Society for
Italian
Studies
Biennial
Conference
2019
University of Edinburgh
26-28 June 2019
Programme
Welcome
Benvenute! Benvenuti!
Italian Studies at the University of
Edinburgh are truly delighted to welcome
you all to the 2019 Biennial Conference of
the Society for Italian Studies.
We are celebrating the Centenary of Italian
at the University of Edinburgh (1919-2019),
and we are proud to be hosting this major
conference with nearly 300 delegates,
including some of the most distinguished
keynote speakers, leading academics, and
inspiring students from Europe, Australia,
North America and beyond.
Thank you for your participation.
Enjoy the Conference!
The Edinburgh Team
Edinburgh Team
The Edinburgh team consists of staff and
students of the University of Edinburgh.
Lead Organisers
Davide Messina
Federica G Pedriali
Co-Organisers
Nicolò Maldina
Carlo Pirozzi
Information Desk
Marco Palone
Daniela Sannino
Marialaura Aghelu
Helpers
Simone Calabrò
Daniele Falcioni
Niamh Keenan
Alessandra Pellegrini De Luca
Marco Ruggieri
University of Ediburgh
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Department of European Languages & Cultures
50 George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LH
www.llc.ed.ac.uk/delc/italian/sis-2019
For further information, please email the Lead Organisers Davide Messina (d.messina@ed.ac.uk)
and Federica G. Pedriali (f.pedriali@ed.ac.uk)
Keynote Lectures
On Ulysses: in Praise
of Literature
The Changing Fortunes
of Translations
Speaking in Cultures
Wednesday 26 June
11:00-12:00, Room G.03
Wednesday 26 June
1:00-2:00, Room G.03
Wednesday 26 June
6:15-6:50, Scottish Parliament
Lino Pertile is Carl A.
Pescosolido Research
Professor of Romance
Languages and Literatures,
Harvard University, and
member of the Accademia
dei Lincei, Rome.
Susan Bassnett is Professor
of Comparative Literature at
the University of Glasgow,
and Professor Emerita of
Comparative Literature at the
University of Warwick.
Jhumpa Lahiri is Professor
of Creative Writing at the
Lewis Center for the Arts,
Princeton. She has received
several prestigious awards
for her writing, including the
Pulitzer Prize in 2000.
Che fare per un’ecologia
della letteratura?
Being a Black Woman
Writer in Italy
Thursday 27 June
2:00-3:00, Room G.03
Friday 28 June
2:00-3:00, Room G.03
Walter Siti is a university
professor, literary critic, and
writer. He is the recipient of
many literary awards, including
the Premio Strega and the
Premio Mondello in 2013.
Igiaba Scego is a writer and
a Fellow of the International
Centre for the Humanities
and Social Change, Venice,
Ca’ Foscari.
For more information about
our five keynote speakers visit
the conference website:
www.llc.ed.ac.uk/delc/italian/sis-2019
Guests of Honour
Conference Opening
Professor Jeremy Robbins
Head of the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
University of Edinburgh
Scottish Parliament
Linda Fabiani MSP – Host
Professor Peter Mathieson
Principal of the University of Edinburgh
Fabio Monaco
Italian Consul General for Scotland and Northern Ireland
Tony Crolla
CEO of Vittoria Group Edinburgh
Edinburgh Gadda Prize Winners
Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat
New York University, USA
Professor Teresa Fiore
Montclair State University NJ, USA
Professor Patrizia Guarnieri
Florence University, Italy
Professor Angela Borghesi
Milan-Bicocca University, Italy
Dr Mahtjis Duyck
Forum Leonardo da Vinci, Sint Nikklas, Belgium
Dr Francesco Diaco
Lausanne University, Switzerland
Dr Carlo Tirinanzi de Medici
Trento University, Italy
Opening Event
Speaking in Cultures
Keynote Speaker Pulitzer Prize Winner
Jhumpa Lahiri
Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh EH99 1SP
Wednesday 26 June, 6-8pm
For its sixth edition – Speaking in Cultures – the
Edinburgh Gadda Prize has partnered with Italian
Studies at the University of Edinburgh and the
Society for Italian Studies UK. Together, we are
hosting the Society’s Biennial Conference in
Scotland’s capital city, bringing a celebration of
intercultural dialogue to the Scottish Parliament to
mark the Official Opening of the Society’s Biennial in
the Centenary of Italian at Edinburgh.
Admission is free, but places had to be reserved by
31 May via our Online Registration. If your name is
not on the Official Guest List you will not be allowed
in (sorry!) – sold out event.
Dress code: Smart casual
Arrival: Please enter the Scottish Parliament
Building through the Visitors’ Entrance. Security
opens at 5:00 – please arrive with your ID in good
One hundred forty-seven monographs on all aspects time to allow for airport-style security.
of contemporary Italian culture were entered in this
year’s competition. Nearly 300 delegates will attend Once through security, please go the Reception
Desk, where your name will be checked on the
the Biennial Conference of the Society for Italian
Official Guest List.
Studies UK. Thirty distinguished international
scholars have served as Prize Jurers. Italian Studies
You will be looked after by our Parliament Events
at Edinburgh is one hundred this year.
Team. Once we have the all clear from them, you
will be ushered through to the Garden Lobby,
The dynamism of our discipline is just one of the
messages we will put across on the night. In line with where our event will start at 6:00 o’ clock sharp. The
our mission, as part of this year’s edition of the Prize event will be considered closed a few minutes after
we want to celebrate what it takes to speak and live 6:00pm and late arrivals will not be admitted.
more fluently in cultures – something
We appreciate your collaboration in making this a
we believe is critical to the future of our society,
especially in times of fast and unpredictable cultural smooth and fast-flowing process. Do make sure you
have enough time to enjoy your visit. The Scottish
change.
Parliament Building is a fabulous space.
After the formal Welcome by our Host MSP Linda
Fabiani and her Guests of Honour – the Principal of Getting to the Scottish Parliament is easy. It
should take you between 15 and 25 minutes on
the University of Edinburgh Professor Peter
foot from 50 George Square. Bus connections are
Mathieson, the Italian Consul General for Scotland
not that good, so why not share a cab with other
and Northern Ireland Fabio Monaco, and the
delegates, the ride will cost around £6 in total.
President of the Society for Italian Studies UK
Please also allow up to 40 minutes to transfer from
Professor Simon Gilson (Oxford) – Pulitzer Prize
the Visitors’ Entrance to the Garden Lobby. There
Winner Professor Jhumpa Lahiri (Princeton) will be
invited to deliver her Keynote Address on becoming are other events taking place in the Parliament
Building that night, and each step of the way will
ambassadors for intercultural exchange and to give
us a sense of where individual vision and aspiration take its time.
can take us in our commitment to a world better
Sponsored by: the Edinburgh Gadda Prize and the
ready for cultural diversity.
Vittoria Group Edinburgh
Jhumpa Lahiri’s Keynote will be followed by the
EVENT CONCEPT © EDINBURGH GADDA PRIZE
Award Ceremony of this year’s Edinburgh Prizes
www.gaddaprize.ed.ac.uk | www.gadda.ed.ac.uk
– The Crolla Amato Gadda Prize (Cultural Studies;
Literary Studies) and the Vittoria Group Prize
Founder and Chair: Federica G. Pedriali
(Scholars aged 40 or under).
Honorary Presidents: Gianrico Carofiglio and Fabrizio Gifuni
Conference Dinners
Thursday 27 June
7:00-7:30 – Drinks Reception
7:30-9:30 – Conference Dinner
Victor & Carina CONTINI
103 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 3ES
From 50 George Square, Contini
restaurant is approx. 25 minute walk, a taxi
costs approx. £8.
Please Note: there are no places
available, places had to be reserved by 31
May via our Online Registration form.
Friday 28 June
8:00-10:00
BERTIE’S
9 Victoria St, Edinburgh EH1 2HE
From 50 George Square, Bertie’s is
approx. 10 minute walk.
Please Note: there are still places
available. Please contact the
Conference organisers.
WEDNESDAY 26
THURSDAY 27
FRIDAY 28
8:00-8:30
8:30-9:00
Registration
Opening Remarks – Messina, Robbins, Gilson
9:00-9:30
Registration
9:00-9:30
Registration
9:00-10:30
BLOCK 1 – Panels 1-10
SIS EXEC MEETING (3.39)
9:30-11:00
BLOCK 3 – Panels 21-30
9:30-11:00
BLOCK 6 – Panels 51-60
10:30-11:00
COFFEE BREAK – Project Room
11:00-11:30
COFFEE BREAK – Project Room
11:00-11:30
COFFEE BREAK – Project Room
11:00-12:00
BRAND LECTURE – Lino Pertile (G.03)
Messina (Chair)
11:30-1:00
BLOCK 4 – Panels 31-40
11:30-1:00
BLOCK 7 – Panels 61-68
12:00-1:00
LUNCH BREAK
1:00-2:00
LUNCH BREAK
1:00-2:00
LUNCH BREAK
1:00- 2:00
KEYNOTE – Susan Bassnett (G.03)
Sulis (Chair)
2:00-3:00
KEYNOTE – Walter Siti (G.03)
Messina (Chair)
2:00-3:00
KEYNOTE – Igiaba Scego (G.03)
Pedriali (Chair)
2:00-2:30
COFFEE BREAK
with BOOK SIGNING (Lahiri)
3:00-3:30
COFFEE BREAK
3:00-3:30
COFFEE BREAK
2:30-4:00
2.30-3.30
BLOCK 2 – Panels 11-20
Conversation with Lahiri (G.03)
3:30-5:00
BLOCK 5 – Panels 41-50
CAUCUS PG – Riccobono (Chair) (3.39)
3:30-5:00
BLOCK 8 – Panels 69-72
ECR Drop-In – Ross (Chair) (3.29)
4:00-5:00
Transfer to Scottish Parliament
5:00-5:30
COFFEE BREAK
5:00-5:30
COFFEE BREAK
5:00-6:00
Scottish Parliament
– Security, Registration, Internal Transfer
5:30-6:30
ROUND TABLE – Italian Theory, Italian
Thought, Italian Difference
Pedriali (Chair) (G.03)
ROUND TABLE – What is interdisciplinarity?
Pieri (Chair) (G.04)
5:30-6:30
ROUND TABLE – Italian Studies’ Futures
Gilson (Chair)
Closing Remarks – Gilson, Pedriali (G.03)
6:00-6:50
SPEAKING IN CULTURES
Fabiani; Mathieson; Monaco; Gilson
KEYNOTE – Lahiri
Pedriali (Chair), Bassnett
GADDA PRIZE AWARD CEREMONY
7:00-7:30
DRINKS RECEPTION – Contini Restaurant
6:30-7:30
DRINKS RECEPTION – Project Room
Sponsored by Menabrea
SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT RECEPTION
Sponsored by Vittoria Group
7:30
Conference Dinner – Contini Restaurant
8:00
Conference Dinner – Bertie’s Restaurant
6:50-7:30
7:30-8:00
ȗRegistration remains open throughout the 3 DAYS
** 5 KEYNOTE LECTURES | 284 DELEGATES | 72 PANELS | 8 SESSION BLOCKS | 252 PAPERS
Please Note: Coffee Breaks will include coffee/tea and soft drinks with a selection of biscuits, cake, and fruit. Lunch Breaks are not catered for.
The Delegate Packs include suggestions for local cafés and restaurants offering special SIS Delegate Deals.
