italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
A peninsula against itself: Competing Visions of Italy
Graduate Student Conference
Columbia University in the City of New York
April 1-2, 2005
Friday, 1 April
501 Schermerhorn, Columbia University
3:00-3:30 Registration and Opening Remarks
3:30-4:30 Intentions, Paradoxes, and Questions of Italianità
-- Stephanie Hom Cary, UC Berkeley: “Italy and its Discontents:
Ideological Constructions of Modern Italism”
-- Joseph M. Parent, Columbia University: “Machiavelli’s Missing
Romulus and the Murderous Intent of The Prince”
4:30-4:45 Break
4:45-5:45 Italian Histories: Narrative Views of a Country’s Story
-- Kathleen LaPenta, Rutgers University: “City v. Country, a
dialectic dissolved in Vino e Pane”
-- David Sharp, The Graduate Center, CUNY: “Viva Italia, or
Justice?: Emplotting the Risorgimento”
5:45-6:00 Refreshments
6:00-7:00 Keynote Address: Justin Vitiello, Temple University
Saturday, April 2
Teatro, Italian Academy, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue (between 116th and
118th Streets)
9:00-9:30 Breakfast and registration
9:30-11:00 Freedom of Expression: The “Standard” in Italian
Literature
-- Annalisa Lilliu, University of Edinburgh: “Sardinian and Sicilian
Literature in the Late 19th Century: A Peripheral Status”
-- Steve Baker, independent scholar: “Che Dianzer de Paroll!”:
Textual Mechanics of Transgression in the Poetry of Carlo Porta”
-- Ariane Helou, Brown University: “Orlando Ferrarese? The Collision
of History and Myth in the Orlando furioso”
11:10-12:40 “La parola”: Recognizing Italy’s Multicultural Voices
-- Aaron J. Abbarno, Seton Hall University: “Transplantation
Literature and the African-Italian Moral Community”
-- Monica D. Hanna, The Graduate Center, CUNY: “Currydipollo and the
Problems of Embodying and Digesting Difference”
-- Rebecca Hopkins, UCLA: “Other Italies: Italian Colonial History
and Contemporary Multiculturalism in the Poetry of Ribka Sibhatu”
12:45-1:00 Closing Remarks: Nelson Moe, Columbia University
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