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THURSDAY 20 APRIL
REGISTRATION
11:30am-6:00pm
Outside Cartoon Room, The Ohio Union

SESSION ONE
1:00-2:30pm (Thursday)

1A: Barbie Tootle Room
ROUNDTABLE: ITALIAN SCREEN STUDIES: METHODS AND PRIORITIES I: FRAMING PANEL I
Organizers: Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds and Dana Renga, The Ohio State University
Chair: Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds

  1. Allison Cooper, Bowdoin College
  2. Danielle Hipkins, University of Exeter
  3. Catherine O’Rawe, University of Bristol

1B: Cartoon Room 1
TRANSMEDIALITY IN ITALIAN POPULAR CULTURE: I
Organizer: Paola Bonifazio, The University of Texas at Austin and Cinzia Russi, The University of Texas at Austin
Chair: Paola Bonifazio, The University of Texas at Austin

  1. Paola Bonifazio, The University of Texas at Austin, “The Indiscreet Charm of Bolero Film: Transmediality and the Italian Fotoromanzo
  2. Stephanie Hotz, The University of Texas at Austin, “The Self-Reflexive Musicarello: Depictions of Mass Media and Entertainment in Postwar Italian Musical Films”
  3. Giulio Olesen, Bournemouth University, “Slap the Monster on Page One: Representations of History in the Italian Poliziottesco

1C: Hays Cape Room
DOCTORAL PROJECTS IN PROGRESS I: INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY IN THE 20TH CENTURY
Organizers: Dan Paul, The Ohio State University and Francesca Facchi, University of Toronto
Chair: Filippo Trentin, University of Pennsylvania

  1. Stephanie De Paola, Fordham University, “An Intimate Occupation: Race, Gender, Sex, and Sexual Violence in Occupied Italy”
  2. Remko Smid, University of Zurich, “History and Identity in the Works of Claudio Magris”

1D: Rosa M. Ailibouni Room
EPIC, ROMANCE, NOVEL: INTERSECTIONS AND INTERACTIONS IN ITALIAN CULTURE
Organizers: Andrea Privitera, University of Western Ontario and Università di Padova and Lucia Gemmani, Indiana University
Chair: Lucia Gemmani, Indiana University

  1. Marianna Orsi, Independent Scholar, “Elena Ferrante fra Epos e Romanzo”
  2. Andrea Gazzoni, University of Pennsylvania, “Boccaccio’s Teseida: Epic, Romance and Vernacular Translatio
  3. Corrado Confalonieri, Harvard University, “Where Genre Ends and Text Begins: Tasso’s Liberata and the Limits of Epic”
  4. Andrea Privitera, University of Western Ontario and Università di Padova, “Space and Movement in Romance: The Case of Inamoramento de Orlando

1E: Round Meeting Room
UTOPIA
Organizer: Cristina Perissinotto, University of Ottawa
Chair: Domenico Palumbo, Sant’Anna Institute

  1. Valeria Federici, Brown University, “From Locality to Trans-locality: Utopian and Spatial Narratives of Forte Prenestino in Rome”
  2. Arthur J. Lei, University of California, Berkeley, “Risorgimento internazionale futuro: 19th Century Visions of a Utopian Future”
  3. Cristina Perissinotto, University of Ottawa, “Utopia and Possible Worlds in the Renaissance”

1F: Brutus Buckeye Room
A DISTANT FUTURE: NEW REFLECTIONS ON ITALIAN FUTURISM
Organizers: Daria Bozzato, SUNY-New Paltz, Nicole Gounalis, Stanford University.
Chair: Luca Somigli, University of Toronto.

  1. Elisa Valentini, University of Texas at Austin, “Painting the Invisible: A Dialogue Between Ginna and Corra’s cinepittura and Umberto Boccioni’s Materia
  2. Gina Mangravite, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “The Female Body as Literary Tool in Marinetti and Corra’s Erotic Literary Production, L’isola dei baci”
  3. Dalila Colucci, Harvard University, “Intermedia Encounters, Ideology and Food Art: L’anguria lirica’s polymorphic poetics”
  4. Ashley Lindeman, Florida State University, “‘Synthesis of Modernity’: The 1933 Fascist Commission of Futurist Murals in La Spezia”

1G: Suzanne M. Scharer Room
ITALIAN (POST)APOCALYPTIC NARRATIVES I
Organizer: Roberto Risso, Clemson University
Chair: Maria Anna Mariani, University of Chicago

  1. Tomasz Skocki, University of Warsaw, “Ages of Unrest: Italian Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction in the 1970s and Early 21st Century”
  2. Alberto Iozzia, Rutgers University, “Dante Virgili’s La distruzione in the Context of Italian Post-Apocalyptic Narrative”
  3. Roberto Risso, Clemson University, “‘La morte di Megalopoli:’ Il collasso della società e il nuovo medio evo secondo Roberto Vacca”

1H: Cartoon Room 2
FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING WORKSHOP SERIES I
Organizer: Janice M. Aski, The Ohio State University
Janice M. Aski, The Ohio State University, “Active Learning and Cognitive Engagement from Input to Output”

1I: Tanya R. Rutner Room
ROUNDTABLE: INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO TEACHING ITALIAN I: INNOVATIVE TOOLS TO TEACHING LANGUAGE
Organizers: Brandon Essary, Elon University and Andrea Privitera, University of Western Ontario and Università di Padova
Chair: Brandon Essary, Elon University

  1. Maria Esposito Frank, University of Hartford
  2. Lisa Tortolani, University of Connecticut
  3. Cristiana Mora Thielmann, DePauw University
  4. Stella Mattioli, University of Virginia

 SESSION 2
2:45-4:15pm (Thursday)

2A: Barbie Tootle Room
ROUNDTABLE: ITALIAN SCREEN STUDIES: METHODS AND PRIORITIES II: ARCHIVAL APPROACHES
Organizers: Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds and Dana Renga, The Ohio State University
Chair: Giorgio Bertellini, University of Michigan

  1. Giuliana Muscio, University of Padua
  2. Paola Bonifazio, University of Texas at Austin
  3. Regina Longo, Albanian Film Project/Film Quarterly
  4. Giuseppe Fidotta, Concordia University, Montreal

2B: The Student Alumni Council Room
MACHIAVELLI TODAY: CONTEMPORARY REPRESENTATIONS OF THE STRUGGLE FOR POWER
Organizer: Andrea Polegato, University of North Texas – Denton
Chair: Simone Bregni, Saint Louis University

  1. Annachiara Mariani, The University of Tennessee – Knoxville, “The Traumatized and Traumatizing (Sub)Version of Power in Sorrentino’s The Young Pope
  2. Andrea Polegato, University of North Texas-Denton, “Machiavelli in Game of Thrones and House of Cards
  3. William Landon, Northern Kentucky University, “Donald Trump, Niccolò Machiavelli, the Establishment and the People: Words of Advice and Warning from The Prince

2C: Cartoon Room 2
FOR A MEDITERRANEAN ECOCRITICISM: STRENGTHS AND CONTRIBUTIONS I
Organizers: Enrico Cesaretti, University of Virginia and Monica Seger, The College of William & Mary
Chair: Enrico Cesaretti, University of Virginia

  1. Matteo Gilebbi, Duke University, “Antonio Stoppani and the Teleological Interpretation of the Anthropocene”
  2. Valerie McGuire, Independent Scholar /New York University, “At the Borders of Belonging and the Frontier of the National: Toward an Ecocritical Approach to Islands in the Mediterranean”
  3. Maria Grazia Lolla, Harvard University, “Oh uomo! Fausta Cialente’s Posthuman Sensibility”

2D: Hays Cape Room
WOMEN, PHILOSOPHY, AND PRE-MODERN THEATRE
Organizers: Dan Paul, The Ohio State University and Francesca Facchi, University of Toronto
Chair: Jonathan Combs-Schilling, The Ohio State University

  1. Beatrice Variolo, The Johns Hopkins University, “Boccaccio, Betussi and the querelle on Ancient and Modern ‘Famous Women’ in Sixteenth-Century Venice”
  2. Garrett Waters, University of Georgia, “What Does It Mean To Be Tragic in Sixteenth Century Italian Tragedy?”
  3. Quinn Griffin, Grand Valley State University, “Classical Philosophy in the Vernacular: Clemenza Ninci’s Sposalizia d’Iparchia Filosofa

2E: Cartoon Room 1
ITALIAN RENAISSANCE DIGITAL LABS
Organizers: Giuseppe Gerbino, Columbia University and Francesca Bortoletti, University of Minnesota
Chair: Stefania Porcelli, The Graduate Center, CUNY

  1. Giuseppe Gerbino, Columbia University, “Marenzio Online Digital Edition (MODE)”
  2. Emiliano Ricciardi, University of Massachusetts Amherst, “Digitizing Early Modern Music and Poetry: The Tasso in Music”
  3. Crystal Hall, Bowdoin College, “Galileo’s Database”
  4. Francesca Bortoletti, University of Minnesota, “Festivals in Renaissance Italy: a Digital Atlas (FRIDA)”

