Quod non est in libris non est in mundo. Sull’interdisciplinarità nella letteratura italiana

Matteo Maselli, Teresa Agovino

Il panorama letterario italiano è da sempre oggetto di studi interdisciplinari, intrusioni negli (e dagli) “altrui mestieri” che impreziosiscono o alterano il contenuto originale di opere fondamentali e hanno ricadute sui messaggi di volta in volta veicolati dagli scrittori.

Ciò accade sin dalla letteratura delle origini, in cui la commistione tra più discipline è prassi comune della creazione artistica: dai bestiari o lapidari medievali alle prime enciclopedie, forme testuali in cui le scienze in senso lato si rapportavano alle lettere, fino all’apporto della teologia alla poesia come nelle prove di Albertino Mussato o nella Commedia dantesca. O ancora, si pensi al connubio tra letteratura e arte che raggiunse autentici vertici con Le Vite del Vasari o alle speculazioni che poco meno di un secolo dopo alimentarono la prosa scientifica di Galileo.

In tempi più recenti, esempi di tal genere si fanno ancora più frequenti: dalla chimica di Primo Levi alla psichiatria di Mario Tobino, via via fino alle grandi prove della letteratura industriale ed ecologica, trame, discipline e mestieri si incrociano costantemente nella narrativa nazionale.

Il panel si propone dunque di raccogliere comunicazioni che vertono sull’interdisciplinarietà letteraria a tutto tondo. Alla luce di tali premesse, si invitano gli studiosi interessati a presentare una proposta di intervento (max 250 parole, in italiano o in inglese) e un breve profilo biobibliografico a m.maselli2@unimc.it e teresa.agovino@unimercatorum.it entro e non oltre il 1 marzo 2023.

Closing Date for Receiving Proposals for this Session: March 20 2023

ORGANIZERS

Matteo Maselli

Università degli Studi di Macerata

m.maselli2@unimc.it

Teresa Agovino

Universitas Mercatorum Roma

teresa.agovino@unimercatorum.it

Territori dell'impossibile. Riflessioni sul fantastico moderno, contemporaneo e ipercontemporaneo

Simone Pettine, Domenico Tenerelli

Per oltre due secoli il fantastico ha riconfermato la propria natura di genere letterario problematico: agevole da individuare anche ad una prima lettura, ma estremamente complesso da definire nel suo statuto teorico (Todorov preferì considerarlo non un genere, ma una frontiera tra generi differenti) e da sondare nelle sue concrete realizzazioni (contenuti e strategie narrative). Questa sessione si propone di indagare i testi del fantastico italiano – noti e meno noti, letterari e paraletterari – a partire dalle prime, timide comparse ottocentesche fino al fantasy dell’estrema contemporaneità, passando naturalmente per il mare magnum novecentesco. Saranno valutate proposte basate su approcci teorico-critici, semiotici, comparativi, e anche linguistici, purché basati su metodologie di indagine rigorosamente scientifiche.

Gli studiosi interessati sono invitati a presentare una proposta di intervento entro il 1 marzo 2023, allegando agli indirizzi mail simone.pettine@unich.it e domenico.tenerelli@gmail.com un unico file contenente: un abstract di circa 250 parole (ITA o ENG); un breve profilo bio-bibliografico.

Closing Date for Receiving Proposals for this Session: March 1, 2023

ORGANIZERS

Simone Pettine

“G. d’Annunzio” University (Chieti-Pescara)

simone.pettine@unich.it

Domenico Tenerelli

Université Rennes 2

domenico.tenerelli@gmail.com

Italian Literature in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality

Adele Bardazzi

The panel ‘Italian Literature in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality’ aims to discuss Italian literature that engage with recent developments in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, and Quantum Machine Learning.

If AI has been recurrent theme in science fiction, it is now directly implicated in the making of literary works – both fiction and poetry – across linguistic, cultural, and geographical borders. How is this developing within Italian literature and shaping new directions for the discipline of Italian Studies? To what extent, if at all, the literary and critical language employed so far can still work to investigate works produced by AI? In what ways can AI and AR, rather than bringing forward innovation – as they do in the sciences – lead literature backwards? How can AI shake and diversify the Italian literary canon? Does the advent of AI make the use of computer programming and other technologies used so far in literary works out-dated (e.g. Python programming language)? What does the interaction with AI and AR tell us about the nature of literature and poetry?

Papers engaging with questions of temporality, authoriality, communities, genre, and gender are particularly welcome, as well as theoretical and comparative analyses.  Contributions wishing to focus on how Italian Studies could incorporate in its teaching methodologies AI and AR are also welcome.

Please consider submitting an abstract of no more than 150 words and a short bio-bibliographical note by 15 February 2023 to Dr Adele Bardazzi: bardazza@tcd.ie.

Closing Date for Receiving Proposals for this Session: 20 March 2023

ORGANIZER

Adele Bardazzi

Trinity College Dublin

bardazza@tcd.ie

Doctoral Dissertations in Progress

Andrea Penso

In this session we welcome papers from PhD candidates who want to present their research topics, or show the first results of their doctoral work. The goal is to provide a platform for early career researchers to showcase their research and discuss their strategies in a collegial atmosphere, in order to receive feedback and advice within the frame of an international conference. Submissions could include any topic related to Italian studies, such as the following:

• Italian Literature from the origins to the 21st century;
• Italian History;
• Comparative literature with an Italian component;
• Italian linguistics;
• Italian Language and Second Language acquisition;
• Pedagogy and Italian studies;
• Gender Studies and Italian;
• Italian Theatre;
• Italian Journalism and history of the Press;
• Italian Studies and Digital Humanities.

Closing Date for Receiving Proposals for this Session: March 20, 2023

ORGANIZER

Andrea Penso

VUB – Vrije Universiteit Brussel

andrea.penso@vub.be

Dante's Trasumanar and monsters

Chiara Caputi, Francesca Lopez

Dante Alighieri expressed the transcendence of the human condition beyond its limitations through the verb trasumanar in Paradiso 1. It is rare evidence that Alighieri had thought of a kind of "transhuman" change in the early 1300s. In the past years, we witnessed the change raised by the feminist movements, especially the last wave called ''transfeminism'', which pointed out how ''being human'' it is not enough for the subjectivities in order to be recognized by politics. For this reason, the word ''posthuman'' was used to show how monsters can be active participants in our society, being part of us. In Dante's Inferno, throughout the journey of the character Dante into the depth of Hell, he encounters several beasts and monsters as he passes along the way. The seven main monsters - namely Minos, Cerberus, Plutus, Minotaur, Centaurs, Harpies, and Geryon - have the active role of guardians of the circles of Hell. Dante transformed their mythological identity to adapt their presence to his poem. We are interested in the exploration of how Dante represents the transcendence of the human condition and how this process involves monsters. 

