Convegno AAIS - Chicago
[24-3-1998]
AAIS '98
Program of
The 18th Annual Conference
American Association of Italian Studies
Loyola Unviersity Chicago
Radisson Hotel and Suites Chicago
160 E. Huron
Chicago Il
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Thursday, April 2
1:00 -2:15
1. Italian Influences on Other Literatures
Where: Minuet
Organizer and Chair: Carla E. Lucente, Duquesne University
Gloria Lauri-Lucente, University of Michigan - "Absence and Desire in Petrarch and Shakespeare"
Nicoletta Pireddu, University of Houston - "Da Pescara a Dublino: paralisi e rigenerazione in D'Annunzio e Joyce"
Alessia Ricciardi, Northwestern University - "Calvino's invisible cities and Pynchon's Evident Wilderness: Charting the Borders of Literature from Polo and Kublai Khan to Mason and Dixon"
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2. The Homoerotic Imagination in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Where: Operetta
Organizer and Chair: Michael Sherberg, Washington University St. Louis
Gary P. Cestaro, De Paul University - "Love Among Men in Trecento Perugia"
Juliann Vitullo, Arizona State University - "Homoeroticism and Orientalism in the Early Italian Epic"
Margaret A. Gallucci, University of William & Mary - "Sexuality and Subjectivity in the Renaissance: The Case of Cellini"
Rosalind Kerr, University of Alberta - "The Lettere of Isabella Andreini: Performing the Language of Homoerotic Desire"
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3. The Returns of History: The Politics of Memory in the Italy of the Nineties
Where: Duet I
Organizer and Chair: Giuliana Minghelli, Harvard University
Alan R. Perry, University of Wisconsin - "Commemorative Biography and the Sacralization of Resistance Memory: The Holy Partisan-Martyr and the Rhetoric of Sacrifice"
Peter Sarram, Northwestern University - "Technologies of Memory: Cinema and the Writing of History in Recent Italian Film"
Giancarlo Lombardi, Smith College - "Spiderwebs, Stolen Briefcases, and Rotten Tangerines: The Many Fictions of the Moro Affair"
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4. Travel Literature to 1700
Where: Solo
Organizer: Luigi Monga, Vanderbilt University
Chair: Theodore Cachey - University of Notre Dame
Luigi Monga, Vanderbilt University - "La donna e i viaggiatori del Cinquecento"
Nathalie C. Hester, University of Chicago - " Travelling Cadavers in Pietro della Valle's Viaggi"
Patrizio Rossi, University of California at Santa Barbara - "I gesuiti in Cina nel Seicento"
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5. Scrittura e riflessione teorica nell'epica cinquecentesca
Where: Duet II
Organizer and Chair: Andrea Baldi, Rutgers University
Massimo Scalabrini, Princeton University - "Un'allegoria del macaronico folenghiano (Baldus, IX 1-373)"
Adelaide Basile, Rutgers University - "Astolfo, o della creativita'"
Lori J. Ultsch, University of California, Berkeley - "Discourse Unbecoming: Reconciling Erminia and Epic Form"
Roberta Ricci, Johns Hopkins University - "Compiacimento e censura: le lettere poetiche di Tasso alla Gerusalemme Liberata (1575-6)"
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2:30-3:45
6. La via dei simboli: Jung e la letteratura italiana
Where: Solo
Organizer: Massimo Maggiari, College of Charleston
Chair: Kathleen Argylan, Loyola University Chicago
Arielle Saiber, Yale University - "Mandalic Patterns in Giordano Bruno"
Massimo Maggiari, College of Charleston - "Esperienza metafisica ed inconscio nella poesia di Arturo Onofri"
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7. Tendenze realistiche e tendenze fantastiche nella prosa italiana del Novecento
Where: Operetta
Organizer and Chair: Giovanna Fogli, Michigan State University.
Enrico Cesaretti, Wake Forest University - "Il 'nomade costruttore': Alberto Savinio"
Paola Moscarelli, UCLA - "Viaggi metafisici di bambini ribelli"
Francesca Parmeggiani, Fordham University - "Guido Morselli e la scrittura della 'contro- realta''"
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8. Literary Represantations of Sicily I
Where: Duet I
Organizer and Chair: Mark Chu, University College Cork, Ireland
Suanna Spaziani -Testa, Connecticut College - "La Sicilia di Tomasi di Lampedusa: tra il vecchio ed il nuovo in un percorso di Morte"
Paolo Villa, Indiana University - "Leonardo Sciascia: siciliani e continentali"
Concettina Pizzuti, Northwestern University - "Visioni contemporanee della Sicilia del passato: Tomasi di Lampedusa e Sciascia"
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9. War: An Ex-centric Perspective
Where: Minuet
Organizer: Stefania Nedderman, Gonzaga University
Chair: Norma Bouchard, University Of Puerto Rico
Barbara Zaczak, Clemson University - "Resisiting War Accounts in Giampaolo Pansa's I nostri giorni proibiti"
Stefania Nedderman, Gonzaga University - "Epic and Banality in Luce D'Erasmo's Deviazione"
Lucienne Kroha, McGill University - "World War I and the Crisis of Masculinity: G.A. Borgese's Rube"
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10. Heroines in the Italian 19th Century Novels
Where: Duet II
Organizer and Chair: Maria Adelaide Basile, Rutgers University
Cinzia Di Giulio, Wesleyan University - "Arabella o dell'Antiprovvidenza"
Susan Amatangelo, Harvard University - "The Adolescent Heroine in the Novel of Giovanni Verga"
Sergio Ferrarese, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - "Sacro e profano ne La Vergine Orsola di Gabriele D'Annunzio"
Annamaria Pagliaro, Monash University - "Phenomenology of love: Constructing the Male and Female Characters in Federico de Roberto's Illusione and Ermanno Raeli"
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4:00 - 5:15
11. Venice as Image in the Arts & Literature
Where: Duet I
Organizer and Chair, Susana Cavallo, Loyola University Chicago
Angel Aguirre, Inter American University of Puerto Rico- "La civilta' veneziana del Rinascimento"
Joan Torres-Pou, Florida International University- "Venezia nel romanzo latino americano dell'Ottocento"
Susana Cavallo, Loyola University Chicago - "Crossing the Waters: A Study of Rosario Ferre's Las Dos Venecias"
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12. The Novella Tradition in the Renaissance
Where: Operetta
Organizers: Olga Pugliese, University of Toronto and Christopher Nissen, Northern Illinois University
Chair: Myriam Swennen Ruthenberg, Florida Atlantic University
Nancy L. D'Antuono, Saint Mary's College of Notre Dame - "Beyond the Frontier: Italian Novellieri and Spanish Golden Age in Comedy"
Nicole Prunster, Latrobe University - "The Sense of Place in the Variants of the Romeo and Juliet Story"
Christopher Nissen, Northern Illinois University - "A Female Voice for the Italian Renaissance Novella"
Thomas Mussio, Fairfield University - "Bandello's Dedicatory Letters: Rereading Boccaccio"
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13. Alba de Cespedes: Letteratura e scrittura
Where: Marquette Center 402
Organizer and Chair: Simona Wright, The College of New Jersey
Paola Blelloch, The College of New Jersey - "La scrittura come conoscenza di se': Il Diario segreto di Alba de Cespedes"
Carole Gallucci, College of William and Mary - "Alba de Cespedes's Io, suo padre: Father, Son and Fascism"
Dana Crudup, New York University - "Predilected Space and Subjectivity in Alba de Cespedes's Dalla parte di lei"
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14. Word and Image I: Male Words/Female Images in Literary Discourse
Where: Marquette Center 404
