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Programme of seminars and other research activities

DANTE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES, 2014, UCC

 

The Department of Italian and the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures UCC are pleased to announce a fourth series of five public lectures on the great Italian poet Dante Alighieri. All Lectures will be in English.

 

Tuesday, 21 January 2014

鈥楧enti Alligator: The Dantification of Popular Culture鈥�

Dr Daragh O鈥機onnell (UCC)

 

Tuesday, 28 January 2014

鈥楧ante鈥檚 Original Sins鈥�

Dr Robert Wilson (St Andrews)

 

Tuesday, 4 February 2014

'Criticizing Dante in Sixteenth-Century Italy'

Prof. Simon Gilson (Warwick)

 

Tuesday, 11 February 2014

鈥楻eversing Dante: from the Vulgar to the Vulgate Tongue鈥�

Dr Jason Harris (UCC)

 

Tuesday, 18 February 2014

鈥榃ords Like Burning Coals: Amor, Dante and Virgil鈥�

Prof. Anna Chahoud (TCD)

 

VENUE: All lectures will take place at 7.30 pm in BOOLE LECTURE THEATRE 1.

ALL WELCOME

 

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Wednesday, 29 January 2014, 18:00-19:30, West Wing 9

To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day (27 January) the Department of Italian, UCC, in collaboration with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Dublin, presents Una storia diversa. Ebrei a Campagna, 1940-1943 (Another Story. Jewish Prisoners in Campagna, 1940-1943), a documentary film in Italian with English subtitles by Maria Giustina Laurenzi. The director will present and discuss her film.

 

 

Saturday, 1 March 2014, 9:00-17:00 鈥� O鈥橰ahilly Building,

VII Annual Graduate Conference in Italian Studies

Keynote Speaker: Dr Clodagh Brook, Reader in Italian Cinema and Culture, 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Birmingham

Programme to be published shortly at:

 

Thursday, 6 March 2014, 17:00-18:00 鈥� ORB 1.32

鈥楧all鈥檈ffetto Zadig alla pulsione cartografica: Jorge Luis Borges e il genere poliziesco鈥�

Dr Enrique Santos Unamuno, Teor铆a de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada, Universidad de Extremadura / Visiting Fellow, Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, UCC

Lo scrittore argentino Jorge Luis Borges 猫 senz鈥檃ltro uno degli autori pi霉 influenti degli ultimi cinquanta anni a livello mondiale, essendo considerato uno de numi della postmodernit脿. In questo caso, il nostro discorso sar脿 incentrato sulla sua particolare concezione del genere poliziesco, sviluppatasi negli anni 30-40 del secolo scorso. Nella fattispecie, analizzeremo il suo racconto 鈥淟a morte e la bussola" (鈥淟a muerte y la br煤jula鈥�, 1942) in quanto paradigma di quello che denomineremo 鈥済iallo cartografico鈥�. Allo scopo di tentare una definizione possibile di questo sottogenere bisogner脿 soffermarsi sui meccanismi deduttivi adoperati dal detective nelle sue indagini in cerca di una soluzione al delitto. Arriveremo cos矛 alla coppia effetto Zadig / pulsione cartografica, basata su meccanismi cognitivi da attribuire rispettivamente alla detective story tradizionale e a un numero crescente di testi che inseriscono testi cartografici nell鈥檌ntreccio narrativo in quanto dispositivi euristici e di predizione degli atti criminosi.

Enrique Santos Unamuno is a lecturer and researcher of Comparative Literature in the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature at the 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Extremadura (Spain), since 2000. He graduated at the 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Salamanca (Spain) in Italian and Hispanic Studies. In 1998 he defended his PhD dissertation on 鈥淧o茅tica de la totalidad y paradigma inform谩tico en Jorge Luis Borges e Italo Calvino鈥�. He is currently the Director of the research group Lenguas y Culturas en la Europa Moderna: Discurso e Identidad (CILEM) at the 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Extremadura. His main scientific areas of research are Imagology (the construction of national images through human sciences and literature in the Spanish and European context) and Spatial Turn and Comparative Literature (Cultural Geography, Cartography and Comparative Literature).

Please read Borges鈥� story, 鈥楲a muerte y la br煤jula鈥� (1942; 鈥楲a morte e la bussola鈥�, trad. Franco Lucentini, 1955; 鈥楧eath and the Compass鈥�, transl. Donald A. Yates, 1962) in advance.

 

Tuesday, 11 March 2014, 17:00-18:00 鈥� ORB 1.24

鈥樷�淚 don鈥檛 want to die Chinese鈥�: Dystopia and Globalization in Antonio Scurati鈥檚 La seconda mezzanotte (The Second Midnight)鈥�

Dr Mark Chu, Department of Italian, UCC

Chinese citizens constitute the third largest immigrant group in Italy. What was previously described as a 鈥渟ilent immigration鈥� (Campani, Carchedi and Tassinari, 1994) has, in recent years, become the focus of popular, journalistic and academic attention, due largely to the growth of the Chinese economy and the consequent perceived threat to Italian businesses from Chinese companies both in China and in Italy. Similarly, Italian literature has, in the last twenty years, begun to register the presence of 鈥渢he Chinese鈥�, associating this with an idea of globalization linked to dystopic visions. This paper contextualizes and analyses one example of this recent trend, La seconda mezzanotte (2011; The Second Midnight), by writer and media studies academic Antonio Scurati. The novel is set in 2092, when what is left of Venice after a catastrophic flood has been sold off to a Chinese corporation as a playground for the rich.