2F: Rosa M. Ailibouni Room
NEW APPROACHES IN CAPUANA STUDIES I
Organizers: Anita Virga, University of the Witwatersrand, and Brian Zuccala, Monash University
Chair: Annamaria Pagliaro, Monash University

  1. Jonathan Hiller, Adelphi University, “Luigi Capuana, Vampire Hunter: The Scientific Pursuit of the Supernatural in Capuana’s Novels and Short Stories”
  2. Edwige Fusaro, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, “Il processo creativo in Capuana scrittore e fotografo”
  3. Carla Cornette, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Losing Faith in Science: The Evolution of Luigi Capuana’s Conceptualization of Female Hysteria, from Giacinta to Profumo”
  4. Brian Zuccala, Monash University, “Metafiction e metanarration nella narrativa capuaniana”

2G: Round Meeting Room
A CENTURY OF ITALIAN WAR NARRATIVES: MAKING SENSE OF IT ALL I
Organizer and Chair: Luigi Gussago, Monash University

  1. Elisa Gambaro, Università degli Studi di Milano, “I giorni veri di Giovanna Zangrandi, un diario della Resistenza vent’anni dopo. Prospettiva femminile, genere letterario e strutture narrative”
  2. Giuseppina Palma, Southern Connecticut State University, “Gobetti’s War: Diario partigiano
  3. Louise Zamparutti, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, “The Foibe as War Narrative: The New Antiheroes of the Second Republic”

2H: Suzanne M. Scharer Room
ITALIAN (POST)APOCALYPTIC NARRATIVES II
Organizer: Roberto Risso, Clemson University
Chair: Tomasz Skocki, University of Warsaw

  1. Maria Anna Mariani, University of Chicago, “Italy And The Bomb: The Post-Apocalyptic Stories Of Alberto Moravia”
  2. Robert Rushing, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, “Securing the Apocalypse: Biopolitical Imagery in Italian Cinema, 1960s-present”
  3. Shelton Bellow, Brenau University, “Armageddon: A Study of the Apocalyptic in Gomorra

2I: Tanya R. Rutner Room
ROUNDTABLE: CURRICULAR INNOVATION FOR INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED CLASSES: DEVELOPING CONTENT FOR ITALIAN MAJOR/MINOR COURSES
Organizer and Chair: Veena Carlson, Dominican University

  1. Janice Aski, The Ohio State University
  2. Adrienne Ward, University of Virginia
  3. Veena Carlson, Dominican University

2J: Brutus Buckeye Room
EUROPEAN TREASURE: A.H. REED’S FRENCH & ITALIAN AUTOGRAPH LETTERS
Organizer and Chair: Carol Lazzaro-Weis, University of Missouri-Columbia

  1. Valerio Cappozzo, The University of Mississippi

SESSION 3
4:30-6:00pm (Thursday)

3A: Barbie Tootle Room
ROUNDTABLE: ITALIAN SCREEN STUDIES: METHODS AND PRIORITIES III: THE WILEY-BLACKWELL COMPANION TO ITALIAN CINEMA: WHERE TO GO FROM HERE
Organizers: Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds and Dana Renga, The Ohio State University
Chair: Frank Burke, Queen’s University

  1. Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds
  2. Antonella Sisto, Brown University
  3. Mary Wood, Birckbeck, University of London
  4. Austin Fisher, Bournemouth University

3B: Cartoon Room 1
TRANSMEDIALITY IN ITALIAN POPULAR CULTURE: II
Organizer: Paola Bonifazio, The University of Texas at Austin and Cinzia Russi, The University of Texas at Austin
Chair: Cinzia Russi, The University of Texas at Austin

  1. Melina A. Masterson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “Transmedial ‘Dungeon Masters’: Wu Ming and Gaming Culture”
  2. Cinzia Russi, The University of Texas at Austin, “The functions of Sicilian in Camilleri’s novel and television episode Il ladro di merendine
  3. Paolo Saporito, McGill University, “Stories of blogs, e-books and time: Slowdown, participation and resistance in Wu Ming’s Giap and L’archivio e la strada

3C: Cartoon Room 2
FOR A MEDITERRANEAN ECOCRITICISM: STRENGTHS AND CONTRIBUTIONS II
Organizers: Enrico Cesaretti, University of Virginia and Monica Seger, The College of William & Mary
Chair: Monica Seger, The College of William & Mary

  1. Jessica Sciubba, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Screening bodies, screening Lampedusa in Gianfranco Rosi’s Fuocoammare
  2. Enrico Cesaretti, University of Virginia, “Dirty Stuff: Material and Discursive Pollution in Francesco Masala’s Il parroco di Arasolè (a.k.a. Il dio petrolio)”
  3. Danila Cannamela, The University of St. Thomas, “Through the Eyes of the Beast: From Local Environmental Dystopia to Transnational Utopia”

3D: Hays Cape Room
DOCTORAL PROJECTS IN PROGRESS III: GENDER AND OTHERNESS THROUGH THE CAMERA
Organizers: Dan Paul, The Ohio State University and Francesca Facchi, University of Toronto
Chair: Gaoheng Zhang, University of British Columbia

  1. Dalila Missero, Università di Bologna, “Queering the Cinematic Sixties: Anti-Normative Approaches to Sexuality in Italian Cinema”
  2. Dan Paul, The Ohio State University, “Becoming Men: Masculinity and (Male) Melodrama in Recent Italian Teen Film”
  3. Caitlin Schaer, “Understanding the Italian “Other”: Diverse Modes of Visual Ethnographic Representation”

3E: Suzanne M. Scharer Room
VERNACULAR LITERATURE OF FIFTEENTH-CENTURY FLORENCE
Organizer and Chair: Michael J. Maher, College of Charleston

  1. Emanuela Zanotti Carney, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Identity, Alterity, and the Pursuit of Saintliness in Antonia Pulci’s Fifteenth-century Sacre Rappresentazioni
  2. Michael J. Maher, College of Charleston, “Lucrezia Tornabuoni: Patron and Author of Chivalric Verse”
  3. Alessandro Basso, Università degli Studi di Genova, “Alle origini della ‘cerchia’ laurenziana: il Driadeo d’amore di Luca Pulci”

3F: Rosa M. Ailibouni Room
NEW APPROACHES IN CAPUANA STUDIES II
Organizers: Anita Virga, University of the Witwatersrand, and Brian Zuccala, Monash University
Chair: Brian Zuccala, Monash University

  1. Annamaria Pagliaro, Monash University, “Luigi Capuana’s quest as a cultural moderator”
  2. Valentina Fulginiti, Cornell University, “Capuana and Cultural translation. Rewriting Sicily”
  3. Anita Virga, University of the Witwatersrand, “Capuana, il marchese e l’altro
  4. Santi Buscemi, Middlesex County College, “Capuana’s Heroines: Style and Substance”

3G: Round Meeting Room
A CENTURY OF ITALIAN WAR NARRATIVES: MAKING SENSE OF IT ALL II
Organizer: Luigi Gussago, Monash University
Chair: Louise Zamparutti, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

  1. Melissa E. Marinaro, Senator John Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh, “La Generazione più Grande: Heinz History Center’s Italian American World War II Veterans Oral History Collection”
  2. Luigi Gussago, Monash University, “Unfit for War: Stories of Desertion in Italian Fiction”
  3. Kevin Regan-Maglione, University of Oregon, “The Homosexual Confinato: Producing Queer Sense of Fascism”

3H: Brutus Buckeye Room
LA GRANDE GUERRA 1914-1918
Organizer and Chair: Elena Coda, Purdue University

  1. Stefano Magni, Aix Marseille Université, “G.A. Borgese, dal Congresso di Roma (8-10 aprile 1918) alla redazione dell’opuscolo Il patto di Roma (1919)”
  2. Angela Fabris, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, “Echi della Grande Guerra: dalle narrazioni belliche di Francesco Burdin ai fotogrammi collettivi di Mario Monicelli”
  3. Elena Coda, Purdue University, “La guerra in casa, dai diari di Carmela Rossi Timeus al memoriale di Aurelia Reina Cesari”

3I: Tanya R. Rutner Room
ROUNDTABLE: INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO TEACHING ITALIAN II: TEACHING ITALIAN THROUGH GAMES
Organizers: Brandon Essary, Elon University and Andrea Privitera, University of Western Ontario and Università di Padova
Chair: Andrea Privitera, University of Western Ontario and Università di Padova

  1. Marino Forlino, Scripps College
  2. Simone Bregni, Saint Louis University
  3. Brandon Essary, Elon University

3J: The Student Alumni Council Room
90 YEARS LATER: GRAZIA DELEDDA AND SARDINIAN LITERATURE OF “S-CONFINAMENTO”
Organizer: Margherita Heyer-Caput, University of California, Davis
Chair: Maria Esposito Frank, University of Hartford

