From the Unity of Italians to the Unity of Italics: the Languages of Italicity Around the World
April 15-16, 2011
15 April 2011,University of Pennsylvania
16:00-16:45 Parallel Sessions
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Panel I Defining Italian Identity I – Williams Hall 23
Chair: Stefania Benini - University of Pennsylvania
Segatori, Stefania – “G. D’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara
“La questione della lingua e della poetica nazionale in Nievo”
Sturmar, Barbara - University of Trieste
“Il linguaggio di un italiano ‘assimilato’: Italo Svevo”
Giumelli, Riccardo - University of Florence
“L'età degli italici: una narrazione nel tempo”
Panel II From Italian to Italic – Williams Hall 1
Chair: Lillyrose Veneziano Broccia - University of Pennsylvania
Tordi, Rosita – “SICL” (Società Italiana di Comparatistica Letteraria)
“Il primo Savinio: Les Chants de la mi-mort e La vraie Italie”
Bartholini, Aurelia - Independent scholar
“Il piacere della lettura e l’arte del fare. Forme di creatività correlate nella cultura e arte italiana”
Panel III Selling Italicity – Williams Hall 25
Chair: Patricia Gubitosi - University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Weinberg, Carla - The University of the Arts, Philadelphia
“Italians in the Black Sea: The Ogdoas by Alberto Alfieri”
Anderson, Kyle David, Centre College
“Reaching for Renaissance: The Function of Italy in China”
Luca D’Ambrosio – AgustaWestland
“Dalla Fuga dei cervelli alla partnership industriale”
16:45-17:30 Parallel Sessions
Panel IV Languages of Latin American Italicity – Williams Hall 23
Chair: Marina Della Putta Johnston - University of Pennsylvania
Barnes, Hilary - Fayetteville State University
“An Italian Island in Mexico: The Case of Chipilo”
Cid Jurado, Alfredo Tenoch - Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Crivelli Minutti, Eduardo - Benemérita Universidad Autónoma
“I linguaggi della memoria e i meccanismi semiotici di conservazione dell’italianità nel caso di Chipilo in Messico”
Gubitosi, Patricia - University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“Italian Presence in Argentinean Spanish”
Panel V Nurturing Italian Roots – Williams Hall 1
Chair: Marco Giudici - Bangor University
Agnoletto, Stefano - Kingston University, London
“Becoming Italians abroad: The Italian Workers in Toronto”
Marenzi, Elisa - University of Bern
“Marios and Marias: How Young Italo-Australians Perceive and Perform Italianness”
Panel VI Re-inventing Italian at Home and Abroad - Williams Hall 25
Chair: Meriel Tulante - Philadelphia University
Angelilli, Christina - Ohio State University
“National and Regional Languages - A Look at the Use of the Definite Article”
Boglioni, Eleonora - University of Milan
“La lingua speciale della storia dell'arte”
Veneziano Broccia, Lillyrose - University of Pennsylvania
Berger, Joshua
Brown, Heather - Lindenwood University
Kotapish, Jane
“’A bega: The Transfer and (Re)Invention of the Madre lingua”
16 April 2011,University of Pennsylvania
11:15-12:00 Parallel Sessions
Panel VII Defining Italian Identity II - Cohen Hall 203
Chair: Rosita Tordi - “SICL” (Società Italiana di Comparatistica Letteraria)
Cedola, Andrea - University of Cassino
“Vecchi e giovani, o della malinconia presente degli italiani”
Perolino, Ugo - “G. D’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara
“Mitografie letterarie e idea di nazione in Oriani, Carducci, Serra”
Benini, Stefania - University of Pennsylvania
“Tra Mogadiscio e Roma: le mappe emotive di Igiaba Scego”
Panel VIII Italicity in Great Britain - Cohen Hall 204
Chair: Stefano Agnoletto - Kingston University, London
Giudici, Marco - Bangor University
“Italicity in Britain: Italian Cafes in Wales as a Case Study”
Guzzo, Siria - University of Naples “L’Orientale” - University of Salerno
“The Bedford Italian Community: Language and Identity”
Panel IX Italicity in the United States - Cohen Hall 392
Chair: Riccardo Giumelli - University of Florence
Luconi, Stefano - University of Padua
“The Troubled Road to Italicity in the United States”
Giacalone, Christine Guedri - United States Military Academy-West Point
“Nearing Language Death in New York: The Case of Sicilian”
Gallo, Cinzia - Liceo Classico “Gargallo”, Siracusa
“Palomar di Italo Calvino e le sue influenze sui media: Alias”
Panel X Visual Languages of Italicity - Cohen Hall 402
Chair: Elisa Marenzi - University of Bern
Di Pietro, Antonietta - Florida International University
“Expositions and Italianità: The 1861 Italian National Exposition in Florence and the Italy’s Pavilion in the 1925 Exposition des arts décoratifs modernes in Paris”
Meyers, Sophia - Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame
“A Purismo Artist in Indiana, Luigi Gregori (1819-1896)”
Tulante, Meriel - Philadelphia University
“The Language of ‘Alta moda’ in Film: Italian Identity and Global Anxiety”
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