DAY THREE - SATURDAY, JUNE 8
8:15 am - 8:45 am | Breakfast
8:45 am - 10:15 am | Morning Session - Part I
Chair: Monica Calabritto (Hunter College) Mattia Mossali (Graduate Center-CUNY); Stefania Porcelli (Hunter College-CUNY); Darren Kusar (University of Chicago) |
Description: Il panel – parte degli output del PRIN (Progetti di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale) dal titolo “La "golden age" dell'animazione italiana. Dal boom economico agli anni di piombo (1957-1977)” di cui è capofila l’Università Roma Tre – intende analizzare l’unico momento storico nel quale l’animazione italiana è riuscita ad assumere lo statuto di un sistema solido e articolato, capace di tenere insieme in modo armonico opera d’artista e prodotto pubblicitario, cortometraggio e lungometraggio, film d’impegno e prodotto di consumo, modo di produzione industriale e creazione artigianale. |
Chair: Christian Uva (Università Roma Tre) Gius Gargiulo (MoDyCo Université Paris Nanterre) Stefania Parigi (Università Roma Tre) Vincenzo Altobelli (Università Roma Tre) Matteo Santandrea (Università Roma Tre) |
Description: Si può parlare di cultura napoletana? Nel Cinque-Seicento ne erano convinti. Sul Monitore Napolitano si parla di Repubblica napoletana e l’abate Galiani redige il primo vocabolario di lingua napoletana. Per farlo guarda alle opere di scrittori e intellettuali del calibro di Cortese e Basile; e quando poi parla della cultura napoletana tout court ricorda fieramente Tasso e Marino, anticipando quello spirito che animerà Napoli nobilissima. Eppure Anna Maria Ortese confessa: "Io non so più dove sia Napoli". L’obiettivo di questo panel è proporre uno sguardo che abbraccia autori di ieri (come Basile, Cortese, Tasso, Marino, Di Giacomo) e gli autori di oggi (come per esempio Elena Ferrante, Ortese, Ramondino, La Capria, De Luca) in un mosaico che tenti di inquadrare la città di Partenope nel contesto della cultura letteraria italiana ed europea. |
Chair: Tommaso D'Isola (Université de Haute Bretagne Rennes) Tommaso D'Isola (Université de Haute Bretagne Rennes) Rachele Fortunato (Accademia Italiana) Marì Santagata (Università di Pisa) |
Description: Following the recent publication of the co-edited issue of Rivista di studi italiani entirely devoted to poetry and the environment, this panel aims to extend the conversation to the luoghi della poesia, namely the spaces, places, territories, habitats, and landscapes of poetry–geographical, typographical, imaginary, and virtual. Poetry’s visceral rootedness in the world–or, equally significant, its stubborn vagrancy and its being out of joint with time and place–is too often overlooked. This panel features contributions about poetry and its intersections with or across the following areas: Environment, geography, academia, education, the publishing world, translation, the typed or handwritten page, digital platforms and experimentation, technology, film, photography, theater, music, sound, noise, reproduction, place, space, wilderness, and imaginary landscapes. |
Organizer: Serena Ferrando (Arizona State University) Chair: Serena Ferrando (Arizona State University) Giulia Andreoni (College of the Holy Cross) Elena Moro (University of Zurich) Maria Vittoria Mussio (Independent Scholar) Monica Fabbri (Università di Ferrara) |
Description: Sulla scia del convegno “Tasso Forever!”, tenutosi presso l’Istituto Sant’Anna di Sorrento nel 2023, questa sessione continua la ricognizione e l’analisi di lavori italiani e internazionali ispirati alla figura del poeta e alle sue opere. |
Organizers: Laura Benedetti (Georgetown University) & Luca Zipoli (Bryn Mawr College) Chair: Kate Driscoll (Duke University) Emiliano Ricciardi (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Cristina Acucella (Università della Basilicata) Luca Zipoli (Bryn Mawr College) Corrado Confalonieri (Università di Parma) |
Description: In this four-panel series, scholars of literature, film, theatre & performance, historians and art historians share their pioneering approaches to the 1970s in Italy. In The Subversive Seventies, Micheal Hardt refigures Italy’s anni della contestazione as a laboratory in which students, workers, the unemployed, feminists and queer liberationists challenged societal structures by intertwining politics, theory, and aesthetics. In this panel series, we explore this Italian laboratory and interrogate the making of a new imagination fusing together avant-garde aesthetics, identity politics and class unrest. Specifically, the panel series asks how the archives we work with as scholars are created and studied. |