Organizer and Chair: Franco Ricci
Paul Ferrara, Hofstra University - "Chisel and Brush in the Ortis"
Beno Weis, Pennsylvania State University - "Pathetic and Chromatic Phallacies in Svevo's Novels"
Allison A. Cooper, UCLA - "Laughter and Carnival: The Character of Angiolina in Svevo's Senilita' "
Amy Rowden, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana - " The Power of the Pen: Duse vs. D'Annunzio"
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15. The Arts of Crime in Italian Literature and Film
Where: Marquette Center 408
Organizer and Chair: Robin Pickering -Iazzi, University Of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Federica Pedriali, University of Edinburg - "'Gli occhi del Lazio': Spatial Mimesis and Private Geography in Gadda's Quer pasticciaccio brutto de Via Merulana"
Ada Testaferri, York University - "Scritture e riscritture in Voci"
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16. La guerra civile nella narrativa italiana
Where: Marquette Center 422
Organizer: Luca Bufano, University of Connecticut
Chair: Pier Raimondo Baldini, Arizona State University
Piero Garofalo, Trinity College - "Narrative and Resistence: Uomini e no and Representations of Civil War"
Marilena Santuccio, University of Connecticut - "Bassani e Vancini. Una notte del '43 dal racconto al film"
Luca Bufano, University of Connecticut - "Beppe Fenoglio e il racconto di guerra"
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17.New Perspectives on Dante: Questions of Influence
Where: Duet II
Sponsored by the Dante Society of America Organizer: Christopher Kleinhenz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chair: Sergio Corsi, Loyola University Chicago
Christopher Muskopf, Miami University - "Architectural Structure and Dante's Celestial Rose Image"
Fabian Alfie, University of Arizona - "Dante and the Comic Style"
Santa Casciani, Pennsylvania State University - "Fifteenth-Century Mariology: Dante and the Franciscans"
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18. Donne rinascimentali
Where: Solo
Organizer and Chair: Veena Kumar-Carlson, Dominican University
Alison Cornish, University of Michigan - "Il secolo femminile"
Janet Smarr, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana - "A Dialogue of Dialogues: Tullia D'Aragona and Sperone Speroni"
Paola Malpezzi Price, Colorado State University - "Growing Up Female and Literate in the Sixteenth Century: The Case of Moderata Fonte"
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5:30 - 6:45
19. Poesia italiana contemporanea
Where: Duet I
Organizer: Luigi Fontanella, SUNY-Stony Brook
Chair: Margherita Pieracci-Harwell, University of Illinois at Chicago
Barbara Carle, University of North Texas - "Su Patmos di Rodolfo Di Biasio"
Catherine O'Brien, University College Cork, Ireland - "Changing Colours in the Poetry of Maura Del Serra"
Annelise Brody, The Johns Hopkins University - "The Normalization of Paradox in Luciano Erba's Poetry"
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20. Voice and Discourse in Italian Women Writers I
Where: Marquette Center 402
Organizer and Chair: Augusto Mastri, University of Louisville
Daniela Cavallaro, University of Auckland - "Drammaturghe italiane degli anni '50"
Maria Teresa Maenza, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana - "Sibilla Aleramo: 'modernita'' e il nuovo ruolo della maternita' in Una donna"
Mario Aste, University of Massachussetts Lowell - "Characterization of Women and Women Voices in Grazia Deledda"
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21. Before/Beyond Il nome della rosa: Retelling the Middle Ages
Where: Operetta
Organizer: Gloria Allaire, Purdue University
Chair: Colleen M. Ryan, Purdue University
Barbara de Marco, Romance Philology - "Orlando in Sicily: Bonaviri's Puppet on the Cross"
Gloria Allaire, Purdue University - "Guerrino in Sicily: Bufalino's Homage to Popular Romance and Puppet Theater"
Regina Psaki, University of Oregon - "Mancinelli's Middle Ages and the non-historical Novel"
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22. Letteratura dell'emigrazione in Italia oggi
Where: Duet II
Organizer and Chair: Andrea Ciccarelli, Indiana University
Serena Anderlini D'Onofrio, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez - "Italian American Women Writers: Narrative, Trajectories, Transformation"
Sheryl Postman, University of Massachusetts - "The (C)overt World of Giose Rimanelli in Il tempo nascosto tra le righe"
Alessandra Di Maio, University of Massachussets, Amherst - "Immigrato i 'Wanderjahare' italiani di Salah Methnani"
Emilio Lomonaco, Indiana University - "Il Diario di Dracula di Marin Mincu"
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23. Renaissance Studies I
Where: Solo
Organizer: Olivia Holmes, Yale University
Chair: Arielle Saiber, Yale University
Sherry Roush, Yale University - "Lorenzo de' Medici's Comento: Autobiography or Commentary?"
James Ward, University of Nevada - "Machiavelli and Rhetoric: Reading the Prince Ambiguously"
Paul Colilli, Laurentian University - "Philosophy as an Occult Kind of Ascesis (or, Renaissance Hermeticism and Posterity)"
Cristina Perissinoto, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - "La felicita' nella Citta' del sole: un'analisi lessicale"
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24. La scrittura e l'impegno nell'eta' postmoderna
Where: Marquette Center 408
Organizer: Stefania Lucamante, Georgetown University
Chair: Roberto Severino, Georgetown University
Angela Jeannet, Franklyn and Marshall College - Contro la morte: voci in Antonio Tabucchi"
Myriam Ruthenberg, Florida Atlantic University - "Kohelet/Ecclesiaste: Erri De Luca's Wasteland of Writing"
Franco Manai, The University of Auckland - "Discorso ideologico, tecnica dello straniamento e piacere del narrare nei gialli di Loriano Macchiavelli"
Giovanna Miceli-Jeffries, University of Wisonsin-Madison - "Settanta, ottanta, novanta: evoluzione e articolazione dell'impegno nella scrittura di Clara Sereni"
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25. From the Resistance to the Reconstruction
Where: Marquette Center 422
Organizer and Chair: Vincenzo Binetti, University of Chicago
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Fordham University - "Screening Memory: Film and the Fascist Past in Italy, 1945-50"
Cesare Vespignani, University of Oregon - "Calvino, Fenoglio, la Resistenza e la memoria"
Catherine Ramsey Portolan, University of Chicago - "Il mito dell'America in Americana"
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8:00
26. Poesaggio '98 - Poetry Reading
Where: Istituto Italiano di Cultura
Suite 1450, 500 N. Michigan Ave
Organizer: Maurizio Godorecci, University of Alabama
Welcome by Lidia Ramogida, Direttore, Istituto Italiano di Cultura
Alessandro Carrera, New York University; Peter Carravetta, CUNY/Queens College; Alfredo DePalchi; Luigi Fontanella, SUNY-Stony Brook; Maurizio Godorecci, University of Alabama; Ernesto Livorni, Yale University; Mario Moroni, Yale University; Annalisa Sacca', St. John's University; Paolo Valesio, Yale University; and Luciano Erba, Universita' Cattolica di Milano
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Friday April 3
8:30 - 9:45
27. Diaristic and Epistolary Novels: Narrative Strategies of the Self
Where: Marquette Center 402
Organizer: Adrienne S. Defendi, Yale University
Chair: Barbara Zaczek, Clemson University
Giovanna Fogli, Michigan State University - "Strategie dell'autorappresentazione: L'Ortis ed il 'romanzo fratello'"
