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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies With best regards and apologies for cross-posting, Florian Mussgnug Department of Italian, UCL ----- FIFTH INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE IN ITALIAN AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE with the support of the AHRC-sponsored Joint Postgraduate Training Programme in Italian, Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Reading, Royal Holloway, UCL and the University of Bologna. *********** EX-CENTRIC *********** University College London 4 May - 5 May 2007 Friday, 4 May 2007 Chadwick Lecture Theatre, UCL 2.00 Florian Mussgnug (UCL) Introduction 2.10 TRAVELS IN LITERARY SPACE Francesco Giustini (Bologna) Ultime notizie dal limes. Centralità del margine e marginalità del centro ne Le città invisibili e La guerra del fin del mundo. Siobhan Henderson (UCL) Giorgio Manganelli’s Ex-centric Travels Giles Walker (Oxford) Why do Luigi Pulci's Morgante and Margutte have to die? 3.40 EX-CENTRIC IDENTITIES Francesca Giommi (Bologna) Black British e Black Italian. Antinomie della modernità, centralità delle culture e delle identità dei margini. Rosaria Carbotti (Bologna) Transiti: Genere e marginalità in Stone Butch Blues e Il viaggio di Arnold Nicola Ibba (UCL) Eccentricity and homosexuality in E.M.Forster’s Maurice and Umberto Saba's Ernesto: just a matter of subject? 5.10 KEYNOTE SPEAKER Prof Naomi Segal (IGRS) Words, bodies & stone ------ Saturday, 5 May 2007 Chadwick Lecture Theatre, UCL 9.30 EX-CENTRIC THEORY Anna Giuliani (Bologna) Il Barocco eccentrico della modernità. Pierpaolo Antonello (Cambridge) The Science of Ex-centricity 11.00 WRITING FROM THE MARGINS Francesco Cattani (Bologna) Livelli di eccentricità nella scrittura di Ornela Vorpsi Emanuela Tandello (Oxford) Altre residenze: dialect and poetry 12.00 MEDIA EX-CENTRICITIES Sebastiano Caroni (UCL) Pierre Bourdieu: ex-centric sociologist and public intellectual Francesco Ghelli (Bologna) Da Mike Bongiorno a Platinette: figure dell’eccentricità fra paleo-televisione e neo-televisione 1.00 Conclusions This conference seeks to gain insight, from a variety of disciplinary angles and cultural practices, into how individuals and communities construct, perceive and represent eccentricity. We will explore and assess the relevance of conventional definitions of eccentricity – such as “deviating from usual methods, odd, whimsical” (OED) – in relation to theories of cultural and social identity. How do social conventions and artistic practice define our understanding of cultural centres and margins? What is the relation between eccentricity and social critique? How does eccentricity reflect psychological and physical displacement? How does it relate to ethnic and gender identity? For further details please contact Florian Mussgnug ([log in to unmask]) ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join italian-studies YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave italian-studies to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/italian-studies.html