II. KEYNOTE SPEAKER: "L'eroicità napoleonica: classicità e costume borghese"
BIO: Luigi
Mascilli Migliorini, member of the Accademia dei Lincei, is Professor of Modern
History and of Modern Mediterranean History at the University of Naples L’Orientale. His early research focused on the Napoleonic
period and its legacy in nineteenth century Europe. Among his most notable
publications are Napoleon (Paris: Perrin, 2004), The Myth of the Hero (Paris:
Editions of the New World, 2002), and several edited volumes, among which
Memorial of Sant’Elena, Storia del Mediterraneo moderno e contemporaneo
(Napoli: Guida, 2009), and Italia napoleonica. Dizionario critico (Torino:
Utet, 2011). In 2014 he published Metternich (Roma: Salerno Editrice), and in 2016 500 giorni. Napoleone dall’Elba a Sant’Elena (Roma-Bari: Laterza).
III. CONFERENCE PROGRAM
8:30-
9:00
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REGISTRATION
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9:00-
9:10
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OPENING REMARKS AND WELCOME
FULVIO ORSITTO Georgetown University,Florence (ITALY) SIMONA WRIGHT The College of New Jersey (USA) FABRIZIO RICCIARDELLI Kent State University, Florence (ITALY)
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9:15- 10:30
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SESSION 1
(Lecture Hall –
1st Floor)
“Anti-Heroes in
Italian Pop Culture”
(Organized by N. PELUFFO)
Chair:
NICOLETTA PELUFFO
Kent State
University, Florence (ITALY)
Presenters:
“The Anti-Hero with
a Thousand Faces: ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ in Boccaccio’s Decameron”
KRISTIN
STASIOWSKI
Kent State
University (USA)
“The ‘Bad Guys’ Are Taking Over: Sky Italian TV Drama Narrative Model”
FABIO CORSINI
Kent State
University, Florence (ITALY)
“Italian Progressive Rock Bands in the 1970s: Collectivism, Art, Power to Imagination and a New Anti-Heroic Attitude in a Changing Music Industry.” MARCO BRACCI Kent State University, Florence (ITALY)
“Pinocchio
Before and After Disney: A Good Boy or a Brat?”
NICOLETTA
PELUFFO
Kent State
University, Florence (ITALY)
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10:35- 11:50
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SESSION 2A
(Lecture Hall –
1st Floor)
“Intersections
in the Realm of Visual Arts”
Chair:
MARSHA STEINBERG
California State
Univ., Florence (ITALY)
Presenters:
“Women
Portraying Women: Revisiting the Past. Artemisia Gentileschi
and Elisabetta Sirani”
SNJEZANA
SMODLAKA
Rutgers
University (USA)
“The Soft Power
of Art and the Ab(Use) of Classical Imagery”
CARLOTTA PALTRINIERI
Indiana University Bloomington (USA)
“La fotografia è radicale.
