The American Association for Italian Studies and The Canadian Society for Italian Studies
ANNUAL CONFERENCE 20-22 April 2017 The Ohio State University
PLENARY SPEAKER Ruth Ben-Ghiat, New York University
OTHER INVITED SPEAKERS Mario Badagliacca, Photographer Simone Castaldi, Hofstra University Fred Kuwornu, Filmmaker Lorella Zanardo (AAIS Women’s Studies Caucus Invited Speaker)
SPECIAL GUESTS Aberta Lai, Director, The Istituto italiano di cultura di Chicago
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Sandra Parmegiani, University of Guelph Cristina Perissinotto, University of Ottawa Dana Renga, The Ohio State University
Graduate Students Sebastiano Bazzichetto, University of Toronto Calvin Beckley, The Ohio State University Francesca Facchi, University of Toronto Jessica Henderson, The Ohio State University Dan Paul, The Ohio State University Cylia Queen, The Ohio State University
OFFICERS OF THE AAIS Valerio Ferme, University of Colorado, Boulder, President Dana Renga, The Ohio State University, Vice-President Monica Seger, The College of William and Mary, Secretary Elena Past, Wayne State University, Treasurer Joe Francese, The University of Michigan, Senior Editor Italian Culture Carol Lazzaro-Weis, The University of Missouri-Columbia, Emeritus President
OFFICERS OF THE CSIS Sandra Parmegiani, University of Guelph, President Cristina Perissinotto, University of Ottawa, Vice-President Mary Watt, University of Florida, Secretary Violetta Sutton, Brock University, Treasurer Luca Somigli, University of Toronto, Editor Quaderni d’italianistica Francesca Facchi, University of Toronto, Graduate Student Representative
SPONSORS OF THE 2017 AAIS/CSIS CONFERENCE An OSU Arts and Humanities Large Grant; The Department of French and Italian (OSU); The Istituto italiano di cultura di Chicago; The Center for Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (OSU); The Department of African and African American Studies (OSU); The Film Studies Program (OSU); The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (OSU); Taylor and Francis; The Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (OSU); Popular Culture Studies (OSU); The Wexner Center for the Arts; Casalini Libri; The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum; Hopkins Hall Gallery (OSU)
1 AAIS/CSIS SPECIAL EVENTS COCKTAIL HOUR AND BANQUET Saturday April 22: The Blackwell Inn 7:30-10:00; $50.00 paid in advance
OPENING RECEPTION Thursday April 20: The Faculty Club, The Ohio State University, 6:16-7:45 (Co-Sponsored by The Italian Cultural Institute, Chicago)
POST-PLENARY RECEPTION Friday April 21: The Ohio Union, The Ohio State University, 5:45-7:30 (Co-Sponsored by Taylor and Francis)
PLENARY SPEAKER Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University “Leaps of Faith: On Intuition and Interdisciplinarity in Italian Studies” Friday, April 21, 4:30-5:30, Wexner Center Film/Video Theater This talk will reflect on the challenge of doing interdisciplinary work. The case study will be Professor Ben-Ghiat’s attempt to bring history and Italian film studies to bear on each other to understand Fascist empire cinema: the task of conveying the place of history in images, and the place of images in history. The talk also focuses on the interpretative issues posed in studying objects and texts about which little is known, and the place of intuition in such circumstances. This is one meaning of the “leaps of faith” in the talk’s title; others might be having the courage of one’s convictions, and the daring to go off-grid with respect to the canons of this, or any, discipline.
SCREENING/AUDIENCE DISCUSSION, SPONSORED BY THE QUEER STUDIES CAUCUS On the Other Side of the Mirror (Cecilia Grasso, 2015) focuses on the stories and experiences of a group of drag kings in Italy. The screening will be followed by an audience discussion. April 21, 1:00-2:30, Wexner Center Film/Video Theater
SCREENING AND DISCUSSION WITH THE DIRECTOR Blaxploitalian: 100 Years of Blackness in Italian Cinema (Fred Kuwornu, 2016) is a documentary that uncovers the careers of a population of entertainers seldom heard from before: black actors in Italian cinema. Blaxploitalian unveils the historic struggles faced by Afro-Italian and African diasporic actors, which are correlated with stories of actors who work to find respectable and significant roles in contemporary films. The screening will be followed by panel discussion with the director and Shelleen Greene, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and Kwaku Korang, The Ohio State University. April 21, 2:45- 4:15, Wexner Center Film/Video Theater
FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING WORKSHOP SERIES “Active Learning and Cognitive Engagement from Input to Output,” Janice M. Aski, Ohio State University, April 20, 1:00 “Blended Learning Environments: Design, Implementation, and Teacher Preparation,” Chiara Fabbian, University of Illinois, Chicago, April 21, 1:00pm “Task-based Language Teaching as a Scaffold for Authentic Student Interaction,” Tom Means, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, April 22, 1:00pm (ADD LOCATIONS)
WOMEN’S STUDIES CAUCUS ANNUAL GUEST SPEAKER EVENT Lorella Zanardo presents “Femminismo Porta a Porta: Informare attraverso Internet e attivare il cambiamento attraverso incontri dal vivo sul territorio,” April 22, 1:45-3:15 (ADD LOCATION)
TOUR OF ITALIAN COMICS, THE BILLY IRELAND CARTOON MUSEUM AND LIBRARY Simone Castaldi, Hofstra University, April 21, 10:15-11:45; two 45-minute tours; space limited, registration required “Not just for kids anymore: The roots of the Italian Underground Comics and their North American counterparts.” This presentation aims to reassess the phenomenon of the Italian Underground comics -- that is, comics targeted at a more adult readership and often dealing with political and social issues -- by analyzing these works’ connection to their American counterparts. Those attending this guided tour at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum will have the opportunity to examine rare publications and original art by some of the most important underground artists of the late sixties and seventies.
MARIO BADAGLIACCA, PHOTOGRAPHY INSTALLATION AND CONVERATION WITH PHOTOGRAPHER Mario Badagliacca in Conversation with Valerio Ferme, University of Colorado at Boulder, April 21, 9:00-10:00 (PLACE) Photography Installation “Italy is Out”, Hopkins Hall Gallery (http://www.mariobadagliacca.com) The research is part of the AHRC-funded project “Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures” involving researchers at the Universities of Bristol, Cardiff, Queen Margaret, St Andrews, and Warwick.
RARE BOOKS EXHIBIT, THOMPSON LIBRARY April 22, 9:30am-1pm: Exhibit of select manuscripts and publications from the Italian collection of OSU's Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, from Medieval to Modern. Thompson Library, (First Floor Gallery).
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Exhibit of Mario Badagliacca’s 26 photographs, Friday & Saturday Sullivant Hall Cartoon Museum & Library Tour, Friday 10:15-11:45
Queer Caucus screening and discussion, Friday 1:00-2:30 Blaxploitalian screening and discussion with director, Friday 2:45-4:15 Registration Plenary event with Dr. Ruth Ben- Banquet, Saturday 7:30-10:00 Conference sessions Ghiat, Friday 4:30-5:30 Book exhibit Post-plenary reception, Friday 5:45- 7:30
Rare Books Exhibit, First Floor Gallery, Saturday 9:00-1:30 3 Schedule at a Glance
Thursday April 20th Saturday April 22nd Friday April 21st 1:00-2:30 9:00-1:30 Session 1 (A-I) 8:30-10:00 Exhibit of Rare Books, Thompson Session 4 (A-I) Library 2:45-4:15 Session 2 (A-J) 10:15-11:45 9:00-10:30 Session 5 (A-I) Session 8 (A-J) 4:30-6:00 Tours of Billy Ireland Cartoon Session 3 (A- J) Library and Museum, Simone 10:45-12:15 Castaldi, Hofstra University Session 9 (A-H) 6:15-7:45 Reception, The Faculty Club 11:45-1:00 12:15-1:45 Lunch Lunch CSIS Annual General Meeting AAIS Annual General Meeting Business Meeting: Women’s Meet the Editors of The Italianist Studies Caucus; Business Meeting: (12:45-1:45; Routledge Booth) Queer Studies Caucus
1:00-2:30 1:45-3:15 Session 6 (A-J) Session 10 (A-I) Queer Studies Caucus Special Women’s Studies Caucus Special Event Screening and Audience Event, Lorella Zanardo Presents Discussion On the Other Side of the “Femminismo porta a porta: Mirror, Wexner Center Film/Video informare attraverso internet e
Theater attivare il cambiamento attraverso incontri dal vivo sul territorio” 2:45-4:15 Session 7 (A-I) 3:30-5:00 Blaxploitalian (Fred Kuwornu, Session 11 (A-I) 2016) Wexner Center Film/Video Theater 5:15-6:45 Session 12 (A-I) 4:30-5:30 Plenary Lecture 7:30-10:30 Ruth Ben-Ghiat Wexner Center Film/Video Cocktail Hour and Banquet, Theater The Blackwell Inn
5:45-7:30 Reception, The Ohio Union
A NOTE ON AUDIO-VISUAL EQUIPMENT: Each room has the following equipment: Data Projector, Screen, Speakers. Delegates may use OSU’s complimentary guest wireless network. The conference does not provide laptop computers or adapters. An A/V technician is on staff for the entire event, and you can find the A/V table in the area close to registration. It is the responsibility of all AV users to familiarize themselves with equipment either before all sessions begin or during the lunch break.
COFFEE Will be available throughout the conference near registration (outside of the Cartoon Rooms). Friday afternoon coffee is sponsored by Casalini Libri
A NOTE ON WATER: Water is available in the registration area. Session Chairs are encouraged to ensure that speakers have water prior to the start of the panel.
