Canadian Association for Italian Studies News from our Members

CFP -- The Sixteenth Century Society, Chicago, IL, October 29-31, 2026

DANIELA D'EUGENIO — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 06:26:53 GMT

Call for Papers -- The Sixteenth Century Society: A Society for Early Modern Studies

Chicago, IL, October 29-31, 2026

The Sixteenth Century Society (SCS) is pleased to invite proposals for individual presentations, panels, roundtables, and workshops for its annual conference which will take place at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago on October 29-31, 2026. Please note that this conference will begin on Thursday morning and end on Saturday evening. The deadline for submissions is April 12, 2026.

The Sixteenth Century Society promotes a broad range of scholarships in the early modern era (c. 1450-c. 1750). We encourage submissions from international scholars and warmly welcome advanced graduate students, independent and early-career scholars, and postdoctoral researchers.

For more information about the SCSC, please see the conference website: https://sixteenthcentury.org/conference/2026-chicago/.

Please consider submitting an abstract for the following panels in the Italian Studies Discipline.

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PANEL -- Early Modern Italian Women

This panel invites papers that consider texts by or about women in the early modern period.

Please send a 250-word abstract and a 100-word bio to Jennifer Haraguchi at jennifer_haraguchi@byu.edu by April 12 and also submit abstract and biounder “Individual Paper Proposals” at the following link: https://scsc.confex.com/scsc/2026/cfp.cgi(select Italian Studies under Discipline on the second page, not Sponsor Organization on the first). Please detail any audio/visual requirements that you might need.

For more information about the SCSC, please see the conference website: https://sixteenthcentury.org/conference/2026-chicago/.

PANEL -- Telling Tales in Sixteenth-Century Italy

Tales circulated in multiple forms in early modern Italy: realistic novelle and fantastic fairy tales in collections modeled on the Decameron and Apuleius’s The Golden Ass; cheaply printed cantari, or chapbooks, in verse; and as stories and anecdotes embedded in dialogues such as Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier and Moderata Fonte’s The Worth of Women. This panel welcomes papers that examine tales and what they might tell us about the social and historical contexts in which they were produced and the literary traditions to which they belonged.

Please send a 250-word abstract and a 100-word bio to Suzanne Magnanini at Suzanne.Magnanini@colorado.edu by April 12 and also submit abstract and bio under “Individual Paper Proposals” at the following link: https://scsc.confex.com/scsc/2026/cfp.cgi(select Italian Studies under Discipline on the second page, not Sponsor Organization on the first). Please detail any audio/visual requirements that you might need.

For more information about the SCSC, please see the conference website: https://sixteenthcentury.org/conference/2026-chicago/.

PANEL -- Intermedial Artifacts in Sixteenth-Century Italy

This session explores hybrid genres at the intersection of different media in sixteenth-century Italy. Maps, popular prints, emblems, schoolbooks, almanacs, tarot cards, devotional images, anatomical representations, architectural prints, festival books, texts set to music, and performed narratives served as effective vehicles for the production of knowledge, moral and religious instruction, the promotion of ideologies, and entertainment. Closely tied to the communities that produced them, these genres reflected their historical context while evolving in form over time, circulating across geographical boundaries, and generating a rich network of examples and intertextual references. Simultaneously, they bridged the gap between oral culture, visual culture, and the expanding world of print.

Please send a 250-word abstract and a 100-word bio to Daniela D’Eugenio at deugeni@uark.edu by April 12 and also submit abstract and bio under “Individual Paper Proposals” at the following link: https://scsc.confex.com/scsc/2026/cfp.cgi(select Italian Studies under Discipline on the second page, not Sponsor Organization on the first). Please detail any audio/visual requirements that you might need.

For more information about the SCSC, please see the conference website: https://sixteenthcentury.org/conference/2026-chicago/.

PANEL -- In Search of Medusa

Symbolizing in turn the petrifying effects of beauty, the defeat of political enemies, and the darkest fears of men, the ancient figure of Medusa saw a resurgence in popularity during the Renaissance. Conjuring terror, power, and protection, she became a catalyst for the ambivalent desires and anxieties of artists and patrons navigating a rapidly transforming world. Depicted across a variety of old and new media, Medusa emerged from the intimacy of medieval manuscripts to appear in monumental public sculpture and circulate widely through text and image, prints and ornament.

This interdisciplinary panel seeks to explore how, in the Renaissance, a renewed, antiquarian interest in Ovid’s Metamorphoses made Medusa’s tale increasingly generative in both artistic and literary production. The panel also aims to highlight moments in which artists and poets veered from this canonical narrative, re-imagining Medusa’s story to serve different moral, political, aesthetic, and apotropaic goals. From the idiosyncratic interpretations of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio to the celebrated allegories of Cellini, Caravaggio, and Rubens, Medusa assumed many shapes, yet continued to thrive as a symbol of difference—a potent lens through which to examine questions of gender, sexuality, and race.

Please send a 250-word abstract and a 100-word bio to Toni Veneri (toniveneri@hotmail.com), Christopher Richards (crichard@colby.edu), and David Wright (djwrig85@gmail.com) by April 12 and also submit abstract and bio under “Individual Paper Proposals” at the following link: https://scsc.confex.com/scsc/2026/cfp.cgi(select Italian Studies under Discipline on the second page, not Sponsor Organization on the first). Please detail any audio/visual requirements that you might need.

For more information about the SCSC, please see the conference website: https://sixteenthcentury.org/conference/2026-chicago/.

ROUNDTABLE -- Teaching the 1500s: Integrating Sixteenth Century Literature/Culture and Pedagogy

This roundtable explores innovative, collaborative, and interdisciplinary strategies for teaching sixteenth-century Italian literature and culture by connecting literary texts with broader historical, political, and cultural contexts. Focusing on classroom practices, proposals should examine ways to integrate literature with disciplines such as history, art history, religious studies, and political thought in order to help students understand the intellectual complexity of the period. Collaborative projects that incorporate digital tools and projects based on archival sources are also welcome.

For more information about the SCSC, please see the conference website: https://sixteenthcentury.org/conference/2026-chicago/.

Carteggio inedito di Mario Pratesi

Anne Urbancic — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:21:35 GMT

Sperando di fare cosa gradita, ho il piacere di informarvi che al sito del carteggio digitalizzato di MARIO PRATESI (https://pratesi.vicu.utoronto.ca/ricerca?query=a+or+(not+a)&sort=DC.date) abbiamo aggiunto un ulteriore fondo di lettere e contratti tra Pratesi e le case editrici Barbèra, Baldini & Castoldi, Sandron, Treves, e Vitagliano. Ringrazio i colleghi Prof. Carmela Colella (Brock University), Doug Fox e Abe Lam (E.J. Pratt Library, Victoria University in the University of Toronto) per la loro inestimabile collaborazione.

I am pleased to announce that newly transcribed correspondence has been added to the MARIO PRATESI Unpublished Correspondence site (https://pratesi.vicu.utoronto.ca/ricerca?query=a+or+(not+a)&sort=DC.date). These are letters and contracts involving the Italian publishers Barbèra, Baldini & Castoldi, Sandron, Treves, and Vitagliano. My sincere thanks to my colleagues Prof. Carmela Colella (Brock University), Doug Fox and Abe Lam (E.J. Pratt Library, Victoria University in the University of Toronto) for their greatly appreciated collaboration.

Anne Urbancic

Assoc. Professor, University of Toronto (emerita)

Incontri: call for articles and special issue

Guylian Nemegeer — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:45:51 GMT

Dear colleagues,

For its upcoming issues, Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani is currently accepting essay submissions and proposals for special issues.

Incontri is a peer-reviewed international journal dedicated to the study of Italian culture from its origins to the present day. Since its founding in 1985, the journal has published original research across a wide range of disciplines, including history, literature, linguistics, philosophy, art history, music, cinema and theatre. We actively encourage interdisciplinary contributions that traverse traditional boundaries within the Humanities and welcome research that situates Italian culture within transnational and comparative contexts.

Published as an Open Access journal, Incontri is the official publication of the Werkgroep Italië Studies (WIS), a scholarly network based in the Dutch and Flemish academic communities. The journal ensures a transparent and rigorous editorial process through a double-blind peer review system. Upon submission, each manuscript undergoes an initial screening by the editorial board to assess its suitability for review. Submissions deemed suitable for peer review are anonymised and evaluated independently by two expert reviewers.

For submission guidelines and additional information, please visit our website (https://rivista-incontri.nl/about/submissions) or contact our editorial office at incontri.segreteria@gmail.com.

Best wishes,

Guylian Nemegeer

on behalf of the editorial board of Incontri

volume di racconti "La lettrice"

Francesca Favaro — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 09:38:51 GMT

Cari colleghi,

sono lieta di condividere con voi la recente uscita di una mia prova narrativa, ossia il volume La lettrice, che comprende sette racconti in italiano accompagnati dalla traduzione in inglese, pagina per pagina, di Licia Canton.

Con un saluto affettuoso a tutti,

Francesca Favaro

Professional Development in Rome in July 2025

Catherine Ramsey-Portolano — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 11:55:43 GMT

Please note the March 31^st deadline for applications for summer 2025

The American University of Rome

ITL 502 Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives in Italian Language Teaching

7-11 July 2025

Instructor: Flavia Laviosa (Wellesley College)

This 1-week seminar offers professional development for teachers of Italian. Composed of 30 academic hours, the seminar helps participants improve their teaching strategies through the study of innovative approaches to language and culture instruction and creative ways to tackle students’ learning problems. The seminar covers theory and practice in the following areas of psychology and methodology in language teaching: Motivating students; Creativity in the language classroom; Social and emotional learning; Intercultural competence; How to avoid stress and fatigue in teaching.

Participants can select to complete the seminar requirements for 2 graduate credits (awarded by The American University of Rome).

All seminar activities are conducted in Italian.

For more information on costs, syllabus, housing options and more visit https://aur.edu/summer-seminar-multi-disciplinary-perspectives-italian-language-teaching-7-11-july-2025

Or contact seminar coordinator Prof. Catherine Ramsey-Portolano at c.ramsey@aur.edu

Call For Papers - Roma La Sapienza - Convegno "Non facciamo nomi"

Mon, 15 Jul 2024 14:53:58 GMT

Dear colleagues,

Below I report the call for papers for a conference to be held at La Sapienza University of Rome between 30 and 31 January 2025, organized by me and my colleagues from the PhD course in Italian Studies.

For any information do not hesitate to contact me at giuseppe.marrone@uniroma1.it

Il nome che l’autore si assegna come artefice di un’opera è un atto di creazione posto a sigillo del suo universo narrativo. L’attribuzione della paternità autoriale costituisce uno snodo critico fondamentale, come emerge dall’analisi condotta da Genette sull'importanza del paratesto nell'interpretazione delle opere letterarie, in cui la scelta di un nome viene considerata attività poetica, «qualcosa di simile a un’opera. Se sapete cambiare di nome, sapete scrivere». Inoltre, secondo Jérôme Meizoz «chi accede allo statuto di autore propone un’immagine pubblica di sé che si svincola dalle coordinate anagrafiche. Lo dimostra, al limite, la pratica dello pseudonimo […]. Lo pseudonimo fa dell’autore un enunciatore pressoché fittizio, un vero e proprio personaggio della scena letteraria». Analogamente, anche l’anonimato non si presenta come una scelta dalla valenza neutrale. Il tema non riguarda solo la storia e la critica della letteratura: porsi di fronte ad esso ha avuto, ha e avrà delle ricadute sulle concrete pratiche editoriali e filologiche.

Nella disamina del concetto di autore come funzione strutturale e strutturante, è impossibile prescindere dai contributi di Gianfranco Contini, I nomi degli anonimi, e di Roland Barthes, che nel fondamentale La morte dell'autore definisce la scrittura come «distruzione di ogni voce, di ogni origine», e il testo come un tessuto di citazioni da una langue che si dota di un senso coerente solo grazie all’intervento di un lettore. E allora se «l’unità di un testo non sta nella sua origine ma nella sua destinazione», tutti quei casi in cui ci troviamo di fronte a testi adespoti, di autore incerto o attribuito (si pensi alla Compiuta Donzella o alle rime assegnate ad auctoritates già affermate, come nel caso di alcune disperse pseudo-petrarchesche e delle rime pubblicate sotto il nome di Burchiello) possono essere visti, nell’ottica di uno studio sulla ricezione, come espressione dei sistemi culturali all’interno dei quali la letteratura viene prodotta e fruita. Anche l’assegnazione di un nome da parte del pubblico, dunque, ha delle conseguenze di non poco peso sulle prospettive interpretative di un’opera letteraria.

La tematica è stata spesso trascurata e relegata a mero dato biografico nella presentazione di autrici e autori. L’utilizzo di identità diverse da quella anagrafica ha di rado costituito un oggetto di studio indipendente, pur essendo in realtà strettamente connesso alla genesi di un’opera e alla sua successiva trasmissione. Non dimenticando la lezione di Adrien Baillet, che già nel 1690 aveva tentato di istituire una tassonomia dell’anonimato e della pseudonimia senza giungere a risultati soddisfacenti, si propongono alcuni tra i possibili campi d’indagine; l’anonimato e la pseudonimia, infatti, possono legarsi alla necessità di rivendicare un’appartenenza culturale, storica, geografica.