Un percorso attraverso la saggistica fotografica”
ANNA STELLA POLI
University of Genoa (ITALY)
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SESSION 2B
(Michelangelo –
Ground Floor)
“The Age of
Exploration: Shaping New Tastes in a Global Perspective”
(Organized by M. CAROSCIO)
Chair:
HUGO BLAKE Royal Holloway, University of London (UK)
Presenters:
“Defining and
Assimilating the ‘Exotic’: Chocolate, Porcelain and the Globalisation of
Taste”
MARTA CAROSCIO
Independent
Scholar (ITALY)
“Florence, Goa
and Back: Art, Diplomacy and Mobility in the Early Seventeenth-Century”
FRANCESCO
FREDDOLINI
Luther College,
University of Regina (CANADA)
“Sixteenth
Century Costume Books and the Assimilation of Non-European Cultures”
LARISSA CARVALHO
Universidade Estadual de Campinas (BRAZIL)
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11:55- 13:10
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SESSION 3A
(Lecture Hall –
1st Floor)
“Intersections
in Contemporary Italian Cinema”
Chair:
FULVIO ORSITTO
Georgetown
University, Florence (ITALY)
Presenters:
“A Sense of
Place: Lyricism and the Exotic Other in Io sono Li (Segre, 2011) &
Gorbaciof (Incerti, 2010)”
MARY ANN
MCDONALD CAROLAN
Fairfield
University (USA)
“Weaving Present
and Past in Contemporary Italian Drama”
FEDERICO PACCHIONI
Chapman University (USA)
“Queering
(Hetero)Normative Conventions of Belonging in Contemporary Italian Cinema
of Migration”
LISA MICHELLE DOLASINSKI
Indiana Univ. Bloomington (USA)
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SESSION 3B (Michelangelo – Ground Floor) “Artistic and Cultural Intersections” Chair: CLAUDIA PERALTA Boise State University (USA) Presenters: “The Prostitute as Figure of Cultural Crossroads in Post-Unification Milan” CATHERINE RAMSEY-PORTOLANO The American University of Rome (ITALY) and SHARON HECKER Independent Scholar (ITALY) “Negotiating Avant-garde: Futurism in Rome” STEFANO BRAGATO University of Zurich (SWITZERLAND) “Pier Paolo Pasolini e i fiori dell’innocenza” JULIA OKOLOWICZ University of Warsaw (POLAND)
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13:15- 14:15
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LUNCH BREAK
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14:30- 15:30
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KEYNOTE SPEECH (Lecture Hall – 1st Floor) “L'eroicità napoleonica: classicità e costume borghese” LUIGI MASCILLI MIGLIORINI Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale (ITALY)
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15:35- 17:20
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SESSION 4 (Lecture Hall – 1st Floor) “Giacomo Leopardi: Re-Writing History / Ri-scrivere la storia” (Organized by A. CARRERA) Chair: ALESSANDRO CARRERA University of Houston (USA) Presenters: “Leopardi’s Brutus Minor and the Crisis of Antiquity” ALESSANDRO CARRERA University of Houston (USA) “Fabulous Giacomo. Did Mario Martone Do Leopardi Justice?” DANIELA BINI University of Texas at Austin (USA) “Leopardi e la ‘dialettica’ della storia” FRANCESCO CAPALDO Independent Scholar (ITALY) “History, Science, and Metaphysics in Leopardi” MORRIS KARP Brown University (USA) “Writing History from the Evidence of the Senses: Reading the Books and the Soil in Leopardi’s Zoological Satires” GABRIELLE SIMS Boston University (USA)
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17:25- 18:55
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SESSION 5A (Lecture Hall – 1st Floor) “Literary Intersections I” Chair: SIMONA WRIGHT The College of New Jersey (USA) Presenters: “Cartoline dall’America: Calvino, Baudrillard e lo spettacolo della democrazia” MICHELA MESCHINI University of Macerata (ITALY) “Intersezione fra letteratura e industria: Una visita in fabbrica, ovvero la dimensione socio-politica della poesia sereniana negli anni sessanta” LAURA BAFFONI LICATA Tufts University (USA) “Vincenzo Consolo’s Art” WALTER GEERTS University of Antwerp (BELGIUM) “Boccalone di Enrico Palandri tra la fine dell’età del ‘collettivo’ e il trionfo del privato” ANDREA PERA Independent Scholar (ITALY)