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Programme at a Glance
EDINBURGH SIS 2019 – WEDNESDAY 26 JUNE / FRIDAY 28 JUNE 2019
WEDNESDAY 26/06, 9:00-10:30 | BLOCK 1 – Panels 1-10
Panel 1
Classical and Medieval Culture in Dante – I
Organisers: Giuseppe Ledda
Chair: Giuseppe Ledda
Speakers: Anna Pegoretti, Nicolò Maldina, Leyla Livraghi, Luca Lombardo
G.01
Panel 2
Changing Bodies: Translating, Illustrating and Performing the
Ovidian Myths in the Italian Renaissance
Organiser: Marta Balzi
Chair: Marta Balzi
Speakers: Claudia Cieri Via, Giuseppe Capriotti, Michele Rossi, Luca Degl’Innocenti
G.02
Panel 3
Il lettore immaginato: rappresentazioni della lettura nella
tradizione letteraria italiana
Organiser: Giovanna Rizzarelli
Chair: Cristina Savettieri
Speakers: Federica Pich, Giovanna Rizzarelli, Olivia Santovetti
G.04
Panel 4
Artistic Explorations of the Object in Italy in the Industrial Era
Organiser: Martina Borghi
Chair: Martina Borghi
Speakers: Elena Traversa, Martina Borghi, Katherine Devine, Marzia D’Amico
G.05
Panel 5
Spectral Presences in Contemporary Italian Culture
Organiser: Chiara Giuliani
Chair: Daragh O’Connell
Speakers: Paolo Saporito, Marco Amici, Chiara Giuliani, Rebecca Walker
G.06
Panel 6
Donna in itinere: l’immagine dell’italiana che cambia
Organiser: Barbara Alfano
Chair: Barbara Alfano
Speakers: Barbara Alfano, Giovanna Caltagirone, Ombretta Frau, Maria Grazia Lolla
LG.10
Panel 7
Le metamorfosi del romanzo italiano
Organiser: Marco Carmello
Chair: Marco Carmello
Speakers: Cristina Terrile, Marco Carmello, Aurora Conde Muñoz
2.03
Panel 8
Italian Studies and the Cognitive Turn – I
Organiser: Marzia Beltrami
Chair: Marzia Beltrami
Speakers: Guido Furci, Cecilia Piantanida, Marilina Ciaco, Marzia Beltrami
2.39
Panel 9
Explorations in Cinematic and Urban Practice
Organiser: Ruth Glynn
Chair: Ruth Glynn
Speakers: Giuseppe Palazzolo, Damien Pollard, Ruth Glynn, Ellie Crabtree
3.03
Panel 10
1947
Organiser: Alberto Comparini, Salvatore Renna
Chair: Alberto Comparini
Speakers: Alberto Comparini, Salvatore Renna, Matteo Moca, Sara Da Ronch
3.54
2
Block 1 – Panels 1-10
EDINBURGH SIS 2019 – WEDNESDAY 26 JUNE / FRIDAY 28 JUNE 2019
WEDNESDAY 26/06, 2:30-4:00 | BLOCK 2 – Panels 11-20
Panel 11
Classical and Medieval Culture in Dante – II
Organiser: Nicolò Maldina
Chair: Nicolò Maldina
Speakers: Giuseppe Ledda, Alessia Carrai, Marialaura Aghelu, Vincenzo Vitale
G.01
Panel 12
Re-writing Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” in Renaissance Italy. The
Vernacular Translation of Giovanni Andrea dell’Anguillara
Organiser: Marta Balzi
Chair: Marta Balzi
Speakers: Andrea Torre, Caterina Paoli, Marta Balzi, Francesca Casamassima
G.02
Panel 13
Zibaldoni del Medioevo e del Rinascimento tra letteratura e cultura
popolare
Organiser: Simona Brambilla
Chair: Simona Brambilla
Speakers: Simona Brambilla, Cecilia Sideri, Barbara Pagliari, Camilla Russo
G.04
Panel 14
Political Thought in 15th Century Italian Literature: Milan, Florence,
Naples
Organiser: Marta Celati
Chair: David Lines
Speakers: Veronica Dadà, Giorgio Lizzul, Marta Celati
G.05
Panel 15
Writing and Power in Early Modern Italian Women’s Letters
Organisers: Veronica Andreani, Veronica Copello
Chair: Veronica Andreani
Speakers: Veronica Andreani, Veronica Copello, Kate Driscoll, Isabella Lazzarini
G.06
Panel 16
Opera as “poesia per musica”: Musical-Poetic Choices in
Seicento Italy
Organiser: Daniele Falcioni
Chair: Daniela Sannino
Speakers: Roberto Gigliucci, Nastasia Sophie Tietze, Daniele Falcioni
LG.10
Panel 17
Famiglie storiche e storie di famiglia: liti e successioni nell’Italia
del lungo Ottocento
Organiser: Sara Delmedico
Chair: Helena Sanson
Speakers: Sara Delmedico, Elena Musiani, Lara Michelacci
2.03
Panel 18
Towards a New Italy: Writers, Performers and Social Action
Organiser: Enza de Francisci
Chair: Enza de Francisci
Speakers: Enza de Francisci, Lucia Ducci, Milena Gammaitoni
2.39
Panel 19
Italian Studies and the Cognitive Turn – II
Organiser: Marzia Beltrami
Chair: Marzia Beltrami
Speakers: Marco Paoli, Giovanni Miglianti, Emiliano Zappalà
3.03
Panel 20
Storie d’amore: rapporti amorosi nella letteratura italiana del
fin de siècle
Organiser: Marja Härmänmaa
Chair: Marja Härmänmaa
Speakers: Edwige Comoy Fusaro, Brian Zuccala, Marja Härmänmaa, Barbara Meazzi
3.54
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Block 2 – Panels 11-20
EDINBURGH SIS 2019 – WEDNESDAY 26 JUNE / FRIDAY 28 JUNE 2019
THURSDAY 27/06, 9:30-11:00 | BLOCK 3 – Panels 21-30
Panel 21
Charlemagne in Italy: Innovation and Adaptation
Organiser: Jane Everson
Chair: Jane Everson
Speakers: Maria Pavlova, Annalisa Perrotta, Franca Strologo, Anna Carocci
G.01
Panel 22
Letteratura e eterodossia religiosa nei primi secoli
Organiser: Antonio di Grado
Chair: Nicolò Maldina
Speakers: Agnese Amaduri, Andrea Schembari, Ambra Moroncini
G.02
Panel 23
G.B. Andreini (1576-1654) All-Round: Three Approaches to the
“Italian Shakespeare”
Organiser: Serena Laiena
Chair: Helena Sanson
Speakers: Serena Laiena, Annamaria Azzarone, Alessandra Munari
G.04
Panel 24
Long Live the Body Political: 18th Century Welfare between
Education and Citizen Assistance in Florence, Milan and Venice
Organiser: Rossella Riccobono
Chair: Rossella Riccobono
Speakers: Rossella Riccobono, Cecilia Ascoli, Riccardo Benzoni
LG.06
Panel 25
Vico: Future Past and Past Future – New Perspectives
Organiser: Martina Piperno
Chair: Davide Messina
Speakers: Sabrina Ferri, Daragh O’Connell, Martina Piperno
LG.08
Panel 26
Italian Thought / Italian Theory / Italian Difference – I
Organiser: Federica G Pedriali
Chair: Federica G Pedriali
Speakers: Enrica Lisciani-Petrini, Dario Gentili, David Ragazzoni, Alberto Martinengo
LG.10
Panel 27
Language and Teaching – I. Translation and Multilingualism
Organisers: Rosalba Biasini, Anna Proudfoot, Caterina Sinibaldi
Chair: Caterina Sinibaldi
Speakers: Rosalba Biasini, Gioia Panzarella, Anna Proudfoot, Marta Kaliska
LG.11
Panel 28
The City: Language and Space – I
Organisers: Gigliola Sulis, Elisa Segnini
Chair: Gigliola Sulis, Elisa Segnini
Speakers: Paolo Orrù, Ester Cois, Gigliola Sulis, Elisa Segnini
2.03
Panel 29
Interdisciplinary Italy – I
Organiser: Giuliana Pieri
Chair: Clodagh Brook
Speakers: Marco Bellardi, Maria Del Buono, Giuliana Pieri
3.03
Panel 30
Women Leading the (Hi)Story
Organiser: Luciana D’Arcangeli
Chair: Luciana D’Arcangeli
Speakers: Piotr Podemski, Luciana D’Arcangeli, Giuliana Muscio
3.54
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Block 3 – Panels 21-30
EDINBURGH SIS 2019 – WEDNESDAY 26 JUNE / FRIDAY 28 JUNE 2019
THURSDAY 27/06, 11:30-1:00 | BLOCK 4 – Panels 31-40
Panel 31
Medieval Variations: Dante and his Context
Organisers: Pietro Cagni
Chair: Nicolò Maldina
Speakers: Marco Spreafico, Luna Sarti, Lorenzo Bartolucci, Pietro Cagni
G.01
Panel 32
Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis in Renaissance Italy
(c.1350-c.1650)
Organisers: Simon Gilson, Federica Pich
Chairs: Simon Gilson, Federica Pich
Speakers: Giacomo Comiati, Lorenzo Sacchini, Rhiannon Daniels, Guyda Armstrong
G.02
Panel 33
Publish or Perish: Paratext, Divulgation and Book Market in the
Venetian Cinquecento
Organiser: Teodoro Katinis
Chair: Teodoro Katinis
Speakers: Claudia Crocco, Ruben Celani, Teodoro Katinis
G.04
Panel 34
Quale Patria, quale Dio: donne e identità nazionale italiana dal
Risorgimento al Secondo Dopoguerra – I
Organiser: Marta Riccobono
Chair: Helena Sanson
Speakers: Laura Fournier-Finocchiaro, Marta Riccobono, Ursula Fanning
LG.06
Panel 35
Italian Thought / Italian Theory / Italian Difference – II
Organiser: Federica G Pedriali
Chair: Marco Piasentier
Speakers: Paolo Bartoloni, Jon Short, Massimo Villani, Heather Lynch
LG.10
Panel 36
Language and Teaching – II. Narratives and Storytelling
Organisers: Rosalba Biasini, Anna Proudfoot, Caterina Sinibaldi
Chair: Anna Proudfoot
Speakers: Enrico Cecconi, Anna Costantino, Chiara La Sala
LG.11
Panel 37
The City: Language and Space – II
Organisers: Gigliola Sulis, Elisa Segnini
Chairs: Gigliola Sulis, Elisa Segnini
Speakers: Marco Gargiulo, Francesco Ciabattoni, Francesco Bachis, Silvia Aru
2.03
Panel 38
Representing Conflict: Gender, Sexuality, Alterity – I
Organiser: Silvia Ross
Chair: Silvia Ross
Speakers: Giovanni Pietro Vitali, Martina O’ Leary, Olga Campofreda
2.39
Panel 39
Hegemony and Literature: Contrasting Perspectives in
Contemporary Italian Culture
Organisers: Simone Calabrò, Alessandra Pellegrini De Luca, Marco Ruggieri
Chair: Simone Calabrò
Speakers: Jutta Fortin, Alessandra Pellegrini De Luca, Marco Ruggieri, Alberica Bazzoni
3.03
Panel 40
Translating and Publishing in the 20th Century
Organiser: Teresa Franco
Chair: Daniela La Penna
Speakers: Teresa Franco, Andrea Romanzi, Maria Cristina Seccia
3.54
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Block 4 – Panels 31-40
EDINBURGH SIS 2019 – WEDNESDAY 26 JUNE / FRIDAY 28 JUNE 2019
THURSDAY 27/06, 3:30-5:00 | BLOCK 5 – Panels 41-50
Panel 41
Ariosto beyond the Quincentenary Celebrations
Organiser: Stefano Jossa
Chair: Jane Everson
Speakers: Paola Ugolini, Francesco Lucioli, Stefano Jossa, Ita MacCarthy
G.01
Panel 42
New Perspectives on Renaissance Letters
Organiser: Ambra Anelotti
Chair: Isabella Lazzarini
Speakers: Lucinda Byatt, Eleonora Serra, Ambra Anelotti
G.02
Panel 43
Quale Patria, quale Dio. Donne e identità nazionale italiana
dal Risorgimento al Secondo Dopoguerra – II
Organiser: Marta Riccobono
Chair: Marta Riccobono
Speakers: Carlo Leo, Antonella Braga, Anna Di Giusto
G.04
Panel 44
Interdisciplinary Italy – II
Organiser: Giuliana Pieri
Chair: Giuliana Pieri
Speakers: Clodagh Brook, Eleonora Lima, Emanuela Patti
LG.06
Panel 45
Italian Thought / Italian Theory / Italian Difference – III
Organiser: Federica G. Pedriali
Chair: David Ragazzoni
Speakers: Greg Bird, Marco Piasentier, Giusi Strummiello, Davide Luglio
LG.10
Panel 46
Language and Teaching – III. Language and Culture
Organiser: Carlo Pirozzi
Chair: Elena Polisca
Speakers: Caterina Sinibaldi, Claudia Domenici, Cristina Massaccesi, Sara Galli
LG.11
Panel 47
The City: Language and Space – III
Organisers: Gigliola Sulis, Elisa Segnini
Chairs: Gigliola Sulis, Elisa Segnini
Speakers: Barbara Pezzotti, Michela Meschini, Antonio Bibbò, Stefano Fogarizzu
2.03
Panel 48
Representing Conflict: Gender, Sexuality, Alterity – II
Organiser: Silvia Ross
Chair: Silvia Ross
Speakers: Filomena Anna D’Alessandro, Silvia Ross, Viola Ardeni
2.39
Panel 49
Letteratura, impegno politico e questione operaia
Organiser: Tullio Pagano
Chair: Tullio Pagano
Speakers: Giulia Dettori, Marina Paino, Tullio Pagano
