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Biennial Conference of the Society for Italian Studies University of Edinburgh, 26-28 June 2019 ACCEPTED PANELS – ALPHABETICAL LISTING *

Panel title Ariosto beyond the quincentenary celebrations

ORGANISER Stefano Jossa Royal Holloway London University Stefano.Jossa@rhul.ac.uk

SPEAKERS Jane Everson Royal Holloway London University Ita MacCarthy Durham University Paola Ugolini Buffalo University Francesco Lucioli University College Dublin

Panel title Artistic explorations of the object in Italy in the industrial era

ORGANISER Martina Bonghi Royal Holloway London University Martina.Borghi.2017@live.rhul.ac.uk

SPEAKERS Elena Traversa Royal Holloway London University Martina Bonghi Royal Holloway London University * Listing does not include Plenary Lectures, Round Tables, and Public Events.

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Katherine Devine Royal Holloway London University

Panel title Carlo Emilio Gadda: Philosophical interplays – I.

ORGANISER Barbara Olla Oxford University

SPEAKERS Fabio Minazzi Insubria University Francesco Venturi Oslo University Barbara Olla Oxford University

Panel title Carlo Emilio Gadda: Philosophical interplays – II.

ORGANISER Barbara Olla Oxford University

SPEAKERS Giuseppe Bonifacino Bari University Lucia Lo Marco Lyon 2-Lumière University Manlio Iofrida Bologna University

Panel title Changing bodies: translating, illustrating and performing the Ovidian myths in the Italian Renaissance

ORGANISER Marta Balzi Bristol University m.balzi@bristol.ac.uk

SPEAKERS Claudia Cieri Via Rome Sapienza University Giuseppe Capriotti Macerata University

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Michele Rossi Pennsylvania State University Luca Degl’Innocenti Florence University

Panel title Charlemagne in Italy: innovation and adaptation

ORGANISER Jane Everson Royal Holloway London University j.everson@rhul.ac.uk

SPEAKERS Franca Stologo Zurich University Annalisa Perrotta Rome Sapienza University Anna Carocci Rome Sapienza University Maria Pavlova Warwick University

Panel title Circulation in Italian culture: practices, texts, images

ORGANISER Beatrice Sica University College London b.sica@ucl.ac.uk

SPEAKERS Francesca Masiero University College London Lisa Sampson University College London Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti University College London Beatrice Sica University College London

Panel title Classical and medieval culture in Dante – I

ORGANISER Giuseppe Ledda Bologna University

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giuseppe.ledda@unibo.it

SPEAKERS Nicolò Maldina Edinburgh University Anna Pegoretti Rome 3 University Giulia Gaimari University College London

Panel title Classical and medieval culture in Dante – II

ORGANISER Nicolò Maldina Edinburgh University n.maldina@ed.ac.uk

SPEAKERS Giuseppe Ledda Bologna University Paola Nasti Northwestern University Alessia Carrai Cambridge University

Panel title Donna in itinere: l’immagine dell’italiana che cambia

ORGANISER Barbara Alfano Bennington College balfano@bennington.edu

SPEAKERS Barbara Alfano Bennington College Giovanna Caltagirone Cagliari University Ombretta Frau Mount Holyoke College Maria Grazia Lolla Harvard University

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Panel title Famiglie storiche e storie di famiglia: liti e successioni nell’Italia del lungo Ottocento

ORGANISER Sara Delmedico Cambridge University sd683@cam.ac.uk

SPEAKERS Sara Delmedico Cambridge University Elena Musiani Bologna University Lara Michelacci Bologna University Helena Sanson (Chair) Cambridge University

Panel title G.B. Andreini (1576-1654) all-round: three approaches to the “Italian Shakespeare”

ORGANISER Serena Laiena Cambridge University sl831@cam.ac.uk

SPEAKERS Serena Laiena Cambridge University Annamaria Azzarone Scuola Normale Superiore / Paris-Sorbonne University Alessandra Munari Independent scholar

Panel Title Gli epistolari novecenteschi come forma di collaborazione

ORGANISER Francesca Medaglia Rome Sapienza University francesca.medaglia@gmail.com

SPEAKERS Francesca Medaglia Rome Sapienza University Elisiana Fratocchi Rome Sapienza University

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Daniel Raffini Rome Sapienza University Mario Cianfoni Rome Sapienza University

Panel title Hegemony and Literature: Contrasting Perspectives in Contemporary Italian Culture

ORGANISERS Simone Calabrò Edinburgh University Simone.calabro@ed.ac.uk Alessandra Pellegrini De Luca Edinburgh University Alessandra.Pdeluca@ed.ac.uk Marco Ruggieri Edinburgh University Marco.Ruggieri@ed.ac.uk

SPEAKERS Marco Ruggieri Edinburgh University Alessandra Pellegrini De Luca Edinburgh University Simone Calabrò Edinburgh University

Panel title Interdisciplinary Italy – I

ORGANISER Giuliana Pieri Royal Holloway London University g.pieri@rhul.ac.uk

SPEAKERS Giuliana Pieri Royal Holloway London University Derek Duncan St Andrews University Adele Bardazzi Queen’s College, Oxford Eleonora Lima Trinity College Dublin

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Panel title Interdisciplinary Italy – II

ORGANISER Giuliana Pieri Royal Holloway London University g.pieri@rhul.ac.uk

SPEAKERS Clodagh Brook Trinity College Dublin Emanuela Patti Royal Holloway London University Marco Bellardi Trinity College Dublin Maria Del Buono Birmingham University

Panel title Italian studies and the cognitive turn – I

ORGANISER Marzia Beltrami Durham University marzia.beltrami@durham.ac.uk

SPEAKERS Guido Furci Durham University Cecilia Piantanida Durham University Marzia Beltrami Durham University

Panel title Italian studies and the cognitive turn – II

ORGANISER Marzia Beltrami Durham University marzia.beltrami@durham.ac.uk

SPEAKERS Marco Paoli Liverpool University Giovani Miglianti Yale University

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Emiliano Zappalà Warwick University

Panel title Italian thought / Italian theory / Italian difference – I

ORGANISER Federica G. Pedriali Edinburgh University F.Pedriali@ed.ac.uk

SPEAKERS Paolo Bartoloni NUIG, National University of Ireland Galway Greg Bird Wilfrid Laurier University Dario Gentili Rome 3 University Enrica Lisciani-Petrini Salerno University Federica G. Pedriali (Chair) Edinburgh University

Panel title Italian thought / Italian theory / Italian difference – II

ORGANISER Federica G. Pedriali Edinburgh University F.Pedriali@ed.ac.uk

SPEAKERS Davide Luglio Paris-Sorbonne University Marco Piasentier Jyväskylä University Giusi Strummiello Bari University Heather Lynch Caledonian University Federica G. Pedriali (Chair) Edinburgh University

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Panel title Language and teaching – I. Translation and multilingualism

ORGANISERS Caterina Sinibaldi Warwick University C.Sinibaldi@warwick.ac.uk Rosalba Biasini Liverpool University Anna Proudfoot The Open University

SPEAKERS Rosalba Biasini Liverpool University Gioia Panzarella Warwick University Anna Proudfoot The Open University

Panel title Language and teaching – II. Narratives and storytelling

ORGANISERS Caterina Sinibaldi Warwick University C.Sinibaldi@warwick.ac.uk Rosalba Biasini Liverpool University Anna Proudfoot The Open University

SPEAKERS Enrico Cecconi Bath University Anna Costantino Greenwhich University Chiara la Sala Leeds University

Panel title Language and teaching – III. Language and culture

ORGANISER Carlo Pirozzi Edinbugh University carlo.pirozzi@ed.ac.uk

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SPEAKERS Caterina Sinibaldi Warwick University Claudia Domenici Cambridge University Cristina Massaccesi University College London

