Recovering Women’s Identities between Centre and Periphery (16th-20th Centuries) Thursday, 5 and Friday, 6 March 2020 Venue: G35/G37 Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Thursday, 5 March 2020 9.15- 9.30 Welcome/Introduction 9.30-11.00 Parallel Session 1A – Chair: Sara Delmedico (University of Cambridge) – Room G35 María Tausiet (University of Valencia): ‘When Venus stays awake, Minerva sleeps.’ A Narrative of Sanctity and Female Power in 18th-Century Spain Isabel Burdiel (University of Valencia): A Voice from the South. Catholicism and Transgression in Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851- 1921) Rebecca Bendayán (King’s College London) and Mazal Oaknín (University College London): Doña Reina Bendayán: Rescuing the 1931 Constitution 9.30-11.00 Parallel Session 1B – Chair: Silvia Evangelisti (University of East Anglia) – Room G37 Simone Monti (University of Cambridge): ‘Ormai son fatta la madre della Malinconia’: Francesca Turina’s Mourning Experiences and her Negotiation of Literary and Social Agency Maria Salome Adank (University of Pisa): The Controversial Visibility of Two Venetian Dogaresse: Morosina Morosini Grimani and Elisabetta Querini Valier (late 16th and late 17th Centuries) Giovanna Da Molin and Maria Federighi (University of Bari Aldo Moro): Female Abandonment: Identity and Dignity in Modern Italy. The Case Study of Santa Casa in Naples (17th-19th Centuries) 11.15-11.30 Coffee 11.30-13.30 Parallel Session 2A – Chair: Sara Delmedico (University of Cambridge) – Room G35 Laura Fournier-Finocchiaro (University of Paris 8): Clementine De Como and the Emancipation of Women during the Italian Risorgimento Elena Musiani (University of Bologna): Germaine Berton: A Life ‘of Rebellion’ against the French Victors of the First World War Kathryn Bryan (University of Cambridge): ‘C’est singulier, n’est-ce pas?’ Jeanne Caruchet’s Non-Maternal Woman Ena Panda (University of Delhi): Identity and Alienation in Short Stories written by Contemporary Francophone Women Writers of Québec 11.30-13.30 Parallel Session 2B – Chair: Maria Federighi (University of Bari Aldo Moro) – Room G37 Eleonora Carinci (University of Venice Ca’ Foscari): ‘La cruda e non humana madre … la fece accettar monaca in questo maledetto convento’: Suor Felice Rasponi’s Forgotten Voice between Rebellion and Resignation Silvia Evangelisti (University of East Anglia): Seville to Manila: Exploring the Wide World through the Life of Jeronima de La Asuncion (1555-1630) Isabel Harvey (Humboldt University/University of Venice Ca’ Foscari): De Regularibus et Monialibus, chapters 2, 3 and 16. Clement VIII and the Economic Reform of Nunneries Angela Carbone (University of Bari Aldo Moro): Women’s Voices: Requests for Separation and Secret Marriages in Some Apulian Dioceses (17th-19th Centuries) 13.30-14.30 Lunch 14.30-16.30 Parallel Session 3A – Chair: Robert Gordon (University of Cambridge) – Room G35 Francesca Del Zoppo (University of Leeds): The ‘Atypical’ Poetry Translator: Joyce Lussu and her Work for the Publisher Mondadori Elisabetta Girotto (University of Lisbon NOVA): Women of Tomorrow. Cinematic Propaganda of the Italian Miracle Mara Josi (University of Cambridge): Si può stampare: No time for silence. Sylvia Lombroso’s Brave New Words Riccardo Antoniani (University of Padua/Sorbonne University): Obedience is no Longer a Virtue - Teresa Mattei or the Responsibility of Disobedience Thursday, 5 March (continued) 14.30-16.30 Parallel Session 3B – Chair: Katia Pizzi (University of London IMLR) – Room G37 Agata Handley (University of Łódź): Representing Absence. Female Agency and Contemporary Ekphrasis in the Music Video Dorota Filipczak (University of Łódź): Made to Connive. Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland in Music Videos Tomasz Fisiak (University of Łódź): ‘You Mean All This Time We Could Have Been Friends?’