CHIASMI

Revealing Italy : Italy Re-veiled

Friday, March 2 - Saturday, March 3

Brown University

Pembroke Hall, Room 305
172 Meeting St. Providence, RI


FRIDAY 2nd

1.30 - 2.00 pm: Registration

2.00 – 2.20 pm: Welcome Addresses

Professor Ronald Martinez (Chair of the Department of Italian Studies - Brown University)
Professor Francesco Erspamer (Harvard University) To Be Confirmed
2.20 -2.35 pm: Opening remarks
Anna Aresi (Brown University), Michela Ronzani (Brown University), and Cecelia Oliverio (Harvard University)
2.40 - 4.00 pm: Constructing the Other – Revealing the Self
Chairs: Karina Mascorro (Brown University) and Cecelia Oliverio (Harvard University)
  • Eleonora Boscolo (University of Connecticut) - “Dall’altra parte: colonizzatore e colonizzato allo specchio”
  • Gabriele Proglio (Universita’ di Torino) - “Immaginare l’Africa per conquistarla”
  • Elysse Longiotti (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - “Contemporary Theater: Decolonizing Italy”
4.00 - 4.30 pm: Coffee Break

4.30-5.30 pm: Reading through the Opaque
Chairs: Mena Fantarella (Brown University) and Peter Lieberman (Harvard University)
  • Christian Moretti (University of Kent) - “Unveiling intimacy in Elsa Morante’s L’isola di Arturo”
  • Scott Bishop (University of Pittsburgh) - “Uncovering the Secret of Conversazione in Sicilia: a Text’s Dismantling of Political Reality”
5.45-7.00 pm: Keynote Address
      Professor Claudio Fogu (University of California Santa Barbara) - “Salga a bordo...!”

8.00 pm: Dinner

SATURDAY 3rd

8.45 – 9.20 am: Breakfast

9.30 – 11.00 am: [De]constructed Identities
Chairs: Alessadra Franco (Brown University) and Julianne VanWagenen (Harvard University)
  • Gabriele Infante (University of Notre Dame) - “Cinema e questioni di genere: chiavi di svelamento della modernità nei Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio operatore”
  • Jamison Standridge (Rutgers University) - “Girl-Talk: Female Identity in Thirteenth Century Poetry and Song”
  • Michela Valmori (Universita’ di Bologna) - “Italian American migrant literature: the feeling of being suspended between two worlds”
11.00 -11.30 am: Coffee Break

11.30 am – 1.00 pm: Reframing Visions
Chairs: Erica Moretti (Brown University) and John Welsh (Harvard University)
  • Tiziano Cherubini (Rutgers University) - “History (His story) repeats itself: Borges, Bertolucci e le loro storie”
  • Norman Rusin (University of Pennsylvania) - “Where the Truth Lies: Rossellini’s Generale della Rovere”
  • Alicia Mi Persson (University of Virginia) - “Kim Ki-Duk: Capturing the Hearts of Italians with Ferro 3”
1.00 – 2.30 pm: Lunch

2.30 – 4.30 pm: Power Play
Chairs: Elena Daniele (Brown University) and Elena Fratto (Harvard University)
  • Eros Francescangeli (Universita’ di Padova) - “Morte a Segrate. La tragica fine di Giangiacomo Feltrinelli e le sue interpretazioni”
  • Francesca Borgo (Harvard University) - “Indexes of the Prohibited: Censoring Books and Images in Renaissance Italy”
  • Amanda Minervini (Brown University) - “Revealing and Re-veiling Italy through its Patron Saint: Comparing Representations of Saint Francis of Assisi during Fascism and in the Aftermath of World War II”
  • Francesco Farinelli (Universita’ di Bologna) - “Strategie della rappresentazione: le Fosse Ardeatine, il memoriale di Aldo Moro e la strage di Ustica tra racconto storico e racconto di finzione"
4.30 pm: Closing Remarks and Reception

 

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