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[This is a crosspost with H-Mediterranean.]

Modernity and Modernism in the Mediterranean
Toronto, October 30 - November 1st, 2003

Conference programme

Thursday, 30 October

9:00 - 10:30
Session 1 - Northern Visions: Modernist Approaches to the Mediterranean =>Claudia Clausius (University of Western Ontario) - "Self-Portrait of the Artist as Traveller" =>John McIntyre (McGill University) - "Traumatic Geographies: Virginia Woolf's Mediterranean Imagination" =>Alex Smith (Columbia University) - "Pound's Quest for 'Mediterranean Sanity'"

10:45 - 12:45
Session 2 - Insular Literatures? Sicily and Sardinia and/in Literary Modernity =>Margherita Marras (Université de Avignon) - "Insularité et
modernité: les responses (ou les non responses) culturelles au phénomène de la modernisation dans les littératures narratives sarde et sicilienne" =>Marisa Ruccolo (University of Toronto) - "De Paris à Catane: le voyage d'un nouveau réalisme psychologique dans le roman sicilien. Paul Bourget et Federico de Robertis" =>Lucienne Kroha (McGill University) - "Tradition and Modernity in Pirandello" =>Jana Vizmuller-Zocco (York University) - "Sicily, a Metaphor for the World, or Gattopardismo's Progress"

2:15 - 4:15
Session 3 - Approaches to the Mediterranean: Tourism and Culture =>Robyn Roslak (University of Minnesota - Duluth) - "Painting Provence in the 1890s: Paul Signac and the Search for Authenticity" =>Stephanie Hom Cary (University of California, Berkeley) - "Unpacking
Italy: Tourism, Modernity and the Mediterranean"
=>Anne Toxey (University of California, Berkeley) - "Matera: Modernity à la mode (Méditerranée)" =>Melita Richter Malabotta (Università degli Studi di Trieste) - "How to Teach the Mediterranean?"

4:30 - 6:0
Session 4 - Mediterranean Architectures
=>D. Medina Lasansky (Cornell University) - "Colonial Anxieties: Rooting Modern Italian Architecture in Its Native Soil" =>George Arbid (American University of Beirut) - "When Beirut Was Modern" =>Panayiota Pyla (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) - "Modernizing Old Cities: The Politics of Development in Post-WWII Mediterranean"

Friday, October 31 (parallel sessions)

8:30 - 10:30 I
Session 5 - Tradition and Modernization I: The Debate in the Late Ottoman Empire =>Nora Lafi (CNRS Urbama) - "The Ottoman Path Towards Urban Administrative Modernity: Municipal Reforms and Their Link with Previous Local Forms of Urban Government (Maghreb-Middle East, 1830-1920)" =>Malte Fuhrmann (Free University of Berlin) - "Making the Modern Turk in the German Image: The German Colonial Project and Modernity in the Eastern Mediterranean" =>M. Sait Ozervarli (Centre for Islamic Studies, Istanbul) - "Is Modernization an Alteration? Elmalili Hamdi (1878-1942) as a Late Ottoman Religious Intellectual" =>Paola Viviani (Università degli Studi di Napoli l'"Orientale") - "Farah Antûn's Unfinished Novel al-Transvaal. Zâlimah am mazlûmah"

8:30 - 10.30 II
Session 6 - Rediscovery through Periphery: The Mediterranean in Italian Cinema =>Rosetta Giuliani-Caponetto (University of Connecticut) - "Evasion to the Periphery: The Case of Salvatores's Mediterraneo" =>Felice Italo Beneduce (University of Connecticut) - "Fugue from the
Fringe: Italians in Albania in Amelio's Lamerica"
=>Anthony Cristiano (University of Toronto) - "The Collapse of Traditional Social and Cultural Practices in Gianni Amelio's Lamerica" =>Fulvio Orsitto (University of Connecticut) - "Oriental Escapism in Hamam"

10:45-12:15 I
Session 7 - Commodities of Modernity: Constructing Identities for Ottoman Women =>Reina Lewis (University of East London) - "Modernising Ottoman
Spaces: The Harem, Emancipation and Narratives of Identity" =>Carolyn McCue Goffman (DePaul University) - "Modernizing the Mind of the Harem: American Secularism and the Transformation of Ottoman Women" =>Teresa Heffernan (St. Mary's University) - "The Umma, the Modern Nation and the (Un)veiling of Women"

10:45-12:15 II
Session 8 - Aegean Exchanges
=>Michalis S. Firillas (Harvard University) - "Encapsulating Urbanism: Rembetiko and Modernism in the Port Cities of the Aegean Basin, 1850-1950" =>María Eléna Gutiérrez (University of Buffalo) - "Painted Seas and Marble Skeletons: Images of Greece in Alberto Savinio's Surrealist Universe" =>Marylaura Papalas (Ohio State University) - "Greek Surrealism: Liberating the National Greek Identity"

2:00 - 3:30 I
Session 9 - Modernity and Gender
=>Gabriella Romani (Princeton University) - "Fashioning the Modern Italian Woman: Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Rhetoric of Female Italianness" =>Silvia Contarini (Université de Nantes) - "Valentine de Saint-Point: du Futurisme à l'anticolonialisme" =>Wilson Chako Jacob (New York University) - "The Turban, Tarbush, and
Top-hat: Articulations of Modern Desire or the Desirable Modern?"

