italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
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BETWEEN PETERBOROUGH AND PENTECOST
NONSENSE LITERATURE ACROSS SPACE AND TIME
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An international and interdisciplinary conference
The University of Warwick
Humanities Building
12-13 May 2006
Organized by
- The University of Warwick, Department of Italian
- The Humanities Research Centre, University of Warwick
- The British Academy
- Istituto Italiano di Cultura, London
For further information and
a registration form, please see
www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/italian/news/nonsense
Contacts:
Dr Carlo Caruso ([log in to unmask])
Dr Elisabetta Tarantino([log in to unmask])
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PROGRAMME
Friday 12th May
9.30-10.30 Humanities Building, 4th floor, Graduate Space (past H4.45)
REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
10.30-11.30 Humanities Building, ground floor, H0.52 (Chair: Carlo Caruso)
Plenary 1
Michelangelo Zaccarello (Universit* di Verona)
Off the Paths of Common Sense: from the Frottola to the 'per motti' and 'alla burchia' Poetic Styles
11.35-12.30 Parallel sessions
Session A: H0.52 (Chair: Carlo Caruso)
1a. Simon Gilson (University of Warwick)
"Pape Sat*n, pape Sat*n aleppe!" and "Raph*l ma* am*cche zab* almi" in Dante and His Early Commentators
2a. Stefano Cracolici (University of Pennsylvania)
The Shipwreck of Reason: Burchiello and Alberti
Session B: Humanities Building, 1st floor, H1.02 (Chair: Loredana Polezzi)
1b. Maria Alex Consta (University of East Anglia)
Dealing with Nonsense in Translation
2b. Jane Rodrigues Duarte (Universidade Aut*noma de Lisboa)
Nonsense as a Political Weapon in Vaclav Havel's Garden Plays
12.30-1.30 Graduate Space
LUNCH
1.30-2.30 H0.52 (Chair: Ingrid De Smet)
Plenary 2
Barbara C. Bowen (Vanderbilt University)
Fran*ois's Fractured French: The Language of Nonsense in Rabelais
2.35-3.30 Parallel sessions
Session A: H0.52 (Chair: Michelangelo Zaccarello)
3a. Hugh Roberts (University of Exeter)
"One Hundred Marvellous Drugs from the Undiscovered Islands": Folk Medicine and Nonsense in Early-Seventeenth-Century France
4a. Carlo Caruso (University of Warwick)
Bordering on Nonsense: the Leporeambi of Ludovico Leporeo
Session B: H1.02 (Chair: Simon Gilson)
3b.Neil Allan (Stratford-upon-Avon College)
Nonsense, Paradox and Logic in the Work of Franz Kafka
4b. Alisa Freedman (University of Oregon)
Nonsense Stories of the Daily Commute: Showing the Absurdity of Prewar Tokyo Life
3.30-4.00 Graduate Space
COFFEE
4.00-5.00 H0.52 (Chair: Adalgisa Giorgio)
5. Loredana Polezzi (University of Warwick)
Intercultural Nonsense? The Humour of Fosco Maraini
6. Federico Appel (Universit* di Roma "La Sapienza")
La Vispa Teresa di Sergio Tofano tra parodia e nonsense [IN ITALIAN; English summary provided]
7.30 CONFERENCE DINNER
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Saturday 13th May
9.30-10.30 H0.52 (Chair: Jean-Jacques Lecercle)
7. Marijke Boucherie (ULICES: University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies)
Nonsense and Other Senses
8. Sakari Katajam*ki (University of Helsinki)
From Limerick to "Rimelick": a Genealogy of the Finnish Nonsense Limerick and Its Transformations
10.30-11.00 Graduate Space
COFFEE
11.00-12.00 H0.52 (Chair: Elisabetta Tarantino)
Plenary 3
Hilary Gatti (Universit* di Roma "La Sapienza")
The Idea of Liberty and the Language of Nonsense in King Lear
12.05-1.00 H0.52 (Chair: Barbara C. Bowen)
9. Willard Bohn (Illinois State University)
Apollinaire and the Whatnots
10. Stephen Forcer (University of Birmingham)
"Neither parallel nor slippers": Dada, War, and the Meaning(lessness) of Meaning(lessness)
1.00-2.00 Graduate Space
LUNCH
2.00-3.00 H0.52 (Chair: Hilary Gatti)
Plenary 4
Jean-Jacques Lecercle (Universit* Paris X-Nanterre)
Nonsense and Politics
3.05-4.00 H0.52 (Chair: Helmut Schmitz)
11. Magnus Klaue (Freie Universit*t Berlin)
The "Wippchen" to Mysticism: Fritz Mauthner and German Nonsense Poetry
12. Julia Genz (Universit*t T*bingen)
Kurt Schwitters' Merzprosa
4.00-4.30 Graduate Space
COFFEE
4.30-5.30 H0.52 (Chair: Helmut Schmitz)
13. Rebekka Putzke (Technical University of Dresden)
"Fantastica" as the Place of Games: Nonsense in the Work of Michael Ende
14. Mark Williams (University of East Anglia)
Above, Beyond, and Without Reason: Dr Lambshead's Ex-centric History of the Twentieth Century
5.30 Graduate Space
WINE RECEPTION
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Conference organised by
Carlo Caruso ([log in to unmask])
and Elisabetta Tarantino ([log in to unmask])
with
Ingrid De Smet and Helmut Schmitz
Dr Carlo Caruso
Department of Italian /
Department of Classics and Ancient History
University of Warwick
COVENTRY CV4 7AL
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