Gabriella Romani, University of Pennsylvania - "Revising the Canon: Angelica Bartolommei Palli's Reading of the Ortis"
Adrienne S. Defendi, Yale University - "Re-scribing Lineages of Love: Graf's Riscatto"
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28. Donne in giallo: Women Writers and Detective Fiction
Where: Duet II
Organizer: Angela M. Jeannet
Chair: Carol Lazzaro-Weis, Southern University
Deborah Contrada, University of Iowa - "Rereading Il rimorso: Alba de Cespedes as giallista"
Giuliana S. Katz, University of Toronto - "Il tema del doppio in Complice il dubbio"
Simona Wright, The College of New Jersey - "The Resisting Voice: Maraini's Voci"
Monica Rossi, Vassar College - "Ferrante's L'amore molesto: Re-establishing a Female Identity in the Nineties"
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29. Antonio Tabucchi I
Where: Duet I
Organizer and Chair: Flavia Brizio-Skov, University of Tennessee
Monica Jansen, University of Utrecht - "Tabucchi e Pessoa: la copresenza di due fotografi dell'immaginario"
Bruno Ferraro, University of Auckland - "Antonio Tabucchi's Actors, Characters and Ghosts"
Romana Capek-Habekovic, University of Michigan - "Facts, Fiction and Literature in Antonio Tabucchi's La testa perduta di Damasceno Monteiro"
Claudia Fernanda de Campos, Universidade de Sao Paulo - "I personaggi femminili nella narrativa di Antonio Tabucchi"
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30. Boccaccio and His Influence
Where: Operetta
Organizer and Chair: Regina Psaki, University of Oregon
Olivia Holmes, Yale University - "'Quanto ne presta amore in un sol punto': Troilo in paradiso"
Francesca Leardini, Duke University - "Il travestimento nel Decameron"
Stefano Giannini, Johns Hopkins University - "Il viaggio nella citta'. La spazialita' nelle novelle fiorentine del Decameron"
Ruggero Stefanini, University of California -Berkeley - "Re Pietro III d'Aragona e la Signorina Lisa Puccini (Dec. X.7)"
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31. The Commedia dell'Arte Then and Now
Where: Solo
Organizer and Chair: Nancy D'Antuono, Saint Mary's College of Notre Dame
Cristina Abbona, Brown University - "Commediografi, letterati, e miserabili istrioni. Il teatro comico toscano del primo Settecento e la lezione dell'Arte"
Antonio Scuderi, Truman State University - "Improvisation in Popular Performance, the Commedia dell'Arte, and Dario Fo"
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32. The Colors of Italian Culture: Immigrant Literature in Italian
Where: Marquette Center 404
Organizer: Graziella Parati, Dartmouth College
Chair: Anthony Tamburri, Purdue University
Marie Orton, Duke University - "Invisible Immigrants"
James Walker, University of Colorado, Boulder - "Out of Italy: 'New' African Italian Writers"
Graziella Parati, Dartmouth College: "Eternal Strangers? Film and Immigration"
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33. Linguistics I
Where: Marquette Center 408
Organizer and Chair: Thomas D. Cravens, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Martin D. Maiden, Trinity College, Oxford - "The Survival of Nominative Case Forms in Old Italo-romance"
Janice M. Aski, Emory University - "Allophonic Variation and Phonological Split: the Development of Latin /sj/ in Italian"
Cecilia Robustelli, Cornell University - "Infinitival Vs. Finite Complementations: the Syntax of Perception Verbs from Old Italian to Italo-romance Varieties"
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34. Italian Women Filmmakers
Where: Marquette 422
Organizer and Chair: Claire Marrone, Sacred Heart University
Sandy Waters, University of Oregon - "The Absurd and Ironic in Lina Wertmuller's Pasqualino settebellezze"
Thomas Xenopoulos Peccini, Rutgers University - "From Hero to Outcast: Wertmuller's Portrayal of the Italian Male" Flavia Laviosa, Wellesley College - "The Female Directorial Signature in Liliana Cavani's Film Dove siete? Sono qui"
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10:00 - 11:15
35. Giuseppe Berto: neorealismo, psicanalisi, rifacimento della tradizione cristiana
Where: Marquette Center 402
Organizer: Alessandro Vettori, University of Virginia
Chair: Giuseppe Strazzeri, Seton Hall University
Donatella Baldini, University College Galway - "Nella casa del padre: gli spazi della coscienza ne Il Male oscuro di Giuseppe Berto"
Andrea Malaguti, Harvard University - "Il brigante, o il neorealismo spiegato (d)ai bambini"
Alessandro Vettori, University of Virginia "L'opera del tradimento di Berto, ovvero La gloria"
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36. La Crisi della Ragione
Where: Duet II
Organizer and Chair: Anna Camaiti, University of Illinois Chicago
Mario Moroni, Yale University - "Scenari della Complessita': Intorno a Gianni Vattimo e il pensiero debole"
Massimo Verdicchio, University of Alberta - "On Perniola: More than Art, More than Philosophy"
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37. Roundtable: The Literature of Angela Bianchini
Where: Duet I
Organizer and Chair: Angela M. Jeannet, Franklyn and Marshall University
Panelists: Giuliana S. Katz, University of Toronto; Stefania Lucamante, Georgetown University; Angela M. Jeannet, Franklyn and Marshall University. Angela Bianchini will be present.
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38. Dante - The Commedia
Where: Operetta
Organizer: Steve Botterrill, University of California, Berkeley
Chair: Gloria Allaire, Purdue University
Manuele Gragnolati, Columbia University - "Air, Flesh, and Body: The Human Being and Resurrection in the Commedia"
Diana Modesto, University of Sydney, Australia - "Who is the Loser of the 'Gioco della zara' (Purg. VI. 1-2)?"
Steven Botterill, University of California, Berkeley - "Language and Community in 'Malebolge'"
Christian Moevs, University of Notre Dame - "The 'Primo Mobile' as a Pot of Time: Par. 27. 115-120"
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39. Roundtable: Letteratura dell'emigrazione oggi
Where: Marquette Center 404
Organizer and Chair: Andrea Ciccarelli, Indiana University
Panelists: Alessandro Carrera, NYU; Remo Ceserani, Universita' di Bologna; Paolo Giordano, Loyola University Chicago; Graziella Parati, Dartmouth University; Anthony Tamburri, Purdue University; Paolo Valesio, Yale University.
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40. Roundtable: Research in the Service of Teaching
Where: Marquette Center 408
Organizer and Chair: Paola Blelloch, The College of New Jersey
Panelists: Simona Wright, The College of New Jersey; Flavia Laviosa, Wellesley College; Mark Epstein Adult School Princeton.
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41. Women in Italian and Italian/American Cinema
Where: Marquette Center 422
Organizer: Millicent Marcus, University of Texas
Chair: Dorothe'e Bonnigal, Universite' de Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle
Ben Lawton, Purdue University - "In Search of a Lost Past: Helen De Michiel's Tarantella"
Aine O'Healy, Loyola Marymount University - "Locating the feminine in Contemporary Italian Cinema"
Colleen Ryan, Purdue University - "Duplicity in Pasolini's Medea"
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11:30 - 12:45
42. La critica e i metodi: Esperienze di lavoro I
Where: Duet I
Organizers: Paolo Giordano and Franco Nasi, Loyola University Chicago
Chair: Remo Ceserani, Universita' di Bologna
Panelists: Paolo Cherchi, University of Chicago; Franco Fido, Harvard University; Albert Mancini, Ohio State Univeristy.