3.03
Panel 50
Sicilian Authors and the Senses – I
Organiser: Claudia Dellacasa
Chair: Katrin Wehling-Giorgi
Speakers: Hannah McIntyre, Claudia Dellacasa, Sara Parisi, Debora Bellinzani
3.54
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Block 5 – Panels 41-50
EDINBURGH SIS 2019 – WEDNESDAY 26 JUNE / FRIDAY 28 JUNE 2019
FRIDAY 28/06, 9:30-11:00 | BLOCK 6 – Panels 51-60
Panel 51
Seeing (with) Dante: New Approaches and Methodologies
Organisers: Federica Coluzzi, David Bowe
Chair: Guyda Armstrong
Speakers: Federica Coluzzi, Alessia Benedetti, Sandro Angelo de Thomasis
G.01
Panel 52
The Female presence and the Shape of the Lyric
Organiser: Giada Guassardo
Chair: Federica Pich
Speakers: Giada Guassardo, Anna Saroldi, Valentina Tibaldo
G.02
Panel 53
Modelli stranieri per la letteratura italiana di genere: dalle origini
al contemporaneo
Organiser: Mark Chu
Chair: Mark Chu
Speakers: Stefano Serafini, Francesca Facchi, Alberto Iozzia
G.04
Panel 54
Nationhood, Otherness and Language in Contemporary Italy
Organiser: Linetto Basilone
Chair: Linetto Basilone
Speakers: Gaia Giuliani, Linetto Basilone, Valeria Palumbo
LG.06
Panel 55
Women’s Place, Borders and Intersecting Spaces in Italian
National and Transnational Culture – I
Organisers: Cinzia Marongiu, Marianna Orsi, Isabella R. Vergata
Chair: Cinzia Marongiu
Speakers: Valentina Nesi, Marianna Orsi, Elena Emma Sottilotta, Isabella R. Vergata
LG.10
Panel 56
The Reception of Italian Literature in 20th Century Russia
Organiser: Maria Pavlova
Chair: Maria Pavlova
Speakers: Elena Tchougounova-Paulson, Maria Belova, Kristina Landa
2.03
Panel 57
Satire, Satura, Revelation. Perspectives on Carlo Emilio Gadda
Organisers: Serena Vandi, Laura Lucia Rossi
Chair: Francesco Venturi
Speakers: Luca Mazzocchi, Laura Lucia Rossi, Serena Vandi
2.39
Panel 58
Gli epistolari novecenteschi come forma di collaborazione
Organiser: Francesca Medaglia
Chair: Francesca Medaglia
Speakers: Francesca Medaglia, Elisiana Fratocchi, Daniel Raffini
2.54
Panel 59
Memoria, lavoro, desiderio: forme narrative e costruzione del
soggetto nel romanzo italiano contemporaneo
Organiser: Massimo Natale
Chair: Massimo Natale
Speakers: Jacopo Galavotti, Fabio Magro, Giacomo Morbiato, Massimo Natale
3.03
Panel 60
La violenza di genere raccontata: sfide della rappresentazione
narrativa dell’abuso sessista
Organiser: Nicoletta Mandolini
Chair: Silvia Ross
Speakers: Carla Carotenuto, Giacomo Manzoli, Caterina Peroni, Nicoletta Mandolini
3.54
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Block 6 – Panels 51-60
EDINBURGH SIS 2019 – WEDNESDAY 26 JUNE / FRIDAY 28 JUNE 2019
FRIDAY 28/06, 11:30-1:00 | BLOCK 7 – Panels 61-68
Panel 61
The Winter of Italy’s Discontent: L’identità italiana utopica e
distopica negli anni ’70 – I. Tra politica e cultura
Organisers: Dagmar Reichardt, Maurizio Rebaudengo
Chairs: Dagmar Reichardt, Maurizio Rebaudengo
Speakers: Dagmar Reichardt, Stefano Luconi, Luigi Saitta, Joe Farrell
G.02
Panel 62
The Italian Avant-Garde between Paris and Italy
Organiser: Laura Vattano
Chair: Davide Messina
Speakers: Alessandro Cabiati, Monica Davini, Laura Vattano
G.04
Panel 63
Translation and Multiculturalism
Panel 64
Women’s Place, Borders and Intersecting Spaces in Italian
National and Transnational Culture – II
Organisers: Cinzia Marongiu, Marianna Orsi, Isabella R. Vergata
Chairs: Marianna Orsi, Isabella R. Vergata
Speakers: Marco Ceravolo, Silvia Caserta, Karin Schulz, Cinzia Marongiu
LG.10
Panel 65
Sicilian Authors and the Senses – II
Organiser: Claudia Dellacasa
Chair: Claudia Dellacasa
Speakers: Silvia Bergamini, Simona Demontis, Valeria Taddei, Mark Chu
2.03
Panel 66
Postcolonial Paraliterature
Organiser: Niamh Keenan
Chair: Niamh Keenan
Speakers: Niamh Keenan, Daniela Sannino, Anna Finozzi
2.54
Panel 67
Voices and Visions: Interconnections in Contemporary Literature
Organiser: Giorgia Alù
Chair: Giorgia Alù
Speakers: Stefano Bragato, Matteo Trillini, Maddalena Moretti, Giorgia Alù
3.03
Panel 68
Italian Television: Stars and Genres in Past and Present
Organiser: Tamsin Boynton
Chair: Tamsin Boynton
Speakers: Rachel Haworth, Cecilia Brioni, Tamsin Boynton
3.54
Organiser: Liz Wren-Owens
Chair: Giuliana Pieri
Speakers: Cristina Marinetti, Kombola Ramadhani Mussa, Liz Wren-Owens, Veronica
Frigeni
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LG.06
Block 7 – Panels 61-68
EDINBURGH SIS 2019 – WEDNESDAY 26 JUNE / FRIDAY 28 JUNE 2019
FRIDAY 28/06, 3:30-5:00 | BLOCK 8 – Panels 69-72
Panel 69
Circulation in Italian Culture: Practices, Texts, Identities
Organiser: Beatrice Sica
Chair: Beatrice Sica
Speakers: Francesca Masiero, Lisa Sampson, Beatrice Sica
G.01
Panel 70
“O si vive o si scrive”? Il lavoro e la scrittura
Organiser: Mara Santi
Chair: Mara Santi
Speakers: Guylian Nemegeer, Sarah Bonciarelli, Tiziano Toracca, Mara Santi
G.02
Panel 71
The Winter of Italy’s Discontent: L’identità italiana utopica e distopica
negli anni ’70 - II. Letterature
Organisers: Dagmar Reichardt, Maurizio Rebaudengo
Chairs: Dagmar Reichardt, Maurizio Rebaudengo
Speakers: Maurizio Rebaudengo, Riccardo Antoniani, Rotraud von Kulessa, Dario Prola
G.04
Panel 72
Carlo Emilio Gadda: Philosophical Interplays
Organiser: Barbara Olla
Chair: Barbara Olla
Speakers: Amy Steinepreis, Francesco Venturi, Fabio Minazzi, Lucia Lo Marco
LG.10
Ongoing ECR Development Sessions
ECR
Drop-In
Organiser: Silvia Ross
Wednesday and Thursday: 10:00-3:00
Friday: 10:00-5:00
3.29
PGR
Caucus
Organiser: Rossella Riccobono
Thursday 27, 3-4pm
3.39
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Block 8 – Panels 69-72 / ECR – PGR
EDINBURGH SIS 2019 – WEDNESDAY 26 JUNE / FRIDAY 28 JUNE 2019
Panel Details – Block 1
PANE L LI ST I NG
WEDNESDAY 26/ 06, 9:0 0 -10:3 0 | B LOCK 1 – P an e l s 1 -10
Panel 1 – Room G.01
Classical and Medieval Culture in Dante – I
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Giuseppe Ledda
SPEAKERS
Anna Pegoretti – A graduate in Paradise (Par. XXIV-XXVI)
Nicolò Maldina – Interpretazioni e usi dei Salmi nella Commedia di Dante
Leyla Livraghi – Classical literature through medieval tradition in the catalogue of the lustful souls
(Inf. V, 52-69)
Luca Lombardo – In the footsteps of Boethius in Dante’s Florence
Panel 2 – Room G.02
Changing Bodies: Translating, Illustrating and Performing the Ovidian Myths in the Italian Renaissance
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Marta Balzi
SPEAKERS
Claudia Cieri Via – Le Metamorfosi fra tradizione iconografica e testuale: una breve introduzione al
progetto “Iconos”
Giuseppe Capriotti – “Donne non disprezzate la figura…” Il corpo femminile e l’uomo rinascimentale nelle
Trasformationi di Lodovico Dolce e Giovanni Antonio Rusconi
Michele Rossi – “Tutte sono cose maravigliose e vaghe”: translating Ovid in Francesco Filelfo’s commentary
upon Petrarch’s Canzoniere (1476)
Luca Degl’Innocenti – Traduttore improvvisato o traduttore all’improvviso? Machiavelli e le Metamorfosi
di Ovidio
Panel 3 – Room G.04
Il lettore immaginato: rappresentazioni della lettura nella tradizione letteraria italiana
ORGANISER – Giovanna Rizzarelli
CHAIR – Cristina Savettieri
SPEAKERS
Federica Pich – Lettori e lettura nella poesia lirica del Rinascimento italiano
Giovanna Rizzarelli – Paladini lettori nell’Inamoramento de Orlando
Olivia Santovetti – Ludmilla e il tema ottocentesco della lettrice
Panel 4 – Room G.05
Artistic Explorations of the Object in Italy in the Industrial Era
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Martina Borghi
SPEAKERS
Eleonora Traversa – Italian Futurism and ceramic design: the manufacture of avant-garde objects in Italy
in the 1930s
Martina Borghi – The Italian programmed art and the role of playfulness: the manufacture of ‘handy’
artistic objects in Gruppo T’s early production
Katherine Devine – Crafting the home in the art of Marisa Merz
Marzia D’Amico – Nel Gasometro: re-signifying in poetry an object in disuse
Panel Details – Block 1
Panels 5-9
Panel 5 – Room G.06
Spectral Presences in Contemporary Italian Culture
ORGANISER – Chiara Giuliani
CHAIR – Daragh O’Connell
SPEAKERS
Paolo Saporito – Ghosts as vectors of memory: the dialogue with the landscape in Wu Ming’s works
Marco Amici – Ghosts of our future: apocalyptic perspectives in Italian literature of the new millennium
Chiara Giuliani – Liu Bolin: the invisible man haunting Italy
Rebecca Walker – “Non posso andare avanti in questo passato”: haunting as narrative praxis in
Goliarda Sapienza
Panel 6 – Room LG.10
Donna in itinere: l’immagine dell’italiana che cambia
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Barbara Alfano
SPEAKERS
Barbara Alfano – Il Nuovo Mondo al femminile: l’America di Oriana Fallaci
Giovanna Caltagirone – La formazione di una “nuova italiana” per l’Italia in formazione: Enrichetta
Caracciolo, Misteri del chiostro napoletano
Ombretta Frau – “La mia azienda”: Matilde Serao e il Giorno, lettere inedite
Maria Grazia Lolla – The secular modernity of Rosa Genoni
Panel 7 – Room 2.03
Le metamorfosi del romanzo italiano
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Marco Carmello
SPEAKERS
Cristina Terrile – Il romanzo modernista italiano: figure di un’identità dialettica
Marco Carmello – Cambi: il romanzo e la sperimentalità negli anni ’60
Aurora Conde Muñoz – La leggerezza dell’immagine: considerazioni sul romanzo contemporaneo
Panel 8 – Room 2.39
Italian Studies and the Cognitive Turn – I
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Marzia Beltrami
SPEAKERS
Guido Furci – Primo Levi in context: towards a literary reappraisal of the “historical witness”
Cecilia Piantanida – (Un)Rooted: conceptual metaphors of origins in migrant writing in Italian
Marilina Ciaco – Poetry as an artistic practice: intermediality and reading environments in 21st century
Italian poetry
Marzia Beltrami – Spatial plots: understanding narrative through embodied experience
Panel 9 – Room 3.03
Explorations in Cinematic and Urban Practice
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Ruth Glynn
SPEAKERS
Giuseppe Palazzolo – L’occhio, la voce e il corpo: il senso di Pirandello per il cinema
Damien Pollard – Speaking intertextually: voice-over, literature and collaborative filmmaking in early
giallo cinema
Ruth Glynn – Naples in contemporary cinema: the politics of heritage
Ellie Crabtree – Revealing Roma negata in contemporary text and street art
Panel Details – Block 1 / Block 2
Panels 10-14
Panel 10 – Room 3.54
1947
ORGANISERS – Alberto Comparini, Salvatore Renna
CHAIR – Alberto Comparini
SPEAKERS
Alberto Comparini – Il metodo “ibrido” di Guido Morselli tra “realism” e “fantasia”
