SCONTRI E INCONTRI: THE DYNAMICS OF ITALIAN TRANSCULTURAL EXCHANGES 9th Biennial ACIS Conference Monash University Prato Centre 4-7 July 2017 TABLE OF CONTENTS WELCOME FROM ACIS 2 WELCOME FROM THE CONFERENCE CONVENORS 3 CONFERENCE PROGRAM 4 KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS 10 PLENARY PANEL 14 PRE‐CONVENED PANELS 15 ABSTRACTS 16 WELCOME FROM ACIS On behalf of the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS) I am delighted to welcome everyone to our 9th Biennial Conference in Prato. Our previous conferences have been held across Australasia in Canberra, Perth, Brisbane, Auckland, Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney. In 2005 we organised our conference at the Cassamarca Foundation’s Casa dei Carraresi in Treviso so it is a pleasure now to return to Italy and hold this conference in Prato. As always we are very grateful to the universities which have supported the events and to their staff, academic and administrative, who have worked so hard to organise them. In this case our thanks are due to Monash and La Trobe universities for the opportunity to meet in Monash’s Prato Centre. Staging the conference in Italy offers particular encouragement for scholars from both Australasia and overseas to participate, establish or renew contacts, and exchange ideas. Ensuring a mix of participants from different places, disciplines and statuses has been a hallmark of ACIS conferences so we are very pleased to welcome everyone from our keynote speakers to the postgraduate scholars who will be the keynote speakers of the future. We hope that you all, old friends and new, will enjoy a productive, intellectually exciting conference, enlivened also by the convivial evening atmosphere which no group of people with experience of Italian life could possibly fail to create. David Moss Chair, ACIS 2 WELCOME FROM THE CONFERENCE CONVENORS It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the Monash Prato Centre for the 9th Biennial ACIS Conference. In selecting the conference theme, ‘Scontri e incontri: the dynamics of Italian transcultural exchanges’, we aim to provide an interdisciplinary platform to identify, discuss and debate those trends and turning‐points which characterise advances in society, science and the arts in terms of clashes, connections and encounters. The program for the conference promises to be equal to this task. We are privileged to have four eminent and thought‐provoking keynote speakers. As is the tradition with ACIS conferences, we have selected keynote speakers representing a range of areas of expertise under the broad umbrella of Italian Studies. Pierangela Diadori explores questions of interculturality and multiculturalism primarily through the lens of linguistics, Maurizio Isabella specializes in intellectual, political and cultural history, Nicholas Terpstra focuses on the Renaissance and early modern period and Barbara Spackman is a literature scholar specialising in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We are also delighted at the richness and diversity of the papers that are to be presented at the conference, and especially at the large number of new researchers who will be participating. We wish to express our gratitude to our respective universities and to our sponsors, Casalini Libri – Torrossa Digital Library and Modern Italy, the journal of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy, for financially supporting the conference. We would also like to thank Giulia Aureli, Anna Grogan, Sarah Gore and all the staff at the Monash Prato Centre for their assistance in the organisation and running of the conference. To all the speakers and participants, we wish an enjoyable and stimulating experience. Rita Wilson Brigid Maher Monash University La Trobe University 3 Tuesday 4 July 13.30‐14.00 Registration Salone Grollo 14.00‐14.15 Welcome David Moss, Chair of ACIS CONFERENCE Crispin Conroy, Australian Consul General in Milan 14.15‐15.45 Plenary panel Transnationalizing modern languages: mobility identity and translation in modern Italian cultures Derek Duncan, Naomi Wells, Loredana Polezzi (Chair: Rita Wilson) Salone Grollo Sala Toscana Sala Giochi 16.00‐17.30 Dressing diplomatically Transnational identities & self‐translations Screening encounters (Chair: Sally Grant) (Chair: Daniela Cosmini) (Chair: Flavia Laviosa) 4 ● Kovesi, One umbrella of cloth of gold – ● Dagnino, Self‐translation as transcultural ● Bona, Italian filmmakers in China: a new start bought second‐hand mediation ● Saporito, Amnesty, amnesia, censorship: the ● Gagné, Bring them home and mend them ● Spagnuolo, Voicing hybridity disappearance of the fascist past in Michelangelo PROGRAM ● McCall, Embodied diplomacy ● R. Wilson, Creative encounters: literary Antonioni’s I vinti (1952) practices, (self‐)translation