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LUCILLA BONAVITA, Luigi Pirandello and Orazio Costa: The Unpublished Works of Archivio Costa in the Experience of Piccolo Teatro di Roma (1948-1954), Roma, Edicampus, 2016.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about Pirandello, proposes a reading of the "stage fact" through a documentary and philological route constituted of unpublished material that winds within the notebooks jealously guarded by the Master since 1938 until his death, and now preserved in the Costa Archive in Florence.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http://www.edicampus-edizioni.it/collane/studi-e-ricerche/58-luigi-pirandello-and-orazio-costa-the-unpublished-works-of-the-archivio-costa-in-the-experience-of-the-piccolo-teatro-di-roma-1948-1954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”

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/

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

e

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").

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

e

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 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

e

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”).

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

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

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

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

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