4 THURSDAY 20 APRIL 1D: 45 REGISTRATION EPIC, ROMANCE, NOVEL: INTERSECTIONS 11:00am-6:00pm AND INTERACTIONS IN ITALIAN CULTURE Outside Cartoon Room, The Ohio Union Organizers: Andrea Privitera, University of Western Ontario and Università di Padova and Lucia SESSION ONE Gemmani, Indiana University 1:00-2:30pm (Thursday) Chair: Lucia Gemmani, Indiana University 1. Marianna Orsi, Independent Scholar, “Elena Ferrante fra Epos e Romanzo” 1A: 52.1 2. Andrea Gazzoni, University of Pennsylvania, ROUNDTABLE: ITALIAN SCREEN STUDIES: “Boccaccio’s Teseida: Epic, Romance and METHODS AND PRIORITIES I: FRAMING Vernacular Translatio” PANEL I 3. Corrado Confalonieri, Harvard University, Organizers: Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds and “Where Genre Ends and Text Begins: Tasso's Dana Renga, The Ohio State University Liberata and the Limits of Epic” Chair: Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds 4. Andrea Privitera, University of Western 1. Allison Cooper, Bowdoin College Ontario and Università di Padova, “Space 2. Danielle Hipkins, University of Exeter and Movement in Romance: The Case of 3. Catherine O’Rawe, University of Bristol Inamoramento de Orlando”
1B: 59.1 1E: 3 TRANSMEDIALITY IN ITALIAN POPULAR UTOPIA CULTURE: I Organizer: Cristina Perissinotto, University of Ottawa Organizer: Paola Bonifazio, The University of Texas Chair: Domenico Palumbo, Sant’Anna Institute at Austin and Cinzia Russi, The University of Texas at 1. Valeria Federici, Brown University, “From Austin Locality to Trans-locality: Utopian and Chair: Paola Bonifazio, The University of Texas at Spatial Narratives of Forte Prenestino in Rome” Austin 2. Arthur J. Lei, University of California, 1. Paola Bonifazio, The University of Texas at Berkeley, “Risorgimento internazionale Austin, “The Indiscreet Charm of Bolero Film: futuro: 19th Century Visions of a Utopian Transmediality and the Italian Fotoromanzo” Future” 2. Stephanie Hotz, The University of Texas at 3. Cristina Perissinotto, University of Ottawa, Austin, “The Self-Reflexive Musicarello: “Utopia and Possible Worlds in the Depictions of Mass Media and Entertainment Renaissance” in Postwar Italian Musical Films” 3. Giulio Olesen, Bournemouth University, “Slap the Monster on Page One: Representations of History in the Italian Poliziottesco”
1C: 44.1 DOCTORAL PROJECTS IN PROGRESS I: INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY IN THE 20TH CENTURY Organizers: Dan Paul, The Ohio State University and Francesca Facchi, University of Toronto Chair: Filippo Trentin, University of Pennsylvania 1. Stephanie De Paola, Fordham University, “An Intimate Occupation: Race, Gender, Sex, and Sexual Violence in Occupied Italy” 2. Remko Smid, University of Zurich, “History and Identity in the Works of Claudio Magris”
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1F: 1I: 64.2 A DISTANT FUTURE: NEW REFLECTIONS ON ROUNDTABLE: INNOVATIVE APPROACHES ITALIAN FUTURISM TO TEACHING ITALIAN I: INNOVATIVE Organizers: Daria Bozzato, SUNY-New Paltz, Nicole TOOLS TO TEACHING LANGUAGE Gounalis, Stanford University. Organizers: Brandon Essary, Elon University and Chair: Luca Somigli, University of Toronto. Andrea Privitera, University of Western Ontario and 1. Elisa Valentini, University of Texas at Austin, Università di Padova “Painting the Invisible: A Dialogue Between Chair: Brandon Essary, Elon University Ginna and Corra’s cinepittura and Umberto 1. Maria Esposito Frank, University of Hartford Boccioni’s Materia” 2. Lisa Tortolani, University of Connecticut 2. Gina Mangravite, University of North 3. Cristiana Mora Thielmann, DePauw Carolina at Chapel Hill, "The Female Body as University Literary Tool in Marinetti and Corra’s Erotic 4. Stella Mattioli, University of Virginia Literary Production, L’isola dei baci" 3. Dalila Colucci, Harvard University, “Intermedia Encounters, Ideology and Food SESSION 2 Art: L’anguria lirica’s polymorphic poetics” 2:45-4:15pm (Thursday) 4. Ashley Lindeman, Florida State University, “‘Synthesis of Modernity’: The 1933 Fascist 2A: 52.2 Commission of Futurist Murals in La Spezia” ROUNDTABLE: ITALIAN SCREEN STUDIES: METHODS AND PRIORITIES II: ARCHIVAL APPROACHES 1G: 17.1 Organizers: Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds and ITALIAN (POST)APOCALYPTIC NARRATIVES Dana Renga, The Ohio State University I Chair: Giorgio Bertellini, University of Michigan Organizer: Roberto Risso, Clemson University 1. Giuliana Muscio, University of Padua Chair: Maria Anna Mariani, University of Chicago 2. Paola Bonifazio, University of Texas at 1. Tomasz Skocki, University of Warsaw, Austin “Ages of Unrest: Italian Dystopian and 3. Regina Longo, Albanian Film Project/Film Post-Apocalyptic Fiction in the 1970s and Quarterly Early 21st Century” 4. Giuseppe Fidotta, Concordia University, 2. Alberto Iozzia, Rutgers University, “Dante Montreal Virgili’s La distruzione in the Context of Italian Post-Apocalyptic Narrative” 2B: 55 3. Roberto Risso, Clemson University, “‘La MACHIAVELLI TODAY: CONTEMPORARY morte di Megalopoli:’ Il collasso della REPRESENTATIONS OF THE STRUGGLE società e il nuovo medio evo secondo FOR POWER Roberto Vacca” Organizer: Andrea Polegato, University of North Texas – Denton Chair: Simone Bregni, Saint Louis University 1H: 1. Annachiara Mariani, The University of FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING Tennessee – Knoxville, “The Traumatized and WORKSHOP SERIES I Traumatizing (Sub)Version of Power in Organizer: Janice M. Aski, The Ohio State Sorrentino’s The Young Pope” University 2. Andrea Polegato, University of North Texas- Janice M. Aski, The Ohio State University, “Active Denton, “Machiavelli in Game of Thrones and Learning and Cognitive Engagement from Input to House of Cards” Output” 3. William Landon, Northern Kentucky University, “Donald Trump, Niccolò Machiavelli, the Establishment and the People: Words of Advice and Warning from The Prince”
6 2C: 34.1 2F: 4.1 FOR A MEDITERRANEAN ECOCRITICISM: NEW APPROACHES IN CAPUANA STUDIES I STRENGTHS AND CONTRIBUTIONS I Organizers: Anita Virga, University of the Organizers: Enrico Cesaretti, University of Virginia Witwatersrand, and Brian Zuccala, Monash and Monica Seger, The College of William & Mary University Chair: Annamaria Pagliaro, Monash University Chair: Enrico Cesaretti, University of Virginia 1. Jonathan Hiller, Adelphi University, “Luigi 1. Matteo Gilebbi, Duke University, “Antonio Capuana, Vampire Hunter: The Scientific Stoppani and the Teleological Interpretation Pursuit of the Supernatural in Capuana’s of the Anthropocene” Novels and Short Stories” 2. Valerie McGuire, Independent Scholar /New 2. Edwige Fusaro, Université Nice Sophia York University, “At the Borders of Antipolis, “Il processo creativo in Capuana Belonging and the Frontier of the National: scrittore e fotografo” Toward an Ecocritical Approach to Islands in 3. Carla Cornette, University of Wisconsin, the Mediterranean” Madison, “Losing Faith in Science: The 3. Maria Grazia Lolla, Harvard University, “Oh Evolution of Luigi Capuana’s uomo! Fausta Cialente’s Posthuman Conceptualization of Female Hysteria, from Sensibility” Giacinta to Profumo” 4. Brian Zuccala, Monash University, 2D: 44.3 “Metafiction e metanarration nella narrativa WOMEN, PHILOSOPHY, AND PRE-MODERN capuaniana” THEATRE Organizers: Dan Paul, The Ohio State University and Francesca Facchi, University of Toronto 2G: 11.1 Chair: Jonathan Combs-Schilling, The Ohio State A CENTURY OF ITALIAN WAR NARRATIVES: University MAKING SENSE OF IT ALL I 1. Beatrice Variolo, The Johns Hopkins Organizer and Chair: Luigi Gussago, Monash University, “Boccaccio, Betussi and the University querelle on Ancient and Modern ‘Famous 1. Martina Adani, University of North Carolina Women’ in Sixteenth-Century Venice” at Chapel Hill, “Italy and Women as War 2. Garrett Waters, University of Georgia, “What Victims in Belluco’s Il segreto di Italia” Does It Mean To Be Tragic in Sixteenth 2. Elisa Gambaro, Università degli Studi di Century Italian Tragedy?” Milano, “I giorni veri di Giovanna Zangrandi, 3. Quinn Griffin, Grand Valley State University, un diario della Resistenza vent’anni dopo. “Classical Philosophy in the Vernacular: Prospettiva femminile, genere letterario e Clemenza Ninci’s Sposalizia d’Iparchia Filosofa” strutture narrative” 3. Giuseppina Palma, Southern Connecticut 2E: 46 State University, “Gobetti’s War: Diario ITALIAN RENAISSANCE DIGITAL LABS partigiano” Organizers: Giuseppe Gerbino, Columbia University and Francesca Bortoletti, University of Minnesota Chair: Stefania Porcelli, The Graduate Center, CUNY 1. Giuseppe Gerbino, Columbia University, “Marenzio Online Digital Edition (MODE)” 2. Emiliano Ricciardi, University of Massachusetts Amherst, “Digitizing Early Modern Music and Poetry: The Tasso in Music” 3. Crystal Hall, Bowdoin College, “Galileo’s Database” 4. Francesca Bortoletti, University of Minnesota, “Festivals in Renaissance Italy: a Digital Atlas (FRIDA)”
