Thursday, May 6
11:00-11:15 Opening Remarks
11:15-12:45 Panel 1
Moderator: Jonathan Mullins
- Alan O’Leary, Aarhus University, “Another Manifesto for Cyborgs”
- Andrea Righi, Miami University, “The Hidden Metaphysics of Digital Media”
- Arielle Saiber, Bowdoin College, “Italy on the Speculation Spectrum: Looking to Digital Media and Digitized Mediums to Locate Italian Futurity”
12:45-1:00 Break
1:00-2:15 Panel 2
Moderator: Enrico Zammarchi
- Cecilia Brioni, Trinity College Dublin, “Beyond Talking Makeup: Self-Representation of Youth, Ethnicity and Gender on YouTube Italia”
- Shelleen Greene, University of California, Los Angeles, TBD
Friday, May 7
11:00 AM – 12:10 PM Panel 3
Moderator: Demetrio Antolini
- Luca Barra, University of Bologna, “Studying (Italian) Media Production. Some Research Challenges and the Impact of International Circulation”
- Elena Past, Wayne State University, “Sunlight and Silver: Ferraniacolor, Elemental Cinema, and Alberto Lattuada’s La spiaggia“
12:10 – 12:20 Break
12:20 – 1:30 PM Panel 4
Moderator: Dana Renga
- Catherine O’Rawe, University of Bristol, “The Non-Professional Actor in Italian Cinema: Race, Work, Performance, and Neorealism”
- Nicola Camerlenghi, Dartmouth College, “The Intermediality of Virtual Reality and its Application to Visualization and Analysis: Case Studies from the Architecture of Rome”
1:30 – 1:40 PM Break
1:40 – 2:50 PM Panel 5
Moderator: Erik Scaltriti
- Elisa Farinacci, University of Bologna, “Medici Ambassadors: The Global Promotion of an Anglo-Italian TV Series”
- Gaia Giuliani, Center for Social Studies – University of Coimbra, “A Nation at Siege: Intersectional Iconographies of the ‘Invasion’ in Italy”
2:50 – 3:00 PM Concluding Remarks