Dear all,
We are pleased to publish the programme for the 2010 SIS postgraduate colloquium, taking place at the University of Warwick on Saturday 5 June.
To register for the event, colleagues are invited to complete the registration form at:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/italian/postgrad/sis2010/registration/
The Society for Italian Studies Postgraduate Colloquium
Conference Programme
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09.00 – 10.00 Registration/Coffee
Introduction and Welcome:
Department of Italian, University of Warwick
with organizers, Caterina Sinibaldi, Clea Rivalta, Mariarita Martino Grisā & Dom Holdaway
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10.00 - 11.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS
1a) Renaissance Studies
- Judith Allan (Birmingham) - ‘Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci: Culture and Context’
- Martina Damiani (Zagreb) – ‘Il ruolo della donna nell’opera di Baldassar Castiglione’
- Marianna Orsi (Pisa) - ‘Monsters in Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata’
1b) Political and Social Identities
- Pamela Schievenin (Queen Mary) - ‘How Socialist and Communist Women Shaped the Welfare of Italian Mothers and Children (1945-1980)’
- Krizia Nardini (Utrecht) - ‘Come fece Erostato: analisi discorsiva del dibattito parlamentare sulla Legge Merlin’
- Susanne Thuermer (Birmingham) - ‘‘Nomadic Feminism’ in Theory and Practice: Insights from the French and Italian Experience
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11.30-12.00 Tea & Coffee
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12.00 - 13.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS
2a) Translation
- Mila Milani (Manchester) - ‘Publishing Contemporary Foreign Poetry in Italy: Scheiwiller & Mondadori’
- Cristina Olivari (Edinburgh) - ‘Inclusion & Exclusion in Literary Translation: the Strange Case of Carlo Emilio Gadda in English Translation’
- Simone Brioni (Warwick) - ‘Cultural Translation in Igiaba Scego’s Oltre Babilonia and Garane Garane’s Il Latte č Buono’
2b) Intellectual & Doctrinal Constructions
- Barbara Rodā (Pavia) - ‘Cenni di storia di filologia romanza e italiana dal carteggio Francesco D’Ovidio-Pio Rajna’
- Lorenzo Sacchini (Durham) - ‘La costruzione e la condivisione del sapere nel tardo Rinascimento italiano: il caso dell'Accademia degli Insensati a Perugia’
- Tamzin Simmons (Leeds) - ‘The Revelation of Personhood through the Incarnational Discourse of Dante’s Paradiso VII’
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13.30 – 14.30 Lunch
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14.30 – 16.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS
3a) Gender & Representation
- Caroline Lynch (Bristol) - ‘‘Il libro deve essere come un sasso che si butta per colpire’: Testimony and the Representation of Women and War in Laudomia Bonanni’s La rappresaglia’
- Helen Stark (Newcastle) - ‘Masculinity and Nation in Ugo Foscolo's The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis’
- Ilaria Masenga (Exeter) - ‘From Damín to Damiano: the struggle to acquire the masculine self in Volponi’s Il lanciatore di giavellotto’
3b) Textual Traditions
- Serena Todesco (University College Cork) - ‘Isabella Tomasi: storiografia e reinvenzione testuale di un soggetto eccentrico’
- Cecilia Piantanida (Oxford) - ‘How a book enters the Canon: Luciano Anceschi and Salvatore Quasimodo’s Lirici Greci’
- Claudia Bussolino (Pavia) - ‘Ossimori in poesia: per una mappa novecentesca’
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16.00 – 16.30 Tea & Coffee
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16.30 - 18.00 PLENARY SESSION
4) Comparative Literature
- Monica Insinga (University College Dublin) - ‘Immortal Tales of Common Life: Thomas Kilroy’s Adaptation of Six Characters in Search of an Author and Marina Carr’s Woman and Scarecrow
- Pieter Vanhove (Columbia) - ‘State of Fluxus. Changing Theatrical and Everyday Space in Pasolini’s Collaborative Projects with the Living Theatre of New York (1966-69)
- Mattia Marino (Salford) - ‘Il relativismo Nietzsche-Leopardi-Pirandelliano nella letteratura di Umberto Eco e Alessandro Baricco’
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18.00 – 19.00 Wine Reception, followed by conference dinner (all welcome)
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For more information please visit our website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/italian/postgrad/sis2010/
Any comments or queries should be addressed to one of the organizers at: [log in to unmask]
We are looking forward to seeing many colleagues at the event.
With best wishes,
Caterina Sinibaldi, Clea Rivalta, Mariarita Martino Grisa' & Dom Holdaway (Italian, University of Warwick).
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Ph.D. Candidate & Postgraduate Teaching Assistant
Department of Italian
University of Warwick
024 7652 8490
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