italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
Cari colleghi,
chiamo la vostra attenzione alle seguente Conferenza dedicata interamnete alla
poesia italiana presso l'Universita' di St Andrews, 15-17 maezo 2010.
cordiali saluti
Dr Rossella Riccobono
POETRY in CONFLICT
Date: 15-17 March 2010
SECOND MOSAICI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: Poetry in Conflict
A collaboration of University of Glasgow, University of Hull and University of
St Andrews
Convenors: Dr Éanna Ó Ceallacháin, Dr Rossella Riccobono, Prof. George Talbot
Keynote participants will include poets and scholars:
Valerio Magrelli (Rome)
Alberto Bertoni (Bologna)
Marco Fazzini (Venice)
This International Conference offers a unique occasion for Italian Studies
scholars to meet to discuss Italian poetry.
MOSAICI, in collaboration with the
ST ANDREWS POETRY FORUM and StAnza (St Andrews International Festival of
Poetry), is seeking to raise further questions, through examination of Italian
poetic craft and engagement, on a universal, perennially unresolved issue: that
of Conflict. Conflict, in its significances, can be explored speculatively both
across time and also vis-a-vis modern contemporary history, society, reality,
writing. More than ever, in a world that tends to hide differences under a
veneer of order and control, under a set of market rules, or political-economic
globalization, conflict lurks. Conflict, in our more recent times, has also been
chosen as a pre-emptive way to secure peace and orderly international relations.
However, ‘conflict’ is a reality that can lead to effects that are in turn
positive or negative – ‘conflict’ in its absolute and extreme significance
engenders life or causes death.
This International Conference, Poetry in Conflict, seeks to open up a field of
enquiry concerning the transformation of conflict into creation through poetry:
be it poetry of denunciation or propaganda,poetry of the body, poetry in
translation, poetry of social-political conflict, poetry of war, vested poetry,
feminist poetry, poetry on identity issues, etc. Poetry creates a reaction to
those issues and raises new questions, maps new terrain, moves around the
stones of the mosaic of human realities and proposes new pictures, new
perspectives, new embroideries. In every case, poetry creates artifacts, chisel
in hand, by skilled craftsmen and women whose purpose it that of opening new
possibilities and spaces for human language.
The panels and papers that Poetry in Conflict wishes to attract will, it is
hoped, investigate and create synergies, musical effects of assonance and
dissonance, patterns whether strident or harmonious.
St Andrews Poetry Forum: Special Session
The St Andrews Poetry Forum, has run for three years a series of seminars on the
theme of Poetry and Conflict. Part of this conference will also be a whole
morning (Wednesday 17 March) dedicated to poetry and conflict across European
languages led by guests who gave seminars for the Poetry Forum series in the
past.
Special guest poet during that morning will be acclaimed Russian poet Alexandra
Petrova (St Petersburg – currently living in Rome), who will be introduced and
commented on with a paper by Dr Tanya Filosofova (University of St Andrews).
Papers can be held in either English or Italian, except for the Wednesday
morning session, where English is imperative as we expect a mixed audience.
For paper/panel proposals, refer to the already published Call for Papers:
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/mosaici/index.php?p=show_item_home&ID=14
Call for papers
University of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland
15-17 March 2010
The conference will precede immediately the StAnza International Poetry Festival
2010 takes place on 17-21 March
Keynote speakers will include
Valerio Magrelli (who will give a public reading from his work on the evening of
Monday 15 March)
Alberto Bertoni (Bologna)
Roundtable on Poetry translation and textual conflict with Valerio Magrelli and
Marco Fazzini (Venice, Ca' Foscari)
500-word abstracts of 20-minute papers are invited on the broad theme of Poetry
in Conflict, whether conflicts of translation, textual tension, war, social
strife, etc.
They should be submitted to the organising committee by a deadline of 30
September 2009.
The programme will be published on the conference website on 1 November 2009
To submit an abstract follow this link: Submit a paper abstract
For further details Contact us
or write to us directly:
Dr Rossella Riccobono (St Andrews) [log in to unmask]
Dr Eanna Ó Ceallacháin (Glasgow [log in to unmask]
Professor George Talbot (Hull) [log in to unmask]
Dr Rossella Riccobono
Head of Italian
University of St Andrews
School of Modern Languages
Buchanan Building
Union Street
St Andrews
KY16 9PH
Scotland, U.K.
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