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43. New Directions in Dialect Poetry
Where: Marquette Center 402
Organizer and Chair: Luigi Bonaffini, CUNY/Brooklyn College
Achille Serrao, "Orientamenti della poesia dialettale contemporanea. Dall''esperimento' lirico al racconto in versi: Luigi Bressan, Fabio Franzin, Giose Rimanelli e Nelvia Di Monte"
Justin Vitiello, Temple University - "New Poetries for Europe"
Dante Maffia, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza" - "Sopravvivenza della 'nostalgia' nella poesia dialettale contemporanea"
Francesca Cadel - "Poesia in friulano della destra del Tagliamento: da Pasolini a Federico Tavan"
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44. Il teatro in Italia dal rinascimento al postmoderno
Where: Solo
Organizer: AAIS
Chair: Teresa Picarazzi, University of Arizona
Antonio Franceschetti, Scarborough College of the University of Toronto - "In margine alla Moscheta del Ruzzante: traduzione e interpretazione"
Carmela Pesca, Central Connecticut State University - "La Venexiana e le vie dell'amore"
Carlo Bruni, Direttore del Teatro Kismet OperA - "Il Teatro Kismet OperA: Per un teatro possibile"
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45. Machiavelli as "letterato"
Where: Operetta
Organizer: Sante Matteo, Miami University of Ohio
Chair: Dain A. Trafton, Rockford College
Sante Matteo, Miami University of Ohio - "To Hell with Affabulation!: Machiavelli's 'favola' Belfagor"
Barbara Godorecci, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa - "Machiavelli's Decennali"
Edmund Jacobitti, Southern Illinois University - "The Classical Paradigm in Machiavelli's Poetic History of Florence"
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46. Session organized by the Gay and Lesbian Italian Studies Caucus
Where: Duet II
Organizer and Chair: Eugenio Giusti, Vassar College
Ezio Menzione - "I diritti degli omosessuali Italiani alla luce delle decisioni parlamentari europee"
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47. Linguistics Session II
Where: Marquette Center 408
Organizer and Chair: Mario Saltarelli, University of Southern California
John Charles Smith, St. Catherine's College, Oxford - "Developments in the expression of perfectivity from Latin to Italian"
Giulia Centineo, University of California, Santa Cruz - "The case of intranstive pairs invecchiare vs. invecchiarsi, or the meaning of meaningless si"
Stefano Vegnaduzzi, UCLA- "Aspectual composition in Italian"
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48. "Neo/Neorealism: Current Italian Cinema as Social Manifesto"
Where:Marquette Center 422
Organizer and Chair: Angelica Forti-Lewis, SUNY/Stony Brook
Gavriel Moses, University of California, Berkeley - "Real Spaces and the Space of the Real: Tavianis and After"
Barbara Zecchi, Saint Mary's College of California - "Post-Neorealismo o Neo-Neorealismo? Il Caso Donna"
Jennifer Haraguchi, University of Chicago - "De Sica's and Bartolini's Bycicle Thieves"
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12:45 - 2:00
Gay and Lesbian Caucus Luncheon
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2:00 - 3:15
49. La critica e i metodi: Esperienze di lavoro II
Where: Duet I
Organizers: Paolo Giordano and Franco Nasi, Loyola University Chicago
Chair: Remo Ceserani, Universita' di Bologna
Panelists: Teodolinda Barolini, Columbia University; Robert Dombroski, CUNY Graduate Center; Paolo Valesio, Yale University.
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50. Libertinism in Early Modern Italian Literature
Where: Duet II
Organizer: Stefania Buccini, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chair: Adrienne Ward, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Stefania Buccini,University of Wisconsin-Madison - "I libertini e la morte: L' "entourage" degli Incigniti"
Armando Maggi, University of Pannsylvania - "Obscenity and Enlightenment in La Cazzaria by Antonio Vignali"
Francesco Guardiani, University of Toronto - "La sfrenata penna del Materiale: Tommaso Stigliani (1573-1651)"
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51. Culture and Mass Politics in Postwar Italy
Where: Marquette Center 402
Organizer and Chair: Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Fordham University
Robert Lumley, University College London - "Arte Povera: the Italian Answer to Pop Art?"
Kriss Ravetto, UCLA - "Eating Crow: Pasolini and the Massification of Culture"
Giuseppe Strazzeri, Seton Hall University - "Il Mito del Poeta e del Mercante: Scrittori ed Editori in Italia dal dopoguerra agli anni Sessanta"
Sergio Pace, Politecnico di Torino - "Italia '61: Urban Strategies and Architectural Rhetorics During Italy's Boom Years"
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52. Yours Truly: Early Modern Women's Epistolary Practices
Where: Operetta
Session Organizer: Deanna Shemek, University of California, Santa Cruz
Chair: Laura Salsini, University of Delaware
Deanna Shemek, University of California, Santa Cruz - "'In Continuous Expectation': Isabella d'Este's Desire for Epistolary Correspondence"
Marcello Simonetta, Yale University - "L'amore dispari: Maria Savorgnan e Pietro Bembo"
Victoria Kirkham, University of Pennsylvania - "The Epistolary Web of Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati: From Soneteer to Humanist Secretary"
Julia L. Hairston, Universita' di Roma "Performing Motherhood: The Letters of Alessandra Macinghi Strozzi"
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53. Poesia Italiana Del Secondo Novecento
Where: Solo
Organizer and Chair: Luigi Fontanella, SUNY-Stony Brook
Paolo Barlera, New York University - "The Anthropological Impact on the Moral Imagination of T.S.Eliot and Pier Paolo Pasolini"
Cristina Caracchini, Bishop's University, Canada - "La funzione cognitiva del linguaggio poetico nell'opera di Giorgio Caproni"
Laura Bafffoni Licata, Tufts University - "La recente poesia luziana: dal frammento alla totalita' dell'essere, ovvero l'accettazione della "diversita'"
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54. Italian Studies on the World Wide Web. A round table
Where: Marquette Center 404
Organizer: David Beneteau, Seton Hall University
Chair: Mike Papio, Brown University
Participants: David Beneteau, Seton Hall University; Theodore Cachey, University of Notre Dame; Deborah Parker, University of Virginia; Massimo Riva, Brown University; Giulio Lughi, Universita' di Trieste
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55. Linguistics Session III
Where: Marquette Center 408
Organizer: Thomas Cravens, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chair: James Schwarten, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jana Vizmuller-Zocco, York University - "Il sostrato dialettale dell'italiano parlato"
Lisa Bland, University of Texas - "Speaking northern: Language ideology through political satire in Italy"
Herbert J. Izzo, University of Calgary (emeritus) - "On the work of C.L. Fernow, forgotten German Italianist of the 18th century"
J. Peter Maher, Northeastern Illinois University (emeritus) - "Paparazzo before Fellini"
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56. Revisiting Fellini
Where: Marquette Center 422
Organizer and Chair: Millicent Marcus, University of Texas
Dorothe'e Bonnigal, Universite' de Paris III Sorbonne - "'Nouvelle' Notes on a Cinematic Naught-Book An Investigation of Fellini's A Director's Notebook"
Marguerite Waller, University of California at Riverside - "Fellini's Wake"
Peter Bondanella, Indiana University - "Recent Work on Fellini"
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3:30-4:45
57. Roundtable: La critica e i metodi: Esperienze di lavoro
Where: Duet I
Organizers: Franco Nasi and Paolo Giordano, Loyola University Chicago
Chair: Remo Ceserani, Universita' di Bologna
Remo Ceserani,Universita' di Bologna - Relazione introduttiva Panelists: Teodolinda Barolini, Columbia University; Paolo Cherchi, University of Chicago; Robert Dombroski, CUNY Graduate Center; Franco Fido, Harvard University; Albert Mancini, The Ohio State University; Paolo Valesio, Yale University
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58. Women's Places and Spaces in Literature and Film; Session I
Where: Marquette Center 402
Organizer and Chair: Silvia Ross, University College Cork, Ireland
Marina de Bellagente LaPalma, Menlo Park, California - "Leaving Home (Ginzburg, Vigano', and Morante)"
Miriam Halpern, New York University - "Circumscribing Sacred Spaces in Rosetta Loy's Le strade di polvere"
Mary Ann McDonald Carolan, Fairfield University - "Leone's Lone Female: A new Interpretation of Women in C'era una volta il West"
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59. Italian Influences on Other European Literatures
Where: Solo
Organizer: Carla E. Lucente, Duquesne University
Chair: Annalisa Sacca', St. John's University, Jamaica NY
Robert de Lucca, Duke University - "A New Translation of Carlo Emilio Gadda's Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana"
Remi Lanzoni, Clemson University - "Il Premio Nobel va a Dario Fo: scelta sbagliata o illuminata?"
Luca Somigli, University of Toronto - "Ezra Pound and Italian Poetry: The case of Saturno Montanari"
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60. France and Italy in the Renaissance
Where: Duet II
Chair: David Beneteau, Seton Hall University
Ullrich Langer, University of Wisconsin-Madison - "Castiglione, Le Caron, and the Destruction of Virtue"
David M. Posner, Loyola University Chicago - "Montaigne's School Plays"
Eric MacPhail, Indiana University - "Rabelais and the Turpin Effect"
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61. Tendencies and Perspectives in Contemporary Italian Poetry
Where: Operetta
Organizer and Chair: Cinzia Sartini-Blum, University of Iowa
Francesca O. Galante, University of Wisconsin - "Il duro crogiolo mentale nel delirio lirico di Alda Merini"
Lara Trubowitz, University of Iowa - "Polyvocality, Musicality and the Reader. The Practice of Poetry in Giulia Niccolai"
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62. New Approaches : Teaching, Scholarly Research and the Internet
Where: Marquette Center 408
Organizer and Chair Rosetta D'Angelo, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Gaetano Maruca, Liceo classico di Locri RC - "Dante e Internet"
Mark Epstein, Princeton University - "Nuove tecnologie: tra lucido e luddismo, nuove prassi linguistiche"
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5:00 - 6:15 p.m.
