Programme - Society of Italian Studies

2009 SIS POSTGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM
Final Programme
The Taylor Institution, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages,
University of Oxford
Saturday 23 May 2009
9:00-9:30 Coffee and Registration
9:30-9:45 Welcome
Organisers: Tristan Kay, Eleanor Parker and Katrin Wehling-Giorgi
(University of Oxford)
Prof. Martin McLaughlin (Fiat Serena Professor of Italian at Oxford
University and Chair of the SIS Executive Committee)
9:45-11:15 Session A (parallel sessions)
• Panel 1: Twentieth-Century Poetry (Chair: Eleanor
Parker, University of Oxford)
Room 2
o Tiziana Mancinelli (University of Reading)
La tentazione del poema. Spunti di lettura de La
camera da letto di Attilio Bertolucci.
o Chiara Carpita (Università degli Studi di Siena)
La 'forma cubo' di Amelia Rosselli tra postwebernismo,
astrattismo, relatività e
Gestalttheorie
o Alessandro di Prima (National University of
Ireland, Galway)
La Creusa di Virgilio tra Stilnovismo e Teologia
negativa nella poesia di Giovanni Giudici
• Panel 2: Film Studies (Chair: Sergio Rigoletto, University
of Reading)
Room 3
o Valeria Ballarotti (National University of Ireland,
Galway)
I due piani del fascismo in Una Giornata Particolare
(1977)
o Mauro Fornasiero (University of Bristol)
Ozpetek’s Politics of Relationships
o Dominic Holdaway (University of Warwick)
Uomini e no: Recomposing Masculinities in the
Films of Paolo Sorrentino
11:15-11:45 Tea/coffee break
11:45-1.15 Session B (parallel panels)
• Panel 3: Women Writers (Chair: Kate Mitchell,
University of Cambridge)
Room 2

1:15-2:15 Lunch break
o Rhianned Jewell (University of Oxford)
Pirandellian ideas in Il segreto dell’uomo solitario
o Alex Standen (University of Birmingham)
Staging silences: Dacia Maraini's biographical
theatre.
o Caroline Lynch (University of Bristol)
Perché tanto chiasso?: The Debate on Elsa
Morante’s La Storia Revisited
• Panel 4: Comparative Approaches (Chair: Francesca
Southerden, University of Oxford)
Room 3
o Valentina Polcini (University of Exeter)
Dino Buzzati’s Christmas Stories and the Legacy of
Charles Dickens
o Mila Milani (Università di Bologna) Cesare Pavese,
‘visible’ translator of Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist
as a Young Man during Fascism
o Emma Keane (University College Cork)
The Politics of Possession: A comparative analysis
of Borgese’s Rubè and Moravia’s La noia
2:15-4:15 Session C (parallel panels)
• Panel 5a: Medieval Studies (Chair: Tristan Kay,
University of Oxford)
Room 2
o Cristina Rios (University of Leeds)
Self-reflexion in Boccaccio’s Filocolo
o Ruth Chester (University of Leeds)
The Many and the One: Virtue and Community in
Dante
• Panel 5b: Italian History (Chair: Rosalba Biasini,
University of Oxford)
Room 2
o Leo Goretti (University of Reading)
Partisan Heroes and Modest Girls: the Youth
Policies of the PCI (1943-1960)
o Samantha Quinn (University of Reading)
The Problem of Unity in the 1961 Italian Centennial
of Unification celebrations
• Panel 6: Beyond Italian Borders (Chair: Emma Bond,
University of Oxford)
Room 3
o Elena Castellari (University College Dublin)
A comparative study of the linguistic practices of
two migration waves of the Italian community in
Ireland
o Eliana Maestri (University of Bath)

4:15-4:45 Tea/coffee break
Jamaica Kincaid’s post-colonial narrative into
Italian: voices from the abyss.
o Michał Czorycki (University College Cork)
Un levantino bazar dell’animo. The representation
of the Black Sea in Claudio Magris’s Danubio
o Paula Siega (Università di Venezia)
Alberto Moravia tra riti voluttuosi e profezie
rivoluzionarie
4:45-6:15 Session D (parallel panels)
• Panel 7: Modern Italian Narrative (chair: Katrin
Wehling-Giorgi, University of Oxford)
Room 2
o Marco Amici (University College Cork)
Considerazioni sull’oggetto narrativo non
identificato Sappiano le mie parole di sangue di
Babsi Jones
o Christopher Ferguson (University of Edinburgh)
Gadda’s Catholic Consciousness
o Clea Rivalta (University of Warwick)
The construction of fascist typologies in post-war
Italy: the case of Alberto Moravia
• Panel 8: Visual Culture (Chair: Francesca Magnabosco,
University of Oxford)
Room 3
o Francesca Maria Gabrielli (University of Zagreb)
Wielding An Ambivalent Sword: A Reading of
Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judiths
o Mariarita Martino (University of Warwick)
Fetishization of Objects of Desire in an
Intersemiotic Perspective: Brass adapts Tanizaki
6:15-7.30 Wine reception and thanks (Voltaire Room)
8 pm Conference dinner at Carluccio’s, Oxford Castle