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CALL FOR PAPERS
The Department of History, University of Otago presents
Love and its Histories: Italian Perspectives
A one-day symposium at the University of Otago’s Auckland Centre (New
Zealand)
Tuesday 17 February 2009
In association with the biennial conference of the Australasian Centre
for Italian Studies (ACIS), ‘L’Italia nella Grande Migrazione’
(Auckland, 18-21 February 2009)
Keynote speaker: Professor Luisa Passerini, University of Torino
From the ‘dolce stil novo’ to Casanova, from nineteenth-century Italian
opera to papal notions of universal love in the 21st century, Italians
have had a central role in shaping ideas about love in western culture.
And since the beginning of western culture, love has undoubtedly been a
major source of inspiration for human action, creation, and
communication. Scholars of poetry and literature have always worked from
this assumption, and researchers in the human sciences such as
psychology, sociology and anthropology have long recognized the shaping
role of emotions in human communities. But if the role of love as a
dynamic force across time seems indisputable, historians themselves have
largely shied away from specific investigation of what can seem a
nebulous historical force.
In recent years this has begun to change: the aim of this one-day event
is to bring together scholars interested in sharing research in Italian
historical perspectives on love (in any and all of its guises). We
invite proposals from a range of disciplines, covering a wide
chronological spectrum. Given the theme of the ACIS conference, we also
welcome papers offering transnational approaches.
The symposium will take place the day prior to the ACIS conference, and
will be held at the University of Otago’s Auckland Centre, in the
central business district.
The symposium fee, which will include morning and afternoon refreshments
as well as lunch, will be $80, or $40 for non-waged. Graduate students
may be eligible for ACIS student bursaries. The fee will need to be paid
in cash at the start of the symposium.
To submit a proposal, please send a title, 250-word abstract, and a
brief biographical statement to either of the symposium organizers by
e-mail by 15 October:
Mark Seymour, Department of History, University of Otago
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Francesco Ricatti, Cassamarca Lecturer in Italian, University of the
Sunshine Coast
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Acceptances will be sent by e-mail by 31 October.
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Dr Francesco Ricatti
Cassamarca Lecturer in Italian
School of Communication, FASS
University of the Sunshine Coast
Maroochydore DC Qld 4558 Australia
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