Participants are invited to give papers that explore the following aspects:

1. the transcendence of the human condition through characters and metaphors mainly in the first canticle
2. the relationship between the human and the other elements that characterize the monsters and their combinations
3. the intertextual references to mythological texts in comparison to Inferno
4. the genderization or even the anthropomorphization of the monsters
5. monsters and proto-capitalism

We accept papers in English and Italian. All submissions must be sent via email in a single Word document entitled "Last Name CAIS 2023" and contain the following items: an abstract (maximum 200 characters), a short bio, full name, email address, and affiliation. Please use "CAIS 2023" in the subject line.

Closing Date for Receiving Proposals for this Session: March 1st, 2023

ORGANIZERS

Chiara Caputi

The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

ccaputi@gradcenter.cuny.edu

Francesca Lopez

The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

flopez@gradcenter.cuny.edu

Sicilia Erotica

Chiel Monzone

La Sicilia è da sempre una terra di scrittura erotica. Sin dai secoli a.C. fino ai giorni nostri, molti autori e autrici hanno avuto inclinazione verso tale canone. Oltre al “famoso” Domenico Tempio poeta osceno del secondo Settecento, ma in verità portatore di ben differente tempra letteraria, altri hanno lasciato trace in versi e in prosa, sia in modo più sistematico sia occasionalmente. Il rimando, ad esempio, è ai vari Pirandello, Brancati, Meli, Camilleri, Aniante, Torregrossa, Panarello, ecc. Il panel che si propone, dunque, intende mettere assieme interventi che siano volti a evidenziare un erotismo siciliano variamente declinato, dai toni più crudi a quelli più blandi. Gli studiosi interessati a partecipare potranno far pervenire le proposte di contributo su un particolare scrittore e sulla dimensione erotica così come appare dalle opere che ha redatto. Si richiede che le proposte, anche in chiave comparata, non superino le 250 parole e che siano accompagnate da un breve profilo biobibliografico entro e non oltre il 1 marzo 2023.

Closing Date for Receiving Proposals for this Session: 1st March 2023

ORGANIZER

Chiel Monzone

Independent scholar (PhD) - Università Roma Tre

chiel.monzone@uniroma3.it

Framing Ferrante: Adaptation and Intermediality from Troubling Love to The Lying Life of Adults

Russell Kilbourn, Roberta Cauchi-Santoro

This panel surveys the cinematic and televisual adaptations of Elena Ferrante’s literary works, from Mario Martone’s L’amore molesto (1995) and Roberto Faenza’s I giorni dell’abandono (2005) to Saverio Costanzo’s L’amica geniale series (2018-), Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter (2021), and Edoardo De Angelis’s Netflix series La vita bugiarda degli adulti (2023). In their 2021 collection, Ferrante Unframed, Roberta Cauchi-Santoro and Costanza Barchiesi set out to “unframe” Ferrante, “releasing [her] from the tight confines” of the debate around the strangely problematic status of a successful author whose writing has generally been associated with the works of Italian women writers. This panel seeks to build on this research by considering the literal framing and re-framing of Ferrante on TV and film screens. The aim is to extend and expand upon existing scholarship by considering the older forays into Ferrante adaptation alongside the more recent, 21st century remediations. In this respect the panel organizers seek papers that conjoin questions of modality (analog or digital), medium, mediation, and transmediation, with those of authorship, authority, and gender, around such key issues as genre and influence, commercial vs. independent, arthouse vs. ‘prestige,’ etc.

Closing Date for Receiving Proposals for this Session: March 01, 2023

ORGANIZERS

Russell Kilbourn

Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario

rkilbourn@wlu.ca

Roberta Cauchi-Santoro

St. Jerome's, University of Waterloo, Ontario

roberta.cauchi-santoro@uwaterloo.ca

The Long Gaze of History: Antonio Scurati and Italian Fascism

Sandra Parmegiani

In Il tempo migliore della nostra vita and especially in his trilogy M (destined to grow into a fourth and possibly a fifth volume), Antonio Scurati offers a memorialization of Italy’s past through historical fiction that closely adheres to and draws from original documents, personal memoirs, and archival sources. Carefully timed to coincide with the centenary of the March on Rome and fortuitously published during the first postwar Italian right-wing government and a new war in Europe, Scurati’s narrative portrayal of Italian Fascism has been hailed as a masterpiece and, occasionally, criticized as not sufficiently anti-fascist or factually inaccurate. Scurati’s revisitation and first overall narrative appraisal of Fascist Italy takes place at a time when communicative memory of those events is reaching the end of its natural life span (J. Assmann), and in the midst of what Scurati defines as an unprecedented cultural disengagement with history. In his response to Ernesto Galli Della Loggia on the Corriere della Sera (17 ottobre 2018), he wishes for a “new alliance between historians and novelists,” informed by the conviction that “to prepare the world to come, we will necessarily have to rediscover the profound sense of our history.”¹

This panel invites contributions on Scurati’s narrative representation of Fascist Italy, which might include (but are not limited to): Scurati’s narrative strategies; the use of archival sources and historical documents; narrativizing the colonial other; female representation; Jewish identity and Fascism.

1. “Europa, zona di guerra. Il senso tragico della storia e la rinascita del romanzo francese.” Fictions, Studi sulla narratività, XIII (2014), p. 95.

Closing Date for Receiving Proposals for this Session: March 20, 2023

ORGANIZER

Sandra Parmegiani

University of Guelph

sparmegi@uoguelph.ca

History of the Italian Language: Inductive and deductive approaches to the diachronic study of Italian and related idioms

Kevin Reynolds

This session aims tobring together scholars of Italian and Romance linguistics with a particular interest in the history and/or diffusion of the Italian language or of the regional languages spoken in and around Italy. Submissions from all subfields of linguistics and language studies are welcome. Papers will highlight a theoretical approach that takes into account innovative inductive and/or deductive methodologies and that opens the diachronic study of Italian and related Romance idioms to new areas of inquiry and teaching. How do investigations into the linguistic history of Italy and its linguistic sphere outside the Republic cross-pollinate with other disciplines within Italian Studies, general linguistics, and/or Romance studies? How do new methods of diachronic inquiry figure into researchers’ pedagogical approaches? How do they inspire and encourage student engagement and success? How do past paradigmatic transformations in diachronic linguistics and philology inform innovation in research today? Presenters are encouraged to blend discussion of their research results with an introspective analysis of their approaches and future avenues of inquiry.