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SESSION 5B (Michelangelo – Ground Floor) “Literary and Cultural Intersections” Chair: FULVIO ORSITTO Georgetown University, Florence (ITALY) Presenters: “Storia ed antistoria in Nuto Revelli” ANDREA BINI The American University of Rome (ITALY) “Nuovo realismo at the Intersection between Theory and Literature” LOREDANA DI MARTINO University of San Diego (USA) “#Proverbi: Contaminating Cultures and Languages” IURI MOSCARDI City University of New York (USA) “Mapping Literary Rome: The Legacy of Italian Colonialism” SERENA ALESSI The British School at Rome (ITALY)
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20:00
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DINNER
(for registered
participants only)
At Ristorante
Cafaggi,
Via Guelfa,
35/red, Florence
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THURSDAY JUNE 1st
9:00-
10:45
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SESSION 6
(Lecture Hall –
1st Floor)
“Literary
Intersections II”
Chair:
SIMONA WRIGHT
The College of
New Jersey (USA)
Presenters:
“Rethinking the
Anthropocene: Ecological Modes of Narration in Asor Rosa’s Storie di animali e altri viventi (2005)”
LUNA SARTI
University of
Pennsylvania (USA)
“The
Intersection of Vocal Gesture, Literary Expression and the Visual Arts in
Alberto Giacometti, Natalia Ginzburg and Contemporary French Writing”
HABIB ZANZANA
University of Scranton (USA)
“La politica dell’arte in Cristo
si è fermato a Eboli”
MARIA LETIZIA BELLOCCHIO
University of Arizona (USA)
“Sacche di resistenza:
Basaglia, Celati e Scabia”
ANNA M. CHIERICI
University of Toronto (CANADA)
“Froncek contro gli italiani, ovvero la conquista dellʼEtiopia nella
stampa polacca degli anni Trenta”
TOMASZ SKOCKI
University of
Warsaw (POLAND)
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10:50- 12:05
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SESSION 7A
(Lecture Hall –
1st Floor)
“Intersections
in Literature, Theater and History”
Chair:
GIANNI CICALI
Georgetown University (USA)
Presenters:
“Il male sceso in terra”
FEDERICO
CANACCINI
University of
Bari –
Salesian Pontifical
University (ITALY)
“For a Mannerist
Reading of Giordano Bruno’s Candelaio”
NICHOLAS
ALBANESE
Texas Christian
University (USA)
“From Art to
History: The Different Reception of Bernardo Davanzati’s Lezione delle monete in Italy and
England”
STEFANO ADAMO
Banja Luka
University (BOSNIA and HERZEGOVINA)
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SESSION 7B
(Michelangelo –
Ground Floor)
“Perché apprendere non è solo
fatto di sapere: Innovative Approaches for Broadening the Italian
Educational Experience”
(Organized by ROSARIA MANGIAVILLANO MEEK)
Chair:
R. MANGIAVILLANO MEEK University of North Georgia (USA)
Presenters:
“Studying
Culture Abroad in Trentino through the Outdoors: A New Model”
FRANCESCA MIRTI
Texas Tech
University (USA)
“Expanding New
Global Horizons: An Innovative Approach to the Teaching of Italian
Language and Art”
MICHAEL KEMLING
University of
North Georgia (USA)
“Expanding New
Global Horizons: An Innovative Approach to the Teaching of Italian
Language and Art”
R. MANGIAVILLANO MEEK
University of
North Georgia (USA)
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12:10- 13:25
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SESSION 8A
(Lecture Hall –
1st Floor)
“Rethinking
Power and Evil: Italian Culture in the Face of Horror I”
(Organized by
S. BELLIN)
Chair:
STEFANO BELLIN
University
College London (UK)
Presenters:
“Looking for
Alternative Genealogies of Evil”
STEFANO BELLIN
University College London (UK)
“‘L’ergastolo del dolore’. I postmemoriali di due vittime del
terrorismo genovese: Sabina Rossa e Massimo Coco”
SCILTIAN
GASTALDI
MIUR, Rome (ITALY)
“Visionary Realism in Paolo Sorrentino’s Il Divo”
FRANCESCO RABISSI
University of Arizona (USA)
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SESSION 8B
(Michelangelo –
Ground Floor)
“For Moral
