Registration: Friday 9.00-9.30 am

Opening Remarks and Welcome: Friday 9.30-9.55am

 

 

[Friday] 10.00-11-15am

 

[1.1] KEYNOTE SPEAKER                                                                                        (Room: 6/7)

Chair: Giovanni Spani, College of Holy Cross

 

Art of Passion: Women in Pablo Picasso’s Art

EDUARDO URIOS-APARISI, University of Connecticut

 

Eduardo Urios-Aparisi is Associate Professor in the Literatures, Cultures and Languages Department at the University of Connecticut. He is co-head of the Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies program and director of the Spanish teaching program in LCL and coordinates Spanish language teaching for all UConn campuses. His main research projects are the application of cognitive linguistics to cinema and art from an interdisciplinary point of view including film studies and art history. His main publications are Prosody and Humor (co-edited with S. Attardo and M. Wagner, 2013), Puro Teatro: Metáfora y espacio en el cine de Pedro Almodóvar (2010), Multimodal Metaphor, (co-edited with Ch. Forceville, 2009). Prof. Urios-Aparisi has published articles on cinema and metaphor and humor in the Foreign Language Classroom and Media.

 

 

[Friday] 11.30-12.45pm

 

[1.2] LA PAROLA È DONNA                                                                                     (Room: 6/7)

Chair: Dolores Juan Moreno, Clark University

 

El consumismo poetizado: máscaras femeninas y la cesta de la compra (Notas sobre poesía y cine españoles  entre 2000 y 2015)

Dolores Juan Moreno, Clark University

 

Memoria y frontera en Luna Benamor

Esther Alarcón-Arana, Salve Regina University

 

Mediterranean Femmes Fatales: Calypso, Circe, and the Sirens in Contemporary Poetry

Mary Green, Ryerson University

 

Lunch Break: 1.00-2.30pm

 

 

[Friday] 2.45-4.00pm

 

[2.1] DONNE D’ALTRI TEMPI                                                                                     (Room: 4)

Chair: Federico Canaccini, Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta

 

Saïda Manoubia: ritratto di una santa, tra duplicità e sdoppiamento

Nadia Tebbini, Université Tunis El Manar

 

The Voices of “Women” in Medieval Italian Poetry: Compiuta Donzella and Guittone d’Arezzo

Robert Hackett, Independent Scholar

 

Donne medievali tra laicità e santità

Federico Canaccini, Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta

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“Per Dio, vi stringa amor del natio loco”: il Risorgimento attraverso i versi di Giuseppina Guacci Nobile

Nunzia Soglia, Università di Salerno

 

 

[Friday] 4.15-5.30pm

 

[3.1] DONNE IN CAMMINO                                                                                      (Room: 6/7)

Chair: Nicholas Albanese, Texas Christian University

 

Writing with an Accent: Language, Identity and First Generation Immigrants

Giovanna Bellesia, Smith College

 

Trapped by the “Double Burden” of Guilt. Wartime Italian Mothers and Their Biracial Children

Stefano Luconi, Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”

 

“Terra di mezzo”: letteratura migrante al femminile

Nicholas Albanese, Texas Christian University

 

 

[3.2] DIASPORIC AFRICAN WOMEN’S VOICES IN ITALY TODAY                  (Room: 4)

Chair: Rosetta D’Angelo, Ramapo College

 

Contemporary Diaspora of the African Women Writers in Italy

Rosa Javier, Ramapo College

 

Visions of the Mediterranean in Italian American Women Poets from the South of Italy

Dominick Daddetto, Ramapo College

 

Postcolonial Contaminations and the Abject Female Body in “Roda” by Igiaba Scego

Jessica Sciubba, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

 

 

DINNER|| 8pm (Registered Participants Only)

 

 

 

[Saturday] 10.00-11.15am

 

[4.1] DONNE IN SCENA                                                                                             (Room: 6/7)

Chair: Philip Balma, University of Connecticut

 

Mediterranean Women On Screen: Gender, Power and Agency in Pontecorvo’ s Filmography

Philip Balma, University of Connecticut

 