La questione interessa un arco cronologico amplissimo e declinazioni piuttosto differenti fra loro, se si pensa alla valenza posseduta dalle scelte compiute da autori come Teofilo Folengo (Limerno Pitocco e Merlin Coccaio) o Giuseppe Parini (Ripano Eupilino) in rapporto ad alcune tipologie di scritture adottate (la scrittura maccheronica nel caso del primo, quella accademica per quanto concerne il secondo). Nello pseudonimo adottato da Parini per la pubblicazione dei suoi primi versi è possibile ravvisare pure la messa in rilievo di un rapporto profondo con il proprio luogo d’origine, come già accaduto nei casi di Agnolo Ambrogini (Poliziano) o di Angelo Beolco (Ruzante), che scelsero di legare ad esso la loro intera attività letteraria. Non diversamente, e con risvolti dalle sfumature ideologiche piuttosto significative, faranno due autori fondamentali di inizio Novecento come Italo Svevo (Ettore Schmitz) ed Umberto Saba (Umberto Poli), desiderosi di porre in evidenza la propria appartenenza a dimensioni culturali specificamente connotate.

Avvicinandoci a tempi più recenti, esemplare è il caso di Antonio Porta, pseudonimo scelto da Leo Paolazzi, poeta novissimo e figlio del proprietario della casa editrice Rusconi e Paolazzi, in rottura con la famiglia originaria e in connessione con l’espressionismo lombardo, funzionalizzato, in filigrana, dallo spettro di Carlo Porta. Altro esempio emblematico di pseudonimo utile a innescare collegamenti con la tradizione è quello di Tommaso Ottonieri, nom de plume suggerito da Edoardo Sanguineti a Tommaso Pomilio al tempo dell’esordio, Dalle memorie di un piccolo ipertrofico (Feltrinelli, 1980), di cui Sanguineti fu prefatore, in una (doppia) abluzione battesimale che chiama in causa il Filippo Ottonieri delle Operette morali, e –sia anche metonimicamente – l’intera funzione Leopardi che da lì in poi animerà la sua produzione in prosa e in versi. A non dire di Aldo Nove, nome d’arte di Antonio Centanin tratto da un telegramma diffuso dal CLNAI nell’aprile 1945, «ALDO DICE 26 X 1», per diffondere cripticamente la notizia del giorno (il ventisei) e dell’ora (l’una di notte) in cui sarebbe iniziata l’insurrezione dei partigiani torinesi: un caso di pseudonimo con finalità ideologica, dacché suggerisce la riattivazione della partigianeria nel contesto storico-sociale in cui l’autore opera, vale a dire quello pervaso dal nuovo fascismo globalizzato del mondo tardo-capitalistico, contro cui la scrittura di Nove, dalle prime mosse cannibali a oggi, ha sempre rivolto una critica radicale, sia sul piano della forma sia sul piano della significazione.

Gli pseudonimi possono inoltre esprimere appartenenza a sistemi culturali ben identificati, come nel caso delle Accademie, in cui la scelta del nome è determinata dalla riconoscibilità dell’individuo nel suddetto contesto letterario, e, oltre a configurarsi come una dichiarazione di poetica, riporta il singolo a una dimensione collettiva. Caso estremo è quello dell’Accademia degli Intronati di Siena, in cui si era sviluppata una prassi compositiva che metteva in secondo piano l’autorialità individuale, prediligendo composizioni collettive o adespote: è dunque l’Accademia, come rileva Laura Riccò, «unica vera titolare del diritto d’inventio», in nome della quale l’individualità autoriale è spesso sacrificata. Altro caso celebre è quello dell’Accademia dell’Arcadia, i cui membri nella scelta di nomi di derivazione bucolica concretizzano la loro intenzione programmatica di fingersi pastori: calarsi in questa finzione letteraria è il mezzo prescelto dagli Arcadi per tornare alle pure e belle forme della poesia italiana.

In alcuni casi gli pseudonimi rispondono a esigenze di carattere (auto)censorio per motivi religiosi, politici e di identità di genere. Si pensi ad esempio ad Elsa Morante che, nell’Italia fascista degli anni Trenta, pubblica i suoi racconti con lo pseudonimo di Antonio Carrera; o a Giorgio Bassani che pubblica Una città di pianura con lo pseudonimo Giacomo Marchi, unendo il nome dello zio materno Giacomo Minerbi, al cognome della nonna materna, cattolica, Emma Marchi, per sfuggire alle persecuzioni razziali. Allo stesso modo si muoverà Natalia Ginzburg, per il suo La strada che va in città pubblicato da Einaudi con lo pseudonimo di Alessandra Tornimparte.

Gli pseudonimi possono infine derivare da esigenze dell’industria letteraria o del contesto culturale in cui lo scrittore opera: un esempio può essere rappresentato da autori che si confrontano con generi ritenuti minori o con prove apparentemente eversive rispetto alla produzione precedente; un caso particolare può essere quello di Primo Levi a cui, dopo i primi due libri incentrati sulla testimonianza dell’esperienza del campo di concentramento, la Casa editrice Einaudi consiglierà di utilizzare lo pseudonimo Damiano Malabaila per il suo primo volume di racconti fantascientifici, Storie naturali. Talvolta a imporre la scelta di uno pseudonimo sono state le ragioni del mercato, il proposito di aumentare l’appetibilità del prodotto libro, così ad esempio per molti autori di gialli e di fantascienza, spinti a pubblicare con nomi anglosassoni per incentivare all’acquisto un pubblico abituato a considerare questi generi pressoché esclusivamente d’importazione, si pensi alla celebre collana mondadoriana «Urania» sotto la direzione del fondatore Giorgio Monicelli, aperta alla produzione fantascientifica italiana, sebbene raccomandando l’uso appunto di pseudonimi: così per Julian Berry (Ernesto Gastaldi), L.R. Johannis (Luigi Rapuzzi), Audie Barr (Adriano Baracco).

Un ulteriore caso che invita a riflettere è quello di Elena Ferrante, la cui identità celata e il dibattito sorto con i ricorrenti tentativi di giungere a una definitiva identificazione hanno compartecipato ad alimentare il suo successo commerciale.

Alla luce di questi spunti ci si propone di raccogliere contributi che possano alimentare il dibattito critico sul tema. In particolare, saranno graditi interventi che riguardino i seguenti ambiti, senza precludere ulteriori prospettive di indagine:

La scelta dell’anonimato
Opere adespote o di autorialità incerta
Ragioni e conseguenze ecdotiche della pseudonimia
Evoluzione del concetto d’autore da una prospettiva storica a una strutturalista

La call for papers è rivolta a dottorande e dottorandi, giovani ricercatrici e ricercatori. Le proposte di intervento, in lingua italiana, di max 2000 battute, dovranno includere una essenziale bibliografia critica e un breve profilo bio bibliografico (da non conteggiare nel computo delle battute). Le proposte andranno inviate entro il 1 novembre 2024 all’indirizzo e-mail convegnopseudonimi.sapienza@gmail.com, indicando nell’oggetto “Proposta comunicazione Convegno dottorale NON FACCIAMO NOMI”. Nel testo dell’e-mail sono da includere le seguenti informazioni: titolo del contributo, nome e affiliazione, indirizzo e-mail per le comunicazioni.

A festschrift for Konrad Eisenbichler

Konrad Eisenbichler — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 17:03:34 GMT

On the occasion of his 75th birthday, Professor Emeritus Konrad Eisenbichler was presented with a festschrift in his honour titled Il teatro tra Quattrocento e Seicento. Studi in onore di Konrad Eisenbichler. (Naples, Italy: Federico II University Press in Naples, 2024). The volume, edited by Professor Pasquale Sabbatino (Università Federico II di Napoli) consists of a preface by the editor, an introductory article on Eisenbichler’s scholarship on early modern theatre and spectacle, a bibliography of his publications in this area, and twelve articles on theatre in Italy between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries from colleagues in Australia, Canada, England, France, Italy, and the USA (Nerida Newbigin, Francesca Bortoletti, Anna Maria Testaverde, Gianni Cicali, Matteo Leta, Michel Plaisance, Johnny L. Bertolio, Maria Galli Stampino, Rosalind Kerr, Pasquale Sabbatino, Francesco Divenuto, Ambra Moroncini). The volume is available in open-access from the publisher at https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-209-0.

Project Call-Out: Stories of Italian Birthday Cake

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 12:30:00 GMT

Italian birthday cake, aka rum cake (though it can be made with many different types of liqueur), is iconic, loved, hated, found in every Italian bakery, and at every nonno’s birthday. I am researching the history of this cake and how it became so significant in the Italian diaspora communities of North America.

Part of this project will include memories and stories from the community.

If you’re interested in sharing yours, click the link below to participate by answering a few questions (it will only take a few minutes). There is also the possibility to agree to a follow-up oral history interview (optional) if this cake is particularly significant to you. Please feel free to share the participation link below with family and friends.

https://forms.gle/wRQj2PpHXnGgfgpCA

About the researcher: Cassandra Marsillo is a public historian and teacher based in Montreal, telling and listening to stories about immigration, identity, collective memory, food, and folklore, particularly in relation to the Italian-Canadian experience and traditions from her family's region, Molise.

Book Launch: The Caravaggio Syndrome – A Novel ( Rutgers, UP: 2024)

Alessandro Giardino — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 14:59:51 GMT

American & Canadian Book Launch

Alessandro Giardino

The Caravaggio Syndrome – A Novel ( Rutgers, UP: 2024)

Pre-launch

April 4 @ 5:30 PM – St. Lawrence University, Art Gallery

LINK: Brush Art Gallery - SLU

With Lewis Professor Marcella Salvi

American Book Launch

April 22 @6:30 PM – New York City, Casa Italiana, NYU

LINK: Casa Italiana - NYU

Canadian Book Launch

May 10@ 5:30 PM – Montreal, N’était-ce pas l’été (Bookstore), in collaboration with Italian Cultural Institute

LINK : ICI Montreal

All events are free and open to the public !

Now available in English. A contemporary Italian classic !

Leyla is a headstrong Brooklyn-born art historian at a prestigious upstate New York college. When she meets feckless young computer technician Pablo at a party, she quickly becomes pregnant with his child. There’s only one problem: she can’t stand him. And one more problem: her student Michael wants Pablo for himself.

Amid this love triangle, the objects of Leyla and Michael’s study take on a life of their own. Trying to learn more about Caravaggio’s masterpiece The Seven Works of Mercy, they pore over the journal and prison writings of maverick 17th-century utopian philosopher Tommaso Campanella, which, as if by enchantment, transport them back four centuries to Naples. And while the past and present miraculously converge, Leyla, Michael, and Tommaso embark on a voyage of self-discovery in search of a new life.

In this fusion of historical, queer, and speculative fiction, Alessandro Giardino combines the intellectual playfulness of Umberto Eco with the psychological finesse of Michael Cunningham

The Caravaggio Syndrome; comments from readers:

" The Caravaggio Syndrome is the dramatic convergence of five characters in two different centuries, beautifully weaved together. It is a book about love, resistance, escape, and solitude.”
~Dalal Mawad, CNN Senior Producer, award-winning journalist, and author of All She Lost

"A luminous and very powerful story."

~Elena Favilli, founder & editor-in-chief of Rebel Girls and coauthor of the New York Times bestselling Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

"Alessandro Giardino has written a genre-expanding novel sure to please artists, philosophers, Italophiles, and anyone who simply loves a good story."

~Christopher Castellani, Los Angeles Times and New York Times bestselling author of Leading Men: A Novel

"In this surprising debut novel, Alessandro Giardino's writing moves on the page like the wing of a Baroque angel. It doubles and unfolds revealing the Caravaggesque play of light and shadow that unites the lives of its protagonists."

~Gian Maria Annovi, author of Pier Paolo Pasolini: Performing Authorship

"This novel enchants, seduces, and transports Naples into the echo of different eras, all coming together through the voice of the author as in a play of mirrors where Caravaggio’s appearance is nothing more than another hiding strategy."

~Mariella Pandolfi, professor emerita of anthropology at Université de Montréal, Canada

For further information, visit: The Caravaggio Syndrome

[Online panel] Italy and Italianists of Asian Backgrounds in North America; March 3rd

Mohammad Jamali — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 16:27:49 GMT

Dear colleagues,

You’re cordially invited to attend the following online event:

Italy and Italianists of Asian Backgrounds in North America

We hope to open a public conversation for the growing number of Italianists of Asian backgrounds working in North America's Italian programs. The online session intends to provide a space for some of them to discuss their perspectives and experiences about transnational Italian Studies through engaging Asia or ideas inspired by Asia. Participants will tell personal stories, explain research projects, and discuss pedagogy. In particular, we ask the panelists and the audience to consider the following questions:

What cultural paradigms, critical approaches, and theoretical perspectives do you bring to Italian Studies from Asia, Asian Studies, or scholars of Asian origins?

How are such scholarly practices enriching Italian Studies?

How do you view your scholarship in relation to other transnational or transcultural practices within Italian Studies?

How do you think your research and pedagogy benefit the student bodies at your institutions?

Please join us online on March 3^rd, 2023 at 11:15 PST/14:15 EST/20:15 CET for a 1.5 hr panel.

Zoom link:

https://us05web.zoom.us/j/81619443223?pwd=OWJYMGhMMUhNMU5yYldEY3RoN3hDZz09

Meeting ID: 816 1944 3223
Passcode: t5d5ny

Organizers:

Mohammad Jamali, University of Toronto

Gaoheng Zhang, University of British Columbia (Moderator)

Below please find a list of panelists and their bios:

Mohammad Jamali

Mohammad Jamali is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Italian Studies of the University of Toronto. Since 2016, he has been working on Mario Pratesi’s archives, kept at the E.J. Pratt Library of Victoria University in Toronto. Since 2019, he has also been researching gender and linguistic equity in Italian, a research that he continues to carry forward with his colleague, Sara Galli, parallel to his main thesis on Pratesi.