Salvatore Renna – “Ma ricordati sempre che i mostri non muoiono”: Pavese, Esiodo e i Titani
Matteo Moca – L’apparente sospensione della Storia: realtà e fantasia nel Racconto d’autunno di
Tommaso Landolfi
Sara Da Ronch – Artemisia e dintorni
WEDNESDAY 26/ 06, 2:30-4:00 | B LOCK 2 – Pan els 11 -20
Panel 11 – Room G.01
Classical and Medieval Culture in Dante – II
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Nicolò Maldina
SPEAKERS
Giuseppe Ledda – Per l’interpretazione del Virgilio di Dante
Alessia Carrai – Dante’s reception of classical myths: some observations on the two peaks of Parnassus
Marialaura Aghelu – Vita nova e dimensione elegiaca: fonti e ricezione
Vincenzo Vitale – Pagan gods as personifications: a possible influence of De civitate Dei on Vita nova
16 [XXV]
Panel 12 – Room G.02
Re-Writing Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” in Renaissance Italy: the Vernacular Translation of Giovanni Andrea
dell’Anguillara
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Marta Balzi
SPEAKERS
Andrea Torre – L’Adone edipico di Giovanni Andrea dell’Anguillara
Caterina Paoli – Popular literature and Renaissance translation: the myth of Orpheus in the Metamorfosi
by Giovanni Andrea dell’Anguillara
Marta Balzi – Authorising the translator: the commentary to Giovanni Andrea dell’Anguillara’s Metamorfosi
Francesca Casamassima – Stampe ovidiane nei fregi cinquecenteschi della Marca di Ancona
Panel 13 – Room G.04
Zibaldoni del Medioevo e del Rinascimento tra letteratura e cultura popolare
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Simona Brambilla
SPEAKERS
Simona Brambilla – Manoscritti miscellanei e zibaldoni: terminologia, analisi e categorie descrittive
Cecilia Sideri – Una miscellanea quattrocentesca di argomento storico-antichistico: Cristoforo Landino e
il MS. 138 della Biblioteca Riccardiana di Firenze
Barbara Pagliari – Uno sguardo alla cultura popolare tra letteratura e devozione
Camilla Russo – Fra latino e volgare: due case studies nella tradizione delle miscellanee retorico-civili
del Quattrocento
Panel 14 – Room G.05
Political Thought in 15th Century Italian Literature: Milan, Florence, Naples
ORGANISER – Marta Celati
CHAIR – David Lines
Panel Details – Block 2
Panels 14 (cont.) - 18
SPEAKERS
Veronica Dadà – Francesco Filelfo and Milan: political propaganda and relationships of patronage under
Francesco Sforza
Giorgio Lizzul – “Cerca la meno errante via”: fiscal justice and liberality in Matteo Palmieri’s Vita civile
Marta Celati – Rebellion and obedience in Pontano’s De bello Neapolitano: between historiography and
political theory
Panel 15 – Room G.06
Writing and Power in Early Modern Italian Women’s Letters
ORGANISERS – Veronica Andreani, Veronica Copello
CHAIR – Veronica Andreani
SPEAKERS
Veronica Andreani – Negotiating intellectual power in Veronica Gambara’s letters
Veronica Copello – Politics and literature in Vittoria Colonna’s correspondence
Kate Driscoll – Unsealed potential: Isabella Andreini’s Lettere and the evolution of a genre
Isabella Lazzarini – Women in power? Female epistolary networks in the age of the Italian wars (Mantua,
1490-1510 ca.)
Panel 16 – Room LG.10
Opera as ‘poesia per musica’: Musical-Poetic Choices in Seicento Italy
ORGANISER – Daniele Falcioni
CHAIR – Daniela Sannino
SPEAKERS
Roberto Gigliucci – Tragicomic blend and early melodrama
Nastasia Sophie Tietze – Marco Marazzoli and his librettists
Daniele Falcioni – Poetry and music in Bartolommei’s Drammi musicali
Panel 17 – Room 2.03
Famiglie storiche e storie di famiglia: liti e successioni nell’Italia del lungo Ottocento
ORGANISER – Sara Delmedico
CHAIR – Helena Sanson
SPEAKERS
Sara Delmedico – Obbedienza e insubordinazione: il testamento di Alvise Mocenigo nella Venezia
dell’Ottocento
Elena Musiani – L’eredità Gozzadini: una disputa familiare nella Bologna di fine XIX secolo
Lara Michelacci – Tra istinto naturale e imposizioni sociali: le dinamiche familiari nelle opere di Luigi
Capuana
Panel 18 – Room 2.39
Towards a New Italy: Writers, Performers and Social Action
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Enza de Francisci
SPEAKERS
Enza de Francisci – Verga and Duse: shaping an Italian identity on stage
Lucia Ducci – Fanny Salazar Zampini and the Risorgimento as an opportunity for the Women’s emancipation
movement in Italy
Milena Gammaitoni – L’agire sociale delle compositrici italiane tra ’800 e ’900: quando il privato
diventa pubblico
Panel Details – Block 2 / Block 3
Panels 19-23
Panel 19 – Room 3.03
Italian Studies and the Cognitive Turn – II
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Marzia Beltrami
SPEAKERS
Marco Paoli – Creating an Italian noir cues framework to test the manipulations and measurements of the
viewer’s identification process with narrative characters
Giovanni Miglianti – Primo Levi’s affective compromise
Emiliano Zappalà – Literary engagement and neuro-humanities in the age of post-truth
Panel 20 – Room 3.54
Storie d’amore: rapporti amorosi nella letteratura italiana del fin de siècle
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Marja Härmänmaa
SPEAKERS
Edwige Comoy Fusaro – Amori scapigliati
Brian Zuccala – Post-Unification gender and dissonance: (re)reading “Verista” love through Silvia Valisa
Marja Härmänmaa – Il rimedio per l’amore decadente, ovvero l’educazione sentimentale alla Fogazzaro
Barbara Meazzi – Gli amori futuristi
T HURSDAY 27/ 06, 9:30 -11:00 | B LOCK 3 – Pan els 21 -30
Panel 21 – Room G.01
Charlemagne in Italy: Innovation and Adaptation
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Jane Everson
SPEAKERS
Maria Pavlova – Chivalry in crisis: Vendetta di Falconetto, its sources and its influence
Annalisa Perrotta – Charlemagne in Florence: stories, history and historiography in Pulci’s Morgante
Franca Strologo – La crisi di Carlo Magno fra l’Orlando laurenziano e il Morgante di Luigi Pulci
Anna Carocci – “Così parlano insieme”: il dialogo nel Mambriano
Panel 22 – Room G.02
Letteratura ed eterodossia religiosa nei primi secoli
ORGANISER – Antonio di Grado
CHAIR – Nicolò Maldina
SPEAKERS
Agnese Amaduri – Visioni sacre nelle canzoni spirituali di Isabella Morra
Andrea Schembari – “Sol per amor di sua bontà natia”: riflessi di religiosità riformata nelle versioni liriche
dei Salmi di Fausto Sozzini
Ambra Moroncini – Beauty and grace in Michelangelo’s poetry
Panel 23 – Room G.04
G.B. Andreini (1576-1654) All-Round: Three Approaches to the “Italian Shakespeare”
ORGANISER – Serena Laiena
CHAIR – Helena Sanson
SPEAKERS
Serena Laiena – The young Andreinis: women, legacy and innovation
Annamaria Azzarone – La turca comedia by Giovan Battista Andreini: edition, commentary and critical study
Alessandra Munari – “Now my charms are all o’erthrown”: the Italian Shakespeare, Giovan Battista
Andreini’s swansong
Panel Details – Block 3
Panels 24-28
Panel 24 – Room LG.06
Long Live the Body Political: 18th Century Welfare between Education and Citizen Assistance in Florence,
Milan and Venice
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Rossella Riccobono
SPEAKERS
Rossella Riccobono – The Congregation of St John the Baptist: politics of consensus and the safeguard of
the state and the poor in early 18th century Florence
Cecilia Ascoli – From subject to citizen: revolutionary education in Milan at the Turn of the 19th century
Riccardo Benzoni – Educational reforms and sacralisation of power in the First Empire (1804-1815): the
example of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy
Panel 25 – Room LG.08
Vico: Future Past and Past Future – New Perspectives
ORGANISER – Martina Piperno
CHAIR – Davide Messina
SPEAKERS
Sabrina Ferri – Vincenzo Cuoco’s Vico and the form of the novel
Daragh O’Connell – Dante in the “vicociclometer”
Martina Piperno – Vico’s obscurity
Panel 26 – Room LG.10
Italian Thought / Italian Theory / Italian Difference – I
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Federica G. Pedriali
SPEAKERS
Enrica Lisciani-Petrini – “Italian Thought” fra tradizione e globalizzazione
Dario Gentili – Italian theory and French theory: a confrontation between different narratives and
political operations
David Ragazzoni – Machiavelli’s children? Politics and realisms in Italian Thought
Alberto Martinengo – Paradigmi per un’ontologia politica
Panel 27 – Room LG.11
Language and Teaching – I. Translation and Multilingualism
ORGANISERS – Rosalba Biasini, Anna Proudfoot, Caterina Sinibaldi
CHAIR – Caterina Sinibaldi
SPEAKERS
Rosalba Biasini – Between tradition and innovation: active translation as a learning tool for beginners
Gioia Panzarella – Collaborative translation practices in the language classroom
Anna Proudfoot – Multilingualism and translation: choices and challenges
Marta Kaliska – La traduzione specializzata come strumento di sviluppo del multilinguismo
Panel 28 – Room 2.03
The City: Language and Space – I
ORGANISERS & CHAIRS – Gigliola Sulis, Elisa Segnini
SPEAKERS
Paolo Orrù – Migrants and/in the city: discourse and construction of marginality in Italian media
Ester Cois – “Urban Decorum”: language and the suitability of people’s bodies in public spaces
Gigliola Sulis – Urban peripheries in Pasolini’s Roman novels and their foreign translations
Elisa Segnini – Language and the urban space, from international bestsellers to transnational TV series
Panel Details – Block 3 / Block 4
Panels 29-33
Panel 29 – Room 3.03
Interdisciplinary Italy – I
ORGANISER – Giuliana Pieri
CHAIR – Clodagh Brook
SPEAKERS
Marco Bellardi – Il romanzo cinematografico di Ottieri: note su L’impagliatore di sedie (1964)
Maria Del Buono – Americanization and “Italianità” in film manifesti: defining features in post-war
Italian advertisement
Giuliana Pieri – Intermediality in Italian Futurism: discoursive strategies and material iconographies
Panel 30 – Room 3.54
Women Leading the (Hi)Story
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Luciana D’Arcangeli
SPEAKERS
Piotr Podemski – Reluctant feminists “all’italiana”: the women’s suffrage debate within the Italian Socialist
Party in the Kuliscioff-Turati correspondence (1910)
Luciana D’Arcangeli – Franca Rame e i monologhi Lo stupro (1975) e Maria (2001), ossia Stuprata da un
ragazzo per bene (2012)
Giuliana Muscio – Il fucile nel radicchio: le staffette della resistenza veneta
T HURSDAY 27/ 06, 11:30 -1:00 | B LOCK 4 – Pan els 31 -40
Panel 31 – Room G.01
Medieval Variations: Dante and his Context
ORGANISER – Pietro Cagni
CHAIR – Nicolò Maldina
SPEAKERS
Marco Spreafico – Sociolinguistic variation in the medieval city: the case of Florence