63. Critical Approaches to Italian Literature and Culture:Session in Honor of Gregory Lucente
Where: Duet I
Organizer and Chair: Gaetana Marrone-Puglia, Princeton University
Millicent Marcus, University of Texas - "Visconti's Bellissima: The Diva, the Mirror, and the Screen"
Ernesto Livorni, Yale University - "Come il letto di un falo': History and Myth in Cesare Pavese's Poetics"
Rebecca West, University of Chicago - "The Potential of Authority in Contemporary Italian Culture: Thinking and Writing Against Power"
Walter Geetz, University of Antwerpen - "Nuove prospettive metatestuali"
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64. Travel Literature: "Travels in Padania"
Where: Solo
Organizer and Chair: Luigi Monga - Vanderbilt University
Theodore Cachey, University of Notre Dame - "Petrarca e il Po"
Davide Papotti, University of Chicago - "L'immagine del Po nell'epica cinquecentesca"
Sarah Hill, University of Chicago - "Visual and Verbal Intersections: The Photographic Discourse in Travel Accounts"
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65. New Perspectives on Dante as Author
Where: Operetta
Sponsored by the Dante Society of America
Organizer: Christopher Kleinhenz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chair: Santa Casciani, Pennsylvania State University
Gabriella Finizio, University of Delaware - "Dal latratus canis allo scriba Dei: una rilettura della profezia del veltro"
Antonio Rossini, University of Toronto - "Tra senno e cenno: Dante discepolo e poeta attraverso la Commedia. Uno studio sulla rima in fine di terzina"
Paul Vlajcic, Northern Illinois University - "Dante's Pastorals: The Auctor as Exile"
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66. Dialect Poets Read their Own Poetry
Where: Duet II
Organizer: Luigi Bonaffini, CUNY/Brooklyn College
Chair: Justin Vitiello, Temple University
Ottavio Balena (Napoletano), Adeodato Piazza Nicolai (Ladino), Giose Rimanelli (Molisano), Peter Carravetta (Calabrese), Achille Serrao (Campano), Dante Maffia (Calabrese), Joseph Tusiani (Pugliese), Marcello Marciani (Abruzzese), Letizia Sutera (Siciliano)
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67. L'universo di Leopardi
Where: Marquette Center 402
Organizer: Massimo Lollini, University of Oregon
Chair: Irene Marchegiani Jones, California State University, Long Beach
Daniela Bini, University of Texas at Austin - "Il tramonto della luna"
Alessandro Carrera, New York University - "La favola e il mondo vero"
Massimo Lollini, University of Oregon - "La scrittura dell'inizio: Leopardi e il problema della genesi"
Massimo Riva, Brown University - "Stratigrafie leopardiane: la viva voce della lettera morta"
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68. Figurando il luogo della ricorrenza: Tormentoni, manie, fisime e caparbieta' nella narrativa italiana contemporanea
Where: Marquette Center 404
Organizers: Tommasina Gabriele, Wheaton College and Annalisa Sacca', St. John's University
Chair: Tommasina Gabriele, Wheaton College
Lauretta de Renzo, University of Oregon - "Writing as Sublimation: The Alchemy of Gadda's Literary Neurasthenia"
Maria Luisa Gozzi, Columbia University - "L'universo dei vizi estinti, delle virtu' dimenticate, del desiderio perenne"
Annalisa Sacca', St. John's University - "Fisime e ricorrenze ne La luna e i falo': Un terrazzo e un vestito di fiori per chiamare distante nel volto della memoria l'infinito"
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69. Linguistics IV
Where: Marquette Center 408
Organizer: Thomas Cravens, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chair: Janice M. Aski, Emory University
Francesco D'Introno, University of Massachusetts - "Nasalizzazione e pre-nasalizzazione in un dialetto barese"
Michael Mazzola, Northern Illinois University - "Trochaic Branching and Consonantal Doubling"
Rosemary Weston, Simon's Rock College of Bard - "Syllable Structure and Resyllabification in Some Italian Dialects"
Christina Tortora, University of Michigan - " -telic Unaccusatives in Italian"
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70. New Materials and New Approaches in the ISL Classroom
Where: Marquette Center 422
Organizer: Wiley Feinstein, Loyola University Chicago
Chair: Anna Clara Ionta, Loyola University Chicago
Anthony Mollica, Brock University - "Sorridiamo insieme: Using Humor to Reinforce Language Skills in the Italian Classroom"
Silvia Chegia, Universita' di Siena - "Il linguaggio giovanile nei testi dei gruppi 'rap' contemporanei: analisi di lingua e testi"
Martino Malinverni, University of Berne, Switzerland - "Verso una maggiore autonomia: Un percorso didattico ISL centrato sul discente"
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7:00
71.Official Opening of the Conference and Reception
Where: Lewis Tower 13th Floor, Water Tower Campus, Loyola University
Welcome: Kathleen McCourt, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Loyola University
Welcome and Remarks: Pasquale D'Avino, Consul General of Italy in Chicago
Keynote Address: Dacia Maraini, "Scrivere in Italia oggi"
Gala Reception
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Saturday, April 4, 1998
8:30 - 9:45 A.M.
72. Petrarca: Poesia e retorica
Where: Minuet
Organizer Sergio Corsi, Loyola University Chicago
Chair: Jeremy Parzen, UCLA
Dennis Dutschke, University of California-Davis - "Solitary Lives, Solitary Saints, and Solitary Texts in the Making of Petrarch's De vita solitaria"
Sergio Corsi, Loyola University Chicago - "Gli 'adynata' nei Rerum vulgarium fragmenta"
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73. Leopardi alle soglie del Duemila
Where: Duet I
Organizer: Daniela Bini, University of Texas, Austin
Chair: Massimo Lollini, University of Oregon, Eugene
Elias Polizoes, University of Toronto - "Leopardi, the Victorians and the Rise of Modern Allegory"
Delia Fabbroni-Giannotti Nisbet, Oxford College of Emory University - "Il canto leopardiano come metafora esistenziale"
Ilona Klein, Brygham Young University - "L'Infinito circoscritto geometricamente in spazi metalinguistici"
Luigi Fontanella, SUNY-Stony Brook - "'Il sogno' leopardiano: ricostruzione e lettura"
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74. Voice and Discourse in Italian Women Writers II
Where: Marquette Center 402
Organizer: Mario Aste, University of Massachussetts Lowell
Chair: J. Heli Hernandez, University of Massachussetts Lowell
Paola Carú, University of Bergen - "'Mamma li turchi!' History, Otherness, and (Narrative) Strategy in Maria Corti's L'ora di tutti"
Stefania Lucamante, Georgetown University - "Tra mito e psiche: Il bacio della Medusa di Melania Mazzucco"
Augusto Mastri, University of Louisville - "Feminine narrative of Maria Messina"
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75. Not Dante: 'Minor' Writers of the Duecento
Where: Duet II
Organizer and Chair: Olivia Holmes, Yale University
Antonello Borra, University of Georgia - "Guittone e Peire Vidal"
Patrizia Palumbo, University of Iowa - "The Spectacle of Mary in the Laudes of Friar Iacopone of Todi" Justin Steinberg, University of Minnesota - "Guinizelli, the 'Frati Gaudenti,' and the Politics of Fraud in the Memoriali Bolognesi"
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76. Power and Play in the Renaissance
Where: Solo
Organizer and Chair: Michael Vena, Southern Connecticut State University
Pina Palma, Southern Connecticut State University - "Women and Power in Aretino's Ragionamenti"
Salvatore Di Maria, University of Tennessee at Knoxville - "Some Innovations in Italian Renaissance Comedy"
Silvia Ruffo-Fiore, University of South Florida - "More on Machiavelli's Modernism"
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77. Umberto Eco as a Theorist of Culture
Where: Marquette Center 404
Organizer: Nikita Nankov, Indiana University Bloomington
Chair: Salvatore Bizzarro, Colorado College
Norma Bouchard, University of Puerto Rico - "Reading Contemporary Cultural Theory: Umberto Eco Contra Jean Baudrillard"
Helen Bennett, Eastern Kentucky University - "Umberto Eco: Cultural Tradition and Semiotics"
Nikita Nankov, Indiana University Bloomington - "Umberto Eco: the Limits of a Rationalistic Theory of Culture"
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78. Italo Calvino I
Where: Operetta
Organizer: Giuseppe Francese, Michigan State University
Chair: Constance Markey, DePaul University
Eugenio Bolongaro, McGill University - "L'intellettuale nel labirinto"
Maria Calvo-Montoro, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha - "Calvino e Conrad"
Joseph Francese, Michigan State University - "Le dimissioni di Calvino dal Pci"
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79. Linguistics: The Marsica
Where: Marquette Center 408
Organizer:Gregory Smith, Rome International University
Chair: Achille Serrao
Gregory Smith, Rome International University - "Appunti etnologici sulle trasformazioni culturali nella Marsica"
James Schwarten, University of Wisconsin - Madison - "Verso una tipologia accurata dei dialetti della Valle Roveto"
Mario Saltarelli, University of Southern California - "Sull'identita' linguistica dei Marsi: l'articolo determinativo"
Nora Galli de Paratesi, Rome International University - "Origini e fortuna de 'L'Italiano Popolare': una lingua fantasma?"
