Conference: Body & Objects

[15-4-1998]

Bodies & Objects

A conference hosted by the Italian departments of Columbia

University and New York University

April 17-19, 1998

New York City

Program:

Friday, April 17

New York University

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo

24 W. 12th St.

OPENING REMARKS

1:00 PM Enrica Balestra and Anne Schuchman

I FORMS OF RHETORIC/RHETORIC OF FORMS

1:30-3:00 Moderator: Ilaria Baldini

Tom Livesey, New York University

Rhetorical Bodies and Conceptual Guilt: ReConstituting the

Judgment of Paris in Gorgiass Encomium of Helen

Federica Anichini, New York University

Poetry of the Body and Rhetoric of "Passione" in Guido

Cavalcanti

Paul Albert Ferrara, Hofstra University

The Histrionic Body in the Ultime Lettere di Jacopo Ortis

II LITERARY TRANSFORMATIONS

3:00-4:30 Moderator: Rebecca Mechanic

Tobias Foster Gittes, Columbia University

The Piscatorial Pleasance: Fishing for Flesh in Boccaccios

Valle Delle Donne

Yola Monakov, Columbia University

Folktale Narratives of Transfiguration

Cecilia Feilla, New York University

Bodies, Community, Letters: Re-Membering Abelard and

Heloise in the Eighteenth Century

RECEPTION

4:30-5:30

Saturday, April 18

New York University

Casa Italiana

COFFEE

9:00-9:30

I PAIN AS INSCRIPTION

9:30-11:00 Moderator: Manuele Gragnolati

Sabine Modershein, McGill University

Skin Deep-Mind Deep: The Inscription of History and

Culture into the Body-Franz Kafkas Penal Colony

Carin McLain, Columbia University

Fragmentation and Redemption in Michelangelos Poetry

Maneesha Patel, Columbia University

Insistent Sentience and the Cancellation of Culture in Vicos

Scienza Nuova

II THE CORPOREAL AND THE SACRED

11:00-12:00 Moderator: Elena Lombardi

Marcus Boon, New York University

The Body of Buddha in Early Mahayana Buddhism

Manuele Gragnolati, Columbia University

Air, Flesh and Body: The Human Being and Resurrection in

the Commedia

LUNCH BREAK

12:00-2:00

III WRITING FEMALE SUBJECTS

2:00-4:00 Moderator: Tina Chiappetta

Dana Crudup, New York University

Predilected Space and Subjectivity in Alba DeCespedes

Dalla parte di lei

Anita Angelone, New York University

A Study of Ones Own: Italian Women Authors and the

Space of Writing

Jennifer Hirsh, Bryn Mawr College

Double Vision, Representation and Reflection in the Saletta di

Diana e Attione at Fontanellato

Claudia Clemente, New York University

Tozzis Con gli occhi chiusi: Castration and Gendered

Subjects

SUNDAY, APRIL 19

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

The Casa Italiana

Amsterdam Ave and 117th Streets

COFFEE

10:00-10:30

I REPRESENTING MASCULINITY

10:30-12:00 Moderator: Lorenza Prignano

Derek Duncan, University of Bristol

"Soldatini in Tilt": Pier Vittorio Tondelli and the Privatization

of the National Body

Elliot Trice, Columbia University

Analizing the Scene of Early Modern Medical Perception:

Looking into Ardernes Fistula in Ano

Francesca Cadel, City University of New York

Corpo, Luce e Voce: Pasolini in Friuli negli anni Quaranta

LUNCH

12:00-1:30

II EROTIC ENCOUNTERS

1:30-3:00 Moderator: Michelle Patruno

Lidia Anchisi, New York University

Bodies-in-Bits-and-Pieces: Circulating the Dannunzian Hand

Dana Stewart, State University of New York, Binghamton

The Body of the Beloved in Chrtien de Troyes Cligs

Rebecca Wright, New York University

Il Bacio della Medusa: Towards the Definition of a Feminist

Discursive Space

COFFEE BREAK

3:00-3:30

III BODY POLITICS

3:30-4:30 Moderator: Ariella Lang

Cristina Lombardi, New York University

Womens Bodies under Fascism, Colonialism and War: A

Reading of Annie Vivantis Work

Timothy Campbell, Columbia University

Il gesto di Arpocrate - The Wireless Marconi

CONCLUDING REMARKS AND RECEPTION

4:30-6:00