heritage, Performance and Identity
4. Patrizia La Trecchia, University of South Florida, patrizia@usf.edu: The Value of Food for a Rapidly Growing Planet and the Mediterranean Diet

Organizer and Chair: Manuela Marchesini, Texas A+M University
Not long ago, a heated debate pitted Italo Calvino and Pier Paolo Pasolini as the two alternative epicenters not just of the Italian modern literary canon but also of the Italian cultural self-perception. Carlo Emilio Gadda's work has been repeatedly called for as the missing or potentially explanatory link. This session aims to thematize and articulate precisely this complex connection. Can Gadda’s work affect not just the "literary" dialectic I mentioned above but more importantly what the latter underlines? Between the two poles of the celebrated writer and the ill-tolerated stylist, what is the status of global Gadda studies now?
1. Filippo Milani, Università di Bologna, filippo.milani2@unibo.it: Gadda, Manganelli e la novella
2. Manuela Marchesini, Texas A+M University, mmarchesini@tamu.edu: Gadda's "Inner Gallery"
3: Marco Antonio Bazzocchi, Università di Bologna, marco.bazzocchi@unibo.it: Gadda “personaggio”

Organizer and Chair: Federica G. Pedriali, The University of Edinburgh, UK, F.Pedriali@ed.ac.uk
"Override the Front Line / Inside the Outer Gadda": the panel aims to reprocess the understanding of Gadda in the wider context of his reception, intending the latter as both creative and critical, and whereby the writer is, in one, the locus for new elaboration and the site of convergence for several literary traditions. It will focus on the aesthetic, epistemological and socio-political strategies and anxieties linking Gadda to the literary semiosphere of western culture.
1. Giuseppe Episcopo, The University of Edinburgh, g.episcopo@gmail.com>U: Global Histories Resonate Locally
2. Alberto Godioli, The University of Edinburgh, albertogodioli@gmail.com: Global Maps. Mapping the European Novel through Gadda
3. Federica Pedriali, The University of Edinburgh, F.Pedriali@ed.ac.uk: Global Work. Why Emergency Rations are Key
4. Cristina Savettieri, Humboldt Fellow, Università di Berlino, cristina.savettieri@gmail.com: Local Sets, Global Identities. Rethinking Gender and Nation through Gadda >

Organizer: Carlo Testa, Italian French, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, carlo.testa@ubc.ca
From Winckelmann's and Goethe's rediscovery of true Classicism in the Italian peninsula, to Brentano's, Tieck's and E.T.A Hoffmann's tales, and to August Wilhelm Schlegel's and Stefan George's translations of Dante's Divine Comedy, to the reception of Germanic literature and civilization in the Italian 20th century – among others by Svevo, Pirandello, Dino Campana, Buzzati, without forgetting Federico Fellini's passion for Jungian archetypes – Italo-Germanic literary relations have a long and rich history which offers endless opportunities for cross-cultural explorations. All contributions will be welcome which propose (re)visitations, (re)discoveries, and reflections on Translation - Reception - Reverberations within a fruitful two-way cultural symbiosis that goes back many centuries and is sure to remain fruitful for more.
Rapporti culturali italo-germanici I
Presiede: Dr. Pasquale De Caprio, Università Federico II, Napoli, pasqualedecaprio@hotmail.com
1. Stefano Ferrari (Accademia degli Agiati, Rovereto, stefano.ferrari64@tin.it): Il transfert italiano di Winckelmann (1755-1786)
2. Paolo Luca Bernardini (Università dell’Insubria, Como, paololuca.bernardini@uninsubria.it): Herder’s Italian Journey 1788-1789: a Forgotten Chapter
3. Serena Luzzi (Università di Trento, serena.luzzi@unitn.it): L’attività di mediazione culturale italo-tedesca del Giornale Letterario a Coira (1768)
4. Elisa Bianco (Università dell’Insubria, Como, elisa.bianco@uninsubria.it): Venezia nelle lettere dall’Italia di Jacob Jonas Björnståhl (1731-1779)
Rapporti culturali italo-germanici II
Presiede: Prof. Elisa Segnini, University of British Columbia, elisa.segnini@ubc.ca
1. Ilona Klein (Brigham Young University, ilokle@byu.edu): Reception of Italian literature in German periodicals (1815-1830)
2. Ida De Michelis (Università di Losanna e Roma-Tor Vergata, idadem@libero.it): La ricezione del Faust di Goethe in Italia
3. Maria Rita Murgia (Università di Cagliari, ritkamur@yahoo.it): Giovanni Tolu: un bandito sardo a Berlino alla fine dell’Ottocento
4. Simone Castaldi (Hofstra University, Simone.Castaldi@hofstra.edu): Amore e ginnastica di Edmondo De Amicis
Rapporti culturali italo-germanici III: Il Novecento
Presiede: Prof. Carlo Testa, University of British Columbia, carlo.testa@ubc.ca
1. Michael Subialka (St Hugh’s College, Oxford University, michael.subialka@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk): Suffering and Beauty from Schopenhauer to Pirandello
2. Elisa Segnini (University of British Columbia, elisa.segnini@ubc.ca) and Guglielmo Bernardi (York University): Cultural translation in Pirandello’s Heute abend wird aus dem Stegreif gespielt
3. Pasquale De Caprio (Università Federico II, Napoli, pasqualedecaprio@hotmail.com): Erinnerungskultur: Storia e memoria pubblica in Germania ed Italia dopo la seconda guerra mondiale

Organizers: Federica Frediani, Università della Svizzera italiana; Martino Lovato, University of Texas at Austin.
Chair: Federica Frediani, Università della Svizzera italiana, Laboratorio studi mediterranei, federica.frediani@usi.ch
In the last decades a wide theoretical effort has been made, from many sides of the humanities, to provide a suitable theoretical framework for the Mediterranean sea. At once a reality and a cultural construction, the Mediterranean has inspired a heterogeneous corpus of narratives which Italian scholars have contributed in formulating. In their works, Franco Cassano, Danilo Zolo, Scipione Guarracino, Robero Dainotto, among others, have shared and debated the crucial questions circulating in the Mediterranean debate, an archive through which we invite to explore and review the dominant tropes of this emerging field of studies. While reflecting on the images of the Mediterranean diffused by their works, this panel invites to think at the moulding identity of the Italian Mediterranean shore.
Session moderator: Dr. Federica Frediani, Università della Svizzera italiana, federica.frediani@usi.ch
1. Christopher Kaiser, University of Yale, christopher.kaiser@yale.edu: Il caso Lampedusa: Toward an Aesthetic Reading
2. Martino Lovato, University of Texas at Austin, mlovato@utexas.edu: The “Southern Alternative” in the works of F. Cassano and R. Dainotto
3. Mauro Pala, Università degli studi di Cagliari, pala@unica.it: Meticciato mediterraneo: narrazione, parodia e subalternità in Amara Lakhous
4. Herman Bashiron Mendolicchio, University of Barcelona, herman.b101@gmail.com: Incontro Mediterraneo. Dalla narrativa di viaggio alla rappresentazione artistica

Memory politics in Italy are very strongly determined by what Giovanni de Luna defined, in his essay 'La Repubblica del dolore' (2011), the ‘paradigma vittimario’. The memory boom of recent decades has augmented the number of victims struggling for primacy and media visibility in Italy, a country characterized by many ‘divided memories’. Victims and victims’ families are indeed central in processes of commemoration, reconciliation and in the working through of traumas, though more often than not their presence in the public sphere has been used for political purposes. This panel will discuss the role and identity of victims and victims’ families within the public sphere, their impact on public opinion and presence in the media, and the mechanisms they apply to gain official recognition and public consensus in a country where memories of past conflicts are still very much alive.
Session moderator: Dr Andrea Hajek, University of Glasgow (UK), Andrea.Hajek@glasgow.ac.uk
1. Dr Daniele Salerno, Università di Bologna (Italy), daniele.salerno@gmail.com: Fu una strage. The memory of Ustica and the narratives of the Associazione dei parenti delle vittime
2. Emily Ryder, University of Glasgow (UK), e.ryder.1@research.gla.ac.uk: Padre, perdonali: the role of forgiveness in the writings of family members of victims from the anni di piombo
3. Dr Chiara Tedaldi, University College Dublin (UK) /Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain), chiara.tedaldi@ucd.ie: Of Victims, Martyrs, Heroes and Their Families. Competing Victimhoods in the Age of Multidirectional Memory

Organizer: Giacomo Comiati, University of Warwick Coventry (UK), G.Comiati@Warwick.ac.uk
Its aim is to analyse the influence the Latin poet Ovid had on Italian poetical works composed between the fourteenth and the sixteenth century.
1. Madison Sowell, Southern Virginia University, madison.sowell@gmail.com: Dante's Commedia vis-à-vis the Ovide Moralisé
2. Giacomo Comiati, University of Warwick, G.Comiati@Warwick.ac.uk: Il mito di Piramo e Tisbe nell'Amorosa Visione boccacciana
3. Alessandra Origgi, Freie Universitat Berlin, origgi@zedat.fu-berlin.de, Strategie di riscrittura nei poemetti mitologici di Luigi Alamanni (Favola di Narcisso, Favola di Phetonte)
4. Elena Raisi, Università di Bologna, elenaraisi@gmail.com: The metamorphosis into snake. Representing the ultimate form of punishment from Ovid to Early-Modern Italy

Organizer: Daniela Boccassini, University of British Columbia, daniela.boccassini@ubc.ca
Italy played a significant symbolic role for C.G. Jung, in the way of journeys both taken and NOT taken, both lived and dreamed -- as some of the episodes recorded in his autobiography attest. Furthermore, key figures of Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Italian culture - from Plotinus to Dante to Ficino - played a major role in shaping Jung's inner journey. The writings and en-souling experiences of these authors acted as mirrors in which Jung little by little saw appear, through time's divide, the very features of his own deepest, and most universal, process of soul-searching, one to which he gave the name of "process of individuation". As James Hillman later stated, the ancient Italian masters of soul-wisdom are to be considered as the forefathers of Jungian depth psychology. Can depth psychology in turn help us better understand the message that these shapers of our culture consigned to their writings?
Chair: Valerio Cappozzo, University of Mississippi, vcappozz@olemiss.edu
1. Daniela Boccassini (University of British Columbia, daniela.boccassini@ubc.ca): Jung and Dante: Journeying to Wholeness on the Wings of “Intellect”
2. Kathryn LaFevers Evans (Pacifica Graduate Institute, kathryn-e@sbcglobal.net): Marsilio Ficino’s Disciple, Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples, and C. G. Jung: Practicing Medicine Wheel in De Magia naturali and The Red Book
3. Cesare Catà (University of Macerata, cesareintower@libero.it): The Lost Heritage of Marsilio Ficino: Carl Gustav Jung’s Idea of Visionary Poetry and Italian Neorealism

Organizers: Dr. Francesca Parmeggiani, Fordham University, Bronx NY., and Erminia Ardissino, Università di Torino
Molti testi letterari italiani sono in forma di preghiera: dal "Cantico delle creature", che segna gli inizi della poesia volgare, ai versi di Luzi, Testori, Merini, ecc., passando per Dante, Petrarca, Tasso, il Petrarchismo e il Barocco, Manzoni. Il panel intende indagare con metodologia aggiornata i testi, cercando di indicare i legami interdiscorsivi, sottolineare le peculiarità di un autore ma anche le continuità, individuare i rapporti con i contesti spirituali e storici, biblici e patristici. I momenti su cui si focalizza l’attenzione sono in particolare il Medioevo, la prima età moderna, il Novecento, ma si discutono anche diversi percorsi: singoli autori nel loro contesto, modelli e aspetti teorici, rapporto con le arti e influenze in Europa e dall’Europa.
Poesia e preghiera I
Moderator: Alessandro Vettori (Rutgers University, vettori@rci.rutgers.edu)
1. Matteo Leonardi (Università della Valle d'Aosta, aleonardim@tiscali.it): 'A tte, Deo, laudamo, con voce cantamo': matrici liturgiche e mediolatine nella letteratura religiosa volgare del XIII secolo
2. Ester Pietrobon (Università di Padova, ester.pietrobon@studenti.unipd.it): Libri di preghiera, libri di rime: ricodificare il petrarchismo attraverso i Salmi nel secondo Cinquecento
3. Kathleen LaPenta (Fordham University, lapentak@gmail.com): Filming Francis: The Representation of Prayer in Rossellini's 'Francesco, giullare di Dio'
Poesia e preghiera II
Moderator and Session Co-Proponent: Erminia Ardissino (Università di Torino, erminia.ardissino@unito.it)
1. Elisabetta Selmi (Università di Padova, elisabetta.selmi@unipd.it): L'elegia tra sacro e profano ('600 e primo '700)
2. Andrea Grassi (Université de Fribourg, andrea.grassi2@unifr.ch): La poesia religiosa del giovane Marino: appunti sulle 'Rime morali' e 'Rime sacre'
3. Chiara Coppin (Università di Napoli L'Orientale, chiara.coppin@gmail.com): La preghiera nel dramma sacro tra Sette e Ottocento
Poesia e preghiera III
Moderator and Session Co-Proponent: Francesca Parmeggiani (Fordham University, parmeggiani@fordham.edu)
1. Filippo Fonio (Université de Grenoble - Alpes, filippo.fonio@u-grenoble3.fr): Forme della preghiera nell'opera di Gabriele d'Annunzio, tra archeologia, francescanesimo decadente e patriottismo
2. Alberto Comparini (Stanford University, compa@stanford.edu): The Sentiment of God in Giuseppe Ungaretti's 'Inni'
3. Erminia Ardissino (Università di Torino, erminia.ardissino@unito.it): Caproni 'nel baratro della preghiera'
4. Silvia Chessa (Università di Perugia, silvia.chessa@unipg.it): 'Se uso la parola è per pregarti...' La lingua della poesia e la parola della preghiera in Maria Luisa Spaziani

Organizers: Cristina Caracchini ccaracch@uwo.ca e Enrico Minardi Enrico.Minardi@asu.edu
Il panel si propone di descrivere gli spazi di espressione, le ricerche (di ordine cognitivo, formale, pragmatico ecc.) e la funzione della poesia italiana in ambito sociale e culturale a partire della seconda metà del XX secolo.
Moderator: Elena Benelli, Concordia University, elena.benelli@concordia.ca
1. Justyna Hanna Orzeł, Università di Varsavia, justyna.orzel@gmail.com: La poesia orale in Italia: alla ricerca di una definizione univoca
2. Francesco Puccio, puccio_francesco@libero.it: La poesia di Carmelo Aliberti: un agonismo dell'essere e del vivere
3. Arianna Marelli, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, a.marelli@sns.it: Gli spazi aperti della traduzione. Gianni Celati e le Poesie della torre di Hölderlin

Organizer: Mimmo Cangiano, Duke University, dc131@duke.edu
Questa sessione intende esplorare l’influenza del pensiero di György Lukács in Italia, dai primi testi tradotti alla vasta diffusione di libri quali La distruzione della ragione; dalla versione italiana di Storia e coscienza di classe alla ormai più che trentennale fortuna delle sue opere giovanili, fino alla recente “riscoperta” dell’ultimo Lukács.
Lukács in Italia I
1. Thomas Harrison; UCLA, harrison@humnet.ucla.edu: The Italian Metaphysics of Lukácsian Tragedy
2. Saskia Ziolkowski; Duke University, sez6@duke.edu: Kafka vs. Kafka. Lukács and German-language Literature in Italy
3. Diego Stefanelli; Università di Pavia, diego.stefanelli01@universitadipavia.it: Tra Lukács e Spitzer. Cesare Cases e il confronto/scontro fra stilistica e critica marxista
Lukács in Italia II
1. Antonello Perli; Université de Nice, Antonello.PERLI@unice.fr: Lukács e la questione del realismo
2. Antonio Allegra; Independent Scholar, allegra.a1@gmail.com: Lukács e Fortini: una lunga (in)fedeltà
3. Sandro de Nobile; denobilesandro@gmail.com, Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” di Chieti: Il nume nel tempio. Lukács e "Il Contemporaneo" (1954-1958)

Organizer: Marianna Deganutti, University of Oxford, marianna.deganutti@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk
Questa sessione si rivolge alla letteratura triestina tenendo in considerazione anche quegli autori che, pur non avendo raggiunto la notorietà di Italo Svevo o Umberto Saba, hanno contribuito al suo sviluppo e alla sua definizione. Verranno inoltre indagate nuove prospettive riguardanti il rapporto fra gli autori trietino-giuliani e altre lingue e culture.
Moderator: Silvia Contarini, Università di Udine, silvia.contarini@uniud.it
1. Riccardo Cepach, Museo sveviano di Trieste, cepach@comune.trieste.it: Anglo, franco, slavo, italo, svevo. Il variegato mondo della letteratura triestina
2. Ana Bukvić, Università di Zara, abukvic@unizd.hr: 'La Madre Slava' di Luigi Fichert come intermediario letterario-culturale tra le due sponde dell'Adriatico
3. Mario Rescigno, l’Università degli studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, mario.rescigno@libero.it: L’influsso sveviano nei romanzi della Spagna contemporanea

