Resources in Art History for Graduate Students
SYMPOSIA OF INTEREST TO GRADUATE STUDENTS
ITALIAN STUDIES (VARIOUS SUBJECTS)
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ITALIAN STUDIES (AAIS)
7-10 May 2009 St. John's University in Manhattan, NY. 2009 American Association of Italian Studies (AAIS) Conference. See the Web site for more information on their conferences, usually held in May.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF ITALIAN
A list of all of their conferences.
AISLLI (International Association for Italian Language and Literature)
3-6 December 2009. University of Pennsylvania-Center for Italian Studies. "The conference will explore language, politics, the media, the arts, the economy, and material culture in order to examine Italian identity/identities as a world-wide phenomenon. In particular, the conference will focus on "the Italies out of Italy": the large or "little Italies" which embodied and embody a regional identity more than a national one...The deadline for submission of proposals is October 15, 2009." See the Web site for more information.
BACK TO THE FUTURISTS
2-4 July 2009. Queen Mary University of London, UK. "2009 marks the centenary of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's Futurist Manifesto, published on 20 February 1909 in the Paris daily Le Figaro. Organised at Queen Mary University of London in collaboration with the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, Back to the Futurists: Avant-gardes 1909-2009 is an international conference called with the aim of reassessing the contribution of Futurism to Modernism and tracking its enduring legacy in cultural movements around the world.
"The conference is timed to coincide with the major Futurism exhibition at Tate Modern (12 June - 13 September). As Le Futurisme a' Paris. Une Avant-Garde Explosive, the exhibition opens in Paris at the Centre Pompidou (15 October 2008 to 26 January 2009), before moving to the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome (20 February to 24 May 2009). The conference will focus on verbal, visual, musical, ideological, sociological and other manifestations of Futurism and its successor movements from the birth of the notion of avant-garde to the present day. Proposals for papers were due to Professor Elza Adamowicz ( e.adamowicz@qmul.ac.uk) by 15 January 2009.
CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR ITALIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE
May 23 to 25 May 2009. Carleton University Ottawa, ON. "Proposals are invited on all subjects relating to Italian Studies for individual 20-minute papers, complete sessions, or panel discussions, which may be presented in Italian, English, or French. The title with a 125-word abstract should be sent, along with a brief bio, to the session organizer indicated below not later than February 13th, 2009. Further enquiries may be addressed to the general program organizer, Dr. Roberto Perin (rperin@yorku.ca). (Offers to chair sessions are also welcome.)" See the Web site for more information.
CROSSING BOUNDARIES: THE
MAKING AND CIRCULATION OF ART AND LITERATURE
18-20 May 2009 Stewart House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU. "A selection of papers will be considered for publication after the conference. Abstracts were due before 31 January 2009 to:
Dr Kjetil Enstad: kjetil.enstad@reneord.com Dr Aino Rinhaug: aino.rinhaug@ilos.uio.no Matthew Wraith: butcherofasilkbutton@hotmail.com
DANTE'S COMMEDIA IN AND AROUND WESTERN DRAMA AND FILMOGRAPHY
16-19 April 2009 "The Society of Italian Studies biennial conference to be held at Royal Holloway University of London...The panel is intended to encompass cinema, theatre and television pruduction centered on or displaying wholesale appropriations and/or allusive adaptations of the *Commedia* (topics, structure, style). I [sic[ would be very happy to receive suggestions and abstracts for papers on any of the sub-themes detailed as follows:
- Dante's *Commedia* in early Italian cinema; - Dante's *Commedia* in Italian TV series; - Dante and the greatest Italian filmmakers; - Dante in Anglo-American and Northern European cinema; - Dante in and around contemporary dramaThe papers may well cross the boundaries of each sub-theme or develop one or more of them on the basis of rethorical-aesthetic categories such as allusion, adaptation and transposition. Dante's "paraphernalia" and "Dantism" in cinema, television and drama will also be considered. As the closing date for panels and papers is the end of this month, if you are interested in proposing a paper, I would be very grateful if you could contact me as soon as possible with an expression of interest and an abstract. The deadline to submit a first list of abstracts was October 31. Please contact enrico.santangelo@unito.it or enrigelo@gmail.com
ROBERT DOMBROSKI ITALIAN CONFERENCE
Annual; usually held in September.