Luna Sarti – Dante and the water cycle in the Commedia: God, physics, and flowing waters
Lorenzo Bartolucci – The human moment of the soul in the Commedia
Pietro Cagni – “E pur convien che novità risponda”: presenze “efficaci” in Inferno XVI-XVII
Panel 32 – Room G.02
Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis in Renaissance Italy (c.1350-c.1650)
ORGANISERS & CHAIRS – Simon Gilson, Federica Pich
SPEAKERS
Giacomo Comiati – Commenting Petrarch through the lens of law and rhetoric: Pietro Pagano and his
reading of RVF 2
Lorenzo Sacchini – Petrarch’s reception(s) in 16th century Perugia
Rhiannon Daniels – Printing Petrarch in the mid-Cinquecento: Gabriele Giolito and paratextual design
Guyda Armstrong – Designing Petrarch: the RVF and Trionfi in early print, 1471-1501
Panel 33 – Room G.04
Publish or Perish: Paratexts, Divulgation and Book Market in the Venetian Cinquecento
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Teodoro Katinis
SPEAKERS
Claudia Crocco – “Accorciare & agevolar”: Orazio Toscanella’s creative way to popularization
Ruben Celani – Marketing strategies and divulgative goals: paratexts in Francesco Sansovino’s medical and
agricultural works
Panel Details – Block 4
Panels 33 (cont.) - 38
Teodoro Katinis – “Materie piacevolissime da leggere e utili da essequire”: the introductory letters in
Leonardo Fioravanti’s Capricci medicinali
Panel 34 – Room LG.06
Quale Patria, quale Dio: donne e identità nazionale italiana dal Risorgimento al Secondo Dopoguerra – I
ORGANISER – Marta Riccobono
CHAIR – Helena Sanson
SPEAKERS
Laura Fournier-Finocchiaro – Risorgimento italiano ed emancipazione della donna nelle memorie di
Clémentine De Como (1803-1871)
Marta Riccobono – “Tu ridestar l’Italia / co’ carmi un dì potrai”: due esempi di patriottismo femminile in
versi nella Sicilia risorgimentale
Ursula Fanning – Shifting perceptions of women and war in the works of Matilde Serao
Panel 35 – Room LG.10
Italian Thought / Italian Theory / Italian Difference – II
ORGANISER – Federica G. Pedriali
CHAIR – Marco Piasentier
SPEAKERS
Paolo Bartoloni – Hope and time: Giorgio Agamben
Jon Short – Esposito, Foucault, and neoliberal biopolitics
Massimo Villani – Ontologia e politica nella recente riflessione di Roberto Esposito
Heather Lynch – Productive violence: Esposito’s affirmative biopolitics in the home
Panel 36 – LG.11
Language and Teaching – II. Narratives and Storytelling
ORGANISERS – Rosalba Biasini, Anna Proudfoot, Caterina Sinibaldi
CHAIR – Anna Proudfoot
SPEAKERS
Enrico Cecconi – “Because everyone has a story to tell!” Fostering oral production in the Italian class by
using narrative and storytelling.
Anna Costantino – Attuning to diversity, practising inclusivity: the case-study of an Italian MFL
language classroom
Chiara La Sala – Narrative & Storytelling in Jhumpa Lahiri’s In Other Words
Panel 37 – Room 2.03
The City: Language and Space – II
ORGANISERS & CHAIRS – Gigliola Sulis, Elisa Segnini
SPEAKERS
Marco Gargiulo – Language conflict, camouflage and glottophagy in the Italian cinematic city
Francesco Ciabattoni – Intertextuality and urban space in the songs of Claudio Baglioni
Francesco Bachis – Representing urban space in Moroccan transnational migration in Sardinia
Silvia Aru – Making boundaries in a border city: “migration crisis” between discourses and practices
in Ventimiglia
Panel 38 – Room 2.39
Representing Conflict: Gender, Sexuality, Alterity – I
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Silvia Ross
Panel Details – Block 4 / Block 5
Panels 33 (cont.) - 42
SPEAKERS
Giovanni Pietro Vitali – Our last words will be your heritage: reading the Italian resistance through the Last
Letters of Partisans Sentenced to Death
Martina O’Leary – Iguana, drago, serpente, demonio: zoomorphism and oppression in Ortese’s
fantasy literature
Olga Campofreda – Contro la borghesia: Pier Vittorio Tondelli e le teorie queer antisociali
Panel 39 – Room 3.03
Hegemony and Literature: Contrasting Perspectives in Contemporary Italian Culture
ORGANISERS – Simone Calabrò, Alessandra Pellegrini De Luca, Marco Ruggieri
CHAIR – Simone Calabrò
SPEAKERS
Jutta Fortin – The literary figure of the lost child in Erri De Luca’s writings
Alessandra Pellegrini De Luca – Militant memories: 1970s terrorism in contemporary Italian culture
Marco Ruggieri – Gramsci and Eco: unexplored connections
Alberica Bazzoni – Italian autofiction: literary canons and the gendered self
Panel 40 – Room 3.54
Translating and Publishing in the 20th Century
ORGANISER – Teresa Franco
CHAIR – Daniela La Penna
SPEAKERS
Teresa Franco – A voice for the partisans: Natalia Ginzburg translator of Made in Italy
Andrea Romanzi – Fernanda Pivano and the Beat generation: a micro-sociological reading of the
translator’s agency in the patronization of American counter-culture literature
Maria Cristina Seccia – Translating the Italian mother: a comparative analysis of Cristina Ali Farah’s
Madre piccola and its English translation
T HURSDAY 27/ 06, 3:30 -5:00 | B LOCK 5 – Pan els 41 -50
Panel 41 – Room G.01
Ariosto beyond the Quincentenary Celebrations
ORGANISER – Stefano Jossa
CHAIR – Jane Everson
SPEAKERS
Paola Ugolini – Ariosto’s self-fashioning as a poet
Francesco Lucioli – Transmutations of the Orlando Furioso: on the popular reception of Ariosto’s poem
Stefano Jossa – Ariosto’s intertextuality in contemporary cinema
Ita MacCarthy – A cognitivist approach to Ariosto and the reverse
Panel 42 – Room G.02
New Perspectives on Renaissance “Letters”
ORGANISER – Ambra Anelotti
CHAIR – Isabella Lazzarini
SPEAKERS
Lucinda Byatt – Women’s letter-writing as a medium for politics and family in 16th century Rome
and Florence
Eleonora Serra – Social networks and historical sociolinguistics: “laggers” and “innovators” in the
Buonarroti family
Panel Details – Block 5
Panels 42 (cont.) - 47
Ambra Anelotti – Re-envisioning the Italian literary tradition: Marco Filippi’s Ovidian rewriting of Ariosto’s
romance (1584)
Panel 43 – Room G.04
Quale Patria, quale Dio: donne e identità nazionale italiana dal Risorgimento al Secondo Dopoguerra – II
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Marta Riccobono
SPEAKERS
Carlo Leo – Il patriottismo femminile nell’impresa di Fiume
Antonella Braga – “La donna che sa aspettare”: Luisa Villani Usellini nella Resistenza romana
Anna Di Giusto – Renata Viganò tra Antigone e le Madres argentine: la narrazione politica come
decostruzione della motherhood performativa
Panel 44 – Room LG.06
Interdisciplinary Italy – II
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Giuliana Pieri
SPEAKERS
Clodagh Brook – Convergence: a concept for understanding artistic practices in the early 21st century
Eleonora Lima – Fabrizio Venerandi and the retour à l’ordre of electronic poetry
Emanuela Patti – Italian culture and the digital: how the “digital turn” is reorienting our discipline
Panel 45 – Room LG.10
Italian Thought / Italian Theory / Italian Difference – III
ORGANISER – Federica G. Pedriali
CHAIR – David Ragazzoni
SPEAKERS
Greg Bird – Dispositif thinking
Marco Piasentier – The order of life: the biopolitical thought of Davide Tarizzo
Giusi Strummiello – Dire sé, dire di sé: logica e politica della soggettivazione
Davide Luglio – Elementi per una bioestetica: Pasolini
Panel 46 – Room LG.11
Language and Teaching – III. Language and Culture
ORGANISER – Carlo Pirozzi
CHAIR – Elena Polisca
SPEAKERS
Caterina Sinibaldi – How does the “culture” fit in? Some reflections on teaching Italian to non-specialist
students
Claudia Domenici – Language teaching and literature: the interview as a new approach
Cristina Massaccesi – From grammar issues to “aetherships”: using translation in language teaching
Sara Galli – Advertising, culture, and language
Panel 47 – Room 2.03
The City: Language and Space – III
ORGANISERS & CHAIRS – Gigliola Sulis, Elisa Segnini
SPEAKERS
Barbara Pezzotti – Giallo and the city: Italian crime fiction and the urban environment as a transcultural
contact zone
Michela Meschini – Female heterotopias: thresholds and urban routes in the fiction of Gabriella Kuruvilla
Antonio Bibbò – The Italian novel and the city
Stefano Fogarizzu – Urban space(s) in Paola Soriga’s La stagione che verrà
Panel Details – Block 5 / Block 6
Panels 48-52
Panel 48 – Room 2.39
Representing Conflict: Gender, Sexuality, Alterity – II
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Silvia Ross
SPEAKERS
Filomena Anna D’Alessandro – Globalizzazione, multiculturalismo e discriminazione di genere: “la logica
dell’identità nega o reprime la differenza”
Silvia Ross – Urban conflict, mobility and migrant “alterity” in Dagmawi Yimer’s Va’ pensiero: storie
ambulanti (2014)
Viola Ardeni – Feeling blue: addressing gender violence in Italian illustrated fairy tales
Panel 49 – Room 3.03
Letteratura, impegno politico e questione operaia
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Tullio Pagano
SPEAKERS
Giulia Dettori – L’importanza dell’operaismo nel pensiero italiano
Marina Paino – Sereni e la “visita in fabbrica” di un poeta
Tullio Pagano – Boom economico e crisi dell’intellettuale organico: sulla Speculazione edilizia di
Italo Calvino
Panel 50 – Room 3.54
Sicilian Authors and the Senses – I
ORGANISER– Claudia Dellacasa
CHAIR – Katrin Wehling-Giorgi
SPEAKERS
Hannah McIntyre – Goliarda Sapienza and sensory knowledge
Claudia Dellacasa – Dacia Maraini’s sense of taste. Sicily and Japan, abundance and hunger
Sara Parisi – Reading Images: Leonardo Sciascia and the use of sight as a means to discern reality
Debora Bellinzani – The sense of sight: apparitions of the invisible in spiritistic photography and in
Capuana’s ghost stories
FRI DAY 28/ 06, 9:30 -11:00 | B LOCK 6 – Pan els 51 -60
Panel 51 – Room G.01
Seeing (with) Dante: New Approaches and Methodologies
ORGANISERS – Federica Coluzzi, David Bowe
CHAIR – Guyda Armstrong
SPEAKERS
Federica Coluzzi – The female gaze: imagining Dante’s Vita nova in the illustrations of Phoebe Anna
Traquair and Evelyn Paul
Alessia Benedetti – Reading Dante in Stalin’s Russia: literary classics and formal experimentation in Mikhail
Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita
Sandro-Angelo de Thomasis – Mediating Dante through vertical readings: medieval to modern
Panel 52 – Room G.02
The Female Presence and the Shape of the Lyric
ORGANISERS – Giada Guassardo, Valentina Tibaldo
CHAIR – Federica Pich
SPEAKERS
Giada Guassardo – What kind of woman? Lyric convention vs. autobiography in Ariosto’s Rime
Panel Details – Block 6
Panels 52 (cont.) - 57
Anna Saroldi – His travel, her travail: the Italian sonnet by Louise Labé