Organizer: Marianna Deganutti, University of Oxford, marianna.deganutti@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk
Questa sessione indaga prospettive inedite riguardanti l’elaborazione del concetto di identità e frontiera e i rapporti traduttivi nella letteratura triestina.
Moderator: Elis Deghenghi Olujić, Università Juraj Dobrila di Pula/Pola, Croazia, elis.olujic@pu.t-com.hr
1. Nunzia Palmieri, Università di Bergamo, palmieri@unibg.it: Notizie dalla notte. L'identità onirica di Umberto Saba
2. Angela Fabris, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Angela.Fabris@uni-klu.ac.at: Sulle orme di Zeno: la frontiera rovesciata di Francesco Burdin e Franco Vegliani
3. Tiziana Piras, Università di Trieste, tpiras@units.it: Le “due culture” nei romanzi di Giuseppe O. Longo
4. Martina Ozbot, University of Ljubljana, Martina.Ozbot@guest.arnes.si: Letteratura triestina – A special case in translation research

Organizer: Enrico Cesaretti, University of Virginia
The cross-disciplinary and trans-national area of environmental humanities is a field of research with the potential of significantly re-energizing and reaffirming the importance of humanistic disciplines in the contemporary world. Within this field, eco-criticism has emerged as one of the most visible developments in literary studies in the past ten years.
However, as Serenella Iovino, a leading scholar in this subject, observed: “as regards environmental humanities, Italy is still a rather backwards reality”.
The objective of this panel is to gather contributions that either theoretically reflect on and/or practically apply an eco-critical perspective to Italian literature and culture.
Eco-critical Approaches to Italian Literature and Culture I
1. Alessandro Vettori, Rutgers University [vettori@rci.rutgers.edu]: The Garden of Eden Revisited. Issues of Ecological Approaches in Giuseppe Berto and Italo Calvino; request for projector 2. Anna Chiafele, Auburn University [azc0039@auburn.edu]: Sensibilità postmoderna ed etica ambientale in Luigi Malerba
3. Matteo Gilebbi, Duke University [mg143@duke.edu]: L'ermeneutica necessaria. Come e perché l'ecocritica salverà il mondo
4. Camilla Skalle, University of Bergen [Camilla.Skalle@if.uib.no]: Il futuro cannibale. Free Karma Food (2006) di Wu Ming 5 e Sirene (2007) di Laura Pugno‎
Eco-critical Approaches to Italian Literature and Culture II
1. Silvia Ross, University College Cork [s.ross@ucc.ie]: Silvia Avallone’s Acciaio and the Industrialized Spaces of the Tuscan Coast
2. Rossella Di Rosa, Rutgers University [rodirosa@eden.rutgers.edu]: Fabrizia Ramondino. Due romanzi tra prospettive ecocritiche ed orizzonti eco-logici
3. Emiliano Guaraldo, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill [eg2cv@virginia.edu]: Landscape and the Environment in Italian Post-war Documentary Films
Eco-critical Approaches to Italian Literature and Culture III
1. Enrico Cesaretti, University of Virginia [efc4p@virginia.edu]: Eco-futurism? Some Thoughts on Nature, Matter and Body in F.T. Marinetti
2. Elena Past, Wayne State University [elenapast@wayne.edu]: 'Red Desert' and the Ecology of Color"; request for projector for PowerPoint (she’ll be using film stills)
3 Serenella Iovino, Università di Torino [serenella.iovino@unito.it]: Otherwordly stories. An Ecocritical and Post-humanist Reading of Calvino’s works

Organizer: Enrica Maria Ferrara, Research Fellow in Italian, Trinity College Dublin.
Questa è la prima di due sessioni che si propongono di indagare l’impatto che il linguaggio del teatro italiano e straniero ha avuto sulla sperimentazione narrativa italiana otto-novecentesca. Il teatro è dunque oggetto di analisi come modello di oralità e di mimesi plurilinguistica del linguaggio rappresentato e come repertorio di temi e tecniche espressive che consentono alla narrativa italiana di sottrarsi alla retorica classicistica del realismo risorgimentale, del verismo e più avanti del neo-realismo. Dalla teatralità della narrativa scapigliata all’ibridazione di generi della narrativa pirandelliana, dal “romanzo Guernica” di Vittorini - che mescola sapientemente modelli teatrali e dialogato della narrativa nordamericana - alla sperimentazione di Moravia, Palazzeschi, Bontempelli, Calvino, Gadda, Pasolini, Sciascia, gli scrittori del gruppo ’63 (per fare solo alcuni esempi), nella narrativa otto-novecentesca il teatro diventa citazione, trasfigurazione, riferimento e ispirazione. Si presentano alcune ipotesi ermeneutiche per misurare la portata di questa intersezione tra discorso teatrale e discorso narrativo nella letteratura italiana otto-novecentesca e si definisce l’arco cronologico del processo critico di analisi che da Manzoni arriva fino a Gadda e Pasolini.
Chair: Joseph Francese, Michigan State University, francese@msu.edu
1. Enrica Maria Ferrara, Trinity College Dublin, ferrarae@tcd.ie: Il realismo teatrale nella narrativa italiana otto-novecentesca
2. Ambra Moroncini, University of Sussex, a.moroncini@sussex.ac.uk, giancarlo.alfano@unina2.it: Vero storico e verità della psicologia umana nel realismo teatrale e narrativo di Alessandro Manzoni
3. Giancarlo Alfano, II Universitá degli Studi di Napoli: Le pulsioni del mondo: la poetica “teatrale” di C.E. Gadda

Organizer: Enrica Maria Ferrara, Research Fellow in Italian, Trinity College Dublin.
Questa è la seconda di due sessioni che si propongono di indagare l’impatto che il linguaggio del teatro italiano e straniero ha avuto sulla sperimentazione narrativa italiana otto-novecentesca. Il teatro è dunque oggetto di analisi come modello di oralità e di mimesi plurilinguistica del linguaggio rappresentato e come repertorio di temi e tecniche espressive che consentono alla narrativa italiana di sottrarsi alla retorica classicistica del realismo risorgimentale, del verismo e più avanti del neo-realismo. Questa seconda sessione, che si concentra più decisamente su alcune concrezioni novecentesche di questo dialogo fra linguaggio teatrale e narrativo, ha come oggetto di analisi la citazionalità e le modalità intertestuali che intrecciano discorso teatrale e narrativo nella prosa del Novecento, da Achille Campanile agli scrittori neorealisti fino a Sciascia e Camilleri.
Chair: Enrica Maria Ferrara, Trinity College Dublin, ferrarae@tcd.ie
1. Leonardo Battisti, Universitá “La Sapienza” di Roma (leonardo.battisti@uniroma1.it): Strategie del comico a cavallo tra dramma e romanzo: i tre atti unici del 1925 di Achille Campanile
2. Alessandra Marfoglia, Universitá “La Sapienza” di Roma (folium@tiscali.it): Eduardo De Filippo e il neorealismo narrativo
3. Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, Trinity College Dublin (COCULLNN@tcd.ie), Striking scenes: theatrical reflections on crime fiction

Organizer and Moderator: John Foot, University of Bristol, j.foot@bristol.ac.uk
This panel presents ongoing research history and culture of psychiatry in Italy and the institution of the psychiatric hospital in the 20th century. This is a relatively new area of study which is attracting researchers from across many disciplines - from history, to literature studies, to the broad field of medical humanities. John Foot’s paper discusses the cultural history of the radical psychiatry movement in the 1960s and 1970s. Alessandra Diazzi’s paper looks at the work of the novelist Ottiero Ottieri with regard to the asylum system. Maren Ahlzweig’s paper, meanwhile, examines the relationship between literature and psychiatry in Italy.
1. John Foot, Department of Italian, University of Bristol, j.foot@bristol.ac.uk: The cultural history of a movement. Radical psychiatry and anti-institutionalism in Italy, 1961-1978
2. Alessandra Diazzi, Department of Italian, University of Cambridge, ad608@cam.ac.uk: Ottiero Ottieri and the Literature of Asylum
3. Maren Ahlzweig, Universität Heinrich-Heine Düsseldorf, Germany, ahlzweig@phil.uni-duesseldorf.de: Il dialogo letterario e la legge 180: la psichiatria diventa questione politica

Organizer: Laura Lazzari, Franklin College Switzerland, llazzari@fc.edubr /> Esiste un’identità svizzero-italiana e che cosa la caratterizza? Il panel intende proporre una definizione dell’italianità in Svizzera, indagando le peculiarità che caratterizzano gli italofoni e gli Svizzeri italiani residenti nel paese.
Chair: Pietro Montorfani, Archivio Storico della Città di Lugano (pietro.montorfani@gmail.com)
1. Pietro Montorfani, Archivio Storico della Città di Lugano (pietro.montorfani@gmail.com): Il Dizionario imperiale di Giovanni Veneroni (1700): l’italiano in dialogo con francese e tedesco
2. Jacqueline Samperi Mangan, Université de Montréal (jacqueline.samperi@umontreal.ca): Dubbi e disagi sull’identità letteraria della Svizzera italiana
3. Sergej Roic, Globus et Locus Milano (s.roic@ticino.com): La Svizzera italiana, ovvero la porta della cultura italica.
4. Marcus Pyka, Franklin University Switzerland (mpyka@fc.edu): Ticino as a Postcolonial Territory?

Organizer: Federico Pacchioni, Chapman University, pacchion@chapman.edu
This panel examines cases of artistic collaborations, intermedial references, and pivotal themes intersecting literary and filmic texts as well as other media. The goal of the panel is to discuss the ways in which an intermedial approach can unveil new facets of a text’s aesthetic and cultural history.
1. Serena Convito, McGill University (serena.convito@mail.mcgill.ca): Alda Merini and Giuliano Grittini: poetry embodied
2. Carlo Alberto Petruzzi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (cpetruzz@LIVE.UNC.EDU): Technological Stages. Carmelo Bene and the Italian Avant-gardes
3. Irene Lottini, The University of Iowa (irene-lottini@uiowa.edu): Marguerite, Violetta e le alter La ‘traviata’ nel cinema italiano

Organizer: Laura Lazzari, Franklin University Switzerland, llazzari@fc.edu
Le varie tappe del percorso di emancipazione femminile, le vicende storiche e le singole esperienze e personalità delle autrici hanno portato ad affrontare il tema della maternità e il suo rapporto con l’identità femminile in modo diverso nel corso dei secoli, con conseguente riflesso sui testi letterari. Questo è il primo di tre panel che intendono indagare le varie rappresentazioni di maternità nella letteratura italiana delle donne dal ventesimo secolo fino ai giorni nostri.
La maternità nella letteratura italiana delle donne dal ventesimo secolo ai giorni nostri I
Chair: Laura Lazzari, Franklin University Switzerland (llazzari@fc.edu)
1. Mélanie Jorba, Université Toulouse II, Le Mirail (melanie.jorba@gmail.com), Le madri di Elsa Morante
2. Katrin Wehling-Giorgi, University of Warwick (K.Wehling-Giorgi@warwick.ac.uk): “Ero io l’ordinatore della strage”: Mothers and Violence in Morante, Ferrante and Sapienza
3. Julia Titus, Yale University (julia.titus@gmail.com): The Dynamics of Mother/Daughter Relationship and the Quest for Self in Elena Ferrante’s L’Amore molesto
4. Giusy Di Filippo, University of New Hampshire (giusy.difilippo@gmail.com): Colpevoli/innocenti: le madri che uccidono i figli in Maternity Blues e From Medea
La maternità nella letteratura italiana delle donne dal ventesimo secolo ai giorni nostri II
Chair: Emma Bond, University of St. Andrews (efb@st-andrews.ac.uk)
1. Fiammetta Di Lorenzo, Duke University (fd35@duke.edu): “La carriera di madre”: la demistificazione del ruolo materno in Anna Banti, Laudomia Bonanni e Paola Masino
2. Sanja Kobilj, Università di Banja Luka (email: sanja.zeno@gmail.com), Essere donna ed essere madre: un rapporto conflittuale?
3. Amanda Bush, University of Texas, Austin (arbushyso@gmail.comu): Conflicting identities in the work of Dacia Maraini: Mother or Woman?
4. Laura Lazzari, Franklin University Switzerland (llazzari@fc.edu): Maternità ad ogni costo nella letteratura italiana contemporanea
La maternità nella letteratura italiana delle donne dal ventesimo secolo ai giorni nostri III
Chair: Katrin Wehling-Giorgi, University of Warwick (K.Wehling-Giorgi@warwick.ac.uk)
1. Annalisa Comes, Université de Lorraine (alisacomes@hotmail.com): Valori e stereotipi nella rappresentazione della mamma nella letteratura italiana per l’infanzia dal 1945 a oggi: testi e illustrazioni
2. Michela Prevedello, University of Bristol (mp13719@bristol.ac.uk): Diventando madri: riflessioni sulla maternità in Oriana Fallaci e Valeria Parrella
3. Emma Bond, University of St. Andrews (efb@st-andrews.ac.uk): Migration and the Space of the Maternal Body
4. Valentina Dogao, Università degli Studi di Padova (valentinadogao@libero.it): Dis-matrie: maternità e percorsi postocoloniali

Organizer: Christian Uva, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, christian.uva@uniroma3.it
Questa sessione raccoglie contributi utili a rendere conto delle diverse modalità in cui il cinema ha interpretato, raccontato, rispecchiato l’identità italiana in quanto fenomeno in continua evoluzione e mutazione. Il tema centrale è quello dell’italianità quale progetto e processo storico, politico, sociale in cui si è definita un’identità culturale e l'immagine di una società.
L’identità italiana attraverso il cinema I
Chair: Christian Uva, Università Roma Tre, christian.uva@uniroma3.it
1. Alberto Zambenedetti, University of Toronto, alberto.zambenedetti@utoronto.ca: On Lampooning "La Grande Italia" in Postwar Italy: Erminio Macario (not) in Argentina
2. Federico Pacchioni, Chapman University, pacchion@chapman.edu: Attraversare l'identità: burattini tra poesia e politica in "Novecento"
3. Bernardo Picichè, Virginia Commonwealth University, bpiciche@vcu.edu: Non solo "Mostri" nel cinema italiano
L’identità italiana attraverso il cinema II
Chair: Gius Gargiulo, MoDyCo/Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, gargiuloster@gmail.com
1. Flavia Brizio-Skov, University of Tennessee, fbrizio@utk.edu: Lo spaghetti western come cinema transnazionale, transculturale e post-nazionale
2. Julia Nelson Hawkins, Ohio State University, hawkins.552@osu.edu: Fellini’s Females: Fish and Freaks in the Italian Tradition
3. Valentino Natale Misino, Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, valentinomisino@gmail.com: Gli spot felliniani di Campari e Barilla (1984): l'identità italiana tra sogno e pubblicità
L’identità italiana attraverso il cinema III
Chair: Vito Zagarrio, Università Roma Tre, vito.zagarrio@uniroma3.it
1. Giacomo Striuli, Providence College, gstriuli@hotmail.com: Taviani, Zeffirelli, Garrone: Cinematic Visions of Italy 2. Gius Gargiulo, MoDyCo/Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, gargiuloster@gmail.com: Theatrical identity, betrayal and italian road movie in Gabriele Salvatores' "Turné" 3. William Hope, The University of Salford, W.Hope@salford.ac.uk: Marginalized Identities in New Millennium Italian Cinema 4. Carlotta Fonzi Kliemann, Syracuse University in Florence, cklieman@syr.edu: Nuovi italiani e migranti nel cinema di Andrea Segre