Hiromi Kaneda

Hiromi Kaneda is a Visiting Instructor at Pepperdine University and a Ph.D. candidate at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Her research interests include gender studies, masculinity, Italian and Japanese cinema, and cultural studies. She received her B.A. in English and American Literature major in Linguistics at Soka University of Japan. After working a few years as a translator, an interpreter, and an instructor at the Italian Cultural Institute in Tokyo, she went back to study to earn an M.A. in Italian Literature at the University of Virginia. She wrote an M.A. thesis on the relations between myths, astronomical figures, and animals in Il Gattopardo. In her doctoral dissertation, titled “Representing the Economic Boom and its Anxieties: Italy and Japan,” she investigates the momentous post-World War Two shifts in Italian and Japanese societies during the so-called “Economic Miracle” (1958-1965), which generated changes in gender roles, perceptions, identifications, practices, and interaction-relational issues. Using different approaches like cultural studies, gender studies, and theories of masculinity and space, she aims to analyze the changes in gender roles and their implications in Italian and Japanese novels and films.

Hiju Kim

Hiju Kim is a doctoral candidate in the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has conducted research on a range of art, film and media topics, including the works of Federico Fellini, Henrike Naumann and the Watts Towers. She has worked for curatorial and education departments at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Wende Museum, and has interned in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. She is also a writer, editor and translator for online Korean pop culture media outlets.

Akash Kumar

Akash Kumar is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on medieval Italian literature through the lens of Mediterranean and global culture, from the history of science to the origins of popular phenomena such as the game of chess. His recent work on a global Dante has appeared in the Blackwell Companion to World Literature (2020), the volume Dante Beyond Borders (Legenda, 2021), and a special issue of MLN dedicated to Charles S. Singleton (2022). Akash also serves as Editor of Dante Notes, the digital publication of the Dante Society of America.

Qian Liu

Qian Liu is a Ph.D. Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. He specializes in modern Italian literature and culture, critical theory, urban studies, ecocriticism, and African diaspora studies. His dissertation project, tentatively titled “Urban Exergue: On Blackness, Spectrality and the Poetics of Landscape in Contemporary Italy,” theorizes the aesthetic innovation of Afro-Italian diasporic literature and visual productions to open up radically new possibilities for reimagining Italy's postcoloniality and Black existence.

Vetri Nathan

Dr. Vetri Nathan is Mellon Associate Professor of Global Racial Justice and Associate Professor of Italian at Rutgers University. His research and teaching interests include Global Migrations and Postcolonial Theory, Environmental and Public Humanities, Food Studies, Italian Cinema and Media Studies. His book, Marvelous Bodies: Italy’s New Migrant Cinema (Purdue UP, 2017) explores contemporary Italian films released between 1990 and 2010 that represent the nation’s cultural challenges caused by immigration from the Global South. Born in Mumbai, India, he holds his Ph.D. in Italian from Stanford University (2009) and is currently working on a new book and several articles and projects and that address diverse yet pressing global questions related to nationhood, biopolitics, natural ecosystems, climate change and new mediatic realities.

Gaoheng Zhang

Gaoheng Zhang is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia. His first book, Migration and the Media: Debating Chinese Migration to Italy, 1992-2012 (University of Toronto Press, 2019), is the first detailed media and cultural study of the Chinese migration from both Italian and Chinese migrant perspectives. A second book is tentatively titled “Chinese Recipes, Italian Designs, American Resonances: Food and Fashion Cultures Through Migration and Tourism, 1980s-2010s.” It examines cultural representations and dynamics pertaining to food and fashion mobilities between China and Italy that migration and tourism help deepen. He is a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence during 2022-2023, where he studies media debates between Western Europe and China regarding the latter’s “Belt and Road Initiative” in certain East African countries.

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Mohammad J. Jamali (he; lui)

Ph.D. Candidate

Dept. of Italian Studies
University of Toronto

timendi causa est nescire

I wish to acknowledge the land on which the University of Toronto operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca and, most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. Today, it is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.

AAIS Call For Papers Global Dante

Fri, 21 Jan 2022 14:10:43 GMT

GLOBAL DANTE (1800 TO PRESENT): TRANSLATIONS, TRANSFORMATIONS, ADAPTATIONS

In modern times, Dante’s work has been the object of an impressive number of appropriations, reinterpretations, and transformations of various kinds. Theatrical and film adaptations are but two well-known examples, yet the poet’s influence resonates widely across many other media and artistic genres, from music to graphic novels to videogames. Concomitantly, a number of translations have been published which made his works available for the first time to new linguistic communities, thereby tracing what can be considered as a sort of “global Dante” phenomenon.

At the 2022 AAIS-AATI annual conference, the international journal Bibliotheca Dantesca is sponsoring a panel (or series of panels) exploring global appropriations and adaptions of Dante’s works as they relate to language, literature, performative arts, and new media.

We plan to have a session in both sections of the 2022 conference, the virtual and the in-person in Bologna. The panel(s) is sponsored by Bibliotheca Dantesca: Journal of Dante Studies

Please send a 150-200 word abstract and a short CV to bibliothecadantesca@sas.upenn.edu by January 31st, 2022. Make sure to include whether you are applying for the online or the in-person format.

Review of Pigeon Soup & Other Stories

Sat, 18 Dec 2021 13:24:54 GMT

For Immediate Release, November 28, 2021

Pigeon Soup & Other Stories by Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli

Reviewed by angelo sgabellone

Since the first acts of creation the roots of civilization have been grounded in the human narrative as “story telling” and its ability to evidence experience, implicit and explicit, to explain life’s emotive conditions. Such empathy, pushed our belief systems to higher levels of consciousness. These insights of our earlier Palaeolithic uncertainties have influenced our imagination to give primal foundation as religion, language and art which humanize cultural development. Such specialization helped evolve behavioural transitions then moulded (iconic) symbols and oral story telling into aesthetic modes. This notion of collective awakening became the essence of who we are and as such is at the heart of the intrinsic art of Sudbury author Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli.

In Rosanna’s latest book, Pigeon Soup & Other Stories, we discover the singular sensitivity of such social norms and universal truths. Her creative dexterity between diametrical emotion and semi-biographical narrative, guides her vision and wills subjects through a series of imaginative testaments that root her rustic Italo/Canadian essence. The author builds these perceptive fields with layers of allegorical intrigue and diametrical allusions of broken souls yearning for hopeful resolutions.

According to Roland Barthes, short stories are a form of “semiological postulation.” Literary forms of artistic relationships between a signifier and signified. This interrelationship belongs to the interplay of the “communication process.” In other words, the artist is at liberty to formalize “qualities” of life and share their sense of “equivalence of existence.” Therefore the artist’s insight looks to a higher degree of awareness. This state elevates the existential proficiency of a reader’s cognitive ability to formalize a “story” and its meaning. In Rosanna’s case, the creative experience becomes an act of “inter-relational discovery” that endears subjective notions to live beyond aesthetic meaning.

Moreover, Bologna linguist Umberto Eco suggests in Serendipity, Language and Lunacy, when different cultures meet, the result becomes a “reciprocal diversity” with three possibilities. The first is Conquest or an inability to accept different cultures as “barbarian effect.” Second, Cultural Pillage, when members of one culture recognize, but subjugate into new cultures. Much like the Greeks absorbed Egyptian culture. Lastly, Exchange, similar to the influence Jesuits had on Marco Polo’s adventures when they brought eco/cultural growth into Asian diametrics, fusing evocative characterization with diverse story lines.

History tells us, the migratory aesthetics of writers such as: T.S. Elliot, Joseph Conrad and Thomas Wolfe were imbedded within multi-layers of ethereal imaginative schisms that polarized the variance of light/shade as “fear and loathing.” This permeated primordial neolithic imagination into Jungian notions of chiaroscuro instincts as temporal sfumato springboards used as primal “logos” of symbolic influence.

These ethereal notions are at the heart of Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli’s enchanted tales of northern Ontario influence. At the age of three she became endeared to search for creative meaning, in diverse cultures. Then she discovered the love of writing as a principal “home base” which shaped her craft into a magical tapestry of wonder and inter-relational identity. Her journey from the village of Camini in Italy to Canada moulded her curiosity similar to the great 19^th century ships that travelled to America, searching for the virtue of hopeful transitions as pivotal axis.

Battigelli’s latest creation: Pigeon Soup & Other Stories offers seemingly effusive subjugation in eight enchanting offerings. Her voice becomes a blended echo, mixed with the diverse uncertainty and grace of personal human struggles. The stories are measured accounts of rustic neo-Calabrian dissonance elevating the intense spiritual forces of subconscious open fields that colour their tempered harshness and burst into sparks like a rustic cavalleria of song and hopeful substance.

This transmutation of subjective text and story telling, in eight erudite adventures, spices and folds, colourful effect as atmospheric ethical affliction that tears the tipsy superstitions of Santo, a Calabrian taxi driver in Pigeon Soup. Rosanna then introduces us to the laboured shame of youthful ridicule in Alligator Shoes. Here harsh conditions are ritualized through the empathetic Angie and her doting mother Francesca as they face the tedious task of making sausage (salsicce) in Francesca’s Way where mother and daughter struggle with indifference, heartbreak and adjustment to an altered set of cultural values. Then this sanctity of silence and indiscretions springs us into a sense of cynicism in: This Too Shall Pass, where the protagonist Angelo struggles with the lurid silence of breached sanctity and parental misgivings ruptured by the conditions of predatory faith. This drifts us into the grandmotherly (nonna’s) Greco/Calabrian brooding with the idiomatic superstitions of a young child’s haunting fascination with death and absence in, The Hawk. The primal phantoms of winged terror fascinate with (zingari) gypsies and (u babau) boogeymen. This selfless contradiction and ritual shifts deeply into Veiled Intentions and its cruel dangling of ethereal lessons. Followed by the racial inevitability and drunken coming of age of Frank and Vic during the FLQ murders in Quebec’s eclectic 1970s that leave both helpless, in: Degrees of Separation. Rosanna closes her fascinating series with the re-setting of religious prejudice between families, who, in Black as Tar navigate the norms of selfless contradictions and diverse humility as a redeeming act of grace and acceptance. She tells us:

“The characters in this collection are embroiled in situations that test their limits …. They are navigating relationships and grappling with issues of translocation, language and identity, religion and culture, and food.”

Like our ancient Palaeolithic ancestors, Rosanna understands the primal act of story telling. She weaves her Ionian tapestry into a Jungian notion of harnessed light pushing its lurid obsessions of fluid mysteries that originally shaped her creative foresights. This harsh condition and localized “wants and fears” inevitably fascinate beyond selfless limitations and personal identity. For many Italo/Canadian writers, this also sets physical and spiritual bridges that nudge the need of transformative allegory to encapsulate the essence of personal knowledge as a serious act of art. Rosanna is a pivotal writer you must read.

Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli is a retired teacher who has published literary works, from romance to children’s books and historical fiction. Her 2018’s La Brigantessa was awarded an International Gold IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Award) for historical fiction and was a finalist for the Canadian Authors Association Fred Kerner Book Award.

To order a copy of Pigeon Soup & Other Stories, a finalist in the Fiction: Short Stories category of the recent 2021 Best Book Awards (American BookFest) visit https://www.inanna.ca/product/pigeon-soup-and-other-stories/. Also, visit Micelotta Battigelli online at www.rosannabattigelli.com.

Angelo Sgabellone is a Toronto-based writer and editor. He has worked forMaclean’s, the Financial Post, Canadian House and Home andUniversity of Toronto Magazine among other publications.His latest workis I Terroni,a metaphysical journey into the soul of Southern Italy

AWARD NEWS

Sat, 18 Dec 2021 13:13:13 GMT

I am pleased to announce that my fiction collection Pigeon Soup & Other Stories has been honoured as a “Finalist” in the “Fiction: Short Story” Category of the 2021 Best Book Awards, sponsored by American BookFest. Please find below links to the book on my publisher website, the Finalist announcement, and the Miramichi Reader Review. I’ve also attached a recent review by Angelo Sgabellone.

https://www.inanna.ca/product/pigeon-soup-and-other-stories/

FINALIST, BEST BOOK AWARDS:

http://americanbookfest.com/generalfiction/shortstory.html

The Miramichi Reader Review: https://miramichireader.ca/2021/09/pigeon-soup-other-stories-by-rosanna-micelotta-battigelli/

Pigeon Soup & Other Stories is available for purchase at the publisher's website (first link) and at Chapters and Amazon.

Thank you, and very best wishes of the season to you all,

Rosanna

Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli

Author of La Brigantessa, 2019 Gold IPPY Award for Historical Fiction: https://www.inanna.ca/product/la-brigantessa/

Book Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmc4f0_Drsk

My Website: www.rosannabattigelli.com

I respectfully acknowledge that I live as a settler in Sudbury, ON. on Robinson-Huron Treaty Territory, Territory of the Atikameksheng Anishinabek and Wahnapitae First Nation, where I am privileged to create and share my work.

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”—Lao Tzu

Dante, l'italiano - Settimana della lingua italiana nel mondo - Accademia della Crusca

Thu, 14 Oct 2021 15:00:28 GMT

Care amiche, cari amici CAIS,

scriviamo per segnalarvi che in occasione della XXI Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo, che si terrà dal 18 al 24 ottobre 2021, verrà diffuso gratuitamente in formato elettronico il libro Dante, l’italiano, edito dall’Accademia della Crusca e dall'Editore goWare, pubblicato su impulso del Ministero degli Affari Esteri.

Come curatori del volume, vi segnaliamo l'uscita del libro e l'opportunità di scaricarlo liberamente (nella settimana 18-24 ottobre).

Abbiamo pensato il volume per un impiego didattico, anche nell'insegnamento dell'italiano Lingua 2: sono presenti immagini, riferimenti a siti internet, spunti relativi a fumetti, canzoni, enigmistica.

Inviamo in allegato il Comunicato stampa dell'Accademia della Crusca: qui trovate una descrizione del contenuto del volume e l'indice.