Valentina Tibaldo – “Anche agosto è andato per sempre…” Reticence and love relationship in Vittorio
Sereni’s poetry
Panel 53 – Room G.04
Modelli stranieri per la letteratura italiana di genere: dalle origini al contemporaneo
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Mark Chu
SPEAKERS
Stefano Serafini – Re-shaping the gothic city: the Italian mysteries in a transnational perspective
Francesca Facchi – La ricezione di Poe nel protogiallo italiano: il caso di La pantera di Remigio Zena
Alberto Iozzia – The transparent apocalypse: super-national models and trans-cultural colonization of
Italian apocalyptic fiction
Panel 54 – Room LG.06
Nationhood, Otherness and Language in Contemporary Italy
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Linetto Basilone
SPEAKERS
Gaia Giuliani – Defending the colour of the nation in postcolonial Italy: the national imagined community
and the banality of racism
Linetto Basilone – On the distance to China: travel writing, impegno and Italian-style Maoisms during and
after the cultural revolution
Valeria Palumbo – “I do not give any importance to the concept of country: today I am happy to be an
Italian”: Italian women professional journalists and national identity from Amelia Cottini Osta to
Oriana Fallaci
Panel 55 – Room LG.10
Women’s Place, Borders and Intersecting Spaces in Italian National and Transnational culture – I
ORGANISERS – Cinzia Marongiu, Marianna Orsi, Isabella R. Vergata
CHAIR – Cinzia Marongiu
SPEAKERS
Valentina Nesi – La città delle donne: identità di genere e spazio nelle opere di Laudomia Bonanni
Marianna Orsi – Space, gender and power from antiquity to the Italian Renaissance
Elena Emma Sottilotta – Sisyphean efforts and Penelope’s web: women’s place in 19th century Italian folk
and fairy-tale narratives
Isabella R. Vergata – Dal pianto al canto: spazio e identità femminile nelle Rime di Gaspara Stampa
Panel 56 – Room 2.03
The Reception of Italian Literature in 20th Century Russia
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Maria Pavlova
SPEAKERS
Elena Tchougounova-Paulson – “My Italian poems have made me popular again”: Alexander Blok’s trip to
Italy as an aspiring Symbolist’s journey
Maria Belova – Russian translations of Matilde Serao
Kristina Landa – Donne cultrici e traduttrici dell’opera dantesca nella Russia del Novecento: Maria
Liverovskaja, Anna Achmatova, Olga Sedakova
Panel 57 – Room 2.39
Satire, Satura, Revelation: Perspectives on Carlo Emilio Gadda
ORGANISERS – Serena Vandi, Laura Lucia Rossi
Panel Details – Block 6 / Block 7
Panels 57 (cont.) - 61
CHAIR – Francesco Venturi
SPEAKERS
Luca Mazzocchi – On “Quattro figlie ebbe e ciascuna regina” from Gadda’s L’Adalgisa: genesis of the text
and critical considerations
Laura Lucia Rossi – Accumulation as a narrative device in Gadda’s La cognizione and Pasticciaccio
Serena Vandi – Proliferating revealing connections: Dante’s and Gadda’s neologisms
Panel 58 – Room 2.54
Gli epistolari novecenteschi come forma di collaborazione
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Francesca Medaglia
SPEAKERS
Francesca Medaglia – Le possibili collaborazioni tra artisti ed il dibattito letterario durante il primo
Novecento attraverso lo studio dei documenti del Fondo Botta
Elisiana Fratocchi – Ada e Piero Gobetti: una formazione umana, critica e letteraria attraverso l’epistolario
Daniel Raffini – L’epistolario nella formazione di una rivista e dei suoi scrittori: lettere a Solaria
Panel 59 – Room 3.03
Memoria, lavoro, desiderio: forme narrative e costruzione del soggetto nel romanzo italiano
contemporaneo
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Massimo Natale
SPEAKERS
Jacopo Galavotti – “Ventisei fottuti anni di lavoro dipendente!”: su Works di Vitaliano Trevisan
Fabio Magro – Autobiografia e letteratura in Leggenda privata di Michele Mari
Giacomo Morbiato – Soggetto, corpo, natura: l’immaginario della decadenza in Pecoraro e Lagioia
Massimo Natale – Citare narrando: su Walter Siti
Panel 60 – Room 3.54
La violenza di genere raccontata: sfide della rappresentazione narrativa dell’abuso sessista
ORGANISER – Nicoletta Mandolini
CHAIR – Silvia Ross
SPEAKERS
Carla Carotenuto – La violenza segreta: il male raccontato da Claudia Priano e Dacia Maraini
Giacomo Manzoli – Finanziamento pubblico e violenza di genere nel cinema italiano contemporaneo
Caterina Peroni – Making #metoo a political bond: the self-inquiry on labor’s sexual harassment by
“NonUnaDiMeno – Padova”
Nicoletta Mandolini – Il femminicidio sotto inchiesta: la violenza letale di genere tra giornalismo
investigativo e reportage narrativo
FRI DAY 28/ 06, 11: 30 -1:00 | B LOCK 7 – Pan els 61 -68
Panel 61 – Room G.02
The Winter of Italy’s Discontent: L’identità italiana utopica e distopica negli anni ’70 – I
Tra politica e cultura
ORGANISERS & CHAIRS – Dagmar Reichardt, Maurizio Rebaudengo
SPEAKERS
Dagmar Reichardt – Maraini and Pasolini: transcultural gender roles in the heterotopian vision of the prominorities and post-materialist movement in Italy
Stefano Luconi – Identità italiana e politica transnazionale: la comunità italo-statunitense e le elezioni
del 1976
Panel Details – Block 7
Panels 61 (cont.) - 66
Luigi Saitta – L'identità italiana distopica nel cinema di Elio Petri
Joe Farrell – The tragic vision: Dario Fo and the assassination of Aldo Moro
Panel 62 – Room G.04
The Italian Avant-Garde between Paris and Italy
ORGANISER – Laura Vattano
CHAIR – Davide Messina
SPEAKERS
Alessandro Cabiati – Forerunners of the Avant-Garde: Scapigliatura between Paris and Milan
Monica Davini – Alberto Savinio: the metaphysical poetics of an amateur between Paris and Milan
Laura Vattano – Russolo’s L’arte dei rumori and its Parisian epilogue
Panel 63 – Room LG.06
Translation and Multilingualism
ORGANISER – Liz Wren-Owens
CHAIR – Giuliana Pieri
SPEAKERS
Cristina Marinetti – Embodying multilingualism: translating and performing identities in the work of
“Teatro delle Albe”
Kombola Ramadhani Mussa – The Italian zigula: the complexities of a multilingual and
transnational identity
Liz Wren-Owens – Transnational spaces of intercultural exchange: international film adaptations of
Tabucchi’s texts
Veronica Frigeni – L’italiano unheimlich di Jhumpa Lahiri
Panel 64 – Room LG.10
Women’s Place, Borders and Intersecting Spaces in Italian National and Transnational Culture – II
ORGANISERS – Cinzia Marongiu, Marianna Orsi, Isabella R. Vergata
CHAIRS – Marianna Orsi, Isabella R. Vergata
SPEAKERS
Marco Ceravolo – Anna Maria Ortese: zingara in una terra straniera
Silvia Caserta – Memory, space and movement in Takoua Ben Mohamed’s transnational graphic novel
La rivoluzione dei gelsomini
Karin Schulz – “Grazia vispa o patetica”: the impact of women in Luigi Pirandello’s novels
Cinzia Marongiu – The domestic environment in the Mississippi cotton plantation: Italians and African
American women in Mary Bucci’s Sweet Hope
Panel 65 – Room 2.03
Sicilian Authors and the Senses – II
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Claudia Dellacasa
SPEAKERS
Silvia Bergamini – Sensual baroque in Gesualdo Bufalino
Simona Demontis – I sei sensi della commedia camilleriana
Valeria Taddei – “The colourful fiction of our senses”: physical perception in Pirandello’s vitalistic insight
Mark Chu – Medicine and the five senses: the sensorial experience of Mineo in L’enorme tempo by
Giuseppe Bonaviri, doctor and writer
Panel 66 – Room 2.54
Postcolonial Paraliterature
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Niamh Keenan
Panel Details – Block 7 / Block 8
Panels 66 (cont.) - 71
SPEAKERS
Niamh Keenan – “Self” and “Other” in Emilio Salgari’s Sandokan series
Daniela Sannino – Food as a cultural index: foodways of identity and integration in Italian migrant literature
Anna Finozzi – Legittimare e convalidare: la performatività e il ruolo delle prefazioni e postfazioni nella
letteratura postcoloniale italiana
Panel 67 – Room 3.03
Voices and Visions: Interconnections in Contemporary Literature
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Giorgia Alù
SPEAKERS
Stefano Bragato – Gradi di utopia: lo spazio urbano nel futurismo
Matteo Trillini – Bestiari moderni: i casi di Salvatore Toma e Franco Scataglini
Maddalena Moretti – “Ho parlato al lettore in quanto io stesso”: reflections on Pasolinis’s addresses to
the reader
Giorgia Alù – Other truths: photography and fiction in Helena Janeczek’s La ragazza con la Leica
Panel 68 – Room 3.54
Italian Television: Stars and Genres in Past and Present
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Tamsin Boynton
SPEAKERS
Rachel Haworth – “Carino, no?”: Mina as ever-present absent star of Italian television
Cecilia Brioni – Speciale per Voi: Italian youth television, 1962-1972
Tamsin Boynton – Male characterisation and masculinity in Gomorrah and its transmedial adaptations
FRI DAY 28/ 06, 3:30 -5:00 | B LOCK 8 – Pa nels 69 -72
Panel 69 – Room G.01
Circulation in Italian Culture: Practices, Texts, Identities
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Beatrice Sica
SPEAKERS
Francesca Masiero – “Teachers” mobility and the circulation of textbooks in the Veneto in the 15th century
Lisa Sampson – Theatre networks in the academies of 16th-17th century Italy
Beatrice Sica – From This Quarter to the European Caravan: Samuel Putnam’s anthologies of
Italian literature
Panel 70 – Room G.02
“O si vive o si scrive”? Il lavoro e la scrittura
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Mara Santi
SPEAKERS
Guylian Nemegeer – “La perfettissima ape”: lo scrittore-umanista in Gabriele d’Annunzio
Sarah Bonciarelli – Il “mestiere” tra letteratura e giornalismo: i diari di Prezzolini.
Tiziano Toracca – L’amore mio italiano e La tigre domestica: Giancarlo Buzzi in Olivetti
Mara Santi – Il mestiere di scrittore nella società italiana contemporanea
Panel 71 – Room G.04
The Winter of Italy’s Discontent: L’identità italiana utopica e distopica negli anni ’70 – II. Letterature
ORGANISERS & CHAIRS – Dagmar Reichardt, Maurizio Rebaudengo
Panel Details – Block 8
Panels 71 (cont.) - 72
SPEAKERS
Maurizio Rebaudengo – Le disobbedienze centripete: l’analisi del tormento politico tra utopia, storicismo e
scetticismo nella saggistica di Franco Fortini
Riccardo Antoniani – “Se ci fosse luce”: l’identità italiana tra “lucciole” e “riflettori feroci del potere”
Rotraud von Kulessa – Tra utopia e distopia: i lumi francesi come paradigma ermeneutico nella narrativa
italiana degli anni ’60/’70
Dario Prola – Periodi ipotetici della possibilità: la fantascienza di Primo Levi negli anni di piombo.
