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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies University of Warwick 12-14 March 2009 ENLIGHTENING ENCOUNTERS: ITALIAN LITERATURE AND PHOTOGRAPHY THROUGH TIME CALL FOR PAPERS Since 1839, when the invention of the daguerreotype was made public, literature has incorporated, resisted, rejected or adapted photography through language and the written word. On the other hand, photography has, on various occasions, re-constructed, evoked, emulated or interrogated the written text and the literary world. The relationship between the two has always been that of an illuminating, reciprocal exchange of voices and images, words and light. Over the last few years academics and intellectuals have been demonstrating an increasing interest in the interaction between literature and photography. However, it is evident that studies and research on this topic have mostly been carried out in the fields of German, English, French and American Studies. Enquiries on the interrelations between the photographic image and writing have often been neglected or underestimated in Italian Studies so that a series of questions are still waiting to be fully answered or clarified, some of them being: - in what ways have photographers been inspired by Italian literature? - how does photography evoke, engage with, comment on, or develop literary texts? - which cultural politics of photography have Italian writers been responding to since the appearance of photography in the nineteenth century? - how do literary texts of any period respond to a photographic aesthetic? - how do Italian narrative forms respond to and inform the cultural representations of memory and time posited by photography? - how has recent writing engaged with new photographic techniques (e.g. the digital camera, new modes of image storage and processing)? This conference aims to explore some of these questions and seeks to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussions of various aspects of the dialogue between Italian literature and the photographic medium. Areas to be discussed include: - Italian literature and photography in the contexts of verismo, modernism, neo-realism and postmodernism; - Photographs in prose, poetry, fiction and non-fiction of any period; - Italian literature in photographs; - Photographs re-presenting and evoking early literature; - Photography, life writing, memory and postmemory; - Photo-texts and ekphrasis; - Photography and travel writing, migration literature, (post)colonial writing; - Photography as/and translation; - Photographs and writing in relation to issues of identity, gender and sexuality; - Connections between photography, Italian literature, cinema and other arts; - Collaborations between writers and photographers; - Italian literary and cultural critics on photography. We invite proposals for twenty-minute papers in English and in Italian by 30th September 2008. Enquiries and proposals should be addressed to: Jennifer Burns ([log in to unmask]) Giorgia Alù ([log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]) Department of Italian, Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK Tel +44 24 7652 4126 *************************** Dr Giorgia Alù Cassamarca Lecturer Department of Italian Studies, MacCallum Building (A18), University of Sydney, N.S.W. 2006 AUSTRALIA Ph. +61 2 93516887 Fax +61 2 93513407 ********************************************************************** 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