Date: Wed, 03 Sep 1997 23:15:57 +0100
From: [log in to unmask] (Emilio Speciale)
Subject: Conferenza a Berkeley.
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[Dear Emilio: will you please announce the following conference to be held
at Berkeley from November 14-16 of this fall to my fellow Lettere Italiane
subscribers. Inquires about the conference can be sent either to me at
[log in to unmask] or to my conference assistant, Michael
D'Amato, at [log in to unmask] Many thanks, Albert
Albert Russell Ascoli
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Italian Studies
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley CA 94720-2620
phone: 510-643-2640
fax: 510-642-9884]
The Department of Italian Studies at the University of California,
Berkeley,together with the Istituto di Cultura Italiana di San Francisco,
will be sponsoring an academic conference on the topic of:
_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Making and Unmaking Italy _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
The Cultivation of National Identity around the Risorgimento
The conference will take place from Friday, November 14 to Sunday, November
16, in the Lipman room on the 8th floor of Barrows Hall on the UCB campus
This is the program that will be followed
FRIDAY, November 14
opening ceremonies (7-7:30)
Albert Russell Ascoli, Conference Organizer, Dept. of Italian Studies
Anthony Newcomb, Dean of Humanities, College of Letters and Sciences
The Honorable Giulio Prigione, Consul General of Italy in San
Francisco
1st session: Chair of Italian Culture Address (7:30-9)
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, 8th Floor
presiding: Steven Botterill (Chair, Italian Studies, UCB)
speaker: Remo Ceserani (University of Bologna):
"Remaking the Tradition in Literary
Historiography: The Case of
Nineteenth-Century Italy"
SATURDAY, November 15
2nd session (9-10:30)
presiding: Elizabeth Leake (Italian Studies, UCB)
speakers: Susanna Ferlito (Univ. of Minnesota), "Letters from
Exile: On the Post-Nationalism of Manzoni's
French Writings"
Vincenzo Binetti (Univ. of Chicago), "Between
Romanticism and Realism: The 'Romanzo
Sociale' and the Poetic of
Engagement in
the Italian Risorgimento"
3rd session (11-12:30)
presiding: Nancy Ruttenburg (Comparative Literature, UCB)
speakers: Mary Ann Smart (Univ. of Cal., Berkeley), "Liberty On
(and Off) the Barricades: Verdi's Risorgimento
Fantasies."
Renate Holub (Univ. of Cal., Berkeley), "Between Vico
and Mussolini: Cristina di Belgioioso's
Nationalism"
4th session (2-4:30)
presiding: Albert R. Ascoli (Italian Studies, UCB)
speakers: Andrea Ciccarelli (Indiana University)--"Dante and the
Culture of Risorgimento: Literary,
Political or
Ideological Icon?
Harsha Ram (Univ. of Cal., Berkeley):
"Historicizing the
Aesthetic, or the Place of the Nation"
Roberto Dainotto (Duke University), "'Tramonto' and
'Risorgimento' in Gentile's Dialectics of
Nationhood."
5th session (5-6)
presiding: Randolph Starn (History and Italian Studies, UCB)
speaker: Adrian Lyttelton (University of Pisa): "Creating a
National Past: History, Myth and Image in the
Risorgimento"
SUNDAY, November 16
6th session (9-10:30)
presiding: Krystyna von Henneburg (History, UC Davis)
speakers: Maura O'Connor (University of Cincinnati), "Bandits,
Strumpets, and Garibaldians in the Two Sicilies: The
Cultural Politics of English Support for the
Risorgimento"
Silvana Patriarca (Columbia University)--"National
Identity or National Character? Changing Vocabularies
and Stable Representations of Italianness."
7th session (11-12:30)
presiding: Gavriel Moses (Italian Studies, UCB)
speakers: Angela Dalle Vacche (Emory
University)--"Risorgimento as
a Failed Revolution? A Certain Advantage in the
Visual Arts"
David Forgacs (Royal Holloway), "Nostra Patria:
Revisions of the Risorgimento in Cinema,
1925-1943"
closing ceremonies (12:30-1)
Please direct inquiries to the conference assistant, Michael D'Amato;
Department of Italian Studies (#2620); Dwinelle Hall 3335; University of
California; Berkeley, CA 94703-2620. We may also be contacted by email
([log in to unmask]) or telephone (510-643-2640).
Albert Russell Ascoli
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Italian Studies
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley CA 94720-2620
phone: 510-643-2640
fax: 510-642-9884
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