Panel 72 – Room LG.10
Carlo Emilio Gadda: Philosophical Interplays
ORGANISER & CHAIR – Barbara Olla
SPEAKERS
Amy Steinepreis – Writing toward irresolution: La cognizione del dolore and the finitude of death
Francesco Venturi – Exploring Gadda’s manuscripts: unpublished texts and aborted projects between
literature and philosophy
Fabio Minazzi – Carlo Emilio Gadda e Piero Martinetti: influenze martinettiane (e leibniziane)
Lucia Lo Marco – “Filosofia”, “non-filosofia” e “afilosofia” in Gadda: una lettura merleau-pontiana
Delegates A-C
AGHELU, Marialaura, Rome Sapienza University, marialaura.aghelu@uniroma1.it
ALFANO, Barbara, Bennington College, balfano@bennington.edu
ALÙ, Giorgia, Sydney University, giorgia.alu@sydney.edu.au
AMADURI, Agnese, Catania University, agneseamaduri@yahoo.it
AMICI, Marco, University College Cork, marcamic@gmail.com
ANDREANI, Veronica, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, v.andreani@sns.it
ANELOTTI, Ambra, Royal Holloway University London, ambra.anelotti@live.rhul.ac.uk
ANTONIANI, Riccardo, Paris Sorbonne University, riccardo_a@hotmail.com
ARDENI, Viola, UCLA, violin2011@g.ucla.edu
ARMSTRONG, Guyda, Manchester University, Guyda.Armstrong@manchester.ac.uk
ARU, Silvia, Amsterdam University, silviaaru8@gmail.com
ASCOLI, Cecilia, St Andrews University, ca71@st-andrews.ac.uk
AZZARONE, Annamaria, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, annamaria.azzarone@sns.it
BACHIS, Francesco, Cagliari University, francesco.bachis@unica.it
BALZI, Marta, Bristol University, m.balzi@bristol.ac.uk
BARTOLONI, Paolo, NUIG, National University of Ireland Galway, paolo.bartoloni@nuigalway.ie
BARTOLUCCI, Lorenzo, Stanford University, lor@stanford.edu
BASILONE, Linetto, Auckland University, lbas119@aucklanduni.ac.nz
BAZZONI, Alberica, Warwick University, A.Bazzoni@warwick.ac.uk
BELLARDI, Marco, Trinity College Dublin, bellardm@tcd.ie
BELLINZANI, Debora, Wisconsis-Madison University, debora.bellinzani@gmail.com
BELOVA, Maria, Warwick University, masciab@mail.ru
BELTRAMI, Marzia, Durham University, marzia.beltrami@durham.ac.uk
BENEDETTI, Alessia, Manchester University, alessia.benedetti@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
BENZONI, Riccardo, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart Milan, riccardo.benzoni@unicatt.it
BERGAMINI, Silvia, Bangor University, s.bergamini@bangor.ac.uk
BIASINI, Rosalba, Liverpool University, rbiasini@liverpool.ac.uk
BIBBÒ, Antonio, Manchester University, antoniobib@gmail.com
BIRD, Greg, Wilfrid Laurier University, gbird@wlu.ca
BONCIARELLI, Sarah, Ghent University, sarah.bonciarelli@ugent.be
BOND, Emma, St Andrews University, efb@st-andrews.ac.uk
BORGHI, Martina, Royal Holloway University London, martina.borghi.2017@live.rhul.ac.uk
BOWE, David, University College Cork, david.bowe@ecc.ie
BOYNTON, Tamsin, Hull University, t.p.boynton@2012.hull.ac.uk
BRAGA, Antonella, Lausanne University, antonella.braga@unil.ch
BRAGATO, Stefano, Zurich University, stefano.bragato@uzh.ch
BRAMBILLA, Simona, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart Milan, simona.brambilla@unicatt.it
BRIONI, Cecilia, Bristol University, Cecilia.brioni@bristol.ac.uk
BRISTOW, Toby, tjdbristow@gmail.com
BROOK, Clodagh, Trinity College Dublin, brookc@tcd.ie
BYATT, Lucinda, Edinburgh University, lucinda.byatt@ed.ac.uk
CABIATI, Alessandro, King’s College London, a.cabiati@oxfordalumni.org
CAGNI, Pietro, University of Pennsylvania, pietro.cagni@gmail.com
Delegates C-D
CALABRÒ, Simone, Edinburgh University, simone.calabro@ed.ac.uk
CALTAGIRONE, Giovanna, Cagliari University, caltagir@unica.it
CAMPOFREDA, Olga, University College London, olga.campofreda.14@ucl.ac.uk
CAPRIOTTI, Giuseppe, Macerata University, giuseppe.capriotti@unimc.it
CARMELLO, Marco, Madrid University, macarmel@filol.ucm.es
CAROTENUTO, Carla, Macerata University, carla.carotenuto@unimc.it
CARRAI, Alessia, Cambridge University, ac2130@cam.ac.uk
CAROCCI, Anna, Rome Sapienza University, annacarocci@hotmail.com
CASAMASSIMA, Francesca, Genoa University, francesca.casamassima@edu.unige.it
CASERTA, Silvia, St Andrews University, sc332@st-andrews.ac.uk
CECCONI, Enrico, Bath University, E.Cecconi@bath.ac.uk
CELANI, Ruben, Ghent University, ruben.celani@ugent.be
CELATI, Marta, Warwick University, marta.celati@gmail.com
CERAVOLO, Marco, Bologna University, marco.ceravolo@studio.unibo.it
CHU, Mark, University College Cork, m.chu@ucc.ie
CIABATTONI, Francesco, Georgetown University, fc237@georgetown.edu
CIACO, Marilina, IULM Milan, marilina.ciaco@gmail.com
CIERI VIA, Claudia, Rome Sapienza University, claudia.cierivia@uniroma.it
COIS, Ester, Cagliari University, ester.cois@unica.it
COLUZZI, Federica, Manchester University, federica.coluzzi@manchester.ac.uk
COMIATI, Giacomo, Oxford University, giacomo.comiati@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
COMOY FUSARO, Edwige, Côte d’Azur University, edwige.fusaro@univ-cotedazur.fr
COMPARINI, Alberto, Freie Universität Berlin, alberto.comparini@fu-berlin.de
CONDE MUÑOZ, Aurora, Madrid University, aconde@ucm.es
COPELLO, Veronica, National Instituite of Renaissance Florence, ve.copello@gmail.com
COSTANTINO, Anna, Greenwhich University, a.costantino@gre.ac.uk
CRABTREE, Ellie, St Andrews University, evc2@st-andrews.ac.uk
CROCCO, Claudia, Ghent University, claudia.crocco@ugent.be
DA RONCH, Sara, Padua University - Fribourg University, Sara.daronch@unifr.ch
DADÀ, Veronica, Pisa University, veronica.dada3@gmail.com
D’ALESSANDRO, Filomena Anna, Málaga University, f.dalessandro89@gmail.com
D’AMICO, Marzia, Oxford University, marzia.damico@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
DANIELS, Rhiannon, Bristol University, r.j.daniels@bristol.ac.uk
D’ARCANGELI, Luciana, Flinders University, luciana.darcangeli@flinders.edu.au
DAVINI, Monica, Siena University for Foreigners, monicadavini@libero.it
DE FRANCISCI, Enza, Glasgow University, enza.defrancisci@glasgow.ac.uk
DE THOMASIS, Sandro Angelo, Yale University, sandroangelodt@hotmail.com
DEGL’INNOCENTI, Luca, Florence University, luca.deglinnocenti@unifi.it
DEL BUONO, Maria, Birmingham University, mxd588@bham.ac.uk
DELLACASA, Claudia, Durham University, claudia.dellacasa@durham.ac.uk
DELMEDICO, Sara, Cambridge University, sd683@cam.ac.uk
DEMONTIS, Simona, Málaga University, demontissimona13@gmail.com
DETTORI, Giulia, Rome Sapienza University, giulia.dettori@uniroma1.it
DEVINE, Katherine, Royal Holloway University London, Katedevine280@gmail.com
DI GIUSTO, Anna, Florence University, anna.digiusto@katamail.com
DI GRADO, Antonio, Catania University, digrado@unict.it
DOMENICI, Claudia, Cambridge University, cd502@cam.ac.uk
DRISCOLL, Kate, California University Berkeley, kate.driscoll@berkeley.edu
DUCCI, Lucia, Worcester College of Holy Cross, lducci@holycross.edu
Delegates E-K
EVERSON, Jane, Royal Holloway University London, j.everson@rhul.ac.uk
FACCHI, Francesca, Toronto University, francesca.facchi@mail.utoronto.ca
FAINI, Marco, marcofaini25@gmail.com
FALCIONI, Daniele, Edinburgh University, daniele.falcioni@ed.ac.uk
FANNING, Ursula, University College Dublin, ursula.fanning@ucd.ie
FARRELL, Joseph, Strathclyde Universiy, j.farrell@strath.ac.uk
FERRARA DEGLI UBERTI, Carlotta, University College London, c.ferrara@ucl.ac.uk
FERRI, Sabrina, Notre Dame University, sferri@nd.edu
FINOZZI, Anna, Stockholm University, anna.finozzi@su.se
FOGARIZZU, Stefano, Vienna University, stefano.fogarizzu@univie.ac.at
FORTIN, Jutta, Vienna University, jutta.emma.fortin@univie.ac.at
FOURNIER-FINOCCHIARO, Laura, Paris 8 University, fournierparis8@gmail.com
FRANCO, Teresa, Oxford University, teresa.franco@mod-langs-ox.ac.uk
FRATOCCHI, Elisiana, Rome Sapienza University, e.fratocchi@gmail.com
FRAU, Ombretta, Mount Holyoke College, ofrau@mtholyoke.edu
FRIGENI, Veronica, Kent University, veronica.frigeni@gmail.com
FURCI, Guido, Durham University, guido.furci@durham.ac.uk
GALAVOTTI, Jacopo, Padua University, galavotti.jacopo@gmail.com
GALLI, Sara, Toronto University, sara.galli@mail.utoronto.ca
GAMMAITONI, Milena, Rome 3 University, milena.gammaitoni@uniroma3.it
GARGIULO, Marco, Bergen University, marco.gargiulo@uib.no
GENTILI, Dario, Rome 3 University, dario.gentili@uniroma3.it
GIGLIUCCI, Roberto, Rome Sapienza University, roberto.gigliucci@uniroma1.it
GILSON, Simon, Oxford University, simon.gilson@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
GIULIANI, Chiara, University College Cork, chiara.giuliani@ucc.ie
GIULIANI, Gaia, Coimbra University, giuliani.gaia@gmail.com
GLYNN, Ruth, Bristol University, R.S.Glynn@bristol.ac.uk
GUASSARDO, Giada, Oxford University, giada.guassardo@balliol.ox.ac.uk
HÄRMÄNMAA, Marja, Turku University, marja.harmanmaa@utu.fi
HAWORTH, Rachel, Hull University, R.Haworth@hull.ac.uk
IOZZIA, Alberto, Indiana University, alberto.iozzia@gmail.com
JOSSA, Stefano, Royal Holloway University London, Stefano.Jossa@rhul.ac.uk
KALISKA, Marta, Warsaw University, m.kaliska@uw.edu.pl
KATINIS, Teodoro, Ghent University, teodoro.katinis@ugent.be
KEENAN, Niamh, Edinburgh University, s1214401@sms.ed.ac.uk
Delegates L-M
LA PENNA, Daniela, Reading University, d.lapenna@reading.ac.uk
LA SALA, Chiara, Leeds University, m.c.lasala@leeds.ac.uk
LAIENA, Serena, Cambridge University, sl831@cam.ac.uk
LANDA, Kristina, Bologna University, allodolakri@gmail.com
LAZZARINI, Isabella, Molise University, isabella.lazzarini@unimol.it
LEDDA, Giuseppe, Bologna University, giuseppe.ledda@unibo.it
LEI, Daniele, St Andrews University, dl67@st-andrews.ac.uk
LEO, Carlo, Catholic University Leuven, carlo.leo@kuleuven.be
LIMA, Eleonora, Trinity College Dublin, lima.eleonora@gmail.com
LINES, David, Warwick University, D.A.Lines@warwick.ac.uk