Organizer: Alan O'Leary, University of Leeds, a.oleary@leeds.ac.uk
This panel/these panels will consider new answers to the question: What are the modes, genres and registers in which Italian cinema has dealt with the history of Italy? The goal is to rethink the relationship of Italian cinema to the history of Italy from a descriptive and analytical rather than prescriptive and paternalistic perspective. It is therefore likely that proposals will not focus on the modes or moments traditionally preferred in normative criticism; however, speakers may wish to challenge the entrenched idea that certain modes – realism, auteurism, the cinema d’impegno – have a privileged relationship to the Italian nation and to its history.
Italian Cinemas/Italian Histories A
Chair: Fabio Vighi, University of Cardiff, VighiF@cardiff.ac.uk
1. Marie-France Courriol, University of Cambridge/University Lille 3, mfc36@cam.ac.uk: ‘War on Screen: Historical Engagement and Popular Responses in WWII Italy’
2. Brian Thomas DeGrazia, New York University, btd219@nyu.edu: ‘To hell with narrative: Salò, Inferno, and irony’
3. Achille Castaldo, Duke University, achille.castaldo@duke.edu: ‘Home as prison, prison as home: failed struggles and the cinematic space of the prison-house’
Italian Cinemas/Italian Histories B
Chair: Paolo Noto, Universita’ di Bologna, paolo.noto2@unibo.it
1. Giacomo Tagliani, University of Siena, taglianig@yahoo.it: ‘Autobiography of the Nation. The Figure of Moro as transmedial object’
2. Luca Peretti, Yale University, luca.peretti@yale.edu: ‘Storia e storie di film che non ci sono. Il caso degli “anni di piombo”’
3. Andrea Privitera, Western University, aprivite@uwo.ca: ‘C’eravamo Tanto Amati: A Prosthetic Narrative of Italy’s Divided Memory’
4. Mauro Sassi, McGill University, mauro.sassi@mail.mcgill.ca: ‘Film Styles and Modes of Production of the Italian Cinema. The Case of Luchino Visconti’s Rocco e i suoi fratelli’
Italian Cinemas/Italian Histories C
Chair: Derek Duncan, University of St Andrews, ded3@st-andrews.ac.uk
1. Paolo Noto, Universita’ di Bologna, paolo.noto2@unibo.it ‘Opera film as a historical genre’
2. Maria Alexandra, Yale University, maria.catrickes@yale.edu ‘Melodrama as Historical mode’
3. Christian Uva, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, christian.uva@uniroma3.it ‘La memoria tra storia e immagine: il cinema italiano e la questione dell’anacronismo’
Italian Cinemas/Italian Histories D
Chair: Catherine O’Rawe, University of Bristol, itcgor@bristol.ac.uk
1. Karen Pinkus, Cornell University, kpinkus@gmail.com ‘Italian Cinema and/as Techno-History’
2. Fabio Vighi, University of Cardiff, VighiF@cardiff.ac.uk ‘Fenomenologia della supercazzola: l’impasse dello storicismo nella commedia all’italiana degli anni ’70’
3. Barbara Corsi, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, bar.corsi@alice.it ‘Lando Buzzanca o l’eredita’ del “merlo maschio”’
Italian Cinemas/Italian Histories E: Roundtable
Chair: Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds, a.oleary@leeds.ac.uk
Derek Duncan, University of St Andrews, ded3@st-andrews.ac.uk
John Foot, University of Bristol, j.foot@bristol.ac.uk
Charles L. Leavitt IV, University of Reading, c.l.leavitt@reading.ac.uk
Aine O’Healy, Loyola Marymount University, aohealy@lmu.edu
Karen Pinkus, Cornell University, kpinkus@gmail.com
Fabio Vighi, University of Cardiff, VighiF@cardiff.ac.uk

Organizer: Gabriella Brooke, Gonzaga University, brooke@calvin.gonzaga.edu
This session seeks to explore novel interpretations of History by contemporary Italian writers and directors. Especially welcome are reflections and analyses of works by authors from the margins.
Revisiting History in fiction and film I
Chair: Gabriella Brooke, Gonzaga University, brooke@calvin.gonzaga.edu
1. Carol Lazzaro-Weis, University of Missouri. weisc@missouri.edu: School for scandal: The Transnational Italian Historical Novel
2. Barbara Zaczek, Clemson, bzaczek@clemson.edu: A dialogue between two women partisans: Agnese and Ida. (L’Agnese va a morire and Dove finisce Roma)
3. Anita Virga, University of the Witwatersrand, anita.virga@wits.ac.za: 1860 e Nuovomondo: due diverse “storie” di subalterni siciliani a confronto
Revisiting History in fiction and film II
Chair: Barbara Zaczek, Clemson University bzaczek@clemson.edu
1. Stefania Nedderman, Gonzaga University, nedderman@gonzaga.edu: Gendered transgression and conformity in Luce d’Eramo’s Deviazone
2. Nicole Robinson, UCLA. Dept. of Italian, nhrobinson@ucla.edu: ‘Non e’ veridico ma vero’ (It is not Truthful but The Truth): Memory, Self-Narrative and the Passage of Time in Joyce Lussu and Maria Brandon Albini
3. Ilaria Poerio, Reading University, I.Poerio@pgr.reading.ac.uk: In vacanza nella Cajenna italiana.Il cinema d’impegno racconta il confine di polizia

Organizer: Stefano Bragato (University of Reading), s.bragato@pgr.reading.ac.uk
This panel investigates the practice of notebook and diary writing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italian literature, both addressing the topic on a theoretical point of view and discussing specific case studies.
Notebook and diary writing between theory and practice I
Chair: Stefano Bragato, University of Reading (s.bragato@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
1. Stefano Colangelo (Università di Bologna, stefano.colangelo@unibo.it): Caos analitico. Le forme del diario nella poesia italiana contemporanea
2. Gloria M. Ghioni (Università di Sassari, gloria.ghioni@gmail.com): "Scrivere per pubblicare, in me è l'arte di servire gli avanzi": il diario novecentesco e l'etero-destinazione
3. Paola Gambarota (Rutgers University, gambarot@rci.rutgers.edu): Making and Writing History Under the Allied Occupation. The Diaries of Croce, Caracciolo, and Maiuri
Notebook and diary writing between theory and practice II
Chair: Paola Gambarota, Rutgers University (gambarot@rci.rutgers.edu)
1. Norman Rusin (University of Pennsylvania, normanrusin77@gmail.com): Time and Identity: Italo Svevo's Diario per la fidanzata
2. Linda Garosi (Universidad de Córdoba, l02garli@uco.es): Di ritratti e autoritratti nei taccuini di Pirandello
3. Gianluca Cinelli (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, cinelli@em.uni-frankfurt.de): "Mostrare l'etica" attraverso il diario. I diari di guerra di Giuseppe Garrone (1915-1918) e di Nuto Revelli (1942-1943)

Organizer and Chair: Renée Anne Poulin (Baylor University), ra_poulin@baylor.edu
Linda Hutcheon’s A Theory of Adaptation (2006) provides a theoretical framework to analyze adaptations across media, including novels, short stories, performance media, theater, opera, screenplays, and even videogames. Hutcheon challenges the notion than an adapted work is inferior to its model or source text, thus encouraging scholars to consider a lateral rather than a hierarchical evaluation of adapted texts. This panel will explore adaptations as adaptations, defined by Hutcheon as “extended, deliberate, announced revisitation[s] of a particular work of art” (170). In particular, the panel examines operatic and cinematic adaptations of early Italian literary works (e.g. Dante, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Tasso).
1. Renée Anne Poulin, Baylor University, ra_poulin@baylor.edu: Boccaccio, Ariosto, and Tasso Moralized: Giulio Rospigliosi’s Operatic Adaptations for the Barberini Court
2. Francisco José Rodríguez Mesa, Università di Cordova (Spagna), l12romef@uco.es: Griselda e le convenzioni dell’opera settecentesca: Il caso di Vivaldi-Goldoni
3. Filippo Tansini. Università La Sapienza, filippotansini@gmail.com: ‘La forma Drammatica nella ripartizione d'Atti, e di Scene a respiro degli Attori, e degli Spettatori’: La Gerusalemme liberata o sia il Tasso ridotto in quattro sceniche rappresentazioni da Filippo Nani Veneziano
4. Martin Eisner, Duke University, martin.eisner@duke.edu: Remediating Dante’s Vita nuova from Page to Stage: The Case of Ridley Scott’s Hannibal (2001)

Organizer: Giulia Iannuzzi, Università degli Studi di Trieste - AREA Science Park, iannuzzisf@gmail.com
Usually marginalized within the Italian literary canon and academy, science fiction has nevertheless experienced significant and different paths in Italy, from the invention of the word “fantascienza” in 1952 up to the most recent experimentation found in various forms of the media. This panel aims to explore the history and variety of Italian science fiction: genre's narrative strategies across different media, its relationships with the literary canon, its pioneers and foreign models.
Panel I: The Genre In and Outside the Canon
The first session features papers on selected examples of literary works, with observations on their reception and relationship with the literary canon (papers are on Dino Buzzati, Italo Calvino, a pioneer such as Paolo Mantegazza and contemporary writers and their relationships with foreign models).
1. Valentina Polcini, Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio" di Chieti, valentina.polcini@gmail.com: Dino Buzzati’s incursions into science fiction
2. Elio Baldi, University of Warwick, E.A.Baldi@warwick.ac.uk: Science fiction and canon: the case of Italo Calvino
3. Massimo Mongai, Independent Scholar, massimo.mongai@gmail.com: Paolo Mantegazza: i perfetti albori della fantascienza italiana
4. Samira Stephan, Università di Bologna, samira.stephan@gmail.com: Rappresentazioni del mondo arabo-islamico nella fantascienza contemporanea italiana e internazionale: questioni di genere, intertestualità, modelli
Discussant: Domenico Gallo, Independent Scholar, domenico.gallo@fastwebnet.it
Panel II: From Rome to Mars: Geographies on the Screen
The second session has a special focus on science fiction in cinema and television. Thanks to the analysis of famous science fiction Italian movies (such as Ubaldo Ragona's The Last Man on Earth, 1964 and Elio Petri's La decima vittima, 1965), and of the translation and dubbing of American novels, movies and television series, the panel will show how science fiction – with its repertoires of themes and narrative strategies - has proved to be an excellent tool to critically discuss important issues of the contemporary age: from life in a modern urban environment to the use of technology, from the cultural relationship with the other to the historical relationship with the US.
Chair: Giulia Iannuzzi, University of Trieste-AREA Science Park, iannuzzisf@gmail.com
1. Fernando Porta, The University of Western Australia: fernando.porta@uwa.edu.au: The future among the ruins: urban archeology and imperial nostalgia in the Italian SF cinema
2. Silvia Caserta, Cornell University, silvia_caserta@libero.it: Gli italiani nello spazio: due esempi cinematografici
3. Camilla Zamboni, University of California, Los Angeles, camilla.zamboni@gmail.com: The cinematic city in Italian Science-Fiction: Rome in Elio Petri’s La decima vittima
4. Giulia Iannuzzi, University of Trieste-AREA Science Park, iannuzzisf@gmail.com: Fortunes of American science fiction in Italy during the 1950s and the 1960s: translations and adaptations between text and screen

Organizer: Organizer: Nicoletta Rivetto, Sprachenzentrum UZH/ETH Zurich, nicoletta.rivetto@sprachen.uzh.ch
English is etablished as the lingua franca of academia and beyond. Howewer, Italian remains one of the most widely learned languages worldwide because of the attractiveness of Italy’s culture and lifestyle, and for many also because of their Italian roots or personal ties. In Switzerland, the status of Italian as a national language is additional motivation for learners. This session aims to explore the following questions: Which approach, which curriculum, which course syllabi, which learning materials will meet the needs and aims of an academic target group learning Italian?
Part 1
Moderator: Nicoletta Rivetto, University/ETH Zurich (Language Center), nicoletta.rivetto@sprachen.uzh.ch
1. Francesco Burzacca, Giuliano Agamennoni, The Umbra Institute (Perugia), fburzacca@umbra.org, giulianopg@gmail.com: Da LS ad L2: apprendimento dell’italiano e integrazione culturale degli studenti nei programmi americani study abroad. L’esperienza di Umbra Institute (Perugia)
2. Manuela Visigalli, Paolo Della Putta, Università di Bologna, manuela.visigalli@unibo.it, paolo.dellaputta@unimore.it: Il Focus on Form per l’insegnamento della morfologia del sintagma nominale italiano ad anglofoni: i risultati di uno studio sperimentale
3. Valeria Buttini, Claudia Ricci, Sprachenzentrum Universität ETH Zürich, Universität Basel, Université de Neuchâtel, valeria.buttini@sprachen.uzh.ch: Il manuale di grammatica tra norma e uso
Part 2
Moderator: Valeria Buttini, University/ETH Zurich (Language Center), valeria.buttini@sprachen.uzh.ch
1. Roberta Brüllmann, Sprachenzentrum Hochschule Luzern, roberta.bruellmann@hslu.ch: Il curriculum d'italiano alla Hochschule Luzern: un case study sui motivi e gli obiettivi di un pubblico accademico
2. Anna Dal Negro, Sprachenzentrum Universität/ETH Zürich, anna.dalnegro@sprachen.uzh.ch: Esercitare e praticare l’italiano al centro di autoapprendimento dell’Università ed ETH di Zurigo
3. Alessia Tarantino, alessia.tarantino@sprachen.uzh.ch, Sprachenzentrum Universität/ETH Zürich: “Tracce”: materiali didattici dal liceo all’università
Part 3
Moderator: Anna Dal Negro, University/ETH Zurich (Language Center), anna.dalnegro@sprachen.uzh.ch
1. Ettore Marchetti, University of Texas (Austin), ettore@utexas.edu: The language of Italian cinema as a pedagogical tool. A case study: Benvenuti al sud (L. Miniero, 2010)
2. Jennifer Lertola, National University of Ireland (Galway), jennifer.lertola@gmail.com: ClipFlair and MOVET: innovative language learning projects
3. Aurora Floridia, acontatto (Vercelli), a.floridia@acontatto.com: La Psicodrammaturgia Linguistica. Verso una pedagogia dell'essere

Organizers: Sandra Waters, Texas Christian University,s.a.waters@tcu.edu and Marco Codebò marco.codebo@liu.edu From the publishing of Wu Ming’s novels to the recent release of In territorio nemico, significant experiences of collaborative writing have characterized the development of contemporary Italian fiction. This panel includes papers that explore various issues related to collaborative writing in contemporary Italian fiction.
Moderator: Marco Codebò, Long Island University, marco.codebo@liu.edu
1. Sole Anatrone, UC Berkeley, soledonata@gmail.com: Una donna, tante voci
2. Kate Willman, University of Warwick, K.E.Willman@warwick.ac.uk: Wu Ming’s Collaborative Writing
3. Marco Codebò, Long Island University, Marco.Codebo@liu.edu: Tradizione romanzesca e innovazione digitale in 'In territorio nemico' di Scrittura Industriale Collettiva
4. Francesca Medaglia, University of Rome, La Sapienza, francesca.medaglia@gmail.com: Il giallo-noir nella scrittura a quattro mani: il caso di Acqua in bocca

Organizer: Pérette-Cécile Buffaria, Université de Lorraine, Nancy (F), perette-cecile.buffaria@univ-lorraine.fr e Gianmarco Gallotta, dottorando in cotutela Nancy-Salerno, gianmarco.gallotta@univ-lorraine.fr
L’intento di questo panel è quello di riflettere sul significato di engagement e di «responsabilità» nell’opera dei narratori italiani contemporanei che cercano di difendere un’etica, personale o collettiva, contro una barbarie culturale che tende ad eliminare dal dibattito pubblico ogni voce di dissenso. Come ha sottolineato Edward Wadie Said (1935-2003), il ruolo dell’intellettuale «is supposed to be that of helping a national community feel more of a sense of common identity». Se il fine della letteratura non è quello di fornire risposte ma di porre quesiti, l’attuale quadro editoriale sembra piuttosto essersi piegato invece a logiche editoriali ed impreditoriali che spesso rispondono al bisogno della «letteratura di evasione», o anche «littérature de gare». Nonostante ciò, largo successo riscontrano inchieste su Mafia, Vaticano, Politica, ed altri argomenti relativi alla vita sociale, ambientale, culturale, spesso condotte da audaci ed eclettici giornalisti che sembrano percorrere le orme di scrittori di professione quali Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989, Un onorevole siciliano. Le interpellanze parlamentari di Leonardo Sciascia) o Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975, Petrolio).
Ma come risponde oggi la letteratura a tali tematiche che un tempo rientravano nella sua area disciplinare, e che talvolta non sembrano più essere il suo appanaggio né la sua esclusività ? Cos’è diventata nella memoria degli scrittori odierni il Pladoyer pour les intellectuels di Jean–Paul Sartre? E’ cambiata la risposta da dare all’interrogativo sartriano Qu’est-ce que la littérature? Si può ancora riporre fiducia in un ipotetico potere della letteratura nell’ottica del Ce que peut la littérature di Alain Finkielkraut? Bisogna volgere lo sguardo altrove e ammetere che linee disciplinari e spartiacque etici e ideologici sono irremediabilmente cambiati?
Dalla letteratura all'impegno I
1. Ilaria Puggioni, Università di Sassari, ilapuggioni@gmail.com: Il potere della riscrittura tra mito e storia: Sergio Atzeni e i “custodi del tempo”
2. Michele Ronchi Stefanati, University College Cork, micheleronchistefanati@gmail.com: Forme di impegno etico-politico nell’opera di Gianni Celati degli anni Duemila: da Sonetti del Badalucco nell’Italia odierna a Selve d’amore
3. Gianmarco Gallotta, Université de Lorraine - Università di Salerno, ggallotta@gmail.com: L'engagement in Italia tra passato e presente: alcune traiettorie
4. Nicolas Bonnet, Université de Bourgogne, Nicolas.Bonnet@u-bourgogne.fr: Letteratura, impegno : problematiche e poste in gioco nel contesto moderno e contemporaneo
Dalla letteratura all'impegno II
1. Joseph Cadeddu, Université de Lorraine, joseph.cadeddu@univ-lorraine.fr: L'impegno politico di Umberto Eco nella «Bustina di Minerva»
2. Alessandro Martini, Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3, martiniale@hotmail.com: Alla ricerca del ricordo : romanzo e trasmissione della memoria (Andrea Bajani, Ogni promessa, 2010)
3. Tourunn Haalan, Gonzaga University, haaland@gonzaga.edu: Affermare il valore della verità e la possibilità della parola: segni del nuovo realismo in Gomorra (2006)
4. Eugenio Bolongaro, McGill University, ebolongaro@sympatico.ca: Dreaming a Good Bo(d)y: Ethics and Masculinity in Antonio Scurati’s Il bambino che sognava la fine del mondo