  1. Sonita Sarker, Macalester College, “Two Sardinians in the World: Grazia Deledda and Antonio Gramsci”
  2. Stefania Lucamante, Catholic University of America, “Con il cuore dentro una cassa: soggettività impossibili e il mancato dono della comunitas in Marianna Sirca.”
  3. Margherita Heyer-Caput, University of California, Davis, “From ‘I primi passi’ to Cosima, quasi Grazia: The Transgressive Journey of Grazia Deledda’s Writing”
  4. Irene Zanini Cordi, Florida State University, “Border Crossings in Milena Agus’ Mal di pietre/From the Land of the Moon

RECEPTION
6:15-7:45
The Faculty Club
Co-sponsored by The Italian Cultural Institute, Chicago

FRIDAY 21 APRIL
REGISTRATION
8:00am-5:00pm
Outside Cartoon Room, The Ohio Union

MARIO BADAGLIACCA PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT
10:00-5:00
Hopkins Hall Gallery

SESSION 4
8:30-10:00am (Friday)

4A: Barbie Tootle Room
ROUNDTABLE: ITALIAN SCREEN STUDIES: METHODS AND PRIORITIES IV: ITALIAN TELEVISION STUDIES: LOOKING BACKWARDS
Organizers: Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds and Dana Renga, The Ohio State University
Chair: Giancarlo Lombardi, College of Staten Island/The Graduate Center, CUNY

  1. Simona Bondavalli, Vassar College
  2. Tania Convertini, Dartmouth College
  3. Cecilia Penati, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
  4. Monica Jansen, Utrecht University

4B: Cartoon Room 1
POLITICS AND EMOTIONS IN ITALIAN CINEMA, LITERATURE AND VISUAL ARTS
Organizer and Chair: Monica Facchini, Colgate University

  1. Mary Migliozzi, Villanova University, “Love of Maxinna and of Patria: Romantic Love as Political Emotion in the Works of Gian Giacomo Cavalli”
  2. Paola Gambarota, Rutgers University, “Translating Emotions: The Transnational Making of L’uomo qualunque
  3. Giorgio Galbussera, “From Martyr to Cynic? Luigi Lo Cascio’s Embodiment of the Left”
  4. Giordana Poggioli-Kaftan, Marquette University, “Golden Door‘s Third Space”

4C: Hays Cape Room
L’AVVENTURA INTERNAZIONALE I: ITALIAN ARTISTIC IDENTITY SINCE WWII
Organizers: Adrian Duran, University of Nebraska, Omaha and Elizabeth Mangini, California College of the Arts
Chair: Adrian Duran, University of Nebraska, Omaha

  1. Davide Colombo, Università degli Studi di Parma, “Italy at Work,” Chicago, 1951: Between Past Tradition and Contemporary Expression”
  2. Laura Petican, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, “Missoni and Memphis: New Models for Italian Art (And Design)”

 

4D: Tanya R. Rutner Room
MUSIC BRIDGES IN ITALIAN STUDIES I
Organizers: Metello Mugnai, West Chester University of Pennsylvania and Lorenzo Salvagni. Cuyahoga Community College
Chair: Marianna Orsi, Independent Scholar

  1. Bernard Kuhn, Bucknell University, “Rigoletto (1946) and Rigoletto e la sua tragedia (1954): New Perspectives on the Relationship between Opera and Cinema in Postwar Italy”
  2. Adriana Guarro, University of California, Los Angeles, “The Intertwining of Music and Poetry in Amelia Rosselli’s Variazioni Belliche”
  3. Robin Pickering-Iazzi, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, “‘Quannu moru, faciti ca nun moru!’: Antimafia Socio-spatial Music Bridges and the Reinvention of Civil Society”

4E: Suzanne M. Scharer Room
THE REWRITING OF ITALIAN HISTORY IN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE
Organizers: Sandra Parmegiani, University of Guelph and Sergio Portelli, University of Malta
Chair: Sergio Portelli, University of Malta

  1. Francesco Chianese, Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”, “What ‘Italianness’? The Concept of Home in John Fante’s Wait Until Spring, Bandini, Joseph Tusiani’s In una casa un’altra casa trovo and Igiaba Scego’s La mia casa è dove sono
  2. Emily Rabiner, University of California, Berkeley, “Dead Past, Dead Woman: History and Desire in Vernon Lee’s ‘Amour Dure’”
  3. Roberta Cauchi-Santoro, University of Guelph/University of Waterloo, “Samuel Beckett’s Reading of Giacomo Leopardi: the Question of Desire”

 

 

4F: Round Meeting Room
A CENTURY OF ITALIAN WAR NARRATIVES: MAKING SENSE OF IT ALL III
Organizer: Luigi Gussago, Monash University
Chair: Giuseppina Palma, Southern Connecticut State University

  1. Fiona M. Stewart, Pepperdine University, “Guerra civile: A Civil Disagreement in which Both Revelli and Pavone are Vindicated?”
  2. Brian Tholl, Rutgers University, “The Evolution of Communication in Roberto Rossellini’s Paisà
  3. Mattia Roveri, New York University, “Between Colonialism and Fascism: the Military in Ennio Flaiano’s Tempo di uccidere

4G: Cartoon Room 2
ITALIAN COMICS IN THE ‘70S AND ‘80S: RECONFIGURING THE MEDIUM
Organizer and Chair: Simone Castaldi, Hofstra University

  1. Cara Takakjian, University of Massachusetts, “Totally gross: Italian Comics of 1977”
  2. Sara Dallavalle, Indiana University, “Italian Comics Magazines of the Eighties: Orient Express and its Elements of Novelty”
  3. Simone Castaldi, Hofstra University, “Italian Comics and the Independent Press in the 70s and 80s”

4H: Brutus Buckeye Room
THE CURRICULUM OF THE ITALIAN PROGRAM IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Organizer and Chair: R. Francesca Seaman, DePauw University

  1. Annalisa Sacca, St. John’s University, “Thinking Outside the Box: Five Creative Ways to Guarantee the Future Survival and Success of Your Italian Program”
  2. Alessandro Vettori, Rutgers University, “The Language Requirement and Other Strategies to Attract Students”
  3. Chiara De Santi, Fredonia State University of New York, “Exploring Options for Italian Studies Programs in a Changing America”
  4. Alessia Colarossi, University of Florida, “The New Degree and the Italian Major”
  5. Francesca Seaman, DePauw University, “How to Build an Italian Program in Rural Mid-West”

4I: The Student Alumni Council Room
INNOVATIVE METHODS TO PROMOTE STUDENTS’ AWARENESS IN TEACHING ITALIAN
Organizer AAIS/CSIS
Chair: Francesca Facchi, University of Toronto

  1. Chiara Dal Martello, Arizona State University, “How to Teach Cross-cultural Awareness with Photos and Videos While Studying in Italy”
  2. John Tom Means, BMCC/CUNY, “Students’ Self-transcripts of Their Task-based Performances in Italian”
  3. Carmela Scala, Rutgers University, “Knowing What You Know to Know What You Need To Know”

4J: Rosa M. Ailibouni Room (**9:00-10:00)
MARIO BADAGLIACCA PRESENTS ‘ITALY IS OUT’, PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT (HOPKINS GALLERY APRIL 21-22)
Organizer and Chair: Valerio Ferme, University of Colorado at Boulder

  1. Mario Badagliacca in Conversation with Valerio Ferme, University of Colorado at Boulder

SESSION 5
10:15-11:45am (Friday)

TOURS OF BILLY IRELAND CARTOON LIBRARY AND MUSEUM, Simone Castaldi, Hofstra University (please register at the conference)

5A: Barbie Tootle Room
ROUNDTABLE: ITALIAN SCREEN STUDIES: METHODS AND PRIORITIES V: NONHUMAN/MORE-THAN HUMAN-MEDIA
Organizers: Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds and Dana Renga, The Ohio State University
Chair: Elena Past, Wayne State University

  1. Laura Di Bianco, Johns Hopkins University
  2. Matteo Gilebbi, Duke University
  3. Monica Seger, The College of William & Mary
  4. Meryl Shriver-Rice, University of Miami
  5. Hunter Vaughan, Oakland University
  6. Marguerite Waller, University of California, Riverside

5B: Cartoon Room 1
ROUNDTABLE: “STATO DELL’ARTE” E PROSPETTIVE DELLA RICERCA INTERNAZIONALE SU CINEMA, MEDIA E VISUAL STUDIES ITALIANI
Organizers: Christian Uva, Università Roma Tre and Vito Zagarrio, Università Roma Tre
Chair: Vito Zagarrio, Università Roma Tre

  1. Christian, Uva, Università Roma Tre
  2. Eugenia Paulicelli, Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
  3. Luca Peretti, Yale University

5C: Cartoon Room 2
ITALIAN TV DRAMA, FROM SCENEGGIATO TO SERIES
Organizer: Giancarlo Lombardi, College of Staten Island & The Graduate Center, CUNY
Chair: Cosetta Gaudenzi, University of Memphis