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2H: 17.2 3B: 59.2 ITALIAN (POST)APOCALYPTIC NARRATIVES TRANSMEDIALITY IN ITALIAN POPULAR II CULTURE: II Organizer: Roberto Risso, Clemson University Organizer: Paola Bonifazio, The University of Texas Chair: Tomasz Skocki, University of Warsaw at Austin and Cinzia Russi, The University of Texas at 1. Maria Anna Mariani, University of Austin Chicago, “Italy And The Bomb: The Post- Chair: Cinzia Russi, The University of Texas at Austin Apocalyptic Stories Of Alberto Moravia” 1. Melina A. Masterson, University of 2. Robert Rushing, University of Illinois Massachusetts, Amherst, “Transmedial Urbana-Champaign, “Securing the ‘Dungeon Masters’: Wu Ming and Gaming Apocalypse: Biopolitical Imagery in Italian Culture” Cinema, 1960s-present” 2. Cinzia Russi, The University of Texas at 3. Shelton Bellow, Brenau University, Austin, “The functions of Sicilian in “Armageddon: A Study of the Apocalyptic Camilleri’s novel and television episode Il ladro in Gomorra” di merendine” 3. Paolo Saporito, McGill University, “Stories of blogs, e-books and time: Slowdown, 2I: 62 participation and resistance in Wu Ming’s ROUNDTABLE: CURRICULAR INNOVATION Giap and L’archivio e la strada” FOR INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED CLASSES: DEVELOPING CONTENT FOR ITALIAN MAJOR/MINOR COURSES 3C: 34.2 Organizer and Chair: Veena Carlson, Dominican FOR A MEDITERRANEAN ECOCRITICISM: University STRENGTHS AND CONTRIBUTIONS II 1. Janice Aski, The Ohio State University Organizers: Enrico Cesaretti, University of Virginia 2. Adrienne Ward, University of Virginia and Monica Seger, The College of William & Mary 3. Veena Carlson, Dominican University Chair: Monica Seger, The College of William & Mary 2J 1. Jessica Sciubba, University of Illinois at EUROPEAN TREASURE: A.H. REED’S Urbana-Champaign, “Screening bodies, FRENCH & ITALIAN AUTOGRAPH LETTERS screening Lampedusa in Gianfranco Rosi’s Organizer and Chair: Carol Lazzaro-Weis, University Fuocoammare” of Missouri-Columbia 2. Enrico Cesaretti, University of Virginia, 1. Valerio Cappozzo, The University of “Dirty Stuff: Material and Discursive Mississippi Pollution in Francesco Masala’s Il parroco di Arasolè (a.k.a. Il dio petrolio)” SESSION 3 3. Danila Cannamela, The University of St. 4:30-6:00pm (Thursday) Thomas, “Through the Eyes of the Beast: From Local Environmental Dystopia to 3A: 52.3 Transnational Utopia” ROUNDTABLE: ITALIAN SCREEN STUDIES: METHODS AND PRIORITIES III: THE WILEY- BLACKWELL COMPANION TO ITALIAN CINEMA: WHERE TO GO FROM HERE Organizers: Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds and Dana Renga, The Ohio State University Chair: Frank Burke, Queen’s University 1. Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds 2. Antonella Sisto, Brown University 3. Mary Wood, Birckbeck, University of London 4. Austin Fisher, Bournemouth University
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3D: 44.2 3G: 11.2 DOCTORAL PROJECTS IN PROGRESS III: A CENTURY OF ITALIAN WAR NARRATIVES: GENDER AND OTHERNESS THROUGH THE MAKING SENSE OF IT ALL II CAMERA Organizer: Luigi Gussago, Monash University Organizers: Dan Paul, The Ohio State University and Chair: Louise Zamparutti, University of Wisconsin, Francesca Facchi, University of Toronto Milwaukee Chair: Gaoheng Zhang, University of British 1. Melissa E. Marinaro, Senator John Heinz Columbia History Center, Pittsburgh, “La Generazione 1. Dalila Missero, Università di Bologna, più Grande: Heinz History Center’s Italian “Queering the Cinematic Sixties: Anti- American World War II Veterans Oral Normative Approaches to Sexuality in Italian History Collection” Cinema” 2. Luigi Gussago, Monash University, “Unfit for 2. Dan Paul, The Ohio State University, War: Stories of Desertion in Italian Fiction” “Becoming Men: Masculinity and (Male) 3. Kevin Regan-Maglione, University of Melodrama in Recent Italian Teen Film” Oregon, “The Homosexual Confinato: 3. Caitlin Schaer, “Understanding the Italian Producing Queer Sense of Fascism” “Other”: Diverse Modes of Visual Ethnographic Representation” 3H: 21 LA GRANDE GUERRA 1914-1918 3E: 47 Organizer and Chair: Elena Coda, Purdue University VERNACULAR LITERATURE OF FIFTEENTH- 1. Stefano Magni, Aix Marseille Université, CENTURY FLORENCE “G.A. Borgese, dal Congresso di Roma (8-10 Organizer and Chair: Michael J. Maher, College of aprile 1918) alla redazione dell’opuscolo Il Charleston patto di Roma (1919)” 1. Emanuela Zanotti Carney, University of 2. Angela Fabris, Alpen-Adria-Universität Illinois at Chicago, “Identity, Alterity, and the Klagenfurt, “Echi della Grande Guerra: dalle Pursuit of Saintliness in Antonia Pulci’s narrazioni belliche di Francesco Burdin ai Fifteenth-century Sacre Rappresentazioni” fotogrammi collettivi di Mario Monicelli” 2. Michael J. Maher, College of Charleston, 3. Elena Coda, Purdue University, “La guerra in “Lucrezia Tornabuoni: Patron and Author of casa, dai diari di Carmela Rossi Timeus al Chivalric Verse” memoriale di Aurelia Reina Cesari” 3. Alessandro Basso, Università degli Studi di Genova, “Alle origini della ‘cerchia’ 3I: 64.1 laurenziana: il Driadeo d’amore di Luca Pulci” ROUNDTABLE: INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO TEACHING ITALIAN II: TEACHING 3F: 4.2 ITALIAN THROUGH GAMES NEW APPROACHES IN CAPUANA STUDIES II Organizers: Brandon Essary, Elon University and Organizers: Anita Virga, University of the Andrea Privitera, University of Western Ontario and Witwatersrand, and Brian Zuccala, Monash Università di Padova University Chair: Andrea Privitera, University of Western Chair: Brian Zuccala, Monash University Ontario and Università di Padova 1. Annamaria Pagliaro, Monash University, 1. Marino Forlino, Scripps College “Luigi Capuana's quest as a cultural 2. Simone Bregni, Saint Louis University moderator” 3. Brandon Essary, Elon University 2. Valentina Fulginiti, Cornell University, “Capuana and Cultural translation. Rewriting Sicily” 3. Anita Virga, University of the Witwatersrand, “Capuana, il marchese e l’altro” 4. Santi Buscemi, Middlesex County College, “Capuana's Heroines: Style and Substance”
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3J: 10 4B: 56 90 YEARS LATER: GRAZIA DELEDDA AND POLITICS AND EMOTIONS IN ITALIAN SARDINIAN LITERATURE OF “S- CINEMA, LITERATURE AND VISUAL ARTS CONFINAMENTO” Organizer and Chair: Monica Facchini, Colgate Organizer: Margherita Heyer-Caput, University of University California, Davis 1. Mary Migliozzi, Villanova University, “Love Chair: Maria Esposito Frank, University of Hartford of Maxinna and of Patria: Romantic Love as 1. Sonita Sarker, Macalester College, “Two Political Emotion in the Works of Gian Sardinians in the World: Grazia Deledda and Giacomo Cavalli” Antonio Gramsci” 2. Paola Gambarota, Rutgers University, 2. Stefania Lucamante, Catholic University of “Translating Emotions: The Transnational America, “Con il cuore dentro una cassa: Making of L’uomo qualunque” soggettività impossibili e il mancato dono della 3. Giorgio Galbussera, “From Martyr to Cynic? comunitas in Marianna Sirca.” Luigi Lo Cascio’s Embodiment of the Left” 3. Margherita Heyer-Caput, University of 4. Giordana Poggioli-Kaftan, Marquette California, Davis, “From ‘I primi passi’ to University, “Golden Door's Third Space” Cosima, quasi Grazia: The Transgressive Journey of Grazia Deledda’s Writing” 4C: 32.1 4. Irene Zanini Cordi, Florida State University, L’AVVENTURA INTERNAZIONALE I: ITALIAN “Border Crossings in Milena Agus’ Mal di ARTISTIC IDENTITY SINCE WWII pietre/From the Land of the Moon” Organizers: Adrian Duran, University of Nebraska, Omaha and Elizabeth Mangini, California College of RECEPTION the Arts 6:15-7:45 Chair: Adrian Duran, University of Nebraska, Omaha The Faculty Club 1. Davide Colombo, Università degli Studi di Co-sponsored by The Italian Cultural Institute, Parma, “Italy at Work,” Chicago, 1951: Chicago Between Past Tradition and Contemporary Expression” FRIDAY 21 APRIL 2. Laura Petican, Texas A&M University- REGISTRATION Corpus Christi, “Missoni and Memphis: New 8:00am-6:00pm Models for Italian Art (And Design)” Outside Cartoon Room, The Ohio Union 4D: 43.2 SESSION 4 MUSIC BRIDGES IN ITALIAN STUDIES I 8:30-10:00am (Friday) Organizers: Metello Mugnai, West Chester University of Pennsylvania and Lorenzo Salvagni. Cuyahoga 4A: 52.4 Community College ROUNDTABLE: ITALIAN SCREEN STUDIES: Chair: Marianna Orsi, Independent Scholar METHODS AND PRIORITIES IV: ITALIAN 1. Bernard Kuhn, Bucknell University, “Rigoletto TELEVISION STUDIES: LOOKING (1946) and Rigoletto e la sua tragedia (1954): BACKWARDS New Perspectives on the Relationship Organizers: Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds and between Opera and Cinema in Postwar Italy” Dana Renga, The Ohio State University 2. Adriana Guarro, University of California, Los Chair: Giancarlo Lombardi, College of Staten Angeles, “The Intertwining of Music and Island/The Graduate Center, CUNY Poetry in Amelia Rosselli’s Variazioni 1. Simona Bondavalli, Vassar College Belliche” 2. Tania Convertini, Dartmouth College 3. Robin Pickering-Iazzi, University of 3. Cecilia Penati, Università Cattolica del Sacro Wisconsin, Milwaukee, “‘Quannu moru, faciti Cuore ca nun moru!’: Antimafia Socio-spatial Music 4. Monica Jansen, Utrecht University Bridges and the Reinvention of Civil Society”