EARLY MODERN WRITING
7-19 May 2009 Manhattan [sic], NYC. AAIS conference. "Description: This panel seeks to analyze various literary forms, such as poetry, dialogue or treatise that were widely explored in early modern Italy. Paper proposals may include but are not limited to discussions on the role of writing as a means of creating social and intellectual partnerships. Proposals were due January, 2, 2009 to: (laura.prelipcean@utoronto.ca) Please indicate your audio-visual requirements. Organizer: Laura Prelipcean, University of Toronto
FACES OF THE CITY: POWER, COURT CULTURE INTELLECTUAL LIFE, CIVIC RITUAL,
AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN EARLY MODERN NAPLES
April, 2009 [sic] Royal Holloway University of London, UK. "We invite papers to address the following subjects:
Politics, The Spanish entourage, Ambassadors and travelers, Academies: from literature to science, Festivities and celebrations, The public sphere, Order and disorder, Visual representations of Naples.Please send your proposal to Dr Lorenza Gianfrancesco, Royal Holloway University of London: (l.gianfrancesco@rhul.ac.uk)" No due date listed!! Posted 21 October 2008
FETISH FUTURISM: RECEPTION AND HERMENEUTIC OF THE ITALIAN AVANT-GARDE
7-19 May 2009 Manhattan [sic], NYC. AAIS conference. "Marking the centennial anniversary of the first European avant-garde movement, this session is called with the aim of reassessing the literary contribution of Futurism starting with a discussion on the process of "fetishization" that characterizes its deceptive reception. How can the concept of fetish be an hermeneutical key for exploring futurist works and for defining the attitude of avant-garde with respect to the tradition that it intends to substitute? Proposals for individual twenty-minute papers (200 words) were due January, 2, 2009 to: pc2159@columbia.edu Please indicate your audio-visual requirements. Organizer: Patrizio Ceccagnoli (pc2159@columbia.edu) Columbia University
ITALIAN CULTURAL STUDIES
8 May 2019. Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA. "This interdisciplinary conference will focus on the state of the field of Cultural Studies in Italian Studies. We invite presentations on Cultural Studies as practiced in Italian Studies, and on topics focusing on Italy and Cultural Studies in all fields. We i nvite submissions from colleagues in: anthropology, art history, economics, geography, history, literary studies, Mediterranean studies, religion, semiotics, sociology, visual studies, the sciences etc. Presentations will last 20 minutes. Participants will bring a final, longer version of their presentation for publication (Please follow the Chicago Style Manual for the publishable essay). Final essays will be refereed and those recommended for publication by independent readers will become part of the volume: Italian Cultural Studies (2010). All presentations and final essays must be in English (Please let us know if you need to contact translators.) No registration fees. Please send a one page abstract with title of presentation by October 31 2009 to both: (graziella.parati@dartmouth.edu) and (p.calefato@lingue.uniba.it)
KENTUCKY FOREIGN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE
Held every year, usually in April at the University of Kentucky, in Lexington.
ORIENTALISM IN ART, LITERATURE, AND ARCHITECTURE IN LIBERAL AND/OR FASCIST
ITALY
7-19 May 2009 Manhattan [sic], NYC. AAIS conference. "This session includes studies on the Islamic world as well as the Far East. Possible topics include:
¥ Studies on depictions of Moors, Turks, Jews, Indians, Chinese, and Japanese ¥ How did Italian high culture articulate the commonly held dimension of the Orient as exotic and corrupt? Was Oriental sensuality more acceptable? ¥ Post colonial studies on travel, military, or diplomatic interpretations of natives displaced or incorporated into Italian settlements ¥ Consider Edward SaidÕs interpretation of Orientalism as 'other'; how does this concept resonate in 19th and early 20th century Italian culture?Please submit a 150word abstract for a 20 minute paper, plus a one page CV. Organizer: Shirley Smith, (ssmith@skidmore.edu).
RE-EXAMINING THE LATE RENAISSANCE/BAROQUE
7-19 May 2009 Manhattan [sic], NYC. AAIS conference. "Proposals are invited for a session on Re-examining the Late Renaissance/Baroque. Papers are particularly encouraged on interdisciplinary studies and the intersections of philosophy, poetics, history, visual arts, politics, and science, or on relatively nonconformist literary figures, including Ð but not limited to ÐCampanella, Bruno, Della Porta, Boccalini, Zuccolo, Frugoni...[sic] Abstracts were due to Sherry Roush at slr21@psu.edu November 7.