Panel title La violenza di genere raccontata. Sfide della rappresentazione narrativa dell’abuso sessista

ORGANISER Nicoletta Mandolini University College Cork nicoletta.mandolini@ucc.ie SPEAKERS Carla Carotenuto Macerata University Giacomo Manzoli Bologna University Caterina Peroni Padua University Nicoletta Mandolini University College Cork

Panel title Le metamorfosi del romanzo italiano

ORGANISER Marco Carmello Madrid University macarmel@filol.ucm.es

SPEAKERS Cristina Terrile François Rabelais de Tour University Alejandro Pattat University for Foreigners Siena / Buenos Aires University Aurora Conde Madrid University Marco Carmello Madrid University

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Panel title Letteratura ed eterodossia religiosa nei primi secoli

ORGANISER Antonio di Grado Catania University digrado@unict.it

SPEAKERS Antonio di Grado Catania University Agnese Amaduri Catania University Andrea Schembari Szczecin University

Panel title L’io come sociologia: new Italian life-writings as instruments to understand the comtemporary

ORGANISER Simone Calabrò Edinburgh University Simone.calabro@ed.ac.uk

SPEAKERS Giacomo Raccis Bergamo University Valentina Sturli Paris-Sorbonne University Alberica Bazzoni Warwick University Roberto Lapia Paris-Nanterre University

Panel title Long live the body political. 18th century welfare between education and citizen assistance in Florence, Milan and Venice

ORGANISER Rossella Riccobono St Andrews University rmr8@st-andrews.ac.uk

SPEAKERS Rossella Riccobono St Andrews University Cecilia Ascoli St Andrews University

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Riccardo Benzoni Catholic University of the Sacred Heart Milan

Panel title Memoria, lavoro, desiderio: forme narrative e costruzione del soggetto nel romanzo italiano contemporaneo

ORGANISER Massimo Natale Verona University massimo.natale@univr.it

SPEAKERS Massimo Natale Verona University Jacopo Galavotti Padua University Fabio Magro Padua University Giacomo Morabito Padua University

Panel title Modelli stranieri per la letteratura italiana di genere: dalle origini al contemporaneo

ORGANISER Mark Chu University College Cork m.chu@ucc.ie

SPEAKERS Francesca Facchi Toronto University Mark Chu University College Cork Chiara Grilli Independent scholar

Panel title Opera as “poesia per musica”: Musical-poetic choices in Seicento Italy

ORGANISER Daniele Falcioni Edinburgh University Daniele.Falcioni@ed.ac.uk

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SPEAKERS Roberto Gigliucci Rome Sapienza University Nastasia Tietze Institute of Musicology Weimar-Jena Daniele Falcioni Edinburgh University

Panel title “O si vive o si scrive”? Il lavoro e la scrittura

ORGANISER Mara Santi Ghent University mara.santi@ugent.be

SPEAKERS Sarah Bonciarelli Ghent University Guylian Nemegeer Ghent University Mara Santi Ghent University Tiziano Toracca Ghent University

Panel title Petrarch commentary and exegesis in Renaissance Italy (c.1350-c.1650)

ORGANISERS Federica Pich Leeds University F.Pich@leeds.ac.uk Simon Gilson Oxford University Simon.gilson@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk

SPEAKERS Giacomo Comiati Oxford University Lorenzo Sacchini Leeds University Rhiannon Daniels Bristol University Guyda Armstrong Manchester University

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Panel title Political Thought in 15th century Italian Literature: Milan, Florence, Naples

ORGANISER Marta Celati Warwick University marta.celati@gmail.com

SPEAKERS Veronica Dadà Pisa University Giorgio Lizzul Warwick University Marta Celati Warwick University David Lines (Chair) Warwick University

Panel title Postcolonial paraliterature

ORGANISER Niamh Keenan Edinburgh University Niamh.keenan@ed.ac.uk

SPEAKERS Ann Lawson-Lucas Hull University Daniela Sannino Edinburgh University Anna Finozzi Stockholm University Niamh Keenan Edinburgh University

