DEATH IN ITALY
CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM
20 May 2016, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 10.30am-5.30pm
All welcome
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Programme
10.30 Coffee and Opening Remarks
11:00-12:30
Commemorations
Chair:
Paola Filippucci
(Cambridge, Social Anthropology)
Katherine
McDonald (Cambridge, Classics), ‘Commemorating the Dead while Becoming
“Romans”: Italian Funerary Monuments in the 2nd-century
BC’
Diego
Carnevale
(Cambridge/Aix-Marseille,
History), ‘Funerals and Burials in 18th-century
Naples: A Business for the Church’
Paolo
Heywood (Cambridge, Social Anthropology), ‘The Two Burials of Aldo Moro:
Sovereignty and Governmentality in
the anni
di piombo’
12:30-1:30
Lunch
1:30-3:30
Bodies
Chair:
Silvia de' Renzi
(Open University, History of Medicine)
John
Henderson (Cambridge and Birkbeck,
History), ‘“More Feared Than Death Itself”? Plague and Society in Early Modern
Florence’
Andrea
Carlino
(Geneva, History of Medicine), ‘A Matter of Life and Death in XVIth-century
Medical Books’
Gavin
Williams (Cambridge, Music), ‘Sounds Incorporeal: The Gramophone Company in
Milan ca. 1900’
Serenella Iovino
(Turin, Comparative Literature), ‘From Thomas Mann to Porto Marghera:
Material Ecocriticism,
Textual Interpretation, and Death in Venice’
3:30-4:00
Tea
4:00-5:30
Representations
Chair:
Delia Casadei
(Cambridge, Music)
Heather
Webb (Cambridge, Italian), ‘Death Stories and the Construction of a Transmortal
Community in Dante’s Purgatorio’
Donal
Cooper (Cambridge, History of Art), ‘Saint Francis, Giotto and “Fratello Morte”:
Death and Redemption at Assisi’
John
Leigh (Cambridge, French), ‘Deadly Duelling in Italy’
5:30
Closing remarks and drinks
