Dear All

 

please find below the programme of the 2013 Asmi Conference. The conference is on Iconic Images in Modern Italy: Politics, Culture and Society and will be held at the University of London, Senate House on 22-23 November. Keynote talks will be given by Fabrice d’Almeida (Pantheon-Assas University, Paris) and Maria Antonella Pelizzari (Hunter College, CUNY, New York). 

Best wishes

 

Paolo Ghirardini 

 

 

 

Iconic Images in Modern Italy: Politics, Culture and Society

Conference Programme, 22-23 November 2013

 

 

Friday 22 November

10.15 - 10.45      Registration

10.45  - 11.00     Welcome and opening remarks

 

11.00 – 12.30     Parallel Session I

 

Material Culture I/G22/26

Chair: Stephen Gundle (University of Warwick)

 

Monica Di Barbora (Independent Scholar). L'abito della sposa: un'icona di genere tra immaginari, industria e mass media. 

 

Fabio Andreazza (Università G. d’Annunzio Chieti-Pescara). ‘Director in boots’: the ‘posture’ of Alessandro Blasetti.

 

Women, bodies and identity politics I/G34

Chair: John Champagne (Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, USA)

 

Jennifer Griffiths (The American University of Rome). Wanda Wulz – Io + Gatto, 1932.

 

Silvia Cassamagnaghi (Università degli Studi, Milan). Women’s image in Alberto Lattuada’s cinema (1948-1960).

 

Francesca Calamita (Victoria University of Wellington). Dolls on Display: Food Advertisements and Gender Roles in Italian Popular Culture of the 2000s. 

 

Collective memory and death I/G35

Chair: Ruth Glynn (University of Bristol)

 

Matteo Millan (Oxford University). The policy of macabre: the pictures of the black-shirts killed.

 

Erica Grossi (Università di Palermo). La trincea della Grande Guerra: dispositivo fotografico e icona visuale delle tragedia italiana del XX secolo.

 

Catherine O'Rawe (Bristol University). Renato Vallanzasca: Star Portraits and Archive Images.

 

12.30 - 1.30         Lunch

1.30 – 3.00          Parallel Session II

 

Militant iconographies II/G22/26

Chair: tbc

 

Jacopo Latini (Università di Firenze). Il teschio e il pugnale. Simboli e iconografia degli Arditi del popolo (1919 – 1922).

 

Luciano Cheles (University of Poitiers, France). Iconic Images in Propaganda Posters.

 

Laura Malacart (University College London). Mini-vigili project.

 

The stories behind iconic images II/G34

Chair: Alessandra Antola (University of Royal Holloway)

 

Rachel Haworth (University of Hull). Images of Fabrizio de Andrè, canzone d’autore icon.

 

Emily Ryder (University of Glasgow). Aldo Moro: The face of the anni di piombo.

 

Eleanor Chiari (University College London). A frozen whisper for a thousand voices.

 

Media and Politics II/G35

Chair: Marco Purpura (University of California, Berkeley)

 

Gianluca Fantoni (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow). At everyone's fingertips: shaping the perception of left-wing Italians and redefining the boundaries between politicians and citizens in 1980s Italy. Roberto Benigni and Enrico Berlinguer.

 

Sarah Vantorre (University of Antwerp).  The duty to report: Letizia Battaglia and Giuseppe Fava’s portraits of the anima del Sud.

 

Damiano Garofalo (Università di Padova) and Lilia Giugni (University of Cambridge). 1994: Berlusconi vs. Occhetto. Politics, Media and Public Opinion.

 

 

3.00 – 3.30          Tea break

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.30 – 5.00          Parallel Session III

 

Art, Image and National Identity III/G22/26

Chair: Nicoletta Leonardi (University of California EAP, Florence)

 

Chiara Fabi (Università di Udine).  Marino Marini as Italian Icon Abroad (1948-1953).

 

Robert Lumley (University College London).  Monument and Anti-Monument: Art in Italy in the 1960s.

 

Catharine Rossi (Kingston University).  Paper Utopias: Image-Making in 1970s Italian Radical Design.

 

 

Communist Propaganda III/G34

Luciano Cheles (University of Poitiers, France)

 

Annarita Gori (ICS - Universidade de Lisboa) and Leo Goretti (University of Reading). Anche i comunisti ridono. Political satire and humour in the propaganda image for Young Communists (1950s – 1980s).

Andrea Borelli (Università di Firenze). Immagini della "ir-realtà", Italia e Urss attraverso Vie Nuove 1958 – 1964.

 

Giulia Bassi (Università di Firenze). Partito d'Immagine. Per un’analisi storico-semiotica delle forme di rappresentazione del partito comunista italiano (1945 – 1980).

 

 

On and Off Screen III/G35

Martina Caruso (Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London)

 

Giuliana Minghelli (Harvard University). Photography in the Society of the Spectacle and the Land of Remorse.

 

Amanda Formisano (University of Oxford).  Francesco Rosi’s Le mani sulla città: imagining urban reconstruction in post-war Naples.

 

Sharon Hecker (IES Abroad Milan/Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan). Anna Magnani, the Un-iconic Icon.

