Conferenza a Berkeley
[3-9-1997]
Dear Emilio: will you please announce the following conference to be held at Berkeley
from November 14-16 of this fall to my fellow Lettere Italiane subscribers. Inquires about
the conference can be sent either to me at ascoli@socrates.berkeley.edu or to my
conference assistant, Michael D'Amato, at mjdc@uclink3.berkeley.edu. Many thanks, Albert
Albert Russell Ascoli Director of Graduate Studies Department of Italian Studies
University of California, Berkeley Berkeley CA 94720-2620
phone: 510-643-2640 fax: 510-642-9884
The Department of Italian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley,together
with the Istituto di Cultura Italiana di San Francisco, will be sponsoring an academic
conference on the topic of:
Making and Unmaking Italy
The Cultivation of National Identity around the Risorgimento
The conference will take place from Friday, November 14 to Sunday, November 16, in the
Lipman room on the 8th floor of Barrows Hall on the UCB campus
This is the program that will be followed
FRIDAY, November 14
opening ceremonies (7-7:30) Albert Russell Ascoli, Conference Organizer, Dept. of
Italian Studies Anthony Newcomb, Dean of Humanities, College of Letters and Sciences The
Honorable Giulio Prigione, Consul General of Italy in San Francisco
1st session: Chair of Italian Culture Address (7:30-9) Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, 8th
Floor presiding: Steven Botterill (Chair, Italian Studies, UCB) speaker: Remo Ceserani
(University of Bologna): "Remaking the Tradition in Literary Historiography: The Case
of Nineteenth-Century Italy"
SATURDAY, November 15
2nd session (9-10:30) presiding: Elizabeth Leake (Italian Studies, UCB) speakers:
Susanna Ferlito (Univ. of Minnesota), "Letters from Exile: On the Post-Nationalism of
Manzoni's French Writings" Vincenzo Binetti (Univ. of Chicago), "Between
Romanticism and Realism: The 'Romanzo Sociale' and the Poetic of Engagement in the Italian
Risorgimento"
3rd session (11-12:30) presiding: Nancy Ruttenburg (Comparative Literature, UCB)
speakers: Mary Ann Smart (Univ. of Cal., Berkeley), "Liberty On (and Off) the
Barricades: Verdi's Risorgimento Fantasies." Renate Holub (Univ. of Cal., Berkeley),
"Between Vico and Mussolini: Cristina di Belgioioso's Nationalism"
4th session (2-4:30) presiding: Albert R. Ascoli (Italian Studies, UCB) speakers:
Andrea Ciccarelli (Indiana University)--"Dante and the Culture of Risorgimento:
Literary, Political or Ideological Icon? Harsha Ram (Univ. of Cal., Berkeley):
"Historicizing the Aesthetic, or the Place of the Nation" Roberto Dainotto (Duke
University), "'Tramonto' and 'Risorgimento' in Gentile's Dialectics of
Nationhood."
5th session (5-6) presiding: Randolph Starn (History and Italian Studies, UCB) speaker:
Adrian Lyttelton (University of Pisa): "Creating a National Past: History, Myth and
Image in the Risorgimento"
SUNDAY, November 16
6th session (9-10:30) presiding: Krystyna von Henneburg (History, UC Davis) speakers:
Maura O'Connor (University of Cincinnati), "Bandits, Strumpets, and Garibaldians in
the Two Sicilies: The Cultural Politics of English Support for the Risorgimento"
Silvana Patriarca (Columbia University)--"National Identity or National Character?
Changing Vocabularies and Stable Representations of Italianness."
7th session (11-12:30) presiding: Gavriel Moses (Italian Studies, UCB) speakers: Angela
Dalle Vacche (Emory University)--"Risorgimento as a Failed Revolution? A Certain
Advantage in the Visual Arts" David Forgacs (Royal Holloway), "Nostra Patria:
Revisions of the Risorgimento in Cinema, 1925-1943"
closing ceremonies (12:30-1)
Please direct inquiries to the conference assistant, Michael D'Amato; Department of
Italian Studies (#2620); Dwinelle Hall 3335; University of California; Berkeley, CA
94703-2620. We may also be contacted by email (mjcd@uclink3.berkeley.edu) or telephone
(510-643-2640).
Albert Russell Ascoli Director of Graduate Studies Department of Italian Studies
University of California, Berkeley Berkeley CA 94720-2620
phone: 510-643-2640 fax: 510-642-9884
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