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4E: 5 4H: 63 THE REWRITING OF ITALIAN HISTORY IN THE CURRICULUM OF THE ITALIAN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE PROGRAM IN THE 21ST CENTURY Organizers: Sandra Parmegiani, University of Guelph Organizer and Chair: R. Francesca Seaman, DePauw and Sergio Portelli, University of Malta University Chair: Sergio Portelli, University of Malta 1. Annalisa Sacca, St. John’s University, 1. Francesco Chianese, Università di Napoli “Thinking Outside the Box: Five Creative “L’Orientale”, “What ‘Italianness’? The Ways to Guarantee the Future Survival and Concept of Home in John Fante’s Wait Until Success of Your Italian Program” Spring, Bandini, Joseph Tusiani’s In una casa 2. Alessandro Vettori, Rutgers University, “The un’altra casa trovo and Igiaba Scego’s La mia Language Requirement and Other Strategies casa è dove sono” to Attract Students” 2. Emily Rabiner, University of California, 3. Chiara De Santi, Fredonia State University of Berkeley, “Dead Past, Dead Woman: History New York, “Exploring Options for Italian and Desire in Vernon Lee’s ‘Amour Dure’” Studies Programs in a Changing America” 3. Roberta Cauchi-Santoro, University of 4. Alessia Colarossi, University of Florida, “The Guelph/University of Waterloo, “Samuel New Degree and the Italian Major” Beckett's Reading of Giacomo Leopardi: the 5. Francesca Seaman, DePauw University, Question of Desire” “How to Build an Italian Program in Rural Mid-West” 4F: 11.3 A CENTURY OF ITALIAN WAR NARRATIVES: 4I: 65 MAKING SENSE OF IT ALL III INNOVATIVE METHODS TO PROMOTE Organizer: Luigi Gussago, Monash University STUDENTS’ AWARENESS IN TEACHING Chair: Giuseppina Palma, Southern Connecticut State ITALIAN University Organizer AAIS/CSIS 1. Fiona M. Stewart, Pepperdine University, Chair: Francesca Facchi, University of Toronto “Guerra civile: A Civil Disagreement in which 1. Chiara Dal Martello, Arizona State Both Revelli and Pavone are Vindicated?” University, “How to Teach Cross-cultural 2. Brian Tholl, Rutgers University, “The Awareness with Photos and Videos While Evolution of Communication in Roberto Studying in Italy” Rossellini’s Paisà” 2. John Tom Means, BMCC/CUNY, “Students’ 3. Louise Zamparutti, University of Wisconsin, Self-transcripts of Their Task-based Milwaukee, “The Foibe as War Narrative: Performances in Italian” The New Antiheroes of the Second Republic” 3. Carmela Scala, Rutgers University, “Knowing What You Know to Know What You Need 4G: 19 To Know” ITALIAN COMICS IN THE ‘70S AND ‘80S: RECONFIGURING THE MEDIUM 4J (10:00-11:00) Organizer and Chair: Simone Castaldi, Hofstra MARIO BADAGLIACCA PRESENTS ‘ITALY IS University OUT’, PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT (HOPKINS 1. Cara Takakjian, University of Massachusetts, GALLERY APRIL 21-22) “Totally gross: Italian Comics of 1977” Organizer and Chair: Valerio Ferme, University of 2. Sara Dallavalle, Indiana University, “Italian Colorado at Boulder Comics Magazines of the Eighties: Orient 1. Mario Badagliacca in Conversation with Express and its Elements of Novelty” Valerio Ferme, University of Colorado at 3. Simone Castaldi, Hofstra University, “Italian Boulder Comics and the Independent Press in the 70s and 80s”
11 SESSION 5 5D: 32.2 10:15-11:45am (Friday) L’AVVENTURA INTERNAZIONALE II: ITALIAN ARTISTIC IDENTITY SINCE WWII II: 5A: 52.5 REFRAMING THE ITALIANITÀ OF ARTE ROUNDTABLE: ITALIAN SCREEN STUDIES: POVERA METHODS AND PRIORITIES V: Organizers: Elizabeth Mangini, California College of NONHUMAN/MORE-THAN HUMAN-MEDIA the Arts and Adrian R. Duran, University of Organizers: Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds and Nebraska at Omaha Dana Renga, The Ohio State University Chair: Elizabeth Mangini, California College of the Chair: Elena Past, Wayne State University Arts 1. Laura Di Bianco, Johns Hopkins University 1. Roger Crum, University of Dayton, “Seeing 2. Matteo Gilebbi, Duke University Back and Forth and through Mirrors: 3. Monica Seger, The College of William & Michelangelo Pistoletto, Arte Povera, and Mary Italian Identity” 4. Meryl Shriver-Rice, University of Miami 2. Pierette Kulpa, Sierra Nevada College, 5. Hunter Vaughan, Oakland University “Pistoletto’s Mirrored Etruscan: Reflecting on 6. Marguerite Waller, University of California, the Arringatore” Riverside 3. Umut Ungan, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), “Criticism 5B: 48 Under ‘Influence’: Germano Celant's arte ROUNDTABLE: “STATO DELL’ARTE” E povera and the American avant-garde of the PROSPETTIVE DELLA RICERCA 1960s” INTERNAZIONALE SU CINEMA, MEDIA E VISUAL STUDIES ITALIANI 5E: 43.1 Organizers: Christian Uva, Università Roma Tre and MUSIC BRIDGES IN ITALIAN STUDIES I Vito Zagarrio, Università Roma Tre Organizers: Metello Mugnai, West Chester University Chair: Vito Zagarrio, Università Roma Tre of Pennsylvania and Lorenzo Salvagni, 1. Christian, Uva, Università Roma Tre Cuyahoga Community College 2. Eugenia Paulicelli, Queens College and The Chair: Mary Migliozzi, Villanova University Graduate Center, CUNY 1. Enrico Zammarchi, The Ohio State 3. Luca Peretti, Yale University University, “Per la gente, dalla gente: Italian Hip-Hop Artists as Contemporary Organic 5C: 53 Intellectuals” ITALIAN TV DRAMA, FROM SCENEGGIATO TO 2. Luca Zamparini, The Graduate Center, SERIES CUNY, “Resisting the Symbolic. The Punx Organizer: Giancarlo Lombardi, College of Staten Case” Island & The Graduate Center, CUNY 3. Rachel Haworth, University of Hull, Chair: Cosetta Gaudenzi, University of Memphis “Bridging the Gap between Music and Film: 1. Cosetta Gaudenzi, University of Memphis, Mina’s Star Persona in the Musicarelli “Language, identity and television in the Movies of the 1950s and 1960s” 1960s: Sandro Bolchi’s Il mulino del Po” 2. Stefano Morello, The Graduate Center, CUNY, “Una città dalle due anime: Setting, Atmosphere, and Local Identity in Gomorra La Serie and Un posto al sole” 3. Giancarlo Lombardi, College of Staten Island & The Graduate Center, CUNY, “You’re Better for My Game: A Structural Reading of Gomorra La Serie’s House of Cards”
5F: 6
12 THE SHAPING OF A NATION: PATRIOTS, EXPOSED TO THE WORLD: WRITERS, AND LAW-MAKERS IN LATE 19TH VULNERABILITIES IN POST-WAR AND CENTURY ITALY NEOLIBERAL ITALY I Organizers: Mark Epstein, Independent Scholar and Organizers: Alessandra Montalbano, University of Morena Corradi, Queens College (CUNY) Alabama and Jonathan Mullins, The Ohio State Chair: Morena Corradi, Queens College (CUNY) University 1. Mark Epstein, Independent Scholar, “Utopia Chair: Jonathan Mullins, The Ohio State University and Laying Down the Law: Dossi, Faldella, 1. Brian DeGrazia, New York University, Pirandello and the Rule of the Writer” “‘Lasciate i parchi pubblici per la gente:’ the 2. Sara Delmedico, University of Cambridge, founding of the Villa Glori Casa famiglia per “‘Havvi eguaglianza di condizione soltanto malati di AIDS” nelle leggi penali’: the Jurist Domenico 2. Claudia Karagoz, Saint Louis University, Giuriati and His Visions of Women” “Double Exposures: Embodiment, 3. Fiammetta Di Lorenzo, Duke University, Vulnerability, and Agency in Letizia “‘Panico di proprietari terrieri.’ Samnites, Battaglia’s Photography” Black Beards, and Other Fables” 3. Sarah Jacobson, Michigan State University, 4. Morena Corradi, Queens College (CUNY), “Negotiating Identities: Squatting, Female “Making Italians: Education and Nation Activists, and Italy’s Far Left during the Building in Late 19th-century Italy” 1970s”
5G: 12 5I: 18.1 A RESOUNDING CENTURY: TECHNOLOGIES ITALIAN AND EUROPEAN IDENTITIES I AND WAVES OF SOUNDS Organizer and Chair: Nicola Di Nino, Saint Joseph’s Organizer: Antonella Sisto, Brown University University Chair: Valeria Federici, Brown University 1. Edoardo Barsotti, Fordham University, “A 1. Serena Ferrando, Colby College, “The Plural Italy? The Italian Identity between Technology of Noise: Reshaping Italian Unity and Diversity in Risorgimento Italy, Music One Soundwave at A Time” 1796-1848” 2. Roberta Tabanelli, University of Missouri, 2. Antonin Durand, Ecole normale supérieure – “Dissonant synchronicity. The film score in Paris, “Italian Congresses of Scientists Seen Pappi Corsicato’s Il seme della Discordia” from Abroad (1839-1848)” 3. Antonella Sisto, Brown University, “Vibrating 3. Claudio Fogu, University of California Santa Rocks and Smoke, Unseen Shapes of Sound” Barbara, “Making Italians Making Southerners” 4. Marisa Escolar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Rewriting the Gendering of ‘Redemption’ in Representations of Allied- Occupied Italy”
