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Marinetti and Ungaretti: Futurisms and Avant-Gardes

Symposium

October 9-10, 2009

French House and Pyle Center

 

Program

 

Friday, October 9

French House

 

3pm

Opening Remarks

Magdalena Hauner, Associate Dean of the College of Letters and Science

Professor Anne Vila, Chair of the Department of French and Italian

Ernesto Livorni, Organizer

 

3:30-5:30pm

Chair: Ernesto Livorni (University of Wisconsin – Madison)

Paolo Valesio (Columbia University), “F. T.  Marinetti and Extreme Literature”

Laura Wittman (Stanford University), ““Cuore-proiettile:” from Mafarka to World-War-One”

Matteo Gilebbi (Duke University), “L’“inesauribile segreto” del nulla in Poesie disperse e Altre poesie ritrovate di Giuseppe Ungaretti”

Respondent: Steven Winspur (University of Wisconsin – Madison)

 

5:30-6:30pm Reception

 

Saturday, October 10

335 Pyle Center

10am-noon

Chair: Grazia Menechella (University of Wisconsin – Madison)

Cinzia Sartini Blum (University of Iowa), “Futurist Metamorphoses: Reading Marinetti’s Manifestos in the Light of the Fantastic”

            John Welle (University of Notre Dame), “The Alcove of Celebrity: Marinetti and the Question of Commercial Literature”

            Daniele Fioretti (University of Wisconsin – Madison), “Il canto dell’esule: esilio e nomadismo ne L’Allegria di Giuseppe Ungaretti”

Respondent: Michael Vanden Heuvel (University of Wisconsin – Madison)

 

            Noon-2pm

            Lunch (French House)

 

3-5pm

Chair: Patrick Rumble (University of Wisconsin – Madison)

            Mario Moroni (Binghamton University), “Nomadismo e confini nella poesia di Giuseppe Ungaretti”

Enrico Cesaretti (University of Virginia), “Materiali sessuali: osservazioni sulla narrativa erotico-sociale di F.T. Marinetti”

            Lodovica Guidarelli (Colby College), “Il Puer Aeternus in Mafarka il Futurista

Respondent: Marcelo Pellegrini (University of Wisconsin – Madison)

 

5-6pm

Reading of Marinetti’s and Ungaretti’s texts

 

 

For further information see under “Upcoming Events” at: http://frit.lss.wisc.edu/ .

 

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