SIS PG Colloquium at Cambridge: ‘Italian Literature and Culture through a Comparative Lens: Transnational and Transhistorical Networks’

SG2, Alison Richards Building, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge CB3 9DP

Organisers: Aurora Sturli (University of Cambridge) and Camille Iuliano (King’s COllege London)

For any queries, contact: as3277@cam.ac.uk and camille.iuliano@kcl.ac.uk

This event is generously sponsored by the Society for Italian Studies and the Cambridge-Intesa Sanpaolo Fund

PROGRAMME:

09:00 – 9:30 Greetings and opening remarks

9:30 – 10:30 Keynote Lecture, Professor Emma Bond (University of Oxford)

Chair: Camille Iuliano (King’s College London), Aurora Sturli (University of Cambridge)

Colonial Collecting within Transnational Networks: Italian Explorers of Africa in the Long Nineteenth Century

10:45 – 12:15 Panel 1: Transnational Encounters

Chair: Silvia Vari (University of Warwick)

Michele Baldaro (Università Ca’ Foscari – Alpen Adria Klagenfurt): Constructing the Self and the Other: the Italian and the Ascaro. A counterpoint between Indro Montanelli’s colonial gaze and Ghebreyesus Hailu’s anti-colonial story

Noreen Kane (University College Cork): Multidirectional Memory and Igiaba Scego’s Wake Work in La linea del colore.

Ruoci Song (University of Cambridge): Dante Beyond Nation and Notes: Networks in the Chinese Tour of La Divina Commedia

Fatmaelzahraa Abdalla (Università di Padova): Female Travellers Beyond the Canon: Amalia Nizzoli and Harriet Martineau

13:00 – 13:45 Workshop hosted by Professor Claudia Domenici (University of Cambridge)

‘Transnationality in Italian language teaching’

14:00 – 15.30 Panel 2: Transnational Genres

Chair: Max Fletcher (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Ylenia Gambaccini (Sorbonne Université): From Sicily to France: Transnational Networks in the Italian Parliamentary Novel

Arianna De Gasperis (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”): From Gavroche to Pinocchio. The ragazzo di strada between Florence and Paris

Elisa Gregorio and Martina Ventura (Università degli Studi di Cassino – Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”): From Basile to Garrone: circular and transnational networks of Italian fairy tales across literature and cinema

Fan Hu (King’s College London): Navigating Historical Rupture: Subjective Time and Historical Memory in The Leopard and The Last Shogun

16:00 – 17.30 Panel 3: Transnational Cultural Networks

Chair: Elisa Vivaldi (University of edinburgh – KU Leuven)

Giada Tonetto (Università Ca’ Foscari – Venezia): Challenging Humanistic Hierarchies: The Nuremberg edition of Cassandra Fedele’s «Oratio pro Bertucio Lamberto»

Jiayao Jiang (University of Cambridge): Transnational Networks and National Heritage in Post-war Rome

Cristina De Luca (University of Reading – University of Bristol): For a prosopographic turn in Transnational Italian Studies: Erich Linder’s network vs Italian publishers. representation strategies abroad

Francesca Sartori (University of Bristol): Transnational and transhistorical networks between nineteenth-century Italian and anglophone women Dante scholars