  1. Cosetta Gaudenzi, University of Memphis, “Language, identity and television in the 1960s: Sandro Bolchi’s Il mulino del Po
  2. Stefano Morello, The Graduate Center, CUNY, “Una città dalle due anime: Setting, Atmosphere, and Local Identity in Gomorra La Serie and Un posto al sole
  3. Giancarlo Lombardi, College of Staten Island & The Graduate Center, CUNY, “You’re Better for My Game: A Structural Reading of Gomorra La Serie’s House of Cards”

5D: Hays Cape Room
L’AVVENTURA INTERNAZIONALE II: ITALIAN ARTISTIC IDENTITY SINCE WWII II: REFRAMING THE ITALIANITÀ OF ARTE POVERA
Organizers: Elizabeth Mangini, California College of the Arts and Adrian R. Duran, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Chair: Elizabeth Mangini, California College of the Arts

  1. Roger Crum, University of Dayton, “Seeing Back and Forth and through Mirrors: Michelangelo Pistoletto, Arte Povera, and Italian Identity”
  2. Pierette Kulpa, Sierra Nevada College, “Pistoletto’s Mirrored Etruscan: Reflecting on the Arringatore
  3. Umut Ungan, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), “Criticism Under ‘Influence’: Germano Celant’s arte povera and the American avant-garde of the 1960s”

5E: Tanya R. Rutner Room
MUSIC BRIDGES IN ITALIAN STUDIES I
Organizers: Metello Mugnai, West Chester University of Pennsylvania and Lorenzo Salvagni,
Cuyahoga Community College
Chair: Mary Migliozzi, Villanova University

  1. Enrico Zammarchi, The Ohio State University, “Per la gente, dalla gente: Italian Hip-Hop Artists as Contemporary Organic Intellectuals
  2. Luca Zamparini, The Graduate Center, CUNY, “Resisting the Symbolic. The Punx Case”
  3. Rachel Haworth, University of Hull, “Bridging the Gap between Music and Film: Mina’s Star Persona in the Musicarelli Movies of the 1950s and 1960s”

5F: Round Meeting Room
THE SHAPING OF A NATION: PATRIOTS, WRITERS, AND LAW-MAKERS IN LATE 19TH CENTURY ITALY
Organizers: Mark Epstein, Independent Scholar and Morena Corradi, Queens College (CUNY)
Chair: Morena Corradi, Queens College (CUNY)

  1. Mark Epstein, Independent Scholar, “Utopia and Laying Down the Law: Dossi, Faldella, Pirandello and the Rule of the Writer”
  2. Sara Delmedico, University of Cambridge, “‘Havvi eguaglianza di condizione soltanto nelle leggi penali’: the Jurist Domenico Giuriati and His Visions of Women”
  3. Fiammetta Di Lorenzo, Duke University, “‘Panico di proprietari terrieri.’ Samnites, Black Beards, and Other Fables”
  4. Morena Corradi, Queens College (CUNY), “Making Italians: Education and Nation Building in Late 19th-century Italy”

5G: Brutus Buckeye Room
A RESOUNDING CENTURY: TECHNOLOGIES AND WAVES OF SOUNDS
Organizer: Antonella Sisto, Brown University
Chair: Valeria Federici, Brown University

  1. Serena Ferrando, Colby College, “The Technology of Noise: Reshaping Italian Music One Soundwave at A Time”
  2. Roberta Tabanelli, University of Missouri, “Dissonant synchronicity. The film score in Pappi Corsicato’s Il seme della Discordia
  3. Antonella Sisto, Brown University, “Vibrating Rocks and Smoke, Unseen Shapes of Sound”

5H: Suzanne M. Scharer Room
EXPOSED TO THE WORLD: VULNERABILITIES IN POST-WAR AND NEOLIBERAL ITALY I
Organizers: Alessandra Montalbano, University of Alabama and Jonathan Mullins, The Ohio State University
Chair: Jonathan Mullins, The Ohio State University

  1. Brian DeGrazia, New York University, “‘Lasciate i parchi pubblici per la gente:’ the founding of the Villa Glori Casa famiglia per malati di AIDS”
  2. Claudia Karagoz, Saint Louis University, “Double Exposures: Embodiment, Vulnerability, and Agency in Letizia Battaglia’s Photography”
  3. Sarah Jacobson, Michigan State University, “Negotiating Identities: Squatting, Female Activists, and Italy’s Far Left during the 1970s”

5I: Rosa M. Ailibouni Room
ITALIAN AND EUROPEAN IDENTITIES I
Organizer and Chair: Nicola Di Nino, Saint Joseph’s University

  1. Edoardo Barsotti, Fordham University, “A Plural Italy? The Italian Identity between Unity and Diversity in Risorgimento Italy, 1796-1848”
  2. Antonin Durand, Ecole normale supérieure – Paris, “Italian Congresses of Scientists Seen from Abroad (1839-1848)”
  3. Marisa Escolar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Rewriting the Gendering of ‘Redemption’ in Representations of Allied-Occupied Italy”

LUNCH
11:45am-1:00pm
CSIS Annual General Meeting: Cartoon Room 1
Business Meeting: Women’s Studies Caucus: Cartoon Room 2
Business Meeting: Queer Studies Caucus: Barbie Tootle Room
**Friday afternoon coffee breaks sponsored by Casalini Libri

SESSION 6
1:00-2:30pm (Friday)

6A: Barbie Tootle Room
ROUNDTABLE: ITALIAN SCREEN STUDIES: METHODS AND PRIORITIES VI: NEW MEDIA AND REMEDIATION
Organizers: Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds and Dana Renga, The Ohio State University
Chair: Robin Pickering-Iazzi, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

  1. Marta Boni, University of Montreal
  2. Amy Boylan, University of New Hampshire
  3. Giancarlo Lombardi, College of Staten Island & The Graduate Center, CUNY

6B: Cartoon Room 1
CINEMA, COMMEDIA E ITALIANITÀ: TEORIE E PRATICHE DALLA TRADIZIONE ALLA CONTEMPORANEITÀ I
Organizer: Christian Uva, Università Roma Tre
Chair: Giovanna De Luca, College of Charleston

  1. Vito Zagarrio, Università Roma Tre, “Non c’è più religione: fenomenologia della nuova commedia italiana”
  2. Giacomo Manzoli, Università di Bologna, “Apologia dell’orrore: Perfetti sconosciuti, la commedia all’italiana e l’implosione dell’idea antiborghese”
  3. Gius Gargiulo, MoDyCo/CNRS, Université Paris Nanterre, “L’allenatore nel pallone 1 e 2, l’epos capovolto dal tragico al comico per un’identità italiana tra passato e presente”
  4. Lia Turtas, Cornell University, “The New Mask of Commedia all’italiana: Gabriele Mainetti’s Superhero Comedy Films”

6C: Cartoon Room 2
ITALIAN TV SERIES, TEXTS, INDUSTRIES, AUDIENCES, AND THE NARRATIVE ECOSYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE
Organizers: Veronica Innocenti, Università di Bologna and Guglielmo Pescatore, Università di Bologna
Chair: Veronica Innocenti, Università di Bologna

  1. Luca Barra, Università di Bologna, “Rewind and Forward. Models of Contemporary Italian TV Fiction”
  2. Massimo Scaglioni, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, “Towards Complexity. Birth and Evolution of Italian Premium Fiction”
  3. Dom Holdaway, Università di Bologna, “‘Boss in salotto’: The mafia and exportable engagement in quality TV Series”

6D: Hays Cape Room
L’AVVENTURA INTERNAZIONALE III: ITALIAN ARTISTIC IDENTITY SINCE WWII III: POST-NATIONALISM TO POST-MODERNISM
Organizers: Elizabeth Mangini, California College of the Arts and Adrian R. Duran, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Chairs: Laura Petican, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

  1. Martina Tanga, College of the Holy Cross, “Collectivism to Individualism – The Shape of Italian Artists’ Group Identity in the 1960s-70s”
  2. Francesca Della Ventura, University of Cologne, Germany, “Italian art in the 1980s: The Transavanguardia movement and questions of Italian national identity”
  3. Sasha Goldman, Boston University, “Maurizio Cattelan: Performing the Pulcinella”

6E: Suzanne M. Scharer Room
EXPOSED TO THE WORLD: VULNERABILITIES IN POST-WAR AND NEOLIBERAL ITALY II
Organizers: Alessandra Montalbano, University of Alabama and Jonathan Mullins, The Ohio State University
Chair: Alessandra Montalbano, University of Alabama

  1. Stefania Porcelli, The Graduate Center, CUNY, “Becoming Active: Emotions in Goliarda Sapienza’s L’Arte della Gioia
  2. Filippo Trentin, University of Pennsylvania, “Bodies, Surfaces and Things: On Pasolini’s Queer Materialism”
  3. Katherine Travers, New York University, “Patrizia Valduga: Feminist Readings of Masochistic Vulnerabilities”

