italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
Dear colleagues,
please allow me to draw your attention to this year's ASMI Summer School, which will take place at the University of Warwick on 21st and 22nd June 2018.
Invited keynote speakers are:
- Ilaria Favretto (Kingston): Writing about protest: questions, methods and meaning
- Ruth Glynn (Bristol): Naples and the Camorra in the National Cinematic Gaze
There will be a workshop on Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Communities, Collaboration and Reflexivity in Italian Studies Research led by Jenny Burns (Warwick) and Naomi Wells (SAS IMLR)
Click here to see all the info and programme https://asmisummerschool.wordpress.com
Registration here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asmi-postgraduate-summer-school-2018-tickets-44594556519
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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Best wishes
the organizing committee
PhD Student and Teaching Assistant, University of Warwick, Italian
Luisa Selis Fellow, CCM - IMLR, University of London
PhD, Università di Cagliari
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