 

 

5.00 - 6.00           Keynote: Fabrice d’Almeida. Italian Vulgarity

 

6.00 – 7.00          AGM

 

8.00                       Dinner

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday 23 November

 

10.00 – 10.30     Registration

 

10.30 – 11.30     Keynote: Maria Antonella Pelizzari. Fractured Imaginaries: Italian Photography as                      Popular Media

 

11.30 – 12.00     Tea break

 

12.00 – 1.30        Parallel Session IV

 

Benito Mussolini IV/G22/26

Chair: Giuliana Pieri (Royal Holloway)

 

Umberto Famulari (Royal Holloway). The Duce on the screen.

 

Giuliana Pieri (Royal Holloway). The iconic Duce: Mussolini, portraiture and the modern dictator.

 

Gerald Silk (Temple University, Philadelphia). The Dictator’s Hats: Mussolini as “Il Primo Pilota”.

 

Early Popular Icons IV/G34

Chair: Aliza Wong (Texas Tech University)

 

Fabiana Dimpflmeir (La Tuscia, Università di Viterbo). From marshes to glory: Augusto Imperiali’s iconic legacy in the Pianura Pontina.

 

Katharine Mitchell (University of Strathclyde). Postcards of stars as phatic emblems: the case of Anna Fougez (1894 - 1966).

 

Enza De Francisci (University College London). Giovanni Grasso: The ‘Other’ Image of Sicily.

 

Meditations on Architecture IV/G35

Catherine Rossi (Kingston University)

 

Paul Baxa (Ave Maria University in Florida). Palladio’s Aura: LUCE images of Villa Architecture in the Hitler-Mussolini Summits, 1942-44.

 

[Cesare Colombo (Photographer, Milan). Gabriele Basilico. Le immagini della modernità.]

 

Ross K Elfline. (Carleton College, USA).  Superstudio “Continuous Monument” and the Magazine Intervention.

 

 

1.30 – 2.30          Lunch

 

2.30 – 4.00          Parallel Session V

 

Visual Archetypes V/G22/26

Chair: Sharon Hecker (IES Abroad Milan/Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan)

 

Ruth Glynn (University of Bristol).  The iconography of Italia in Girlfriend in a Coma.

 

Andrea Minuz (Università La Sapienza, Roma).  Riti di passaggio. La Dolce Vita e il Cristo della modernità.

 

John Champagne (Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, USA).  Making and Unmaking Italian Jews: Primo Levi at the Jewish Museum of Rome.

 

 

Perceptions of the Other V/G34

Chair: Amanda Formisano (University of Oxford)

 

Marco Purpura (University of California, Berkeley). Undercover Journalism and Racial Masquerade: Fabrizio Gatti’s Migrant Stardom.

 

Mark Chu (University College Cork). (10 mins). Domesticating the pericolo giallo: the case of Rabarbaro Zucca.

 

George Newth (University of Reading). Images of the Other:  An analysis of Lega Nord's orientalist discourse.

 

The City in Photography V/G35

Chair: Robert Lumley (University College London)

 

Nicoletta Leonardi (University of California EAP, Florence). From page to street and back: photography, visual poetry and the Italian city in the work of Franco Vaccari.

Naomi Waltham-Smith (University of Pennsylvania). The Camera's Ear: The image of sound in Italian street photography.

 

Alexandra Tommasini (Courtauld Institute of Art). The ‘patient’ city: looking at three photographs by Gabriele Basilico.

 

 

 

 

4.00 - 4.30           Tea break

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.30 – 6.00   Parallel Session VI

 

Risorgimento and national identity VI/G22/26

Chair: Maria Antonella Pelizzari (Hunter College, City University of New York)

 

Roberto Cassanelli (Università Cattolica, Milan). Risorgimento e fotografia d'architettura a proposito dei “Monumenti, vedute e costume d’Italia” di Luigi Sacchi (1852-1854).

 

Beth Saunders (Graduate Center of the City University of New York). Revolutionizing the Italian Peasant: The Photography of Giacomo Caneva in the context of the Roman Republic (1849).

 

Alessio Petrizzo (Università di Padova). Ritorno all'ordine e cultura materiale: oggetti, narrazioni anti-repubblicane e pratiche di polizia a Roma, 1849-1851.

 

Pubblicità! IV/G34        

Chair: Mark Chu (University College Cork)

 

Mariamargherita Scotti (Archivio storico Piaggio, Pontedera). Una donna su due ruote? La prima pubblicità della Vespa.

 

Alessandro Valenzisi (University of Strathclyde). Jesus Jeans: fenomenologia di una campagna pubblicitaria.

 

Aliza S. Wong (Texas Tech University). TexMex all'italiana: Carosello, Commercials, and Cartoons in Italy, 1957-1977.

 

The City and the Institutional Image VI/G35

Chair: Alexandra Tommasini (Courtauld Institute of Art)

 

Maria Gabriella Rienzo (Università degli Studi di Foggia). The Neapolitan "Belle Epoque" Society through the images of the city's Yacht Clubs.

 

Tania Rossetto (Università degli Studi di Padova). Essere Venezia (Fulvio Roiter, 1977): re-imagining Venice for the masses. 

 

 

6.00 – 6.30          Summing up