Closing Date for Receiving Proposals for this Session: March 1, 2023

ORGANIZER

Kevin Reynolds

York University

reynol15@yorku.ca

Integrating Advocacy Strategies for your Italian Program

Luisa Canuto

Threatened by a decrease in enrollment and changing students’ needs, our university and K-12 Italian language programs need to integrate a cohesive advocacy plan which includes establishing measurable objectives, defining message points and deciding what resources are needed to meet the challenges we are facing. This roundtable discussion on Italian programs across Canada and beyond aims to provide an overview on the state of Italian teaching and learning in Canada, discuss data on recent trends in enrollment in Italian programs across the country and also engage participants in a conversation on how to proactively advocate for their programs. The discussion will also include some concrete examples of effective initiatives which have become a vital component of Italian programs today.

Collaborative brainstorming and constructive feedback will be encouraged to consider short-term and long-term strategies that advocate for maintaining Italian programs at all levels while involving administrative decision-makers.

Italianists across the discipline are invited to present one or two of their most successful initiatives and provide their data on them to help other educators take these suggestions back to their programs.

Closing Date for Receiving Proposals for this Session: March 1, 2023

ORGANIZER

Luisa Canuto

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

luisa.canuto@ubc.ca

Improving Students' Learning with Evidence-based Research

Luisa Canuto

Language educators are often at the forefront of innovation in teaching, and regularly renew their strategies and techniques to provide a highly dynamic and engaging environment for student learning. Research-based pedagogies that use systematic, deliberate and methodological inquiry into teaching practises, attitudes and values are proved to have a positive and lasting impact on learning outcomes (Potter & Kustra, 2011). However, their innovative and effective practises, including in areas of blended, hybrid and online teaching, can go unnoticed if not properly researched, analyzed, documented and published. With this session we intend to provide both an overview of what evidence-based teaching means as well as share different examples of language teaching based on evidence. During the session we will also discuss strategies to incorporate research in our teaching practice. By collecting and using empirical evidence to measure the effectiveness of their teaching, language educators, can secure their role, demonstrate leadership in their practises and improve their students’ learning experience.

Closing Date for Receiving Proposals for this Session: March 1, 2023

ORGANIZER

Luisa Canuto

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

luisa.canuto@ubc.ca

Italia imprevista e minore. Il paesaggio, la casa e il lavoro tra memorie e modernità.

Saverio Carillo

La cultura italiana del Novecento ha dato luogo, soprattutto dopo le nefande esperienze della Prima e Seconda Guerra mondiale, al ripensamento di parte dei tradizionali costumi e abitudini propri della giovane nazione che era nata del 1861 a seguito dei moti risorgimentali. Quelle due guerre, ancora radicate nell’impostazione nazionalistica otttocentesca, facevano anche i conti con la sopraggiunta modernità internazionale che mostrava il suo lato oscuro soprattutto nella capacità tecnologica di portare la guerra in tutti i territori, disseminando distruzioni di memorie che costituivano i valori identitari di quel giovane Stato.

Nasce, col dopoguerra, la preoccupazione di documentare e preservare il patrimonio culturale di quel paese rurale che con l’avvento del XX secolo subiva una metamorfosi rapidissima e irreversibile. Il ritorno e il recupero degli usi civici dei territori, già di loro nascita green e reslienti, restano impellenti a fronte della più estesa problematica ecologica e di gestione ergonomica delle risorse. Salvaguardare le memorie, gli spazi dell’abitare, il paesaggio e il design dell’Italia minore può costituire traccia cospicua per meglio affrontare l’odierna transizione ecologica che la contemporaneità globale chiede anche a quella Penisola che, nel Mediterraneo, costituì uno dei luoghi storici della nascita della cività umana.

Closing Date for Receiving Proposals for this Session: March 20, 2023

ORGANIZER

Saverio Carillo

Universita’ degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”

saverio.carillo@unicampania.it

From the Margins: Representations of Otherness in Italian Literature and Cinema

Elena Benelli

Since the Nineties, Italian literature and cinema have explored the theme of Otherness, inclusion, exclusion, citizenship and postcolonial influences in Italian society. From Immigrato to La linea del colore, from L’America to L’ordine delle cose just to name a few, this panel seeks contributions including (but not limited to):

• Analysis of how migration and race are represented in Italian film, literature and media
• Examination of the experiences of migrants and minorities in Italy, including their struggles for inclusion and representation
• Exploration of postcolonial themes and the impact of Italy's colonial history on current representations of Otherness
• Analysis of the work of authors and filmmakers from immigrant backgrounds
• Examination of the experiences of second generations and their representation in Italian society and culture.

Closing Date for Receiving Proposals (in English, French or Italian - no more than 200 words) for this Session: March 1, 2023

ORGANIZER

Elena Benelli

Concordia University

elena.benelli@concordia.ca

Challenging and Changing the Canon: Igiaba Scego’s Novels

Elena Benelli

Igiaba Scego is a leading voice in contemporary Italian literature. A journalist and a novelist, her works focus on intercultural dialogue and postcolonial Italian history. This panel welcomes contributions engaging with Scego's works. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• The role of memory and history in Scego’s novels;
• The intersection of gender, race, and class in Scego’s novels;
• The contribution of Igiaba Scego to contemporary Italian literature and culture

Closing Date for Receiving Proposals (in English, French or Italian - no more than 200 words) for this Session: March 1, 2023

ORGANIZER

Elena Benelli

Concordia University

elena.benelli@concordia.ca

Catalysts for Social and Cultural Change. A Century of Italian Women Trailblazers (1870s to 1970s)

Cristina Caracchini, Sandra Parmegiani

This session welcomes contributions relating to Italian women active between the 1870s and 1970s. We are looking for proposals focusing on women whose work outside of the domestic sphere represented, for their time, a model of social advancement.  Examples of this work may consist in creative, journalistic and essay writing, in educational projects, as well as in social involvement ranging from philanthropic enterprises to political activity. 

Contributions to this session can take either a historical or a literary approach, in this latter case the analysis can revolve around the representation of such women in literary texts or around their literary activity.

We are particularly (but not only) interested in papers exploring women’s networks and their effects in the realization of specific projects, in terms of creative collaborations and / or social actions.

Please submit a 150 word-abstract in English or Italian and a short bio to Cristina Caracchini (ccaracch@uwo.ca) and Sandra Parmegiani (sparmegi@uoguelph.ca) by March 1st.

Closing Date for Receiving Proposals for this Session: March 1st

ORGANIZERS

Cristina Caracchini

Western University

ccaracch@uwo.ca

Sandra Parmegiani

University of Guelph

sparmegi@uoguelph.ca

La penna e il pennello: letterati e artisti in dialogo

Filippo Luca Sambugaro, Marco Sartor

[ENG]

“Ut pictura poesis”: this is how the Latin poet Horace – quoting Simonides – describes the value of literature and, at the same time, of art in his famous Epistle to the Pisones. “As in painting, so in poetry” intends to emphasise the deep underlying links between these artistic forms that can be found throughout our literary history, for example in the emblematic case of ekphrasis, which punctuates the most important works of our tradition (from Purgatorio, X or the Petrarchan sonnets 77-78 to Marino’s Galeria or contemporary cases such as those of Saba and Pasolini). Another major topic is the artistic associations between literati and artists (painters, sculptors, musicians...), also with reference to the influence exerted by a particular cultural centre.