RELIGION,
MYSTICISM, AND HERESY IN ITALIAN CULTURE
16-17 April 2010. Venice, Palazzo Pesaro Papafava. Society for Italian Studies Interim Conference. "Advance Notice" (meaning they haven't figured out the due date for the CFPs, and other necessities). "With particular attention to literature, film, the visual arts, philosophy and theology, as well as the social and political sciences, the conference aims to explore the role that religion and religious ideas have played in shaping Italian culture from the medieval period to the present. It aims also to consider examples of mysticism and constructions of the notion of heresy that have circulated down to the present...Initial contact can be made with the conference organizers, Fabrizio De Donno (fabrizio.dedonno@rhul.ac.uk) and Simon Gilson (s.gilson@warwick.ac.uk). Details of the conference will be placed on the SIS website and an official call for papers will be sent out later in the year. Conference participants must be members of the SIS.
REVISITING THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE: CASE STUDIES
7-10 May 2009 St. John's University in Manhattan, NY. 2009 American Association of Italian Studies (AAIS) Conference. "This session invites papers revisiting the Italian Renaissance. Participants may discuss (among other topics) the (dialectical) relationship between imitation and innovation or tradition and creativity in Italian Renaissance Literature. Questions of authorship, textuality, literary borrowings, and influence can be examined along with the issue of genre as a narrative form. Papers focusing on chivalric romances, genre debates, "contamination" of genres, and the work of Ariosto are particularly welcome. Please send a 200 words abstract. Organizer: Slavica Grujicic, University of Toronto (slavica.grujicic@utoronto.ca) Abstracts were due *15* January 2009.
SOCIETY FOR ITALIAN STUDIES (U.K)
16-19 April 2009 Royal Holloway University of London. Biennial Conference of the Society. "Proposals for panel sessions and for individual papers for the Cconference are now invited...All proposals, both individual and panel, were due 31 October 2008."
SOCIETY FOR ITALIAN STUDIES POSTGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM 2009
23rd May 2009. University of Oxford, UK. "Postgraduate students are invited to submit proposals on any aspect of Italian Studies for the above colloquium. Papers can be in Italian or English and should last approximately 20 minutes. Abstracts of a maximum of 300 words, together with a short biography indicating your academic background and research interests should be sent by 15th March 2009 to the organisers:
Tristan Kay, Eleanor Parker and Katrin Wehling-Giorgi
(sispostgradcolloq09@hotmail.com)
VIEWS FROM THE GRAND TOUR: ON CINEMA AND ARCHITECTURE
7-10 May 2009 St. John's University in Manhattan, NY. 2009 American Association of Italian Studies (AAIS) Conference. "Over the centuries, grand tourists have produced numerous literary and artistic works that disseminated knowledge and captured the imagination of Italy. How has cinema, an art form that emerged during the fin-de-siecle and is uniquely adept at capturing architectural and town-planning configurations, depicted the Grand Tour cities? Following the lead of Bruno (1993), Bertozzi (2001), Cresti (2003) and others, we invite panelists to consider the nexus between Italian cinema and architecture, be it formal, structural, aesthetic, ideological, socio-historical, cultural, functional, or gender-related. Interdisciplinary and comparative studies are particularly welcome. Proposals were due to Session and Roundtable Organizers on Jan 2nd. They must include title, brief abstract (150-200 words), academic affiliation, short bio, and audio-visual requirements. Organizers: Alberto Zambenedetti (az352@nyu.edu) and Gaoheng Zhang (gaoheng.zhang@nyu.edu), Department of Italian Studies, New York University.
PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITIES
CARTE ITALIANE : Graduate Student Journal of the Italian Department, UCLA
"The new editorial board...would like to announce its forthcoming June 2009 edition, Volume 5 in our new series. We invite submissions on ANY topic related to Italian literature and culture for this general issue. Abstracts are welcome in English or Italian; they must be approximately 250 words in length. The abstract should also include: title of the proposed article, name of the author, institutional and departmental affiliation, and current contact information. Please send electronically in either .doc or .rtf format. Final papers must follow the updated guidelines that can be found in English at the following address: (http://www.italian.ucla.edu/carteitaliane/guidelines_eng.html) in italiano: (http://www.italian.ucla.edu/carteitaliane/istruzioni.html). Please send the abstracts by December 15, 2008 to the following e-mail address: (italiane@ucla.edu) If accepted for publication, the final papers will be due no later than January 31, 2009.
"Sarah A. Carey, Editor-in-Chief
A Guide to Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture