italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
The Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia
The Italian Cultural Institute in New York
The Center for Italian Studies of the University of Pennsylvania

present

Reading and Translating Leopardi

an international conference

Friday, 30 March 2012

9:00am-7pm

Consulate General of Italy
1026 Public Ledger Building
150 South Independence Mall West
Philadelphia, PA 19106

This is a free event but space is limited and we ask that you register here by March 27.


Conference Program

9:00 am Coffee

Presider: Riccardo Viale
Italian Cultural Institute in New York

9:30 Opening remarks

10:00 Joseph Luzzi, Bard College - "No society: Leopardi and the Challenge of Italian Identity"

10:35 Franco D’Intino, University of Birmingham—Università di Roma, Sapienza - "A philosophy of Amazement; the Unpredictable Fate of the Zibaldone"

11:10 Jonathan Galassi, Farrar, Straus and Giroux - Key note address: "Translating Leopardi"

11:45 Lunch break

2:00 Patrizio Ceccagnoli, University of Massachusetts, Amherst - "'Scambiati oggetti': personificazioni e feticismo in Giacomo Leopardi"

2:35 Alessandra Mirra, University of Pennsylvania - "'Nazioni senza eroi e senza canti': per un discorso politico-letterario nello Zibaldone"

3:10 Fabio Finotti, University of Pennsylvania - "Leopardi e le traduzioni immaginarie"

3:45 Tea

4:00 Novella Bellucci, UniversitĂ  di Roma, Sapienza - "Leggere lo Zibaldone"

4:35 Readings from Leopardi

5:30 Cocktail and closing remarks

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/italians/posters-pdf/Leopardi%20brochure2b.pdf



Marina Della Putta Johnston, PhD
Assistant Director, Center for Italian Studies
University of Pennsylvania
549 Williams Hall
255 South 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Tel. 215 898 6040

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