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15th Brown-Harvard graduate students conference C H I A S M I Contested Bodies in Italian Studies Friday (Urban Environmental Lab, room 106) 12 pm–1 pm. Lunch (190 Hope Street) 1:30 pm–2 pm. Institutional Remarks Prof. Massimo Riva (Brown University) Prof. Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg (Brown University) 2 pm–3:15 pm. Keynote Lecture Prof. Serena Bassi (Yale University) Queer Marx VS Straight Freud? Lisetta Carmi’s and Elvio Fachinelli’s “I Travestiti” 3:15 pm–4:30 pm. Queering Italian Time: Trans* Identities from the 1950s to the Present Chair: Sara Colantuono (Brown University) Leo Palma (University of Virginia) Myths and Mud: The Trans Child and Wounded Creatures in Fiore De Henriquez’s Stories and Sculptures Avery McGraw (University of Connecticut) “Fuori dal Limbo:” Medicalized Bodies and Trans* Identity Formation in 1950-60s Italy Alessio Giovene (Florida Atlantic University) The Fragmentation of the Body in Pasolini’s “Petrolio:” A Queer Reading 4:30 pm–4:45 pm. Coffee Break (Urban Environmental Lab) 4:45 pm–6 pm. Diverse Bodies in Early Modern Italy: from Confinement to Urban Utopianism Chair: Maria Irene Fiducia (Brown University) Stefano Dilorenzo (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia) Corpo e Potere: tra Beffa e Stato Moderno nelle “Cene” del Lasca Filippo Fabbricatore (CUNY) “Mentre ch’al corpo l’alma non è tolta:” Michelangelo’s Earthly Quest for Absolute Laura Mattioli (Durham University) Space, Body and Subjectivity in the Italian Renaissance Utopia 6 pm–7:15 pm. Corpus and Corpo: Poetry as the Site of Remarking the Body Chair: Elettra Solignani (Brown University) Lisa Di Battista (CUNY) The Other Body: Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Gender Identity in the Poetry Collection “Dolore Minimo” by Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto Stefano Bottero (Università Ca’ Foscari) “Dopo il corpo è vuoto.” Per una Lettura del Corpo Poetico Omosessuale di Dario Bellezza Eleonora Anselmo (Università degli Studi di Genova) The Body and the Language in Sanguineti’s Translation of “Bacchae” 7:30 pm. Dinner Saturday (Salomon Center, room 203) 8:00 am–9:00 am. Breakfast (Salomon Center) 9:00 am–10:15 am. Contesting Oppression: Gendered and Raced Bodies from the 1970s to the Present Chair: Andrea Zoller (Brown University) Noreen Kane (University College Cork), Transgenerational Trauma, the Body, and Language in the Writing of Igiaba Scego Abby H. Shepherd (Duke University), Seeing Red (and “Giallo”): “Suspiria” and the Male Gaze Alessandra Abate (New York University), The Depiction of Laboring Female Bodies as a Feminist Practice in Adriana Monti’s “Scuola senza fine” (1983) and “Filo a catena” (1986) 10:30 am–11:45 am. Keynote Lecture Ubah Cristina Ali Farah (Novelist and Poet) Ricomporre la Mappa dell'Amore nei Corpi Sconsacrati 12:00 am–1:15 pm. Embodying In-betweenness: Bodies in Environments, Bodies as Environments Chair: Louise Rossetti (Harvard University) Veronica Gianello (CUNY), Bodies in Between: (Dis)activating Borderlands in Netflix’s “Curon” Chiara Petrocchi (Johns Hopkins University) Dreaming of Contamination: The Self as an Extended Body in Fabrizia Ramondino Benedetta Cutolo (CUNY) Roman Cinematic Landscapes: Pasolini, Ozpetek and the Shifting Representation of Queer Bodies in the Urban Space 1:15 pm–2:30 pm. Lunch (Hope Street 190) 2:30 pm–3:45 pm. Resisting to and through the Body: Forms of Corporeal Thinking Chair: Martina Lancia (Brown University) Marta Cerreti (Johns Hopkins University) Contested Bodies, Disobedient Women: Maria Edgarda Marcucci’s “Rabbia proteggimi” Stefano Scandella (New York University) Corporeal Imagination: Poíesis and Self-Knowledge in the Mythopoetic Tradition Alessandro Ludovico Minnucci (The University of Chicago) and Eleonora Fisco (Università dell’Aquila and Université de Lausanne) “We sing the body inauthentic:” Pratiche di Dis-autenticazione del Poetry Slam Italiano 4:00 pm–5:30 pm. Gestures and Voices in Dante and Early Modern Tradition Chair: Vincent Leung (Harvard University) Cecilia Marchetti (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia) Il Giardino Incarnato. Personificazioni del Femminile nel “Locus Amoenus” Camilla Bambozzi (University of Leeds) Beatrice’s Contested Voice Ruoci Song (University of Cambridge) Dante’s Body as a Domain of Affect Display in “The Divine Comedy:” A Study of Gestures Final Remarks 7:30 pm. Dinner Organizing Committee: Samuele Capanna (Brown University), Giovanna Conti (Brown University) Gisella Governi (Brown University), Harrison Rose (Brown University) Graphic Design: Maria Irene Fiducia (Brown University)