. The Portrayal of Female Rivalry in Shakespears Sister’s Music Videos 16.30-16.45 Tea 16.45-17.45 Keynote Lecture Alberto Mario Banti (University of Pisa): Male Gaze and Female Body: Gender Hierarchies and Rebellious Gestures (19th-Century Europe) 17.45- Reception | Optional Conference Dinner at Own Expense Friday, 6 March 2020 9.30-11.15 Parallel Session 4A – Chair: Sara Delmedico (University of Cambridge) – Room G35 Elisavet Papalexopoulou (European University Institute): ‘Friends of the Muses’: Greek Women and Education in the Early 19th Century Miriam Nicoli (University of Berne): Female Agency in the Mirror of a Swiss Farmer’s Diary at the Beginning of the 19th Century Dominika Gruziel (European University Institute): The Emergence of the Woman’s Question among the Landowning Women in Galicia (Habsburg Empire) at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries: The Case Study of Maria Harsdorfowa’s Activism Tiina Lintunen (University of Turku) and Kimmo Rentola (University of Helsinki): The ‘Female Emperor’ of a Predominantly Male Industrial Town 9.30-11.15 Parallel Session 4B – Chair: Beatrice Sica (University College London) – Room G37 Arianna Ceschin (University of Venice Ca’ Foscari): Writing as an Instrument of Opposition: The Case of Paola Masino (1908- 1989) Martina Pala (University of Durham): Laudomia Bonanni’s Narrative: Voicing Silenced Women Alessia Zinnari (University of Glasgow): Mythologies of Resistance: The Feminist Legacy of Leonora Carrington and Alda Merini 11.15-11.30 Coffee 11.30-13.30 Parallel Session 5A – Chair: Helena Sanson (University of Cambridge) – Room G35 Marta Riccobono (Scuola Superiore Normale): A ‘Difficult’ Identity. Sicilian Women Writers and their ‘Peripheral’ Risorgimento Elena Emma Sottilotta (University of Cambridge): Emerging from the Oblivion: The Unpublished Letters of Maria Savi-Lopez to Italian Intellectuals at the Turn of the 20th Century Peyker Özler (University of Exeter): Walking into the Queer Ecology of Strada Provinciale Tre Irena Prosenc (University of Ljubljana): Narrating Memory and Loss in Milena Milani’s Io donna e gli altri 11.30-13.30 Parallel Session 5B – Chair: Sara Delmedico (University of Cambridge) – Room G37 Helena Kaznowska (University of Bath): Elizabeth Jekyll: Authorship, Identity and the 17th-Century Spiritual Diary Susanne Klimroth (Free University of Berlin): Lou Andreas-Salomé – A Central yet Peripheral Intellectual Lubaaba Al-Azami (University of Liverpool): Centring her Story: The History of Humayun According to Gulbudan Begim Silvia Pizzirani (University of Bologna): Making the Consumption Sphere a Political Space: Women’s Revolt and Consumption in Teresa Billington Greig’s Thought 13.30-14.30 Lunch Friday, 6 March (continued) 14.30-16.30 Parallel Session 6A – Chair: Sara Delmedico (University of Cambridge) – Room G35 Melina Márquez García-Largo (University of Madrid): Women and Scapigliatura, a Female Rebellion in the Milan of the 19th Century? Valeria Iaconis (University of Zurich): Genealogy on Paper: the Italian Journal La Chiosa (1919-1927) and its Transnational Female Reception Anna Ferrando (University of Pavia): Women beyond Borders. Emancipation through Translation under Fascism Olga Campofreda (University College London): Beyond Motherhood: Shaping the Female Identity after the 70s in Italy 14.30-16.30 Parallel Session 6B – Chair: Beatrice Romiti (University of Rome La Sapienza) – Room G37 Nan Gerdes (University of Stockholm): Between Identity, Pseudonymity, and Anonymity: The Resistance of Female Authorship in Angoysses Douloureuses (1538) Erica J. Mannucci (University of Milan-Bicocca): A strong Identity in Context: Marie-Armande Gacon Dufour, from the French Revolution to the Empire Andrea Carteny (University of Rome La Sapienza): A Belle époque Fighter for Modernity: Valentine de Saint-Point between Futurism, Feminism and Esotericism Robert Payne (University of Hertfordshire): Between Centre and Periphery: Lesbianism in Hélène de Monferrand’s Les Amies d’Héloïse (Héloïse’s Friends) 16.30-16.45 Tea 16.45-17.45 Keynote Lecture Helena Sanson (University of Cambridge): Reclaiming Scholarship, Crossing Boundaries: Women Translators in Italy’s Long 18th Century 17.45-18.00 Closing Discussion Conference Organisers: Sara Delmedico (University of Cambridge) and Katia Pizzi (University of London IMLR) This event is sponsored by the University of London Cassal Trust and Il Circolo, London Advance registration required • fees below include refreshments as indicated in the programme Both days: £35 (standard rate) | £30 (Friends of Germanic Studies/Friends of Italian at the IMLR) | £25 (students) One day: £25 (standard rate) | £20 (Friends of Germanic Studies/Friends of Italian at the IMLR) | £15 (students) Register by 28 February at https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/21985 .