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80. Epic, National Identity, and the History of Italian Film
Where: Marquette Center 422
Organizer: Millicent Marcus, University of Texas
Chair: Margaret Waller, University of California, Riverside
Frank Burke, Queen's University - "Reflections on the Postwar Italian Foundational Film: Nation and History as Virtual Reality?"
Marla Stone, Occidental College - "War and National Identity: The Biennale Film Festival during WWII"
Gaetana Marrone-Puglia, Princeton University - "The Form of Experiencing in Cavani's Milarepa"
Amilcare Iannucci, University of Toronto - "Dante and the Silent Film Era"
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10:00 - 11:15
81. Tabucchi II
Where: Marquette Center 402
Organizer: Flavia Brizio-Skov, University of Tennesse ^
Chair: Bruno Ferraro, University of Auckland
Charles Klopp, Ohio State University - "Aporias and intertextuality in Antonio Tabucchi's Il filo dell'orizzonte"
Flavia Brizio-Skov, University of Tennessee - "Umano-Disumano: il caso Damasceno Monteiro"
Sergio Mauro, Universidade Estadual Paulista - "Angeli neri e maschere nella narrativa e nel teatro di Antonio Tabucchi"
Dora Taylor, University of Georgia - "Notturno Indiano: il viaggio alla ricerca di se stessi"
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82. Roundtable: The Poetry of Luciano Erba
Where: Duet II
Organizer Luigi Fontanella, SUNY-Stony Brook
Luciano Erba, Honorary President of IPSA
Welcoming remarks by Luigi Fontanella, Director of IPSA Appreciation by Alfredo de Palchi, Chairman of the Board of IPSA Introductory notes by Paolo Valesio, Associate Director of IPSA Bilingual Reading by Luciano Erba from his recent collection "The Metaphysical Street-Car Conductor"
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83. Cannibali, Pulp, Splatter e oltre. Nuovi percorsi e travestimenti della narrativa italiana
Where: Marquette Center 404
Organizers: Stefania Lucamante, Georgetown University and Claudio Mazzola, The College of the Holy Cross
Chair: Stefania Lucamante, Georgetown University
Gian Paolo Renello, Universita' di Salerno - "Il corpo mediatico della letteratura cannibale"
Ellen Nerenberg, Wesleyan University - "Serial Killers and Detectives in Contemporary Italian Fiction"
Claudio Mazzola, The College of the Holy Cross - "Cuore di Pulp: l'impossibilita' di essere normali"
Filippo La Porta, L'Unita' - "Mappa aggiornata della nuova narrativa italiana: gruppi e tendenze"
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84. The Crisis of the Renaissance
Where: Operetta
Organizer and Chair: David Posner, Loyola University Chicago
Albert Russell Ascoli, University of California Berkeley - "Whose Crisis?"
Edward Muir, Northwestern University - "Was There Republicanism in the Renaissance Republics"
Ronald L. Martinez, University of Minnesota - "The Tragedy of Crisis, Italy 1515-1585"
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85. Roundtable: Themes, Genres, and Narrative Strategies in Dacia Maraini's Work
Where: Duet I
Organizer and Chair: Virginia Picchietti, University of Scranton
Panelists: Anna Camaiti Hostert, University of Illinois Chicago; Anthony Tamburri, Purdue University; Tommasina Gabriele, Wheaton College, Mass.; Giancarlo Lombardi, Smith College. Dacia maraini will be present
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86. Video in the ISL Classroom
Where: Marquette Center 408
Organizer and Chair: Anna Clara Ionta, Loyola University Chicago
Fabio Girelli Carasi, CUNY Brooklyn- "Introducing a New Internet Italian Course: http://www.inx.net/~italclub"
Wiley Feinstein, Loyola University Chicago - "Video on CD: ISL Applications"
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87. Sound and Narrative
Where: Marquette Center 422
Organizers:Giorgio Biancorosso, Princeton University and Universita' di Venezia, and Antonella Puca, New York University
Chair: Maurizio Godorecci,University of Alabama
Giorgio Biancorosso, Princeton University and Universita' di Venezia - "Sound and Narrative in Antonioni: The Soundscape of L'Avventura"
Antonella Puca, New York University - "Song and Biblical citation in Dante's Purgatorio"
Davide Stimilli, Northwestern University - "Auricles: Epiphonies and Narrative"
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11:30 - 12:30-
88. Presentazione di Disc Dizionario Italiano edizione CD-ROM
Where: Duet I
Francesco Sabatini, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza"
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89. Presentazione di Italica: programma di lingua e cultura italiana della Rai International e del Premio Zerilli-Marimo': una giuria americana per il libro italiano
Where: Duet II
Amedeo Quondam, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza"
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12:30 - 2:00
90. AAIS Executive Council Meeting
Where: Operetta
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91. Women's Caucus Luncheon
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2:00 - 3:15
92. Roundtable in Honor of Gian Paolo Biasin
Where: Duet
Organizer and Chair: Carla E. Lucente, Duquesne University
Daniela Bini, University of Texas-Austin; Millicent Marcus, University of Texas; Antonino Musumeci, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana; Albert Sbragia, University of Washington; Rebecca West, University of Chicago.
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93. Byron's Dream Come true: Morgante's First English Translation
Where: Minuet
Organizer: Edoardo Lebano, Indiana University
Chair: Elissa Weaver, University of Chicago
Panelists: Edoardo Lebano, Indiana University; Maria Passaro, Central Connecticut State University; Joseph Tusiani, CUNY/Lehman College.