Chair: Serena Bassi (Yale University) Annalisa Sacchi (Università IUAV di Venezia) Federica Parodi (Yale University) Laura Iamurri (Università Roma Tre) |
Organized by the Women's Studies Caucus Chair: Francesca Parmeggiani (Fordham University) Stefano Muneroni (University of Alberta, Canada); Alice Flinta (University of York, UK); Tania Rispoli (Duke University); Selby Wynn Schwartz (Independent Scholar) |
Description: This panel aims to foster discussions on twentieth- and twenty-first-century theoretical intersections between literature and anthropology, ranging from the method of participant observation and the genre of the field diary to the literary construction of cultural otherness. Case studies will focus on a variety of textual artifacts. Panelists will address the Italian reception of a major religious studies work, James Frazer’s “The Golden Bough” (1890); examine literary reuses of anthropological categories, including Mary Douglas’s “natural symbols” (1970); and delve through artistic media into the long-lasting legacies of Fascist-era colonial ideologies on present-day considerations regarding transnational contacts. |
Chair: Elisa Russian (University of Zurich) Riccardo Castellana (Università di Siena) Michele Maiolani (University of Cambridge) Charles Burdett (School of Advanced Study, University of London) |
10:20 am - 11:50 am | Morning Session - Part II
Chair: Eva Del Soldato (University of Pennsylvania) Monica Calabritto (Hunter College-CUNY); Eva Del Soldato (University of Pennsylvania); Emily Lord-Kambitsch (Pacifica Graduate Institute); Tomislav Matic (Croatian Institute of History) |
Description: Il panel – parte degli output del PRIN (Progetti di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale) dal titolo “La "golden age" dell'animazione italiana. Dal boom economico agli anni di piombo (1957-1977)” di cui è capofila l’Università Roma Tre – intende analizzare l’unico momento storico nel quale l’animazione italiana è riuscita ad assumere lo statuto di un sistema solido e articolato, capace di tenere insieme in modo armonico opera d’artista e prodotto pubblicitario, cortometraggio e lungometraggio, film d’impegno e prodotto di consumo, modo di produzione industriale e creazione artigianale. |
Organizer: Christian Uva (Università Roma Tre) Chair: Giacomo Ravesi (Università Roma Tre) Christian Uva (Università Roma Tre) Martina Vita (Università Roma Tre) Giacomo Ravesi (Università Roma Tre) Francesco D’Asero (Università di Bari Aldo Moro) |
Description: This panel considers how Naples - a vibrant urban center - has been portrayed and reimagined by Neapolitans, Italians, and even foreigners, from Petrarch to the contemporary rapper Geolier. Through an analysis of cinema, literature, and popular music, these papers reconsider the terms of the Southern Question and Italy in its global and multicultural context. |
Chair: Ciro Incoronato (Duke University) Achille Castaldo (Emory University) Lorenza Starace (Duke University) Laura Sarnelli (University of California, Santa Barbara) |
Description: The artistic trajectory of Italian novelist Goliarda Sapienza (1924-1996) has only recently begun to stir academic attention despite the author’s long literary career throughout the 20th century. As we mark the centenary of Goliarda Sapienza’s birth (1924-2024), questions persist about the posthumous success of L’arte della gioia and its author’s other intellectual and literary contributions. This panel features papers on new critical approaches to Sapienza’s works (including, but not limited to, feminist theories, gender studies, literary and reception theory, and autofiction) to shed light on a still relatively unknown author outside of the academic community. |
Chair: Giulio Genovese (Bryn Mawr College) Beatrice Basile (University of Pennsylvania) Bianka Veselovská (Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale) |
Description: Sorrento, Napoli, Roma, Bergamo, Urbino, Pesaro, Venezia, Padova, Bologna, Mantova, Ferrara, Torino, Firenze e di nuovo Roma come ultimo approdo: nel suo inquieto vagabondare, Tasso toccò molte delle capitali culturali del suo tempo, ricevendone formative influenze e contribuendo al loro prestigio. Altri luoghi (da Gerusalemme alle Isole Fortunate e alla selva di Saron) contemplò invece nella sua arte, arricchendone la portata simbolica e consegnandole all’immaginario collettivo. Questo panel ricostruisce il rapporto del poeta con i luoghi, fisici o fittizi, che si trovò ad attraversare o a contemplare. |
Organizers: Laura Benedetti (Georgetown University) & Luca Zipoli (Bryn Mawr College) Chair: Luca Zipoli (Bryn Mawr College) Domenico Palumbo (Sant’Anna Institute) Kate Driscoll (Duke University) Jason Lawrence (University of Hull) Alberto Zuliani (Università di Torino) |
Description: In this four-panel series, scholars of literature, film, theatre & performance, historians and art historians share their pioneering approaches to the 1970s in Italy. In The Subversive Seventies, Micheal Hardt refigures Italy’s anni della contestazione as a laboratory in which students, workers, the unemployed, feminists and queer liberationists challenged societal structures by intertwining politics, theory, and aesthetics. In this panel series, we explore this Italian laboratory and interrogate the making of a new imagination fusing together avant-garde aesthetics, identity politics and class unrest. Specifically, the panel series asks how the archives we work with as scholars are created and studied. |
Organizer: Serena Bassi (Yale University) Chair: Federica Parodi (Yale University) Camilla Paolino (University of Geneva) Tenley Bick (Florida State University) Carla Subrizi (Università La Sapienza, Roma) |
Description: Nearly eighty years after the end of hostilities, the Second World War continues to reverberate in Italian culture and politics. New historical discoveries, shifting critical perspectives, and innovative critical and theoretical paradigms have in recent years revitalized the study of the war and the post-war period, renewing the scholarly focus on the Allied liberation and occupation of Italy. This panel reconsiders the occupation in history and memory, with a particular focus on issues of race and gender as they intersect in Allied occupied Italy. |
Organizers: Charles Leavitt (University of Notre Dame) & Chiara Fantozzi (Università di Pisa) Chair: Chiara Fantozzi (Università di Pisa) Erica Mezzoli (Università di Roma Tor Vergata) Fabio Simonetti (Brunel University London) Chiara Fantozzi (Università di Pisa) Charles Leavitt (University of Notre Dame) |
Description: Based on the collaboration of an international cohort of writers, scholars, cultural activists, and visual artists, the 60th anniversary Special Issue of Transition: The Magazine of Africa and the Diaspora examines the Mediterranean as a crossroads for migrants and the cultural miscegenation that has shaped the region for thousands of years. Conceived to re-animate and expand the discourse on African migration to Italy and all it entails, issues of representation, diaspora, slave-trade, border, mobility, citizenship, and human rights are discussed from a variety of approaches. Investigating these questions is relevant to an understanding of what is happening today in the Mediterranean, and particularly in Italy, a crucial site of the African Diaspora since the classic era. |
Chair: Alessandra Di Maio (Università di Palermo) Alessandra Di Maio (Università di Palermo); Gabriella Ghermandi (writer, performer); Ubah Cristina Ali Farah (poet, writer); Gabriella Kuruvilla (painter, writer); Giovanna Bellesia (Smith College) |
Description: As Franco Cassano claims, to “enter the sea” points towards an existential and epistemological domain, where “there is an ancient wisdom, the hint of possibilities of a different era." In Mediterranean Studies, conventional scholarly attention has been focused on the exchanges of goods, people, and human settlements. This “ground” positionality demonstrates that the conceptual experience of place and space in Western culture often takes the Earth as the point of departure. Many scholars have recently reminded us that the uninhabited seawater evokes more than just death and a sense of unconsciousness, also indicating a radical ground of knowledge production. |
Organizer: Qian Liu (University of Michigan) Chair: Marta Cariello (Università degli Studi della Campania) Stefano Muneroni (University of Alberta) Qian Liu (University of Michigan) Marta Cariello (Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli) |
11:50 am - 12:15 pm | Coffee Break
12:15 pm - 1:45 pm | 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)
Second part of the AAIS Giornata di Studio that took place online on 3/29/2024 "Critical Conversations in Transnational Italian Studies." This roundtable will run as follows: six speakers will give five minute flash talks responding to the special issue’s critical intervention and simultaneously outlining their own vision for a more transnational, more inclusive, and more diverse Italian Studies. After the short position papers, we will open the floor hoping to instigate a debate on the kind of critical changes we need to reimagine Italian Studies in North American higher education and beyond. Free access to "Critical Issues in Transnational Italian Studies" here: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/foia/57/2