This panel encourages considerations and discussions on the relationships between these arts in Italian literature (with a focus on medieval, renaissance, and modern literature). Some lines of research that can be investigated are:

• origins, functions, and declinations of ekphrasis;
• quotations and repetitions of the artist by the writer or vice versa;
• cultural centres as a meeting point and birthplace for sodalities between intellectuals and artists;
• epistolary exchanges between artists and literati.

Scholars interested in participating are invited to submit a proposal by March 1st, 2023, attaching to the email addresses filippo.sambugaro@gmail.com and marcco.sartor@unipr.it a single file containing an abstract in Italian or English of a maximum of 250 words and a brief bio-bibliographical profile of the same length.

[ITA]

«Ut pictura poesis»: così il poeta latino Orazio – riprendendo Simonide – parla nella sua celebre Epistola ai Pisoni del valore della letteratura e, al tempo stesso, dell’arte. «Come nella pittura, così nella poesia» intende sottolineare i profondi legami soggiacenti tra queste forme artistiche che possono essere riscontrati in tutta la nostra storia letteraria, ad esempio nel caso emblematico dell’ekphrasis, che costella le più importanti opere della nostra tradizione (a partire da Purgatorio, X o dai sonetti petrarcheschi 77-78 fino alla Galeria di Marino o a casi contemporanei come quelli di Saba e Pasolini). Altro spunto di riflessione importante è la presenza di particolari sodalizi artistici fra letterati e artisti (pittori, scultori, musicisti…), anche in riferimento all’influenza esercitata da un determinato centro culturale.

Questo panel sollecita riflessioni e dialoghi sui rapporti tra queste arti riscontrabili nella letteratura italiana (con maggiore attenzione a quella medievale, rinascimentale e moderna). Alcune linee di ricerca indagabili sono:

• origini, funzioni, declinazioni dell’ekphrasis;
• citazioni e riprese dell’artista da parte del letterato o viceversa;
• centri culturali come punto di ritrovo e di nascita per sodalizi tra intellettuali e artisti;
• scambi epistolari tra artisti e letterati.

Gli studiosi interessati a partecipare sono invitati a presentare una proposta di intervento entro il 1° marzo 2023, allegando agli indirizzi mail filippo.sambugaro@gmail.com e marco.sartor@unipr.it un unico file contenente un abstract in italiano o in inglese di massimo 250 parole e un breve profilo bio-bibliografico della medesima lunghezza.

Closing Date for Receiving Proposals for this Session: March 20, 2023.

ORGANIZERS

Filippo Luca Sambugaro

Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”; Université de Strasbourg

filippo.sambugaro@gmail.com; filippoluca.sambugaro@unicampania.it

Marco Sartor

Università di Parma

marco.sartor@unipr.it

ChatGPT and AI Tools Beyond Plagiarism

Andrea Privitera, Enrica Aurora Cominetti

ChatGPT will revolutionize the teaching of the Humanities at large, but we are already feeling its impact right now. Students have already been using OpenAI’s free text-generating tool in ways that raise serious academic integrity concerns. For example, due to fears about its negative impact on student learning, New York and Los Angeles public schools have banned the use of ChatGPT on their networks and devices. Even before the arrival of ChatGPT, the European Commission expressed its opinion on the subject in a publication summarizing the "Ethical guidelines on the use of artificial intelligence and data in teaching and learning for educators,"1 where it emphasizes how, through the use of training and awareness, artificial intelligence and data may be exploited by educators to improve their teaching.

Italian language and Italian Studies courses are not immune to this phenomenon. ChatGPT can generate text in about ninety-five languages, including Italian, thus representing an essay-writing and translating instrument to which students can easily resort when handling academic assignments.

How can Italian educators deal with this revolution in the short term and, above all, in the medium and long term? To what extent can AI tools be integrated into our teaching practices?

We welcome contributions including (but not limited to):

• Effective methods for detecting and discouraging AI-based plagiarism
• Successful ways to integrate ChatGPT and other AI tools in Italian Studies programs
• Innovative approaches to teaching Italian language and culture which place a greater focus on students’ creativity, critical thinking and problem-solving skills 

Please send a 200-word proposal in English or Italian and a short biographical note to Andrea Privitera (andrea.privitera@uwaterloo.ca) and Enrica Aurora Cominetti (ecominet@uoguelph.ca) by March 20, 2023.

Closing Date for Receiving Proposals for this Session: March 20, 2023

ORGANIZERS

Andrea Privitera

St. Jerome’s University - University of Waterloo

andrea.privitera@uwaterloo.ca

Enrica Aurora Cominetti

University of Guelph

ecominet@uoguelph.ca

Italian Diasporas and Indigenous Peoples: Histories, Questions, Possibilities

Paolo Frascà, Angela Nardozi

This session wishes to explore histories, relationships, and possible paths forward between Italian communities and Indigenous Peoples in the so-called Americas and beyond. It aims to bring together scholars, activists, and community leaders to discuss an array of issues, such as controversial colonial figures (Caboto, Colombo, etc.), the role of religion in diasporic communities (particularly as it relates to the Doctrine of Discovery and Residential “School” System), and what it means to follow original agreements in the sharing of the land. This discussion is inspired by the work of scholars such as John Borrows (Anishinaabe), who teaches on the contemporary value of the Guswenta/Two-Row Wampum, an agreement between Settlers and Indigenous Peoples forged at Niagara in 1764 to live in peace and friendship while not interfering in one another’s path. The conversation is further guided by Indigenous initiatives that advocate for Land Back and for a return to treaties. We are also inspired by the work of the Hon. Frank Iacobucci on Truth and Reconciliation and on Indigenous representation in the justice system. Some questions we seek to explore are:

1. What is the relationship of Italians to colonialism in Canada, the United States, and beyond?
2. What are the responsibilities that Italians must honour to pursue better relations with Indigenous Peoples? How are these duties being fulfilled and where are the shortcomings?
3. What paths are currently visible to building new relationships on a Nation-to-Nation basis?

All proposals related to the topic of Indigenous-Italian relations are welcome.

Additional note: Please submit 150-200-word abstracts and a short bio note to Paolo Frascà (paolo.frasca@utoronto.ca) and Angela Nardozi (a.nardozi@utoronto.ca).