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94. Teoria e Critica - Letteratura del Novecento
Where: Marquette Center 402
Organizer and Chair: Franco Nasi, Loyola University Chicago
Luciano Parisi, Oxford Brooke University - "La critica militante di G.A. Borgese"
Sandro Moraldo, Universita' Cattolica di Milano - "Conditio simiana. La metafora della scimmia nella letteratura italiana del Novecento"
Mary K. Refling, Columbia University - "Siete voi qui, Ser Pier Paolo"
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95. Dante: Intertextual Approaches
Where: Solo
Organizer and Chair: Steven Botterill, University of California Berkeley
Charles Ross, Purdue University - "Translating the Thebaid of Statius Through the Eyes of Dante"
Umberto Taccheri, Duke University - "Boethius' Consolatio and Dante's Purgatorial Dreams"
Dennis Looney, University of Pittsburgh - "Dante in the Here and Now: Moments in the African- American Reception of Dante"
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96. Donne Rinascimentali II
Where: Minuet
Organizer: Veena K. Carlson, Dominican University
Chair: Robert J. Rodini, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Rinaldina Russell, Queen's College - "Chiara Matraini: The Making of a Tradition of Women Poets"
Tonia Bernardi Triggiano, University of Wisconsin-Madison - "Metaphors of War in the Poetry of Battista Malatesta"
Sara Adler, Scripps College - "Strong Mothers, Strong Daughters: The Representation of Female Identity in Vittoria Colonna's Rime and 'Carteggio'"
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97. Italian Cultural Studies
Where: Marquette Center 404
Organizers: Giancarlo Lombardo, Smith College and Sandra Carletti, Middlebury College
Chair: Giancarlo Lombardo, Smith College
Cosetta Gaudenzi, University of Texas - "The superwoman and the villain in Carolina Invernizio: An Analysis of Punizione and Odio di Araba"
Jacqueline Reich, SUNY/Stony Brook - "The Mother of all Horror: Witches, Gender, and the Films of Dario Argento"
Giorgio Rimondi, Istituto EPSAA Navarra di Ferrara - "Scrivere il jazz. Influssi della musica sincopata nella letteratura italiana novecentesca"
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98. Reassessing Teaching Methodology
Where: Marquette Center 408
Organizer and Presider: Wiley Feinstein, Loyola University Chicago
Frank Nuessel, University of Louisville - "Overview of Teaching Strategies for the First and Second-Year Italian Curriculum"
Lydia Rende, Erindale College, University of Toronto at Mississauga - "Guardiamoci allo specchio pedagogico: An ISL E-Mail Correspondence Project"
Antonella Olson, University of Texas at Austin - "Theatrical Performance and the Development of Language Skills in ISL"
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99. Il nuovo cinema italiano tra afasia e memoria
Where: Marquette Center 422
Organizer and Chair: Claudio Mazzola, The College of the Holy Cross
Flaminio Di Biagi, Loyola University Chicago, Rome Campus - "Panoramica a 360: ipocrisia e impegno nel Nuovo Cinema italiano"
Rodica Blumenfeld, Vassar College - "Italy is not what You Think: Aphasia and Diaspora in Gianni Amelio's Lamerica"
Roberta Tabanelli, University of Wisconsin - "Amalia c'era. Io ero Amalia. Il cinema di Mario Martone"
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3:30-4:45
100. Special Presentation by the 1998 Honorary President, Gian Paolo Biasin
Where: Duet
Organizer: Carla Lucente, Duquesne University
Chair: Daniela Bini, University of Texas-Austin
Gian Paolo Biasin, University of California, Berkeley - "I Write that Montale Has Listened to the Sirens' Song"
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5:00 -6:00
101. AAIS - Business Meeting
Where: Duet
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7:30 - 10:00
102.Banquet - Ballroom
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Sunday April 5, 1998
8:30 - 9:45
103. Women's Places and Spaces in Literature and Film II
Where: Marquette Center 402
Organizer: Silvia Ross, University College Cork, Ireland
Chair: Catherine O'Brien, University College Cork, Ireland
Robin Pickering-Iazzi, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee - "Meticcia Drag and Colonial Borders in Sotto la croce del sud"
Patrizia Betella, University of Alberta - "Spaces and Places in the Construction of Feminine Otherness in Fosca and Passione d'amore"
Silvia Ross, University College Cork, Ireland - "The Construction of Space in Gianna Mazzini"
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104. Word and Image II: Stories that Draw Pictures/Pictures that Tell Stories
Where: Marquette Center 404
Organizer and Chair: Franco Ricci University of Ottawa
Laurence Simmons University of Auckland - "'Ch'assai t'intendo': The Narrative of Seduction and the Seduction of Narrative in an Early Fourteenth-Century Fresco"
Laura Benedetti, Harvard University - "'Vedranno chi e' Artemisia': immagini di una pittrice"
Clara Orban, De Paul University - "Between Pictures and Stories: Carra's Manifestazione interventista"
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105. Giacomo Leopardi: 1798-1998
Where: Duet I
Organizer: Irene Marchegiani Jones, California State University, Long Beach
Chair: Alessandro Carrera, New York University
Moira Di Mauro-Jackson, Southwest Texas State University - "Tre poeti romantici e tre visioni diverse sulla funzione della poesia"
Irene Marchegiani Jones, California State University, Long Beach - "Leopardi: il viaggio, il tempo, lo spazio"
Kristin Ellis Solomon, Yale University - "Leopardi and Quantum Physics: Transcending Traditional Scientific Reason"
Margherita Heyer-Caput, University of California-Davis - "'Veggo un Leopardi fritto . . .'"
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106. 20th Century Italian Literature and Culture I
Where: Marquette Center 408
Organizer: AAIS
Chair: Tonia Riviello, Santa Clara University
Wendell Ricketts, University of New Mexico - "Ti ho tradotto per Allegria: Reading and Translating Natalia Ginzburg's Dramatic Comedies"
Teresa Picarazzi, University of Arizona - "'Il pozzo buio' di Natalia Ginzburg"
Giuliana Fazzion, James Madison University - "Lo scrittore Giulio Andreotti e il successo della serie dei 'visti da vicino'"
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107. The Language and Literature of Emigration
Where: Operetta
Organizer and Chair: Paolo Giordano, Loyola University Chicago
Tony Pagliaro, Latrobe University - "Epstolary Communication: Giorgio Cheda's L'emigrazione ticinese in California and L'emigrazione ticinese in Australia"
Maria Predelli, McGill University - "Piccone e poesia. La cultura dell'ottava nel poema d'emigrazione di un contadino lucchese"
Valerio Ferme, University of California, Berkeley - "Go West, Imagination": The Italian Myth of America in the Fascist 1920's"
Hermann Haller, Queen's College/CUNY - "Tra gioco linguistico e mimesi della realta' parlata nell'emigrazione: le macchiette italoamericane"
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108. Italia e Francia medievali
Where: Solo
Organizer: David Beneteau, University of Delaware
Chair: David Posner, Loyola University Chicago
David Beneteau, Seton Hall University - "Il mercante come protagonista culturale"
Roberta Morosini, McGill University - "Marie de France e Boccaccio"
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109. 16th Century Literature
Where: Minuet
Organizer and Chair: Sergio Corsi, Loyola University Chicago
Mario D'Alessandro, University of Toronto - "Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata and the Emergence of the New Heroic Ideal"
Mauda Bregoli-Russo, University of Illinois-Chicago - "Torquato Tasso e i dialoghi sulle Imprese"
Maria Smith, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill - "Passing the Buck at the Court of Urbino"
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110. In/Visibility in the Italian Imaginary
Where: Duet II
Organizer and Chair: Sante Matteo, Miami University of Ohio
Rossana Fenu Barbera, Johns Hopkins University - "La donna che cammina nella poesia italiana del '900: Un modello di liberta' nella tradizione letteraria"
Peter N. Pedroni, Miami University - "To See or Not to See in Pirandello's Enrico IV"
Maria Silvia Riccio, Independent scholar, Knoxville, TN - "Diversita' e integrazione nel cinema italiano di fine millennio"
Peter Carravetta, CUNY/Queens College - "The Great Exodus and the Historians' Silence"
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10:00 - 11:15
111. Cristina Campo: poesia e saggi
Where: Duet I
Organizer: Anna Botta, Smith College.
