CICIS 2019

CICIS 2019
Date
Fri March 8th 2019, 4:00pm - Sat March 9th 2019, 5:30pm
Location
Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall

Speaker(s): Dr. Roberta Morosini

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
CICIS 2019

CONFERENCE PROGRAM @ Humanities Center,
424 Santa Teresa St. – Stanford University
Friday, March 8th
3-4pm CICIS MEMBERSHIP MEETING
(@ Pigott Hall, Building 260 - Room 216; 450 Serra Mall)
 
4-4:30pm REFRESHMENTS / Meet and Greet
 
4.30-6.30pm DISSERTATION PANEL (Chair: Laura Wittman – Stanford University; Professor)
Bristin Scalzo Jones – UC Berkeley; PhD Student.
Southern Animals: Marginalized Subjects in Giovanni Verga’s “Jeli il pastore”
Federica di Biasio - UCLA; PhD Student.
“No-Border” and “No-Global”: The Geopolitical Aesthetics of Cesare Pavese, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Gianni Celati, and Andrea Segre
Elena Festa - UCSB; PhD Student.
Social Media and Transcolonial Mnemonics
Nicholas Virzi - Stanford; D.M.A. Student.
On Text and Perspective in Salvatore Sciarrino’s Morte di Borromini
 
7pm DINNER
(@ Cibo Restaurant, 3398 El Camino Real, Palo Alto)
 
Satruday, March 9th
9-9.30am BREAKFAST
 

9.30-10.30am KEYNOTE
Roberta Morosini - Wake Forest University; Professor.
Tra' discordanti liti: maps and literary geographies of the Italian Trecento
 
10.30-11am COFFEE BREAK
 
11am-1pm PANEL 1
(Chair: Deanna Shemek – UC Irvine; Professor)
Nina Bjekovic - UCLA; PhD Student.
Conceptions of Otherness in the Literary Works of Claudio Magris and Boris Pahor
Nelson Shuchmacher Endebo - Stanford; PhD Student.
A invençó do Brasile: Juó Bananére and non-Italian Italian literature
Todd P. Olson – UC Berkeley; Professor.
Refugee Image: A Madonna from Frascati in Colonial Mexico
Tatiana Sizonenko - UC San Diego; Lecturer.
Between Center and Periphery: Venetian Renaissance Architecture of Alvise Lamberti da Montagnana in the Crimean Khanate and Muscovy
 
1-3pm LUNCH BREAK
 
3-5pm PANEL 2
(Chair: Michael Subialka – UC Davis; Professor)
Amy Hough-Dugdale - UC Riverside; PhD Student.
Periphaural Vision: Sound as Rhizomatic Leakage in Fellini’s La voce della luna (1990)
Marianna Nespoli - UCLA; PhD Student.
From Backdrop to Backbone: The Po Valley’s Environmental Degradation in the Works of Michelangelo Antonioni, Gianni Celati, and Luigi Ghirri
Claudio Fogu - UCSB; Professor.
Making the Second Sicily
Rossella Pescatori - El Camino College; Faculty.
Tullia D’Aragona’s Infinità D’Amore; a de-constructive dialogue among genres and genders

 

5-5.30pm FINAL RECEPTION