The Mediterranean Abyss of Narration. A Sea of Times and Words in Lina Prosa’ s “Lampedusa Beach”

Silvia Caserta, Cornell University

 

Nemica, amica, donna. Donne, madri e figlie nella narrativa e nelle sceneggiature televisive di Gianna Manzini

Sarah Sivieri, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

 

 

[4.2] DONNE E ALTROVE                                                                                            (Room: 4)

Chair: Ugo Perolino, Università degli Studi “G. D’Annunzio”, Chieti-Pescara

 

Modern Medeas, From De Filippo to Ferrante

Wanda  Balzano ‒ Jefferson  Holdridge,  Wake Forest University

 

Fanny Salazar Zampini, la libertà femminile da Napoli a Chicago

Lucia Ducci, College of the Holy Cross

 

The Cloistered Bodies and Open Minds of Boccaccio’s Decameron

Richard Bonanno, Assumption College

 

 

[Saturday] 11.30-12.15am

 

[5.1] SOGGETTUALITÀ FEMMINILE                                                                   (Room: 6/7)

Chair: Marco Marino, Sant’Anna Institute

 

Da graziella a bamminella. Oggettivizzazione della donna e letteratura

Bernardo Piciché, Virginia Commonwealth University

 

Scrittura e memoria nella narrativa di Leïla Sebbar

Lorella Martinelli, Università degli Studi “G. D’Annunzio”, Chieti-Pescara

 

Il femminile e il non-tutto: eros e nomos al tempo di Sulpicia

Domenico Palumbo, Sant’Anna Institute

 

 

[5.2] DONNE E LATITUDINI                                                                                        (Room: 4)

Chair: Giovanni Migliara, Escuela Oficial de Idiomas

 

Amalia Nizzoli e l’incontro con le donne in Oriente: fra conformismo e sovversione

Renate Kuen, Università di Angers (Francia)

 

Le donne albanesi e il “mito” della rivoluzione (1989-1991)

Sheyla Moroni, Università di Firenze

 

Egitto. È possibile essere femminista e musulmana?

Zenab Ataalla, Independent Scholar

 

Lunch Break: 1.00-2.30pm

 

 

[Saturday] 2.45-4.00pm

 

[6.1] DONNE, GESTI E PAROLE                                                                              (Room: 6/7)

Chair: Nicholas Albanese, Texas Christian University

 

Con un filo di voce. Il ricamo: anatomie di un gesto femminile

Giada Cipollone, Università di Pavia

 

Noli Mariam tangere. Il modello normativo cattolico nella narrativa di genere italiana

Valeria Iaconis, Università di Zurigo

 

Camilla Erculiana: L’autorapprensentazione di una delle prime autrici scientifiche italiane

Katharina Offensperger, University of Konstanz

 

 

[6.2] THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER                                         (Room: 4)

Chair: Richard Bonanno, Assumption College

 

Liaisons Dangereuses alla Mediterranea

Ieva Stončikaitė, University of Lleida

 

Women’s Writing from the Southern Shores of the Mediterranean

Michela Quadraro, Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”

 

“Our Shame”: War and Rape in Aydin Mehmet Ali’s Short Story “Forbidden Zone”

Francesca Scalinci, Independent Scholar

 

 

[Saturday] 4.15-5.30pm

 

[7.1]  RAPPRESENTAZIONI DEL FEMMINILE                                                   (Room: 6/7)

Chair: Andrea Pera, Independent Scholar

 

From Both Sides of the Border: Silencing and Bidimensional Perspectives in “Franziska”

Torunn Haaland, Gonzaga University

 

Il mondo salvato da una ragazzina? “Anna” di Niccolò Ammaniti

Andrea Pera, Independent Scholar

 

Reclaiming the Sensuality of the South and its Female Children

Anna Karina Neeteson, Independent Scholar

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[Saturday 5.35-6.35pm]

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[7.2]  SPECIAL SESSION                                                                                              (Room: 6/7)

Chairs: Giovanni Spani, College of the Holy Cross

             Marco Marino, Sant'Anna Institute

 

   § Meeting the Authors| Books Presentation

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Final Remarks|| 6:40- 6.50pm