Organizer: Stefania Nedderman, Gonzaga University, nedderman@gonzaga.edu
From Gadda to Camilleri. How does the Italian detective unravel the convoluted knots of crimes that mirror the often byzantine workings of Italian society?
1. Gabriella Brooke, Gonzaga University, Brooke@gonzaga.edu: Untangling the Writing in Silvana La Spina’s detective fiction
2. Robert Rushing, University of Illinois, Urbana_Champaign, rrushing@illinois.edu: Italian Detective Fiction and National Popular Culture
3. Cristina Villa, University of California-Accent Florence, crivilla20006@gmail.com: In Search of the Truth, Italian Noir
4. Marco Paoli, University of Liverpool, M.Paoli@liverpool.ac.uk: Scerbanenco: la questione dell’emancipazione femminile nella serie Duca Lamberti

Organizer: Tessa Gurney, Medici Archive Project, Archivio di Stato di Firenze; University of North Carolina, tgurney@email.unc.edu
Medieval and Early Modern Italian Studies face numerous opportunities and challenges in today’s increasingly digital world. Scholars in this roundtable will discuss the ways in which they have explored these opportunities and challenges through digital initiatives, both in their own scholarly production and in their classrooms. A discussion period will focus on ways to newly invigorate Italian Studies through the use of new digital tools now available, how to use existing digital platforms as a didactic resource, and the digital future of Italian Studies.
Chair: Elena Brizio, Medici Archive Project, ebrizio@medici.org
1. Tessa Gurney, University of North Carolina, tgurney@email.unc.edu: International Access to Florentine Fondi: Utilizing the Medici Archive Project’s BIA Platform for Interdisciplinary Scholarly Research
2. Scott S. Millspaugh, Dartmouth College, scott.s.millspaugh@dartmouth.edu: Teaching the Divine Comedy with Dante Lab: Social Media and the Commentary Tradition
3. Delphine Montoliu, Université de Toulouse II, delphinemontoliu@yahoo.fra: Accademie siciliane 1400-1701: A New IT Bio-bibliographical Database
4. Silvia Stoyanova, Trier Center for Digital Humanities in Germany, sstoyano@princeton.edu: A Hypertext Research Platform and Social Edition of Leopardi's Zibaldone

Organizer: Carmela Pierini, St. Andrews University, cp38@st-andrews.ac.uk
Gli archivi editoriali costituiscono il bacino in cui reperire nuovi spunti e afflati inediti per lo studio della nostra letteratura. In un secolo come il Novecento in cui grandi case editrici sono state luogo di elezione e divulgazione della cultura oltre che centro di attrazione di figure di spicco del panorama intellettuale italiano, si vuole con questo panel esporre alcune tracce che il rapporto intellettuali-scrittori-editoria può offrire allo studio della letteratura italiana e non.
1. SARA CARINI (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) sara.carini@unicatt.it: La ricezione editoriale tra mediazione e incomprensione: le Meduse di Vittorini e gli autori ispanoamericani
2. CARMELA PIERINI (University of St. Andrews) cp38@st-andrews.ac.uk: "Pareri" di lettura. Sereni, Garboli e Vittorini lettori mondadoriani di Anna Banti
3. ELISA BOLCHI (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) elisa.bolchi@unicatt.it: “One of the Dearest Authors of ours”: l’edizione italiana di Virginia Woolf raccontata dall’Archivio Storico AME
4. DANIELA PICAMUS (Università di Trieste) d.picamus@gmail.com: Quarantotti Gambini, autore Einaudi, tradotto da Gallimard

Organizers: Dr Daniela La Penna (University of Reading), d.lapenna@reading.ac.uk e Dr Francesca Billiani (University of Manchester), francesca.billiani@manchester.ac.uk
The AHRC-funded project “Mapping Literary Space: Intellectuals, Publishers, Literary Journals in Italy,1940-1960” aims to investigate the relationship between publishing institutions and cultural operators in a period characterised by conflict and regime change. In particular, our research intends to cast a sharper light on patterns of “dynamic resilience” underpinning the significant shifts in political affiliations of editors, authors, intellectuals in the transition from the Fascist Regime to the Republic. Organized as part of the research activities of this project, this panel at the AAIS aims to gather critical perspectives on the patterns of organization, cultural activity, and aesthetic programme of literary intellectual networks and investigate their relations to literary journals and publishing houses in the immediate post-WWII period and in particular the years 1944-1954.
Moderator: Charles Leavitt (Reading), c.l.leavitt@reading.ac.uk
1. Daniela La Penna (University of Reading), d.lapenna@reading.ac.uk: "Aretusa": Dynamic Resilience and Space for Intervention in the Italian literary field (1944-1946)
2. Mila Milani (University of Reading), m.milani@reading.ac.uk: Impegno, national and transnational identities in "Politecnico" and "Sud"(1945-1947)
3. Emanuela Patti (Institute for Modern Languages Research, SAS, London), emanuela.patti@sas.ac.uk: Against neo-realism: "Officina" and the debate on represented reality

Organizer and Chair: Mila Milani, University of Reading, m.milani@reading.ac.uk
The AHRC-funded project ‘Mapping Literary Space: Intellectuals, Publishers, Literary Journals in Italy,1940-1960’ aims to critically investigate the relationship between publishing institutions and cultural operators in a period of Italian history characterised by radical historical, political, social and cultural changes. In particular, our research intends to cast a sharper light on the strategic establishment of transnational networks – which allow editors, authors, intellectuals to function as influential agents in the national field –, underpinning the significant shifts in political affiliations in the context of the cultural Cold War. Organized as part of the research activities of this project, this panel at the AAIS aims to gather critical perspectives on the patterns of organization, cultural activity, and aesthetic programme of literary intellectual networks in the Fifties and Sixties, in particular in the years 1948-1963. In this period, literary journals became dynamic intellectual platforms attempting to potentially reshape Italian culture through transnational literary and political allegiances, notably with the US. Existing scholarship has never fully addressed the interconnections between journals as a fruitful way of establishing their role as a collective, rather than a single, enterprise in shaping cultural, political and aesthetic expressions within the period under consideration. Furthermore, the strategic alliances that some journals forged with established or emerging publishing firms has been consistently neglected, despite substantial records showing evidence of the impact of journals' patronage of foreign and Italian authors on publishers' catalogues.
1. Lorenzo Salvagni (Duke University), lsalvagni@gmail.com: A Bridge Over the Atlantic: Marguerite Caetani and the International Literary Journal Botteghe Oscure
2. Teresa Franco (University of Oxford), teresa.franco@some.ox.ac.uk: Literature and Politics from Mondo occidentale
3. Nicola Scarpelli (University of Padua), n.scarpelli@gmail.com: «Il filo della parola stampata». Emanuelli e Pasinetti giornalisti nell’Italia del dopoguerra

Organizers: Federico Casari, Durham University, federico.casari@durham.ac.uk e Gabriella Romani, Seton Hall University
After its political unification, Italy witnessed an unprecedented growth of its cultural industry, thanks to technological advances, institutional reforms and entrepreneurial initiatives. As a result of these changes, writers as well as publishers had to rethink and redefine their role within an industry in constant transformation. From 1861 to 1903, major publishing houses, such as Roux-Frassati in Turin, Treves, Sonzogno, Galli and Brigola in Milan, Zanichelli and Cappelli in Bologna, Barbèra and Sansoni in Florence, Perino and Sommaruga in Rome, provided writers with new platforms for national promotion, which, on the one side, afforded writers with opportunities to gain national visibility, but on the other presented them with restrictions to their artistic aspirations and independence.
Moderator: Gabriella Romani (Seton Hall University), Gabriella.Romani@shu.edu
1. Federico Casari (Durham University), federico.casari@durham.ac.uk: All'ombra di Carducci. Autonomia e progetti editoriali di Giacomo e Cesarino Zanichelli nella Bologna umbertina
2. Antonella Valoroso (The Umbra Institute, valorosa@umbra.org): L’autobiografia di Adelaide Ristori: un complesso caso editoriale internazionale
3. Martina Palli (University of Siegen, palli@geschichte.uni-siegen.de): Giuseppe Pomba, editor for the people

Italian modernity has been traditionally described as ‘incomplete’, ‘atypical’, and even ‘backward’. The struggle for modernity and the socio-cultural backwardness of Italy are common to both historical and anthropological accounts, which situate Italy at the margins of European modernity. We would like to take this marginal position of Italy as a privileged point of entry for observing the country’s complex relationship with processes of modernization, and the political/cultural responses to it. By doing so, we hope to contribute to the lively debates surrounding Italian modernity which are currently taking place in Italian Studies across books, journals and conferences. The three papers deal with different cultural and aesthetic dimensions of modernity, in which tensions and conflicts can be observed. Dr Billiani’s paper will engage with the debates taking place in literary journals during the 1930s, in order to show how a unique synergy between political and aesthetic discourse was fostered to create a platform for social modernization (the new architecture) and aesthetic modernity (the 1930s realist novel). Dr Sinibaldi will also focus on the Fascist period, in order to investigate the complex relationship between Fascism and modernity from an unusual angle: that of crime fiction written and translated during the ‘ventennio’. Her analysis aims to show how the genre of the ‘giallo’ was used by Italian translators and writers to both repress and to articulate anxieties relating to the experience of modernity. Finally, Dr Trentin will examine the cityscape of Rome in the 1940s. Through the analysis of a significant sample of literary texts, which were trying to re-define spatio-temporal patterns of the Eternal City (i.e. Carlo Levi's L'orologio, Elio Filippo Accrocca's Portonaccio, Alberto Moravia's Racconti romani, and Anna Maria Ortese's La lente scura) Trentin’s paper will challenge linear chronologies of Italian modernity/modernism.
Moderator: Professor Luca Somigli, University of Toronto
1. Dr Francesca Billiani, University of Manchester: Performing Narratives of Public Modernity in the 1930s: Political and Aesthetic Debates Around and About the Novel and The New Architecture in Fascist Italy
2. Dr Caterina Sinibaldi, University of Manchester: Modernity’s Crimes: Writing and Translating Crime Fiction under Italian Fascism
3. Dr Filippo Trentin, ICI Berlin: Anachronistic Modernism: The Time-Image and the Emergence of a "Roman" Modernist Aesthetics in Postwar Italian Literature

Organizer: Chiara Fabbian, University of Illinois at Chicago, cfabbian@uic.edu
This panel, patronized by the WSC, is focused on women’s biographies, and their impact on Women Studies.
Moderator: Chiara Fabbian, University of Illinois at Chicago, cfabbian@uic.edu
1. Daniela Bombara. Universita' di Messina, daniela.bombara63@gmail.com: Donne e povera gente protagoniste della scena italiana durante il Risorgimento: l’esperienza culturale ed umana della scrittrice siciliana Rosina Muzio Salvo
2. Paola Nigro. Universita' di Salerno, paolan1973@libero.it: Biografie di viaggiatrici italiane del Settecento. La Scrittura di viaggio al femminile nei diari della duchessa Boccapadule, di Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi e di Marianna Candidi Dionigi
3. Matteo Vecchio. Universita' di Firenze; matteomario.vecchio@unifi.it: Antonia Pozzi. Per una biografia intellettuale

Organizer: Chiara Fabbian, University of Illinois at Chicago, cfabbian@uic.edu
This year’s Women Studies roundtable, organized by the AAIS Women's Studies Caucus, will feature interdisciplinary papers (drawing from literature, history, philosophy, sociology, cinema, media and the arts) that consider various aspects of Women Studies today, both in Italy and in the USA.
1. Liviana Gazzetta (Universita’ di Venezia), gazzetta1@alice.it: I gender studies e i vescovi italiani
2. Andrea Hajek (University of Glasgow, UK), Andrea.Hajek@glasgow.ac.uk: Post-feminist scholarship and activism in the digital age
3. Francesca Parmeggiani (Fordham University, New York), parmeggiani@fordham.edu: Vivere la fede, pensare la religione. Contributi femminili a pensiero e pratiche laiche oggi in italia
4. Antonella Valoroso (Umbria Institute, Perugia)., valorosa@teletu.it: Il blog multi-autore La 27esima ora del Corriere della Sera: uno spazio di incontro e di discussione

Organizer and Moderator: Chiara Fabbian, University of Illinois at Chicago, cfabbian@uic.edu
This year’s Women Studies roundtable, organized by the AAIS Women's Studies Caucus, will feature interdisciplinary papers (drawing from literature, history, philosophy, sociology, cinema, media and the arts) that consider various aspects of Women Studies today, both in Italy and in the USA.
1. Serena Alessi (Royal Holloway University of London, Serena.Alessi.2011@live.rhul.ac.uk): Tessere nuove identità di genere: la lezione del mito e il caso di Penelope
2. Giovanna Bellesia (Smith College, MA, gbellesi@smith.edu, serena): Ferrying across Postcolonial Literature. The Co-translations of Gabriella Ghermandi's and Cristina Ali Farah's novels
3. Serena Sapegno (Università Sapienza di Roma, serena.sapegno@fastwebnet.it): Un’esperienza anomala di studi delle donne nell’Universita’ di Roma
4. Sonita Sarker (Macalaster College, MN, sarker@macalester.edu): Grazia Deledda and Antonio Gramsci: Native and Subaltern in the Italian Nation-State

Organizer: Riccardo Cepach, Museo sveviano di Trieste
Questa sessione si pone l'obiettivo di offrire nuove prospettive sull'opera di Italo Svevo, anche alla luce di fonti e documenti inediti e grazie ad approcci volti a valorizzare la produzione tarda dello scrittore triestino.
Moderator: Riccardo Cepach, Museo sveviano di Trieste, cepach@comune.trieste.it
1. Marialuigia Sipione, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, sipione@unive.it: Svevo, Saba e dintorni. Documenti inediti in un archivio veneto
2. Silvia Contarini, Università di Udine, silvia.contarini@uniud.it: Svevo e Brown: una fonte medica per 'Lo specifico del dottor Menghi'
3. Chiara Selleri, Università “Federico II” di Napoli, chiara.selleri89@gmail.com: Svevo tardo
4. Michela Rusi, Università Ca' Foscari venezia, rusi@unive.it: Parodia e identità nell’ultimo Svevo

Organizer: Nicolò Maldina, University of Leeds, n.maldina@leeds.ac.uk
Organized as part of the research activities of the AHRC funded project “Dante and Late-Medieval Florence. Theology in Poetry, Practice and Society”, co-led by the Universities of Leeds and Warwick, this session aims to investigate late-medieval Florentine preaching during the second half of the 13th c. and in the early 14th c. The main focus will be on preaching in relationship both to the social context of its delivery and to the sources used by preachers in composing their sermons. In particular, the session will consider the dialectic relationship between the preacher and his audience (paper 1), the circulation of works on vices and virtues in late Medieval Florence (paper 2) and the role of metaphors and similies in sermons (paper 3).
Moderator: Nicolò Maldina, University of Leeds, n.maldina@leeds.ac.uk
1: Zane D.R. Mackin, Columbia University (New York), zdm2@columbia.edu, "Predicatory Bodies: the Sermon as Happening
2: Antonio Del Castello, Università di Napoli Federico II, antonio.delcastello@unina.it, "Il ‘Liber de virtutibus et vitiis’ di Servasanto da Faenza e le sue fonti
3: Giuseppe Ledda, Università di Bologna, giuseppe.ledda@unibo.it, "Per un bestiario dei predicatori: immagini animali nella predicazione di Giordano da Pisa

Organizer: Nicolò Maldina, University of Leeds, n.maldina@leeds.ac.uk
Organized as part of the research activities of the AHRC funded project “Dante and Late-Medieval Florence. Theology in Poetry, Practice and Society”, co-led by the Universities of Leeds and Warwick, this session aims to investigate late Medieval Florentine preaching during the second half of the 13th c. and in the early 14th c. In particular, it will focus on the political, social, literary and cultural context of preaching in such a historical frame. Questions addressed in the session will include: the relationship between preaching and political thought (paper 1), between preaching and literary works (paper 2), and between preaching and the economical and sociological context of late Medieval Florence (paper 3).
Moderator: Anna Pegoretti, University of Warwick, A.Pegoretti@warwick.ac.uk
1: Flavio Silvestrini, Università la Sapienza (Roma), flavio.silvestrini@uniroma1.it: L'autunno della cultura comunale nella Firenze bianca: il IV sermo ad Priores di Remigio de' Girolami di fronte agli Ordinamenti di Giustizia (gennaio-luglio 1295)
2: Luca Lombardo, Università Ca' Foscari (Venezia), lombardo@unive.it: Firenze, Dante e Remigio de’ Girolami: primi appunti per una mappatura interdiscorsiva
3: Lorenza Tromboni, Università di Firenze, lorenza3tdr@hotmail.com: Cultura e predicazione a Firenze nella prima metà del Trecento: Giordano da Pisa e Jacopo Passavanti

