PROGRAMME

14th December 2016

9 a.m. Registration

9.30 a.m. Welcome Address 

[Prof. Franco Moriconi (Rector of the University of Perugia) – Prof. Mario Tosti (Head of the Department of Humanities)– CEMS Coordinators]

10 to 11 a.m. 1st keynote: Daniel Ferrer (ITEM, Paris)

Modernism and the borders of invention

11 to 11.30 a.m. Coffee Break

11.30 to 1.30 p.m. 3 Panels

14.12.2016  11.30 a.m. Historicizing modernism and realism

1.    Caroline Patey (University of Milan)
Madame Bovary goes British, in more than one way 

2.   Valerio Camarotto (University of Rome) 
Art and representation of reality: about Pirandello and imitation

3.   Riccardo Capoferro (University of Rome)
Conrad’s tales and the boundaries of realism

14.12.2016  11.30 a.m. Between Modernism and Aestheticism

1.    Srecko Jurisic (University of Split)
Gabriele d’Annunzio’s last novel on the brink of modernism

2.   Matteo Mancinelli (University of Ferrara)
Pérez de Ayala’s Trece dioses (1902): crossing boundaries towards modernism  

3.   Novella di Nunzio (University of Vilnius)
Italian modernism as an alternative to Avant-gardes: the case of surrealism

14.12.2016  11.30 a.m. Theory  

1.    Moldovan Rares (Babe_-Bolyai University)
Modernity, entelechy, modernism: potentialities of theory

2.   Nicole Sierra (King’s College London)
A modernism without borders: Leonora Carrington’s surrealist space

3.   Carlo Tirinanzi de Medici (University of Trento)
The Italian novel of the 1980s and modernism: theoretical issues

3 to 5 p.m. 4 Panels

14.12.2016  3 p.m. Investigating the mind  

1.    Maddalena Graziano (Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule, Berlin)
Adventures of thought. Fiction and reflection in modernist Italian narrative

2.   Ilaria Rossini (University for Foregneirs, Perugia)
Modernism and neuroscience

3.   Christie Gramm (University of Oregon)
Repression and Consciousness in Lord Jim

4.   Aurora Caporali (University of Perugia)
Giuseppe Berto’s Il male oscuro and the syntax of consciousness

14.12.2016  3 p.m. Literature and the arts  

1.    Chiara Nifosi (University of Chicago)
Time and musical thought in Marcel Proust and Italo Svevo

2.   Elizabeth Benjamin (University of Birmingham)
Irresistibly Infrathin: the Blurred Borders of Dada and the Liminality of its Legacies

3.   Rossella Riccobono (University of St Andrews)
Italian modernists, Solaria (March 1927) and the borders between cinema and literature

4.   Martino Pierpaolo (University of Bari)
Listening to To the Lighthouse. Virginia Woolf and the language of music

14.12.2016  3 p.m.  Gender and cultural borders

1.    Eszter Balogh (University of Debrecen)
The disintegration of the dominant masculine ideal in the reminiscences of English and Hungarian soldiers of the First World War

2.   Hediye Ozkan (Indiana University at Pennsylvania)
Shared fates: reading geographical and gender borders in Orlando through Constantinople

3.   Carmela Pierini (Catholic University of  Milan)
Beyond genre and gender: reading Anna Banti in a modernistic perspective

4.   Carole Sweeney (University of London) 
Border modernists: Christine Brook-Rose and Brigid Brophy

5 to 5.30 p.m. Coffee Break

5.30 to 6.30 p.m. 2nd keynote: Paolo Giovannetti (IULM -Milan)
Free verse and installation: two technical (transmedial?) devices of modernism

15th of December

9.30 to 10.30 a.m. 3rd keynote: Andrew Thacker (Nottingham-Trent U.) 
Magazines between modernism and the avant-garde

10.30 to 11 a.m. Antonietta Sanna (University of Pisa – CEMS)
Le project de numérisation de «Commerce»

