Dear colleagues
We are pleased to again share with you the final programme details for the forthcoming 'Icons of Italy' conference, taking place at the University of Hull on September 7th and 8th 2016.
CONFERENCE VENUE: WILBERFORCE BUILDING lecture room 9, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull HU67RX
Wednesday September 7th
2016
9.15 – 9.40 Registration and Welcome
9.40 – 11.10 Panel
1 – (De-)Constructing Icons
Elio Baldi (University of
Warwick)
Italo Calvino: the
road to critical stardom
Rachel Haworth (University of
Hull)
Discourses of
Stardom, Celebrity and Iconicity in Italian Post-war Culture
Luca Paci (University of
Swansea)
The Fall of an Icon:
origins of Benedetto Croce’s demise in Italian Post-war Culture
11.10 – 11.30 Break
11.30 – 12.30 Panel 2 – Music and Icons
Anita Buhin (European
University Institute)
Italian Stars –
Yugoslav Reality
Riccardo Orlandi (University
of Hull)
Rethinking cantautori as intellettuali. The case of Fabrizio De André
12.30 – 1.30 Lunch
1.30 – 3.00 Keynote
speaker
Professor
Stephen Gundle (University of Warwick)
3.00 – 3.30 Break
3.30 – 5.00 Panel 3 – History and Icons
Alessandra
Antola Swan (Independent scholar)
Deconstructing the
Iconic Unclothed Body of Mussolini in Photography
Beatrice
Sica (UCL)
Off the saddle: Deconstructing the myth of
Mussolini on a horse
Claudio Brancaleoni (Università di
Perugia)
Still an iconic
moment? 1968 today
Thursday September
8th 2016
9.30 – 10.30 Panel
5 – Icons and Identity
Oliver Brett (University of
Leicester)
Italian transgender
icons and the ‘noble revolution’
Georgia Wall (University of
Warwick)
Iconicity and space:
transnational stars and local identities
10.30 – 11.00 Break
11.00 – 12.00 Panel 6 – Icons in Popular Media
Cecilia
Brioni (University of Hull)
“C’è un ragazzo che come me”: the
(Non-) Growing-up of 1960s Giovani
Music Stars
Ester
Lo Biondo (University of Reading)
Radio London 1943-45:
Italian and British Popular culture in the BBC broadcasts
12.00 – 1.00 Lunch
1.00 – 2.30 Keynote
speaker
Professor
Claire Honess (University of Leeds)
Dante: poet, prophet,
icon of Italy
2.30 – 3.00 Break
3.00 – 4.00 Panel 7 – Iconic objects
Stefano Jossa (Royal
Holloway University of London)
Neutralizing Pinocchio: from puppet
to monument
Marina Spunta (University of
Leicester)
Landscape ‘icons’: reassessing
Luigi Ghirri’s and Gabriele Basilico’s photography
4.00 – 4.15 Break
4.15 – 5.15 Panel 8 – Iconic Figures of Art
Sarah Adams (University of
York)
The most famous
artists that you have (probably) never heard of
Laura Rorato (University of Hull)
Caravaggio: A
Transnational Icon?
5.15 – 5.30 Closing
remarks
If you have any queries regarding the conference, please contact the organisers at:
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Best wishes
Rachel Haworth and Laura Rorato
School of Histories, Languages and Cultures
University of Hull (UK)