LUNCH 11:45am-1:00pm CSIS Annual General Meeting: Cartoon Room 1 Business Meeting: Women’s Studies Caucus: Cartoon Room 2 Business Meeting: Queer Studies Caucus: Barbie Tootle Room **Friday afternoon coffee breaks sponsored by Casalini Libri
5H: 13.2
13 SESSION 6 6C: 54 1:00-2:30pm (Friday) ITALIAN TV SERIES, TEXTS, INDUSTRIES, AUDIENCES, AND THE NARRATIVE 6A: 52.6 ECOSYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE ROUNDTABLE: ITALIAN SCREEN STUDIES: Organizers: Veronica Innocenti, Università di METHODS AND PRIORITIES VI: NEW MEDIA Bologna and Guglielmo Pescatore, Università di AND REMEDIATION Bologna Organizers: Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds and Chair: Veronica Innocenti, Università di Bologna Dana Renga, The Ohio State University 1. Veronica Innocenti, Università di Bologna Chair: Robin Pickering-Iazzi, University of and Guglielmo Pescatore, Università di Wisconsin, Milwaukee Bologna, “Narrative Ecosystems: a 1. Marta Boni, University of Montreal Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of 2. Amy Boylan, University of New Hampshire TV Series” 3. Giancarlo Lombardi, College of Staten Island 2. Luca Barra, Università di Bologna, “Rewind & The Graduate Center, CUNY and Forward. Models of Contemporary Italian TV Fiction” 6B: 49.1 3. Massimo Scaglioni, Università Cattolica del CINEMA, COMMEDIA E ITALIANITÀ: TEORIE Sacro Cuore di Milano, “Towards E PRATICHE DALLA TRADIZIONE ALLA Complexity. Birth and Evolution of Italian CONTEMPORANEITÀ I Premium Fiction” Organizer: Christian Uva, Università Roma Tre 4. Dom Holdaway, Università di Bologna, Chair: Giovanna De Luca, College of Charleston “‘Boss in salotto’: The mafia and exportable 1. Vito Zagarrio, Università Roma Tre, “Non c’è engagement in quality TV Series” più religione: fenomenologia della nuova commedia italiana” 6D: 32.3 2. Giacomo Manzoli, Università di Bologna, L’AVVENTURA INTERNAZIONALE III: “Apologia dell'orrore: Perfetti sconosciuti, la ITALIAN ARTISTIC IDENTITY SINCE WWII commedia all'italiana e l'implosione dell'idea III: POST-NATIONALISM TO POST- antiborghese” MODERNISM 3. Gius Gargiulo, MoDyCo/CNRS, Université Organizers: Elizabeth Mangini, California College of Paris Nanterre, “L’allenatore nel pallone 1 e 2, the Arts and Adrian R. Duran, University of l’epos capovolto dal tragico al comico per Nebraska at Omaha un’identità italiana tra passato e presente” Chairs: Laura Petican, Texas A&M University- 4. Lia Turtas, Cornell University, “The New Corpus Christi Mask of Commedia all’italiana: Gabriele 1. Martina Tanga, College of the Holy Cross, Mainetti’s Superhero Comedy Films” “Collectivism to Individualism - The Shape of Italian Artists’ Group Identity in the 1960s- 70s” 2. Francesca Della Ventura, University of Cologne, Germany, “Italian art in the 1980s: The Transavanguardia movement and questions of Italian national identity” 3. Sasha Goldman, Boston University, “Maurizio Cattelan: Performing the Pulcinella”
6E: 13.1
14 EXPOSED TO THE WORLD: FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING VULNERABILITIES IN POST-WAR AND WORKSHOP SERIES II NEOLIBERAL ITALY II Organizer: Janice M. Aski, The Ohio State Organizers: Alessandra Montalbano, University of University Alabama and Jonathan Mullins, The Ohio State Chiara Fabbian, University of Illinois, Chicago, University “Blended Learning Environments: Design, Chair: Alessandra Montalbano, University of Alabama Implementation, and Teacher Preparation” 1. Stefania Porcelli, The Graduate Center, CUNY, “Becoming Active: Emotions in 6I: 41 Goliarda Sapienza’s L’Arte della Gioia” TRAUMA AND THE BODY 2. Filippo Trentin, University of Pennsylvania, Organizer and Chair: Nicoletta Pazzaglia, Miami “Bodies, Surfaces and Things: On Pasolini’s University, Ohio Queer Materialism” 1. Alessandro Giradino, St. Lawrence 3. Katherine Travers, New York University, University, “L’Odore del fieno, tra Sigmund “Patrizia Valduga: Feminist Readings of Freud et Jacques Derrida” Masochistic Vulnerabilities” 2. Sara Mattavelli, The College of William & Mary, “Il trauma dell’abbandono, un segno 6F: 18.2 scritto sul corpo delle donne” ITALIAN AND EUROPEAN IDENTITIES II 3. Giuliano Migliori, University of North Organizers: Nicola Di Nino, Saint Joseph’s Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Corporeal University chronotopoi: new literary ‘characters’ in Chair: Marisa Escolar, University of North Carolina Primo Levi and Liana Millu” at Chapel Hill 4. Tatjana Babic Williams, Purdue University, 1. Cassandra Marsillo, Concordia University, “‘Voice through the Wound’: Of Trauma and “Collective Memory and the ‘Myth of Healing in Igiaba Scego’s Oltre Babilonia” Exclusion’: The Case of Saint-Leonard, 1945-1971” 6J Wexner Center Film/Video Theater 2. Nicola Di Nino, Saint Joseph’s QUEER STUDIES CAUCUS SCREENING AND University, “‘Laida e meschina Italietta’: AUDIENCE DISCUSSION Literature and National Identity in the 20th Chair: Julia Heim, The Graduate Center, CUNY Century” Al di là dello specchio (On the Other Side of the Mirror, 3. Eleanor Paynter, The Ohio State Cecilia Grasso, 2015) University, “Claiming the National in a Transnational Space: Italianità in Igiaba SESSION 7 Scego’s ‘La mia casa è dove sono’” 2:45-4:15pm (Friday)
6G: 25.1 7A: Wexner Center Film/Video Theater RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY IN ITALIAN SCREENING AND DISCUSSION WITH THE MODERNISM I DIRECTOR Organizers: Monica Jansen, Utrecht University and Blaxploitalian: 100 Years of Blackness in Italian Luca Somigli, University of Toronto Cinema (Fred Kuwornu, 2016) Chair: Monica Jansen, Utrecht University 1. Dario Marcucci, The Graduate Center, CUNY, “Piero Jahier’s con me e con gli alpini. Rhetorical Techniques and French Influences” 2. Jennifer Griffiths, The American University of Rome, “A Theosophical Face to Futurism” 3. Laura Wittman, Stanford University, “Religious Umorismo in Pirandello’s Lazzaro”
6H: 7B: 49.2
15 CINEMA, COMMEDIA E ITALIANITÀ: TEORIE INTRECCI INTERTESTUALI TRA ARTI, E PRATICHE DALLA TRADIZIONE ALLA GENERI, LETTERATURE CONTEMPORANEITÀ II Organizer: AAIS/CSIS Organizer: Christian Uva, Università Roma Tre Chair: Dan Paul, The Ohio State University Chair: Giacomo Manzoli, Università di Bologna 1. Cristina Caracchini, Western University, 1. Alberto Zambenedetti, University of Toronto, “Che altro, oltre al titolo? Le Gioie d’occasione “Being Funny Abroad: Diego Abatantuono di Sibilla Aleramo e Gabrielle Roy” and the Comedies of (Italian) Existential 2. Francesca Facchi, University of Toronto, Mobility” “The ‘Birth of Pirandello’s Tragedy’: 2. Christian Uva, Università Roma Tre, “Italiani convergences between Nietzsche’s The Birth of brutta gente: commedia, disillusione e Tragedy and The Mountain Giants” controstoria in alcuni progetti inediti di Ennio 3. Paolo Matteucci, Dalhousie University, De Concini” “Intertestualità e polifonia in Blackout (1980) 3. Giovanna De Luca, College of Charleston, di Nanni Balestrini” “Comic Representation of Mafia in 4. Visnja Bandalo, University of Zagreb, Contemporary Italian Cinema” “Tendenze moderniste nell’interpretazione del 4. Ruth Glynn, University of Bristol, “Accented figurativo di Cristina Campo” Cinema and the Anti-Camorra Comedy: Questioning Cinematic italianità” 7F: 25.2 RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY IN ITALIAN 7C: 8 MODERNISM II ROUNDTABLE: THE LONG ‘800: THE Organizers: Monica Jansen, Utrecht University and REPURCUSSIONS OF (DIS)UNIFICATION Luca Somigli, University of Toronto PROCESSES UP TO THE PRESENT Chair: Matteo Brera, Utrecht University Organizer and Chair: Mark Epstein, Independent 1. Giuseppe Gazzola, Stony Brook University, Scholar “Modernism, Modernismo: A Tale of Common 1. Mark Epstein, Independent Scholar Origins” 2. Andrea Righi, Miami University 2. Monica Jansen, Utrecht University and Luca 3. Morena Corradi, Queens College, CUNY Somigli, University of Toronto, “The Aesthetics and Politics of Anti-Clericalism in 7D: 26 Late Futurism” SCRITTURE SPERIMENTALI/EXPERIMENTAL 3. Nina Valbousquet, Center for Jewish History WRITINGS (New York City), “Catholic Anti-Modernism Organizers: Gianluca Rizzo, Colby College, Beppe and the Modernity of Fascism: Integral Cavatorta, University of Arizon Tuscon and Federica Catholicism, Nationalism, and Antisemitism Santini, Kennesaw State University in Fede e Ragione” Chair: Gianluca Rizzo, Colby College 1. Gianluca Rizzo, Colby College, “What’s Left 7G: 71 of 63: Mariano Bàino and the Avant-garde ROUNDTABLE: TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS With Two ‘nei’” FOR SUCCESSFUL TEACHING & LEARNING 2. Federica Santini, Kennesaw State University, Organizers: Fiona M. Stewart, Pepperdine University “Di siepe in siepe: Re-mapping Carla Vasio's and Deena R. Levy, Pennsylvania State University L’Orizzonte” Chair: Camilla Zamboni, Wesleyan University 3. Beppe Cavatorta, University of Arizon 1. Metello Mugnai, Westchester University of Tuscon, “Giulia Niccolai: Una serie di scatti Pennsylvania per il nuovo romanzo” 2. Deena R. Levy, Pennsylvania State University 3. Louise F. Hipwell, Georgetown University 4. Johanna Rossi Wagner, Pennsylvania State University