11 to 11.30 a.m.  Coffee break

11.30 to 1.30 p.m. 4 Panels

15.12.2016  11.30 a.m. Geocritic, editorial, social borders  

1.    Anna Antonello (Independent Scholar)
Traces of modernism in «Die Weltbühne»

2.   Giorgia Casara (University of Coimbra)
The material memory of «Orpheu»

3.   Flora de Giovanni (University of Salerno)
Wyndham  Lewis’s self-fashioning between elite and mass culture

4.   Renata Zsambla  (Eszterhazy Karoly University in Eger, Hungary)
The Banality of Evil in Dorothy L. Sayers’ The Documents in the Case  

15.12.2016  11.30 a.m.  Modernism and/or Avant-Garde

1.    Stefano Bragato (The British School of Rome )
Renewing futurism: the Brazilian border (1926)

2.   Luca Somigli (University of Toronto)
The futurist contagion: futurism in the satirical cartoons of the British press, 1912-1914

3.   Marina Lops (University of Salerno)
“An art of individuals”: Dora Marsden’s aesthetic thought and Pound’s vorticist adventure

4.   Francesca Valentini (University of Trieste)
The origin of the slavery modernism: The recovery of the silent voices

15.12.2016 11.30 a.m.  Modernist borders between law and literature 

1.    Cristina Costantini (University of Perugia)
Inside/Out. Transfixing law at liminal borders

2.   Piergiuseppe Monateri (Università di Torino)
Negotiating the borders of language. Eliot's questioning of Hamlet’ legal skull

3.   Daniela Carpi (Università di Verona)
Culture vs civilisation. A modernist discourse

4.   Chiara Battisti (Università di Verona)
Fashion and fiction. Clothes as borders in Orlando

3 to 3.30 p.m. Valeria Tocco (University of Pisa – CEMS)
Presentazione della mostra di Almada Neigreiros artista prismatico

3.30 to 5 p.m. 3 Panels

15.12.16  3.30 p.m. Pound and his boundaries

1.    Sara Ceroni (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Modernism and translational borders: Cavalcanti-Pound-de Campos

2.   Ciribuco Andrea (University of Galway)
Modernism in translation across the Italian/American borders: Carnevali, Pound, Linati, and Prezzolini

3.   Rita Catania Marrone (University of Coimbra)
The occult roots of modernism: Fernando Pessoa and the esoteric tradition

15.12.2016  3.30 p.m. Focus on the author: James Joyce  

1.    Onno Kosters (Utrecht University)
“Bless James Joyce”: re-reading Wyndham Lewis’s attack on Joyce

2.   Maria Kager (Utrecht University)
Joyce, Mauthner and the limits of language

3.   Enrico  Terrinoni (University for Foreigners, Perugia)
Truth vs Reality. The Case of Ulysses

15.12.2016  3.15 p.m. Between Italian and British modernism

1.    Valeria Taddei (University of Oxford)
Invisible Bridges: uncharted modernist connections from Italy to the British Isles

2.   Valentino Baldi (University of Malta)
Odradek and other puppets. Post-human characters in Joyce, Kafka and Pirandello

3.   Elisa Bolchi (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart)
A modernist abroad. Richard Aldington and Italy

5 to 5.30 p.m. Coffee Break

5.30 to 7 p.m. 3 Panels

15.12.2016  5.15 p.m. Remapping modernist geographic borders

1.    Alberto Godioli (University of Groningen)
Blurring borders: Gadda, Musil, and the world as a continuum

2.   Riccardo Concetti (Independent Scholar)
At the borders of Austria-Hungary: Robert Michel and the “discovery” of Bosnia-Herzegovina in Austrian fin de siècle literature

3.   Gabriela Moise (University of Debrecen)
Modernist conjunctures: African and Asian Visual Artists’ redefinition of modernism

4.   Réka Balog (University Paris)
Modernism and colonialism through Rhysian time

15.12.2016  5.15 p.m. Late modernism  

1.    Tiziano Toracca (University of Perugia)
Late modernism and Italian neo-modernism

2.   Marco Bucaioni (University of Tuscia, Viterbo)
A huge debt to international modernism? António Lobo Antunes’ prose style as the ultimate development of  XX century experimentalism

