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Dear List Members,

 

We are very pleased to announce a two day interdisciplinary conference on Etymological Thinking in the 19th and 20th Centuries which will take place the 6th and 7th of November at the Taylor Institute, University of Oxford.

 

 

Programme

 

Friday, 6 November

 

1:10-1:50pm: Registration with Lunch – Room 2

 

1:50-2pm: Opening remarks – Room 3

 

2-3pm: Keynote address

Philip Durkin, Etymology in the Philological and Lexicographical Traditions

 

3:00-4:45pm: Panel 1. Etymology and Power. Moderator: Nicola Gardini

 

Jacob Reynolds, Seeing Afresh with Etymology: Hannah Arendt and Etymological Thinking

Chris Hutton, Etymology and Fascism

Mario Domenichelli, Etymology and Figural Interpretation: Benjamin, Auerbach's Figura

 

4:45-5pm: Coffee Break

 

5:00-6:45pm: Panel 2. Etymology and Poetry. Moderator: Martin McLaughlin

 

Martina Piperno: Etymology and Philology in Bourbon Restoration Italy: Leopardi Reader of Vico

Cecilia Piantanida: Etymological Enlightenment in Giovanni Pascoli

Teresa Franco: Giovanni Giudici’s Poetical Dictionary

 

 

7:15pm: Drinks Reception at Keble College

 

 

 

Saturday, 7 November

 

10:15-11:15am: Keynote address – Room 2

Federico Faloppa, Etymological Correctness and Political Incorrectness

 

11:15am-1:00pm: Panel 1. The Politics of Etymology. Moderator: Federico Faloppa

 

Peter Hill, Inventive and Defensive Definitions: The Uses of Etymology in the Arab Nahda

Kai Brodersen, From Bosporos to Ochsenfurth: The Politics of Classical Greek Lexicography

Sabine Elsner-Petri, The Role of Etymology in Everyday Communication

 

1-2pm: Lunch

 

2:00-4:20pm. Etymology and Fiction. Moderator: to be confirmed

 

Paola d’Andrea, Etymological Fictions: Walter Scott as a Contributor to the Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language

Nicola Gardini, Language and Truth: Etymological Perversions in Manzoni

Jennifer Rushworth, Proustian Etymologies and the Art of Memory

Franco Baldasso, Alberto Savinio and the Myth of Babel: Genealogies, Multiplicity and Translation in Hermaphrodito

 

 

4:20-4:50pm: Coffee Break

 

4:50-6:00pm: Panel 3. Etymology and Linguistics. Moderator: Philip Durkin

Maxim Fomin, Etymological Thinking of Sir Whitley Stokes

Jon Mills, Etymology and the Relexification of Cornish in the 20thCentury

 

6:00-6:30pm: Closing remarks

 

7:30pm: Conference Dinner at Quod Restaurant

 

To register, please, use the following link:

http://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=5&catid=442&prodid=1138


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Best regards,


The Organisers:

Dr Teresa Franco, Prof Nicola Gardini, Dr Cecilia Piantanida

 

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