DECEMBER 3, 2009. University of Pennsylvania

Terrace Room, Claudia Cohen Hall - 249 South 36th Street

15:00-15:30 Opening Ceremony

15:30-16:15 Plenary Session. Keynote Address 1: Giulio Lepschy, "Ethnicity and Language in Italy"

16:15-16:45 Coffee Break

16:45-17:30 Plenary Session. Keynote Address 2: Teodolinda Barolini, “Identity / Alterity / Dante”

17:30-18:15 Parallel Sessions

DECEMBER 4, 2009. University of Pennsylvania

G17, Claudia Cohen Hall - 249 South 36th Street

09:30-10:15 Plenary Session: Daniela Bini, "Pulcinella: un pensiero meridiano"

10:15-11:00 Plenary Session: Millicent Marcus, “Italian National Identity on International Screen: Cannes 2008”

11:00-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-12:00 Parallel Sessions

12:00-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:15 Parallel Sessions

14:15-15:00 Plenary Session: Lorenzo Tomasin, “A Short History of a Word: Italian”

15:00-15:45 Plenary Session: Sanja Roic, "An italian Island in the slavonic Sea: the case of Istria and Quarnero"

15:45-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-16:45 Plenary Session: Rebecca West, “From Italian ‘Vitellone’ to International ‘Mito:’ Rodolfo Valentino’s Vicissitudes of Identity”

16:45-17:30 Plenary Session: Vincenzo Todisco, "L'italiano ai margini: rischi e opportunità di una dimensione minoritaria"

17:30-18:15 Presentazione della mostra fotografica e del libro "Americhe" di Francesco Nonino, a cura del CRAF, Centro Ricerche e Archiviazione della Fotografia del Friuli Venezia Giulia

DECEMBER 5, 2009. University of Pennsylvania

B1 Meyerson Hall - 210 South 34th Street

09:00-09:45 Parallel Sessions

09:45-10:30 Plenary Session: Barbara Spackman, "Muslim in Milan: The Orientalism of Leda Rafanelli"

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-11:30 Plenary Session: Wayne Storey, “Textus receptus and crises of cultural identity”

11:30-12:15 Plenary Session: Hermann Haller, “L’italiano fuori d’Italia: la sua identità multipla negli Stati Uniti”

12:15-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:15 Plenary Session: Kevin Brownlee, "Dante's France: Vernacular Poetics, Imperial Politics, and Salvation History in the Commedia"

14:15-15:00 Plenary Session: Jonathan Steinberg, “Why Italian Switzerland?  In Search of an Identity”

15:00-15:15 Coffee Break

15:15-16:00 Plenary Session: Piero Bassetti and Maddalena Tirabassi, "Glocalismo e identità: i linguaggi dell'italicità"

16:00-17:15 Plenary session - Round Table: "Interstitial Placing[s]: Negotiating Identities in the United States," Anthony Tamburri, Moderator - Fred Gardaphè, Nancy Carnevale, Joseph Sciorra, Robert Viscusi

17:15-18:00 Plenary Session: Remigio Ratti, "La triade Lingue/ Economia/ Società nella globalità: spunti per un approccio strategico"

18:00-19:00 Assemblea AISLLI