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2021 CONFERENCE CALENDAR AT A GLANCE ~~ Conference dates have passed - Conference Content Pages are no longer available ~~ |
Watch the video of the Closing Remarks by President Ellen Nerenberg and of the Book Winners Announcement! |
Keynote address was by Professor Arielle Saiber (Bowdoin College), with the participation of Maru Ceballos (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Kat Mustatea (NYC), Kazumasa Chiba (Tokyo, Japan)
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11am - 11:45am - Opening Remarks and Conference Overview
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Session 1 10am - 11am - P1 - Memory of Captivity in 20th and 21st Century Italian Culture #1 11am - 12pm - P2 - Memory of Captivity in 20th and 21st Century Italian Culture #2 | Session 2 10am - 11am - P3 - Aristotle in Early Modern Italian literature 11am - 12pm - P4 - Scrittori filogini nella "Querelle des Femmes" in Italia dal Duecento al Seicento #1 | Session 3 11am - 12pm - Workshop: Mentoring |
12pm - 1:30pm - TOWN HALL #1
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Session 1 3pm - 4pm - P6 - Post-Humanism? Thinking beyond the human in Italian Culture #1 4pm - 5pm - P7 - Post-Humanism? Thinking beyond the human in Italian Culture #2 | Session 2 4pm - 5pm - P8 - Locked up: Italian representations of confinement and seclusion | Session 3 3pm - 4 pm - P9 - Scrittori filogini nella "Querelle des Femmes" in Italia dal Duecento al Seicento #2 4pm - 5:15pm - R4 - ROUNDTABLE: Are we there yet? The "Next generation" of Italian Graduate Studies |
5pm - 6pm - LOUNGE |
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Session 1 11am - 12:15pm - R5 - ROUNDTABLE: Cultural adaptations in Italian literature, cinema, and performing arts | Session 2 11am - 12pm - P12 - Eco disaster in contemporary Italian literature and cinema #2 | Session 3 11am - 12pm - P14 - What present for the Resistance? #2 |
12pm - 1:30pm - Workshop: Digital Methodologies
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Session 1 3pm - 4pm - P15 - Machines in Italian 20th century culture 4pm - 5pm - P16 - Embodied borders | Session 2 3pm - 4pm - P18 - How to write a woman's life. An Italian perspective #1 4pm - 5pm - P19 - How to write a woman's life. An Italian perspective #2 | Session 3 3pm - 4:15pm - R8 - ROUNDTABLE: What is critical race studies in Italian Studies?
4pm - 5:15pm - R9 - ROUNDTABLE: On Omelia Contadina (JR & Alice Rohrwacher, 2020) |
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Memorial Day | Session 1
11am - 12:15pm - R10 - ROUNDTABLE: Transformative food studies
12:15pm - 2 pm - Break  2pm - 3pm - P21 - L’autore e la contemporaneità: nuove forme di autorialità
3pm - 4:15pm - R11 - ROUNDTABLE: Representing gender and sexuality in transnational and transmedia productions/narrative |
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9am - 10:30: Workshop: Dissertations 2021 | --Workshop Session 2 11am - 12 pm - P24 - Transnational Italian Studies #2 |
12pm - 1:30pm - KEYNOTE:
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Session 1 3pm - 4pm - P26 - Contemporary Italian feminist voices #1 4pm - 5pm - P27 - Contemporary Italian feminist voices #2 | Session 2 3pm - 4pm - P29 - How to remember Fascism? Politics of memory in media, monuments and archives #1 4pm - 5 pm - P30 - How to remember Fascism? Politics of memory in media, monuments and archives #2 | Session 3 3pm - 4:15pm - R13 - ROUNDTABLE: Machiavelli in contemporary media 4pm - 5pm - P31 - Intercultural dialogue and scholarly exchange: Italian writers in the Mediterranean and beyond (1400-1700) |
5pm - 6pm - LOUNGE |
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Festa della Repubblica | Session 1
11am - 12pm - P33 - Leggere non basta: la letteratura Italiana in classe #1
12pm - 2pm - Break 2pm - 3pm - P34 - Leggere non basta: la letteratura Italiana in classe #23pm - 4pm - P35 - Women in the parliament and the "democratic citizenship" in Italy (1946-1963) |