John Gennari (Univerity of Vermont), Kombola Ramadhani Mussa (Cardiff University), Gaoheng Zhang (University of British Columbia), Caterina Romeo (Università La Sapienza), Neelam Srivastava (Newcastle University), Rob Rushing (UCLA)
1:45 pm - 2:45 pm | LUNCH
2:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Afternoon Session - Part I
Description: Nel corso dell’Ottocento molti intellettuali, spesso coinvolti nelle reti dell’associazionismo segreto, abbandonano la propria terra natia per contribuire al processo di unificazione nazionale. Il loro impegno si concretizza grazie ai mezzi dell’editoria periodica, che trova un terreno fecondo Oltralpe e nelle aree della penisola meno soggette alla censura. Il panel intende indagare l’attività di chi, trovando ospitalità in riviste o fondandone, si batte affinché l’idea di Italia non resti soltanto una «comunità immaginata» (Anderson 1983). Si darà spazio ad interventi che, anche da una prospettiva transnazionale, facciano luce su autori o periodici che abbiano avuto un ruolo chiave nel processo risorgimentale. |
Chair: Marco Borrelli (Università degli Studi di Napoli) Sofie Barthels (Université libre de Bruxelles, Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique - FNRS) Rainer Maria Ceci (Università degli Studi Roma Tre) Marco Borrelli (Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale) |
Description: Transnational Italian Comics Studies is a thriving subfield in Transnational and Transcultural Italian Studies (Comberiati and Spadaro, 2023; Spadaro, 2023). This panel aims to take forward some emerging research questions in the field by foregrounding different methodological perspectives to shed light on authors, characters, productions and readers of transnational Italian comics. The panel will discuss in particular the intersection of classic semiotic approaches in Comics Studies with a Transnational Comics Studies framework (Galofaro) and the development of transatlantic (comics) cultures in the 20th and 21st century through the narrative themes of migration (Pollone). |
Organizer: Barbara Spadaro (University of Liverpool) Chair: Daniele Comberiati (Université de Montpellier III Paul Valéry) Francesco Garofalo (Università di Milano) Matteo Pollone (Università del Piemonte Orientale) Silvia Vari (University of Warwick) |
Description: This panel considers how Naples - a vibrant urban center - has been portrayed and reimagined by Neapolitans, Italians, and even foreigners, from Petrarch to the contemporary rapper Geolier. Through an analysis of cinema, literature, and popular music, these papers reconsider the terms of the Southern Question and Italy in its global and multicultural context. |
Organizers: Ciro Incoronato (Duke University) & Alyssa Granacki (Colby College) Chair: Alyssa Granacki (Colby College) Ruth Glynn (University of Bristol) Demetrio Antolini (Ohio State University) Francesco Samarini (Dickinson College) |
Description: The artistic trajectory of Italian novelist Goliarda Sapienza (1924-1996) has only recently begun to stir academic attention despite the author’s long literary career throughout the 20th century. As we mark the centenary of Goliarda Sapienza’s birth (1924-2024), questions persist about the posthumous success of L’arte della gioia and its author’s other intellectual and literary contributions. This panel features papers on new critical approaches to Sapienza’s works (including, but not limited to, feminist theories, gender studies, literary and reception theory, and autofiction) to shed light on a still relatively unknown author outside of the academic community. |
Chair: Beatrice Basile (University of Pennsylvania) Giulio Genovese (Bryn Mawr College) Maria Morelli (University of London) Rebecca Walker (Trinity College Dublin) |
Chair: Eric Nicholson (New York University Florence) Laura Benedetti (Georgetown University); Corrado Confalonieri (Università di Parma); Kate Driscoll (Duke University); Julia Hairston (University of California, Rome Study Center); Emilio Russo (Università La Spaienza, Roma); Luca Zipoli (Bryn Mawr College) |
