italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies Dear Colleagues, Registration is now open for the International Conference dedicated to the memory and legacy of Leonardo Sciascia: LEONARDO SCIASCIA: VENT'ANNI DOPO (23-24 October, 2009) in University College Cork, Ireland. Registration forms, programme and conference poster are available from the conference website: http://www.ucc.ie/en/italian/Conferences/LeonardoSciasciaventannidopo/ Leonardo Sciascia: vent'anni dopo Friday 23 October - Saturday 24 October 2009 University College Cork, Ireland Programme Friday 23 October Council Room (UCC) 2.30 p.m. Registration O'Rahilly Building First Floor, Block A, West New Council Room, North Wing 3.00 p.m. Welcome and Introduction Mark Chu (Department of Italian, UCC, IE) Session I (Chair: Dr Mark Chu, UCC) 3.30 p.m. Alessandro Di Prima (NUI Galway, IE) 'Tragicità della Storia e dimensione creaturale nella Recitazione della controversia liparitana dedicata ad A.D. Un'analisi linguistica' 4.00 p.m. Glenda Dollo (Trinity College Dublin, IE) 'Viviamo un mondo sciasciano: stadi dello sviluppo filogenetico della coscienza nella letteratura siciliana' 4.30 p.m. Alan O'Leary (University of Leeds, UK) 'Power As Such: The Idea of the Mafia in Francesco Rosi's Cadaveri eccellenti' Keynote Lecture I (Chair: Dr Daragh O'Connell, UCC) 5.00 a.m. Vincenzo Consolo (writer) Title: 'Dal buio della zolfara alla luce dell'agora: Leonardo Sciascia' 6.00 p.m. Wine Reception and Readings Saturday 24 October New Council Room, North Wing (UCC) Session II (Chair: Dr Silvia Ross, UCC) 10.00 a.m. Giuliana Adamo (Trinity College Dublin, IE) 'Maria Attanasio vera allieva di Sciascia' 10.30 a.m. Serena Todesco (University College Cork, IE) 'La religiosità sciasciana: alcune riflessioni scaturite da Dalle parti degli infedeli' 11.00 a.m. Marco Codebò (Long Island University, US) 'Il romanzo come meditazione sulla verità: una lettura foucaultiana del Consiglio d'Egitto' 11.30 a.m. Coffee Session III (Chair: Prof. Paolo Bartoloni, NUI, Galway) 12.00 m. Maximiliana Henze (University of Toronto, CA) 'I gialli di Sciascia e il romanzo postcoloniale interno' 12.30 p.m. Nicolò Messina (Universitat de Girona, ES) 'Sciascia da un quarantotto all'altro. Gli zii di Sicilia' 1.00 p.m. Lunch Session IV (Chair: Dr Daragh O'Connell, UCC) 2.30 p.m. Alessandro Marini (Univerzita Palackého v Olomouc, CZ) 'Sciascia on screen, tra pamphlet e thriller: Porte aperte e Una storia semplice' 3.00 p.m Marco Gaetani (Università di Siena, IT) 'Leonardo Sciascia: l'intellettuale-uomo' 3.30 p.m. Joseph Farrell (University of Strathclyde, UK) 'Dai Mafiusi ai Mafiosi; Rizzotto e Sciascia' Keynote Lecture II (Chair: Dr Mark Chu, UCC) 4.00 p.m. Claude Ambroise (Université Stendhal Grenoble III, FR) 'La condizione mortifera' 5.00 p.m. Closing Remarks Daragh O'Connell (Department of Italian, UCC, IE) 7.00 p.m Conference Dinner For further information write to: [log in to unmask] Or visit the website: http://www.ucc.ie/en/italian/Conferences/LeonardoSciasciaventannidopo/ The conference organizers gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences Conference fund, UCC, the Society for Italian Studies, and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Dublin. Many thanks, Daragh Dr Daragh O'Connell Department of Italian University College Cork IRELAND T: +353 (0)21 490 2554 F: +353 (0)21 490 3263 E: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[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