Panel title Publish or perish: paratext, divulgation and book market in the Venetian Cinquecento

ORGANISER Teodoro Katinis Ghent University teodoro.katinis@ugent.be

SPEAKERS Claudia Crocco Ghent University Ruben Celani

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Ghent University Teodoro Katinis Ghent University

Panel title Quale Patria, quale Dio. Donne e identità nazionale italiana dal Risorgimento al Secondo Dopoguerra

ORGANISER Marta Riccobono Scuola Normale Superiore marta.riccobono@sns.it

SPEAKERS Chiara Licameli Rome Sapienza University Marta Riccobono Scuola Normale Superiore Olga Retziou Padua University Helena Sanson (Chair) Cambridge University

Panel title Representing conflict: gender, sexuality, alterity

ORGANISER Silvia Ross University College Cork s.ross@ucc.ie

SPEAKERS Giovanni Pietro Vitali University College Cork Martina O’Leary University College Cork Silvia Ross University College Cork

Panel title Re-writing Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” in Renaissance Italy: the Vernacular translation of Giovanni Andrea dell’Anguillara

ORGANISER Marta Balzi Bristol University m.balzi@bristol.ac.uk

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SPEAKERS Andrea Torre Scuola Normale Superiore Caterina Paoli Cambridge University Marta Balzi Bristol University Francesca Casamassima Genoa University

Panel title Satire, satura, revelation. Perspectives on Carlo Emilio Gadda

ORGANISER Serena Vandi Leeds University S.Vandi@leeds.ac.uk

SPEAKERS Paolo Gervasi Queen Mary University of London Luca Mazzocchi Oxford University Laura Lucia Rossi Manchester University Serena Vandi Leeds University

Panel title Seeing (with) Dante: new approaches and methodologies

ORGANISERS Federica Coluzzi Manchester University federica.coluzzi@manchester.ac.uk David Bowe University College Cork

SPEAKERS Federica Coluzzi Manchester University Sandro-Angelo de Thomasis Yale University Leyla Livraghi Pisa University

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Guyda Armstrong (Chair) Manchester University

Panel title Sicilian Authors and the Senses

ORGANISER Claudia Dellacasa Durham University claudia.dellacasa@durham.ac.uk

SPEAKERS Hannah McIntyre Oxford University Sara Parisi Strathclyde University Claudia Dellacasa Durham University

Panel title Spectral presences in contemporary Italian culture

ORGANISER Chiara Giuliani University College Cork chiara.giuliani@ucc.ie

SPEAKERS Marco Amici University College Cork Chiara Giuliani University College Cork Emma Bond St Andrews University

Panel title Storie d’amore ORGANISER Marja Härmänmaa Turku University marja.harmanmaa@utu.fi

SPEAKERS Brian Zuccala Witwatersrand University Edwige Comoy Fusaro Côte d’Azur University

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Marja Härmänmaa Turku University Barbara Meazzi Côte d’Azur University

Panel title The city: language and space – I

ORGANISERS Gigliola Sulis Leeds University g.sulis@leeds.ac.uk Elisa Segnini Glasgow University Elisa.Segnini@glasgow.ac.uk

SPEAKERS Paolo Orrù Debrecen University Ester Cois Cagliari University Gigliola Sulis Leeds University Elisa Segnini Glasgow University

Panel title The city: language and space – II

ORGANISERS Gigliola Sulis Leeds University g.sulis@leeds.ac.uk Elisa Segnini Glasgow University Elisa.Segnini@glasgow.ac.uk

SPEAKERS Marco Gargiulo Bergen University Francesco Bachis Cagliari University Silvia Aru Amsterdam University

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Panel title The female presence and the shape of the lyric

ORGANISER Giada Guassardo Oxford University giada.guassardo@balliol.ox.ac.uk

SPEAKERS Giada Guassardo Oxford University Valentina Tibaldo Oxford University Ela Tandello Oxford University

