Graduate Conference in Italian Studies

Graduate Conference in Italian Studies

Department of Italian, University College Cork

Saturday, 5 February 2011

Provisional Conference Programme

9.00-9.15 Registration - O’Rahilly Building, Social Area, 1st Floor, outside Department of Italian
9.15-10.30 Parallel Sessions I
Crimini all’italiana (O’Rahilly Building, 1.01)
Chair: Mark Chu / Tra testo e intertesto (O’Rahilly Building, 1.32)
Chair: Michal Czorycki
1) Daire Maria Ni Uanachain (University College Dublin), ‘The Puppet Master: Secret Services and State Figures in Romanzo Criminale, la serie’
2) Marco Amici (IRCHSS – University College Cork), ‘Some considerations on the rise and influence of noir literature in Italy’
3) Silvia Dibeltulo (Trinity College, Dublin), ‘Before The Godfather: Tracing the Origins of the Italian-American Film Gangster’ / 1) Nadia Bobbio (Trinity College, Dublin), ‘Bakhtianian Images in Eco’s Il nome della rosa’
2) Annette Feeney (University College Cork), ‘Revisiting the Madwoman in the Attic: Intertextual Elements in the Representation of Madness in Fleur Jaeggy's I beati anni del castigo’
3) Alessia Risi (IRCHSS – University College Cork), ‘Cinematic Elements in Silvia Ballestra’s Tutto su mia nonna’
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.00 Parallel Sessions II
Tempo e memoria (O’Rahilly Building, 1.01)
Chair: Alessia Risi / Sessualità (O’Rahilly Building, 1.32)
Chair: Silvia Ross
1) Bruna Chezzi (Cardiff University), ‘(Self)-Perception and the Impact of WWII on Welsh Italians’
2) Claire Buckley (University College Cork), ‘Bewitching Time-Elements of the Fairy Tale in Gianna Manzini’s Tempo Innamorato’ / 1) Christian Gabriele Moretti (University of Kent), ‘The (Im)possibility of Homosexuality: Identities at Risk’
2) Emma Keane (University College Cork), ‘The Homoerotics of Masochism in Moravia’s Inverno di malato’

12.00-13.00 Plenary Session III (O’Rahilly Building, 1.32)

Chair: Silvia Ross

Keynote Speaker: Dr Charles Burdett (University of Bristol), ‘Representations of the Islamic World within Modern Italian Culture'

13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.15 Parallel Sessions IV
I generi: tra impegno e intrattenimento (O’Rahilly Building, 1.01)
Chair: Marian Hurley / L’autore e l’opera: approcci tematici (O’Rahilly Building, 1.32)
Chair: Emma Keane
1) Lucia Ghezzi (University of Toronto), ‘Etica e impegno intellettuale nel teatro di Giorgio Gaber e Sandro Luporini’
2) Matthew Reza (University of Oxford), ‘Fantastico! The Problems of an Italian Tradition’
3) Giacomo Boitani (National University of Ireland, Galway), ‘National-popular, not Populist: A Gramscian Reading of Two “commedie all’italiana”’ / 1) Michal Czorycki (IRCHSS – University College Cork), ‘From Danubio to Alla cieca: Claudio Magri’s journey towars fiction’
2) Martina Mengoni (Fondazione San Carlo, Modena), ‘Development of the Concept of Gray Zone in Primo Levi’s Work’
15.00-15.30 Coffee
15.30-17.00 Plenary Session V (O’Rahilly Building, 1.32)
Contatti interculturali
Chair: Daragh O’Connell
1) Delphine Montoliu (Université Toulouse II/Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), ‘Le accademie siciliane sotto il regno degli Asburgo (1559-1701)’
2) Marie Biscio (National University of Ireland, Galway), ‘Subtitling Multilingual Films: Issues and Strategies’
3) Mike Hodder (University of Oxford), ‘William Fowler’s Edition of Petrarch’

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* Please note that the O’Rahilly Building must be vacated by 5.00 p.m.

After the conference, participants can choose to go as a group to a local pub, to be followed then by a conference dinner.

Details of these arrangements will be provided shortly.

Accommodation Information is available on the following website:

http://www.ucc.ie/en/conferencing/accomodation/

Information on Travel to Cork and Directions to UCC are available on the website below:

http://www.ucc.ie/en/conferencing /useful-links/

For further information please contact:

Marco Amici,

IRCHSS Postgraduate Scholar

Department of Italian,

School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures,

University College Cork

Cork, Ireland

tel: +353 21 490 3169/3261

fax: +353 21 490 3263

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