6F: Rosa M. Ailibouni Room
ITALIAN AND EUROPEAN IDENTITIES II
Organizers: Nicola Di Nino, Saint Joseph’s University
Chair: Marisa Escolar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  1. Cassandra Marsillo, Concordia University, “Collective Memory and the ‘Myth of Exclusion’: The Case of Saint-Leonard, 1945-1971”
  2. Nicola Di Nino, Saint Joseph’s University, “‘Laida e meschina Italietta: Literature and National Identity in the 20th Century”
  3. Eleanor Paynter, The Ohio State University, “Claiming the National in a Transnational Space: Italianità in Igiaba Scego’s ‘La mia casa è dove sono’”

6G: Tanya R. Rutner Room
RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY IN ITALIAN MODERNISM I
Organizers: Monica Jansen, Utrecht University and Luca Somigli, University of Toronto
Chair: Monica Jansen, Utrecht University

  1. Dario Marcucci, The Graduate Center, CUNY, “Piero Jahier’s con me e con gli alpini. Rhetorical Techniques and French Influences”
  2. Jennifer Griffiths, The American University of Rome, “A Theosophical Face to Futurism”
  3. Laura Wittman, Stanford University, “Religious Umorismo in Pirandello’s Lazzaro”

6H: Brutus Buckeye Room
FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING WORKSHOP SERIES II
Organizer: Janice M. Aski, The Ohio State University
Chiara Fabbian, University of Illinois, Chicago, “Blended Learning Environments: Design, Implementation, and Teacher Preparation”

6I: Round Meeting Room
TRAUMA AND THE BODY
Organizer and Chair: Nicoletta Pazzaglia, Miami University, Ohio

  1. Alessandro Giradino, Lawrence University, “L’Odore del fieno, tra Sigmund Freud et Jacques Derrida”
  2. Sara Mattavelli, The College of William & Mary, “Il trauma dell’abbandono, un segno scritto sul corpo delle donne”
  3. Giuliano Migliori, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Corporeal chronotopoi: new literary ‘characters’ in Primo Levi and Liana Millu”
  4. Tatjana Babic Williams, Purdue University, “‘Voice through the Wound’: Of Trauma and Healing in Igiaba Scego’s Oltre Babilonia

6J: Wexner Center Film/Video Theater
QUEER STUDIES CAUCUS SCREENING AND AUDIENCE DISCUSSION
Chair: Julia Heim, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Al di là dello specchio (On the Other Side of the Mirror, Cecilia Grasso, 2015)

SESSION 7
2:45-4:15pm (Friday)

7A: Wexner Center Film/Video Theater
SCREENING AND DISCUSSION WITH THE DIRECTOR
Blaxploitalian: 100 Years of Blackness in Italian Cinema (Fred Kuwornu, 2016)

7B: Cartoon Room 1
CINEMA, COMMEDIA E ITALIANITÀ: TEORIE E PRATICHE DALLA TRADIZIONE ALLA CONTEMPORANEITÀ II
Organizer: Christian Uva, Università Roma Tre
Chair: Giacomo Manzoli, Università di Bologna

  1. Alberto Zambenedetti, University of Toronto, “Being Funny Abroad: Diego Abatantuono and the Comedies of (Italian) Existential Mobility”
  2. Christian Uva, Università Roma Tre, “Italiani brutta gente: commedia, disillusione e controstoria in alcuni progetti inediti di Ennio De Concini”
  3. Giovanna De Luca, College of Charleston, “Comic Representation of Mafia in Contemporary Italian Cinema”
  4. Ruth Glynn, University of Bristol, “Accented Cinema and the Anti-Camorra Comedy: Questioning Cinematic italianità”

7C: Cartoon Room 2
ROUNDTABLE: THE LONG ‘800: THE REPURCUSSIONS OF (DIS)UNIFICATION PROCESSES UP TO THE PRESENT
Organizer and Chair: Mark Epstein, Independent Scholar

  1. Mark Epstein, Independent Scholar
  2. Andrea Righi, Miami University
  3. Morena Corradi, Queens College, CUNY

 

7D: Hays Cape Room
SCRITTURE SPERIMENTALI/EXPERIMENTAL WRITINGS
Organizers: Gianluca Rizzo, Colby College, Beppe Cavatorta, University of Arizon Tuscon and Federica Santini, Kennesaw State University
Chair: Gianluca Rizzo, Colby College

  1. Gianluca Rizzo, Colby College, “What’s Left of 63: Mariano Bàino and the Avant-garde With Two ‘nei’”
  2. Federica Santini, Kennesaw State University, “Di siepe in siepe: Re-mapping Carla Vasio’s L’Orizzonte
  3. Beppe Cavatorta, University of Arizon Tuscon, “Giulia Niccolai: Una serie di scatti per il nuovo romanzo”

7E: Rosa M. Ailibouni Room
INTRECCI INTERTESTUALI TRA ARTI, GENERI, LETTERATURE
Organizer: AAIS/CSIS
Chair: Dan Paul, The Ohio State University

  1. Cristina Caracchini, Western University, “Che altro, oltre al titolo? Le Gioie d’occasione di Sibilla Aleramo e Gabrielle Roy”
  2. Francesca Facchi, University of Toronto, “The ‘Birth of Pirandello’s Tragedy’: convergences between Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy and The Mountain Giants
  3. Paolo Matteucci, Dalhousie University, “Intertestualità e polifonia in Blackout (1980) di Nanni Balestrini”
  4. Visnja Bandalo, University of Zagreb, “Tendenze moderniste nell’interpretazione del figurativo di Cristina Campo”

 

 

 

7F: Tanya R. Rutner Room
RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY IN ITALIAN MODERNISM II
Organizers: Monica Jansen, Utrecht University and Luca Somigli, University of Toronto
Chair: Matteo Brera, Utrecht University

  1. Giuseppe Gazzola, Stony Brook University, “Modernism, Modernismo: A Tale of Common Origins”
  2. Monica Jansen, Utrecht University and Luca Somigli, University of Toronto, “The Aesthetics and Politics of Anti-Clericalism in Late Futurism”
  3. Nina Valbousquet, Center for Jewish History (New York City), “Catholic Anti-Modernism and the Modernity of Fascism: Integral Catholicism, Nationalism, and Antisemitism in Fede e Ragione

7G: Brutus Buckeye Room
ROUNDTABLE: TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS FOR SUCCESSFUL TEACHING & LEARNING
Organizers: Fiona M. Stewart, Pepperdine University and Deena R. Levy, Pennsylvania State University
Chair: Camilla Zamboni, Wesleyan University

  1. Metello Mugnai, Westchester University of Pennsylvania
  2. Deena R. Levy, Pennsylvania State University
  3. Louise F. Hipwell, Georgetown University
  4. Johanna Rossi Wagner, Pennsylvania State University

7H: Round Meeting Room
INSTRUMENTS OF POWER IN MODERN ITALIAN ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPES
Organizers:  Kay Bea Jones, The Ohio State University and Stephanie Pilat, University of Oklahoma
Chair: Kay Bea Jones, The Ohio State University

  1. Lucy Maulsby, Northeastern University, “Instruments of Power: Fascist Party Headquarters and the Transformation of the Modern Italian City”
  2. Paolo Sanza, Oklahoma State University, “Mens Sana in Corpore Sano: The Architecture of the ONB”
  3. Jonathan Mekinda, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Projecting Politics: The Powers of Planning in Mid-Century Milan”

 

7I: Suzanne M. Scharer Room
INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN POLITICS, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE IN ITALY DURING THE FIRST REPUBLIC (1946-1992) I
Organizers: Marco Marino, Sant’Anna Institute and Brian J. Gilley, Indiana University
Chair: Brian J. Gilley, Indiana University

  1. Domenico Palumbo, Sant’Anna Institute, “Panorama Gadda: il reale, il barocco e l’entelechia della zucca”
  2. Jim Carter, University of Michigan, “Consumption and the Politics of Youth in 1960s Italy: The Case of Piaggio”
  3. Brian J. Gilley, Indiana University, “Ischia and Competing Food Nostalgia after the Miracle”

7J: Barbie Tootle Room
ROUNDTABLE: ITALIAN SCREEN STUDIES: METHODS AND PRIORITIES IX: QUEER ITALIAN SCREEN STUDIES (IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE QUEER STUDIES CAUCUS)
Organizers: Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds and Dana Renga, The Ohio State University
Chair: Sergio Rigoletto, University of Oregon

  1. Jonathan Mullins, The Ohio State University
  2. Julia Heim, The Graduate Center, CUNY
  3. Filippo Trentin, University of Pennsylvania
  4. Joseph Perna, The University of the South

7K: The Student Alumni Council Room
ROUNDTABLE: RESEARCHING AND TEACHING THE OTTOCENTO: CURRENT PRACTICES AND FUTURE CHALLENGES
Organizers: Gabriella Romani, Seton Hall University and Katharine Mitchell, University of Strathclyde
Chair: Katharine Mitchell, University of Strathclyde

  1. Gabriella Romani, Seton Hall University
  2. Katharine Mitchell, University of Strathclyde
  3. Maria Grazia Lolla, Harvard University
  4. Ombretta Frau, Mount Holyoke College
  5. Monica Streifer, University of California, Riverside

