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The Department of Modern Languages and European Studies and the Department of English Literature of the University of Reading are pleased to announce that the Reading Poetry Festival will host an Italian poetry day on the 6th June, dedicated to Vittorio Sereni.
'Torna il tuo cielo d’un tempo’ A Centenary Conference on Vittorio Sereni will be held at the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) of the University of Reading. Keynote speakers include: Edoardo Esposito, Francesca Southerden, Peter Robinson. The programme is below.
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Tickets are £15 (including coffee breaks and lunch)
PhD students are required to book but entrance fee (£9) will be waived if they produce evidence of status.
Places are limited, please book soon.
To see full programme of the Reading Poetry Festival, please visit
which has a link through to the booking site at MERL:http://www.reading.ac.uk/merl/whatson/merl-poetryfestivalbookings.aspx
For directions on how to reach MERL, please click here:
http://www.reading.ac.uk/merl/merl-findus.aspx
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The programme:
‘Torna il tuo cielo d’un tempo’
A Centenary Conference on Vittorio Sereni
6th June 2013
Museum of English Rural Life
9.00: Registration and Welcome
Panel 1: Literature, Ethics and Style – Chair: Daniela La Penna
9.30-10.00 Edoardo Esposito (Milan), Il silenzio della poesia
10.00-10.30 Peter Robinson (Reading), Quali carte: Edwin Muir, Vittorio Sereni, and Tonio Kröger
10.30-11.00 Marcus Perryman (translator), Sereni's Uncanny Memory
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
Panel 2: Italian Relations – Chair: Federico Faloppa
11.30-12.00 Stefano Versace (Independent), Che cosa è vita, cosa invece letteratura. Una lettera inedita di Vittorio Sereni
12.00-12.30 Francesca Southerden (Wellesley College), ‘D’amore più non ti parlai amore mio’: Sereni’s ‘Ancora sulla strada di Creva’ between Aphasic Desire and Linguistic Elegy
1.00-2.00: Lunch
Panel 3: Translation – Chair: Peter Robinson
2.00-2.30 Sara Pesatori (Reading), Silenzio creativo o viaggio stilistico? Le traduzioni da Williams
2.30-3.00 Davide Castiglione (Nottingham), Sereni and the Translation Process: Synchronic and Diachronic Analysis of a Translation from W.C. Williams
3.00-3.15 Coffee break
Panel 4: French Influences – Chair: Sara Pesatori
3.15-3.45 Elena Paroli (Aix-Marseille), Un solo giorno, nemmeno. Poche ore. L’eredità di Char nell’opera di Vittorio Sereni: fenomenologia e realismo negli Strumenti umani
3.45-4.15 Giuseppe Sandrini (Verona), Il grande amico: Sereni lettore di Alain-Fournier
5:00 Poetry reading with Maurizio Cucchi and Peter Robinson