Ciao Florian
Una conferenza che promette tantissimo! Complimenti!
Avrei voluto tanto assistere, ma per ora ti mando i miei cari saluti
da San Francisco. Un salutone anche da parte mia a Pierpaolo.
Vetri.
On 5/7/06, Florian Mussgnug <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
> Postmodern Impegno
>
> towards a post-hegemonic approach to ethics and
> socio-political engagement in contemporary Italian literature and culture
>
>
> 12-13 May 2006
>
> Institute for Germanic and Romance Studies
> University of London
>
> http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/events/prog_postmodern_impegno.htm
>
>
>
>
> Organized by
>
> Pierpaolo Antonello, [log in to unmask]
> Margherita Ganeri, [log in to unmask]
> Florian Mussgnug. [log in to unmask]
>
> With the support of:
> British Academy
> Italian Department, University College London
> Italian Department, University of Cambridge
> St John's College, Cambridge
>
>
>
> Programme
>
> Friday 12 May 2006
>
> 15.30 Pierpaolo Antonello (Cambridge)
> Introduction
>
> 15.45 Key-note address
> Remo Ceserani (Bologna)
> Apocalittici, integrati, critici?
>
> 16.30 coffee break
>
>
> Session 1: Impegno, Postmodern Ethics, Pensiero debole
>
> Chair: Anne Hallamore Caesar (Warwick)
>
> 17.00 Florian Mussgnug (UCL)
> Postmodern ethics
>
> 17.30 Jenny Burns (Warwick)
> Impegno revisited
>
> 18.00 Giuseppe Stellardi (Oxford)
> Pensiero debole, nihilism and ethics
>
> 20.00 conference dinner
>
>
>
>
> Saturday 13 May 2006
>
> Session 2: Postmodernism and its discontent
>
> Chair: Florian Mussgnug (UCL)
>
> 9.45 Monica Jansen (Utrecht / Antwerp)
> Il dibattito sul postmoderno in Italia nel Duemila: in bilico tra
> dialettica e ambiguità?
>
> 10.15 Margherita Ganeri (Università della Calabria)
> Sotto l'habitus in frantumi: Jameson, Bourdieu e la dislocazione
> dell'impegno
>
> 10.45 coffee break
>
> Session 3: Fragments of Impegno
>
> Chair: Ruth Glynn (Bristol)
>
> 11.15 Emanuele Zinato (Padova)
> Aporie postcoloniali: etica planetaria e alterità letteraria.
>
> 11.45 Alessia Ronchetti (Cork)
> Dentro e fuori: Italian feminism at the threshold
>
> 12.15 Alan O'Leary (Leeds)
> The discourse of impegno and the death of the auteur in Italian cinema
>
> 12.45 lunch
>
>
> Session 4A: Literature and (post-)impegno
>
> Chair: Guido Bonsaver (Oxford)
>
> 2.00 Andrea Cortellessa (Rome)
> Arance con molti spicchi. Interazioni politiche tra narrativa e critica nel
> tempo del postmoderno
>
> 2.30 Orsetta Innocenti (Bologna)
> ¥Even that luxury". Il romance dell'impegno di Italo Calvino dal Midollo
> del leone a Se una notte di inverno un viaggiatore.
>
> 3.00 Attilio Motta (Padova)
> Lo schermo del corpo: (auto)biografismo e post-democrazia.
>
> 3.30 coffee break
>
>
> Session 4B: Literature and (post-)impegno
>
> Chair: Jennifer Burns (Warwick)
>
> 4.00 Pierpaolo Antonello (Cambridge)
> Etica della memoria, paradigma indiziario, impegno del racconto
>
> 4.30 Sergia Adamo (Trieste)
> ¥Non è più possibile scrivere: si riscrive". Giustizia ed etica della
> narrazione nella cultura italiana contemporanea
>
> 5.00 Discussion
>
>
>
> This conference aims to investigate the impact of postmodernist culture on
> recent Italian representations and expressions of ethical concern and
> intellectual commitment. Postmodernist philosophy, with its radical critique
> of so-called grand-narratives and previously dominant ontological and
> historical accounts of "truth" constitutes an extreme challenge to ethics
> and historiography as well to conventional definitions of justice and
> emancipatory political action. How have contemporary Italian intellectuals
> and artists responded to this challenge? Where have they positioned
> themselves in relation to the legacy of impegno, a category that has
> informed Italian culture since the 1950s, and that has largely defined the
> relationship between art, politics, and society in modern Italy? Which
> discursive instruments and artistic genres are used to implement new forms
> of socio-political engagement in a postmodern, late-capitalist context? How
> and why is Italy a privileged site for this type of analysis?
>
> In Italy, postmodernism has been widely associated with a playful and
> disengaged manipulation of texts and with a nihilistic and self-conscious
> endorsement of the rules and conventions of capitalism. Over the past ten
> years, many influential scholars writing in English have insisted on the
> limits of such a conventional interpretation of the category, proposing
> instead a new theoretical and critical focus on questions of ethical
> responsibility. Recent discussions have also addressed the problem of
> historical research and historical evidence in the critical and
> philosophical field, proposing new forms of negotiation between the
> rhetorical construction of historical accounts, and their reference to the
> actuality of "real" events. As a result, recent reflections on intellectual
> and social commitment have given less prominence to traditional modernist
> means of communication and persuasion (philosophical writing, pamphletism,
> journalism, direct political involvement, high-brow literary genres),
> insisting instead on the crucial role played by typical postmodern artistic
> forms such as detective and noir fiction, films and documentaries, tv
> series, blogs and collective writing.
>
> Exceptionally reluctant to progressive interpretations of postmodernism,
> many leading Italian intellectuals and literary critics have tended to view
> postmodernism as the negation of impegno. As Jennifer Burns' has
> convincingly argued, many Italian writers of the 1980s and 1990s emphasized
> the importance of social and political ideas of commitment in their literary
> writing. Nevertheless, there have been relatively few attempts to re-define
> impegno in relation to more recent cultural production, including not only
> traditional literary genres, but also film-making, theatrical performance,
> television and other, more recent forms of popular entertainment. At the
> same time, some currents within Italian philosophy and historiography have
> been exceptionally open towards the new paradigms of postmodernist culture
> and thought. Umberto Eco's and Gianni Vattimo's recent contributions to
> philosophy - to name but a few outstanding examples - are characterized by a
> thorough engagement with postmodern ethics that unfortunately is lacking in
> much recent work in literary criticism.
>
> These lines of development have given a very particular shape to the
> cultural field of contemporary Italy. The conference proposes to undertake a
> systematic analysis of the most important trends in postmodern Italian
> philosophy, literary theory and culture. By bringing together some of the
> leading specialist working on Italian postmodernism and the history of
> social commitment, this conference aims to show that the return to ethics -
> accompanied by a reflection on the issues of history, justice and community
> - represents one of the most original, innovative and neglected tendencies
> of certain currents of postmodernism, in Italy and beyond.
>
>
>
> Florian Mussgnug
> Department of Italian
> University College London
> Gower Street
> London WC1E 6BT
> (+44) 2076793027 [log in to unmask]
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