2024 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM
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PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
DAY ONE - THURSDAY, JUNE 6
8:45 am – 9:15 am | Day starts with breakfast
MORNING SESSIONS
| Room 4 | P1 - Mediterraneo e mercanti |
| Room 6&7 (double room) | P2 - Women Between Art and Science in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Italy |
| Room 11 | P3 - Lettere, diari, fanmail. Materiali effimeri per la storia culturale del cinema italiano |
| Room 14 | P4 - Queer Transnational in Cinema and Literature: Travelling as discovery, joy and pain |
| Room 18 | R1 - Roundtable: Media-Based DEIB Strategies in the Italian Language |
| Room 4 | P5 - Italian Interlocutors in Trans-imperial Spaces: Medieval and Early Modern Perspectives |
| Room 6&7 | R2 - Roundtable: Italy is Made: Constructing Diasporic Italian Places |
| Room 11 | P6 - Inside and Against Hegemonies |
| Room 14 | P7 - The World Upside Down: Theory and Imagination 1 |
| Room 15 | P8 - Psichedelia Italiana |
| Room 16 | P9 - Trees in Italian Literature 1 |
| Room 18 | P10 - Teaching Women: Authorship, Mentorship, and Pedagogical Practices in Italian Studies |
| Room 4 | P11 - (Canonic?) Adoptions and Adaptations 1 |
| Room 6&7 | P12 - Women and Activism in Italy |
| Room 11 | P13 - Performance and the Political: Gender and Performance from the 1970s to Contemporary Italy 1 |
| Room 14 | P14 - The World Upside Down: Theory and Imagination 2 |
| Room 15 | P15 - Voices, Music and Folklore: Calvino and Other Experiences |
| Room 16 | P16 - Trees in Italian Literature 2 |
| Room 18 | P17 - “The Remembering and the Reckoning”: Colonizer/Colonized Crossings in Decolonising Italian Diaspora |
| Room 4 | P18 - (Canonic?) Adoptions and Adaptations 2 |
| Room 6&7 | P19 - Roundtable: Breaking Barriers: Women Pathbreakers 1 |
| Room 11 | P20 - Performance and the Political: Gender and Performance from the 1970s to Contemporary Italy 2 |
| Room 14 | P21 - The World Upside Down: Theory and Imagination 3 |
| Room 15 | P22 - Diaspora and Apocalypse |
| Room 16 | P23 - Trees in Italian Literature 3 |
| Room 18 | R3 - Roundtable: Teaching Italian Language and Culture in an AI World |
6:30 pm I Brindisi in the Garden and Opening Remarks
7:30 pm | Room 18 | Screening: The Black Italian Renaissance
DAY TWO - FRIDAY, JUNE 7
8:15 am – 8:45 am | Day starts with Breakfast and the President's welcome to grad students, ERCs, independent scholars
MORNING SESSIONS
| Room 4 | P24 - (Dis)ability in Medieval Italian Culture 1: Crip Methodologies |
| Room 5 | P25 - Figuring Race in Postwar Italian America |
| Room 6&7 | P26 - I luoghi della poesia 1 |
| Room 11 | P27 - Atlante del giallo: storia dei media e cultura popolare in Italia (1954-2020) |
| Room 14 | P28 - Ecologie femministe e multispecie nella letteratura dell’Antropocene |
| Room 15 | P29 - Translating Identities in Italian Culture |
| Room 16 | P30 - Breaking Barriers: Women Pathbreakers 2 |
| Room 18 | P31 - Leggere non basta: La letteratura Italiana in classe 1 |
| Room 4 | P32 - (Dis)ability in Medieval Italian Culture 2: Bodies in Sin |
| Room 5 | P33 - The Italian Diaspora in Britain: literary texts and images, 1800s to today |
| Room 6&7 | P34 - Italy’s Climate Change Narratives 1 |
| Room 18 | R4 - Roundtable: Violence, Power, and Religion in Marco Bellocchio’s Rapito (Kidnapped, 2023) |
| Room 11 | P35 - Donne afrodiscendenti nella letteratura, nel cinema, in TV e nei social media italiani: Un approccio transnazionale e intersezionale |
| Room 14 | P36 - The Politics of Publishing: Foreign Culture and Translation in Twentieth-Century Italy |
| Room 15 | P37 - Follie muliebri 1 |
| Room 16 | P38 - Leggere non basta: La letteratura Italiana in classe 2 |
| Room 4 | P39 - (Dis)ability in Medieval Italian Culture 3: Sensory Impairment |
| Room 5 | P40 - Rispecchiarsi tra Italia e America Latina: circolazione, mediazione e traduzione 1 |
| Room 6&7 | P41 - Italy’s Climate Change Narratives 2 |
| Room 18 | P42 - Cinema, Campania e giustizia sociale |
| Room 11 | P43 - A Girls'-Eye View: Italian Girlhood and Contemporary Media |
| Room 14 | P44 - Labour Practices in the Italian Film and Television Industries |
| Room 15 | P45 - Follie muliebri 2 |
| Room 16 | P46 - Mamma RAI: New Perspectives on the Golden Age of Italian Public Television |
AFTERNOON SESSIONS
| Room 4 | P47 - Missing Manuscripts: How to “Read” What’s No Longer There |
| Room 5 | P48 - Rispecchiarsi tra Italia e America Latina: circolazione, mediazione e traduzione 2 |
| Room 6&7 | P49 - Italy’s Climate Change Narratives 3 |
| Room 18 | R5 - Roundtable: Crime Italian Style |
| Room 11 | R6 - Roundtable: Italian Girl Culture |
| Room 14 | P50 - Postwar modes of production of Italian Cinema (1949-76) |
| Room 15 | P51 - Follie muliebri 3 |
| Room 16 | P52 - Diasporic Kitchens |
Keynote co-presenters in dialogue with this theme and each other: author Claudia Durastanti (Un giorno verrò a lanciare sassi alla tua finestra, A Chloe, per le ragioni sbagliate, Cleopatra va in prigione, La straniera) and Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, author of Madre piccola, Il comandante del fiume, and Le stazioni della luna.
Location: Teatro Tasso in Piazza Sant'Antonino (Sorrento)
Day ends with an Aperitivo following the Keynote.
DAY THREE - SATURDAY, JUNE 8
8:15 am – 8:45 am | Day starts with breakfast
MORNING SESSIONS
| Room 4 | R7 - Roundtable: Love across the Centuries 1 |
| Room 5 | P53 - La "golden age" dell'animazione italiana 1 |
| Room 6&7 | P54 - Esiste un gusto partenopeo? La letteratura napoletana, gli scrittori, i poeti che hanno detto e contraddetto Napoli |
| Room 11 | P55 - I luoghi della poesia 2 |
| Room 14 | P56 - L’eredità del Tasso nella letteratura, nella musica e nelle arti figurative |
| Room 15 | P57 - Italy’s “Subversive Seventies” and the Archive 1 |
| Room 18 | R8 - Roundtable: Violence Against Women: Raising Awareness through Journalism, Protest, and Art |
| Room 16 | P58 - Literary Anthropologies: Cross-Cultural Imaginaries in Contemporary Italy |
| Room 4 | R9 - Roundtable: Love across the Centuries 2 |
| Room 5 | P59 - La "golden age" dell'animazione italiana 2 |
| Room 6&7 | P60 - Imagining Naples in Italian Literature and Culture Across Centuries 1 |
| Room 11 | P61 - A Hundred Years of Goliarda Sapienza: New Critical Approaches 1 |
| Room 14 | P62 - I luoghi del Tasso |
| Room 15 | P63 - Italy’s “Subversive Seventies” and the Archive 2 |
| Room 16 | P64 - The Allied Occupation of Italy |
| Room 18 | R10 - Roundtable: Transition @ 60: The Black in the Mediterranean Blue |
| Room 13 | P65 - The Watery Mediterranean |
| Room 18 | ECCS - Executive Council Conference Series Authors Meet Critics: Critical Conversations in Transnational Italian Studies Co-organizers and moderators: Serena Bassi (Yale University), Loredana Polezzi (Stony Brook University), Giulia Riccò (University of Michigan) |