Closing Date for Receiving Proposals for this Session: March 20

ORGANIZERS

Paolo Frascà

Dept. of Italian Studies / Frank Iacobucci Centre for Italian-Canadian Studies / Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto

paolo.frasca@utoronto.ca

Angela Nardozi

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

a.nardozi@utoronto.ca

Mapping Narratives in Italian Literature and Media

Alessio Aletta

Introducing the concept of “mapping narratives”, Robert Tally states: “Narratives are in some ways devices or methods used to map the real-and-imagined spaces of human experience. […] These narratives, which are also maps, must be understood as themselves objects to be mapped” (2014: 3).

The double meaning of narratives creating their own maps and/or demanding to be mapped is (literally) everywhere in Italian literature, from the Divine Comedy’s carefully structured Otherworld to the urban setting of 20th century novels, from the varied spatiality of Renaissance epic poems to the ‘projected’ places of emigrants, immigrants or second-generation Italians. The relationship between text and spatiality is arguably even stronger in visual media such as comics, cinema and tv.

Despite the growing interest in this field, especially in recent years (in no small part related to the implementation of GIS mapping), the geography of Italian narratives remains largely unexplored.

This panel invites papers on any text, author, or broader corpora and phenomena dealing with Italian literature and media in a spatial or geographical perspective, with a preference for literary cartography but including the many approaches which go under the umbrella of literary spatial studies (geocriticism, ecocriticism, geopoetics, imagology…). General contributions concerning the state of the art and the application of such methodologies in the field of Italian Studies are also very much welcome.

Communications may be in English or Italian. Paper proposals, including an abstract (150-300 words) and a short bio (100-50 words) should be sent at alessio.aletta@mail.utoronto.ca by March 1st 2023.

Closing Date for Receiving Proposals for this Session: March 20th

ORGANIZER

Alessio Aletta

University of Toronto

alessio.aletta@mail.utoronto.ca

Presupposti e sviluppi di un “canone”: la storiografia della letteratura italiana tra XVIII e XXI secolo.

Ninna Maria Lucia Martines

La nascita di una storiografia letteraria italiana ha richiesto un lavorio serrato, dalla fine del XVIII secolo, per procedere, nell’ottica di un progressivo distanziamento da un’impostazione erudita ed enciclopedica, con il dibattito critico e storiografico del XIX secolo, quando la letteratura incontra la vita e la nazione. Un dibattito che si costruisce attorno a questioni inerenti alla metodologia, alla definizione del campo e della funzione della letteratura, ai criteri di allestimento di un canone. Tematiche complesse e cruciali, che alle soglie del XIX secolo richiedono con urgenza una ricognizione critica e storiografica sistematica.

Date queste premesse, la sessione è aperta a tutte le proposte di intervento che intendano indagare i presupposti e gli sviluppi di un canone della letteratura italiana dalla nascita della storiografia letteraria nazionale alle più recenti declinazioni.

Gli interessati sono pregati di inviare un abstract di 150 parole (max.) e un breve profilo biobibliografico, completo di affiliazione e indirizzo e-mail, a ninna.martines@phd.unict.it, entro e non oltre il 1° marzo 2023.

Closing Date for Receiving Proposals for this Session: 20th March 2023

ORGANIZER

Ninna Maria Lucia Martines

Università degli Studi di Catania - Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche

ninna.martines@phd.unict.it

Federico Fellini: 30 anni dopo / 30 years later / 30 ans après

Alberto Zambenedetti, Marina Vargau

[ITA]

Sono passati quasi trent’anni dalla scomparsa di Federico Fellini il 31 ottobre 1993. Eppure, il suo “universo cinematografico” continua ad essere celebrato in retrospettive, cineteche, documentari, social media, ed oltre. Il centenario della nascita (nel 2020) è stato accompagnato da una valanga di pubblicazioni, sia di testi accademici che divulgativi. Il cinema di Fellini e le sue leggendarie apparizioni pubbliche hanno lasciato una traccia indelebile nell’immaginario collettivo. Ancor oggi, questo affascinate e magmatico universo continua ad ispirare cineasti (sia di finzione che documentaristi), fumettisti, scrittori e musicisti. Tributi, allusioni, evocazioni dell’opera felliniana si ritrovano nei luoghi più impensabili.

Gli organizzatori del panel accolgono proposte nuove e originali che si propongano di aggiornare lo stato degli studi felliniani. Possibili argomenti includono:

• Il dialogo e le relazioni inter/trans-artistiche e mediatiche nell’opera omnia di Fellini;
• Nuove letture e approcci (psicoanalisi, filosofia, archeologia, antropologia, narrativa, affettiva, ecc.);
• L’effetto del cinema di Fellini sui film di altri cineasti (suoi contemporanei oppure attualmente attivi, italiani o internazionali che sia);
• L’effetto dell’”universo cinematografico” felliniano e la sua arte intermediale in altri campi, come letteratura, arti visive, nuovi media, etc.
• Documentari sulla vita e/o il cinema di Fellini.

Gli studiosi interessati sono invitati a inviare agli organizzatori del panel una proposta di 250 parole al massimo (in italiano, inglese o francese) e una breve bio-bibliografia entro e non oltre il primo marzo 2023.

Closing Date for Receiving Proposals for this Session: 20 marzo 2023

[ENG]

Almost thirty years have passed since Federico Fellini’s death in October 1993. Yet, his “cinematic universe” continues to have broad appeal in retrospectives, cinematheques, documentaries, social media, and beyond. His centenary was marked by a stream of publications (both academic and for the general public) and devoted to his work. Fellini’s cinema and his legendary public appearances have left an indelible trace in the world’s imagination. To this day, this fascinating, magmatic universe inspires filmmakers (both fiction and non-fiction), comic book artists, writers and musicians. Tributes, allusions, and invocations of Fellini’s work are found in the most disparate places.

The panel organizers seek novel and original contributions that will help update the state of research in Fellinian studies. Possible topics include:

• The dialogue and relationship between the arts and media in Fellini's opera omnia;
• New readings and approaches (psychoanalytical, philosophical, archaeological, anthropological, narrative, affective, etc.) in his films;
• The effect of Fellini’s cinema in the films made by other filmmakers (from his contemporaries to the most recent, whether Italian or international);
• The effect of his “cinematic universe” and his intermedia art in other fields: literature, visual arts, new media, etc.;
• Documentaries dedicated to Fellini's cinema, life, or more.

Closing Date for Receiving Proposals (in Italian, English or French – no more than 250 words, and a brief bio-bibliography) for this Session is March 20th, 2023.

