italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
Dear Colleagues,
A reminder about the annual SIS Postgraduate Conference, which is taking place this Saturday 3 June at the University of Bristol. For details on how to register for a place, please contact the organiser Joanne Lee at [log in to unmask] Further information about the event can be found by following the appropriate link via the SIS website: www.sis.ac.uk.
Best wishes,
Kate Mitchell
SIS Postgraduate Representative
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SOCIETY FOR ITALIAN STUDIES POSTGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM
SATURDAY 3 JUNE 2006, BRISTOL UNIVERSITY
PROGRAMME
9.15 – 9.45 Registration
9.45 –10.00 Welcome and Introduction
Joanne Lee, University of Bristol
Kate Mitchell, University of Warwick
10.00 – 11.30 Session 1
Cross Cultural Encounters
Olga Walsh (Galway): A National Film for an International Audience: Matrimonio all’italiana (1964)
Riccardo Rosati (Durham): Italo Calvino and Japan
Annunziata Videtta (Warwick): The role of women as (re)-creators of Italian ethnicity in textual renditions of the British Italian experience
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee
12.00 – 1.30 Parallel Sessions 2 & 3
2: Space, Identity and Intertextuality
Barry Ryan (Cork): ‘Something like Yorkshire’: Beppe Fenoglio and Wuthering Heights
Francesca Southerden (Oxford): Sedendo e guidando: Topographical observations in Sereni’s ‘Ancora sulla strada di Zenna’
R*ka R*zsa (Cattolica, Milan): La commedia di origine classica dopo il Concilio di Trento. Il caso delle commedie di Luigi Groto il Cieco di Adria (1541-1585)
3: Italy’s Economic Miracle
Marco Paoli (Salford): Duca Lamberti: lotta alla criminalit* tra miracolo economico e modernit*
Annarita Curcio (Durham): The Italian economic boom in the photographs of Gianni Berengo Gardin
Sebastiano Ferrari (Galway): Nel blu dipinto di blu: un successo discografico mondiale tra tradizione e modernit*
1.30 – 2.30 Lunch
2.30 – 4.00 Parallel Sessions 4 & 5
4: Intellectuals of the Twentieth Century
Niamh Cullen (IRCHSS scholar, Dublin): The ideal editor and his public: the intellectual community of La Rivoluzione Liberale
Maeve Egan (Galway): Moral order on trial in Enrico Cavacchioli’s L’Uccello del Paradiso
Helen Anderson (Oxford): Imagining history: a reading of Laura Mancinelli's medieval novels, 1981-1993.
5: Second Language Acquisition / Cross Cultural Readings
Claudia Borghetti (Galway): La comunicazione mediata dal computer per l’educazione interculturale nella classe di lingua straniera – a case study
Eliana Maestri (Bath): Symbolic competence in fairy tales. Enhancing the maternal in the Italian translation of Cold by A.S. Byatt
Raffaella Antinucci (Chieti): Gabriele Rossetti’s commentary of Dante’s Purgatory (exact title to be confirmed)
4.00 – 4.30 Tea
4.30 – 6.00 Parallel Sessions 6 & 7
6: Representing the Resistance
Marian Hurley (Cork): Women, family and agency in Italian Resistance film: The Catholic and Marxist traditions
Simonetta Milli Konewko (Wisconsin): L’Agnese va a morire e il significato della compassione nella lotta delle donne partigiane contro Fascisti e Nazisti
Lara Pucci (Courtauld Institute): Terra Italia: the peasant subject as the site of national and socialist identities in Guttuso’s Marsigliese contadina and De Santis’ Caccia tragica
7: Cinematic Representations of the Body
Sergio Rigoletto (Reading): Double binds and sexual knowledge in Italian queer films
Stefano Baschiera (Cork): Segni di una rivolta: Casa, corpi, oggetti e pugni in tasca
Paolo Russo (Reading): Obsession of body and subjectivity in Gabriele Salvatores’s conceptual cinema
6.00 – 6.45 Wine Reception
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