Description: In this four-panel series, scholars of literature, film, theatre & performance, historians and art historians share their pioneering approaches to the 1970s in Italy. In The Subversive Seventies, Micheal Hardt refigures Italy’s anni della contestazione as a laboratory in which students, workers, the unemployed, feminists and queer liberationists challenged societal structures by intertwining politics, theory, and aesthetics. In this panel series, we explore this Italian laboratory and interrogate the making of a new imagination fusing together avant-garde aesthetics, identity politics and class unrest. Specifically, the panel series asks how the archives we work with as scholars are created and studied. |
Organizer: Serena Bassi (Yale University) Chair: Giulia Sbaffi (New York University) Jonathan Mullins (Ohio State University) Matthew Zundel (Miami University) Serena Bassi (Yale University) Virginia Niri (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia) |
Chair: Daniele Biffanti (Northwestern University) Selena Daly (University College London); Franco Baldasso (Bard College); Charles Leavitt (University of Notre Dame) |
Description: Come hanno dimostrato gli studi sul divismo, dalle origini a oggi le dive dello schermo si sono cimentate con la pratica della scrittura, attraverso le narrazioni del sé – autobiografie, memoir o diari pubblici – ma anche romanzi o raccolte poetiche. Il panel presenta, attraverso diversi casi di studio e un focus sulle possibili metodologie legate alle Digital Humanities, il progetto di ricerca DaMA - Drawing a Map of Italian Actresses in Writing - che esplora con un approccio transdisciplinare la produzione di scrittura delle attrici italiane, attraverso un corpus finora mappato di circa 100 testi. |
Chair: Anna Paparcone (Bucknell University) Lucia Cardone (Università di Sassari) and Chiara Tognolotti (Università di Pisa) Beatrice Seligardi (Università di Sassari) Anna Masecchia (Università di Napoli) Giulia Simi (Università di Sassari) |
Respondent: Angelica Pesarini, University of Toronto
Moderator: Emily Antenucci, Vassar College
4:15 pm - 4:40 pm | Coffee Break
4:40 pm - 6:10 pm | Afternoon Session - Part II
Amedeo Arena (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) Carmela Panarello (Independent Scholar) |
Chair: Gius Gargiulo (Université Paris Nanterre) Gius Gargiulo (Université Paris Nanterre); Christian UVA (Università Roma Tre); Vito Zagarrio (independent scholar) |
Description: The panel explores the ways (emotional, physical, professionally, and politically) in which leaving behinf the city of one's youth, affects the characters in the novels examined. |
Chair: Pina Palma (Southern Connecticut State University) Lee Foust (Sant’Anna Institute) Bernardo Piciché (Virginia Commonwealth University) Pina Palma (Southern Connecticut State University) |
Description: A discussion of Fausta Cialente's works and legacy, thirty years after the author's death. |
Chair: Laura Benedetti (Georgetown University) Emmanuela Carbé (Università di Siena) Andrea Gialloreto (Università degli Studi Gabriele D'Annunzio – Chieti/Pescara) Arianna Fognani (University of Pennsylvania) Stefano Giannini (Syracuse University) |
Chair: Karla Mallette (University of Michigan) Nicola Carpentieri (University of Padua); Alessia Carrai (University of Padua); Giacomo Corazzol (University of Padua); Alessandro De Blasi (University of Padua); Bianca Facchini (University of Padua) |
Description: In this four-panel series, scholars of literature, film, theatre & performance, historians and art historians share their pioneering approaches to the 1970s in Italy. In The Subversive Seventies, Micheal Hardt refigures Italy’s anni della contestazione as a laboratory in which students, workers, the unemployed, feminists and queer liberationists challenged societal structures by intertwining politics, theory, and aesthetics. In this panel series, we explore this Italian laboratory and interrogate the making of a new imagination fusing together avant-garde aesthetics, identity politics and class unrest. Specifically, the panel series asks how the archives we work with as scholars are created and studied. |
Organizer: Serena Bassi (Yale University) Chair: Virginia Niri (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia) Catia Papa (Università della Tuscia) Giulia Sbaffi (New York University) Lucas Ramos (Columbia University) |
Chair: Franco Baldasso (Bard College) Marco Codebò (Long Island University); Hannah Malone (University of Groningen); Daniele Biffanti (Northwestern University) |
Respondent: Angelica Pesarini, University of Toronto
Moderator: Emily Antenucci, Vassar College
7:30 pm - GALA DINNER