Lunedì 18 ottobre vi spediremo il link da cui potrete scaricare liberamente il libro.

Se vi fa piacere, siamo a vostra disposizione per concordare una presentazione a distanza.

Un saluto molto cordiale

Giovanna Frosini

Giuseppe Polimeni

frosini@unistrasi.it

giuseppe.polimeni@unimi.it

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Nel libro, intorno alla figura e alla lingua di Dante, convergono storie di ricerca diverse. Studiosi noti e affermati, dantisti di vaglia, si affiancano a giovani ma agguerriti ricercatori. Temi tradizionalmente legati ai più vari aspetti dell’azione e dell’immagine di Dante tracciano i perimetri fondamentali delle sue idee linguistiche, della sua operosità, della sua presenza e del suo riuso nella tradizione e nella storia, non solo letteraria, ma anche figurativa e dialettale; a essi si uniscono temi nuovi e meno scontati, che toccano molti dei mezzi e modi della comunicazione destinata al largo pubblico (dall’opera lirica alle canzoni, dal Dante dei fumetti e per ragazzi al Dante degli enigmisti, fino a una più generale considerazione del Dante pop). La varietà degli argomenti trova riscontro nella disponibilità di materiali inediti e studiati per la prima volta, che ci si augura possano essere apprezzati, anche per una fruizione didattica, da un pubblico italiano e internazionale; a questa finalità risponde anche l’inserimento di una sitografia aggiornata.

Le voci e le figure di poeti e scrittori, enigmisti e fumettisti, che hanno donato le loro creazioni originali, raccontano un dialogo con Dante che viene da lontano e va oltre il centenario. Un valore aggiunto di questo libro, che percorrerà le vie del mondo, è l’immagine di copertina, realizzata da Federica Mauro, una giovane artista con disabilità: al suo Dante e le Stelle è affidata una speranza di rinascita, che porti tutti noi a «riveder le stelle».

Indice del volume

Giovanna Frosini e Giuseppe Polimeni, Dante per il mondo; Francesco Bruni, L’Italia di Dante; Sonia Chiodo, Giotto di Bondone e Dante Alighieri nel palazzo del Podestà di Firenze: frammenti di un dialogo inedito; Claudio Marazzini, Il culto di Dante e gli accademici della Crusca dal Cinquecento al Novecento; Duccio Tongiorgi, «Il profeta della nazione». Dante nel Risorgimento; Franco Pierno, La Commedia coloniale. Schegge dantesche dalla Grande Emigrazione in Nordamerica (1880-1918 ca.); Claudia Bussolino, Dante tradotto per immagini: un percorso otto-novecentesco; Rosario Coluccia, Il mito di Babele; Gian Luigi Beccaria, Dante vicino, settecento anni dopo; Leonardo Zanchi, «Infin che ’l mar fu sopra noi rinchiuso»: Dante dietro il filo spinato; Lino Leonardi, Dante e l’italiano antico; Paola Manni, Il Vocabolario Dantesco; Francesca De Blasi, Baldo, baldanza e baldezza; Francesca De Cianni, Da osanna all’osannar dantesco; Barbara Fanini, Il «volume» del cosmo; Elena Felicani, «Ond’io sovente arrosso e disfavillo»: il rosso nella Commedia; Cristiano Lorenzi Biondi, La questione delle «cerchie etterne»; Luca Morlino, Purgatorio; Chiara Murru, «Da molte stelle mi vien questa luce»: la luce nella Commedia; Fiammetta Papi, Tetragono (Par. XVII 24); Veronica Ricotta, Fantasia; Paolo Rondinelli, Cosa fatta capo ha: Dante e la raccolta di proverbi di Francesco Serdonati; Tullio De Mauro, La Commedia e il vocabolario di base dell’italiano; Andrea Alessandro Pellini, Travestire Dante. Le traduzioni dialettali della Commedia; Stefano Telve, Dante nell’opera lirica; Giovanni Battista Boccardo, Dante per ragazzi; Giuseppe Antonelli e Federico Milone, Dante pop; Lorenzo Coveri, Dante nelle canzoni; Daniela Pietrini, La Commedia di paperi e topi. La lingua di Dante in versione disneyana; Alberto Sebastiani, L’inferno tra le nuvole. La lingua della Commedia nei crossover a fumetti; Federico Mussano, Dante e gli enigmisti; Giovanna Frosini, Conobbi il tremolar de la marina; Federico Tiezzi, Anatomia di un incontro: Dante, la lingua, la memoria, il teatro; Fabio Pusterla, Angelicanza; Fabio Pusterla, Da un sogno all’altro, con Lucio; Marco Balzano, Ulisse e il sapere umano; Marcello Toninelli, Tenzone poetica tra il Gran Fiorentino e l’Umoroso Senese; Elena Felicani, Sitografia.

Book Release of Pigeon Soup & Other Stories

Mon, 27 Sep 2021 17:08:01 GMT

I am pleased to share the news of the publication of my latest book,

Pigeon Soup & Other Stories (Inanna Publications, 2021).

https://www.inanna.ca/product/pigeon-soup-and-other-stories/

The characters in this collection are embroiled in situations that test their limits with each other, outsiders, and themselves. They are navigating relationships and grappling with issues of translocation, language and identity, religion and culture, and food. These stories portray some of the dark places that the characters inhabit physically, emotionally, or metaphorically, with surprising twists that sometimes provide a flicker—or even a bright beam—of hope.

"An exquisitely crafted, engaging and lively collection of novelle, Pigeon Soup & Other Stories, similarly to the sumptuous Mediterranean dishes seductively garnishing its pages, serves us a reading to be savoured, much like anything that is fine in life. Woven into a realist framework of old-country customs and new-world expectations, the narrative’s interlacing strands of solid plot, sound psychological character study, and language and identity issues deploy an intense literary glow that caresses our sensibilities. Refreshingly innovative, too, the other side of the coin: the stories are not exclusive to one culture. And so, having enjoyed Nonna’s “comforting bowl” of free-run unadulterated pigeon soup we find ourselves invited across the street (that is, the page) to a "delicious bowl of Lipton’s chicken soup. " Ah, the joys of a pleasurable text, as Barthes would say."

—GABRIEL NICCOLI, Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo, and editor of Ricordi: Racconti di vite oltreoceano and Patterns of Nostos in Italian Canadian Narratives

New publication

Fri, 11 Sep 2020 08:54:08 GMT

Care colleghe e cari colleghi,

Sono lieta di segnalarvi la pubblicazione di una nuova traduzione in francese di Senso e di altre novelle veneziane di Camillo Boito. Quest'edizione critica bilingue contiene cinque novelle, di cui due sono inedite in francese, nonché due articoli scritti da Boito sul patrimonio veneziano e pubblicati su «Nuova Antologia».

Camillo Boito, Senso et autres nouvelles vénitiennes, choix, édition et traduction par Marguerite Bordry, Paris, Sorbonne Université Presses, coll. "Carnets italiens - Série textes bilingues", 2020, 332 p.

Cordiali saluti,

Marguerite Bordry

Équipe Littérature et Culture Italiennes - Labex OBVIL

Sorbonne Université

Call for papers rivista PISANA

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 12:59:46 GMT

Call for papers rivista PISANA

Promozione Internazionale degli Studi e delle Analisi su Nievo Autore

Promotion Internationale des Synthèses et des Analyses sur Nievo Auteur

Promotion of International Studies About Nievo Author

Fondata e diretta da Elsa Chaarani (Université de Lorraine, France)

Questa rivista internazionale di studi sulle opere d’Ippolito Nievo, la cui periodicità è annua, è destinata a cancellare la mancanza di una pubblicazione specifica sull’opera di Ippolito Nievo, ormai riconosciuto come uno dei più importanti autori della letteratura italiana dell’Ottocento.

Ippolito Nievo (1831-1861) che appartiene alla seconda generazione del Risorgimento, ha conosciuto nel breve corso della sua esistenza soltanto gli anni più agitati, movimentati, ma anche più ricchi dell’unificazione di un Italia che alla sua nascita nel 1831 era ancora divisa in più di dieci piccoli Stati per lo più sotto il giogo di una potenza straniera.

La rivista è composta di quattro rubriche:

Articoli (5-10 al massimo) sull’opera di Nievo o sul contesto storico da lui conosciuto.
Rubrica Rileggendo nella quale verranno recensiti testi di Nievo o su Nievo e la sua opera pubblicati dal 2000 al 2019.
Recensioni in cui verranno recensiti testi recenti.
Bibliografia in cui segnaleremo i testi usciti di recente.

Gli oggetti di studio sono Ippolito Nievo, la sua vita o le sue opere, ma anche il contesto storico o letterario di quegli anni, o i personaggi più o meno famosi da lui incrociati, da Garibaldi alla contessa Maffei, a Arnaldo Fusinato e Erminia Fuà a Giovanni Arrivabene. I testi recensiti possono essere opere di Nievo recentemente pubblicate o testi della produzione critica nievana, dal 2000 in poi, ma anche analisi storici o letterari del contesto.

La rivista sarà pubblicata alla fine di ogni anno e gli articoli saranno selezionati secondo la prodedura detta double blind e saranno inoltre oggetto di un attenta rilettura editoriale.

Potete mandare all’indirizzo della redazione (pisana19@outlook.com):

Una proposta d’articolo (un titolo e 10-20 righe di presentazione) al più tardi il 31 dicembre 2020 per il numero 3 pubblicato nel 2021. L’articolo sarà poi da mandare per il 30 giugno 21.
Una proposta per la rubrica Rileggendo o per la rubrica Recensioni da spedire alle stesse date

Le tre lingue accettate sono il francese l’italiano o l’inglese.

Appel à contributions à la revue PISANA

(Promozione Internazionale degli Studi e delle Analisi su Nievo Autore,

Promotion Internationale des Synthèses et des Analyses sur Nievo Auteur)

fondée et dirigée par Elsa Chaarani (Université de Lorraine)

Cette revue internationale d’études sur les œuvres d’Ippolito Nievo, dont la périodicité est annuelle, vient combler une lacune criante, car bien que cet auteur soit désormais reconnu comme l’un des plus importants de la littérature italienne du XIXe siècle, aucune revue ne lui était consacrée spécifiquement.

Issu de la seconde génération du Risorgimento, Ippolito Nievo (1831-1861) n’a connu, au cours de son rapide passage sur cette terre, que les années les plus agitées, les plus mouvementées, mais aussi les plus riches du Risorgimento. De cette période où le sort de l’Italie n’était encore en rien figé en une solution définitive, de ce rêve d’une société encore à naître, de cette conscience historique aiguë, naquit, sous sa plume, une œuvre extrêmement originale, comme inspirée par un passé, comme portée une sorte de stupéfiante prescience de l’avenir.

La revue comporte 4 rubriques :

Articles (entre 5 et 10) sur la vie et sur l’œuvre de Nievo ou sur le contexte historique qu’il a connu.
Rubrique En relisant qui porte sur des textes de Nievo ou sur Nievo publiés entre 2000 et 2019.
Recensions qui portent sur des textes de Nievo, sur Nievo ou sur le contexte historique.
Bibliographie où nous signalons les œuvres de Nievo ou sur Nievo publiées récemment.

Les objets d’études sont Ippolito Nievo, sa vie et son œuvre, mais aussi le contexte historique, le contexte littéraire, les personnages plus ou moins connus qu’il a croisés, de Garibaldi à Arnaldo Fusinato, d’Erminia Fuà à Giovanni Arrivabene. Les recensions portent sur toutes les publications des œuvres de Nievo, sur toute la production critique nievienne, particulièrement celle de ces quinze dernières années et aussi sur des analyses historiques ou littéraires du contexte.

Les trois langues de publication sont le français, l’italien, l’anglais.

La revue sera annuelle, et paraîtra à la fin de chaque année. Les articles seront sélectionnés pour une relecture double aveugle par les membres du comité scientifique ci-dessus. Ils feront ensuite l’objet d’une relecture éditoriale par les membres du comité éditorial.

Pour les numéros, vous pouvez envoyer à l’adresse de la rédaction : pisana19@outlook.com

Une proposition d’article (un titre et dix à vingt lignes décrivant le contenu) pour le n. 3 (parution en 2021) au plus tard le 31 décembre 2020 (si votre proposition est retenue, l’article sera à remettre pour le 30 juin)
- Une proposition de recension d’éditions critiques d’œuvres de Nievo, ou de littérature secondaire portant sur Nievo, son œuvre ou le contexte historique.

Les langues acceptées sont le français, l’italien et l’anglais.

Job Posting: Mariano A. Elia Chair in Italian-Canadian Studies (York University)

Wed, 31 Jul 2019 09:53:08 GMT

Qualified candidates are invited to submit their complete applications for a tenure-track position in Italian-Canadian Studies (Mariano A. Elia Chair) in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at York University.

Deadline for receipt of complete applications is October 31, 2019

Please see this link for detailed information about the position.

For any questions, please contact, Professor Roberta Iannacito-Provenzano, Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs, at adfa@yorku.ca or roberta@yorku.ca

Borsa di studio "I Viaggiatori stranieri nell'Italia Centrale", II edizione, promossa dalla Fondazione Ranieri di Sorbello e dall’Isuc (Istituto per la Storia dell’Umbria Contemporanea)

Tue, 07 May 2019 09:27:31 GMT

La Fondazione Ranieri di Sorbello bandisce una Pubblica selezione per la II edizione della borsa di studio intitolata a Marilena de Vecchi destinata a un progetto di ricerca inerente I viaggiatori stranieri nell’Italia Centrale (Umbria, Marche, Toscana).
Tutte le informazioni necessarie per partecipare sono disponibili al seguente link: http://www.fondazioneranieri.org/borsa-viaggiatori-2019/

Comparative Literature for the New Century edited by Joseph Pivato

Wed, 27 Feb 2019 00:40:12 GMT

Joseph Pivato co-edited this new book in Comparative Literature with Giulia De Gasperi.

