italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
Dear List members,
this is a last call for papers for:
Workshop: A New Italian Political Cinema? - where 10 minute presentations on work-in-progress are welcome
&
Conference: Contemporary Italy on Screen - where 20 minute more formal presentations are welcome.
There is some financial aid available from AHRC UK funding for students, especially where travel is concerned.
The events will take place at Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, 29-30 April 2011 respectively.
Key-note speakers Bernadette Luciano and Susanna Scarparo will be speaking onWomen at Work:
Issues of Job (In)security in Contemporary Italian FilmFilms discussed include Francesca Comencini’s Mi piace lavorare-Mobbing [Mobbing] (2003), Wilma Labate’s Signorina Effe [Miss F] (2007), Ada Negri’s Riprendimi [Good Morning, Heartache] (2008) and the documentaries Silvia Ferreri’s Uno virgola due [One Point Two] (2005) and Tania Pedroni’s Invisibili [Invisible] (2002). All of these films assumea gendered perspective that draws attention to the veiled prejudices against women in the workplace, a social space where they continue to come up against a long tradition that renders motherhood and work in the public sphere incompatible.
Others speakers from Italy, UK and New Zealand have confirmed their presence on both days.
The workshop and conference will examine the nature of contemporary Italian cinema (early 1990s to present day), with a view to:
1) analysing the nature of its politicization (or lack thereof);
2) establishing patterns within filmic representations of socioeconomic and political issues in Italy; and
3) identifying the factors affecting the attempts of filmmakers to explore societal problems in their work.
These events are part of a wider international project supported by an award made by the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Research Networking Scheme (www.ahrc.ac.uk). Research will be disseminated via published volumes of working papers, a collection of essays, and a monograph.
For further information, please see:http://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/events/italianpoliticalcinema.html
Buon anno,
Luciana
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Luciana d'Arcangeli BA, MHRM, PhD, FHEA, FCIL, MITI
Cassamarca Lecturer in Italian
School of Humanities (room 208), Flinders University
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"Loving your work is the closest you can get to happiness on earth"
P. Levi, La chiave a stella
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