Visibili rifatti: Early Modern Voices in the Contemporary World 29-30 June 2022
Conference Organisers: Dr Ambra Moroncini (Sussex), Dr Aaron Kahn (Sussex), and Dr Daragh O’Connell (Cork) in collaboration with Prof. Peter Boxall (Sussex) and Prof. Brian Cummings (York)
Directions to the University of Sussex
Day 1
Wednesday 29 June
10.30 – 11.00 Registration / Coffee / Welcome – Meeting House
First session 11 – 12.30 (Chair: Daragh O’Connell) – Meeting House
- Dario Galassini (University of Cork, Centre for Dante Studies in Ireland): ‘Schooling Dante: the Influence of Commentators and Cultural Positions on Early Twentieth-Century Dantismo’
- Claudia Rossignoli (University of St. Andrews): ‘From Theology to Fandom: Modelling Grace and Gender in Dante’s Cultural Legacy’
- Eleonora Lima (Trinity College Dublin) and Luca Fiorentini (Sapienza Università di Roma): ‘Edoardo Sanguineti’s Laborintus II as a Dantean Palimpsest’
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch – Meeting House / outside
Second Session 13.30 – 15.00 (Chair: Aaron Kahn) – Meeting House
- Marta Celati (University of Pisa): ‘Humanist Voices in Modern Political Thought: Linguistic and Cultural Transfer and Remodulation’
- Flavia Jin (University of Glasgow): ‘Reading the Italian Renaissance through the Borgia Family’s Representations in the 21st Century
- Ambra Moroncini (University of Sussex) and Olivia Santovetti (University of Leeds): ‘«L’inventare non è altro che un vero trovare». Early Modern and Modern Echoes in Elena Ferrante’s Writing’
15.00 -15.30 Coffee break – Arts A108
Third Session 15.30 – 17.00 (Chair: Ambra Moroncini) Arts A102 (LC 3/4)
- Clara Santarelli (University of Bologna): ‘Dante and Amelia Rosselli: Reappropriating the Female Voice and Body’
- Carlotta Moro (University of St. Andrews): ‘Female Voices in the Margins: Early Modern Women Writers and Contemporary Feminism’
- Francesco Ventrella (University of Sussex): ‘Artemisia’s Feminist Resonance’
17.00-18.00 Arts A102 Guest Speaker: Prof. Daniela Caselli (University of Manchester): ‘Dante, Gender and Sexuality in Modernism’
19.30 Conference Dinner
Day 2
Thursday 30 June
11.00 –11.30 Morning coffee - Meeting House / outside
Fourth session 11.30 – 12.30 (Chair: Aaron Kahn) – Meeting House
- Lorenza Gianfrancesco (University of Chichester): ‘From Benedetto Croce to Michele Rak: Reading Giambattista Basile’s The tale of tales in the 20th Century’
- Alena Gašparovičová (Masaryk University), ‘And She Lived Happily Ever After: Finding Agency in Modern Adaptations of Cinderella’
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch Meeting House / outside
Fifth session 13.30 – 14.30 (Chair: Andrew Hadfield) – Meeting House
- Davide Dalmas (University of Turin): ‘Everything and «niento». Giovanni Testori and His Lifelong Relationship with Shakespeare: His 1970s Trilogy of the Scarozzanti’
- Gareth Wood (University College London), ‘El Caudillo’s Scottish Cousin: Macbeth with and without Francisco Franco’
14.30-15.00 Coffee break Arts 108
Sixth session 15.00 – 16.30 (Chair: Peter Boxall) – Arts A102 (LC 3/4)
- Carla Almanza-Gálvez (National University of Ireland, Galway): ‘Re-writing the Classics: The Mexican Crack Generation, A Movement of Reaction and Resistance in the Mid-1990s’
- Victoria Ríos Castaño (University of Coventry), ‘Fray Bernardino de Sahagún in Carmen Boullosa’s Fiction’
- Aaron Kahn (University of Sussex), ‘Quixotic Wanderings and Picaresque Adventures: Carreteras secundarias (1996) by Ignacio Martínez de Pisón’
16.30 – 17.30 Arts 102 Guest Speaker: Prof. Mark Thornton Burnett (Queen’s University Belfast), British Shakespeare Association Director: “Made Visible, it will be Possible”: Shakespeare, World Cinema, and the Humanist Enterprise.
17.30 Wine Reception Arts 108