PLENARY SESSION
4:30-5:30
Wexner Center, Film/Video Theater
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, New York University, “Leaps of Faith: On Intuition and Interdisciplinarity in Italian Studies”

RECEPTION
5:45-7:30
The Ohio Union, The Great Hall Meeting Room
Co-sponsored by Taylor & Francis

SATURDAY 22 APRIL
REGISTRATION
8:00am-6:00pm
Outside Cartoon Room, The Ohio Union

EXHIBIT OF RARE BOOKS
9:00-1:00
Thompson Library, First Floor Gallery

MARIO BADAGLIACCA PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT
10:00-5:00
Hopkins Hall Gallery

SESSION 8
9:00-10:30 (Saturday)

8A: Barbie Tootle Room
ROUNDTABLE: ITALIAN SCREEN STUDIES: METHODS AND PRIORITIES VII: CIRCULATION AND DISTRIBUTION
Organizers: Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds and Dana Renga, The Ohio State University
Chair: Marta Boni, Université de Montréal

  1. Massimo Scaglioni, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
  2. Luca Barra, Università di Bologna
  3. Dom Holdaway, Università di Bologna

8B: Cartoon Room 1
ITALIAN CINEMA IN THE PRESENT TENSE: CASE STUDIES AND CONTEMPORARY TRENDS I
Organizer and Chair: Millicent Marcus, Yale University

  1. Giovanna Faleschini Lerner, Franklin & Marshall College, “Liquid Maternity in Italian Migration Cinema”
  2. Christopher Kaiser, Yale University, “Fuocoammare: Italy, Refugees, and the Academy Awards”
  3. Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Dickinson College, “Through the Lazy Eye: Tropes of Denial, Disorientation, and Healing in Gianfranco Rosi’s Fuocoammare (2016) and Its Afterlife”

8C: Hays Cape Room
BETWEEN THE COLOR LINE: RACIAL IDENTITY IN ITALIAN (IM)MIGRANT STUDIES/CULTURE
Organizer and Chair: Cinzia Marongiu, Johannes Gutenber Universität in Mainz

  1. Barbara Garbin, Skidmore College, “Emma Brescia Warren: an Italian Amidst the Mid-20th Century Literary Hegemony”
  2. Patrizia Famà Stahle, College of Coastal Georgia, “Race, Identity and Racial Pressure. The Italian Immigrant Experience in the United States 1870-1945”
  3. Cinzia Marongiu, Johannes Gutenber Universität in Mainz, “Harlem Toponymy and Color Line in Kym Ragusa’s works”
  4. Simonetta Milli Konewko, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, “Maria Laurino’s ‘Were you Always an Italian?’ And the Sound of Southern Italian Dialect”

8D: Cartoon Room 2
TRAVELS IN ITALY AND ITALIAN TRAVELING ABROAD I
Organizer: Cristina Perissinotto, University of Ottawa
Chair: Osvaldo Croci, Memorial University

  1. Alberto Gelmi, The Graduate Center, CUNY, “A Florentine in the Middle East: Fazio degli Uberti in Palestine”
  2. Kristina Varade, The Graduate Center, CUNY, “The correspondence of Charles Lever in Italy during the Risorgimento”
  3. Sabrina Righi, University of Michigan, “The City in Sibilla Aleramo’s A Woman and Dacia Maraini’s Woman at War: a Space of Resistance?”

8E: Tanya R. Rutner Room
JEWISH STUDIES CAUCUS: THE NEW ITALY AND THE JEWS (IN THE 19TH CENTURY) I
Organizers: Jonathan Druker, Illinois State University and L. Scott Lerner, Franklin & Marshall College
Chair: Jonathan Druker, Illinois State University

  1. Gabriella Romani, Seton Hall University, “Erminia Fuà Fusinato and Her Definition of Womanhood in Unified Italy”
  2. Michael Sherberg, Washington University, “The Romance of Edgardo Mortara: Riccardo Castelvecchio’s La famiglia ebrea
  3. Tatiana Zavodny, University of California, San Diego, “Competing Ideologies in 19th-Century Italy: The Mortara Case and the Nationalist Cause”

8F: Round Meeting Room
LATIN AMERICA IN THE CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN IMAGINATION AND EXPERIENCE
Organizer and Chair: Francesca Parmeggiani, Fordham University

  1. Manuel Chinchilla, University of the South, “Re-imaginings of Mexican History and Revolution in the Works of Pino Cacucci and Cesare Battisti”
  2. Laura Martín, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, “Storie che attraversano lo spazio e il tempo. Stefano Panzeri’s Oltreoceano come veicolo della memoria”
  3. Francesca Parmeggiani, Fordham University, “Laura Pariani’s America”

8G: The Student Alumni Council Room
ROUNDTABLE: IN CELEBRATION OF DARIO FO (1926-2016)
Organizer: Juliet Guzzetta, Michigan State University
Chair: Antonio Scuderi, Truman State University

  1. Andrea Scapolo, Duke University. “Dario Fo and Franca Rame’s Politics of Theatre”
  2. Francesca Spedalieri, The Ohio State University, “Jesturing” Politics: Jesters, Clowns, and the Political Body in Dario Fo’s Mistero Buffo
  3. Juliet Guzzetta, Michigan State University, “Starring Dario Fo, Franca Rame, and the Entire Audience

8H: Suzanne M. Scharer Room
NEW TENDENCIES IN CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN THOUGHT I
Organizer: Andrea Righi, Miami University
Chair: Daniele Fioretti, Miami University

  1. Alessandra Montalbano, University of Alabama, “The Human Condition in Italian Feminism and Biopolitics”
  2. Mauro Resmini, University of Maryland, “Post-Operaismo and the Question of History: Tronti, Negri, Virno”
  3. Andrea Righi, Miami University, “Digitality and the Challenge of Philosophy”
  4. Barbara Ottaviani Jones, Arizona State University, “Dream or Reality? The Contemporary Society of the Media in Matteo Garrone’s Reality

 

8I: Rosa M. Ailibouni Room
WOMEN’S STUDIES CAUCUS PANEL: ANNA MARIA ORTESE I
Organizer and Chair: Cosetta Seno, University of Colorado at Boulder

  1. Cristina Della Coletta, University of California, San Diego, “‘A Pair of Glasses’ by Anna Maria Ortese and its Cinematographic Version by Carlo Damasco”
  2. Gian Maria Annovi, University of Southern California, “Anna Maria Ortese and the Mediterranean Effect”
  3. Rossella Di Rosa, University of Georgia, “Zoopoiesi e creature teriomorfe nel Cardillo addolorato di Anna Maria Ortese”

8J: Brutus Buckeye Room
BEYOND THE TEXTBOOK: INNOVATIVE APPROACHES FOR A SHARED, LOW-COST, AND CUSTOMIZABLE ITALIAN CURRICULUM
Organizers: Daniela Bartalesi-Graf, Wellesley College and Camilla Zamboni, Wesleyan University
Chair: Daniela Bartalesi-Graf, Wellesley College

  1. Marina Della Putta Johnston, University of Pennsylvania, “Going Bookless: Creating a Fluid Language Curriculum”
  2. Lorraine Denman, University of Pittsburgh, “Intercultural Competence and Multiculturalism in the Non-Traditional Language Curriculum”
  3. Samuel Ghelli, York College/CUNY, “Alcune buone ragioni per rinunciare a materiali preconfezionati ed affidarsi a materiali originali autoprodotti
  4. Camilla Zamboni, Wesleyan University, “Assaggi: a Low-cost and Customizable Approach to the Intermediate Italian Curriculum”

SESSION 9
10:45-12:15 (Saturday)

9A: Barbie Tootle Room
ROUNDTABLE: ITALIAN SCREEN STUDIES: METHODS AND PRIORITIES VIII: POLITICAL CINEMA
Organizers: Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds and Dana Renga, The Ohio State University
Chair: Christian Uva, Università Roma Tre

  1. Giacomo Manzoli, Università di Bologna
  2. Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Dickinson College
  3. Vito Zagarrio, Università Roma Tre

9B: Cartoon Room 1
QUEER STUDIES CAUCUS: QUEER / EXILE / MIGRATION
Organizer: AAIS Queer Studies Caucus
Chair: SA Smythe, University of California, Santa Barbara

  1. Christopher B. Atwood, Independent Scholar, “Meglio fascista che frocio”
  2. Sole Anatrone, Wesleyan University, “A Cinema of Citation: Migration on the Italian Screen”
  3. Shelleen Greene, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, “Violenza segreta: Queer Desire and the Italian Postcolonial Imaginary”

9C: Cartoon Room 2
TRAVELS IN ITALY AND ITALIAN TRAVELING ABROAD II
Organizer and Chair: Cristina Perissinotto, University of Ottawa