[FR]

Près de trente ans se sont écoulés depuis la mort de Federico Fellini, le 31 octobre 1993. Pourtant, son "univers cinématographique" continue d'être célébré dans les rétrospectives, les cinémathèques, les documentaires, les médias sociaux et au-delà. Le centenaire de sa naissance (en 2020) a été accompagné d’un grand nombre de publications, qu'il s'agisse de textes universitaires ou de vulgarisation. Le cinéma de Fellini et ses légendaires apparitions publiques ont laissé une trace indélébile dans l'imaginaire collectif. Aujourd'hui encore, cet univers fascinant et magmatique continue d'inspirer les cinéastes de fiction, les documentaristes, les auteurs de bandes dessinées, les écrivains et les musiciens. On trouve des hommages, des allusions, des évocations de l'œuvre de Fellini dans les endroits les plus variés.

Les organisateurs du panel accueillent des propositions nouvelles et originales qui visent à actualiser l'état des études consacrées à Fellini. Parmi les sujets possibles figurent :

• Le dialogue et les relations inter/trans-artistiques et médiatiques dans l’opera omnia de Fellini;
• Nouvelles lectures et approches (psychanalytique, philosophique, archéologique, anthropologique, narrative, affective, etc.) dans ses films;
• L'effet du cinéma de Fellini dans les films réalisés par d'autres cinéastes (de ses contemporains aux plus récents, qu'ils soient italiens ou internationaux) ;
• L'effet de son "univers cinématographique" et de son art intermédial dans d'autres domaines : littérature, arts visuels, nouveaux médias, etc.;
• Documentaires sur la vie et/ou le cinéma de Fellini.

Les chercheurs intéressés sont invités à envoyer aux organisateurs du panel une proposition de 250 mots maximum (en italien, anglais ou français) et une courte bio-bibliographie au plus tard le 1er mars 2023.

Closing Date for Receiving Proposals for this Session: 20 mars 2023.

ORGANIZERS

Alberto Zambenedetti

University of Toronto

alberto.zambenedetti@utoronto.ca

Marina Vargau

Université de Montréal

marina.vargau@umontreal.ca

Fascists and Partisans in the Italian Narrative: The Assimilation of the Past Through Literature and Cinema.

Matteo Ottaviani, Roberto Viviani

This session aims to analyze the way in which the Italian literature and cinema represent the “Ventennio” and the “Resistenza,” and to what degree these two phenomena are integrated in the national imagination. To bring a better understanding of these historical phenomenon and moment, this session will answer the following questions: how did writers and directors have decided to approach these topics from post-WWII until today? In which way are the violence of the regime, the brutality of the war, and the emotions of the protagonists confronted? How has this story been told, and how did it become a part of the common legacy of this nation? The “Ventennio” and its heritage are still an unsolved question in the Italian identity. The Italian society is still struggling to understand and incorporate this part of its history in the collective memory. This problematic gives rise to questions such as how has the perception of this ideology change over the years? And how did the politics influence the assimilation of this moment of the Italian history?

Closing Date for Receiving Proposals for this Session: March 1st, 2023

ORGANIZERS

Matteo Ottaviani

McGill University

matteo.ottaviani@mail.mcgill.ca

Roberto Viviani

McGill University

roberto.viviani@mcgill.ca

Representing the Vice-Kingdom of Naples during the Spanish rule (1553-1707)

Alessandro Giardino

This session invites papers focusing on artistic, historical, and literary representations of the Vice-Kingdom of Naples at the time of the Spanish rule (1533-1707), with a particular emphasis on daily life, key historical figures, and material culture. We particularly welcome scholarly and fictional narratives based on archival research, travel journals, visual records, and factual accounts. We will also consider studies focusing on the role played by the city of Naples within larger Mediterranean networks.

Please submit a 200 word-abstract in English or Italian and a short bio to Alessandro Giardino (agiardino@stlawu.edu), by March 3, 2023.

Closing Date for Receiving Proposals for this Session: March 20, 2023

ORGANIZER

Alessandro Giardino, Ph.D

St. Lawrence University, N.Y.

agiardino@stlawu.edu

Come due orfane andiamo a pranzo/beviamo il tè e ci diamo i baci.

Possibilità di una poesia lesbica in Italia

Jessy Simonini, Micol Bez

Non sono mancati, negli ultimi anni, ricerche e studi sull'omosessualità nella poesia italiana del Novecento. Si possono citare qui i lavori di Buffoni (tesi a ripristinare una forma di "giustizia biografica") o di Baldoni (nella prospettiva di un'antologia della poesia gay poi perseguita anche da Gardini), che hanno tuttavia rivolto il loro sguardo quasi esclusivamente verso l'omosessualità maschile, anche a causa del progressivo inserimento nel canone di alcuni autori come Sandro Penna e Dario Bellezza.

Nella ricchezza delle prospettive critiche sulla cosiddetta poesia gay, languono invece gli studi e le ricerche sulle possibilità e sulle condizioni di esistenza (o di non esistenza) di una poesia lesbica nel Novecento italiano. Gli amori omosessuali femminili e le soggettività lesbiche paiono infatti assenti o esclusi dagli interessi critici relativi alla produzione poetica del Novecento. L'obiettivo di questo panel è allora quello di ragionare su questo vuoto e proporre alcune interpretazioni critiche su autrici che possono rientrare in questa costellazione mobile e aperta.

Accogliamo con favore interventi specifici su autrici come Giovanna Bemporad, Edda Billi, Patrizia Cavalli, Alice Ceresa, Jolanda Insana, Nella Nobili, Sara Zanghì, ma pure più ampi scandagli critici sul tema, anche considerando i rapporti con la temperie femminista e con le elaborazioni teoriche provenienti da altre parti del mondo (da Rich a Wittig, per offrire due esempi). Saremo altresì lieti di accogliere contributi relativi alla poesia italiana iper-contemporanea (si pensi, ad esempio, alla poesia di Anna Segre) nonché alla produzione in lingue minorizzate o dialetti d'ambito italiano.

Le studiose e gli studiosi interessate/i possono inviare una proposta di 250 parole a simonini.jessy@spes.uniud.it e a MicolBez2027@u.northwestern.edu

Closing Date for Receiving Proposals for this Session: 1 Marzo 2023

ORGANIZERS

Jessy Simonini

Università di Udine / Università di Trieste

jessy.simonini@gmail.com

Micol Bez

Northwestern University

MicolBez2027@u.northwestern.edu

Crisis, Catastrophism, and Nuclear Anxiety in Italian Poetry

Roberto Binetti, Christine Ott

This panel aims to discuss literary forms and elaborations of ‘crisis’ in Italian poetry from the Cold War up to the present day with a focus on four ‘movements’ that often characterise critical events: internalisation, anticipation, waiting, and aftermath of the event. Papers engaging with forms and expressions of catastrophism around nuclear anxieties are particularly welcome. Italy hosted –and, in fact, still hosts– on its territory hundreds of American nuclear weapons while housing the most prominent Communist Party in the West between the 50s and the 80s. As a result, since the second half of the twentieth century, Italy has represented a unique laboratory for the cultural elaboration of so-called ‘nuclear anxiety’. Lyric poetry and nuclear anxiety insist and depend on a productively unresolved contradiction: they both originate from a well-defined and individual subjectivity while also containing a collective dimension. In so doing, do they absorb the psychological dimension of something other than the self and extend it beyond its subjective boundaries, or, instead, they are tight up to an individual, rather than a collective, experience? What kind of temporalities develop as part of forms of nuclear anxiety and their literary manifestations? Papers engaging with the above questions as well as with questions of world literature, cultural history, environmental humanities, women’s writing, postcolonial studies, and migration studies are particularly welcome.