7E: 16 7H:
16 INSTRUMENTS OF POWER IN MODERN 9:00-10:30 (Saturday) ITALIAN ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPES Organizers: Kay Bea Jones, The Ohio State 8A: 52.8 University and Stephanie Pilat, University of ROUNDTABLE: ITALIAN SCREEN STUDIES: Oklahoma METHODS AND PRIORITIES VII: Chair: Kay Bea Jones, The Ohio State University CIRCULATION AND DISTRIBUTION 1. Lucy Maulsby, Northeastern University, Organizers: Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds and “Instruments of Power: Fascist Party Dana Renga, The Ohio State University Headquarters and the Transformation of the Chair: Marta Boni, Université de Montréal Modern Italian City” 1. Massimo Scaglioni, Università Cattolica del 2. Paolo Sanza, Oklahoma State University, Sacro Cuore “Mens Sana in Corpore Sano: The 2. Luca Barra, Università di Bologna Architecture of the ONB” 3. Dom Holdaway, Università di Bologna 3. Jonathan Mekinda, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Projecting Politics: The Powers of 8B: 51.1 Planning in Mid-Century Milan” ITALIAN CINEMA IN THE PRESENT TENSE: CASE STUDIES AND CONTEMPORARY 7I: 15.1 TRENDS I INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN POLITICS, Organizer and Chair: Millicent Marcus, Yale SOCIETY, AND CULTURE IN ITALY DURING University THE FIRST REPUBLIC (1946-1992) I 1. Giovanna Faleschini Lerner, Franklin & Organizers: Marco Marino, Sant’Anna Institute and Marshall College, “Liquid Maternity in Italian Brian J. Gilley, Indiana University Migration Cinema” Chair: Brian J. Gilley, Indiana University 2. Christopher Kaiser, Yale University, 1. Domenico Palumbo, Sant’Anna Institute, “Fuocoammare: Italy, Refugees, and the “Panorama Gadda: il reale, il barocco e Academy Awards” l’entelechia della zucca” 3. Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Dickinson College, 2. Jim Carter, University of Michigan, “Through the Lazy Eye: Tropes of Denial, “Consumption and the Politics of Youth in Disorientation, and Healing in Gianfranco 1960s Italy: The Case of Piaggio” Rosi’s Fuocoammare (2016) and Its Afterlife” 3. Brian J. Gilley, Indiana University, “Ischia and Competing Food Nostalgia after the 8C: 39 Miracle” BETWEEN THE COLOR LINE: RACIAL IDENTITY IN ITALIAN (IM)MIGRANT PLENARY SESSION STUDIES/CULTURE 4:30-5:30 Organizer and Chair: Cinzia Marongiu, Johannes Wexner Center, Film/Video Theater Gutenber Universität in Mainz Ruth Ben-Ghiat, New York University, “Leaps of 1. Barbara Garbin, Skidmore College, “Emma Faith: On Intuition and Interdisciplinarity in Italian Brescia Warren: an Italian Amidst the Mid- Studies” 20th Century Literary Hegemony” 2. Patrizia Famà Stahle, College of Coastal RECEPTION Georgia, “Race, Identity and Racial Pressure. 5:45-7:30 The Italian Immigrant Experience in the The Ohio Union United States 1870-1945” Co-sponsored by Taylor & Francis 3. Cinzia Marongiu, Johannes Gutenber Universität in Mainz, “Harlem Toponymy SATURDAY 22 APRIL and Color Line in Kym Ragusa’s works” REGISTRATION 4. Simonetta Milli Konewko, University of 8:00am-6:00pm Wisconsin, Milwaukee, “Maria Laurino’s Outside Cartoon Room, The Ohio Union ‘Were you Always an Italian?’ And the Sound of Southern Italian Dialect”
SESSION 8 8D: 42.1
17 TRAVELS IN ITALY AND ITALIAN ROUNDTABLE: IN CELEBRATION OF DARIO TRAVELING ABROAD I FO (1926-2016) Organizer: Cristina Perissinotto, University of Ottawa Organizer: Juliet Guzzetta, Michigan State Chair: Osvaldo Croci, Memorial University University 1. Alberto Gelmi, The Graduate Center, CUNY, Chair: Antonio Scuderi, Truman State University “A Florentine in the Middle East: Fazio degli 1. Andrea Scapolo, Duke University. “Dario Fo Uberti in Palestine” and Franca Rame’s Politics of Theatre” 2. Kristina Varade, The Graduate Center, 2. Francesca Spedalieri, The Ohio State CUNY, “The correspondence of Charles University, “Jesturing” Politics: Jesters, Lever in Italy during the Risorgimento” Clowns, and the Political Body in 3. Sabrina Righi, University of Michigan, “The Dario Fo’s Mistero Buffo” City in Sibilla Aleramo’s A Woman and Dacia 3. Juliet Guzzetta, Michigan State University, Maraini’s Woman at War: a Space of “Starring Dario Fo, Franca Rame, and the Resistance?” Entire Audience
8E: 7.1 8H: 24.1 JEWISH STUDIES CAUCUS: THE NEW ITALY NEW TENDENCIES IN CONTEMPORARY AND THE JEWS (IN THE 19TH CENTURY) I ITALIAN THOUGHT I Organizers: Jonathan Druker, Illinois State Organizer: Andrea Righi, Miami University University and L. Scott Lerner, Franklin & Marshall Chair: Daniele Fioretti, Miami University College 1. Alessandra Montalbano, University of Chair: Jonathan Druker, Illinois State University Alabama, “The Human Condition in Italian 1. Gabriella Romani, Seton Hall University, Feminism and Biopolitics” “Erminia Fuà Fusinato and Her Definition of 2. Mauro Resmini, University of Maryland, Womanhood in Unified Italy” “Post-Operaismo and the Question of 2. Michael Sherberg, Washington University, History: Tronti, Negri, Virno” “The Romance of Edgardo Mortara: Riccardo 3. Andrea Righi, Miami University, “Digitality Castelvecchio’s La famiglia ebrea” and the Challenge of Philosophy” 3. Tatiana Zavodny, University of California, 4. Barbara Ottaviani Jones, Arizona State San Diego, “Competing Ideologies in 19th- University, “Dream or Reality? The Century Italy: The Mortara Case and the Contemporary Society of the Media in Matteo Nationalist Cause” Garrone’s Reality”
8F: 22 8I: 29.1 LATIN AMERICA IN THE CONTEMPORARY WOMEN’S STUDIES CAUCUS PANEL: ANNA ITALIAN IMAGINATION AND EXPERIENCE MARIA ORTESE I Organizer and Chair: Francesca Parmeggiani, Organizer and Chair: Cosetta Seno, University of Fordham University Colorado at Boulder 1. Manuel Chinchilla, University of the South, 1. Cristina Della Coletta, University of “Re-imaginings of Mexican History and California, San Diego, “‘A Pair of Glasses’ by Revolution in the Works of Pino Cacucci and Anna Maria Ortese and its Cinematographic Cesare Battisti” Version by Carlo Damasco” 2. Laura Martín, Universidad Nacional de 2. Gian Maria Annovi, University of Southern Cuyo, “Storie che attraversano lo spazio e il California, “Anna Maria Ortese and the tempo. Stefano Panzeri’s Oltreoceano come Mediterranean Effect” veicolo della memoria” 3. Rossella Di Rosa, University of Georgia, 3. Francesca Parmeggiani, Fordham University, “Zoopoiesi e creature teriomorfe nel Cardillo “Laura Pariani’s America” addolorato di Anna Maria Ortese”
8G: 14 8J: 61
18 BEYOND THE TEXTBOOK: INNOVATIVE QUEER STUDIES CAUCUS: QUEER / EXILE / APPROACHES FOR A SHARED, LOW-COST, MIGRATION AND CUSTOMIZABLE ITALIAN Organizer: AAIS Queer Studies Caucus CURRICULUM Chair: SA Smythe, University of California, Santa Organizers: Daniela Bartalesi-Graf, Wellesley College Barbara and Camilla Zamboni, Wesleyan University 1. Christopher B. Atwood, Independent Scholar, Chair: Daniela Bartalesi-Graf, Wellesley College “Meglio fascista che frocio” 1. Marina Della Putta Johnston, University of 2. Sole Anatrone, Wesleyan University, “A Pennsylvania, “Going Bookless: Creating a Cinema of Citation: Migration on the Italian Fluid Language Curriculum” Screen” 2. Lorraine Denman, University of Pittsburgh, 3. Shelleen Greene, University of Wisconsin, “Intercultural Competence and Milwaukee, “Violenza segreta: Queer Desire Multiculturalism in the Non-Traditional and the Italian Postcolonial Imaginary” Language Curriculum” 3. Samuel Ghelli, York College/CUNY, “Alcune 9D: 42.2 buone ragioni per rinunciare a materiali TRAVELS IN ITALY AND ITALIAN preconfezionati ed affidarsi a materiali TRAVELING ABROAD II originali autoprodotti Organizer and Chair: Cristina Perissinotto, University 4. Camilla Zamboni, Wesleyan University, of Ottawa “Assaggi: a Low-cost and Customizable 1. Osvaldo Croci, Memorial University, “Twice Approach to the Intermediate Italian Lost in Translation: Or a Linguistic Curriculum” Misunderstanding in the Football Upset of the Twentieth Century” SESSION 9 2. Erica Moretti, Fashion Institute of 10:45-12:15 (Saturday) Technology, “Burned by the Tuscan Sun? Counter Narratives Through Oral 9A: 52.9 History for Sustainable Tourism” ROUNDTABLE: ITALIAN SCREEN STUDIES: 3. Rosario Pollicino, Western University, METHODS AND PRIORITIES VIII: POLITICAL “Identity Making in the Italian Colonial CINEMA Space” Organizers: Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds and Dana Renga, The Ohio State University 9E: 7.2 Chair: Christian Uva, Università Roma Tre JEWISH STUDIES CAUCUS: THE NEW ITALY 1. Giacomo Manzoli, Università di Bologna AND THE JEWS (IN THE 19TH & 20TH 2. Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Dickinson College CENTURY) II 3. Vito Zagarrio, Università Roma Tre Organizers: Jonathan Druker, Illinois State University and L. Scott Lerner, Franklin & Marshall 9B: 60 College UNCONVENTIONAL STARDOM IN ITALIAN Chair: Gabriella Romani, Seton Hall University SCREEN STUDIES 1. Alessandro Grazi, University of Amsterdam, Organizers: Catherine O’Rawe, University of Bristol “Diverging Regional Approaches to Italian and Danielle Hipkins, University of Exeter Nationalism and Nation-Building: Turin Chair: Amy Boylan, University of New Hampshire Versus Padua” 1. Danielle Hipkins, University of Exeter, “The 2. L. Scott Lerner, Franklin & Marshall College, Impossibility of the Girl Star” “The New Italy on the Road to Jerusalem: 2. Catherine O’Rawe, University of Bristol, D’Azeglio, Verdi and the santa libertà” “Acting, Non-Acting, and Unconventional 3. Nancy Harrowitz, Boston University, “Viva Stardom from Neorealism to Fuocoammare” Maria, Parallel Nationalization and Italian 3. Dana Renga, The Ohio State University, Jewish Identity” “The Face of Italian Criminal Television”
9C: 36 9F: 24.2
19 NEW TENDENCIES IN CONTEMPORARY 12:15-1:45pm ITALIAN THOUGHT II AAIS Annual General Meeting: Cartoon Room 1 Organizer and Chair: Andrea Righi, Miami University 1. Corrado Claverini, L’Università degli Studi SESSION 10 Vita-Salute San Raffaele di Milano, “Dalla 1:45-3:15pm (Saturday) storiografia idealistica alla genealogia biopolitica di Roberto Esposito. La dialettica 10A: 52.7 cosmopolitismo-nazionalismo vista attraverso ROUNDTABLE: ITALIAN SCREEN STUDIES: la storia della storiografia filosofica italiana” METHODS AND PRIORITIES IX: QUEER 2. Daniele Fioretti, Miami University, “For a ITALIAN SCREEN STUDIES (IN Critique of the Purity: Biopolitics, Post- ASSOCIATION WITH THE QUEER STUDIES human, and Zooanthropology in Roberto CAUCUS) Esposito and Roberto Marchesini” Organizers: Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds and 3. Achille Castaldo, Duke University, Dana Renga, The Ohio State University “Agamben’s Concepts of Use, Inoperativity, and Chair: Sergio Rigoletto, University of Oregon Inappropriable and the Thought of Furio Jesi 1. Jonathan Mullins, The Ohio State University and Gianni Carchia” 2. Julia Heim, The Graduate Center, CUNY 4. Paola Basile, Lake Erie College, “Pensiero 3. Filippo Trentin, University of Pennsylvania italiano? Un dialogo ‘multiversale’ in 4. Joseph Perna, The University of the South cammino” 10B: 51.2 9G: 29.2 ITALIAN CINEMA IN THE PRESENT TENSE: WOMEN’S STUDIES CAUCUS PANEL: ANNA CASE STUDIES AND CONTEMPORARY MARIA ORTESE II TRENDS II Organizer: Cosetta Seno, University of Colorado at Organizers: Millicent Marcus, Yale University Boulder Chair: Giovanna Faleschini Lerner, Franklin & Chair: Gian Maria Annovi, University of Southern Marshall College California, 1. Fabiana Cecchini, Texas A&M University, “Il 1. Laura Lucia Rossi, University of Leeds, racconto dei racconti di Matteo Garrone: Una “Indeterminacy and the Iguana-novel of Anna riflessione sull’amore in stile fantasy-horror Maria Ortese” declinati all’italiana” 2. Sharon Widmer, Università della Svizzera 2. Mary Ann Carolan, Fairfield University, “The italiana, Lugano, “Anna Maria Ortese: Un Chinese in Italy from Documentary to ritratto futurista” Feature Film” 3. Millicent Marcus, Yale University, “From the 9H: 67 Mirror of Narcissus to Mirror Neurons: New ROUNDTABLE: ROUNDTABLE ON ITALIAN Reflections on the Neuro-aesthetics of Italian PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION Film” Organizers: Elena Past, Wayne State University and Lina Insana, University of Pittsburgh Chair: Lina Insana, University of Pittsburgh 1. Giovanna Faleschini Lerner, Franklin & Marshall College 2. Valerio Ferme, University of Colorado at Boulder 3. Paolo Giordano, University of Central Florida 4. Nathalie Hester, University of Oregon 5. Harinder Khalsa, University of Oregon 6. Ellen Nerenberg, Wesleyan University 7. Federico Pacchioni, Chapman University
LUNCH 10C: 50
20 WOMEN’S STUDIES CAUCUS ANNUAL DANTE AND WOMEN I GUEST SPEAKER EVENT: LORELLA Organizers: Carol Chiodo, Yale University and ZANARDO PRESENTS “FEMMINISMO PORTA Monica Streifer, University of California, Los Angeles A PORTA: INFORMARE ATTRAVERSO Chair: Monica Streifer, University of California, Los INTERNET E ATTIVARE IL CAMBIAMENTO Angeles ATTRAVERSO INCONTRI DAL VIVO SUL 1. Alessandro Vettori, Rutgers University, TERRITORIO” “Matelda the Priest in Purgatorio 28-33” Organizers: Emanuela Zanotti Carney, University of 2. Carol Chiodo, Yale University, “Dante at Illinois at Chicago, Cosetta Seno, University of Hand. Phoebe Anna Traquair illustrates Colorado at Boulder, Alberta Lai, Italian Cultural Dante’s Comedy” Institute of Chicago 3. Andrea Quaini, “Anna Maria Chiavacci Chair: Emanuela Zanotti Carney, University of Leonardi: una dantista e le donne della Divina Illinois at Chicago Commedia” 1. Lorella Zanardo, “Femminismo Porta a Porta: Informare attraverso Internet e attivare il 10G: 7.3 cambiamento attraverso incontri dal vivo sul JEWISH STUDIES CAUCUS: THE NEW ITALY territorio” AND THE JEWS (IN THE 19TH & 20TH CENTURY) III 10D: 40 Organizers: Jonathan Druker, Illinois State PLACING SICILY University and L. Scott Lerner, Franklin & Marshall Organizer: Lina Insana, University of Pittsburgh College Chair: Claudia Karagoz, St. Louis University Chair: L. Scott Lerner, Franklin & Marshall College 1. Carola Farci, Università di Padova, “L’isola 1. Ernest Ialongo, Hostos Community College, che non c’è: la Sicilia di Giorgio Vasta” “Nation Building through Antisemitism: 2. Lina Insana, University of Pittsburgh, “Sicily Political Mobilization & Culture in the and the Black Mediterranean: Charting the Persecution of Italian Jews, 1936-1945” Island with Mussolini, Vittorini, and Sciascia” 2. Jonathan Druker, Illinois State University, 3. Chiara Mazzucchelli, University of Central “Community and Trauma in Bassani’s ‘Una Florida, “Heart of My Race: Sicily in Sicilian- lapide in via Mazzini’” American Literature” 3. Andrea Malaguti, University of Massachusetts Amherst, “Il giovane Giorgio: 10E: 42.3 ebraismo e soggetto narrante ne Gli occhiali TRAVELS IN ITALY AND ITALIAN d’oro di Giorgio Bassani” TRAVELING ABROAD III 4. Jesse Rosenberg, Northwestern University, Organizer: Cristina Perissinotto, University of Ottawa “Guilt and Operatic Atonement in Post- Chair: Jessica Henderson, The Ohio State University Holocaust Italy” 1. Matteo Brera, Utrecht University, “A Tennessean in Rome. Nancy Cox McCormack Memoirs of Italy (1922-1924)” 2. Giulia Po DeLisle, University of Massachusetts Lowell, “Traveling to the Island of Leros in Simona Vinci’s La prima verità” 3. Sandro Corso, Italian Consulate in Chicago, “Travelling and Re-inventing Places: the Case of Sardinia”
10F: 37.1 10H: 15.2
