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it is with great pleasure that we circulate the programme of ‘The Years of Alienation. Asylum and Factory in Italy 1960s–1970s’, a two-day workshop co-organised and co-hosted by the University of Cambridge and the University of Kent. All welcome, no conference fee or registration is needed. Please circulate widely.

The Factory – University of Kent
Darwin Lecture Theatre 2 (DLT2)

10.15 – Registration and welcome

• Marco Maffioletti (Groupe d’Étude et de Recherche sur la Culture Italienne - Grenoble): L’uomo dentro la tuta da lavoro

• Dr Fabrizio Di Maio (University of Birmingham): From Ivrea to Pozzuoli: the Industrial Alienation in Ottieri’s Work

• Dr Leonardo Vilei (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): Torino at the Peak of Industrialization: the Automobile Town and ‘Everyworker’

• Dr David Albert Best (L’Université Libre de Bruxelles): Volponi-Ottieri-Olivetti and the Ills of homo industrialis: a Return to ‘la civiltà della natura’ as Questionable Antidote to Urban-Industrial Malaise

• Eleonora Lima (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Alienation and ‘Techno-Utopia’: the Limits of an Allegorical Interpretation of Volponi’s La macchina mondiale

14.30-15.30
• Alessandra Diazzi (University of Cambridge): From Paranoia to Panic Attacks: the Notion of ‘Alienation’ in Volponi’s Memoriale (1962) and Frascella’s Il panico quotidiano (2013). A Comparative Analysis.

• Dr John David Rhodes (University of Cambridge): Art Cinema’s Immaterial Labours

17.00 – 19.30 – Film Screening and discussion
• La classe operaia va in paradiso (E. Petri 1971).

The Asylum – University of Cambridge
Room S2, Alison Richard Building

10.45 – Registration and welcome

11.00 – 12.30 – First Panel
• Maurizio Masi (Università di Firenze): Albino, la fabbrica e la madre: per un’eziologia della nevrosi in Memoriale

• Tiziano Toracca (Università di Perugia): Memoriale: l’orizzonte utopico dell’industria

• Michele Ronchi Stefanati (University College Cork): Asylum, Tourist Camp or Concentration Camp? The treatment of Madness in Gianni Celati’s Comiche

13.30-14.30 – Keynote Address
• Prof John Foot (University of Bristol): The Italian Asylum in the Years of Transformation. From ‘Concentration Camp’ to ‘Golden Cage’. Snapshots and Analysis

14.45-15.45 – Keynote Address
• Prof Piero Barbetta (Centro Milanese di Terapia della Famiglia): Twenty Years’ Liberation from Alienated Psychoanalysis: The Cases in Milan

16.00-17.00
• Dr Alvise Sforza Tarabochia (University of Kent): Alienation and Otherness: Franco Basaglia with Jacques Lacan

17.30 – 19.30 – Film Screening and discussion (Room TBC)