Please consider submitting an abstract of no more than 150 words and a short bio-bibliographical note by 1 March 2023 to Dr Roberto Binetti (roberto.binetti@st-annes.ox.ac.uk) and Professor Christine Ott (c.ott@em.uni-frankfurt.de).

This session is online only.

Closing Date for Receiving Proposals for this Session: 1 March 2023

ORGANIZERS

Roberto Binetti

Independent Scholar

roberto.binetti@st-annes.ox.ac.uk

Christine Ott

Goethe University Frankfurt

c.ott@em.uni-frankfurt.de

Popular music: tradizioni in dialogo fra l’Italia e le Americhe

Cristina Perissinotto, Elena Santi

Questa sessione è patrocinata da “IPOTESI - Revista de Estudos Literários”, del Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras della Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Minas Gerais. Si intende indagare sui possibili contatti e dialoghi fra le tradizioni della popular music e le loro intersezioni con letterature, arti figurative e performative, assumendo come punto di partenza, in particolare, la canzone italiana e le diverse tradizioni della canzone nelle Americhe. L’indagine può riguardare le esperienze dei cantautori, cantautrici e cantanti italiani e italiane (Fabrizio De André, Paolo Conte, Mina, Ornella Vanoni, Franco Battiato, Edoardo Bennato, Francesco Guccini, Fiorella Mannoia e molti altri), che incorporano nei loro testi e nelle loro composizioni suggestioni ed elementi provenienti dai contesti letterari e musicali delle Americhe.

Possibili influenze sono le esperienze di cantautori, cantautrici e cantanti brasiliani e brasiliane come Vinicius de Moraes, Chico Buarque, Rita Lee, Roberto Carlos, Zizi Possi, Anitta, Ana Carolina e altri che transitano fra queste tradizioni, così come cantautori argentini, messicani, statunitensi, cubani e altri, che si muovono fra questi estremi.

In questa prospettiva, la proposta è aperta anche a studi sulle influenze della musica popolare italiana nelle Americhe e viceversa, sia attraverso i molteplici contatti migratori, sia tramite i rapporti fra compositori, interpreti, parolieri e strumentisti. Infine, interagendo con le aree tematiche proposte, sarà possibile anche approfondire la relazione fra canzone e letteratura, su un piano formale, politico, sociale e culturale.

Closing Date for Receiving Proposals for this Session: March 20, 2023

ORGANIZERS

Cristina Perissinotto

University of Ottawa

cristina.perissinotto@uottawa.ca

Elena Santi

Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Minas Gerais

elena.santi@ufjf.br

Rappresentazioni televisive dell'italianità
Greta Delpanno

Quando pensiamo all’Italia sono molte le immagini che affiorano: la cucina, la natura, l’arte, la cultura, ecc. I film e la televisione ci aiutano in questo senso con eloquenti riprese di spiagge, acque cristalline e borghetti medievali. Tuttavia, questa idea di locus amoenus spesso usata per rappresentare l’Italia è accompagnata da una serie di stereotipi su italiani chiassosi seppur calorosi, simpatici nonostante loschi. Basti pensare a Joey di Friends (NBC, 1994 – 2004), ai Soprano (HBO, 1999 – 2007), all’atmosfera romantica della Firenze di From Scratch, La forza di un amore (Netflix, 2022) rispetto alla Roma di Baby (Netflix, 2018 – 2020) o alla riviera romagnola di Summertime (Netflix, 2020 – 2022). Che differenze ci sono nel modo in cui viene mostrata l’Italia tra le produzioni audiovisive italiane e quelle estere?

Il focus di questa sessione sarà concentrato sulle rappresentazioni dell’italianità, ovvero di tutto ciò che è considerato peculiarmente italiano o che riguarda il sentirsi tale. Con questo panel si auspica di esplorare ulteriormente questo tema nella televisione e nelle serie TV, di produzione italiana o internazionale.

Saranno quindi accolte proposte di interventi che vadano a mostrare attraverso esempi, video, immagini e vari tipi di estratti come l’Italia venga raffigurata attraverso la cultura televisiva. Un particolare rilievo sarà dato all’analisi dei cliché che accompagnano la rappresentazione dell’italianità negli audiovisivi.

Si invita all’invio di proposte in italiano, inglese o francese di massimo 250 parole accompagnate da una breve biografia all’indirizzo e-mail indicato di seguito.

Closing Date for Receiving Proposals for this Session: 20 marzo 2023.

References:
Curran, James, e David Morley, a c. di. Media & cultural theory. London ; New York: Routledge, 2006.
Fiske, John. Television culture. 2nd ed. London ; New York: Routledge, 2011.
Innocenti, Veronica, e Guglielmo Pescatore. Le nuove forme della serialità televisiva: storia, linguaggio e temi. 1. ed. I prismi. Bologna: Archetipolibri, 2008.
Jenner, Mareike. Netflix and the Re-invention of Television. 1st ed. 2018. Cham: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94316-9.
Lécossais, Sarah. «Les séries télévisées, territoires du genre». Recherches féministes 33, fasc. 1 (2020): 17–34. https://doi.org/10.7202/1071240ar.
Peay, Malik. «“From Scratch:” Netflix’s Adapted Series Romanticizes Borderless Love, Family Unity & Healing Through Loss». Essence (blog). Consultato 10 gennaio 2023. https://www.essence.com/entertainment/from-scratch-review/.
«The Sopranos | Official Website for the HBO Series | HBO.com». Consultato 2 marzo 2023. https://www.hbo.com/the-sopranos.
«WarnerBros.com | Friends | TV». Consultato 7 febbraio 2023. https://www.warnerbros.com/tv/friends.
«Watch Baby | Netflix Official Site». Consultato 2 marzo 2023. https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/80211634.
«Watch From Scratch | Netflix Official Site». Consultato 10 gennaio 2023. https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/81104486.
«Watch Summertime | Netflix Official Site». Consultato 10 gennaio 2023. https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/81004936.
Wilson, Jonathon. «Summertime Season 3 review - another laborious summer on the coast», 4 maggio 2022. https://readysteadycut.com/2022/05/04/summertime-season-3-review-another-laborious-summer-on-the-coast/.

