ITALIAN CONFERENCE & SYMPOSIUM at JHU
THE MANY FORMS OF THE DECAMERON
INTERPRETATIONS, TRANSLATIONS AND ADAPTATIONS
24/25 April 2015
Friday,April 24th
(9.00 – 11.00 am) REGISTRATION
(Macksey Seminar Room – Brody Learning Common)
(9.30 – 10.30 am) – EXPOSITION OF RARE BOOKS & WELCOME
(Macksey Seminar Room - Brody Learning Common)
Professor Walter Stephens and Professor Earl Havens will welcome the Conference participants and present some pearls of the Rare books collection at Johns Hopkins University.
(9.00 – 11.00 am) BREAKFAST (Great Hall – Levering)
(11 pm) OPENING REMARKS (Great Hall – Levering)
Professor Walter Stephens, Charles S. Singleton Professor of Italian (JHU)
(11.00 – 12.30 pm) KEYNOTE LECTURE (Great Hall – Levering)
Professor Walter Stephens, Director of Graduate studies, will present:
Professor Eugenio Refini (Johns Hopkins University)
"Many stories he can tell": Translating Boccaccio'sDecameroninto Music
(12.30 – 1.30 pm) LUNCH BREAK
Suggested places on campus:
(1.30 – 3 pm) PANEL - INTER AND INTRA TEXTUALITY
(Sherwood Room – Levering)Chair: Pervinca Rista (JHU)
1) LaJoieWard (Binghamton University)
"A fittingconclusion: Boccaccio's Griselda tale in the context of speaker, audience and culture"
2) Vittoria Luchini (University of Notre Dame)
"The loquacity of silence in the Decameron: the cases of Alatiel and Masetto"
3) Grace Delmolino (Columbia University)
“Filippa, Francesca, and Boccaccio’sGenealogy of Consent”
(3 – 3.30 pm) COFFEE BREAK(Great Hall – Levering)
(3.30 – 5 pm) PANEL - RECEPTION of the Decameron I
(Sherwood Room – Levering)Chair: Francesco Brenna (JHU)
1) Christina McGrath (Georgetown University)
"Manipulated, Misrepresented and Maligned: the Censorshipand Rassettatura of The Decameron."
2) Kyle J.Skinner (Yale University)
"Boccaccio and Machiavelli'sPolitical Theater"
3) Tim Curcio (RutgersUniversity)
"Il Boccaccio Cortese: A Decameronian Novella in Chapter4 of Giovanni Della Casa's Galateo"
(5 – 5.30 pm) COFFEE BREAK(Great Hall – Levering)
(5.30 – 7 pm) KEYNOTE LECTURE (Great Hall – Levering)
Professor Eugenio Refini,Director of Undergraduate studies, will present:
Professor Victoria Kirkham (University of Pennsylvania)
"The Dilatory Decameron: A Brief History of Boccaccio's Defining Book."
(7 – 9 pm) KIT (Kairos Italy Theater) (Great Hall – Levering)
Theater performance of three novellas of the Decameron staged by KIT Theater and talk on the work of staging the Decameron with the artistic director Laura Caparrotti.
KIT (Kairos Italy Theater):
Saturday, April 25th
(8 – 9.30 am) BREAKFAST (Great Hall – Levering)
(9.30 – 10.30 am) PANEL- ARCHITECTURE OF THE DECAMERON
(Sherwood Room – Levering)Chair: Michele Zanobini (JHU)
1) Ernesto Virgulti (ProfessoratBrockUniversity)
"Looking Inside and Outside the Frame: Structure, Sources and Influence of the Decameron Cornice"
2) Lucia Gemmani (Indiana University)
"Boccaccio's Music: The Ballata in the Decameron's narrative structure"
(10.30 – 11) COFFEE BREAK (Great Hall – Levering)
(11 – 12.30 pm) PANEL - RECEPTION of the Decameron II
(Sherwood Room – Levering)Chair: Beatrice Variolo (JHU)
1) Alice Cavinato (Scuola Normale di Pisa)
"The author, thescribe and the artist. Conception and realization of the first illustrated Decameron"
2) Paolo Rondinelli (Università di Firenze – Accademia della Crusca)
"Boccaccio nei Proverbi di Francesco Serdonati"
(12.30 – 1.30 pm) LUNCH BREAK
Suggested places on Campus:
(1.30 – 3 pm) PANEL- DECAMERON ON SCREEN
(Sherwood Room – Levering)Chair: Professor Bernadette Wegenstein (JHU)
1) Alberto Iozzia (RutgersUniversity)
"The Decameron asliteraryarchetype of post- apocalyptic fiction"
2) Irene Cappelletti (Università della Svizzera Italiana)
"Di quelle beffe che tutto il giorno [...] si fanno: Amici miei e il Decameron"
3) Maria AnnRogeri (Professorat St. Thomas Aquinas College)
"The Decameron: Precursor to The PlaybookasSeen on the Popular TV Show, “How I Met Your Mother” ”
(3 – 4.30 pm) BUFFET / EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS
(Great Hall – Levering)
-Decameron VIII.3 – Calandrino e l’elitropia
A short black and white silent movie performed by JHU students and directed by Charles Cohen
-Professor Giusti from Vassar College will present artworks inspired by the Decameron made by his students, presented for the first time at the 2013 International Conference on Boccaccio in Binghamton.
-Presentation/Exhibit:
-Professor Marina Marietti (Paris III) new novel on Pampinea
-Professor Jean Luc Nardone (Toulouse University) new book on Griselda’s tale (Dec.X,10)
(4.30 – 6 pm) KEYNOTE LECTURE(Great Hall – Levering)
Professor Bernadette Wegenstein, Director of the Center for Advanced Media Studies, will present:
Professor Patrick Rumble (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
"Filming Boccaccio: Pasolini's Decameron and the Ambitions of Realism"
(6 – 8 pm) MOVIE SCREENING (Great Hall – Levering)
Il Decameron by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1971)introduced by Professor Bernadette Wegenstein
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