Mark Chu鈥檚 areas of research include Sicilian literature from 1870 to the present and Italian crime fiction. This paper, based on a forthcoming article in the journal Narrativa,is part of his work on the representation of the Other in Italian literature and media, which has resulted in the publication of several articles, including 'Giallo sarai tu! Hegemonic Representations and Limits of Heteroglossia in Carlo Lucarelli鈥� (2001), 'Crime and the South' (2011) and 'Impegno da vendere: societ脿 e politica nella serie del commissario Montalbano di Andrea Camilleri', and in papers including 鈥極rientalism - Italian Style: Representations of the Other in Some Recent Italian Crime Fiction鈥� (Invited Lecture, U of Connecticut, 2001), 鈥楻epresentations of Immigrants in Contemporary Italian Literature and Media: A Critical Analysis鈥� (MLA, 2004), 'Ghi 猫 tu ghe palla? Parody and the Migrant Voice in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction' (RIA, 2011) 鈥楧omesticating the pericolo giallo: the case of Rabarbaro Zucca鈥� (ASMI, 2013).

 

Thursday, 20 March 2014, 17:00-18:00 鈥� ORB 1.32

鈥業talian Resistance Writing in the Years of the 鈥淪econd Republic鈥濃��

Prof. Philip Cooke, Professor of Italian History and Culture, 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Strathclyde

During the early 1990s Italy went through a period of intense political turmoil. The parties which had organised the Resistance movement from 1943-1945, and emerged victorious from the Second World War to dominate Italian politics ever since, disappeared from the map, or reconfigured themselves to such an extent that they appeared to lose all connection with their past. Given this 鈥榬evisionist鈥� context, one might have expected a terminal decline, from the 1990s to the present, in what is broadly termed Italian Resistance culture. Yet, perhaps paradoxically, the period from the 1990s onwards has also seen the publication of many interesting works of literature (and historiography), to the extent that it is almost possible to speak of a revival. There is a sense that now the Resistance is no longer, to use a term employed by Stephen Gundle,  a form of 鈥榗ivic religion鈥�, it is possible to determine a new cultural phase characterised in some cases by significant innovation. This new phase, in which the ideological and cultural paradigms of the past are less fixed, is the subject of this paper.  Works discussed include: Carlo Lucarelli, L鈥檈state torbida (1991, translated as The Damned Season), Massimo Cirioni, Berto & Lucio (1997), Paola Soriga, Dove finisce Roma (2012) and Scrittura industriale collettiva (SIC), In territorio nemico (April 2013).

Phil Cooke has taught at the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, and was visiting Professor at Pisa 深夜亚洲福利久久 in 2009. His research centres on the long-term impact of the Italian Resistance movement and, more generally, on twentieth-century Italian social and cultural history. Much of his work involves the collection and use of oral testimonies. His publications range from analyses of literary texts, Fenoglio鈥檚 binoculars, Johnny鈥檚 eyes (New York, 2000) to social/protest movements Luglio 1960: Tambroni e la repressione fallita (Milan, 2000) and Italian partisan exiles living clandestinely in Czechoslovakia (various articles). His most recent books are The Legacy of the Italian Resistance (New York, 2011) and Ending terrorism in Italy (Routledge, 2012 鈥� co-authored with Anna Cento Bull). He is co-editor (with John Foot, Bristol), of the journal Modern Italy (published quarterly by Routledge/T+F) and co-editor (with Ben Shepherd) of The European Resistance  (Pen & Sword, 2013). He is currently working on a history (using a wide range of sources including oral testimonies) of the Florence Flood of 1966.

 

Monday, 24 March 2014 , 17:00-18:00 鈥� ORB G.27

鈥樷�淎pproximate with zest鈥�: the Challenge of Translating Poliziano's Orfeo鈥�

Prof. Corinna Salvadori Lonergan, Department of Italian, Trinity College Dublin

In this paper, presented in collaboration with the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures and the UCC MA in Translation Studies, Corinna Salvadori Lonergan discusses the challenges she encountered in translating Poliziano鈥檚 text, and presents some of the solutions she found. The talk will also be of interest to those with an interest in early opera.

 

Tuesday, 25 March 2014, 17:00-18:00 鈥� ORB 1.56

鈥楾ransmedial Representations of Maternal Identity鈥�

Dr Alessia Risi, Department of Italian, UCC

In this paper, Alessia Risi, who was awarded her PhD in October 2013 for a thesis on female figures in recent Italian crime fiction, explores contemporary fears and obsession with not being up to the role of motherhood and will identify how these anxieties are deconstructed (and denounced) in recent transmedial portrayals of Italian society: Alina Marazzi鈥檚 documentary film Tutto parla di te (Everything Talks of You, 2012), Loredana Lipperini鈥檚 critical essay Di mamma ce n鈥櫭� pi霉 d鈥檜na (There Is More Than One Mother, 2013) and Nicoletta Vallorani鈥檚 novel Le madri cattive (Bad Mothers, 2011).

 

For further information: m.chu[at]ucc.ie