Full Programme

21 June 2018- Main Campus, Humanities Building H0.51

 

10.00 – 10.30 Welcome

10.30 – 11.30 Session 1: Shaping Italianness (1815-1920)

Discussant: Dr Andrea Mammone (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Chair: Francesco Buscemi (University of Warwick)

- Antonio Chiavistelli: La nazione immaginata Opinione pubblica e Costituzione nell’Italia del primo Ottocento

- Andrea Azzarelli: Under the shadow of the “viceré”: policing in Sicily at the end of the 19th century      

  

11.45 – 13.00 Keynote address by Prof. Ilaria Favretto: Writing about protest: questions, methods and meanings

Chair: Dr Andrea Mammone (Royal Holloway, University of London)

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch (Please make your own arrangements)

14.00 – 15.30 Session 2: Italy and the UK: a Long-Term Perspective

Discussant: Prof. Ilaria Favretto (Kingston University)

Chair: Gianmarco Mancosu (University of Warwick)

- Konstantin Wertelecki: ‘The Anglo-Florentine’: Interpretations of British Identity in Fascist Florence

- Nicola Cacciatore, Working with the enemy: the difficult relationship between British forces and Italian partisans (1943-1945) 

- Alessio D’Agapito: Diplomatic Relations between Italy and Great Britain in the late ’70s

15.30 – 15.45 Break

15.45 – 17.15 Session 3: Art and Society between Fascism and the Republic

Discussant: Dr Fabio Camilletti (University of Warwick)

Chair: Kate Devine (Royal Holloway, University of London)

- Carlotta Guido: Francesco Pasinetti, Venezia e Il Ventuno. La cultura cinematografica giovanile nei Cineguf degli anni ’30

- Susanna Arangio: The Susmel-Bargellini collection and the issues of the Mussolini’s artefacts in Italy 

- Martina Borghi: The ‘Programmed Art movement’: contradictions of a decade

17.15 – 18.45 Session 4: Literary and Poetry gazes on Italy

Discussant: Dr Alberica Bazzoni (Warwick University)

Chair: Daniela Zanini (SAS, Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory – University of London)

- Olga Campofreda: Un romanzo di formazione impossibile: Altri libertini di Pier Vittorio Tondelli 

- Manuela Riboldi: Alda Merini: corpo di donna

- Valentina Tibaldo: Che vale temere il nemico fuori / quando è già dentro?  The trope of prosopopoeia in Caproni’s poetry

END day 1

 

22 June- Main Campus – Math and Statistic Building (Zeeman), Room. MS.04  

 

9.30 – 11.00 Session 5: Italian Postwar Cinema beyond feature-films: methods and agendas

Discussant: Dr Louis Bayman, Southampton University

Chair: Gianmarco Mancosu (University of Warwick)

- Samuel Antichi: “Parliamo un po’ di noi” Trauma culturale, rimozione e autoassoluzione nei cinegiornali del dopoguerra 

Clara Giannini: Methods of film production in 1950s Italy

Gabriele Landrini: Riviste popolari e cinema a fumetti. Le forme del cineromanzo degli anni cinquanta

11.00 – 11.15 Break

11.15 – 12.15 Keynote address byDr Ruth Glynn: Naples and the Camorra in the National Cinematic Gaze

Chair: Dr Marzia Maccaferry (Goldsmiths – University of London)

12.15 – 13.15 Session 6: Political Thought and Catholic Participation in the 1970s

Discussant: Dr Ruth Glynn (Bristol University)

Chair: Emiliano Zappalà (University of Warwick)

- Clementina Giulia Maria Gentile Fusillo: Truth and Revolution in the Philosophy of Aldo Moro

- Francesca Perugi: To the left of the father. Revolution and Violence in Italian Catholic dissent before and after 1968

13.15 – 14.15 Lunch (Please make your own arrangements)

 

Main Campus – Math and Statistic Building (Zeeman), Room. MS.B3.03

14.15 – 15.30 Workshop:Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Communities, Collaboration and Reflexivity in Italian Studies Research led by Prof. Jenny Burns and Dr Naomi Wells 

15.30 – 17.00 Session 7: Contemporary Italy and its Postcolonial Scenario

Discussant: Dr Luisa Pèrcopo (University of Cardiff)

Chair: Daniela Zanini (SAS, Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory – University of London)

- Gioia Panzarella: Migration literature in contemporary Italy: networks, literary circuits, and the internet (1993-2017)

- Giulia Molinarolo: Reading Autobiographies: Market and Consumption of Italian Migrant Writers

- Daniele Lei: Carmine Abate’s Translingualism

17.00 – 17.15 : Break

17.15 – 18.15 Session 8: Fascism Beyond Italy: Colonialism, War, and Transnational Connections 

Discussant: Dr Martina Salvante (University of Warwick)

Chair: Valentina Abbatelli (University of Warwick)

- Federica Colomo: Moglie, madre, italiana. Il ruolo della donna nelle politiche coloniali fasciste: questioni demografiche e razziali

- Alberto Murru: Il Centro di Studi Anticomunisti. An institute of Fascist Propaganda (1937, fascist policy and culture, Italy and Nazi Germany relationship, history)

 

18.15 : Drinks Reception

 

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