The title suggests new directions for the academic study of literatures with a focus on the

use of several languages. Some chapters deal with Italian-Canadian authors such as Mary

di Michele, F.G. Paci, Genni Gunn, Antonio D'Alfonso, Caterina Edwards, Gianna Patriarca,

Dore Michelutt and several others. The contributors include Linda Hutcheon, Deborah Saidero,

Maria Cristina Seccia, Anna Pia De Luca, Gaetano Rando, George Elliott Clarke and Pivato.

Comparative Literature for the New Century is published by McGill-Queen's U.P., 2018.

Pivato, a member of CAIS since 1975, has published 10 other books with Guernica Editions

on Italian-Canadian writers.

Antonio Pucci, Cantari della Guerra di Pisa

Thu, 06 Jul 2017 20:57:29 GMT

“Meglio un morto in casa che un pisano all’uscio”. Questo detto, vivissimo ancora a Lucca e a Firenze, rammenta le ostilità che contrapposero a lungo i Comuni di Lucca, Pisa e Firenze nel Medioevo. Un episodio di questa lunga faida è la guerra che oppose Firenze e Pisa fra il 1362 e il 1364, conclusa con la Battaglia di Cascina, e raccontata da numerose cronache contemporanee. Una di queste è la narrazione in ottava rima, distribuita in sette canti, del fiorentino Antonio Pucci. Composti nel 1367, i Cantari della Guerra di Pisa sono probabilmente il primo esempio di storia contemporanea cantata nelle forme del poema epico, conferendo così agli eventi la stessa fisionomia esaltante delle chansons de geste.

Disponibile finora solo nell’edizione settecentesca di Ildefonso di San Luigi, i Cantari della Guerra di Pisa sono ora proposti in una nuova edizione a cura di Maria Bendinelli Predelli, basata sul manoscritto Kirkup (BNCF Nuovi Acquisti 333), che è riconosciuto dagli studiosi del Pucci come fondamentale per l’edizione delle sue opere.

Antonio Pucci, I Cantari della Guerra di Pisa, a cura di Maria Bendinelli Predelli, Firenze: Società Editrice Fiorentina, 2017.

Libro

Wed, 17 May 2017 18:23:50 GMT

Cari colleghi,

Mi permetto di segnalarvi la pubblicazione di A filo doppio. Un'antologia di scritture calabro-canadesi. Il libro, curato da me e da Vito Teti dell'Università della Calabria, è apparso in Italia presso Donzelli Editore questo aprile (2017). La copertina e la scheda che l'accompagna sonoaccessibili al seguente link: https://www.donzelli.it/libro/9788868435110.

Grazie, e buona lettura,

Francesco Loriggio

Carleton University

Ottawa, Ontario

Call for Papers:: Italian Foodways Worldwide: A Conference on the Dispersal of Italian Cuisine(s) (York University, Toronto, Oct. 19-22, 2017)

Tue, 04 Apr 2017 09:57:20 GMT

The Mariano A. Elia Chair in Italian-Canadian Studies with the Italian Studies Program of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University, the Italian Chamber of Commerce of Ontario and the Culinaria Research Centre, University of Toronto, Scarborough are pleased to announce a forthcoming conference on the worldwide dissemination of Italian foodways. Presentations are invited from anyone interested in the connection between Italian cuisine(s) both at home and abroad and the development of Italian or Italian-Canadian ethnic identity. Any aspect of Italian foodways will be considered including, but not limited to, consuming and marketing of Italian food stuffs; growing, preparing, exporting and importing them; and similar topics. All practical and scholarly disciplines are welcome including, for example, not only historians, sociologists, anthropologists, linguists but also those with an active interest in food production, preparation, and marketing, to name only a few possibilities.

The important observation that “we are what we eat” (Gabaccia 1998) has profound implications for cultural identity not only for countries of immigration, where diverse foodways come into contact, but also for those from where the exported foodways originate. As is well known, Italians formed the largest European emigrant group of the 19^th and 20^th centuries and, as they dispersed globally, they carried their cuisine(s) with them. Of course, these were culinary ‘traditions’ which themselves had changed significantly over time and in particular through the period of the Columbian Exchange which long preceded the formation of the modern Italian nation state.

In their global dispersal, both before and after unification, Italians may have carried with them only a memory of a cuisine but, wherever they settled, enclaves or so-called colonie or Little Italies were established and efforts to recreate the memory began. That re-creation, however, always happened in the presence of other cultures and other foodstuffs. At the same time, the culture(s) of origin were far from static with regard to so-called ‘traditional’ cuisine(s).

The conference will take place from Thursday 19 to Sunday 22 October, 2017 at York University in Toronto, Canada with some of the proceedings taking place at the University of Toronto, Scarborough and elsewhere. Presenters are invited to submit a brief proposal describing their contribution. A full-text version of the proposal will be required for dissemination two weeks before the conference date and funding is currently being sought to finance the publication of a volume (for which papers will be peer reviewed) derived from the proceedings. Limited funding may be available to cover some travel costs incurred by presenters attending the conference.

Please send an abstract (maximum 250 words) to the organizers Professor Gabriele Scardellato (gpscar@yorku.ca) and Professor Roberta Iannacito-Provenzano (roberta@yorku.ca) by Monday 3 July 2017. Please include full name and institutional affiliation (if applicable) along with contact information.

CFP- LE STUDIUM International Conference (Tours, CESR, 6 - 8 November 2017) - The Runaway Word. Languages and Religious Exile in the Renaissance

Mon, 27 Mar 2017 02:32:33 GMT

The Runaway Word.

Languages and Religious Exile in the Renaissance

LE STUDIUM International Conference (Tours, CESR, 6 - 8 November 2017)

Conference organizers

Chiara Lastraioli (Université de Tours/CESR) and Franco Pierno (University of Toronto)

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

Elvezio Canonica (Université de Bordeaux)

Andreas Dufter (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

Geneviève Gross (Institut d’Histoire de la Réformation- Université de Genève)

Frank Lestringant (Université Paris-Sorbonne)

Federico Zuliani (The Warburg Institute- University of London)

Call for Papers

The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars who work on texts published in Geneva during Calvin’s lifetime and until the end of the 16^th century. The debate will focus on stylistic, rhetorical, and linguistic issues in this editorial production determined by Calvinist thought and theology. The conference will also take into account the political as well as social contexts in which these texts were conceived and produced, such as the censorial system put in place by Calvin himself or by the administrative bodies set up on his authority, the editorial market, and the circulation of books in a reformed milieu. In addition, the conference will address the influence exerted by the “polyglossie du refuge” on the works printed during this period. The organizers are also interested in papers focusing on the relationship between texts and the Reformation in the same time period in others lands of religious exile: Alemannic Switzerland (especially Basel), Grisons (included some Protestant valleys of Northern Italy), England, not forgetting France (especially Lyon).

The conference, organized by the CESR (Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance), is financially supported by LE STUDIUM, and is part of the research activities led by the team EDITEF Project (Édition italienne dans l’espace francophone à la première modernité).

Given the very specific topic, the organizers envision this to be a conference with a limited number of participants.

Selected speakers will be entirely reimbursed by LE STUDIUM (transportation to and from Tours, stay in Tours, and meals).

Working languages of the conference will be French and English.

Submissions should consist of an abstract of up to 300 words, and a short CV. They are to be sent to franco.pierno@utoronto.ca and chiara.lastraioli@univ-tours.fr by April 23, 2017.

La parole en fuite.

Langues et exile religionis causa à la Renaissance

Colloque international LE STUDIUM (Tours, CESR, 6-8 novembre 2017)

Comité organisateur du colloque

Chiara Lastraioli (Université de Tours/CESR) et Franco Pierno (University of Toronto)

Liste des conférenciers confirmés

Elvezio Canonica (Université de Bordeaux)

Andreas Dufter (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

Geneviève Gross (Institut d’Histoire de la Réformation- Université de Genève)

Frank Lestringant (Université Paris-Sorbonne)

Federico Zuliani (The Warburg Institute- University of London)

Descriptif du colloque et appel à communication

L’objectif de ce colloque est de rassembler des interventions concernant les textes publiés à Genève à l’époque de Calvin jusqu’à la fin du 16^e siècle. Il s’agit avant tout d’évaluer les répercussions stylistiques, rhétoriques et linguistiques que l’influence de la pensée et de la théologie calvinistes avait déterminées dans cette production. Ces analyses prendront aussi en ligne de compte les contextes politiques et sociaux dans lesquels ces textes ont été conçus et réalisés : la censure mise en place par Calvin (et par les organismes administratifs émanant de son autorité), le marché et la diffusion du livre dans un contexte réformé. De même, une attention particulière sera consacrée à l’influence d’une « polyglossie du refuge » sur les ouvrages imprimés à cette période.

Dans le même sillage méthodologique, les organisateurs sont également intéressés à des communications ayant pour sujet le rapport entre les textes et la Réforme à la Renaissance dans d’autres territoires de l’exile religionis causa : la Suisse alémanique (notamment Bâle), les Grisons (qui comprennent aussi certaines vallées protestantes de l’Italie septentrionale), l’Angleterre, sans oublier la France et notamment Lyon.

Ce colloque, financé par l’agence régionale Le Studium, est une initiative émanant du Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance de Tours et s’inscrit dans les recherches conduites par l’équipe du projet EDITEF (Édition italienne dans l’espace francophone à la première modernité).

Étant donné la spécificité du sujet traité, on envisage d’organiser un colloque avec un nombre restreint de participants. Les frais des participants dont les propositions seront sélectionnées seront entièrement remboursés/financés par LE STUDIUM (voyage, séjour à Tours et repas).

Les langues du colloque seront le français et l’anglais.

Les personnes intéressées sont priées d’envoyer leur proposition (maximum 300 mots) et une biographie courte à franco.pierno@utoronto.ca et chiara.lastraioli@univ-tours.fr avant le 23 avril 2017.

AATI@Palermo 2017 - Call for Papers

Tue, 17 Jan 2017 06:51:00 GMT

CALL For Papers AATI International Conference Abroad Università degli Studi di Palermo 28 giugno – 2 luglio 2017 L’AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian) comunica che il prossimo convegno internazionale si terrà nella città di Palermo, 28 giugno-2 luglio 2017, presso l’Università degli Studi di Palermo, con il seguente programma di massima: 28 giugno: (mattina) giorno ufficiale di arrivo; workshops/visite guidate; 28 giugno (pomeriggio-sera) registrazione; inaugurazione e saluti delle autorità; sessione plenaria; concerto; ricevimento 29 giugno – 1 luglio: lavori 1 luglio: sessioni plenarie (pomeriggio) 1 luglio: cena sociale 2 luglio: gite nei dintorni di Palermo 3 luglio: giorno ufficiale di partenza Il convegno rappresenterà un altro straordinario momento d’incontro grazie all’importanza del luogo in cui si svolgeranno i lavori. Palermo, la sua regione e la Sicilia in generale sono luoghi fondamentali per l’intersezione e lo studio di storia, lingua, politica, letteratura, arte, filosofia e cultura in generale. Il tema del convegno è aperto, ma l’AATI incoraggia i colleghi a pensare in termini più specifici e pertinenti sia al luogo d’attuazione del convegno—Palermo e la Sicilia—sia agli avvenimenti legati alla contemporaneità italiana o a figure che sono venuti a mancare da poco (per es. Dario Fo ed Umberto Eco). Accanto a temi vari di pedagogia, cultura, letteratura, cinema, teatro, italiano come L2, la lingua italiana all’estero, identità italiana nel mondo, storia, economia, arte, opera, ecc., si suggeriscono anche altri temi più “locali” o dettati da eventi: Luigi Pirandello a 150 anni dalla nascita La stagione verista: Verga, De Roberto, Capuana La Sicilia nella letteratura contemporanea Scrittrici di Sicilia La Sicilia nel cinema, ieri e oggi Lingua e invenzione narrativa in Andrea Camilleri La cultura popolare siciliana tra permanenza e scomparsa La poesia dialettale siciliana, da Giovanni Meli e Domenico Tempio ai nostri giorni Correnti di lingua e cultura nel Mediterraneo Proposte: La scadenza per inviare le proposte, sia per interventi individuali sia per le sessioni, è il 15 febbraio 2017. Le presentazioni possono essere in italiano o in inglese e non devono superare i 20 minuti. I colleghi sono inoltre invitati ad organizzare sessioni e tavole rotonde di 75 minuti ciascuna. I relatori potranno presentare solo un intervento, ma potranno presiedere più di una sessione e presentare i loro interventi in diverse tavole rotonde. Le proposte di sessioni / tavole rotonde devono essere inviate entro il 15 febbraio 2017, tramite il seguente link: http://www.dropitto.me/aati | | upload password: palermo2017 Al convegno potranno partecipare i relatori, gli organizzatori e presidenti delle sessioni e partecipanti alle tavole rotonde che siano regolarmente iscritti all’associazione AATI e che abbiano versato la quota d’ iscrizione al convegno entro il 15 marzo 2017. Gli interventi dovranno essere presentati di persona; non sono consentiti interventi via Skype o altre tecnologie. Iscrizione al convegno: Le quote di iscrizione per 2017 saranno le seguenti: soci regolari: $125.00; soci emeriti e soci senza un lavoro full-time: $75.00; studenti di PhD/dottorato di ricerca: $45.00. Workshops: saranno annunciati inseguito nella nostra pagina web. Alberghi, trasporti, ecc. Ulteriori informazioni riguardanti alberghi, trasporti, ecc. saranno comunicate tramite il listserv dell’AATI e verranno pubblicate nel nostro sito. Pubblicazione degli Atti del Convegno: Dopo il convegno, tutti i relatori sono invitati a sottoporre per pubblicazione il loro intervento nella rivista digitale AATI Online Working Papers. Le proposte saranno valutate da un comitato scientifico (si veda https://bancheri.utm.utoronto.ca/aati-online/wpapers/wpapers.php) CALL For Papers AATI International Conference Abroad L’Università degli Studi Palermo June 28-July 2, 2017 The AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian) announces its next International Conference to take place in Palermo from June 28-July 2, 2017 hosted by the Università degli Studi di Palermo. The general program outline is as follows: June 28: Official day of arrival; pre-conference workshops (morning); guided tours in/around Palermo (morning); June 28 (afternoon/evening) Pre-registration; plenary session; welcome reception; concert June 29-July 1: Conference June 1: Plenary sessions (afternoon) July 1 (evening): Gala Dinner July 2: Tours around Palermo July 3: Official day of departure This conference promises to be another exciting international meeting, given, its location. Palermo is a vivacious and fascinating city, where art, history, music, politics and music. Additionally, the area around Palermo and the region of Sicily at large have been places of cultural, geographical and historical intersection throughout the centuries. The conference is open to all topics, but the AATI invites colleagues to think in particular about issues that relate to the current state of and events taking place in Italy today. Along with general themes such as pedagogy, linguistics, culture, literature, cinema, theater, Italian as a second language, Italian language and culture abroad, migration and Italian identities in the world, history, media, economy, the arts, etc., we also suggest a focus on more “local” topics that have Palermo and its region as well as Sicily at their core. Some examples might be: Pirandello and the 150th anniversary of his birth Verismo: Verga, Capuana, De Robertis Sicily in Contemporary Literature Sicilian Female Writers Sicilian Cinema: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow Narrative Innovations and Language in Andrea Camilleri Sicilian Folk Culture: From ‘Common’ to the ‘Disappearance’ Sicilian Dialect Poetry: From Giovanni Meli and Domenico Tempio to Today Mediterranean Studies: From Language and Culture to History and Religion Proposals: The deadline for proposal submissions (individual papers and whole sessions) is February 15, 2017. Papers can be in Italian or in English and will be limited to 20 minutes, maximum. Colleagues are cordially invited to submit proposals for entire sessions and roundtables of 75 minutes each. Participants are allowed to present one paper only, but they can chair more than one session and they can partake in one or more roundtable discussions. Completed Sessions /Completed roundtables / Single papers proposals MUST be submitted by February 15, 2017 using the following link:: http://www.dropitto.me/aati | | upload password: palermo2017 COMPLETED Session/roundtable with all relevant information MUST be submitted by February 15, 2017 using the following link: http://www.dropitto.me/aati | | upload password: palermo2017 All conference participants (panelists, session and roundtable organizers, and chairs) must be AATI members in good standing and must have paid the registration fees by March 15, 2017. Papers must be presented in person; no presentations via Skype or similar technologies will be allowed. Registration Fees: Registration fees for 2017 will be as follows: Regular members: $125.00; Retired/emeriti or members without a full-time position: $75.00; PhD students: $45.00. Workshops: information regarding pre-conference workshops will be advertised through the AATI listserv and the Conference website. Lodging and Transportation: Further information about hotels, transportation, etc. will be announced shortly through the AATI listserv and the AATI website. Publication of Proceedings: Following the conference, all presenters will be eligible to submit their papers for blind peer review consideration for the AATI Online Working Papers publication (see https://bancheri.utm.utoronto.ca/aati-online/wpapers/wpapers.php menu "Online Working Papers").

