California Interdisciplinary Consortium for Italian Studies
Annual Conference
6-7 March 2009, Stanford Humanities Center
Stanford University, Stanford, California
“Beginnings”
Friday 6 March, Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm – Keynote address by Hilary Gatti
Welcoming Remarks: Laura Wittman, Stanford
Introduction of Hilary Gatti: Michael Wyatt, Stanford
Hilary Gatti, Associate Professor, emerita, Università di Roma, “La Sapienza”: “Beginning as Negation: Giordano Bruno’s Italian Dialogues”
Saturday 7 March, Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall
9:00 am – Breakfast
9:15 am - 10:45 am – Beginnings and Making History
Chair: Jeffrey Schnapp, Stanford
Arnold Anthony Schmidt
California State University, Turlock
"Cantoni il volontario: The Ideology of Garibaldi's Fiction"
Jonathan Hiller
UCLA
"Sicily, Mascagni's Orient: Cavalleria Rusticana, Southern Stereotypes and the Beginnings of Operatic Verismo"
Suzanne King, Stanford
Devin Tooma, Stanford
"History, Memory, and New Beginnings: How Italians React to Revisions of Their Past, From the 'Caso Silone' to Spike Lee"
Mia Fuller
UCB
“New National and Social Beginnings Under Fascism: the Creation Myths of the Agro Pontino”
10:45 am – Coffee Break
11:00 am - 12:30 pm – Stylistic Beginnings
Chair: Marla Stone, Occidental College
Sienna Hopkins
UCLA
"Private Beginnings"
Carole Paul
UCSB
"Italy and the Invention of the Art Museum"
Daphne Rozenblatt
UCLA
"Turin 1902: The Restoration Patronage of Arte Nuova Italiana"
Sarah Grandin
Stanford
"Sculpting the Futurist Hero: Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space"
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm – Lunch
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm – Reflections on New Techniques
Chair: Lucia Re, UCLA
Thomas F. Heck
Independent Scholar, Santa Barbara
Ann Goodrich Heck
Independent Scholar, Santa Barbara
"The Beginnings of Stage Direction: Evidence from Perrucci's Dell'Arte rappresentativa premeditata, ed all'improvviso"
Sarah A. Carey
UCLA
"Imbriani's Innovation: Photography as Narrative Framework in Merope IV"
Enrico Vettore
Cal State Long Beach
"Rossellini's Encyclopedia of Beginnings: From Open City to The Messiah"
3:15 pm – Coffee Break
3:30 pm - 4:45 pm – The Concept of Beginning
Chair: Robert Harrison, Stanford
Sandra Luft
San Francisco State
"Beginnings in Vico/Vico as Beginnings"
Christy Wampole
Stanford
"'Procedere quasi a tentoni': Possibilitarianism and the Tentacular in Claudio Magris' Danubio"
Thomas Harrison
UCLA
"Without Precedent: the Watts Towers"
4:45 pm – Coffee Break
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm – Keynote Address by Catherine Brice
Introduction of Catherine Brice: Mia Fuller, UCB
Catherine Brice, Professor, Université de Paris XII: “The Many Origins of Risorgimento Mobilization in Italy: Problems of Interpretation (1790s-1860s).”
Closing remarks: Laura Wittman, Stanford
*See Conference Web Site for directions. All speakers and participants are invited. Make sure you RSVP on your “Travel and Lodging Form” by 9 February, 2009.