2:00 - 3:30 II
Session 10 - Egypt: A Mediterranean Cultural Crossroad =>Jean-Luc Arnaud (Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain) - "Les recompositions socio-spatielles au Caire à la fin du XIXe siècle" =>Walid Hamarneh (University of Western Ontario) - "The Cities of Alexandria" =>Natalie Melas (Cornell University) - "Untimely Antiquity: Cavafy's Alexandrian Modernity"

3:45 - 5:45 I
Session 11 - Modernity and Nationalism: The Case of Italy =>Andrea Sallese (University of Connecticut) - "Familism and Local Identity in Restoration Italy" =>Silvana Patriarca (Fordham University) - "On the Peculiarities of the 'Latin Nations': Fears of National Decline and the Quest for Modernity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Italy and France" =>Mario Moroni (Colby College) - "Reinvigorating the 'italica gente': D'Annunzio, Colonialism, Modernism" =>Paul Colombani (Université de Nantes) - "Tentatives de modernisation dans l'Italie post-unitaire: d'Annunzio, Marinetti, Corradini, Prezzolini"

3:45 - 5:45 II
Session 12 - East-West/North-South: Intellectuals between Worlds =>Karla Mallette (American University of Beirut) - "Orientalist Philology and National Narrative in Mediterranean Europe" =>Elana Commisso (University of Western Ontario) - "Escaping Exile: Edmond Jabès and the Frontiers of the Book from Cairo to Paris" =>Samira Farhoud (University of Saint Thomas) - "L'écrivain maghrébin entre fidélité au pays et modernisme occidental" =>Lilyane Rachedi (Université de Montréal) - "Les pratiques d'écriture narrative des immigrés d'origine algérienne et marocaine  installés au
Québec: écrire pour la promotion de l'hist-ernité"

6:30-7:15
Plenary session
Francesco Loriggio (Carleton University) - "Modernism, Memory and the
Mediterranean: Italian Variations"

Saturday, 1 November

8:30 - 10:30
Session 13 - Decentering Modernism: Mediterranean Sites of Modernity =>Ilay Ors (Harvard University) - "Istanbul as the Center of the 'Early Modern'" =>Roberto Ludovico (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) - "Decentralizing Modernism: The Decline of the 'Myth of Paris' and the Peripheral Alternative of Trieste" =>Robert Davidson (University of Toronto) - "A Periphery With a View: Catalan Modernism & The Hotel" =>Iván Arenas (University of California, Berkeley) - "Theorizing Modern Traditions: Visual Encounters in the Portuguese Landscape"


10:45 - 12:15
Session 14 - Tradition and Modernization II: The Contemporary Debate =>Ardian Ahmedaja (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst,
Vienna) - "Tradition and Modernization in the Folk Music in Albania" =>Berrin Koyuncu and Hilal Onur (Hacettepe University) - "A Critical View of Turkish Modernity: Possible Alternatives to Modernity in the European Periphery" =>Goran V. Stanivukovic (Saint Mary's University) - "Global Exchanges in the Renaissance Mediterranean: Trading Knowledge in Orhan Pamuk's Novels My Name and The White Castle"

1:45 - 3:45
Session 15 - "Mare Nostrum:" The Mediterranean in the Modern Italian Imaginary =>Paul Arpaia (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) - "Il Giornale d'Italia, the New Mediterranean Order and Italian Modernism" =>Claudio Fogu (University of Southern California) - "Imperium or Emporium? Fascist Modernism and Mediterranean-ness" =>Federico Caprotti (University of Oxford) - "Insecticidal Tendencies: The Creative Destruction of Malaria in the Pontine Marshes, 1930-1939" =>Joshua W. Arthurs (University of Chicago) - "'The Italy of Augustus and the Italy of Today': Roman Modernity in Fascist Italy"

4:00 - 5:30
Session 16 - Cinema and National Identity
=>Elias Polizoes (University of Western Ontario) - "After Cavafy: George Seferis and Theo Angelopoulos" =>Styliani Kokkali (Université de Montréal) - "Theo Angelopoulos's Porous National Borders: Rewriting Modern Greek Identity" =>Dimitrios Tourountsis (Goldsmith College, University of London) - "Fragments of the Archive: The Modern Rumour in Balkan Post-War Cinema"

6:00-6:45
Plenary session
Michael Beard (University of North Dakota) - "Egyptian Modernisms: Mafhouz's Traveller"