NEW BOOK

Tue, 09 Aug 2016 18:46:28 GMT

Cari tutti,

I'm delighted to announce the publication of the following book:

LUCILLA BONAVITA, Luigi Pirandello and Orazio Costa: The Unpublished Works of Archivio Costa in the Experience of Piccolo Teatro di Roma (1948-1954), Roma, Edicampus, 2016.

The book, in addition to offering a contribution to the studies about Pirandello, proposes a reading of the "stage fact" through a documentary and philological route constituted of unpublished material that winds within the notebooks jealously guarded by the Master since 1938 until his death, and now preserved in the Costa Archive in Florence. Founder of Piccolo Teatro di Roma (1948-1954), Orazio Costa brings to the stage the plays written by Pirandello during that time: through a transcoding process of the literary texts of Six Characters in Search of an Author and Right You Are (If You Think So), we are witnessing a new dramatic writing that, while remaining philologically faithful to Pirandello's text, increases its poetic potential.

Dott.ssa Lucilla Bonavita,

PhD in Italian Studies

at the Universities of Rome "Tor Vergata"-Toronto, Warsaw.

lucilla.bonavita@libero.it

For more information visit the following url:

http://www.edicampus-edizioni.it/collane/studi-e-ricerche/58-luigi-pirandello-and-orazio-costa-the-unpublished-works-of-the-archivio-costa-in-the-experience-of-the-piccolo-teatro-di-roma-1948-1954

Amazon

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CALL FOR PAPERS: “On the Eve of the Reformation: The View from Then and Now”

Sun, 14 Feb 2016 22:21:57 GMT

CALL FOR PAPERS

“On the Eve of the Reformation: The View from Then and Now”

An interdisciplinary conference

at Victoria College in the University of Toronto

21-22 October 2016

sponsored by

The Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium

Deadline to submit proposals: Thursday, 31 March 2016

As we prepare to commemorate the 500^th anniversary of Martin Luther’s posting of his 95 theses in October 1517, it may be useful to pause for a moment and consider two important questions: first, how were the historical and cultural events of the late fifteenth and very early sixteenth century defining the European world that would soon break apart along sectarian lines, and, second, how did writers, thinkers, and artists later in the century look back at that earlier world and culture. The years immediately preceding 1517 were richly marked by events/works that were to have a lasting impact on their times. In 1516, for example, the fifteen-year-old Charles von Habsburg was crowned king of Spain, Thomas More published his Utopia, Erasmus his Novum Testamentum and Ariosto his Orlando furioso, and the Venetians established the Ghetto. The previous year, 1515, the twenty-year-old Francis I was crowned king of France, Thomas Wolsey was named cardinal and then Chancellor of England, Martin Luther began to lecture on Paul’s Letter to the Romans, Johannes Reuchlin established the first university chair of Greek in Germany, while across the ocean the Spaniard Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar founded the city of Havana. How did people later in the sixteenth century and early in the next see these events? How, for example, did Shakespeare see and depict pre-Reformation England in some of his historical plays? How did Montaigne, or Cervantes, or Caravaggio, or Monteverdi see the world before the Reformation?

This interdisciplinary conference seeks, therefore, to take the pulse of European history and culture in two different ways: from our perspective as early twenty-first-century scholars and from the perspective of late-sixteenth/early-seventeenth-century writers and artists. In so doing, the conferences seeks to cast its eyes on both the Old World and the New, Europe as well as in its African and Asian extensions, history as well as the arts, society as well as events.

Proposals for papers to be presented at the conference should include:

the name of the speaker; the speaker’s academic affiliation (or “independent scholar”, as applicable); the title of the presentation; a 150 words abstract; full contact information for the speaker (name, address, telephone, email); the speaker’s one-page CV. In the case of complete session proposals, this information is to be repeated for each presenter.

Proposals should be emailed to both conference organizers:
Prof. Elizabeth Cohen at ecohen@yorku.ca
Prof. Konrad Eisenbichler at konrad.eisenbichler@utoronto.ca

Deadline for submission: Thursday, 31 March 2016.

For further information, please contact either one of the conference organizers.

For further information on the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium, visit its web site at:

http://www.itergateway.org/trrc/

Deadline Extended: CfP AATI@Naples June 2016

Tue, 26 Jan 2016 01:28:40 GMT

NOTIFICATION OF EXTENDED DEADLINES

Session/Roundtable proposals with calls for abstracts: February 20, 2016.

Individual paper proposals: February 20, 2016.

Completed Sessions and Roundtables with all relevant information, as per guidelines (attached): March 1, 2016.

FOR QUERIES PLEASE CONTACT AATI NAPLES COMMITTEE CHAIR, COLLEEN RYAN at: ryancm@indiana.edu.

CALL For Papers

AATI International Conference Abroad

L’Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale

L’Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

June 22-27, 2016

The AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian) announces its next International Conference to take place in Naples from June 22-27, 2016 hosted by the Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale and the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. The general program outline is as follows:

v June 22: official day of arrival; pre-conference workshops (morning); guided tours in/around Naples (morning); pre-registration, plenary session(s) guided tours in/around Naples; welcome reception; concert;
v June 23-25: conference
v June 25: plenary sessions (afternoon)
v June 25 (evening): Gala Dinner
v June 26: tours around Naples and Campania
v June 27: official day of departure

This conference promises to be another vibrant international meeting, given, first and foremost, its location. Naples is a unique city, one where historical, cultural, and political events have taken root, unraveled, and entwined in original ways across the centuries.

The conference is open to all themes, but the AATI also invites colleagues to think in particular in terms of those more pertinent to some of the current events in Italy. Along with general topics such as pedagogy, linguistics, culture, literature, cinema, theater, Italian as a second language, Italian language abroad, Italian identities in the world, history, media, economy, the arts, etc., we also suggest a focus on more “local” topics that have Naples and the Campania region at their core. Some examples might be:

o Italian language abroad (the teaching, diffusion, and politics of);
o Italian culture and identity around the world;
o Linguistic globalization: The relationship between “strong” and “weak” languages;
o The new “Southern Question”;
o Italian immigration today vs. Italian emigration of yesteryear;
o Migrants writers in Italy: a new canon of Italian literature?;
o The Neapolitan Enlightenment: from philosophical thought to political economy;
o Giambattista Vico and his influence in and outside of Italy;
o Naples and Classical Greece;
o From San Gennaro to nativity scenes: religious practices and their influence in Italy and abroad;
o Neapolitan dialect literature and its diffusion in Italy and abroad;
o The new southern novel: from mystery to denunciation;
o Neapolitan theater;
o Totò and the Neapolitan comic tradition;
o Naples and contemporary Italian cinema;
o Neapolitan Song and Dance: History and Influence.

Proposals: The deadline for proposal submissions (individual papers and whole sessions) is February 20, 2016. Papers can be in Italian or in English and will be limited to 20 minutes, maximum. Colleagues are cordially invited to submit proposals for entire sessions and roundtables of 75 minutes each. Participants are allowed to present one paper only, but they can chair more than one session and they can partake in one or more roundtable discussions.

Session/roundtable/single papers proposals MUST be submitted by February 20, 2016 using the following link:: http://www.dropitto.me/aati | | upload password: napoli2016

COMPLETED Session/roundtable with all relevant information MUST be submitted by March 1, 2016 using the following link: http://www.dropitto.me/aati | | upload password: napoli2016

All conference participants (panelists, session and roundtable organizers, and chairs) must be AATI members in good standing and must have paid the registration fees by March 15, 2016.

Papers must be presented in person; no presentations via Skype or similar technologies will be allowed.

Registration Fees: Registration fees for 2016 will be as follows: Regular members: $125.00; Retired/emeriti or members without a full-time position: $75.00; PhD students: $45.00.

Workshops:pre-opening workshops will be on June 22. For the list of workshops, see https://bancheri.utm.utoronto.ca/aati-online/napoli/ (menu “Workshops”).

Lodging and Transportation: Further information about hotels, transportation, etc. will be announced shortly through the AATI listserv and the AATI website:

https://bancheri.utm.utoronto.ca/aati-online/napoli/

Publication of Proceedings:Following the conference, all presenters will be eligible to submit their papers for blind peer review consideration for the AATI Online Working Papers publication (see https://bancheri.utm.utoronto.ca/aati-online/napoli/ menu "Online Working Papers").

AATI International Conference in Naples: June 22-27, 2016

Tue, 29 Dec 2015 17:42:53 GMT

Please see the call for papers for the AATI's upcoming conference in Naples, Italy!

Italian version follows.

CALL For Papers

AATI International Conference Abroad

L’Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale

L’Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

June 22-27, 2016

v June 22: official day of arrival; pre-conference workshops (morning); guided tours in/around Naples (morning); pre-registration, plenary session(s) guided tours in/around Naples; welcome reception; concert;

v June 23-25: conference

v June 25: plenary sessions (afternoon)

v June 25 (evening): Gala Dinner

v June 26: tours around Naples and Campania

v June 27: official day of departure

o Italian language abroad (the teaching, diffusion, and politics of);

o Italian culture and identity around the world;

o Linguistic globalization: The relationship between “strong” and “weak” languages

o The new “Southern Question”;

o Italian immigration today vs. Italian emigration of yesteryear;

o Migrants writers in Italy: a new canon of Italian literature?;

o The Neapolitan Enlightenment: from philosophical thought to political economy;

o Giambattista Vico and his influence in and outside of Italy;

o Naples and Classical Greece;

o From San Gennaro to nativity scenes: religious practices and their influence in Italy and abroad;

o Neapolitan dialect literature and its diffusion in Italy and abroad;

o The new southern novel: from mystery to denunciation;

o Neapolitan theater;

o Totò and the Neapolitan comic tradition;

o Naples and contemporary Italian cinema;

o Neapolitan Song and Dance: History and Influence.

Proposals: The deadline for proposal submissions (individual papers and whole sessions) is February 1, 2016. Papers can be in Italian or in English and will be limited to 20 minutes, maximum. Colleagues are cordially invited to submit proposals for entire sessions and roundtables of 75 minutes each. Participants are allowed to present one paper only, but they can chair more than one session and they can partake in one or more roundtable discussions.