and identity ● Rose, Alexander & Grassi, Video as translator of Italian architecture and urban design research 17.30‐19.30 Opening reception CONFERENCE PROGRAM Wednesday 5 July Salone Grollo Sala Toscana Sala Giochi Sala Torre (2nd floor) 9.30‐11.30 Scritture popolari Letters, social networks and Criminal encounters Iconicity & authenticity (Chair: David Moss) language (Chair: Marco Paoli) (Chair: Malcolm Angelucci) ● Moss, Scritture popolari: (Chairs: F. De Toni & F. Verdina) ● Maher, Criminality and corruption ● Bartoloni, Italian tradition and artworks and anomalies ● De Toni & Verdina, Scrittura at home and abroad in a Fascist‐ authenticity as a national and ● Ottaviano, Il ‘tesoro’ di Carmelo epistolare e reti sociali era giallo global phenomenon CONFERENCE Campanella per il cultural studies ● Pcolinski, Varianti fonologiche ● Martelli, The 1990s counter‐ ● Surliuga, Crossing the boundaries ● Guastella, (Tra)scrivere la nell’epistolario manzoniano narratives of the neonoir and between art and typography in (propria) memoria: il caso di ● Gussoni, Connecting people giovani cannibali writers Ezio Gribaudo’s work Carmelo Campanella through papers ● Pedrollo, Le radici della società ● Fernando, Ancient Italian stone ● Panzeri, Portare in scena la vita ● Cancian, Cultural languages of love criminogena nella più recente craft and its influence on vera: Terra matta e la forza in Italian migrant letters produzione letteraria di Massimo contemporary stone culture and dell’auto‐racconto Carlotto exposition ● Pezzotti, Scontri e incontri in ● Zhang, U.S. and Japanese Italian crime fiction: De Angelis’ perspectives on ‘Made in Italy’ by and Scerbanenco’s gialli as Chinese migrants in Prato 5 transcultural contact zones PROGRAM 11.30‐11.50 Coffee break Salone Grollo 11.50‐12.50 Keynote presentation Maurizio Isabella In the name of God: religion, popular mobilization and the culture wars of Italy and the Mediterranean, 1790‐1860 ca (Chair: David Moss) 12.50‐13.45 Lunch Salone Grollo Sala Toscana Sala Giochi Sala Torre (2nd floor) 13.45‐15.45 Italy: A new immigration country Literary spaces of identity Intellectuals & fascism From Iamsilla to Ferrante: between old and new constraints (Chair: Adalgisa Giorgio) (Chair: Giacomo Lichtner) anonymity and pseudonymity in (Chair: Alberto Tonini) ● Sestigiani, Leaving the Place: ● Somigli, ‘Svaticanamento’ or Italian literature ● Moroni & Rognoni, Afritalia. Tommaso Landolfi’s Cancroregina Concordat? Emilio Settimelli’s (Chair: Catherine Kovesi) Italian governments and African ● Moll, Il paesaggio umano della political journalism between ● Morlino, La presenza dell’autore migration politics (Senegal and Roma di Walter Siti anticlericalism and Fascism nella Cronica dell’Anonimo Nigeria) ● Lavia, Diaspore passate e ● Milani, Between ‘nazional‐ Romano CONFERENCE ● Materassi & Pezzoli, Journalism letteratura di ‘nuove’ identità popolare’ and foreign literature: ● Rizzi, Open secrets: anonymity between integration and ● Bernardi, ‘Elveticità’ di Alice transnational exchanges in Il and pseudonymity in early discrimination Ceresa Contemporaneo (1954‐1961) modern Italian literature ● Becucci, Immigration and crime ● Colacicco, The activities of Italian ● Gussago, Collision of identities: in Italy: the paradoxes of social Studies academic staff in inter‐ nicknames and aliases in research war Britain: a transnational contemporary Italian picaresque ● Bulli, Soare & Zulianello, Italian network from culture to politics novels parties and the migration (1920s‐1940s) ● Porczyk, L’io verosimile. Sul challenge ● Carrieri, L’esilio dall’Italia Fascista: concetto dell’autofiction in Elena i compositori e i musicisti ebrei Ferrante ed Erri De Luca 6 italiani 15.45‐16.00 Coffee break Salone Grollo Sala Toscana Sala Giochi Sala Torre (2nd floor) PROGRAM 16.00‐17.30 Voices & sites of migration Artistic encounters with the Other Crossing points and subversion (1) Transnational local encounters (Chair: Susanna Scarparo) (Chair: Catherine Kovesi) (Chairs: G. Manzin & M. Nicholls) (Chair: Francesco Ricatti) ● Cosmini et al., Italian or Greek? ● Auty, The figure of Mehmet II in ● Reichardt, ‘Rooted in Rome’: the ● Basilone, The Cultural Revolution Migration narratives of Italian neo‐Latin epic: positing the transcultural switch in the in Italy: Italian intellectuals and Italian/Greek immigrants from Islamic ‘Other’ into the classical nomadic Italophone writing of their travel literature on People’s the Dodecanese to Australia tradition Jhumpa Lahiri Republic of China ● Maestri, Voicing Italian ● Vallah, Filippo Lippi's ‘The Feast of ● Alù, Fleeting photographs and ● H. Wilson, Ties and tensions: experiences of migration to Herod’ as an expression of the fugitive rebels in Melania working for the US military in Australia. Inter‐artistic networks conflict