LISCIANI-PETRINI, Enrica, Salerno University, elis.petrini@unisa.it
LIVRAGHI, Leyla, Frankfurt Goethe University, leyla.livraghi1@gmail.com
LIZZUL, Giorgio, Warwick University, giorgio.lizzul@warwick.ac.uk
LO MARCO, Lucia, Lyon 2 - Lumière University, lucia.lo.marco@gmail.com
LOLLA, Maria Grazia, Harvard University, mglolla18@gmail.com
LOMBARDO, Luca, Notre Dame University, luca.lombardo.10@nd.edu
LUCIOLI, Francesco, University College Dublin, francesco.lucioli@ucd.ie
LUCONI, Stefano, Genoa University, Stefano_Luconi@yahoo.com
LUGLIO, Davide, Paris Sorbonne University, Davide.Luglio@sorbonne-universite.fr
LYNCH, Heather, Glasgow Caledonian University, heather.lynch@gcu.ac.uk
MACCARTHY, Ita, Durham University, i.maccarthy@bham.ac.uk
MAGRO, Fabio, Padua University, fabio.magro@unipd.it
MALDINA, Nicolò, Edinburgh University, n.maldina@ed.ac.uk
MANDOLINI, Nicoletta, University College Cork, nicoletta.mandolini@ucc.ie
MANZOLI, Giacomo, Bologna University, giacomo.manzoli@unibo.it
MARINETTI, Cristina, Cardiff University, marinettic@cardiff.ac.uk
MARONGIU, Cinzia, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, cinziamarongiu@gmail.com
MARTINENGO, Alberto, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, alberto.martinengo@sns.it
MASIERO, Francesca, University College London, fra.masiero@gmail.com
MASSACCESI, Cristina, University College London, c.massacesi@ucl.ac.uk
MAZZOCCHI, Luca, Oxford University, luca.mazzocchi@exeter.ox.ac.uk
MCINTYRE, Hannah, Oxford University, hannah.mcintyre@pmb.ox.ac.uk
MEAZZI, Barbara, Côte d’Azur University, barbara.meazzi@unice.fr
MEDAGLIA, Francesca, Rome Sapienza University, francesca.medaglia@gmail.com
MESCHINI, Michela, Macerata University, michela.meschini@unimc.it
MESSINA, Davide, Edinburgh University, d.messina@ed.ac.uk
MICHELACCI, Lara, Bologna University, lara.michelacci2@unibo.it
MIGLIANTI, Giovanni, Yale University, giovanni.miglianti@gmail.com
MINAZZI, Fabio, Insubria University, fabio.minazzi@uninsubria.it
MOCA, Matteo, Bologna University - Paris Nanterre University, matteo.moca@gmail.com
MORBIATO, Giacomo, Padua University, giacomo.morbiato@unipd.it
MORETTI, Maddalena, Leeds University, mlmmo@leeds.ac.uk
MORONCINI, Ambra, Sussex University, A.Moroncini@sussex.ac.uk
MUNARI, Alessandra, Independent Scholar, alemunari90@gmail.com
MUSCIO, Giuliana, Padua University, giulianamuscio@gmail.com
MUSIANI, Elena, Bologna University, elena.musiani2@unibo.it
Delegates N-R
NATALE, Massimo, Verona University, massimo.natale@univr.it
NEMEGEER, Guylian, Ghent University, guylian.nemegeer@ugent.be
NESI, Valentina, Málaga University, valentina.nesi1988@gmail.com
O’CONNELL, Daragh, University College Cork, daragh.oconnell@ucc.ie
O’LEARY, Martina, University College Cork, martinaoleary@yahoo.com
OLLA, Barbara, Oxford University, barbara.olla@spc.ox.ac.uk
ORRÙ, Paolo, Debrecen University, paolo.orru1@gmail.com
ORSI, Marianna, U.H. Mãnoa, morsi@hawaii.edu
PAGANO, Tullio, Dickinson College, paganot@dickinson.edu
PAGLIARI, Barbara, UNIL Lausanne, bpagliari@fastwebnet.it
PAINO, Marina, Catania University, disum@unict.it
PALAZZOLO, Giuseppe, Catania University, giuseppe.palazzolo@unict.it
PALUMBO, Valeria, Independent Scholar, valeria.palumbo@rcs.it
PANZARELLA, Gioia, Warwick University, Gioia.panzarella@warwick.ac.uk
PAOLI, Caterina, Cambridge University, cp675@cam.ac.uk
PAOLI, Marco, Liverpool University, M.Paoli@liverpool.ac.uk
PARISI, Sara, Strathclyde University, sara.parisi@strath.ac.uk
PATTI, Emanuela, Royal Holloway University London, emanuela.patti@rhul.ac.uk
PAVLOVA, Maria, Warwick University, maria.pavlova@warwick.ac.uk
PEDRIALI, Federica, Edinburgh University, f.pedriali@ed.ac.uk
PEGORETTI, Anna, Rome 3 University, anna.pegoretti@uniroma3.it
PELLEGRINI DE LUCA, Alessandra, Edinburgh University, alessandra.pdeluca@ed.ac.uk
PERONI, Caterina, Padua University, caterina.peroni@gmail.com
PERROTTA, Annalisa, Rome Sapienza University, annalisa.perrotta@uniroma1.it
PEZZOTTI, Barbara, Monash University, barbara.pezzotti@monash.edu
PIANTANIDA, Cecilia, Durham University, cecilia.piantanida@durham.ac.uk
PIASENTIER, Marco, Jyväskylä University, marco.piasentier@pm.me
PICH, Federica, Leeds University, f.pich@leeds.ac.uk
PIERI, Giuliana, Royal Holloway University London, g.pieri@rhul.ac.uk
PIPERNO, Martina, University College Cork, martina.piperno@ucc.ie
PIROZZI, Carlo, Edinburgh University, carlo.pirozzi@ed.ac.uk
PODEMSKI, Piotr, Warsaw University, p.podemski@uw.edu.pl
POLISCA, Elena, Lancaster University, e.polisca@lancaster.ac.uk
POLLARD, Damien, Cambridge University, dp540@cam.ac.uk
PROLA, Dario, Warsaw University, darioprola@uw.edu.pl
PROUDFOOT, Anna, Open University, anna.proudfoot@open.ac.uk
PULINAS Silvia, silviapulinas@gmail.com
RAFFINI, Daniel, Rome Sapienza University, danraffini@gmail.com
RAGAZZONI, David, Columbia University, david.ragazzoni@columbia.edu
RAMADHANI MUSSA, Kombola, Cardiff University, ramadhanimussak@cardiff.ac.uk
REBAUDENGO, Maurizio, Convitto Nazionale Umberto I, rebaudengomaurizio@gmail.com
REICHARDT, Dagmar, Latvian Academy of Culture, dagmarreichardt@hotmail.com
RENNA, Salvatore, Bologna University – L’Aquila University, renna.salvatore@hotmail.it
RICCOBONO, Marta, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, marta.riccobono@sns.it
Delegates R-T
RICCOBONO, Rossella, St Andrews University, rmr8@st-andrews.ac.uk
RIZZARELLI, Giovanna, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, giovanna.rizzarelli@sns.it
ROMANZI, Andrea, Reading University, a.romanzi@pgr.reading.ac.uk
ROS, Irene, irene.ros.mrc@gmail.com
ROSS, Silvia, University College Cork, s.ross@ucc.ie
ROSSI, Laura Lucia, Manchester University, lauralucia.rossi@manchester.ac.uk
ROSSI, Michele, Pennsylvania State University, microssi77@gmail.com
RUGGIERI, Marco, Edinburgh University, marco.ruggieri@ed.ac.uk
RUSSO, Camilla, Trento University, camilla.russo85@gmail.com
SACCHINI, Lorenzo, Leeds University, lorenzosacchini@gmail.com
SAITTA, Luigi, RAI, luigi.saitta@gmail.com
SALVADORI LONERGAN Corinna, Trinity College Dublin, clonergn@tcd.ie
SAMPSON, Lisa, University College London, l.sampson@ucl.ac.uk
SANNINO, Daniela, Edinburgh University - Glas ow niversit , daniela.sannino@ed.ac.uk
SANSON, Helena, Cambridge University, hls37@cam.ac.uk
SANTI, Mara, Ghent University, mara.santi@ugent.be
SANTOVETTI, Olivia, Leeds University, O.Santovetti@leeds.ac.uk
SAPORITO, Paolo, McGill University, paolosaporito88@gmail.com
SAROLDI, Anna, Oxford University, anna.saroldi@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
SARTI, Luna, University of Pennsylvania, lsarti@sas.upenn.edu
SAVETTIERI, Cristina, Pisa University, cristina.savettieri@unipi.it
SCHEMBARI, Andrea, Szczecin University, uci@usz.edu.pl
SCHULZ, Karin, Konstanz University, karin.schulz@uni-konstanz.de
SECCIA, Maria Cristina, Hull University, MariaCristina.Seccia@hull.ac.uk
SEGNINI, Elisa, Glasgow University, elisa.segnini@glasgow.ac.uk
SERAFINI, Stefano, Royal Holloway University London, Stefano.Serafini@rhul.ac.uk
SERRA, Eleonora, Cambridge University, es675@cam.ac.uk
SHORT, John, Toronto York University, jonsho@gmail.com
SICA, Beatrice, University College London, b.sica@ucl.ac.uk
SIDERI, Cecilia, Ca’ Foscari University, cecilia.sideri@unive.it
SINIBALDI, Caterina, Warwick University, c.sinibaldi@warwick.ac.uk
SOTTILOTTA, Elena Emma, Cambridge University, ees45@cam.ac.uk
SPREAFICO, Marco, Warburg Institute London, Marco.Spreafico@postgrad.sas.ac.uk
SPUNTA Marina, Leicester University, ms96@le.ac.uk
STEINEPREIS, Amy, Oxford University, amy.steinepreis@merton.ox.ac.uk
STEWART Fiona, fiona.stewart@pepperdine.edu
STROLOGO, Franca, Zurich University, strologo@rom.uzh.ch
STRUMMIELLO, Giusi, Bari University, giuseppina.strummiello@uniba.it
SULIS, Gigliola, Leeds University, g.sulis@leeds.ac.uk
TADDEI, Valeria, Oxford University, valeria.taddei@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
TCHOUGOUNOVA-PAULSON, Elena, Independent Scholar, tch.elena15@gmail.com
TERRILE, Cristina, François Rabelais de Tour University, maria-cristina.terrile@univ-tours.fr
TIBALDO, Valentina, Oxford University, valentina.tibaldo@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk
TIETZE, Nastasia, Institute of Musicology Weimar Jena, Nastasia.Tietze@posteo.de
TORACCA, Tiziano, Ghent University, tiziano.toracca@ugent.be
TORRE, Andrea, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, andrea.torre@sns.it
TRAVERSA, Eleonora, Royal Holloway University London, eleonora.traversa.2017@live.rhul.ac.uk
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Delegates
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UGOLINI, Paola, Buffalo University, ugolini@buffalo.edu
VANDI, Serena, Leeds University, s.vandi@leeds.ac.uk
VATTANO, Laura, Edinburgh University, s1459975@ed.ac.uk
VENTURI, Francesco, Oslo University, francesco.venturi@ilos.uio.no
VERGATA, Isabella R., Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, ivergata@uni-mainz.de
VILLANI, Massimo, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, massim.villani@gmail.com
VITALE, Vincenzo,
ord niversit , vincenzo.vitale@unibas.ch
VITALI, Giovanni Pietro, University College Cork, giovannipietrovitali@gmail.com
VON KULESSA, Rotraud, Augsburg University, rotraud.kulessa@philhist.uni-augsburg.de
WALKER, Rebecca, St Andrews University, rmw8@st-andrews.ac.uk
WEHLING-GIORGI, Katrin, Durham University, katrin.wehling-giorgi@durham.ac.uk
WREN-OWENS, Liz, Cardiff University, wren-owensEA@cardiff.ac.uk
ZAPPALÀ, Emiliano, Warwick University, e.zappala@warwick.ac.uk
ZUCCALA, Brian, Witwatersrand University, brianzuccala@gmail.com
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