italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
Carissimi colleghi,
naturalmente la mia è un'opinione personalissima, ma fra i testi a cui
sono più debitore, proprio in termini di *formazione*, ci sono
articoli sulle strutture narrative in Ian Fleming, sul Tour de France,
su De Amicis; e un libro (forse uno dei più belli che abbia mai letto)
sul dramma barocco tedesco, a occhio e croce non propriamente la
stagione più feconda e interessante della letteratura d'oltre Reno.
Accanto ad Auerbach, Contini, Praz, certo: ma non in contraddizione.
Questo per dire che credevo che le gerarchie valoriali fossero
qualcosa che ci si era lasciati alle spalle, e finalmente; e non nel
nome di un post-post-modernismo che tutto assimila e assolve, ma nel
senso di una problematizzazione della cultura (italiana e non) in
senso esteso. Eventuali derive opinabili (sulle quali non sono in
grado di giudicare, essendomi personalmente occupato di autori che più
canonici non si può) non dovrebbero invitarci a dismettere determinate
eredità.
Volevo tuttavia portare la vostra attenzione sul fatto che a temi
molto vicini a quelli sollevati in questa sede sarà dedicata (con un
ringraziamento al comitato che ha scelto il nostro proposal) la
prossima interim conference della SIS, nel 2014, organizzata
dall'università di Warwick (e, nello specifico, da me e Jennifer
Burns). Tutto - titolo, date, sede - è ovviamente tbc, ma si farà, e
credo che sarà un'ottima occasione per tentare un'autoanalisi
collettiva dell'intangibile area disciplinare in cui ci troviamo a
lavorare. Per citare dal proposal,
Quite paradoxically, in the very same decades in which Italy has been
progressively marginalised from the geopolitical Western equilibrium,
following the end of the Cold War, several symptoms seem to herald a
newly crucial role of a more broadly intended ‘Italian culture’ in the
global community. These include the literary movement known as ‘New
Italian Epic’ and its reassessment of such contested issues as the
writer’s political commitment, the use of the novel, the role of
post-modernism and the problem of ‘what comes next’; the international
presence and recognition of such seminal Italian thinkers as Giorgio
Agamben, Rosi Braidotti, Adriana Cavarero, Roberto Esposito, Carlo
Ginzburg, and Giacomo Marramao; the existence of a plural and hybrid
intellectual scene widening the borders of what is intended as
‘Italian’, made of resident Italian intellectuals, Italian writers,
artists and scholars working abroad, immigrant writers and
intellectuals writing in Italian, and non-Italian scholars active in
the field, who have productively made Italian culture interact with
other academic, literary and cultural traditions, thereby shadowing
new practices in the humanities on a global scale. Discussing how
Italian Studies can mirror and interpret the potential richness of
these exchanges is precisely the purpose of our conference.
Credo possa essere un passo avanti per impostare questo dibattito in
modo costruttivo. Grazie per l'attenzione,
Fabio Camilletti
2012/9/25 Cormac O'Cuilleanain <[log in to unmask]>:
> italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I've often been enlightened (and sometimes bemused) by the range of topics that get included under Italian Studies. But a living discipline has room for many approaches, and many levels of interest. All of us, even the most traditional and erudite, have a great deal to learn from each other, and we can always disregard what doesn't happen to interest us. Personally, I find the list enormously useful and stimulating because of its welcoming and inclusive character. Of course one tends to value certain things more than others, and to wish one had time to get involved in some of the events and debates. "He who is good with a hammer thinks everything is a nail" -- but a good web list should be like Dr Azzecca-Garbugli's vision of judgment: "Non se ne scappa: ci son tutti: è come la valle di Giosafat..."
>
> Cormac
>
> Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin
> Trinity College Dublin
>
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> From: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Leslie Morgan [[log in to unmask]]
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> italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
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> Dear colleagues,
>
> The state of conferences overall is rather sad recently- it is difficult to find funding for travel, and therefore also to recruit colleagues to participate. I would argue that the "happy few" phenomenon is rarer when conferences and conference sessions can be publicized through email lists, and I would urge the list directors to not edit calls for papers. The internet phenomenon has been allowing colleagues and fellow researchers who would have never found each other personally (especially in more isolated areas of research and from smaller institutions with few faculty who do research) to meet and to share ideas and research in a way that was not possibly before.
>
> If a reader is not interested in the topic, there is a "delete" button and there are also email filters.
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> Thank you to the organizers for providing this valuable service.
>
> L. Zarker Morgan
> Professor of Italian and French
> Loyola University Maryland
> http://evergreen.loyola.edu/lmorgan/www/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of massimo danzi
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 7:51 AM
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> italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
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> Cari Colleghi,
> non voglio né posso avere il ruolo di fustigatore di iniziative che hanno occupato colleghi altrove. Non ho dunque intenzione di fare nomi e non darò titoli che a me sono sembrati 'deboli'. Mi premeva richiamare l'attenzione su come sia oggi divenuto abbastanza corrente organizzare convegni per happy few, di portata (ai miei soggettivissimi occhi) non sempre rilevante e di diffusione e impatto poco più che locali.
>
> La sostanza delle mie osservazioni non era di puntare il dito contro una o l'altra occasione accademica, né di promuovere classificazioni di merito; ma invitare - sull'onda delle osservazioni sacrosante fatte dal collega Cinelli di Francoforte - alla riflessione. Riflessione che ognuno condurrà, vista l'assenza di un Sant'Uffizio delle lettere, in totale autonomia
>
> Molto cordialmente,
>
> Massimo Danzi
>
> Département des langues et littératures romanes Unité d'Italien - Université de Genève
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