Bodies & Objects

A conference hosted by the Italian departments of Columbia
University and New York University

April 17-19, 1998
New York City


Program:

Friday, April 17
New York University
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo
24 W. 12th St.

OPENING REMARKS
1:00 PM Enrica Balestra and Anne Schuchman

I FORMS OF RHETORIC/RHETORIC OF FORMS
1:30-3:00 Moderator: Ilaria Baldini

Tom Livesey, New York University
Rhetorical Bodies and Conceptual Guilt: ReConstituting the
Judgment of Paris in Gorgiass Encomium of Helen
Federica Anichini, New York University
Poetry of the Body and Rhetoric of "Passione" in Guido
Cavalcanti
Paul Albert Ferrara, Hofstra University
The Histrionic Body in the Ultime Lettere di Jacopo Ortis

II LITERARY TRANSFORMATIONS
3:00-4:30 Moderator: Rebecca Mechanic

Tobias Foster Gittes, Columbia University
The Piscatorial Pleasance: Fishing for Flesh in Boccaccios
Valle Delle Donne
Yola Monakov, Columbia University
Folktale Narratives of Transfiguration
Cecilia Feilla, New York University
Bodies, Community, Letters: Re-Membering Abelard and
Heloise in the Eighteenth Century

RECEPTION
4:30-5:30


Saturday, April 18
New York University
Casa Italiana

COFFEE
9:00-9:30

I PAIN AS INSCRIPTION
9:30-11:00 Moderator: Manuele Gragnolati

Sabine Modershein, McGill University
Skin Deep-Mind Deep: The Inscription of History and
Culture into the Body-Franz Kafkas Penal Colony
Carin McLain, Columbia University
Fragmentation and Redemption in Michelangelos Poetry
Maneesha Patel, Columbia University
Insistent Sentience and the Cancellation of Culture in Vicos
Scienza Nuova

II THE CORPOREAL AND THE SACRED
11:00-12:00 Moderator: Elena Lombardi

Marcus Boon, New York University
The Body of Buddha in Early Mahayana Buddhism
Manuele Gragnolati, Columbia University
Air, Flesh and Body: The Human Being and Resurrection in
the Commedia

LUNCH BREAK
12:00-2:00

III WRITING FEMALE SUBJECTS
2:00-4:00 Moderator: Tina Chiappetta

Dana Crudup, New York University
Predilected Space and Subjectivity in Alba DeCespedes
Dalla parte di lei
Anita Angelone, New York University
A Study of Ones Own: Italian Women Authors and the
Space of Writing
Jennifer Hirsh, Bryn Mawr College
Double Vision, Representation and Reflection in the Saletta di
Diana e Attione at Fontanellato
Claudia Clemente, New York University
Tozzis Con gli occhi chiusi: Castration and Gendered
Subjects

SUNDAY, APRIL 19
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
The Casa Italiana
Amsterdam Ave and 117th Streets
COFFEE
10:00-10:30

I REPRESENTING MASCULINITY
10:30-12:00 Moderator: Lorenza Prignano

Derek Duncan, University of Bristol
"Soldatini in Tilt": Pier Vittorio Tondelli and the Privatization
of the National Body
Elliot Trice, Columbia University
Analizing the Scene of Early Modern Medical Perception:
Looking into Ardernes Fistula in Ano
Francesca Cadel, City University of New York
Corpo, Luce e Voce: Pasolini in Friuli negli anni Quaranta

LUNCH
12:00-1:30

II EROTIC ENCOUNTERS
1:30-3:00 Moderator: Michelle Patruno

Lidia Anchisi, New York University
Bodies-in-Bits-and-Pieces: Circulating the Dannunzian Hand
Dana Stewart, State University of New York, Binghamton
The Body of the Beloved in Chretien de Troyes' Cliges
Rebecca Wright, New York University
Il Bacio della Medusa: Towards the Definition of a Feminist
Discursive Space

COFFEE BREAK
3:00-3:30




III BODY POLITICS
3:30-4:30 Moderator: Ariella Lang

Cristina Lombardi, New York University
Womens Bodies under Fascism, Colonialism and War: A
Reading of Annie Vivantis Work
Timothy Campbell, Columbia University
Il gesto di Arpocrate - The Wireless Marconi

CONCLUDING REMARKS AND RECEPTION
4:30-6:00









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