  1. Osvaldo Croci, Memorial University, “Twice Lost in Translation: Or a Linguistic Misunderstanding in the Football Upset of the Twentieth Century”
  2. Erica Moretti, Fashion Institute of Technology, “Burned by the Tuscan Sun? Counter Narratives Through Oral History for Sustainable Tourism”
  3. Rosario Pollicino, Western University, “Identity Making in the Italian Colonial Space”

9D: Tanya R. Rutner Room
JEWISH STUDIES CAUCUS: THE NEW ITALY AND THE JEWS (IN THE 19TH & 20TH CENTURY) II
Organizers: Jonathan Druker, Illinois State University and L. Scott Lerner, Franklin & Marshall College
Chair: Gabriella Romani, Seton Hall University

  1. Alessandro Grazi, University of Amsterdam, “Diverging Regional Approaches to Italian Nationalism and Nation-Building: Turin Versus Padua”
  2. Scott Lerner, Franklin & Marshall College, “The New Italy on the Road to Jerusalem: D’Azeglio, Verdi and the santa libertà”
  3. Nancy Harrowitz, Boston University, “Viva Maria, Parallel Nationalization and Italian Jewish Identity”

 

9E: Suzanne M. Scharer Room
NEW TENDENCIES IN CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN THOUGHT II
Organizer and Chair: Andrea Righi, Miami University

  1. Corrado Claverini, L’Università degli Studi Vita-Salute San Raffaele di Milano, “Dalla storiografia idealistica alla genealogia biopolitica di Roberto Esposito. La dialettica cosmopolitismo-nazionalismo vista attraverso la storia della storiografia filosofica italiana”
  2. Daniele Fioretti, Miami University, “For a Critique of the Purity: Biopolitics, Post-human, and Zooanthropology in Roberto Esposito and Roberto Marchesini”
  3. Achille Castaldo, Duke University, “Agamben’s Concepts of Use, Inoperativity, and Inappropriable and the Thought of Furio Jesi and Gianni Carchia”
  4. Paola Basile, Lake Erie College, “Pensiero italiano? Un dialogo ‘multiversale’ in cammino”

9F: Rosa M. Ailibouni Room
WOMEN’S STUDIES CAUCUS PANEL: ANNA MARIA ORTESE II
Organizer: Cosetta Seno, University of Colorado at Boulder
Chair: Gian Maria Annovi, University of Southern California,

  1. Laura Lucia Rossi, University of Leeds, “Indeterminacy and the Iguana-novel of Anna Maria Ortese”
  2. Sharon Widmer, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, “Anna Maria Ortese: Un ritratto futurista”

9G: Hays Cape Room
ROUNDTABLE: ROUNDTABLE ON ITALIAN PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION
Organizers: Elena Past, Wayne State University and Lina Insana, University of Pittsburgh
Chair: Lina Insana, University of Pittsburgh

  1. Giovanna Faleschini Lerner, Franklin & Marshall College
  2. Valerio Ferme, University of Colorado at Boulder
  3. Paolo Giordano, University of Central Florida
  4. Nathalie Hester, University of Oregon
  5. Harinder Khalsa, University of Oregon
  6. Ellen Nerenberg, Wesleyan University
  7. Federico Pacchioni, Chapman University

LUNCH
12:15-1:45pm
AAIS Annual General Meeting: Cartoon Room 1
Meet the Editors of The Italianist (12:45-1:45; Routledge Booth) Dr. Catherine O’Rawe and Dr. Dana Renga, Film Issue Editors of The Italianist, will be available to answer your questions about the Journal, and the Film Issue in particular. Considering submitting a paper? Want to find out more about the publishing process? Visit the Routledge booth to put your questions forward.

SESSION 10
1:45-3:15pm (Saturday)

10A: Cartoon Room 1
ITALIAN CINEMA IN THE PRESENT TENSE: CASE STUDIES AND CONTEMPORARY TRENDS II
Organizers: Millicent Marcus, Yale University
Chair: Giovanna Faleschini Lerner, Franklin & Marshall College

  1. Fabiana Cecchini, Texas A&M University, “Il racconto dei racconti di Matteo Garrone: Una riflessione sull’amore in stile fantasy-horror declinati all’italiana”
  2. Mary Ann Carolan, Fairfield University, “The Chinese in Italy from Documentary to Feature Film”
  3. Millicent Marcus, Yale University, “From the Mirror of Narcissus to Mirror Neurons: New Reflections on the Neuro-aesthetics of Italian Film”

10B: Barbie Tootle Room
UNCONVENTIONAL STARDOM IN ITALIAN SCREEN STUDIES
Organizers: Catherine O’Rawe, University of Bristol and Danielle Hipkins, University of Exeter
Chair: Amy Boylan, University of New Hampshire

  1. Danielle Hipkins, University of Exeter, “The Impossibility of the Girl Star”
  2. Catherine O’Rawe, University of Bristol, “Acting, Non-Acting, and Unconventional Stardom from Neorealism to Fuocoammare”
  3. Dana Renga, The Ohio State University, “The Face of Italian Criminal Television”

10C: Suzanne M. Scharer Room
PLACING SICILY
Organizer: Lina Insana, University of Pittsburgh
Chair: Claudia Karagoz, St. Louis University

  1. Carola Farci, Università di Padova, “L’isola che non c’è: la Sicilia di Giorgio Vasta”
  2. Lina Insana, University of Pittsburgh, “Sicily and the Black Mediterranean: Charting the Island with Mussolini, Vittorini, and Sciascia”
  3. Chiara Mazzucchelli, University of Central Florida, “Heart of My Race: Sicily in Sicilian-American Literature”

10D: Round Meeting Room
TRAVELS IN ITALY AND ITALIAN TRAVELING ABROAD III
Organizer: Cristina Perissinotto, University of Ottawa
Chair: Jessica Henderson, The Ohio State University

  1. Matteo Brera, Utrecht University, “A Tennessean in Rome. Nancy Cox McCormack Memoirs of Italy (1922-1924)”
  2. Giulia Po DeLisle, University of Massachusetts Lowell, “Traveling to the Island of Leros in Simona Vinci’s La prima verità
  3. Sandro Corso, Italian Consulate in Chicago, “Travelling and Re-inventing Places: the Case of Sardinia”

10E: Hays Cape Room
DANTE AND WOMEN I
Organizers: Carol Chiodo, Yale University and Monica Streifer, University of California, Los Angeles
Chair: Monica Streifer, University of California, Los Angeles

  1. Alessandro Vettori, Rutgers University, “Matelda the Priest in Purgatorio28-33”
  2. Carol Chiodo, Yale University, “Dante at Hand. Phoebe Anna Traquair illustrates Dante’s Comedy”
  3. Andrea Quaini, “Anna Maria Chiavacci Leonardi: una dantista e le donne della Divina Commedia”

10F: Tanya R. Rutner Room
JEWISH STUDIES CAUCUS: THE NEW ITALY AND THE JEWS (IN THE 19TH & 20TH CENTURY) III
Organizers: Jonathan Druker, Illinois State University and L. Scott Lerner, Franklin & Marshall College
Chair: L. Scott Lerner, Franklin & Marshall College

  1. Ernest Ialongo, Hostos Community College, “Nation Building through Antisemitism: Political Mobilization & Culture in the Persecution of Italian Jews, 1936-1945”
  2. Jonathan Druker, Illinois State University, “Community and Trauma in Bassani’s ‘Una lapide in via Mazzini’”
  3. Andrea Malaguti, University of Massachusetts Amherst, “Il giovane Giorgio: ebraismo e soggetto narrante ne Gli occhiali d’orodi Giorgio Bassani”
  4. Jesse Rosenberg, Northwestern University, “Guilt and Operatic Atonement in Post-Holocaust Italy”

10G: Rosa M. Ailibouni Room
INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN POLITICS, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE IN ITALY DURING THE FIRST REPUBLIC (1946-1992) II
Organizers: Marco Marino, Sant’Anna Institute and Brian J. Gilley, Indiana University
Chair: Marco Marino, Sant’Anna Institute

  1. Joshua Davies, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, “Romulus after the War: The Roman Foundation Legend in Italian Cinema 1945-1976”
  2. Daniele Forlino, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “La fabbrica si riprende: il documentario industriale”
  3. John Paul Russo, University of Miami, “Political Fellini: from Prova d’orchestra(1978) to E la nave va (1983).”