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9am - 10:30am - Workshop: Professional Development and Post-graduate Careers Workshop
10am - 11:15am - R14 - ROUNDTABLE: Language and narrative in cultural exchanges between Italy and the USA 11am - 12pm - P36 - 18th century Italian women: achieving agency through literature, art and science | --Workshop
Session 2 10am - 11am - P37 - Elsa Morante, "A great passion for reality"? #1 11am - 12pm - P38 - Italy and South/East Asia: cultural encounters and literary relations |
12pm - 2pm - Break
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Session 1 2pm - 3pm - P39 - Fear and loathing: Gli anziani in Renaissance Italy 3pm - 4pm - P40 - Italian art and architecture on film: an interdisciplinary overview 4pm - 5pm - P41 - Intersectional analysis and Italian Studies | Session 2 2pm - 3pm - P42 - Elsa Morante, "A great passion for reality"? #2 3pm - 4pm - P43 - Donne ed editoria nell'Italia degli anni Settanta: modelli di studio e prospettive di ricerca
4pm - 5:15pm - R15 - ROUNDTABLE: Challenges and opportunities of remote teaching | Session 3 2pm - 3pm - P44 - Italian girlhoods on screen #1 3pm - 4:15pm - R16 - ROUNDTABLE: Fairy tales in Italy / Fiabe in Italia 4pm - 5pm - P45 - Italian girlhoods on screen #2 |
5pm - 6pm - LOUNGE |
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Session 1 10am - 11am - P46 - Adaptations of Italian literature 11am - 12pm - P47 - Consuming Italian history, memory and identity through mass media products #1 | Session 2 10am - 11:15am - R17 - ROUNDTABLE: Transnational television, Italian style 11am - 12pm - P48 - Trauma narratives in Italian and transnational women's writing #1 | Session 3 10am - 11:15am - R18 - ROUNDTABLE: Social media: how to increase visibility and interaction for Italian language programs 11am - 12pm - P49 - Viola Di Grado: four novels and counting |
12pm - 1:30pm - TOWN HALL #2
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Session 1 2pm - 3pm - P50 - Consuming Italian history, memory and identity through mass media products #2 3pm - 4pm - P51 - Narrating bodies, spaces, and margins in contemporary Italy #1 4pm - 5pm - P52 - Narrating bodies, spaces, and margins in contemporary Italy #2 | Session 2 2pm - 3pm - P53 - Trauma narratives in Italian and transnational women's writing #2 3pm - 4pm - P54 - Trauma narratives in Italian and transnational women's writing #3 4pm - 5pm - P55 - Federico Fellini at 101 and beyond | Session 3 2pm - 3:15pm - R19 - ROUNDTABLE: Bodies of water: man-made natural disasters 3pm - 4:15 pm - R20 - ROUNDTABLE: Cinema and Diaspora: Post World-War II Audiences Abroad 4pm - 5pm - P56 - Interdisciplinary perspectives in World literature |
5pm - 6pm - LOUNGE |
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Session 1 10am - 11am - P57 - Trauma narratives in Italian and transnational women's writing #4 11am - 12pm - P58 - Trauma narratives in Italian and transnational women's writing #5 | Session 2 10am - 11:15am - R21- ROUNDTABLE: Retuning Fellini's cinema 11am - 12pm - P59 - Narrating bodies, spaces, and margins in contemporary Italy #3 | 10am - 11:15am - R22 - ROUNDTABLE: Research highlights in Film and Media studies 11am - 12pm - Workshop: Mentoring |
12pm - 1:30pm - KEYNOTE:
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Session 1 3pm - 4pm - P61 - Fairy Tales in Italy 4pm - 5pm - P62 - Before and after 1968: same-sex sexualities in 1950s and 1970s Italian press | Session 2 3pm - 4pm - P64 - Scrittori filogini nella "Querelle des Femmes" in Italia dal Duecento al Seicento #3 4pm - 5pm - P65 - Scrittori filogini nella "Querelle des Femmes" in Italia dal Duecento al Seicento #4 | Session 3 4pm - 5pm - P66 - Forging the myth: Dante in the long nineteenth century #2
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5pm - 6pm - LOUNGE |
5pm - 6:15pm - R24 - ROUNDTABLE: Co-creating multi-generation Italian Australian identities in COVID-19 times
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Session 1 11am - 12pm - P69 - Neorealism as multimedia #2
1pm - 2 pm - Break |
2pm - 3pm - Closing Reception / Book Winners Announcement |