Panel title The imagined reader: representation of reading in the Italian literary tradition

ORGANISER Giovanna Rizzarelli Scuola Normale Superiore giovanna.rizzarelli@sns.it

SPEAKERS Federica Pich Leeds University Giovanna Rizzarelli Scuola Normale Superiore Olivia Santovetti Leeds University Cristina Savettieri Scuola Normale Superiore

Panel title The Italian Avant-Garde between Paris and Italy

ORGANISER Laura Vattano Edinburgh University s1459975@ed.ac.uk

SPEAKERS Alessandro Cabiati King’s College London Monica Davini University for Foreigners Siena

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Laura Vattano Edinburgh University

Panel title The reception of Italian literature in 20th century Russia

ORGANISER Maria Pavlova Warwick University Maria.Pavlova@warwick.ac.uk

SPEAKERS Elena Tchougounova-Paulson Independent scholar Maria Belova Warwick University Kristina Landa Bologna University

Panel title The “Vita nova” and Florence: lay and clerical cultures

ORGANISER Paola Nasti Northwestern University p.nasti@reading.ac.uk

SPEAKERS Lorenzo dell’Oso Notre Dame University Luca Lombardo Notre Dame University Marialaura Aghelu Rome Sapienza University

Panel title The winter of Italy’s discontent – I L’identità italiana utopica e distopica negli anni ’70 – Tra politica e cultura

ORGANISERS Dagmar Reichardt Latvian Academy of Culture dagmarreichardt@hotmail.com Maurizio Rebaudengo Convitto Nazionale “Umberto I” rebaudengomaurizio@gmail.com

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SPEAKERS Dagmar Reichardt Latvian Academy of Culture Stefano Luconi Genoa University Costantino Maeder Catholic University Louvain Luigi Saitta RAI

Panel title The winter of Italy’s discontent – II L’identità italiana utopica e distopica negli anni ’70 – Letterature

ORGANISERS Dagmar Reichardt Latvian Academy of Culture dagmarreichardt@hotmail.com Maurizio Rebaudengo Convitto Nazionale “Umberto I” rebaudengomaurizio@gmail.com

SPEAKERS Maurizio Rebaudengo Convitto Nazionale “Umberto I” Riccardo Antoniani Paris-Sorbonne University Rotraud von Kulessa Hamburg University Dario Prola Warsaw University

Panel title Translation and multilingualism

ORGANISER Liz Wren-Owens Cardiff University wren-owensEA@cardiff.ac.uk

SPEAKERS Cristina Marinetti Cardiff University Kombola Ramadhani Mussa Cardiff University Liz Wren-Owens Cardiff University

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Panel title Vico: future past and past future – new perspectives

ORGANISER Martina Piperno University College Cork martina.piperno@ucc.ie

SPEAKERS Martina Piperno University College Cork Daragh O’Connell University College Cork Sabrina Ferri Notre Dame University Davide Messina (Chair) Edinburgh University

Panel title Women’s place, borders and intersecting spaces in Italian national and transnational culture

ORGANISER Cinzia Marongiu Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz cinziamarongiu@gmail.com

SPEAKERS Marianna Orsi Indiana University Cinzia Marongiu Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Isabella Vergata Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Panel title Writing and Power in Early Modern Italian Women’s Letter

ORGANISER Veronica Andreani Scuola Normale Superiore v.andreani@sns.it

SPEAKERS Veronica Andreani Scuola Normale Superiore Veronica Copello National Institute of Renaissance Studies Florence

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Isabella Lazzarini Molise University

Panel title Zibaldoni del Medioevo e del Rinascimento tra letteratura e cultura popolare

ORGANISER Simona Brambilla Catholic University of the Sacred Heart Milan simona.brambilla@unicatt.it

SPEAKERS Simona Brambilla Catholic University of the Sacred Heart Milan Barbara Pagliari UNIL Lausanne Cecilia Sideri Ca’ Foscari University