FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22
TRAYES HALL AT DOUGLASS STUDENT CENTER
9.00-9.45 CHECK IN + BREAKFAST
9.45-10.00 OPENING REMARKS
10.00-10.50 PANEL 1, Part 1
EARLY RESONANCES FROM MEDIEVAL ITALY
Chair: Maria Teresa De Luca (Rutgers University)
Leonardo Chiarantini (University of Michigan): “‘La voce vostra sì dolce e latina’: the Theme of the Sweet Poetic Voice in Dante’s Exchange with Cino da Pistoia”
Max Matukhin (Princeton University): “Different Voices, Different Styles: From Boccaccio’s Decameron to the Corbaccio”
10.50-11.40 PANEL 1, Part 2
EARLY RESONANCES FROM MEDIEVAL ITALY
Chair: Maria Teresa De Luca (Rutgers University)
Milan Reynolds (Rutgers University): “Hearing Voices: Relations of Language, Gender, and Power in Angela of Foligno’s Memorial”
Mario Sassi (University of Pennsylvania): “Meaning Over Words: Domenico Cavalca Between the Text and its Message”
11.40-12.00 COFFEE BREAK
12.00-12.50 PANEL 2
SINGING VOICES: THE INTERACTION OF MUSIC AND TEXT
Chair: Caterina Agostini (Rutgers University)
Amelia Linsky (Harvard University): “Musical Notes on Persuasive Voices in the Gerusalemme Liberata”
Anya Wilkening (Columbia University): “Bringing New Meanings to Light: Relations and Resonances in Giraut de Bornelh’s alba, ‘Reis glorios’”
12.50-2.10 LUNCH
2.15-3.30 PANEL 3
BRIDGING CULTURES: TRANSLATION AND TRANSMEDIALITY
Chair: Giuseppe Grispino (Rutgers University)
Hiromi Kaneda (University of Virginia): “Japonisme in La Diana”
Emily Meneghin (New York University): “SKAM and SKAM Italia: Translating the Media-Saturated Teenage Experience”
Giancarlo Tursi (New York University): “What is ‘Accented’ Translation? Dialectal Translations of Dante in Risorgimento Italy”
EAGLETON INSTITUTE OF POLITICS
4.30-5.00 COFFEE BREAK
5.00-6.00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS PROFESSOR JENNY MCPHEE
6.00-8.00 DINNER
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23
EAGLETON INSTITUTE OF POLITICS
8.45-9.30 BREAKFAST
9.30-10.20 PANEL 1, Part 1
VOCAL TRAJECTORIES IN PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY
Chair: Andrew Robbins (Rutgers University)
Amanda González Izquierdo (Rutgers University): “A Voiceless Response: Gazing as Declaration of Being”
Ekin Erkan (The New Centre for Research & Practice): “Technology as the God-Command”
10.20-11.10 PANEL 1, Part 2
VOCAL TRAJECTORIES IN PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY
Chair: Andrew Robbins (Rutgers University)
Beatrice Fazio (University of Chicago): “Uttered by Poetic Acts. The First Voice(s) in Vico’s New Science”
Alberto Parisi (Harvard University): “‘When Thinking Was Done With the Lungs’: Agamben, Cavarero, Coccia, and the Voice of One More Italian Difference”
11.10-11.30 COFFEE BREAK
11.30-12.20 PANEL 2, Part 1
VOCAL TRENDS IN MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
Chair: Raffaella Fusco (Rutgers University)
Beatrice Basile (University of Pennsylvania): “The Representation of Female Voices in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels: A Post-Feminist Reading of Ferrante’s Tetralogy”
Caresse Jackson (Princeton University): “Madison Washington: A Black Odyssean Hero in Antebellum America”
12.20-1.10 PANEL 2, Part 2
VOCAL TRENDS IN MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
Chair: Raffaella Fusco (Rutgers University)
Gabriele Lazzari (Rutgers University): “The Voices of the Somali Diaspora: Dialogic Reaccentuation in Ubah Cristina Ali Farah’s Madre Piccola”
Monika Zaleska (CUNY): “The Pretense of Realism: Problems of Voice in Mary McCarthy’s Fiction”
1.10-2.30 LUNCH
2.30-3.30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS PROFESSOR DIANA GARVIN
3.30-3.45 COFFEE BREAK
3.45-5.00 PANEL 3
PERFORMING VOICES: STAGING THE CRISIS IN FILM AND THEATER
Chair: Natascia Cappa (Rutgers University)
Juliette Bellacosa (University of Pennsylvania): “Rossellini and the View in the Broken Mirror
Giulio Genovese (University of Pennsylvania): “The Authorial Voice Through Centuries and Media: Von Trier Using Dante to Explain Von Trier”
Samantha Gillen (University of Pennsylvania): A Makeshift Battleground: War, Performance, and the Futurist Serata”
5.00-5.10 CLOSING REMARKS
6.30 FINAL RECEPTION @ prof. Laura S. White’s home in Princeton
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