21 INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN POLITICS, THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS AT 50 SOCIETY, AND CULTURE IN ITALY DURING Organizer: Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds THE FIRST REPUBLIC (1946-1992) II Chair: Catherine O’Rawe, University of Bristol Organizers: Marco Marino, Sant’Anna Institute and 1. Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds, “End Brian J. Gilley, Indiana University Times and After Times: The Character of the Chair: Marco Marino, Sant’Anna Institute Postcolonial in The Battle of Algiers” 1. Joshua Davies, University of Tennessee at 2. Luca Peretti, Yale University, “Before The Chattanooga, “Romulus after the War: The Battle of Algiers: The Politics of ENI in North Roman Foundation Legend in Italian Cinema Africa and an Unmade Film on Colonialism” 1945-1976” 3. Andrea Sartori, Brown University, “The 2. Daniele Forlino, University of Wisconsin, Dispositive of War: Reflections on The Battle Madison, “La fabbrica si riprende: il of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo” documentario industriale” 3. John Paul Russo, University of Miami, 11C: 35 “Political Fellini: from Prova d’orchestra (1978) ROUNDTABLE: QUEER STUDIES to E la nave va (1983).” CAUCUS/WOMEN’S STUDIES CAUCUS: FERTILITY DAY: WOMEN, GENDER, 10I: SEXUALITY AND QUEER STUDIES AT AAIS FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING Organizer: Manuela Zanotti Carney, University of WORKSHOP SERIES III Illinois at Chicago Organizer: Janice M. Aski, The Ohio State Chair: Juliet Guzzetta, Michigan State University University 1. Zachary J. Vogt, The College of William & Tom Means, Borough of Manhattan Community Mary College, CUNY, “Task-based Language Teaching as a 2. SA Smythe, University of California, Santa Scaffold for Authentic Student Interaction” Barbara 3. Lorella Zanardo, Independent Activist and SESSION 11 Author 3:30-5:00pm (Saturday) 11D: 37.2 11A: 52.11 DANTE AND WOMEN II ROUNDTABLE: ITALIAN SCREEN STUDIES: Organizers: Carol Chiodo, Yale University and METHODS AND PRIORITIES X: Monica Streifer, University of California, Los Angeles MIGRATION/POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES Chair: Carol Chiodo, Yale University Organizers: Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds and 1. Vanessa DiMaggio, University of Dana Renga, The Ohio State University Pennsylvania, “Imperial Peace and Factional Chair: Áine O’Healy, Loyola Marymount University Strife: Constance and Piccarda in Paradiso 1. Cosetta Gaudenzi, University of Memphis III” 2. Michael Gott, University of Cincinnati 2. Vanessa Fanelli, University of Texas at 3. Avy Valledaras, University of California, Austin, “Eve and the Veil of Knowledge” Berkeley 3. Anna Love, Indiana University, “A Male 4. Gaoheng Zhang, University of British Model of Identity for the Female Religious: Columbia the Case of Dante’s Piccarda”
11B: 57 11E: 20
22 ROUNDTABLE: ITALIAN FUTURES ITALIAN FOOD CULTURE IN THE Organizers: Robert A. Rushing, University of Illinois CLASSROOM at Urbana-Champaign and Arielle Saiber, Bowdoin Organizer and Chair: Andrea Polegato, University of College North Texas Chair: Robert A. Rushing, University of Illinois at 1. Teresa Lobalsamo, University of Toronto Urbana-Champaign Mississauga, “Tutti a tavola a studiare: Italian 1. Robert A. Rushing, University of Illinois at History and Culture through Food” Urbana-Champaign 2. Juliann Vitullo, Arizona State University, 2. Arielle Saiber, Bowdoin College “Reflecting on Local, Place-Based Food 3. Roberto Risso, Clemson University Practices through the Study of the 4. Elena Past, Wayne State University Mediterranean Diet in Italy” 5. Luca Somigli, University of Toronto 3. Samuel Ghelli, York College/CUNY, “Il sapore unico di certe parole” 11F: 70 ROUNDTABLE: TEACHING PAOLA MASINO 11I: 68 Organizers: Cosetta Seno, University of Colorado at ROUNDTABLE: TEACHING ITALIAN IN THE Boulder and Emanuela Zanotti Carney, University of AGE OF HYBRID AND MEGA CLASSES Illinois at Chicago Organizers: Andrea Sau, Teach for America and Chair: Silvia Valisa, Florida State University Cristina Perissinotto, University of Ottawa 1. Tristana Rorandelli, Sarah Lawrence College Chair: TBD 2. Louise Rozier, University of Arkansas 1. Sandra Parmegiani, University of Guelph 3. Silvia Valisa, Florida State University 2. Cristina Perissinotto, University of Ottawa 4. Cosetta Seno, University of Colorado at 3. Andrea Villarini, Università per Stranieri di Boulder Siena 5. Arianna Ceschin, Università di Venezia 4. Mary Watt, University of Florida
11G: 28.1 SESSION 12 THE “CANNIBALS” OF LITERATURE: 5:15-6:45pm (Saturday) LINEAGES AND TRENDS IN THE ITALIAN NARRATIVE FICTION OF THE NINETIES I 12A: 52.12 Organizers: Carlo Baghetti, Aix-Marseille Université, ROUNDTABLE: ITALIAN SCREEN STUDIES: Danila Cannamela, University of St. Thomas, and METHODS AND PRIORITIES XI: CLOSING Achille Castaldo, Duke University PANEL Chair: Stefania Lucamante, Catholic University of Organizers: Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds and America Dana Renga, The Ohio State University 1. Stefania Lucamante, Catholic University of Chair: Dana Renga, The Ohio State University America, “Introducing the Young Cannibal 1. Millicent Marcus, Yale University Writers” 2. Ruth Ben-Ghiat, New York University 2. Eleonora Boscolo, University of Connecticut, 3. Sally Hill, University of Victoria at “Pulp Reality in the Works of Niccolò Wellington Ammaniti and Aldo Nove” 3. Claudia Romanelli, University of Alabama, “Quel che resta di pulp in Stabat Mater di Tiziano Scarpa”
11H: 66 12B: 58
23 ROUNDTABLE: THE LANDSCAPE OF ROUNDTABLE: RESEARCHING AND REALITY: THE CINEMA OF GIANFRANCO TEACHING THE OTTOCENTO: CURRENT ROSI PRACTICES AND FUTURE CHALLENGES Organizers: Alberto Lo Pinto, University of Notre Organizers: Gabriella Romani, Seton Hall University Dame and Lorenzo Dell’Oso, University of Notre and Katharine Mitchell, University of Strathclyde Dame Chair: Katharine Mitchell, University of Strathclyde Chair: Alberto Zambenedetti, University of Toronto 1. Gabriella Romani, Seton Hall University 1. Alberto Zambenedetti, University of Toronto 2. Katharine Mitchell, University of Strathclyde 2. John Welle, University of Notre Dame 3. Maria Grazia Lolla, Harvard University 3. Áine O’Healy, Loyola Marymount University 4. Ombretta Frau, Mount Holyoke College 4. Emiliano Guaraldo Rodriguez, The 5. Monica Streifer, University of California, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Riverside 5. Alberto Lo Pinto, University of Notre Dame 6. Lorenzo Dell’Oso, University of Notre Dame 12F: 30 GLOBAL ITALY: THE LITERARY AND 12C: 38 CINEMATIC JOURNEY LEGACIES OF THE THREE CROWNS Organizer and Chair: Johanna Rossi Wagner, Penn Organizer: Sherry Roush, Penn State University State University Chair: Fiona M. Stewart, Pepperdine University 1. Gaoheng Zhang, University of British 1. Christopher Nissen, Northern Illinois Columbia, “The ‘Chinese Mafia’ in Italian University, “Paganism, Christianity and Crime Reporting, 1992-1995” Romance in the Elegia di madonna Fiammetta” 2. Xin Liu, Pennsylvania State University, 2. Sherry Roush, Penn State University at “Rethinking ‘Italian Political Pilgrimage’ to University Park, “Niccolò Franco's Letter to China in the 1950s” (the Dead) Petrarch” 3. Michele Monserrati, Bryn Mawr College, 3. Arielle Saiber, Bowdoin College, “Paul “Brother in Arms: Italian Representations of Laffoley’s ‘The Divine Comedy Triptych’ Japan in the Fascist Era” (1972-1975)” 4. Kathleen LaPenta, Fordham University, “Postmemory and Exile in Franca Magnani’s 12D: 9 Una famiglia italiana” MODELLI EDUCATIVI NELLA LETTERATURA PER LE BAMBINE: DALLA 12G: 28.2 CONTESSA LARA A GIANA ANGUISSOLA THE “CANNIBALS” OF LITERATURE: Organizer: Cosetta Seno, University of Colorado at LINEAGES AND TRENDS IN THE ITALIAN Boulder NARRATIVE FICTION OF THE NINETIES II Chair: Sandra Parmegiani, University of Guelph Organizers: Carlo Baghetti, Aix-Marseille Université, 1. Nunzia Soglia, Università di Salerno, “Laura Danila Cannamela, University of St. Thomas, and Orvieto e la grande Guerra raccontata ai Achille Castaldo, Duke University bambini” Chair: Danila Cannamela, University of St. Thomas 2. Alessandra Trevisan, Università di Venezia, 1. Barbara Martelli, University of Auckland, “Silvia Salvagnini e Vivian Maier: ‘immagini’ New Zealand, “Embodied Critique into pedagogiche dell’infanzia tra poesia e Dismembered Bodies: the 1990s Counter- fotografia” narratives of the Neonoir and Giovani 3. Silvia Valisa, Florida State University, “Briefly Cannibali Writers” Visible: tracce di educatrici italiane alla 2. Emanuela Pecchioli, University at Buffalo, “I Columbus Fair di Chicago, 1893” cannibali e il cinema” 3. David Ward, Wellesley College, “From the Raw to the Cooked: Aldo Nove and Ipermodernità (Hypermodernity)”
12E: 72 12H: 69
24 TEACHING ITALIAN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE THROUGH FOOD: THREE UNIQUE APPROACHES Organizer: Simona Muratore, Emory University Chair: Chiara De Santi, State University of New York at Fredonia 1. Chiara De Santi, State University of New York at Fredonia, “Italian Food Culture in the Classroom: Cook It!” 2. Simona Muratore, Emory University, “At the Italian Sustainable Table: A Multidisciplinary, Content-based Approach to Foreign Language Instruction and Cuisine” 3. Christine Ristaino, Emory University, “Noodles on the Silk Road: A Cultural Exploration of China and Italy Through Noodles”
12I: 27 SETTANT’ANNI E NON SENTIRLI: ENNIO FLAIANO’S TEMPO DI UCCIDERE Organizers: Derek Duncan, University of St. Andrews and Mattia Roveri, New York University Chair: Mattia Roveri, New York University 1. Marisa Trubiano, Montclair State University, “Tempo di uccidere in Translation” 2. Mattia Roveri, New York University, “Between Colonialism and Fascism: the Military in Ennio Flaiano’s Tempo di uccidere”
COCKTAIL HOUR AND BANQUET 7:30-10:30pm ($50.00, paid in advance) The Blackwell Hotel
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