Organizer: Prof.ssa Antonella Del Gatto, Università di Chieti-Pescara, a.delgatto@unich.it
La sessione propone interventi che mettono a fuoco come nella letteratura moderna e contemporanea la metafora ha sempre di più assunto una consistente carica speculativa, e conoscitiva, configurandosi come riflesso linguistico-espressivo di un pensiero analogico potentemente in fieri, che struttura ed attiva il livello comunicativo del testo.
Parte I
1. Massimiliano Picchiorri (Università “G. d’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara) – m.picchiorri@unich.it: La metafora nella poesia barocca: soluzioni linguistiche e stilistiche
2. Annalisa Cipollone (Durham University – UK) – annalisa.cipollone@gmail.com: 'Vano è pugnar contro la rossa croce'. La metafora nel Pascoli 'medievale'
3. Patrizia Piredda (Oxford University) – patrizia.piredda@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk: La funzione filosofica della metafora nei Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore
4. Laura Nieddu (CRIX – Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense) – laura.nie@hotmail.com: La funzione delle metafore nell’opera di Salvatore Niffoi
Parte II
1. Dominique Budor (Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III) – dominique.budor@wanadoo.fr: «Metafora viva» e «metafora morta»: il caso paradigmatico de «La Sicilia come metafora»
2. Daragh O’Connel (University College Cork, Irlanda) – Daragh.OConnel@ucc.ie: “Male Catubbo”: fra licantropia e melancholia in Nottetempo, casa per casa
3. Andrea Gialloreto (Università “G. d’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara) – andreagialloreto@alice.it: «Retore delle tenebre e del fuoco»: spazi metaforici e immagini allegoriche in Amore di Giorgio Manganelli
4. Nunzio La Fauci e Andrea Bonazzi, nunziolafauci@gmail.com: "Mangiar metafore senza mordersi la lingua: figure nel discorso gastronomico contemporaneo

Organizer: Susan Klaiber, Independent Scholar, Winterthur (sklaiber@bluewin.ch)
ITALIAN ART SOCIETY SPONSORED SESSION
Early modern Ticino and Grigioni exported significant architectural expertise throughout Europe, where Swiss-Italian architects and craftsmen worked for courts, monasteries, and other patrons. The session features papers on diverse aspects of Swiss-Italian building trades in Europe c. 1400-1800, highlighting ties of workers and their activities to Switzerland.
Part I: Architects
Moderator: Susan Klaiber, Independent Scholar, Winterthur (sklaiber@bluewin.ch)
1. Nadja Horsch, Universität Leipzig (horsch@rz.uni-leipzig.de): Domenico Fontana’s Trasportatione dell´obelisco vaticano – the prototype of a new genre of architectural literature
2. Madleine Skarda, Universität Zürich (madleine.skarda@uzh.ch): Imported versus local tradition: the example of Bohemia
3. Maria Gabriella Pezone, Seconda Università di Napoli (MariaGabriella.PEZONE@unina2.it): Un sodalizio “ticinese” nella Roma del Settecento: i rapporti di committenza tra Livio Odescalchi e Carlo Buratti
Part II: Craftsmen
Moderator: Dr. Nadja Horsch, Universität Leipzig (horsch@rz.uni-leipzig.de)
1. Mauro Volpiano, Politecnico di Torino (mauro.volpiano@me.com): Maestri ticinesi nel cantiere della reggia di Venaria Reale (1660-1713). Competenze professionali, mestieri, organizzazione del cantiere
2. Giovanni Cavallo, Giacinta Jean, Stefania Luppichini University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) (giacinta.jean@supsi.ch; giovanni.cavallo@supsi.ch; stefania.luppichini@supsi.ch): From Ticino to Lithuania: materials and techniques of stucco decoration
3. Christine Casey, Trinity College, Dublin (caseych@tcd.ie): Building on Beard: maestri ticinesi in eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland

What did it mean to be a man in early modern Italy? Was manliness limited to men? Gendered social conventions surely structured daily lives and shaped self-presentation in political and cultural spheres. For example, in literature from chivalric romance to humanist treatise, the early modern man was confronted with ideals of masculinity, such as virile aggression and civic moderation. Yet sometimes we find men opting for alternative gendered expressions, presenting themselves as abject or feminine. Indeed, manliness was not limited to men, but was a trait that could be performed by women to their advantage as well. This panel explores some of the varied and surprising ways that rulers and writers of both sexes displayed their masculinity in the public sphere.
Moderator: Julia Hairston, University of California, Rome Study Center, julia.hairston@fastwebnet.it
1. Melissa Swain, New York University, melissa.swain@nyu.edu: Reframing Masculinity in Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza's Dual-Body Politic
2. Gerry Milligan, College of Staten Island/CUNY, gerry.milligan@csi.cuny.edu: The manly words and feminine arms of Caterina Sforza
3. Shannon McHugh, New York University, shannon.mchugh@nyu.edu: The poetry of Celio Magno and Orsatto Giustinian: fraternal affection and amorous expressions

Questa sessione si rivolge allo scrittore istriano Fulvio Tomizza, principale erede della letteratura triestina, nonché portavoce di quel mondo mistilingue e di frontiera che è emerso nei romanzi 'Materada', 'L’albero dei sogni' (Premio Viareggio) e 'La miglior vita' (Premio Strega). Verranno indagate prospettive volte a mettere in luce aspetti ancora poco conosciuti dell’opera tomizziana.
Moderator: Marianna Deganutti, University of Oxford, marianna.deganutti@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk
1. Elis Deghenghi Olujić, Università Juraj Dobrila di Pola, Croazia, elis.olujic@pu.t-com.hr: La frontiera come destino: Fulvio Tomizza, voce malinconica dell’Istria, a quindici anni dalla scomparsa
2. Maurice Actis-Grosso, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense, mactisgrosso@u-paris10.fr: Tra convivenza civile e diritto minoritario, la modernità letterario politica di Fulvio Tomizza
3. Živko Nižić, Università di Zara, znizic@unizd.hr: La parabola della maturazione di Fulvio Tomizza da Materada alla Miglior vita: Istria – Trieste – Mitteleuropa – Istria
4. Rita Scotti Jurić, Università Juraj Dobrila di Pola, Croazia, rscotti@unipu.hr: Vino rosso o vino nero? Questione di ... lingua. Considerazioni su Fulvio Tomizza

Organizer: Angela Fabris, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
Questo panel si rivolge ai poeti triestini e mira a far luce, anche grazie al ritrovamento di documenti inediti, sugli aspetti più caratteristici dello scrivere da una terra di confine, in costante dialogo con altre lingue e culture.
Moderator: Angela Fabris, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, angela.fabris@uni-klu.ac.at
1. Barbara Sturmar, Università di Trieste, barbara.sturmar@katamail.com: «Tuto un sol nel zeleste» Il contributo poetico di Virgilio Giotti alla letteratura triestina
2. Ilenia Marin, Centro Studi Biagio Marin e Università di Trieste, ileniamarin@libero.it: I ‘Diari’ di Biagio Marin (1941-1950)
3. Matteo Vercesi, Università di Trieste e Università “Ca’ Foscari” di Venezia, matteovercesi@alice.it: Biagio Marin inedito. Notizie dagli archivi di Gorizia e Grado
4. Rodolfo Zucco, Università di Udine, rodolfo.zucco@uniud.it: Sulla poesia di Carolus L. Cergoly

Organizer: Vanina Palmieri-Marcolini, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, LECEMO, vanina.palmieri@wanadoo.fr
Molti dei maggiori scrittori del 900 italiano sono di origine ebraica. Ad alcuni di questi tuttavia non era stato trasmesso quasi nulla della tradizione religiosa, si pensi a Alberto Moravia o a Natalia Ginzburg, altri avevano deciso di rompere i ponti con la comunità come ad esempio Giorgio Bassani. Da Svevo in poi la coscienza della cultura religiosa sembra addirittura rimossa nelle opere degli scrittori italiani di ascendenza ebraica. Partendo da questa constatazione, lo storico inglese Stuart Hughes nel saggio intitolato Prigionieri della speranza, Alla ricerca dell’identità ebraica nella letteratura italiana contemporanea, (Il Mulino, 1983) si domanda cosa resta di un’identità quando la religione e la lingua sono andate perdute. La cantilena, eco della parlata del ghetto secondo Stuart Hughes o eco del ritmo dei testi sacri secondo De Angelis, costituirebbe forse l’elemento minimo che riemergerebbe anche inconsapevolmente negli scrittori di ascendenza ebraica.
La presa di coscienza dell’ebraicità per coloro che si sentivano perfettamente assimilati e emancipati avvenne soltanto con la persecuzione. La tragedia che segnerà la storia degli ebrei italiani negli anni della persecuzione razziale e della Shoah ha reso inevitabile una riflessione sulla propria ebraicità sia per chi aveva una sensibilità religiosa come Carlo Levi ma anche per chi era laico se non addirittura ateo. I casi più eclatanti sono ovviamente quelli legati alle figure di scrittori che scelsero attraverso la narrazione di testimoniare, primo fra tutti Primo Levi. Ma vi sono molte altre figure del mondo letterario italiano del Novecento, critici e scrittori, che pur proclamandosi laici non poterono più, a causa delle persecuzioni, non tener conto delle loro origini e fecero riaffiorare a volte in modo criptato, consapevolmente o meno, il patrimonio legato alla loro tradizione. A questo proposito quindi un’analisi sull’eventuale presenza di tematiche comuni e di affinità stilistiche potrebbe apportare ulteriori sviluppi nella riflessione critico-metodologica.
Moderator: Valerio Cappozzo, University of Mississippi; Department of Modern Languages, vcappozz@olemiss.edu
1. Sophie Nezri-Dufour, Aix-Marseille Université; Centre d'Études Romanes, sophie.nezri-dufour@univ-provence.fr, "Bassani o la creazione poetica di un universo ebraico"
2. Lia Toaff, Fondazione Museo della Shoah; lia86_@hotmail.it; "Giacomo Debenedetti di fronte alla persecuzione”
3. Vanina Palmieri-Marcolini, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, LECEMO, vanina.palmieri@wanadoo.fr, "L’ebraismo nell’opera di Natalia Ginzburg"

Organizers: Cristina Caracchini, University of Western Ontario, e Enrico Minardi, Arizona State University, Enrico.Minardi@asu.edu
Negli ultimi anni, si sono moltiplicati gli interventi critici per rivendicare al linguaggio poetico una peculiare natura euristica e le varie teorie della letteratura offrono ormai una strumentazione complessa che può essere proficuamente applicata e adattata all’analisi del testo poetico.
Moderator: Cristina Caracchini, University of Western Ontario, ccaracch@uwo.ca
1. Giorgia Bongiorno, Université de Lorraine, giobongiorno@gmail.com: Tra CsO e biologale. Il sapere della poesia sul corpo
2. Carlo Testa, University of British Columbia, carlo.testa@ubc.ca: L’eterno ritorno di Rilke giunge in Italia:traduzioni dei Sonetti a Orfeo da Giaime Pintor alla pleiade pseudo-semantica tra 20° e 21° secolo
3. Eloisa Morra, Harvard University, eloisamorra@fas.harvard.edu: «Questo e altro»: Le poesie francofortesi di Vittorio Sereni
4. Corrado Confalonieri, Università degli studi di Padova, corradoconfalonieri82@gmail.co: Welt im Kopf. Retorica della relazione io-mondo in Sovrimpressioni di Andrea Zanzotto

Organizer: Elgin K. Eckert, Umbra Institute, Perugia, elgin.eckert@gmail.com
This panel proposes to investigate literature of the South Tyrolian region of Italy, focusing on how its cultural, historic and social memory is represented in narrative writing, especially in regards to ethnic and ethnicized conflict. In 2019 South Tyrol will mark its centennial as part of the Italian nation, but beyond the borders of the region, even today the importance of the South Tyrolian issue remains largely undervalued and unknown, especially within Italy and Europe, while on a global scale the way in which the ethnic conflict has apparently been resolved – Italy and Austria withdrew their dispute over the region from before the United Nations General Assembly in 1992 exactly twenty years ago – has raised significant interest. This panel will take into into account both South Tyrolian literatures (even though written in different languages) and investigates both sides of that region’s cultural and historical memory as represented in narrative.
Moderator: Elgin K. Eckert (Umbra Institute, Perugia, elgin.eckert@gmail.com)
1. Susan J. Noakes (University of Minnesota Twin Cities, noake001@umn.edu)
2. Brigitte Foppa (Member of Regional Parlament, South Tyrol, brigitte.foppa@virgilio.it)
3. Elgin K. Eckert (Umbra Institute, Perugia, elgin.eckert@gmail.com)
4. Cinzia Gallo (University of Catania, cinzia.gallo8@istruzione.it)
5. Laiza Francato (University of Bologna, flaiza@gmail.com)

Organizers: Giusy Di Filippo, University of New Hampshire, Giuseppina.DiFilippo@unh.edu - Anita Virga, University of the Witwatersrand, anita.virga@wits.ac.za
In questo panel vorremmo cercare di rispondere alla domanda: come è stata rappresentata l’Africa dagli italiani? Quali stereotipi o, al contrario, rappresentazioni non convenzionali sono stati usati? Che cosa ha spinto scrittori, artisti e intellettuali italiani a rappresentare il continente africano?
Session 1
Moderator: Anita Virga, University of the Witwatersrand, anita.virga@wits.ac.za
1. Simona Wright, The College of New Jersey, simona@tcnj.edu: Mal d'Africa: Cinematic Representations of Africa in Contemporary Italian Cinema
2. Claudia Romanelli, The University of Alabama, claudia.romanelli3@gmail.com: Ibridismo letterario e culturale ne Il padre selvaggio di Pier Paolo Pasolini
3. Anna Maria Chierici, University of Toronto anna.chierici@utoronto.ca: Celati’s and Pasolini’s Africa: “Passar la vita a Diol Kadd” and “Appunti per un’Orestiade africana”
4. Giovanni Rubin, Università degli Studi di Padova, giovanni.rubin@studenti.unipd.it: L'Africa dispersa: nuove rappresentazioni nel cinema italiano
Session 2
Moderator: Giusy Di Filippo, University of New Hampshire, Giuseppina.DiFilippo@unh.edu
1. Priscilla Manfren, Università degli Studi di Padova, prooky@libero.it: Documentare con l’arte un mondo diverso: l’Africa e alcuni artisti coloniali del Ventennio
2. Dalila Colucci, Harvard University, dcolucci@fas.harvard.edu: Marinetti, Verso una grandezza di poesia e arti africane: un singolare cronotopo futurista
3. Dr Kouam Ngocka Valérie Joëlle, Université UCAC Yaoundé, joellevjoel@gmail.com: L’Africa d’Indro Montanelli
4. Antonio David Fiore, antodavidfiore@gmail.com, The National Gallery (London): An exotic and imperial dream: images of overseas colonies in two 1930s mosaics by Giulio Rosso

Organizer: Dr Alessia Risi, University College Cork, Ireland, AaIs.crimenarratives@gmail.com
Increasingly, over the last decade, western crime narratives have functioned as transnational and transmedial epos, in the sense of a body of works not formally united, but conveying in a popular narrative genre the traditions of a society. Furthermore, recent crime narratives are characterized by ‘transmediality’, not only moving across multiple media, but also and even more frequently crossing national borders through different forms of translation and re-writing of the original stories. Developing these concepts and including the analysis of novels, films, translations, adaptations and re-writings, the aim of this session is to discuss the transnational and transmedial aspects of crime narratives. In this light, questions addressed in this panel include, but are not limited to: What are the characteristics of the genre in Italy as transmedial and transnational narrative? What happens to Italian crime narratives when they cross borders? In what ways is the genre restructured in the current Italian media scene, between literature (which continues to have a driving role), comics, television, and the possibilities offered by the Internet? In the context of transnationalism and transmediality, what possibilities/potentialities do crime narratives have to address social, political and economic questions, such as social change and dysfunction produced by the recession, (un)changing gender dynamics in society and the perception of the Other in a period of contested mobility?
Chair: Carol Lazzaro-Weis, University of Missouri. weisc@missouri.edu
1) Dr Marco, Amici, University College Cork, mamici@ucc.ie: Crime Fiction as a Narrative of the Crisis: Some Notes on Italian Noir
2) Dr Mark, Chu, University College Cork, m.chu@ucc.ie: L'ispettore Coliandro from Lucarelli to the Manetti Bros
3) Dr Alessia, Risi, University College Cork, arisi@ucc.ie: From Italy to Denmark. Do Female Features Really Change Under Bleak Skies?
4) Dr Elizabeth, Wren-Owens, Cardiff University, Wren-OwensEA@cardiff.ac.uk: Translating Tabucchi: Transnational crimes, transnational texts