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Second part of the AAIS Giornata di Studio that took place online on 3/29/2024 "Critical Conversations in Transnational Italian Studies." |
| Room 4 | P66 - Periodici degli esuli / Esuli nei periodici durante il Risorgimento |
| Room 5 | P67 - Transnational Italian Comics Studies |
| Room 10 | P68 - Imagining Naples in Italian Literature and Culture Across Centuries 2 |
| Room 11 | P69 - A Hundred Years of Goliarda Sapienza: New Critical Approaches 2 |
| Room 6&7 | R11 - Roundtable: Pedagogies of the Italian Chivalric Romance Epic |
| Room 14 | P70 - Italy’s “Subversive Seventies” and the Archive 3 |
| Room 15 | R12 - Roundtable: Why Teach Fascism's Cultural Heritage and the Italian Resistance Today 1 |
| Room 16 | P71 - Divagrafie – le scritture delle attrici italiane |
Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, Gabriella Ghermandi, Gabriella Kuruvilla, Espérance Hakuzwimana, Djarah Kan, and Shirin Ramzanali Fazel
| Room 4 | P72 - Correspondances and Education between Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries |
| Room 6&7 | R13 - Roundtable: The Ball Into the Net and Over the Net: Soccer and Tennis in the Italian Film and Television Narrative |
| Room 5 | P73 - Leaving the City Behind: Naples in the Works of Modern Authors |
| Room 11 | P74 - In ricordo di Fausta Cialente (1898-1994) |
| Room 14 | R14 - Roundtable: Rethinking “Le Origini”: Poetry Across Borders in Medieval Sicily |
| Room 16 | P75 - Italy’s “Subversive Seventies” and the Archive 4 |
| Room 15 | R15 - Roundtable: Roundtable: Why Teach Fascism's Cultural Heritage and the Italian Resistance Today 2 |
Day ends with the Gala Dinner at 7:30 pm
DAY FOUR - SUNDAY, JUNE 9
8:15 am – 8:45 am | Day starts with breakfast
MORNING SESSIONS
| Room 4 | P76 - Queer Southern Crossings 1 |
| Room 5 | P77 - Viaggio, paesaggio, romanzo 1 |
| Room 6&7 | P78 - Elemental Politics: Poetics of Skies and Seas 1 |
| Room 18 | R16 - Roundtable: Global and Transnational Issues Impacting Italy |
| Room 14 | P79 - Early Modern Experiences |
| Room 15 | P80 - I Luoghi della Poesia 3 |
| Room 16 | P81 - Cultivating Sacred Vision: Body-Mind Practices and Devotional Art in Early Renaissance Italy |
| Room 10 | P82 - Baroque "Hauntologies" |
| Room 13 | R17 - Roundtable: Mediterraneans |
| Room 4 | P83 - Queer Southern Crossings 2 |
| Room 5 | P84 - Viaggio, paesaggio, romanzo 2 |
| Room 11 | P85 - Elemental Politics: Poetics of Skies and Seas 2 |
| Room 18 | R18 - Roundtable: Natalia Ginzburg’s Global Legacies |
| Room 14 | P86 - Theatre and Rhetoric in Early Modern Italy |
| Room 15 | P87 - Dis-Placements and Re-Constructions |
| Room 16 | P88 - Between Postmodern and Post-Human: Bodily Visions and Visionary Bodies |
SESSIONS END AT 11:50 AM
CONFERENCE TECH TIPS
Conference rooms are equipped with a laptop and a smartboard. It is highly recommend to upload your presentation on Google Drive or other digital platforms prior to your panel or roundtable in order to be able to open it before the beginning of the session directly from the room computer.
Announcement
General Business Meeting (online):
Tuesday, June 18, 18:00 (CET), 12:00 PM (Eastern), 11:00 am (Central), 9:00am (West Coast)
See the Proposed By Laws Revisions to be discussed and voted at the meeting.
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