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Letteratura come fantasticazione - a colloquio con Gianni Celati
Literature as 'fantastication' - in conversation with Gianni Celati
Venue: University of Leicester (UK)
Date: 2-4 May 2007
This colloquium aims to focus on the work of Gianni Celati as a scholar, translator, fiction writer and filmmaker. His 70th birthday offers an ideal opportunity to pay a tribute to the key role that Celati has been playing in shaping Italian fiction and culture since the 1960s, a role that is still undeservedly little acknowledged. While Celati's professed anti-establishment attitude has built for himself an image of a 'cult writer', who is very popular with young writers and ordinary readers, his image has increasingly being appropriated by academe and the literary system, as testified by his being awarded in June 2005 the Premio Selezione Campiello for his latest fictional work Fata Morgana, a prize which represents an important step towards a wider recognition of the significance of his contribution to contemporary Italian culture.
To date there have been no conferences on Celati in the UK and so our colloquium intends to redress this unbalance. Whilst exploring various aspects of the work of Celati and of his close collaborators - including writers, translators and artists such as Daniele Benati, Ermanno Cavazzoni, Enrico De Vivo, Jean Talon and Marianne Schneider - this colloquium aims to reflect on the role of literature and art in society, as these artists share a conviction in the relief-giving potential of fiction and in the collaborative nature of the artistic work, as well as in its intrinsic interdisciplinarity. By exploring the consonance of these artists' poetics, particularly in the idea of literature as 'fantasticazione' ('reverie') and as ethnography of imaginary populations, our colloquium will investigate a new notion of 'impegno' that seems to emerge in many contemporary fictional works, where the imaginative power of fiction becomes a tool to create alternative worlds and communities and to connect people through a shared imaginary.
The conference will combine sessions and round tables, with the aim of creating a collaborative atmosphere and conducing to an informal and productive exchange of views.
Proposals are encouraged for individual papers, as well as organized sessions or round tables, on all aspects of the work of Gianni Celati, Daniele Benati, Ermanno Cavazzoni, and others of their collaborators, with a particular focus on any of the following topics:
* literature/art as fantastication, or dream and vision
* literature/art as anthropology/ethnography
* narrating space and landscape
* regional literature
* the interrelation between the visual and the linguistic
* literature/art as collaboration
* the role of literature/art in contemporary Italian society
Papers and round table presentations in both English and Italian will be considered. Interested contributors should email/send an abstract of about 300 words, a brief bibliography, and a brief CV to both organizers:
Dr Marina Spunta
School of Modern Languages
University of Leicester
University Road
Leicester LE1 7RH
Tel: +44 (0)116 252 2658
Fax: +44 (0)116 252 3633
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Dr Laura Rorato
Department of Modern Languages
University of Wales, Bangor
College Road
Bangor / Gwynedd
LL57 2DG
Tel: +44 (0)1248382125
Fax: +44 (0)1248382551
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Deadline for the submission of proposals: 1st June 2006
Dr Marina Spunta
School of Modern Languages
University of Leicester
University Road
Leicester LE1 7RH
Tel: +44 (0)116 252 2658
Fax: +44 (0)116 252 3633
email: [log in to unmask]
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Subject: [I-S] Call for papers: Women and the Mass Media
italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
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****Call for Papers:
Women and the Mass Media in 20th Century Italy: Press, cinema, television, radio and the recording industry
Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London
20-21 October 2006
Italy has acquired in recent years a reputation for media sexism. Very few women have ever occupied any managerial or editorial positions within the mass media, while the representation of women on television is often reduced to the cliché of the /velina/.
The aim of this conference is to survey and analyse the presence of women in all Italian media over the whole course of the twentieth century. It is hoped that in this way it will be possible to expose patterns and mechanisms of discrimination, but also to explore how the media have offered women opportunities and assisted innovations in the established gender order of Italian society. The call for papers is directed at scholars working on various aspects of the Italian mass media, women's studies, social history, sociology and politics.
Papers of 20 minutes in English or Italian are invited which consider specific roles (journalist, presenter, actress, singer, agony aunt etc.) or particular cases of women who have performed those roles. For example, contributions would be welcome on journalists such as Matilde Serao, Paola Masino, Margherita Sarfatti, Alba de Céspedes, Brunella Gasperini, Camilla Cederna, Oriana Fallaci and Rossana Rossanda; film actresses including Francesca Bertini, Alida Valli, Monica Vitti, Margherita Buy; television performers like Raffaella Carrà and Mara Venier, film directors and screen writers such as Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Lina Wertmuller and Francesca Archibugi, and musical performers including the Trio Lescano, Mina and Patty Pravo.
Contributions are also welcome on a range of other topics including women's magazines, women in advertising, the image of women in specific publications, the feminist media critiques, the relationship between female politicians and the media, the representation of crime involving women, the depiction of figures such as the opera star, the prostitute and the businesswoman, female cartoon heroines.
Keynote speakers will include Milly Buonanno and Michela De Giorgio.
Offers of papers should contain the following: a title, a one paragraph outline, name, institution and status. They should be sent by 28 February 2006 to the conference organisers, Penny Morris
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