Chair: Anna Camaiti-Hostert, University of Illinois at Chicago
Margherita Pieracci Harwell, University of Illinois - Chicago - "Cristina Campo e Simone Weil"
Monica Farnetti, Universita' di Firenze - "Cristina Campo: La teologia della bellezza"
Anna Botta, Smith College - "Cristina Campo and Emily Dickinson: The Quest for a Sublime Whose Location is Illocality"
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112. Parola, gesto, suono e immagine: incontri 'emblematici' della lettertura con le altre arti
Where: Marquette Center 402
Organizer and Chair: Francesca Savoia, University of Pittsburgh
Marga Cottino-Jones, University of California, Los Angels - "Motherhood: Fascination and Fear in Visconti's L'innocente"
Stefania Ferrarese, University of Pittsburgh - "La 'mutola facondia' e l''eloquente silenzio: note su La Galeria di Gian Battista Marino"
Ted Emery, Dickinson College - "D'Annunzio as Librettist: Rewriting La figlia di Iorio"
Clare Godt, University of Pittsburgh - "Challenging the Practiced Eye: Manzoni and the Theoreticians of Landscape Depiction"
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113. Dialect Poetry in Southern Italy: una nuova antologia
Where: Duet II
Organizer: Maria Ponce de Leon, Temple University Rome
Chair: Luigi Bonaffini, Brooklyn College
Gaetano Cipolla, St. John's University - "The Emergence of Dialect Poetry in the South"
Giose Rimanelli, SUNY/Albany - "'Rurale' e 'cittadino' sia al nord sia al sud nella poesia dialettale: Giancarlo Consonni lombardo e Giuseppe Jovine molisano"
Luigi Reina, L'Universita' di Salerno - "La poesia dialettale meridionale italiana: un capitolo della letteratura europea del novecento"
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114. Femininity under Fascism
Where: Marquette Center 404
Organizer and Chair: Virginia Picchietti, University of Scranton
Cristina Lombardi-Diop, New York University - "Fascism, Colonialism, and War in Annie Vivanti's Work"
Daria Valentini, Regis College - "Food, Art and Ideology in Marinetti's 'La cucina futurista' of 1932"
Flora Ghezzo, Rutgers University- "Il volto della donna del novecento: identita' femminili del rotocalco degli anni trenta"
Cinzia Sartini Blum, University of Iowa - "The Futurist Woman as Avant-Garde Artist and Fascist 'donna-madre'"
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115. Multiple Voices in the Poetry of Montale
Where: Marquette Center 408
Organizer: Rossella Riccobono, University of Edinburgh
Chair: Grazia Meneghello, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Thomas Peterson University of Georgia - "Of Rhetoric and Rarefaction: Montale's Sparse Rose"
Alberto Celli, University of Connecticut - "Gravita' e leggerezza nell'abissarsi dell'io"
Rossella Riccobono, University of Edinburgh - "Multiple Voices in the Poetry of Montale: 'Il fiore che ripete'"
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116. Venice from Renaissance to Baroque
Where: Operetta
Organizer and Chair: Glenn Palen Pierce, University of Missouri - Columbia
Nina Canizzaro, Harvard University - "Esoterismo e ufficialita' nella cultura veneziana del '600: l'esempio degli Incogniti"
Douglas Biow, University of Texas at Austin - "Fathers and Sons: Ermolao Barbaro's Trattato and Ritratto of the Resident Ambassador"
Roberto Buranello, University of Cape Town - "The Demise of the Courtly Ideal in the Dialogues of Pietro Aretino and Sperone Speroni"
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117. Petrarca: Prospettive
Where: Solo
Organizer and Chair: Sergio Corsi, Loyola University Chicago
Jeremy Parzen, UCLA - "The Humanist Obsession with Script: Petrarchan Transcription and Renaissance Rhytmic Sensibility"
Vera Golini, University of Waterloo - Petrarch and American Pop Music
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118. Italian Cinema
Where: Marquette Center 422
Organizer: Paolo Giordano, Loyola University Chicago
Chair: Aine O'Healy, Loyola-Marymount University
John P. Welle, University of Notre Dame - "The Empire of Silence: Writing Early Cinema in Italy"
G. Elisa Bussi, Universita' di Bologna - "From The Dead to Viaggio in Italia. Joyce's Story into Rossellini's Film?"
Daniela Treveri Gennari, University of Warwick - "American Influences on Luchino Visconti's Cinematography"
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11:30 - 12:45
119. Studies to Commemorate the Bicentenary of the Death of Giacomo Casanova (1798-1998)
Where: Duet I
Organizer and Chair: Cynthia C. Craig, Michigan State University.
Tom Vitelli, Editor, L'intermediaire des Casanovistes - "Looking Glass Casanova: 200 Years of Changing Critical Evaluations of the Histoire de ma vie"
Dana Renga, UCLA - Casanova's Homecoming: An Examination of Zanzotto's Dialect Poetry in Fellini's Casanova"
Giuseppe Gargiulo, University of Paris 10, Nanterre - "Casanova tra Ariosto e Tasso sotto la penna di Calvino"
Cynthia C. Craig, Michigan State University - "Reversals and Fortunes: Casanova and Venice, 1753-1756"
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120. Italo Calvino II
Where: Duet II
Organizer: AAIS
Chair: Constance Markey, DePaul University
Antonella Dalla Torre, University of Oregon - "La parola e l'esperienza: per una fenomenologia della scrittura di Italo Calvino"
Roberto Ludovico, Brown University - "Dietro Le citta' invisibili: Victor Sklovskij, narratore"
Constance Markey, DePaul University - "Calvino's Postmodern Short Stories"
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121. Renaissance Studies II
Where: Solo
Organizer: Olivia Holmes, Yale University
Chair: Sherry Roush, Yale University
Paolo Fasoli, Hunter/CUNY - "Su e contro Amore: trattati e dialoghi di inizio Cinquecento"
Antonio Ricci, University of Toronto - "The First Defence of the Orlando Furioso: Lodovico Dolce's Apologia"
Andrea Baldi, Rutgers University - "'Virtu'' ed 'affetti' nella teoria epica cinquecentesca"
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122. Literary Represantations of Sicily II
Where: Marquette Center 402
Organizer and Chair: Mark Chu, University College Cork, Ireland
A. Fichera, Rutgers University - "Quasimodo e la Sicilia mitologica"
Salvatore Coluccello, University of Strathclyde, GB - "La leggenda del brigante-eroe nella letteratura popolare e il suo uso strumentale da parte della mafia di oggi"
Mark Chu, University College Cork, Ireland - "Sciascia and Sicily: Discourse and Actuality"
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123. Images of the Monstrous in Modern Italian Literature
Where: Marquette Center 404
Organizer: David Del Principe
Chair: Wiley Feinstein, Loyola University Chicago
David Del Principe, Montclair State College -"Fangs and Family: Luigi Capuana's Un vampiro"
Keala Jewell, Dartmouth College - "Gendered Monsters: Savinio's Lady Birds"
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124. Ideologia, storiografia e genealogie nel Rinascimento
Where: Minuet
Organizer: AAIS
Chair: Dolores Pigoni, University of Chicago
Enzo di Nardo, Southern Methodist University - "Tradizione letteraria e ideologia nelle opere in versi del Machiavelli"
Andrea Fedi, SUNY/Stony Brook - "L'opera imperfecta: testi incompiuti, interrotti e rimandati nella storiografia del Rinascimento"
Luciano Farina, The Ohio State University - "Geneologia, formule e contenuti dal Testamento di Batoassare Cavemi, 11 genaro 1600"
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125. Voice and Discourse of Italian Women III
Where: Operetta
Organizer: Mario Aste, University of Massachusetts-Lowell
Chair: Sheryll Postman, University of Massachusetts-Lowell
Rosa Maria LaValva, SUNY/Binghamton - "Stanze con vista"
Pia Bertucci-Baxter, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - "La voce ignota di Matilde Serao"
Laura A. Salsini, University of Delaware - "Narrating the Self: Epistolary Practices in the Works of Italian Women Writers"
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126. 20th Century Italian Literature and Culture II
Where: Marquette Center 408
Organizer: AAIS
Chair: Dora Taylor, University of Georgia
Grazia Meneghello, University of Wisconsin-Madison - "Anoressia e narrativa di fine secolo"
Daniela Fargione, Mount Holyhoke College - "Dalle Langhe al Giappone, da Barnum a Seta: in viaggio con Alessandro Baricco"
Giuseppe Nava, Universita' di Siena - "Il viaggio, l'identita', il sogno nella narrativa di Antonio Tabucchi"
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Banquet Menu
Hearty Minestrone
Caprese
Chicken Saltimbocca
Sundired Tomato Orzo
Green and Yellow Beans with Pine Nuts
Bread
Tiramisu
Wine
Coffee and Tea
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$35
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