Programme - Society of Italian Studies
Programme - Society of Italian Studies
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2009 SIS POSTGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM<br />
Final <strong>Programme</strong><br />
The Taylor Institution, Faculty <strong>of</strong> Medieval and Modern Languages,<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Oxford<br />
Saturday 23 May 2009<br />
9:00-9:30 C<strong>of</strong>fee and Registration<br />
9:30-9:45 Welcome<br />
Organisers: Tristan Kay, Eleanor Parker and Katrin Wehling-Giorgi<br />
(University <strong>of</strong> Oxford)<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>. Martin McLaughlin (Fiat Serena Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> <strong>Italian</strong> at Oxford<br />
University and Chair <strong>of</strong> the SIS Executive Committee)<br />
9:45-11:15 Session A (parallel sessions)<br />
• Panel 1: Twentieth-Century Poetry (Chair: Eleanor<br />
Parker, University <strong>of</strong> Oxford)<br />
Room 2<br />
o Tiziana Mancinelli (University <strong>of</strong> Reading)<br />
La tentazione del poema. Spunti di lettura de La<br />
camera da letto di Attilio Bertolucci.<br />
o Chiara Carpita (Università degli Studi di Siena)<br />
La 'forma cubo' di Amelia Rosselli tra postwebernismo,<br />
astrattismo, relatività e<br />
Gestalttheorie<br />
o Alessandro di Prima (National University <strong>of</strong><br />
Ireland, Galway)<br />
La Creusa di Virgilio tra Stilnovismo e Teologia<br />
negativa nella poesia di Giovanni Giudici<br />
• Panel 2: Film <strong>Studies</strong> (Chair: Sergio Rigoletto, University<br />
<strong>of</strong> Reading)<br />
Room 3<br />
o Valeria Ballarotti (National University <strong>of</strong> Ireland,<br />
Galway)<br />
I due piani del fascismo in Una Giornata Particolare<br />
(1977)<br />
o Mauro Fornasiero (University <strong>of</strong> Bristol)<br />
Ozpetek’s Politics <strong>of</strong> Relationships<br />
o Dominic Holdaway (University <strong>of</strong> Warwick)<br />
Uomini e no: Recomposing Masculinities in the<br />
Films <strong>of</strong> Paolo Sorrentino<br />
11:15-11:45 Tea/c<strong>of</strong>fee break<br />
11:45-1.15 Session B (parallel panels)<br />
• Panel 3: Women Writers (Chair: Kate Mitchell,<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Cambridge)<br />
Room 2
1:15-2:15 Lunch break<br />
o Rhianned Jewell (University <strong>of</strong> Oxford)<br />
Pirandellian ideas in Il segreto dell’uomo solitario<br />
o Alex Standen (University <strong>of</strong> Birmingham)<br />
Staging silences: Dacia Maraini's biographical<br />
theatre.<br />
o Caroline Lynch (University <strong>of</strong> Bristol)<br />
Perché tanto chiasso?: The Debate on Elsa<br />
Morante’s La Storia Revisited<br />
• Panel 4: Comparative Approaches (Chair: Francesca<br />
Southerden, University <strong>of</strong> Oxford)<br />
Room 3<br />
o Valentina Polcini (University <strong>of</strong> Exeter)<br />
Dino Buzzati’s Christmas Stories and the Legacy <strong>of</strong><br />
Charles Dickens<br />
o Mila Milani (Università di Bologna) Cesare Pavese,<br />
‘visible’ translator <strong>of</strong> Joyce’s A Portrait <strong>of</strong> the Artist<br />
as a Young Man during Fascism<br />
o Emma Keane (University College Cork)<br />
The Politics <strong>of</strong> Possession: A comparative analysis<br />
<strong>of</strong> Borgese’s Rubè and Moravia’s La noia<br />
2:15-4:15 Session C (parallel panels)<br />
• Panel 5a: Medieval <strong>Studies</strong> (Chair: Tristan Kay,<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Oxford)<br />
Room 2<br />
o Cristina Rios (University <strong>of</strong> Leeds)<br />
Self-reflexion in Boccaccio’s Filocolo<br />
o Ruth Chester (University <strong>of</strong> Leeds)<br />
The Many and the One: Virtue and Community in<br />
Dante<br />
• Panel 5b: <strong>Italian</strong> History (Chair: Rosalba Biasini,<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Oxford)<br />
Room 2<br />
o Leo Goretti (University <strong>of</strong> Reading)<br />
Partisan Heroes and Modest Girls: the Youth<br />
Policies <strong>of</strong> the PCI (1943-1960)<br />
o Samantha Quinn (University <strong>of</strong> Reading)<br />
The Problem <strong>of</strong> Unity in the 1961 <strong>Italian</strong> Centennial<br />
<strong>of</strong> Unification celebrations<br />
• Panel 6: Beyond <strong>Italian</strong> Borders (Chair: Emma Bond,<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Oxford)<br />
Room 3<br />
o Elena Castellari (University College Dublin)<br />
A comparative study <strong>of</strong> the linguistic practices <strong>of</strong><br />
two migration waves <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Italian</strong> community in<br />
Ireland<br />
o Eliana Maestri (University <strong>of</strong> Bath)
4:15-4:45 Tea/c<strong>of</strong>fee break<br />
Jamaica Kincaid’s post-colonial narrative into<br />
<strong>Italian</strong>: voices from the abyss.<br />
o Michał Czorycki (University College Cork)<br />
Un levantino bazar dell’animo. The representation<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Black Sea in Claudio Magris’s Danubio<br />
o Paula Siega (Università di Venezia)<br />
Alberto Moravia tra riti voluttuosi e pr<strong>of</strong>ezie<br />
rivoluzionarie<br />
4:45-6:15 Session D (parallel panels)<br />
• Panel 7: Modern <strong>Italian</strong> Narrative (chair: Katrin<br />
Wehling-Giorgi, University <strong>of</strong> Oxford)<br />
Room 2<br />
o Marco Amici (University College Cork)<br />
Considerazioni sull’oggetto narrativo non<br />
identificato Sappiano le mie parole di sangue di<br />
Babsi Jones<br />
o Christopher Ferguson (University <strong>of</strong> Edinburgh)<br />
Gadda’s Catholic Consciousness<br />
o Clea Rivalta (University <strong>of</strong> Warwick)<br />
The construction <strong>of</strong> fascist typologies in post-war<br />
Italy: the case <strong>of</strong> Alberto Moravia<br />
• Panel 8: Visual Culture (Chair: Francesca Magnabosco,<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Oxford)<br />
Room 3<br />
o Francesca Maria Gabrielli (University <strong>of</strong> Zagreb)<br />
Wielding An Ambivalent Sword: A Reading <strong>of</strong><br />
Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judiths<br />
o Mariarita Martino (University <strong>of</strong> Warwick)<br />
Fetishization <strong>of</strong> Objects <strong>of</strong> Desire in an<br />
Intersemiotic Perspective: Brass adapts Tanizaki<br />
6:15-7.30 Wine reception and thanks (Voltaire Room)<br />
8 pm Conference dinner at Carluccio’s, Oxford Castle