Session/roundtable proposals MUST be submitted by February 1, 2016 using the following link: http://www.dropitto.me/aati | | upload password: napoli2016

All conference participants (panelists, session and roundtable organizers, and chairs) must be AATI members in good standing and must have paid the registration fees by March 15, 2016.

Papers must be presented in person; no presentations via Skype or similar technologies will be allowed.

Registration Fees: Registration fees for 2016 will be as follows: Regular members: $125.00; Retired/emeriti or members without a full-time position: $75.00; PhD students: $45.00.

Workshops: pre-opening workshops will be on June 22. For the list of workshops, see www.utm.utoronto.ca/~aati/napoli/ (menu “Workshops”).

Lodging and Transportation: Further information about hotels, transportation, etc. will be announced shortly through the AATI listserv and the AATI website: www.utm.utoronto.ca/~aati/napoli/.

Publication of Proceedings: Following the conference, all presenters will be eligible to submit their papers for blind peer review consideration for the AATI Online Working Papers publication (see www.aati-online.org/ (menu "Online Working Papers").

CALL For Papers

AATI International Conference Abroad

L’Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale

L’Università degli Studi di Napoli di Federico II

22-27 giugno 2016

L’AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian) comunica che il prossimo convegno internazionale si terrà nella città di Napoli, 22-27 giugno 2016, presso l’Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale e l’Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, con il seguente programma di massima:

v 22 giugno: giorno ufficiale di arrivo; workshops/visite guidate (mattina); registrazione; (pomeriggio-sera) inaugurazione e saluti delle autorità; sessione plenaria; concerto, ricevimento;

v 23-25 giugno: lavori

v 25 giugno: sessioni plenarie (pomeriggio)

v 25 giugno: cena sociale

v 26 giugno: gite nei dintorni di Napoli

v 27 giugno: giorno ufficiale di partenza

Il convegno rappresenterà un altro straordinario momento d’incontro grazie soprattutto all’importanza del luogo in cui si svolgeranno i lavori. Napoli raffigura un punto cruciale ed un luogo fondamentale dove storia, cultura, politica, filosofia, nascono, si dipanano e s’intrecciano in maniera unica ed originale.

Anche se il tema del convegno è aperto, l’AATI incoraggia i colleghi a pensare in termini più specifici e pertinenti sia al luogo d’attuazione del convegno—Napoli e la Campania—sia agli avvenimenti legati alla contemporaneità italiana. Accanto a temi vari di pedagogia, cultura, letteratura, cinema, teatro, italiano come L2, la lingua italiana all’estero, identità italiana nel mondo, storia, economia, arte, opera, ecc., si suggeriscono anche altri temi più “locali”:

· La lingua italiana all’estero (insegnamento, diffusione, politca per);

· Cultura e identità italiana nel mondo;

· La globalizzazione linguistica: rapporti tra “lingue forti” e “lingue deboli”;

· La nuova “questione meridionale”;

· L’immigrazione in Italia oggi e l’emigrazione italiana del passato;

· L’emigrazione e la diffusione dell’italiano nel mondo;

· Scrittori migranti in Italia: un nuovo canone nella letteratura italiana?’;

· L’illuminismo napoletano tra pensiero filosofico ed economia politica;

· Giambattista Vico e il suo influsso in Italia e all’estero;

· Napoli e le civiltà classiche;

· Da San Gennaro al presepe: pratiche religiose, influssi ed esiti sulla cultura; popolare in Italia e all’estero;

· La letteratura dialettale napoletana e la sua diffusione in Italia e all’estero;

· La nuova narrativa meridionale tra giallo e denuncia;

· Il teatro napoletano;

· Totò e la tradizione comica napoletana;

· Napoli e il cinema contemporaneo;

· Canzone e balli napoletani: storia e influssi.

Proposte: La scadenza per inviare le proposte, sia per interventi individuali sia per le sessioni, è il 1 febbraio 2016. Le presentazioni possono essere in italiano o in inglese e non devono superare i 20 minuti. I colleghi sono inoltre invitati ad organizzare sessioni e tavole rotonde di 75 minuti ciascuna. I relatori potranno presentare solo un intervento, ma potranno presiedere più di una sessione e presentare i loro interventi in diverse tavole rotonde.

Le proposte di sessioni / tavole rotonde devono essere inviate entro il 1 febbraio 2016, tramite il seguente link: http://www.dropitto.me/aati | | upload password: napoli2016

Al convegno potranno partecipare i relatori, gli organizzatori e presidenti delle sessioni e partecipanti alle tavole rotonde che siano regolarmente iscritti all’associazione AATI e che abbiano versato la quota d’ iscrizione al convegno entro il 15 marzo 2016.

Gli interventi dovranno essere presentati di persona; non sono consentiti interventi via Skype o altre tecnologie.

Iscrizione al convegno: Le quote di iscrizione saranno le seguenti: soci regolari: $125.00; soci emeriti e soci senza un lavoro full-time: $75.00; studenti di PhD/dottorato di ricerca: $45.00.

Workshops: Per i workshops del 22 giugno si veda http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/~aati/napoli/ (menu “Workshops”).

Alberghi, trasporti, ecc. Ulteriori informazioni riguardanti alberghi, trasporti, ecc. saranno comunicate tramite il listserv dell’AATI e verranno pubblicate nel nostro sito: www.utm.utoronto.ca/~aati/napoli/.

Pubblicazione degli Atti del Convegno: Dopo il convegno, tutti i relatori sono invitati a sottoporre per pubblicazione il loro intervento nella rivista digitale AATI Online Working Papers. Le proposte saranno valutate da un comitato scientifico (si veda www.aati-online.org/) (menu: “Online Working Papers”).

Early Modern Heterodoxies: a Roundtable

Fri, 17 Apr 2015 20:00:43 GMT

The Italian Doctoral Specialization of Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY is pleased to invite you to:

"Early Modern Heterodoxies: a Roundtable".

April 17th 2015

4:00 - 6:00 pm

The Graduate Center CUNY, New York City.

Our speakers are Dr. Federico Barbierato (Università degli Studi di Verona), Dr. Sarah Covington (Queens College and The Graduate Center), Dr. Nigel Smith (Princeton University), Dr. Stefano Villani (University of Maryland, College Park).

For further information please contact the organizers:

Fabio Battista fbattista@gc.cuny.edu, Erika Mazzer emazzer@gc.cuny.edu

CSIS Member Profiled in the Memorial University website

Fri, 27 Mar 2015 21:42:03 GMT

Francesca Boschetti's photo is currently on the top banner of the homepage of Memorial University (www.mun.ca), and she has been profiled as an award-winning example of graduate student success at Memorial. You can read her story at this link: http://www.mun.ca/become/graduate/student_success/francescaboschetti.php

Renaissance Summer School in Urbino

Thu, 26 Feb 2015 12:15:48 GMT

The University of Urbino is accepting applications to the International Summer School "Urbino Renaissance Lectures. The Court and the City".

The complete programme can be found at:

www.uniurb.it/renaissancelectures

For further information contact Raffaella Santi raffaella.santi@uniurb.it; Antonio Corsaro, antonio.corsaro.uniurb.it

The Church and the Languages of Italy before the Council of Trent. Ed. Franco Pierno. Toronto: PIMS, 2015

Wed, 25 Feb 2015 21:58:11 GMT

Imminent publication (March 2015):

The Church and the Languages of Italy before the Council of Trent. Ed.
Franco Pierno. Toronto: PIMS, 2015
(Studies and Texts 192; Toronto Studies in Romance Philology 3)
Approx. 350 pp. € Essays in Italian and English € ISBN 978-0-88844-192-8 €
Cloth € $90

In recent decades, historians of language have directed increasing
attention to the relationship between the Italian language and the world
of religion, transforming what was once a sidebar in university textbooks
into a privileged chapter. The importance of the topic is manifest: since
its beginnings, religion has been intertwined with matters of language,
for the Church has continuously educated speakers and readers, especially
through preaching, the translation of sacred texts, and the diffusion of
devotional works in the vernacular.

Contributors
Francesco Bruni - Vittorio Coletti - Carla Damnotti - Dorothea Kullmann -
Rita Librandi - Nicoletta Maraschio - Carla Marcato - Franco Pierno -
Giuseppe Polimeni - Marco Prina - Wanda Santini - Raymund Wilhelm - Miriam
Wittum - Olga Zorzi Pugliese

Editor
Franco Pierno is Associate Professor in Italian Linguistics and an
associate of Trinity College in the University of Toronto. His main field
of research is the relation between languages of Italy and the Church. He
is the author of Postille spiritual et moral (Venise, 1517), an edition
and linguistic analysis of the first Italian biblical commentary (2008),
and the editor of Bernardino Ochino's Apologi (2013). In 2010, he was
awarded a research grant by the Social Science and Humanities Research
Council of Canada to study Italian texts published in Geneva during the
years of John Calvin¹s religious and political authority.

http://www.pims.ca/publications/new-and-recent-titles/publication/the-church-and-the-languages-of-italy-before-the-council-of-trent

The Works of Elena Ferrante: History, Poetics, and Theory

Tue, 20 Jan 2015 22:12:11 GMT

Call for Papers

The Works of Elena Ferrante: History, Poetics and Theory

Volume to be edited by:

Grace Russo Bullaro

Professor, City University of New York-Lehman College

with Stephanie Love, CUNY Graduate School

In recent years, the novels of Elena Ferrante have drawn impressive popular and critical attention throughout the world. Rich in complex historical content, interesting structural and stylistic choices, and insightful portrayals of relationships and growing up, Ferrante’s novels evoke important questions around history, poetics, language, politics and social and literary theory. This edited volume aims to give texture to some of the important issues, themes and concerns that constitute all of Elena Ferrante’s novels. This call for papers seeks abstracts from authors across the fields of comparative literature, history, Italian studies, women’s studies, linguistics, anthropology, English, sociology and others.

Some of the critical questions, themes and issues to be addressed include, but are not limited to:

Literary criticism and social theory

• feminist theory—representation of the evolution of feminism, motherhood, divorce, sexuality, marriage

• literary theory (Cognitive Poetics, heteroglossia, double-voicing, etc.)

• critical reception both in Italy and the Anglophone world

Poetics

• structure of narrative

• style and language

History

• economic and class history—Italy’s “economic miracle”, wealth, class divisions, and the terrorism of “gli anni di piombo”

• social movements—representation, memory, nostalgia, consequences and connections with contemporary social movements

The “Neighborhood”

• intersections with criminality

• the concepts of “belonging” and community.

Language

• language, gender, and class

• translation studies

• language and education—history, class, gender, opportunity

Please send an abstract of 500 words, with a tentative short bibliography and a bio sketch, to:

Grace Russo Bullaro, gmandarin49@gmail.com

and Stephanie Love slove@gc.cuny.edu

Deadline: March 15, 2015

Konrad Eisenbichler, FRSC

Konrad Eisenbichler — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 22:17:57 GMT

This past 22 November 2014 Prof. Konrad Eisenbichler was inducted as a Fellow into the Royal Society of Canada in recognition of his scholarly achievements.

http://www.editfiume.com/lavoce/cultura/10416-l-eccellenza-nel-mondo-parla-anche-l-italiano

Call for Papers ascere, Rinascere, Ricominciare. Immagini del nuovo inizio nella cultura italiana

Wed, 19 Nov 2014 20:22:32 GMT

L’Università degli Studi dell’Aquila e la Georgetown University invitano contributi per un Convegno Internazionale di Studi che si terrà a L’Aquila (Italia) il 17-18 giugno 2015.

Il tema del convegno sarà:

Nascere, Rinascere, Ricominciare. Immagini del nuovo inizio nella cultura italiana

Dalle ansie e speranze millenaristiche di Gioacchino da Fiore alla svolta umanistica e rinascimentale; dalla riscoperta dei generi classici alla ripresa artistica ed economica del secondo dopoguerra; dalla rifondazione neorealista al nuovo cinema indipendente, passando per l’invenzione della commedia all’italiana; dalla nascita dell’opera lirica alla crisi moderna, fino alle sue problematiche reincarnazioni attuali; dalla frammentazione politica e linguistica dei comuni alla lunga stagione dell’unificazione nazionale, tra Otto e Novecento, fino all’emergere di nuovi localismi; dall’emigrazione italiana all’estero all’epopea contemporanea di chi in Italia ci arriva, portando il suo peculiare contributo alla cultura nazionale dei nostri giorni.

Questi e altri temi di rinnovamento e palingenesi sono ricorrenti nella storia artistica dell’Italia e degli Italiani. Il convegno si propone di esaminare il tema della rinascita nelle sue svariate manifestazioni in letteratura, arte, teatro e cinema, dal Medioevo ai giorni nostri.

Le proposte per una relazione della durata massima di venti minuti vanno inviate a aquilaconference@georgetown.edu entro il 30 gennaio 2015, e devono includere un titolo, una breve descrizione (massimo 200 parole) e un curriculum (massimo 250 parole). L’accettazione nel programma verrà comunicata agli interessati non più tardi del 15 febbraio 2015.

Eduardo De Filippo e il teatro del mondo

Thu, 23 Oct 2014 22:40:40 GMT

Convegno Internazionale d'Italianistica dell'Universita' di Istanbul

Sat, 18 Oct 2014 12:54:27 GMT

DIPARTIMENTO DI LINGUE E LETTERATURE STRANIERE SEZIONE DI LINGUA E LETTERATURA ITALIANA

presenta il

Convegno Internazionale di Italianistica

dell’Università di Istanbul

“Proposte per il nostro millennio: La letteratura italiana tra postmodernismo e globalizzazione”

Istanbul, 19-20 marzo 2015

Presentazione:

Questo convegno, organizzato dalla sezione di Lingua e Letteratura Italiana del dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere dell’Università di Istanbul in collaborazione con l’Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Istanbul, ha come scopo principale promuovere lo sviluppo dell’Italianistica in Turchia attraverso l’intervento di studiosi che provengano non solo dalle università turche, ma anche da realtà italiane e internazionali. La prima edizione di questo convegno si realizzerà negli ambienti della Facoltà di Lettere dell’Università di Istanbul, in pieno centro storico, nella sua stupenda cornice turco-ottomana.

