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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies Call for Articles Mosaici Journal, Regular Issue, 6 (April 2019) Science in Culture. Technology, Mobility and Modernity in European Poetry and Cinema The relationship between the sciences and the humanities is an area of studies that is in need of further research in the face of the continuous advancement and expansion of technology and science and their influences on the ‘happiness’ of society over the last two hundred years. Technology has certainly created tremendous opportunities for mobility, communication and wellbeing, eliciting enthusiastic responses as well as preoccupations across intellectual élites and society. In the 1830s Theophile Gaultier warned about the ‘end of books’ in connection with the development of technology and W.B. Yeats in the 1890s referred to ‘the man of science’ as ‘often a person who has exchanged his soul for a formula’. On the other hand F. T. Marinetti promoted an exaltation of the technical and scientific progress in his 1909 Manifesto del futurismo. In this international conference we would like to focus our attention on the interstice between sciences and humanities, two areas of knowledge that belong by default to different research paradigms. Inparticular we would like to debate the areas of interconnection and exchange of knowledge between the sciences and the humanities that are central in the advancement, creativity and innovation within society. We would like to do so by studying the mutual influences that technology, poetry and film have had during modernity at a European level. We welcome articles on the following topics: * Poetry and Modernity in any European language * Film in any European language * Cultural/social change * Medical sciences and culture * Philosophical perception of technology and the ‘betterment’ of society * Mobility * Communication Scholars interested in participating should submit a file in doc. format containing an abstract (250 words) and a short bio-bibliographical note (100 words) to: to [log in to unmask] or to Dr Rossella M. Riccobono ([log in to unmask]) or to The deadline date to submit abstracts is 30 June 2018 In order to allow enough time for double blind peer reviewing of essays prior to publication, the deadline date to submit full articles will be 30 September 2018 Articles are welcome in Italian, English and French ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: subscribe italian-studies YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe italian-studies to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/italian-studies