Organizer: Dino Cervigni, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, cervigni@unc.edu
A Presentation of Volume 31 (2013) of Annali d’italianistica
Chair: Prof. Dr. Johannes Bartuschat, Universität Zürich, bartusch@rom.uzh.ch
1. Prof. Dr. Brandon Essary, Elon University, bessary@elon.edu: Ingenium, Fortune, Misfortune, and Marriage in Decameron 1-5
2. Prof. Dr. Franziska Meier, Universität Göttingen, Franziska.Meier@phil.uni-goettingen.de: Use and Misuse of Words and Intelligence in Decameron 6-9
3. Prof. Dr. Dino Cervigni, Emeritus, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Boccaccio’s Decameron and the Rewriting of the Christian Middle Ages

Organizer and Moderator: Jacqueline Samperi Mangan, jacqueline.samperi@umontreal.ca
La letteratura della Svizzera italiana è rimasta a lungo tempo timidamente all’ombra delle sue alpi, considerata da molti più come letteratura regionale che culturalmente legata alla Svizzera. Ma quale è il vero volto di questa letteratura creativa ed avanguardista ? Quali sono le sue muse e quali i suoi fantasmi? L’intervento di illustri scrittori e critici letterari a questa tavola rotonda, offre uno sguardo personale e privilegiato sulle opere, sugli scrittori, sulle tendenze e sulle peculiarità della letteratura contemporanea in lingua italiana della Svizzera.
Organizer and moderator: Jacqueline Samperi Mangan, Université de Montréal, jacqueline.samperi@umontreal.ca
Liliana Boggia, direttrice di Bloc Notes, ljmarchand@sunrise.ch
Pietro De Marchi, professore, critico letterario e poeta, pietro.demarchi@access.uzh.ch
Anna Felder, scrittrice, felderan@hotmail.com
Matteo Ferrari, critico letterario e collaboratore Viceversa letteratura, matteo.ferrari@unifr.ch
Gilberto Isella, scrittore e critico letterario, gilberto.isella@bluewin.ch
Jean-Jacques Marchand, professore e critico letterario, ljmarchand@sunrise.ch
Renato Martinoni, scrittore, professore e critico letterario, renato.martinoni@unisg.ch
Alberto Nessi, scrittore, poeta, alberto.nessi@bluewin.ch
Claudia Quadri, scrittrice, giornalista e animatrice, facg@bluewin.ch
Flavio Stroppini, scrittore e narratore (storyteller), stroppiniflavio@gmail.com

Organizer and Moderator: Paola Ureni, CUNY College of Staten Island, paola.ureni@csi.cuny.edu
This roundtable presents the forthcoming volume "Dante and Heterodoxy. The Temptation of Radical Thought in the 13th Century", edited by Maria Luisa Ardizzone, Cambridge Publishing Scholars. The volume collects the proceedings of a conference by the same name held at New York University in March of 2011. Exploring various aspects of the poet's corpus, Dante scholars and historians of medieval philosophy discuss whether and to what extent Dante engaged with the tenets of radical Aristotelianism.
Moderator: Paola Ureni, CUNY College of Staten Island, paola.ureni@csi.cuny.edu
Maria Luisa Ardizzone – New York University, mla1@nyu.edu
Luca Bianchi – Università del Piemonte Orientale, luca.bianchi@lett.unipmn.it
Costantino Marmo – Università di Bologna, costantino.marmo@unibo.it
Donatella Stocchi Perucchio – Rochester University, donatella.stocchi-perucchio@rochester.edu
Andrea Tabarroni – Università di Udine, tabarroni@uniud.it

Organizer and Chair: Antonella Valoroso, The Umbra Institute, Perugia, valorosa@umbra.org
La sessione si propone di indagare la realtà del teatro italiano del secolo XXI tra persistenza della tradizione e esplorazione di nuovi territori.
1. Simona Polvani (Université Paris 1, simona.polvani@gmail.com) e Paola Ranzini (Université d'Avignon, paola.ranzini@univ-avignon.fr): Il ruolo del performer nel nuovo teatro italiano della realtà
2. Giuseppe Sofo (Université d'Avignon, giuseppesofo@yahoo.it): Alice nei teatri delle meraviglie. “L come Alice”, un nuovo teatro per nuove pratiche di resistenza
3. Ilenia De Bernardis (Università di Bari, ileniadeb@hotmail.com): Teatro di parola. Il caso della drammaturgia di Cristina Comencini
4. Melanie Jorba (Università del Mirail-Tolosa, melanie.jorba@gmail.com): Il tema del mostro nel teatro di Scimone, Manfredini e Ronconi (Teatro Valdoca)

Organizers: Manlio Calegari, University of Genoa, manlio.calegari@alice.it, and Marco Codebò, Long Island University, marco.codebo@liu.edu
The Spirit of the Resistance in Contemporary Italy I
This is the first of three panels that investigate the presence of the Resistance movement’s spirit in contemporary Italy. Historically, the term Resistance defines the partisan movements that fought Nazism and Fascism in Europe during WWII. In Italy, almost 70 years after the end of the war, opponents to the high-speed Turin-Lyon train, the NATO base in Vicenza, or organized crime in Sicily and Calabria, to name just a few situations of social antagonism, still trace their lineage back to the Italian Resistance. This panel discusses the political and cultural connections tying the Partisan War to these “new resistances,” the reasons for present social movements’ claim to the Resistance’s heritage, as well as the conflict between myth and reality in contemporary representations of the Resistance.
Chair: Philip Cooke, University of Strathclyde, p.e.cooke@STRATH.AC.UK
1. Mattia Beghelli, University of Michigan, mbeghe@umich.edu: Costruzione e Decostruzione del Mito della Resistenza: Tra Conversazione in Sicilia e I Piccoli Maestri
2. Rosalba Biasini,University of Liverpool, Rosalba.Biasini@liverpool.ac.uk: La lezione di Beppe Fenoglio: ricordi di una guerra civile
3. Erika Conti, Washington University in St. Louis, econti22@wustl.edu: Redefining Resistance in Primo Levi’s Il sistema periodico
4. Giovanni Pietro Vitali, Università per Stranieri di Perugia /Université de Lorraine, giovannipietrovitali@gmail.com: I partigiani di Fenoglio tra realtà, narrativa e recezione
The Spirit of the Resistance in Contemporary Italy II
This panel discusses the political and cultural connections tying the Partisan War to these “new resistances,” the reasons for present social movements’ claim to the Resistance’s heritage, as well as the conflict between myth and reality in contemporary representations of the Resistance.
Chair: Erika Conti, Washington University in Saint Louis, econti22@wustl.edu
1. Sergio Ferrarese, The College of William and Mary, sferrarese@wm.edu: The myth of the Resistance in the genesis and development of the lotta armata in Italy
2. Giulia Bassi,University of Florence, giulia.bassi@gmail.com: Resistenza ‘democratica’ e Resistenza ‘rivoluzionaria’. Sulle forme della legittimazione dei discorsi sulla Resistenza (1970-1973)
3. Philip Cooke, University of Strathclyde, p.e.cooke@STRATH.AC.UK: Italian Resistance Writing in the years of the ‘Second Republic
The Spirit of Resistance in Contemporary Italy III
This is the third of three panels that investigate the presence of the Resistance movement’s spirit in contemporary Italy. This panel discusses the political and cultural connections tying the Partisan War to these “new resistances,” the reasons for present social movements’ claim to the Resistance’s heritage, as well as the conflict between myth and reality in contemporary representations of the Resistance.
Chair: Sergio Ferrarese, The College of William and Mary, sferrarese@wm.edu
1. Nico Gallo, independent scholar, domenico.gallo@fastwebnet.it: Le prime storie della Resistenza
2. Alessio Giannanti,Università di Sassari, alessiogiannanti@libero.it: ‘Dopo la resistenza’. Per un contributo metodologico sul rapporto tra scienze del testo e storia orale
3. Cecilia Ghidotti, University of Bologna, cecilia.ghidotti@gmail.com: Resistenze alla narrazione e narrazioni di resistenze. Il caso del G8 di Genova

Organizers: Cristina Perissinotto (University of Ottawa, cperissi@uottawa.ca) and Marco Marino (Sant'Anna Institute)
I: Discourse of travel, identity and the individual in Italian culture
Chair: Barbara Alfano, Bennington College, BAlfano@bennington.edu
1. Paul Giordano, University of Central Florida, paul.giordano@ucf.edu: Constantinopoli: De Amicis and Borgese, narrating the city during and after the fall of the Ottoman Empire
2. Grace Bullaro, City University of New York, GRACE.BULLARO@lehman.cuny.edu: Tim Parks and An Italian Education: The vagaries of defining national character by a “resident/traveler
3. Cristina Perissinotto, University of Ottawa, cperissi@uottawa.ca: Travel, in theory
II: Narratives and bordercrossing in Italian travel writing and cinema
Chair: Cristina Perissinotto, University of Ottawa, cperissi@uottawa.ca
1. Barbara Alfano, Bennington College, BAlfano@bennington.edu: On the Way Back From Hell: Neo-Platonic Gaze and Knowledge in Sibilla Aleramo’s Dialogo con Psiche
2. Francesca Borrione, University of Perugia, fraborrione@yahoo.it: Crossing the Black Sea: a Cinematic Integration Fairytale between Italian and Romanian Realities
3. Mariangela Sanese, University College Cork, mariangela.sanese@gmail.com: Figure femminili tra displacement e location nel romanzo - Il vento sulla sabbia di Fausta Cialente
III: Travellers and strangers in Italian travel writing
Chair: Domenico Palumbo - Affiliation: Sant’Anna Institute, domenico@santannainstitute.com
1. Silvia Boero, Portland State University, silviab@pdx.edu: Viaggio all’inizio della fine: Questo Nostro Fratello di Giovanni Corona
2. Amira Krifa, Institute Superieur des Langues de Tunis, am_k2002@yahoo.fr: Il viaggio in Pirandello: una fuga dalla propria identità
3 Domenico Palumbo: Sant’Anna Institute, domenico@santannainstitute.com: Il lessico del poema sacro nella Gerusalemme Liberata: viaggio, viandante, straniero
IV: Trial and discovery in Italian and foreign narratives
Chair: Marco Marino - Sant’Anna Institute, marco.marino@santannainstitute.com
1. Tommaso Pepe, Florida State University, tommasopepe01@gmail.com: La lunga strada di Levi: una tregua ieri, una prova oggi
2. Matthew Coneys, University of Warwick, M.H.Coneys@warwick.ac.uk: Le più maravegliose cose: varieties of presentation and reception of the Italian incunables of the Book of John Mandeville, 1480-1500
3. Scott Nelson, Coastal Carolina University, snelson@coastal.edu: Italy Exported: The Power and Fragility of Identity in Amelio’s Lamerica

Organizer: Matthew Treherne, University of Leeds, M.Treherne@leeds.ac.uk
For a number of years, researchers from across the world have been engaged in a common effort to renew scholarly attention on the “theological” dimension of the poetry of Dante’s Commedia. As part of this new emphasis, the ways in which medieval theology formed part of the cultural context in which Dante himself developed, and which offered doctrinal and formal models with which Dante’s works engaged, form a highly significant focus for research. Representative of this diverse and fruitful research activity, this panel presents work which illuminates three aspects of medieval theology: the educational and cultural context offered by the “scuole delli religiosi” which Dante, in the Convivio, claims to have attended (paper 1); Alan of Lille’s Anticlaudianus, an allegorical poem which is one of the most important models of a theological poem which Dante inherited from the medieval tradition, and which is of particular interest in relation to the question of the ineffability of God (paper 2); medieval preaching, seen as one of the critical cultural models for the overall structure of the poem (paper Moderator: Giuseppe Ledda (Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Filologia classica e Italianistica)
1. Anna Pegoretti (University of Warwick), A.Pegoretti@warwick.ac.uk: Mendicant Schools in Dante’s Florence
2. Gabriella Addivinola (University of Warwick), g_addivinola@hotmail.com: The Apophatic Tradition in Alan of Lille and Dante
3. Nicolò Maldina (University of Leeds), N.Maldina@leeds.ac.uk: Dante e la predicazione medievale

Organizer: Giuseppe Ledda, Università di Bologna, giuseppe.ledda@unibo.it
An exploration of medieval theology opens up new possibilities for the interpretation of Dante’s works, as the theological readings of the Commedia offered in this session demonstrate. The liturgical dimension of Dante’s poem is of crucial importance, and is particularly evident in the Purgatorio, where the reader is involved in the liturgical, penitential and salvific experience of the text itself (paper 1). In the Paradiso, liturgy is present in a wide range of forms, and with multiple functions; as well as the prayers performed by the blessed, the prayers directed by Dante-character to God, the blessed and Beatrice are given particular prominence (paper 2). The best-known prayer of the Paradiso is that directed to the Virgin in Canto XXXIII, a climactic moment in the representation of the central figure of St Bernard, who needs to be studied in relation to the multiple textual and historical connotations he would have carried in the late middle ages (paper 3). Theology is not only present in the Purgatorio and in the Paradiso, but also in the first cantica, where it is emerges through a parody of the sacred (paper 4).
Moderator: Matthew Treherne (University of Leeds), M.Treherne@leeds.ac.uk
1. Beatrice Priest (University of Cambridge - Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages), bp257@hermes.cam.ac.uk: A Performative Penance: Does Dante Save the Reader?
2. Elena Gurioli (Università di Parma - Dipartimento di Lettere, arti, storia e società), elena.gurioli@studio.unibo.it: «Come saranno a’ giusti preghi sorde?»: le preghiere di Dante nel Paradiso
3. Abigail Rowson (University of Leeds - Departement of Italian - Leeds Centre for Dante Studies), A.Rowson@leeds.ac.uk: Dante’s Bernard: the familiar and the unfamiliar
4. Filippo Zanini (Università di Firenze - Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia), filippo.zanini@studio.unibo.it: A profane rhetoric. Parodies of the Bible in Dante’s Inferno

Organizer: Filippo Gianferrari, University of Notre Dame, Fgianfer@nd.edu
Unsurprisingly intertextuality remains one of the main concerns of Dante scholars and rightly so: the Comedia is littered with literary, biblical and philosophical citations and allusions and is steeped in an ipse-dixit culture. Such attention, however, has often diverted our efforts from understanding other forms of cultural discourse to which Dante was exposed. Scholars on this panel address a series of questions that range from school text books, popular storytelling and learned conversations and lectures. What books did the young Dante use to learn Latin? What stories did he hear or read in the piazzas? What topics was he exposed to in the learned circles of Tuscany, Bologna and Veneto?
Chair: Prof. Zygmunt Baranski, University of Notre Dame
1. Prof. Paola Nasti, University of Reading, p.nasti@reading.ac.uk: Dante's Lost Books
2. Dott. Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja, University of Cambridge, ac654@cam.ac.uk: Dante e l’Alessandro medievale, tra banchi di scuola e predicatori da piazza
3. Filippo Gianferrari, University of Notre Dame, fgianfer@nd.edu: Dante's Cato and the Disticha Catonis, Learning in the School of Purgatory

Organizer: Giuliana Minghelli, Harvard University, minghell@fas.harvard.edu
How in 2013 do we tell the story of Italian participation in the colonial adventure? Based upon a trove of archival materials deposited in various collections at Harvard University, this panel intends to investigate how historical objects, such as postcards, maps, journals, and photo albums, solicit a rethinking of some urgent critical questions about Italian colonialism: what is the genealogy of the African imaginary? What does the geography of both liberal and fascist period maps, city plans and architectural projects tell us about the colonial reality and dream? How is a visible “other” represented and sold to the public through photographs and postcards? What image of the colonial war emerges from private albums of generals and lower-rank officers, propaganda postcards, even chocolate wrapping that illustrates the events of the 1911 conquest of Lybia?
Moderator: Giuliana Minghelli, Harvard University minghell@fas.harvard.edu
1. Eloisa Morra, Harvard University, eloisamorra@fas.harvard.edu: Je est un autre: la formazione dell'immaginario africano tra XIX e XX secolo
2. Chiara Trebaiocchi, Harvard University, ctrebaiocchi@fas.harvard.edu: Woman and Nature: the representation of the Other in the Italian colonial postcards
3. Matthew Collins, Harvard University, matthewtcollins@gmail.com: The Colonial City and its Architecture: Tripoli and Mogadishu