In questo convegno ci si propone di dare spazio all’analisi della letteratura italiana postmoderna e dell’era globale senza una limitazione di genere o argomento. In questa manifestazione, infatti, si intende favorire soprattutto un metodo interdisciplinare e comparatistico, estremamente consono al Postmodernismo e alla nuova World Literature. Possono partecipare al convegno insegnanti e studiosi presso atenei e istituti, oltre a studenti di Lauree Specialistiche e Dottorandi e gli interventi si svolgeranno in italiano Alla conclusione del convegno è prevista una pubblicazione degli interventi più significativi, selezionati dal comitato organizzatore e scientifico.

Obiettivi:

- - -

Favorire il dialogo tra i docenti e studiosi di Italianistica provenienti da realtà differenti;
Attivare uno spazio di inscambio di idee e di riflessioni riguardanti la letteratura italinana degli ultimi anni;

Promuovere ricerche rivolte all’Italianistica in Turchia.

Aree disciplinari di interesse:

- Letteratura postmoderna italiana;
- World Literature e letteratura italiana;
- Il nuovo giallo italiano;
- Letteratura postmoderna e Gender Studies;
- La letteratura italiana postmoderna e dell’età globale e i Cultural Studies;
- La letteratura italiana di viaggio postmoderna e del turismo globale;
- Intertestualità, interdiscorsività e interdisciplinarità nella letteratura italiana

postmoderna e dell’età globale;;
- La letteratura italiana postmoderna e dell’età globale e cinema.

Informazioni sulle modalità dell’intervento e sull’invio dei riassunti:

Gli interventi si svolgeranno in italiano e avranno una durata di 20 minuti. Verranno predisposte le strutture necessarie per la proiezione di presentazioni visive. Per la partecipazione è necessario compilare il modulo (allegato 1) di iscrizione in tutte le sue parti, specificando il titolo, la lingua e il riassunto (150-200 parole) dell’intervento. Il modulo deve essere spedito entro i termini sotto riportati agli indirizzi italyandil@istanbul.edu.tr oppure cristiano.bedin@istanbul.edu.tr.

Informazioni pratiche:

Non è prevista quota di partecipazione.
Spesa di viaggio, vitto ed alloggio sono a carico dei partecipanti.

Date importanti:

16 gennaio 2015	Termine per l’invio del formulario di partecipazione e del riassunto dell’intervento
26 gennaio 2015	Comunica di accettazione
09 febbraio 2015	Pubblicazione del programma del convegno

Comitato Organizzatore:

Prof.ssa Esin Gören, Università di Istanbul
Lett. Cristiano Bedin, Università di Istanbul
Ass. Deniz Dilşad Karail, Università di Istanbul
Dott.ssa Maria Luisa Scolari, Istituto italiano di cultura di Istanbul

Comitato Scientifico:

Prof. Esin Gören, Università di Istanbul
Prof. Maria Antonietta Grignani, Università di Pavia
Prof. Anna Dolfi, Università di Firenze
Prof. Ricciarda Ricorda, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia Prof. Elena Pirvu, Università di Craiova
Prof. Fabrizio Scrivano, Università di Perugia
Prof. Cristina Perissinotto, University of Ottawa
Prof. Andrea Bernardelli, Università di Perugia
Prof. Lucinda Spera, Università per Stranieri di Siena Prof. Giovanni Spani, College of the Holy Cross
Prof. Alberto L. Siani, Università Yeditepe
Prof. Maurizio Tani, University of Iceland

convegno d'Italianistica - Istanbul 2015.pdf

Erika Papagni

Wed, 08 Oct 2014 22:34:54 GMT

Dr. Erika Papagni ha vinto il prestigioso "Premio Alessandro Tassoni" Tesi di Laurea 2014 per la sua tesi dal titolo “L’antipetrarchismo nell’opera di Alessandro Tassoni”, discussa all’università di Toronto il primo novembre 2013.

Il premio e' stato conferito durante la cerimonia di premiazione tenutasi al Teatro San Carlo di Modena il 14 giugno 2014.

Italian caucus in Florida

Wed, 25 Jun 2014 22:31:48 GMT

From Prof. Mary Watt:

The Senator invited me, along with several other professors from Florida universities to attend the reception that followed the passing of the resolution.

While we are not yet certain what this will mean for Italian studies in the state, it was a good opportunity to meet the Italian consul as well as other dignitaries and speak to them about our challenges, achievements and ongoing needs.

The presence of an “Italian caucus” in Florida is a promising sign, one that signals a willingness on the part of Italian American politicians to advocate for Italian culture. It would be great to have such allies in Canada!

Tschuss,

Mary

Salvatore Bancheri

Thu, 05 Jun 2014 22:30:15 GMT

Prof. Salvatore Bancheri has been awarded the 2014 American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI) Distinguished Service Award. Salvatore will be honored at the annual meeting of the AATI in San Antonio, TX, on Friday, 21 November 2014. As stated in the AATI webpage, "The purpose of the Award is to recognize and further encourage the achievements and contributions of the members of the AATI for distinguished teaching and or published research in the fields of Italian language, literature, and civilization [...]". See www.aati-online.org.

Prof. Salvatore Bancheri has been awarded the 2014 American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI) Distinguished Service Award. Salvatore will be honored at the annual meeting of the AATI in San Antonio, TX, on Friday, 21 November 2014. As stated in the AATI webpage , "The purpose of the Award is to recognize and further encourage the achievements and contributions of the members of the AATI for distinguished teaching and or published research in the fields of Italian language, literature, and civilization [...]" . See www.aati-online.org<http://www.aati-online.org

Sarah Rolfe Prodan

Tue, 03 Dec 2013 23:28:04 GMT

Dr. Sarah Rolfe Prodan ha vinto il prestigioso "Aldo Scaglione Manuscript Prize" indetto dalla Modern Languages Association of America per il suo libro "Michelangelo's Christian Mysticism: Spirituality, Poetry and Art in Sixteenth-Century Italy" (Cambridge University Press).

Scaglione Prize 2013.pdf

Patrizia Bettella

Fri, 22 Nov 2013 23:27:06 GMT

Dr. Patrizia Bettella received the 2013 Jan Chalk Award for her contribution to the Italian Program and the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta.

David C. Bellusci

Mon, 18 Nov 2013 23:25:53 GMT

Dr. David C. Bellusci, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Dominican University College in Ottawa, has published his book Amor Dei in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi Press). The section on the Italian humanist, Gasparo Contarini, is covered in Chapter 3.

http://www.rodopi.nl/ntalpha.asp?BookId=VIBS+265&type=new

Roberta Cauchi Santoro

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:23:58 GMT

Roberta Cauchi Santoro has successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Beyond the Suffering of Being: Desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett.” She will be awarded with the degree PhD in Comparative Literature at the June 2013 Convocation ceremony at the University of Western Ontario. On July 1st 2013 Roberta will start a postdoctoral fellowship within the University of Guelph's European Studies Program.

In her dissertation, Roberta questions critical approaches that argue for Giacomo Leopardi’s and Samuel Beckett’s pessimism and nihilism. Beckett quotes Leopardi when discussing the removal of desire in his monograph Proust, a context that has spurred pessimist and nihilist readings. She argues that the inappropriateness of these labels is, on the contrary, specifically exposed through the role of desire in the two thinkers. Looking at Leopardi’s later poetry in the ciclo d’Aspasia, including the last poem “La Ginestra, o il fiore del deserto,” and examining Beckett’s plays Endgame and Happy Days, she argues that desire in Leopardi and Beckett could be read as lying at the cusp between Jacques Lacan’s and Emmanuel Levinas’ theories, a desire that both splits the subject (and is thus based on lack) as much as it moulds the subject when called to address the Other (inspiring what Levinas terms ‘infinity’ as opposed to ‘totality,’ an infinity pitted against the nothingness crucial to pessimist and nihilist readings).

Violetta Sutton (Topoleva)

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:22:30 GMT

Violetta Sutton (Topoleva) has completed all of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Italian Studies at the University of Toronto. In March she successfully defended her dissertation Society, Language, and Carnival in the Comedies of Ludovico Ariosto and will be awarded with the degree at the convocation ceremony, on June 5, 2013.

For her doctoral dissertation, she examined Ariosto’s comedies focusing not only on their structure, content, language and their reception and influences throughout the centuries, but also on social-historic context in which Ariosto’s comedies were composed, staged, and printed. While applying the theory of carnival in the comprehensive analysis of Ariosto’s comedies, she outlined Ariosto’s innovations made in his comedies. She plans to examine Ariosto’s comedies furthermore and eventually publish her research.

Konrad Eisenbichler

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:21:37 GMT

Professor Konrad Eisenbichler’s book The Sword and the Pen: Women, Politics and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Siena is one of the finalists in the ForeWord 2012 Book of the Year Award. ForeWord Reviews, a quarterly print journal dedicated to reviewing independently published books, was established in 1998 to provide booksellers, librarians, agents, and publishing professionals with reviews of the best titles from small, alternative, and academic presses. This year’s finalists were selected from more than 1300 titles submitted for the awards. The winners in the various categories will be announced on 28 June at the American Library Association annual conference in Chicago.

Teresa G. Russo

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:20:35 GMT

Teresa G. Russo edited Recognition and Modes of Knowledge: Anagnorisis from Antiquity to Contemporary Theory (2013) with University Alberta Press. The volume focuses on Aristotle's theory of Anagnorisis, or recognition, and traces the theory through various historical periods and disciplines. To date, no one has attempted a comprehensive discussion of recognition across disciplines, places, and historical periods. Recognition and Modes of Knowledge is the culmination of an interdisciplinary conference on recognition with contributions from international authorities including Rachel Adelman, Piero Boitani, Harry Fox (leBeit Yoreh), Rhiannon Graybill, Roland Le Huenen, Rosa Mucignat, Joseph Ring, Teresa G. Russo, Jenna Sunkenberg, Christina Tarnopolsky, Kevin Frederick Vaughan, Jeffrey Neil Weiner, and Naomi A. Weiss.

Joseph Pivato

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 23:18:59 GMT

Joseph Pivato is editor and contributor to the book, Africadian Atlantic: Essays on George Elliott Clarke. Guernica Editions, 2012.

Clarke's 2001 play and opera, Beatrice Chancy is an adaptation of the Cenci family tragedy of murder and execution from 1590s Rome. Clarke's work has been published in Italian, Poesie e Drammi. trans Giulio Marra, Università di Venezia, 2012. Clarke is a frequent invited speaker, reader and performer in Italy.

Konrad Eisenbichler

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 23:17:57 GMT

Congratulations to Prof. Konrad Eisenbichler on being awarded an Honourable Mention for the prestigious Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize of the Modern Language Association of America. The prize was awarded for his book The Sword and the Pen: Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Siena (University of Notre Dame Press, 2012). The committee’s citation for the honorable mention reads:

Konrad Eisenbichler’s lucid, elegant, and original volume brings to light the virtually unknown writings and lives of a circle of sixteenth-century Sienese women poets. This intriguing historical study, commentary, and anthology will be a precious contribution to the history of Italian lyric and religious poetry in the early modern period, to women’s studies, and to Renaissance studies. Eminently readable, “The Sword and the Pen: Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Siena” is the product of extensive archival work that engages broadly with existing scholarship in literary history and criticism, providing the reader with all the descriptive and analytic information necessary for an understanding of the biographies of the Sienese poets and a measured evaluation of their poems, including an appreciation of their contrasting styles and aesthetic orientations.

Olga Pugliese

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 23:09:58 GMT

Professor Olga Pugliese has recently published three works. The first is an on-line book-length study: Transcription of the Early Extant Manuscripts of Baldassar Castiglione’s “Il libro del cortegiano," posted on the University of Toronto Library T-space on 30 June 2012. It is 784 pages long and was prepared with the assistance of Lorenzo Bartoli, Filomena Calabrese, Adriana Grimaldi, Ian Martin, Laura Prelipcean, and Antonio Ricci. The web address is: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/32401.

The other two works are print, and both are articles:

“Unity and Multiplicity: Castiglione’s Views on Architecture in the Cortegiano.” Mitteilungen des Kunst-historischen Institutes in Florenz, 54. 2 (2010-2012): 257-266.

“Sensorial Language in Machiavelli’s Il principe” in “sul fil di ragno della memoria”. Studi in onore di Ilona Fried, ed. Franciska d’Elhoungne Hervai and Dávid Falvay. Budapest: Eötvös Loránd University and Ponte Foundation, 2012, pp. 81-92.

Filomena Calabrese

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 23:09:18 GMT

Filomena Calabrese has completed her PhD in Italian Studies at the University of Toronto and is now happily settled into her new position as Lecturer of Italian in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at Christopher Newport University (Virginia). She is teaching Italian language and culture, as well as a course on medieval and Renaissance perspectives that is part of the university’s recently launched Medieval and Renaissance Studies minor program.

Konrad Eisenbichler

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:07:37 GMT

Konrad Eisenbichler has just published The Sword and the Pen: Women, Poetry and Politics in Sixteenth-Century Siena. The book, published by the University of Notre Dame Press (2012), is the fruit of more than fifteen years of research in the archives and libraries of Italy in search of these long-lost writers who were well known in their time but failed to enter the canon of Italian literature and so, over time, disappeared from the radar. The book thus brings back into circulation not only these women’s poetry, but also much rich information about their lives and their contribution to contemporary letters and politics.