Unworthiness: Persecution and Censorship of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s
Literary, Theatrical and Cinematic Works”
(Organized by D. FIORETTI)
Chair:
DANIELE FIORETTI
Miami University, Ohio (USA)
Presenters:
“Traduttore-traditore: sottotitoli e censura politica di un film di Pasolini” DANIELE FIORETTI
Miami University (USA)
“Realismo ed eresia: Pasolini e l’istituzionalizzazione della norma” MARK EPSTEIN
Independent Scholar (USA)
“Il teatro di Pasolini, tra ‘poesia letta a voce alta’ e ‘convenzione
teatrale’” GLORIA PASTORINO
Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. (USA)
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13:30- 14:55
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LUNCH BREAK
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15:00- 16:30
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SESSION 9A
(Lecture Hall –
1st Floor)
“Rethinking
Power and Evil: Italian Culture in the Face of Horror II”
(Organized by
S. BELLIN)
Chair:
STEFANO BELLIN
University
College London (UK)
Presenters:
“Biopolitics of
Evil: Marco Paolini’s Ausmerzen
and the Nazi Euthanasia Program”
TOMMASO PEPE
Brown University
(USA)
“Crushed beneath
God’s Omnipotence: Suffering and Salvation in Primo Levi’s La Ricerca delle Radici”
JOYCE RONDAIJ
Protestant
Theological University, Amsterdam (NETHERLANDS)
“La zattera della Medusa: Metafore del potere da Leonardo Sciascia a
Roberto Andò”
IRENE LOTTINI
University of Iowa (USA)
“Il diavolo come principe della ‘microfisica del potere’ nel romanzo Todo Modo di Leonardo Sciascia”
GIAN LUCA TROISI
University of
Toulouse Jean Jaurès (FRANCE)
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SESSION 9B
(Michelangelo –
Ground Floor)
“Torquato
Tasso’s Afterlife: The Man and His Works as Inspiration for Literature,
Music, and the Arts”
(Organized by L. BENEDETTI)
Chair:
LAURA BENEDETTI
Georgetown University (USA)
Presenters:
“#Tassodalbasso. Torquato Tasso’s Social Afterlife”
CHIARA BENI
University of
Ferrara (ITALY)
and
MARIANNA ORSI
Indiana
University Bloomington (USA)
“From the Holy
Sepulcher to the City upon a Hill: the Christian Knights in the Overseas
Lands”
ENRICO BOTTA
Independent
Scholar (ITALY)
“A Written Gift,
a Long-Drawn Song: Julia Budenz’s Dialogue with Torquato Tasso”
LAURA BENEDETTI
Georgetown University (USA)
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16:35- 17:50
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SPECIAL SESSION
(Lecture Hall –
1st Floor)
“Winona, ‘All-Indian Opera’ by
Florentine-American Composer Alberto Bimboni (1882-1960) and the Italian Contribution
to the Indianist Movement in American Music and Culture”
With Live
Performance of a Selection from Winona
Chair:
ALOMA BARDI
ICAMus-The
International Center for American Music (USA)
Presenters:
“Oreste and
Alberto Bimboni, Florentine Musicians in America: Their International
Career and how They Influenced the American Musical Scene”
DAVIDE CERIANI
Rowan University (USA)
“Giacomo Puccini, Amedeo Bassi, Alberto Bimboni: Tuscan Connections
in American Music”
BARBARA BOGANINI
Camerata Strumentale, Prato (ITALY)
“How an Italian
Composer Came to Create the First ‘All-Indian Opera’: The Approach to
Native American Motifs and Musical Sources in Winona”
ALOMA BARDI
ICAMus-The
International Center for American Music (USA)
“The
Significance of ‘Real Indians’ in the Minneapolis Performance of Winona”
GRETCHEN PETERS
University of
Wisconsin-Eau Claire (USA)
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18:00- 19:00
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CONCERT
Live Performance
of a Selection from Winona
Music Conservatory Auditorium
(Sala del Buonumore)
Via Ricasoli, Florence
WINONA by Alberto Bimboni - Selection from Act 2
Video made by Yoon Kyu Yoon
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19:15
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APERICENA
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WEBMASTER: FSO (Fulvio S. Orsitto)
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