Organizers: Marco Andreani, Macula, Centro Internazionale di Cultura Fotografica, marcoandreani18@yahoo.it; Marco Purpura, Balthazar, Polo di Studi sul Cinema; Bergamo, mrcpurpura@gmail.com
Sponsor: Italian Art Society
For a half century after its inception, photography was believed to offer the most accurate reproduction of reality. During the twentieth century, critics largely contested the “transparency” of photography and claims of its objectivity. Far from being a neutral tool for recording reality, photography has been employed as an instrument of power through which a certain notion of reality is produced. How has photography been used by the nation-state? What does the photographic frame tell us about the technological, cultural, and economic practices that generated it? How has photography been appropriated as a critical medium? This session focuses on the relationship between photography and power in its various manifestations in Italian culture throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Panel I:
Chair: Marco Andreani, Macula, Centro Internazionale di Cultura Fotografica, marcoandreani18@yahoo.it
1. Giuliana Minghelli, Harvard University, minghell@fas.harvard.edu: La fotografia del potere e il potere della fotografia. Le immagini di Longanesi ne L’Italiano e Omnibus (1926-1939)
2. Tania Rossetto, Università di Padova, tania.rossetto@unipd.it: Rappresentare gli strumenti del potere: foto-ritratti di carte geografiche
3. Pierangelo Cavanna, Archivio Storico Città di Torino, pierangelo.cavanna@libero.it: “Arte, antichità e memorie storiche”: le campagne documentarie dei “monumenti nazionali” nei primi decenni successivi all’Unità
4. Nicoletta Pazzaglia, University of Oregon, nicol179@gmail.com: Psychiatric Photography, Gender, and the Quest for National Identity in Fin-de-Siecle Italy
Panel II:
Chair: Marco Purpura, Balthazar, Polo di Studi sul Cinema; Bergamo, mrcpurpura@gmail.com
1. Erica Grossi, Università di Palermo, ericagrossi5@gmail.com: Il potere della fotografia sub-specie bellica
2. Lindsay Harris, American Academy in Rome, lindsayruthharris@gmail.com: Redeeming Italy: Photography and Power at the First Roman Biennial, 1921
3. Nicoletta Leonardi, University of California EAP Florence, nicoletta.leonardi@gmail.com: Photography and Materiality in Italy in the 1960s and 70s: Mario Cresci’s Work Between Urban Activism and Participatory Planning
4. Rita Ladogana, Università di Cagliari, ladogana@unica.it: Il fotogiornalismo di Carlo Bavagnoli e Mario Dondero nell'Italia neorealista del secondo dopoguerra. Uno sguardo senza censure su società e cultura meridionali

Organizers: Stefano Tomassini (Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano/Università di Venezia); Sergia Adamo (Università di Trieste, adamo@units.it)
La danza rappresenta un discorso culturale cui raramente viene prestata attenzione, se non in modo occasionale o strettamente specialistico. Si vorrebbe invece qui provare a interrogare la danza come discorso culturale rilevante e complesso che ha segnato, in diversi modi e in diversi contesti la storia della cultura italiana. In particolare verrà preso in esame in questi due panel il rapporto tra danza e testo letterario nella prospettiva di problematizzazione del cànone e della legittimazione della tradizione dei classici italiani, della loro valorizzazione come «capitale culturale».
Panel 1:
Moderator: Stefano Tomassini (Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano/Università di Venezia, stefano.tomassini@unive.it)
1. Nicola Catelli (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, nicola.catelli@gmail.com): «Due archi paralleli e concolori»: sulla danza dei sapienti nel Paradiso dantesco
2. Francesca Bortoletti (University of Minnesota, bortoletti.francesca@gmail.com): L’Orlando Furioso di canto, in passo e InCanto. L’Ariosto in danza da Massine a Bigonzetti
3. Sarah Di Bella (Parigi, dibellasarah@gmail.com): La danza in cerchio nei testi teatrali e nella rappresentazione scenica della tragedia sacra nella Sicilia spagnola (XVI-XVII secolo)
4. Andrea Torre (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, torrek@libero.it): La ninfa danzante: memoria delle immagini e metamorfosi delle forme
Panel 2:
Moderator: Sergia Adamo (Università di Trieste, adamo@units.it)
1. Concetta Lo Iacono (Università di Roma 3, concetta.loiacono@uniroma3.it): Il velo di Tersicore. Echi foscoliani nella Bella Figura danzante
2. Lorenzo Abbate (Università per Stranieri di Siena, lamballe@live.it): Note su Leopardi e la danza
3. Peter Lešnik (University of Pennsylvania, plesnik@sas.upenn.edu): Dis-fare l’ideologia attraverso la danza. Metafore politiche del corpo in Amore e ginnastica di Edmondo De Amicis
4. Giulia Taddeo (Università di Bologna, giulia.taddeo4@unibo.it), Balli russi, danzatrici mistiche e jazz band: Tersicore antica e nuova nella stampa italiana degli Anni Venti

Organizers: Stefano Tomassini (Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano/Università di Venezia); Sergia Adamo (Università di Trieste, adamo@units.it)
La danza rappresenta un discorso culturale cui raramente viene prestata attenzione, se non in modo occasionale o strettamente specialistico. Si vorrebbe invece qui provare a interrogare la danza come discorso culturale rilevante e complesso che ha segnato, in diversi modi e in diversi contesti la storia della cultura italiana. In particolare verrà presa in esame in questi due panel l'arte del movimento come modalità di rappresentazione dell'identità e dell'alterità nella cultura italiana, l'arte della coreografia come piano di composizione di nuove strategie critiche per la cultura italiana contemporanea, la stretta connessione tra danza e scrittura sia sul piano documentale della notazione del movimento, sia sul piano materiale del processo creativo.
Panel 1:
Moderator: Stefano Tomassini (Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano/Università di Venezia, stefano.tomassini@unive.it)
1. Melissa Melpignano (UCLA, melissamelpignano@gmail.com): Scritture della presenza. Il libretto di ballo come genere letterario
2. Laura Aimo (Università Cattolica di Milano, laura.aimo@unicatt.it): Tra api e ragni a passo di danza. Gasparo Angiolini e il dibattito letterario milanese sul ballo pantomimo
3. Elena Cervellati (Università di Bologna, e.cervellati@unibo.it): Impronte sulla carta. La danza di Maria Taglioni nei libretti e nei componimenti poetici d'occasione italiani
4. Cristina Righi (Independent Scholar), righi-cristina@alice.it): (De)scrivere la danza. La reciproca influenza dei segni
Panel 2:
Moderator: Sergia Adamo (Università di Trieste, adamo@units.it)
1. Michele Rossi (Pennsylvania State University, microssi77@gmail.com): Educazione e danza tra Vergerio e Rousseau
2. Rita Maria Fabris (Università di Siena, ritamaria.fabris@unito.it): Tracce manzoniane nella danza italiana e danese dell’Ottocento
3. Maria Venuso (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, mariavenuso@libero.it): La presenza della danza nella formazione dell’individuo: la pratica e la conoscenza dell’arte coreutica nel percorso scolastico liceale e universitario
4. Stefania Di Paolo (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, stefaniadipi@gmail.com): Virgilio Sieni e la scrittura del quotidiano: la coreografia come forma di resistenza

Organizer and Moderator: Cecilia Piantanida, University of Oxford, cecilia.piantanida@lincoln.ox.ac.uk This panel will discuss the theory and practice of translation from Ancient Greek and Latin poetry in the Novecento. It will investigate poetic translations of ancient lyric, epic and drama by Italian poets, taking in consideration different case studies. The debate will focus on the relationship between the Classics and the development of 'poetiche' as well as on the role of translation and the classical tradition in shaping authorial and national identities in the 20th century.
1) Cecilia Piantanida, University of Oxford, cecilia.piantanida@lincoln.ox.ac.uk: Pascoli and Sapphism: Three Translations of Sappho fr. 1
2) Caterina Paoli, University of Oxford, caterina.paoli@stcatz.ox.ac.uk: Sbarbaro and Greek Tragedy
3) Jacob Blakesley, University of Durham, jacobdblakesley@gmail.com: Pasolini as Translator

Organizers: Carlo Alberto Petruzzi (cpetruzz@live.unc.edu) Emiliano Guaraldo (guaraldo@live.unc.edu), University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Italian Studies.
This panel seeks to explore in an interdisciplinary way the role of Italy and its unique perspective on the conflicts in the Mediterranean basin, and how its inclusion and participation, both active and passive has molded Italian cultural, social, and economic fabric.
Chair: Carlo Alberto Petruzzi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, cpetruzz@live.unc.edu
1. Tessa Gurney, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, tgurney@email.unc.edu: In the Wake of the Lepanto: Echoes of Maritime Battles in the Theater of Giovan Battista Della Porta
2. Mark Bernheim, bernhema@miamioh.edu, Miami University: War, Landscape and memory in Arthur Miller's Monte Sant'Angelo
3. Stéphanie Laporte, Université de Paris-Ouest Nanterre, stephanie.laporte@gmail.com: Dino Buzzati cronista di una guerra che non si fa
4. Martina Adani, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, madani@live.unc.edu: Inter-cultural dialogue and social conflict. The Mediterranean space in contemporary Italian Cinema

Organizers: Paola Ureni, CUNY - College of Staten Island, paola.ureni@csi.cuny.edu
This panel explores the impact of medicine on medieval and early modern philosophical, theological, and juridical debates, and the literary response to such discussions. The consideration of Dante’s writing stems from the focus on the corporeal dimension, which is analyzed through a distinctively philosophical lens – with specific reference to the canzoni – and from a medical perspective, particularly Galenic: the scientific nature of Galen’s thought prompts to question the interaction between corporeal and intellective dimensions, and more specifically the nature of human intellection, its physical location, and its eventual limits. The changing attitudes towards medicine and law in the early modern period are examined by offering an interpretation of different medical and legal sources on the notion of evidence.
Moderator: Gerry Milligan, CUNY - College of Staten Island, Gerry.Milligan@csi.cuny.edu
Juan Varela Portas de Orduna, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, jivarelaportas@filol.ucm.es: Il problema del corpo e la materia nel "Libro delle canzoni" di Dante
Paola Ureni, CUNY – College of Staten Island, Paola.Ureni@csi.cuny.edu: Galen on the Brain: A Scientific Thread in Dante’s Writing
Monica Calabritto, CUNY - Hunter College and the Graduate Center, mcalabri@hunter.cuny.edu: The Notion of Evidence and the Changing Epistemology of Early Modern Italian Medicine and Law

Organizers: Eugenio Refini (Villa I Tatti, Harvard University) e.refini@gmail.com
During the 16th century a transition seem to takes place in the thinking of the status of animals: from the one expressed in Medieval bestiaries, to a more scientific – zoological and even anatomical – interest in non-human creatures. This is apparent, for instance, in the treatment of mythological animals: while the existence of unicorns, dragons and hippogriffs is drawn into doubting, one notices a proliferation of these creatures in literary texts and artistic imageries. This interdisciplinary roundtable seeks to explore the question regarding the place and role of animals in Renaissance culture, addressing this constant ambivalence of discourses on real and on imaginary animals. Through the combination of literary, philosophical, artistic, and musicological approaches, the panel presents case studies of how Renaissance ‘thinking with animals’ oscillates between considering them as real (even dangerous) presences, and sublimating them in an arsenal of unreal and surreal figures. Being perceptive to this double level of Renaissance animality, the papers converge on these fundamental questions: How do animals contribute to the definition and problematization of what is considered human culture? Indeed, how human is culture, and how and why have we come to discount animals’ roles in constructing it? Can Renaissance and early modern representations of animal bodies alert us to ways in which we rethink the concept of the divide between animals and humans?
CHAIR/MODERATOR: Marco Ruffini (Northwestern University), ruffini@northwestern.edu
1. Angela Matilde Capodivacca (Yale University, Italian Department e Villa I Tatti, Harvard University) angela.capodivacca@yale.edu
2. Giordano Mastrocola (University of Toulouse e Villa I Tatti, Harvard University), giordano.mastrocola@hotmail.it
3. Cecilia Muratori (Villa I Tatti, Harvard University), ceciliamuratori@gmail.com
4. Fanny Kieffer (University of Tours), fanny.kieffer@univ-tours.fr
5. Eugenio Refini (Villa I Tatti, Harvard University), e.refini@gmail.com

Organizers: S.A. Smythe, University of California, Santa Cruz, ssmythe@ucsc.edu
This roundtable focuses on the role of queer studies in academia today, in the United States, in Italy, and globally. How has queer studies been institutionalized in the Italian context? What is the impact/role of queer studies within the greater Italian Studies discipline? Scholars interested in discussing issues concerning the differences and convergences between queer Italianists in Italy, Italian queer studies in the United States and queer-identified individuals within the Italian and Anglo cultural contexts will conduct the roundtable on their specific areas of interest regarding these topics and include specific questions/provocations for open discussion.
Queer Studies Caucus (AAISQueerStudiesCaucus@gmail.com)
Luca Trappolin, Università degli Studi di Padova
Charlotte Ross, University of Birmingham
SA Smythe, UCSC
Julia Heim, CUNY Graduate Center
Marco Pustianaz, Università degli Studi del Piemonte orientale

Organizer: Elena Brizio, The Medici Archive Project - Firenze, ebrizio@medici.org
What happened in history of women between 1987, when Diane Owen Hughes' work entitled "Invisible Madonnas" appeared and today? Did the studies on Early Modern Italian women in literature, law, society highlight more agency of women and helped our understanding of a society in which females played a more prominent role or are we still accepting that the differences between theory and practice have never been eliminated ? Did the most recent archival approach broaden our knowledge of the Italian female society or just focus on trendy topics? This session is seeking papers that will explore the challenges that Early Modern Italian women did face in law, society, literature, family, economy and how they faced limitations and reached for possible solutions to overcome them.
Chair: Tessa Gurney, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill tgurney@email.unc.edu
1. Alejandra Franganillo Alvarez,Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Dept. of Early Modern History, afranganillo@ghis.ucm.es: Cristina of Lorena and Maria Magdalena of Austria. The Political Relationships Between the Grand Duchesses of Tuscany with the Spanish Court in the Beginning of XVII Century
2. Laura Llewellyn, Courtauld Institute of Art, London laura.llewellyn@courtauld.ac.uk: Four new nunneries in Quattrocento Florence
3. Elena Brizio, The Medici Archive Project, ebrizio@medici.org: "Non poco darìa da pensare se fusse uno huomo bene suficiente et facultoso: Eustochia Bichi and her life in Cinquecento Siena"
4. Julia L. Hairston, University of California, Rome, julia.hairston@fastwebnet.it: The Making of a Courtesan: The Case of Tullia d'Aragona

Organizers: Ellen Nerenberg (Wesleyan University) and Alan O'Leary (University of Leeds, a.oleary@leeds.ac.uk)
A lively debate at AAIS 2013 (at the roundtable ‘Italian Film and Media studies, Present and Future, 1) concerned the relationship of research to teaching. What kind of competencies do we hope to give our students and how is this goal served by the themes of our research? Some felt that the material taught had to be ‘nourishing’ and needed to challenge the ‘insularity and narcissism’ of the contemporary student; this position translated into a canonical idea of the syllabus: the ‘best’ would challenge and improve the student. Others argued that students should be equipped to deal with the range of media (including new and social media) and cultural production; such a position assumed a mix of high and low, but preferred the un-canonized. Both positions seem to reflect the research priorities of the speakers themselves, and perhaps pointed to a division in the discipline between a celebratory, ‘heritage’ account of Italian culture and one that might be loosely described as ‘anthropological’.
This roundtable is designed to develop this debate and to make explicit the assumptions behind the various positions. It forms part of the ‘Abject Object of Enquiry’ project being developed by the two organisers.
CHAIR: Aine O'Healy, Loyola Marymount University, aohealy@lmu.edu
PARTICIPANTS:
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, New York University, rb68@nyu.edu
Gius Gargiulo, Paris X-Nanterre, gargiulo@u-paris10.fr
Manuele Gragnolati, University of Oxford, manuele.gragnolati@some.ox.ac.uk
Ellen Nerenberg, Wesleyan University, enerenberg@wesleyan.edu
Alan O'Leary, University of Leeds, a.oleary@leeds.ac.uk

Organizers: Jacqueline Reich, Fordham University, jreich8@fordham.edu
This session will address the character of Maciste, born in Giovanni Pastrone's silent screen masterpiece Cabiria one hundred years ago, as he morphed into star of his own film series between 1915 and 1926. Three papers, followed by a respondent, interrogate stardom and national identity, masculinity, and modernity, and Maciste's relationship to other strongmen and strongwomen of Italian silent cinema.
Chair: Giaime Alonge, Università degli Studi di Torino, giaime.alonge@unito.it
1. Giaime Alonge, 'Maciste alpino': Body, Mechanical Warfare and Modernity
2. Francesco Pitassio, Università degli Studi di Udine, francesco.pitassio@uniud.it, 'Maciste alpino': Comic Force and National Identity
3. Ivo Blom, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, i.l.blom@vu.nl, Body of Evidence. Maciste versus Ausonia in Existing Film Prints

Organizers: WSC and Cristina Gragnani (Temple University, Philadelphia, cristina.gragnani@temple.edu)
Questa sessione esplora il contributo delle donne alla cultura laica in Italia nella letteratura, nel cinema, nel giornalismo, nelle scienze e in politica.
1. Teresa Agovino, Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’ (agovinoteresa@virgilio.it): Eleonora de Fonseca Pimentel. La donna, l’impegno
2. Cristina Bettin, Ben Gurion University, Israel (cri_bettin@hotmail.com): Lucia Bedarida Servadio : A Life Beyond Limits. A Female Italian
3. Inga Pearson, Stanford University, (ipearson@stanford.edu): Between Satan and Medusa: Roberta de Monticelli's Treatment of Evil
4. Erminia Passannanti, Brunel University, (erminia.passannanti@gmail.com): Rappresentazione della decadenza del nucleo familiare borghese nei film di Comencini e censura etica del Terzo Millennio