ORGANIZER
Greta Delpanno
Université de Montréal
greta.delpanno@umontreal.ca

Legacy and representation of the Cold War in contemporary Italy

Luca Sollai

The Cold War shaped the political, social and cultural life of post-Second World War Italy until the fall of the Soviet Union.
Although the collapse of the communist regime marked the official end of the Cold War, its influence continues to this day.
In historiography, political discourse, literary and film production, the legacy and representations of the Cold War have remained at the center of Italian political and social debate.

A non-exhaustive list of themes and topics:

• Legacy of the Cold War in Italian politics from 1992 to the present (political discourses, evolution of political parties, etc.).
• Evolution of Cold War historiography.
• Representation of the Cold War in art and literature.
• The Cold War in Italian cinema.
• The Cold War as an element of analysis of contemporary society.
• Heritage and representation of the Cold War at the local level.

Papers in French, Italian and English are accepted.

Closing Date for Receiving Proposals for this Session: March 20

Eredità e rappresentazione della Guerra fredda nell'Italia contemporanea

La guerra fredda ha condizionato la vita politica, sociale e culturale dell'Italia dal secondo dopoguerra fino alla caduta dell'Unione Sovietica. Sebbene il crollo del regime comunista abbia segnato la fine ufficiale della Guerra Fredda, la sua influenza continua ancora oggi.
Nella storiografia, nel discorso politico, nella produzione letteraria e cinematografica, l'eredità e le rappresentazioni della Guerra fredda hanno continuato a essere al centro del dibattito politico e sociale italiano.

Elenco non esaustivo di temi e argomenti:

• Eredità della Guerra fredda nella politica italiana dal 1992 a oggi (discorso politico, evoluzione dei partiti politici, ecc.)
• Evoluzione della storiografia sulla Guerra Fredda
• Rappresentazione della Guerra Fredda nell'arte e nella letteraturaLa Guerra Fredda nel cinema italiano
• La Guerra Fredda come elemento di analisi della società attuale
• L'eredità e la rappresentazione della Guerra Fredda a livello locale

Si accettano proposizioni in lingua italiana, francese e inglese

Data limite per l’invio delle proposizioni per questo panel:  20 marzo

Héritage et représentations de la Guerre froide dans l’Italie contemporaine

La guerre froide a conditionné la vie politique, sociale et culturelle de l’Italie de l’après-Deuxième Guerre mondiale jusqu’à la chute de l’Union soviétique. Si l’effondrement du régime communiste marque la fin officielle de la Guerre froide, son influence s’étale jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Dans l’historiographie, les discours politiques, la production littéraire et cinématographique, l’héritage et les représentations de la Guerre froide ont encore été au centre du débat politique et social italien.

Liste non exhaustive de thèmes et de sujets:

Héritage de la Guerre froide dans la politique italienne de 1992 à aujourd’hui (discours politiques, évolution des partis politiques, etc.)

• Évolution de l’historiographie sur la guerre froide
• Représentation de la guerre froide dans le domaine des arts et de la littérature
• La guerre froide dans le cinéma italien
• La guerre froide comme élément d’analyse de la société actuelle
• Héritage et représentation de la guerre froide au niveau local

On accepte des propositions en Français, Italien et Anglais

Date limite pour envoyer des propositions pour ce panel: 20 mars

ORGANIZER
Luca Sollai
Université de Montréal
luca.sollai@umontreal.ca

L’italiano fuori d’Italia: lingua (co-)ufficiale, lingua di studio, lingua ereditaria
Isabella Matticchio

L'italiano è presente fuori d’Italia sia come lingua (co-)ufficiale insieme ad altre lingue nazionali - si pensi ad esempio, oltre alla Svizzera, alle vicine Repubbliche di Croazia e Slovenia in cui è lingua co-ufficiale accanto rispettivamente al croato e allo sloveno - sia come lingua di studio, sia come lingua ereditaria (ing. heritage language).

Se l’italiano quale lingua di studio all’estero è stato ed è ancora oggetto di numerose ricerche, rimane molto da indagare sulla co-ufficialità della lingua italiana fuori dai confini nazionali. Alla co-ufficialità di una seconda lingua si legano, infatti, non di rado problematiche di carattere terminologico, dovute al diverso ordinamento giuridico dell’altro Paese (cfr. p. e. Paolucci 2021 per l’italiano in Slovenia o Lalli Paćelat et. al. 2020 per l’italiano in Croazia).

La sessione si propone, dunque, come spazio di riflessione sullo stato di salute dell’italiano all’estero, sulle politiche linguistiche volte a promuoverne e a tutelarne l’uso, sulle problematiche (spesso legate alla terminologia) della co-ufficialità dell’italiano all’estero, sulla didattica dell’italiano, sulla presenza dell’italiano nei paesaggi linguistici e su ricerche che indagano l’italiano quale lingua ereditaria.

Closing Date for Receiving Proposals for this Session: March 20, 2023

ORGANIZER
Isabella Matticchio
Università degli Studi di Fiume (Croazia)
isabella.matticchio@uniri.hr; isabella.matticchio@gmail.com

Migration and Identity in the Italian Canadian Community
Elena Baldassarri, Guido D’Elia

Recent critical analysis and examination of Italy’s histories of migration and mobilities highlight new perspectives offered regarding issues related to power dynamics, such as race, gender, class, and politics. Changes within established ethnic communities and their complex relationships with the dominant culture often motivate the recording and sharing of migrant stories that span across generations and the old and new worlds. These stories explore how migrants establish themselves in a new region or country, and how they recreate and transform networks and lifestyles from their place of origin.

Migrants acted in the past, just as they do today, as a bridge between cultures. They not only bring their home country's cultural values with them but also help to shape the perception of the new country that has accepted them.

Whether collected in documentaries, interviews, diaries, literary works, or artistic expressions, these testimonies provide unique glimpses into the personal experiences of migration. Our panel seeks to discuss the various dimensions of migration at the intersection of two or multiple worlds, analyzing examples from different historical periods and geographical areas, taking into account the positive aspects of having a multicultural identity and the negative feelings of not having a sense of belonging. This panel seeks to bring together researchers to discuss an array of issues such as Italian migration, the Italian Diaspora in Canada, and advancements in the migration phenomenon currently underway.

Closing Date for Receiving Proposals for this Session:  20 March

ORGANIZERS
Elena Baldassarri
Università degli Studi Roma Tre
elena.baldassarri@uniroma3.it

Guido D’Elia
Università degli Studi Roma Tre
guido.delia@uniroma3.it