3.   Doug Battersby (University of York)
‘The unbounded power of eloquence’: John Banville, Joseph Conrad, and metamodernism

8.30 p.m.  Conference Dinner (Ristorante del Sole, via della Rupe 1)

16th of December

9.30 to 11.30 a.m. 3 Panels

16.12.2016  9.30 a.m. Eastern modernism

1.    Alexandra Chiriac (University of St Andrews)
‘Oriental Constructivism’? Romanian modernism between East and West 

2.   Olga V. Pchelina (Volga State University of Technology)
Borders of Russian modernism: art, Literature or philosophy?

3.   József Szabolcs Fagyal (University of Debrecen)
Modernist narratives from Eastern and Western Europe

4.   Erika Mihalycsa (Babe_-Bolyai University)
A “book-bug homunculus’” catalogue of learning: on the maverick modernist poetics of Miklós Szentkuthy

16.12.2016  9.30 a.m. Focus on the author: Virginia Woolf  

1.    Sara Sullam (University of Milan)
Voyaging into modernism: Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out on the borders of the modernist novel

2.   Petronia Petrar (Babe_-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)
Border-writing: Between the Acts and Virginia Woolf’s novel ethics

3.   Lim Yiru (UniSIM College, SIM University, Singapore)
Straddling the divide: Virginia Woolf and John Banville

4.   Annalisa Federici (Sapienza University of Rome)
‘This loose, drifting material of life’: Virginia Woolf between the private and the public

16.12.2016  9.30 a.m. City and country. Rural and metropolitan modernism

1.    Simone Casini (University of Perugia)
Between city and country. Modern dislocation of an ancient border in some Italian Writers of the XX Century

2.   Martina Ciceri (University of Rome)
Rural modernism? Ford Madox Ford, Russian émigrés and the spirit of collaboration

3.   Carmen Van den Bergh (University of Leuven)
A possible turn towards a ‘metropolitan modernism’ after 1929?

11.30 to 12 p.m. Coffee break

12 to 1 p.m. 4rd keynote: Catriona Kelly (University of Oxford)
Modernism without boundaries? The ‘New Arts’ in Russia, 1895-1940  

2.30 to 4.30 p.m. 3 Panels

16.12.2016  2.30 p.m. Between modernism and post-modernism

1.    Monica Jansen (University of Utrecht)  
L’Aeropoema di Gesù at the borders of futurist, fascist-imperialist and catholic modernism

2.   Federica Rocchi (University of Perugia)
From modernism to post-modernism. Stoppard’s adaptations of two plays by Schnitzler

3.   Marco Carmello (Complutense University of Madrid)
 Toward a ‘post-’: the concept of ‘baroque’ at the passage from modernism to post-modernism

16.12.2016  2.30 p.m. (Post) human borders 

1.    Ruben Borg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Funny being dead! Modernism, afterlife and the tripping of the dialectic

2.   Paul Fagan (University of Vienna)
‘I was dead’: testing the borders of time and timelessness in Lewis Caroll and Flann O’ Brien

3.   Carmen-Veronica Borbely (Babe_-Bolyai University)
Liminal passageways: the spectres of modernism in Irish (post)Gothic narratives

4.   Garfield Benjamin (University of Birmingham)
Evolution beyond revolution: robots at the border of humanity

16.12.2016  2.30 p.m. European modernism and extra European countries  

1.    Paris Vaclav (City College of New York)
Macunaíma and the borders of Brazil

2.   Barnita Bagchi (Utrecht University)
Bloomsbury meets Bombay: Mulk Raj Anand’s artistic utopias across borders

3.   James Corby (University of Malta)
Bordering the world: reflections on (and in) the poetry of William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens

4.30 to 5 p.m. Coffee Break

5 to 6 p.m. 5th Keynote: Claire Davison (Université Paris 3, Paris)
Ancestral voices pacifying war? Transnationalising modernism on the BBC, 1941-1945

6 to 6.30 p.m. Closing remarks