Organizers: Catherine O'Rawe (University of Bristol, C.G.ORawe@bristol.ac.uk) and Dana Renga (The Ohio State University)
In a 2011 article on the critical dominance of neorealism within studies Italian cinema studies, Alan O’Leary and Catherine O’Rawe called for alternative conceptualizations of Italian film history that might both reinstate the function of a rich array of genres in elaborating wartime and post-war experience in Italy, and constitute an alternative heuristic for reading Italian film, displacing teleological narratives by which neorealism is the sacred origin from which comes all important politically or ethically charged cinema (for example in debates on neo-neorealism around Garrone’s 2008 Gomorra). However, the reflexive recourse to neorealism in critical discourse has increased, with half a dozen recent or imminent monographs or collections on neorealism, by both scholars working in Italian film studies and in film studies more broadly.
Against Neorealism I
Chair: Dana Renga, The Ohio State University, renga.1@osu.edu
1. Lorenzo Fabbri, University of Minnesota, lfabbri@umn.edu: Neorealism as Ideology: A Zero-Degree Cinema for the Nation’s Year-Zero
2. Mark Nicholls, University of Melbourne, markdn@unimelb.edu.au: Letters to Farley Granger: Luchino Visconti, Creative Intercourse with Strangers and the End of Neorealism
3. Vito Zagarrio, Università degli studi Roma Tre, vito.zagarrio@uniroma3.it: The Neo/No/Realism: Formalism, Genres, and Studio
Against Neorealism II
Chair: Jaqueline Reich, Fordham University, jreich8@fordham.edu
1. Charles Leavitt, University of Reading, c.l.leavitt@reading.ac.uk: The Religion of Neorealism
2. Catherine O’Rawe, University of Bristol, C.G.ORawe@bristol.ac.uk: Beyond Neorealism: Melodrama and the Resistance in Post-War Italian Cinema
3. Dana Renga, The Ohio State University, renga.1@osu.edu: Italian Screen Studies in the Anglophone Context: 2008-2013

Organizer: Aine OHealy, Loyola Marymount University, aohealy@gmail.com
This session explores representations of racial difference in a variety of cinematic and literary texts produced in Italy since the 1960s, paying attention to the specificity of the historical moment in which these texts emerged. The proposed papers give particular focus to textual engagements with the performative dimension of racial identity and identification, addressing such issues as whiteness; blackness; mimicry; masquerade; the symptomatic after-effects of Fascism, colonialism, and emigration; and the anxieties stirred by recent migrations from Eastern Europe and the global south.
Moderator: Caterina Romeo, La Sapienza Universita' di Roma, romeo.caterina@gmail.com
1. Marco Purpura, Balthazar, Bergamo (Polo di studi sul cinema), mrcpurpura@gmail.com: Racial Masquerade in Italian Cinema of the 1960s: Pierpaolo Pasolini’s Che cosa sono le nuvole? and Gillo Pontecorvo’s Queimada
2. Caterina Romeo, La Sapienza Università di Roma, romeo.caterina@gmail.com: Defying the Chromatic Norm, Challenging Global Sisterarchy
3. Aine O'Healy, Loyola Marymount University, aohealy@gmail.com: Zingari/Rom/Romeni: Confounding Racial Abjection and Ethnic Difference in Contemporary Italian Cinema
4. Cristina Lombardi-Diop, Loyola University Chicago, clombardidiop@gmail.com: Shades of White: Italian Decolonization in Chiaroscuro

Organizer: Queer Studies Caucus, AAISQueerStudiesCaucus@gmail.com
Derek Duncan, a Professor of Italian at the University of St. Andrew's in Scotland will be presenting his newest work entitled "Sexual preference and object choice: Giò Stajano’s challenge to queer historiography". There will be a respondent at the end of Duncan's proposed hour long talk. Gay Studies and Queer Studies have been abidingly concerned with temporalities. The search for hidden histories represents the attempt to give value to repressed and oppressed lives and stories. From the 1960s on, Giò Stajano publicly challenged hegemonic attitudes to sexuality and gender yet is barely remembered today. Derek's talk will explore the contours of the amnesia surrounding the life and afterlife of Stajano and analyses the uneven articulations of queer remembrance.

Organizers: Pasquale Verdicchio (University of California San Diego), Nicoletta Pazzaglia (University of Oregon, nicol179@gmail.com)
Sponsor: Italian Art Society
This session explores the relationship between photography and writing in Italy. In the course of the twentieth century, the growing diffusion and consumption of photographic images did not receive adequate attention within circles of Italian intellectuals, trained in the humanities, a tradition founded on the primacy of writing and which was imbued with idealism à la Benedetto Croce and relied on a clear-cut distinction between high culture and low culture. Such a lack of interest in photography persisted on the part of several Italian journalists, almost exclusively relying on written texts, as well as on the part of prestigious literati and writers. Nonetheless, the undisputed commercial success of illustrated magazines played a significant role in the development of major political phenomena and cultural trends throughout the century, including Fascism and Neorealism. Further, in the 1960s, illustrated weeklies such as Epoca, Tempo, and L’Europeo published popular supplements that included hundreds of photos and were often edited by major journalists, including Enzo Biagi and Indro Montanelli. Similarly, some writers embraced the relatively new medium: Giovanni Verga worked as a photographer, Elio Vittorini’s Conversazione in Sicilia came out in an illustrated edition, Cesare Zavattini and Paul Strand produced a photo-book, Un paese, and Lalla Romano made photographic “novels.”
Session I: Chair: Nicoletta Pazzaglia (University of Oregon), nicol179@gmail.com
1. Carlos R de Souza, University of Texas, desouzacr@utpa.edu: The Narrative Scheme of the Romantic Fotonovela
2. Simona Campus, Università di Cagliari, simonacampus@gmail.com: Interazioni di fotografia e scrittura nelle riviste «Pirelli» e «Civiltà delle macchine»
3. Liz Shannon, University of St Andrews: The US, Italy and “Photographic Books”: national influence in Paul Strand and Cesare Zavattini's Un paese(1955)
4. Marco Andreani, Macula, Centro Internazionale di Cultura Fotografica, marcoandreani18@yahoo.it: Fotografia e divulgazione: foto-libri, riviste e supplementi illustrati nell'Italia degli Cinquanta e Sessanta
Session II:
Chair: Lindsay Harris (American Academy in Rome), lindsayruthharris@gmail.com
1. Francesco Ruvolo, Scuola Secondaria Pavia, franzruvolo@yahoo.it: Fotogiornalismo e terremoto. Il caso di Messina 1908
2. Gabriella Bologna, Università di Verona, gabriamsterdam@yahoo.com: Dal romanzo al reportage: Federico de Roberto e la fotografia
3. Marina Spunta, University of Leicester, ms96@leicester.ac.uk: Stimmung or dissonant landscapes? Luigi Ghirri’s legacy in contemporary Italian photography and writing
4. Maria Lolla, Harvard University, mglolla@fas.harvard.edu: Photographing Averages: Literature, Photography, Statistics and the Power of the Norm

Organizer: The Queer Studies Caucus (QSC), AAISQueerStudiesCaucus@gmail.com
Panel I:
Chair: Julia Heim, CUNY Graduate Center
This panel will discuss portrayals and receptions of LGBT sex acts in Italy. What role do representations of LGBT sex play in Italian literature, film, television, politics, and other cultural media? What is the importance of the physical act in an age when political correctness can lead to an erasure of difference? Have the intersections of identity and action promoted or prohibited representations of queer experience? When considered from a historical perspective, has a lack of terminology increased or decreased the potential for the recognition of queerness in Italian society and culture?
Chair: Julia Heim, CUNY Graduate Center, JHeim@gc.cuny.edu
1. Charlotte Ross (c.e.ross@bham.ac.uk), University of Birmingham: ‘Cunnilingui’ and ‘l’amore lesbiano’ in late 19th and early 20th century Italy
2. Vanina Palmieri (vanina.palmieri@wanadoo.fr), Lycée International Saint Germain: La rappresentazione dell'omosessuale nell'opera di Natalia Ginzburg
3. Andrea Polegato (apolegat@indiana.edu), Indiana University Bloomington: Il trattamento del diverso nella Mandragola
Panel II:
Chair: Sole Anatrone, UC Berkeley, sanatrone@berkeley.edu
This is the second session of a panel which will discuss portrayals and receptions of LGBT sex acts in Italy. What role do representations of LGBT sex play in Italian literature, film, television, politics, and other cultural media? What is the importance of the physical act in an age when political correctness can lead to an erasure of difference? Have the intersections of identity and action promoted or prohibited representations of queer experience? When considered from a historical perspective, has a lack of terminology increased or decreased the potential for the recognition of queerness in Italian society and culture? Where the first session examined Renaissance and early modern examples, this session's focus is more contemporary, focusing on comic books, television, and film in Italy.
1. Mauro Giori (mauro.giori@guest.unimi.it), University of Milan: The long way from tactic to strategy: the case of Luchino Visconti
2. Kristin Szostek Chertoff (kas254@nyu.edu), New York University: Missing Act, Missing Identity in Aldo Palazzeschi's I fiori
3. Julia Heim (JHeim@gc.cuny.edu), CUNY Graduate Center: Trimming the Queer: The limits of queer acceptance on the Italian small screen

Organizer: Silvia Valisa, Florida State University, svalisa@fsu.edu
This panel seeks to discuss the presence of women in the field of photography in Italy between the mid-1800s and the first part of the 20th century (roughly to the late 1930s). Proposed papers will introduce the work of a female photographer or discuss different female professional roles within the commercial field of photography. Additionally, papers can discuss the presence of photography in other media, focusing for example on literary representations of photographs by female authors. The goal is to propose an investigation of female agency in the production and distribution of visual artifacts in Italy from mid-1800s to the first part of the 20th century.
Chair: Silvia Valisa, Florida State University, svalisa@fsu.edu
1. Janaya Lasker-Ferretti, Wayne State U., janaya.lasker@gmail.com: Pieces of Herself: Adele Gloria and Photo Collage
2. Denise Birkhofer, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, dbirkhof@oberlin.edu: Tina Modotti: Muse, Model, Maker
3. Silvia Valisa, Florida State University, svalisa@fsu.edu: Her Eye: Wanda Wulz’s Portraits

Organizer: The Queer Studies Caucus (QSC), AAISQueerStudiesCaucus@gmail.com
Chair: SA Smythe, University of California, Santa Cruz, ssmythe@ucsc.edu
One of the frameworks for Jasbir Puar’s Terrorist Assemblages is the critique of “queer as regulatory,” that is, a controlled or directed expectation of queer identity or expression according to a predefined rule, principle, or law (such as homonormativity and/or secularity). With this framework in mind, this session focuses on those regulations and predefinitions that have been central to shaping the limits of queer Italian identity and have created or prevented forms of interplay between all groups and intersections of those considered to be “others” throughout Italy's social, political, and literary landscape.
1. Lorenzo Bernini (lorenzo.bernini@univr.it), Università di Verona: È arrivata l’Apocalisse!: L’epidemia degli zombie gay nella teoria queer italiana
2. Dario Accolla (dario.accolla@libero.it), Università di Catania: La questione omossesuale in Italia e le risposte della politica
3. Goffredo Polizzi (g.polizzi@warwick.ac.uk), University of Warwick: Considering a Queer and Post-colonial approach to (Southern) Italy

Organizer and Chair: Dom Holdaway, University of Warwick, d.f.g.holdaway@warwick.ac.uk
Taking inspiration from Carla Freccero's Queer/Early/Modern, this panel attempts to open up new understandings of queer Italian film that offer a productive challenge to film and media studies. Papers are welcomed that focus on the spaces between the terms, thus they might include considerations of the limits of the applicability of the term 'queer' in the case of Italy's cinema (the term's translatability, or possible Italian equivalents); the transcendence of national borders in queer film ('Italian' films not 'made in Italy', such as Mambo Italiano); the modes through which queer Italian subjects find expression that go beyond traditional film (camera phones, social media, photography, etc.); the representation of queer characters by straight actors; or the shifting spaces of queer aesthetics in traditional Italian cinema.
1. Ramsey McGlazer (mcglazer@berkeley.edu), UC Berkeley: All That Behind: Salò, Foucault, and Sodomitical Cinema
2. Fabio Ferrari (fferrari@fc.edu), Franklin College, Switzerland: Queering Italian Cinema in a Swiss Classroom
3. Elena Boschi (boschie@hope.ac.uk), Liverpool Hope University: Queer Dreams? Italian Popular Music and Lesbian Romance in Viola di mare

Organizer: Simone Brioni, IMLR, University of London, simone.brioni@sas.ac.uk
This panel investigates the representation of subaltern and migrant subjects in contemporary Italian literature and movies. Drawing on postcolonial theory, the four papers detailed below focus on the politics and ethics of representation, the persistence of colonial stereotypes, and the agency of minority authors to counter them.
Moderator: Alessandra Diazzi, University of Cambridge, ad608@cam.ac.uk
1. Manuela Coppola, Università di Napoli L’Orientale, mcoppola@unior.it: ’Bocche di vento’: The Role of Women Writers of the African Diaspora in Italy as Public Intellectuals
2. Laura Sarnelli, Università di Napoli L’Orientale,lsarnelli@unior.it: Ghostly Figurations in Contemporary Representations of Migrancy
3. Simone Brioni, IMLR, University of London, simone.brioni@sas.ac.uk: Almost American Psycho, but not Quite: Subaltern Subjects and Allochronies in Piersandro Pallavicini’s Il mostro di Vigevano (1999)
4. Leonardo De Franceschi, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, leonardo.defranceschi@uniroma3.it, The Immigrant as Social Type and Performing Body in Contemporary Italian Cinema

Organizers: Ombretta Frau, Mount Holyoke College, ofrau@mtholyoke.edu; Juliet Guzzetta, Michigan State University, guzzetta@msu.edu
In anni recenti, le considerazioni sul 'politically correct' ci hanno spinto a usare il linguaggio relativo alle donne in modo diverso. Termini come avvocatessa/vigilessa, ad esempio, vengono usati meno mentre si fa [o si dovrebbe fare] attenzione a non dire ragazza quando si parla di una donna, e l’uso del articolo “la” davanti al cognome viene ricevuto con sempre più freddezza [si vedano ad esempio le considerazioni della Presidente Boldrini al riguardo]. Nonostante questo aumento di consapevolezza, il linguaggio comunque riflette le differenze sessuali e continua ad avere il potere di influenzare le modalità di partecipazione alla vita pubblica, a come si percepiscono le esperienze di vita e si comunica con gli altri. Questa sessione intende esplorare linguaggi femminili e linguaggi relativi al femminile e approfondire la comprensione delle loro consequenze. Si concepisce il concetto di linguaggio in senso ampio e quindi non solo linguaggio di moda, letteratura, giornalismo, ma anche linguaggi mediatici (dal cinema alla pubblicità) e corporei (dal teatro alla vita odierna).
Chair: Ombretta Frau, Mount Holyoke College
1.Cecilia Robustelli, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, cecilia.robustelli@unimore.it: Visibilità femminile nel linguaggio quotidiano e nel linguaggio amministrativo
2. Nadia Verdile, Journalist, nadiaver@libero.it: L'ingiuria alle donne, fenomeno giuridico e sociale, tra diritto e letteratura
3. Ombretta Frau, Mount Holyoke College, ofrau@mtholyoke.edu: Juliet Guzzetta, MIchigan State University, guzzetta@msu.edu, Misoginia elettronica: la legge di Lewis

Organizer: Christina Petraglia, Gettysburg College, cpetragl@gettysburg.edu
This panel focuses on any aspect of the Gothic in Italian prose or poetry of the previous Turn of the Century. Themes of interest include but are not limited to: death, illness, deformity, neurosis, landscapes, monsters, spiritism, eroticism, vampirism, metempsychosis, the uncanny, and the supernatural.
Chair: Roberto Risso, University of Wisconsin-Madison, risso@wisc.edu
1 Aileen Christensen, Brigham Young University, aileenchristensen@byu.edu: The Devil is a Vampire: the Bloody and Fallen Iconography of Evil in Inferno and Dracula
2. Maria Pia Arpioni, Universita' Ca' Foscari Venezia, mariapia.arpioni@gmail.com: Paesaggi e vampiri nel gotico italiano fra Otto- e Novecento
3. Christina Petraglia, Gettysburg College, cpetragl@gettysburg.edu: (Trans)migrating Topsy-Turvy Time in Antonio Fogazzaro's Malombra
4. Paola Roccella, University of Warwick, P.Roccella@warwick.ac.edu: The New Fantastic of the Twentieth Century: Sea 'Monsters' in Two Short Stories by Alberto Savinio and Anna Maria Ortese