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Dear All, With apologies for cross-posting, I am delighted to invite you to the forthcoming roundtable at the IMLR. Please find details below. Friday, 30 May 2014, 5.30-7.30 pm. Senate House (Holden Room, 103) Malet Street London WC1E 7HU APOCALITTICI E INTEGRATI ITALIAN INTELLECTUALS AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES Florian Mussgnug (UCL), Charlotte Ross (Birmingham) and Emanuela Patti (IMLR London) in conversation with Pierpaolo Antonello (Cambridge), author of the book Dimenticare Pasolini. Intellettuali e impegno nell'Italia contemporanea (Milano, Mimesis 2013) 50 years after the publication of Umberto Eco's Apocalittici e integrati (1964), this talk will focus on the evolving relationship between Italian intellectuals, new technologies and media - as Umberto Eco has recently stated 'La battaglia tra apocalittici ed integrati dopo 50 anni si č spostata sul web'. How has the role of intellectuals developed in the last fifty years? How have new technologies changed this role? Pierpaolo Antonello's Dimenticare Pasolini. Intellettuali e impegno nell'Italia contemporanea challenges the myth of the 'apocalittico' epitomized in Pier Paolo Pasolini, proposing a different reading of the intellectual function. The author will discuss these questions with Florian Mussgnug (UCL), Charlotte Ross (Birmingham) and Emanuela Patti (London). Free copies of the book will be available. All welcome! Pierpaolo Antonello is Reader in Italian literature and culture at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John's College. He specializes in contemporary Italian literature, culture and intellectual history. His books include Il ménage a quattro. Scienza, filosofia e tecnica nella letteratura italiana del Novecento (Firenze, Le Monnier, 2005); Postmodern Impegno: Ethics and Commitment in Contemporary Italian Culture (Oxford, Peter Lang, 2009), co-edited with Florian Mussgnug; Contro il materialismo. Le "due culture" in Italia: bilancio di un secolo (Torino, Aragno, 2012); Dimenticare Pasolini. Intellettuali e impegno nell'Italia contemporanea (Milano, Mimesis, 2012). He is co-editor of the book series 'Italian Modernities' for Peter Lang. Charlotte Ross is Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies at the University of Birmingham. She is author of "Primo Levi's Narratives of Embodiment: Containing the Human" (2011), co-editor of "Resisting the Tide: Cultures of Opposition Under Berlusconi. 2001-06" (2009), and has published numerous articles on questions of gender and sexuality in Italian culture and society. She is currently completing a monograph entitled 'Eccentricity and Sameness: Discourses on Lesbianism and Desire between Women in Italy, 1860s-1930s" (forthcoming 2014). Florian Mussgnug teaches Italian and Comparative Literature at UCL, with a particular interest in modernism and postmodernism, apocalypse fiction, philosophy of language and literary theory. He studied at the University of Oxford and at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and was Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Rome III. In 2012, he received the Edinburgh Gadda Prize for "The Eloquence of Ghosts: Giorgio Manganelli and the Afterlife of the Avant-Garde" (2010). Other publications include "Postmodern Impegno: Ethics and Commitment in Contemporary Italian Culture" (ed. with P. Antonello, 2009); "Folly: Special Issue of Comparative Critical Studies" (ed. with L. Boldrini, 2008); "Lutero: Il padre della Riforma protestante" (2003), as well as articles on Umberto Eco, Primo Levi, Elsa Morante, Luciano Berio, avant-garde literature, philosophy and literature. Emanuela Patti is Research Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and Honorary Research Fellow in Italian at the University of Birmingham. She was Senior Lecturer of Italian and Director of the CCM at the IMLR, Visiting Fellow and Professor at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, UOC, Barcelona. She specializes in post-war Italian culture, with a special focus on Pier Paolo Pasolini, XX century metamorphoses of Dante, and the Internet age. She is the editor of La nuova gioventů? L'ereditŕ intellettuale di Pier Paolo Pasolini (2009) and co-editor with Clodagh Brook of the volume Transmedia. Storia, memoria e narrazioni attraverso i media (forthcoming 2014). She is currently completing a monograph on Pasolini. I look forward to seeing you at Senate House. Best wishes, Dr. Emanuela Patti [SAS.gif]<http://www.sas.ac.uk/> Institute of Modern Languages Research School of Advanced Study University of London Stewart House Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. Tel. n. 02078628962 Fax. n. 02078628672 Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>