10H: Cartoon Room 2
FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING WORKSHOP SERIES III
Organizer: Janice M. Aski, The Ohio State University
Tom Means, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, “Task-based Language Teaching as a Scaffold for Authentic Student Interaction”

SESSION 11
3:30-5:00pm (Saturday)

11A: Barbie Tootle Room
ROUNDTABLE: ITALIAN SCREEN STUDIES: METHODS AND PRIORITIES X: MIGRATION/POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
Organizers: Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds and Dana Renga, The Ohio State University
Chair: Áine O’Healy, Loyola Marymount University

  1. Cosetta Gaudenzi, University of Memphis
  2. Michael Gott, University of Cincinnati
  3. Avy Valledaras, University of California, Berkeley
  4. Gaoheng Zhang, University of British Columbia

11B: Cartoon Room 1
THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS AT 50
Organizer: Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds
Chair: Catherine O’Rawe, University of Bristol

  1. Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds, “End Times and After Times: The Character of the Postcolonial in The Battle of Algiers
  2. Luca Peretti, Yale University, “Before The Battle of Algiers: The Politics of ENI in North Africa and an Unmade Film on Colonialism”
  3. Andrea Sartori, Brown University, “The Dispositive of War: Reflections on The Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo”

11C: Cartoon Room 2
ROUNDTABLE: QUEER STUDIES CAUCUS/WOMEN’S STUDIES CAUCUS: FERTILITY DAY: WOMEN, GENDER, SEXUALITY AND QUEER STUDIES AT AAIS
Organizer: Manuela Zanotti Carney, University of Illinois at Chicago
Chair: Juliet Guzzetta, Michigan State University

  1. Zachary J. Vogt, The College of William & Mary
  2. SA Smythe, University of California, Santa Barbara

11D: Hays Cape Room
DANTE AND WOMEN II
Organizers: Carol Chiodo, Yale University and Monica Streifer, University of California, Los Angeles
Chair: Carol Chiodo, Yale University

  1. Vanessa DiMaggio, University of Pennsylvania, “Imperial Peace and Factional Strife: Constance and Piccarda in Paradiso III”
  2. Vanessa Fanelli, University of Texas at Austin, “Eve and the Veil of Knowledge”
  3. Anna Love, Indiana University, “A Male Model of Identity for the Female Religious: the Case of Dante’s Piccarda​”

11E: Suzanne M. Scharer Room
ROUNDTABLE: ITALIAN FUTURES
Organizers: Robert A. Rushing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Arielle Saiber, Bowdoin College
Chair: Robert A. Rushing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  1. Robert A. Rushing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  2. Arielle Saiber, Bowdoin College
  3. Roberto Risso, Clemson University
  4. Elena Past, Wayne State University
  5. Luca Somigli, University of Toronto

11F: Rosa M. Ailibouni Room
ROUNDTABLE: TEACHING PAOLA MASINO
Organizers: Cosetta Seno, University of Colorado at Boulder and Emanuela Zanotti Carney, University of Illinois at Chicago
Chair: Silvia Valisa, Florida State University

  1. Tristana Rorandelli, Sarah Lawrence College
  2. Louise Rozier, University of Arkansas
  3. Silvia Valisa, Florida State University
  4. Cosetta Seno, University of Colorado at Boulder
  5. Arianna Ceschin, Università di Venezia

11G: Tanya R. Rutner Room
THE “CANNIBALS” OF LITERATURE: LINEAGES AND TRENDS IN THE ITALIAN NARRATIVE FICTION OF THE NINETIES I
Organizers: Carlo Baghetti, Aix-Marseille Université, Danila Cannamela, University of St. Thomas, and Achille Castaldo, Duke University
Chair: Stefania Lucamante, Catholic University of America

  1. Stefania Lucamante, Catholic University of America, “Introducing the Young Cannibal Writers”
  2. Eleonora Boscolo, University of Connecticut, “Pulp Reality in the Works of Niccolò Ammaniti and Aldo Nove”
  3. Claudia Romanelli, University of Alabama, “Quel che resta di pulp in Stabat Mater di Tiziano Scarpa”

11H: Round Meeting Room
ITALIAN FOOD CULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM
Organizer and Chair: Andrea Polegato, University of North Texas

  1. Teresa Lobalsamo, University of Toronto Mississauga, “Tutti a tavola a studiare: Italian History and Culture through Food”
  2. Juliann Vitullo, Arizona State University, “Reflecting on Local, Place-Based Food Practices through the Study of the Mediterranean Diet in Italy”
  3. Samuel Ghelli, York College/CUNY, “Il sapore unico di certe parole”

11I: Brutus Buckeye Room
ROUNDTABLE: TEACHING ITALIAN IN THE AGE OF HYBRID AND MEGA CLASSES
Organizers: Andrea Sau, Teach for America and Cristina Perissinotto, University of Ottawa
Chair: TBD

  1. Sandra Parmegiani, University of Guelph
  2. Cristina Perissinotto, University of Ottawa
  3. Andrea Villarini, Università per Stranieri di Siena
  4. Mary Watt, University of Florida

SESSION 12
5:15-6:45pm (Saturday)

12A: Barbie Tootle Room
ROUNDTABLE: ITALIAN SCREEN STUDIES: METHODS AND PRIORITIES XI: CLOSING PANEL
Organizers: Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds and Dana Renga, The Ohio State University
Chair: Dana Renga, The Ohio State University

  1. Millicent Marcus, Yale University
  2. Ruth Ben-Ghiat, New York University
  3. Sally Hill, University of Victoria at Wellington

12B: Cartoon Room 1
ROUNDTABLE: THE LANDSCAPE OF REALITY: THE CINEMA OF GIANFRANCO ROSI
Organizers: Alberto Lo Pinto, University of Notre Dame and Lorenzo Dell’Oso, University of Notre Dame
Chair: Alberto Zambenedetti, University of Toronto

  1. Alberto Zambenedetti, University of Toronto
  2. John Welle, University of Notre Dame
  3. Áine O’Healy, Loyola Marymount University
  4. Emiliano Guaraldo Rodriguez, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  5. Alberto Lo Pinto, University of Notre Dame
  6. Lorenzo Dell’Oso, University of Notre Dame

12C: Cartoon Room 2
LEGACIES OF THE THREE CROWNS
Organizer: Sherry Roush, Penn State University
Chair: Fiona M. Stewart, Pepperdine University

  1. Christopher Nissen, Northern Illinois University, “Paganism, Christianity and Romance in the Elegia di madonna Fiammetta
  2. Sherry Roush, Penn State University at University Park, “Niccolò Franco’s Letter to (the Dead) Petrarch”
  3. Arielle Saiber, Bowdoin College, “Paul Laffoley’s ‘The Divine Comedy Triptych’ (1972-1975)”

12D: Hays Cape Room
MODELLI EDUCATIVI NELLA LETTERATURA PER LE BAMBINE: DALLA CONTESSA LARA A GIANA ANGUISSOLA
Organizer: Cosetta Seno, University of Colorado at Boulder
Chair: Sandra Parmegiani, University of Guelph

  1. Nunzia Soglia, Università di Salerno, “Laura Orvieto e la grande Guerra raccontata ai bambini”
  2. Alessandra Trevisan, Università di Venezia, “Silvia Salvagnini e Vivian Maier: ‘immagini’ pedagogiche dell’infanzia tra poesia e fotografia”
  3. Silvia Valisa, Florida State University, “Briefly Visible: tracce di educatrici italiane alla Columbus Fair di Chicago, 1893”

12E: Suzanne M. Scharer Room
GLOBAL ITALY: THE LITERARY AND CINEMATIC JOURNEY
Organizer and Chair: Johanna Rossi Wagner, Penn State University

  1. Gaoheng Zhang, University of British Columbia, “The ‘Chinese Mafia’ in Italian Crime Reporting, 1992-1995”
  2. Xin Liu, Pennsylvania State University, “Rethinking ‘Italian Political Pilgrimage’ to China in the 1950s”
  3. Michele Monserrati, Bryn Mawr College, “Brother in Arms: Italian Representations of Japan in the Fascist Era”
  4. Kathleen LaPenta, Fordham University, “Postmemory and Exile in Franca Magnani’s Una famiglia italiana

12F: Tanya R. Rutner Room
THE “CANNIBALS” OF LITERATURE: LINEAGES AND TRENDS IN THE ITALIAN NARRATIVE FICTION OF THE NINETIES II
Organizers: Carlo Baghetti, Aix-Marseille Université, Danila Cannamela, University of St. Thomas, and Achille Castaldo, Duke University
Chair: Danila Cannamela, University of St. Thomas

  1. Barbara Martelli, University of Auckland, New Zealand, “Embodied Critique into Dismembered Bodies: the 1990s Counter-narratives of the Neonoir and Giovani Cannibali Writers”
  2. Emanuela Pecchioli, University at Buffalo, “I cannibali e il cinema”
  3. David Ward, Wellesley College, “From the Raw to the Cooked: Aldo Nove and Ipermodernità (Hypermodernity)”

12G: Rosa M. Ailibouni Room
TEACHING ITALIAN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE THROUGH FOOD: THREE UNIQUE APPROACHES
Organizer: Simona Muratore, Emory University
Chair: Chiara De Santi, State University of New York at Fredonia

  1. Chiara De Santi, State University of New York at Fredonia, “Italian Food Culture in the Classroom: Cook It!”
  2. Simona Muratore, Emory University, “At the Italian Sustainable Table: A Multidisciplinary, Content-based Approach to Foreign Language Instruction and Cuisine”
  3. Christine Ristaino, Emory University, “Noodles on the Silk Road: A Cultural Exploration of China and Italy Through Noodles”

COCKTAIL HOUR AND BANQUET
7:30-10:30pm
($50.00, paid in advance)
The Blackwell Inn