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Dear list-members,
With apologies for cross-posting, I have pleasure in circulating the second conference announcement for 'Thinking in Fragments', which includes the full conference programme. Registration is still open, and there are some places remaining on both days; please follow the links below.
With best wishes,
Michael Caesar
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Second Conference Announcement:
Thinking in Fragments: Romanticism and Beyond
Worcester Room, Hornton Grange, Birmingham Conference Park
University of Birmingham (UK), 16-17 December 2010
An international conference organized by the Leopardi Centre at Birmingham, sponsored by the AHRC as part of the Zibaldone Project (www.leopardi.bham.ac.uk<http://www.leopardi.bham.ac.uk/>), and supported by the Society for Italian Studies. Conference co-ordinator: Michael Caesar ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>).
Programme and abstracts
Indirectly inspired by the Zibaldone, the conference aims to address issues concerning fragmentariness as a distinctive form of the modern, the fragment in space and time, the relation between fragmentary thinking and philosophical materialism, the fragmentation of language, fragmentation and the lyric voice, (re-)assembly. It is an occasion to bring Leopardi scholars together with specialists in eighteenth-century thought, British and German Romanticism, and competing concepts of the modern, in order to explore fragmentariness in modern culture from the Enlightenment to Baudelaire, Benjamin and beyond.
The full programme is copied below*. The programme and the abstracts can also be consulted at www.leopardi.bham.ac.uk<http://www.leopardi.bham.ac.uk/> from 26 November.
Registration and accommodation:
Attendance at the conference is free and includes refreshments on both days. Some places remain for both days, but because space is limited (max. 60 for each session), and the conference will be run as a single strand (no parallel sessions), pre-registration is strongly recommended. Please complete the simple registration form downloadable from www.leopardi.bham.ac.uk/fragments/fragments-registration.doc<http://www.leopardi.bham.ac.uk/fragments/fragments-registration.doc> and return to Judith Allan ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>).
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Thurs 16 December
13.00 – 14.00 Registration (a light buffet lunch will be available for all delegates).
14.10 – 15.50 Session 1
Welcome and Introduction.
Marian Hobson (Queen Mary University of London): Fragments, satire and philosophy without end: Diderot’s Neveu de Rameau.
David Hill (Birmingham): The fragment in the Sturm und Drang: Goethe, Coleridge and Herder.
15.50 – 16.10 Tea break.
16.15 – 18.00 Session 2
Paola Cori (Birmingham): Leopardi, Borges, Deleuze and the rhizome.
James Vigus (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich): The Romantic fragment and the legitimation of philosophy: Platonic poems of reason.
Paul Hamilton (Queen Mary University of London): The logic of the fragment and Romantic sobriety.
18.15 – 19.15 Reading
Jonathan Galassi (Farrar Straus and Giroux, NYC) reads from his new translation of Leopardi’s Canti.
Followed by a visit to the Cadbury Research Library to view a special display of rare and unusual books connected with writers featured in the conference organised by librarian Martin Killeen (numbers limited to thirty).
Friday 17 December
08.45 – 09.10 Late registration (for second day)
09.15 – 10.55 Session 3
Diego Bertelli (Yale): Of fragments and footnotes: absence and invention of the text in Roberto Bazlen.
Abigail Williams (Oxford): Extracts, snippets and fragments: the use of the textual excerpt in eighteenth century poetic miscellanies.
Gabrielle Sims (NYU): Speaking about infinity without recourse to fragments: Leopardi’s L’infinito as a challenge to the sublime ellipsis.
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee break
11.15 – 12.55 Session 4
Alexander Regier (Rice): J.W. Ritter and Walter Benjamin.
Fabio Camilletti (Warwick): Details and momentary lapses of reason in Leopardi, Warburg and Freud.
Florian Mussgnug (University College London): Speaking in fragments: death, prosopopeia and the language of inauthenticity.
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch (in Hornton Grange Conservatory)
14.15 – 15.55 Session 5
Jennifer Burns (Warwick): A blueprint in bits: fragments of thinking in Cletto Arrighi’s political commentary.
Cosetta Veronese (Birmingham): Fleetingness and flânerie: Leopardi, Baudelaire and the experience of transience.
Giuseppe Stellardi (Oxford): Fragments of space and time: Gadda, Baudelaire and Benjamin.
16.00 – 16.15 Tea break
16.15 – 17.55 Session 6
Charlotte Ross (Birmingham): The ‘body’ in fragments: anxieties, fascination and the ideal of 'wholeness'.
Pierpaolo Antonello (Cambridge): No fragment is an island: Carlo Ginzburg’s evidential paradigm and the ethical turn.
Conclusions.
18.00 – 19.15 Drinks reception hosted by the Leopardi Centre at Birmingham.
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