Resources in Art History for Graduate Students
SYMPOSIA OF INTEREST TO GRADUATE STUDENTS
ITALIAN STUDIES (VARIOUS SUBJECTS)
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ITALIAN STUDIES (AAIS)
26-30 May 2010. Universitˆ del Salento Facolta' di Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Lecce. See the Web site for more information on their conferences.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF ITALIAN
A list of all of their conferences.
AISLLI (International Association for Italian Language and Literature)
Held 3-6 December 2009. University of Pennsylvania-Center for Italian Studies. "The conference will explore language, politics, the media, the arts, the economy, and material culture in order to examine Italian identity/identities as a world-wide phenomenon. In particular, the conference will focus on "the Italies out of Italy": the large or "little Italies" which embodied and embody a regional identity more than a national one..." The deadline for submission of proposals was October 15, 2009. See the Web site for more information.
CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR ITALIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE
Held May 23 to 25 May 2009. Carleton University Ottawa, ON. See the Web site for more information.
CHIASMI
12-13 March 2010. Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Theme: Viewing Change/Changing Views. please see the Web site for full information. Abstracts must be received no later than January 10, 2010.
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ITALIAN
STUDIES COLLECTIVE GRADUATE CONFERENCE
17 April 2010. Theme: "Let everyday life become a work of art": The quotidiano in Italian Studies. "We invite abstracts from all disciplines that study the everyday in any period of Italy's history from the Middle Ages to the present. Papers may be written in either English or Italian...Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes in length (7-8 typed pages, double-spaced). Abstracts of no more than 300 words are due to italy.everyday@gmail.com by January 12, 2010.
DANTE GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM
26-27 March 2010. Department of Italian Language and Literature, Yale University. "'DanteÕs Volume from Alpha to Omega: a Graduate Symposium on the Poet's Universe.' DanteÕs Divine Comedy is a totalizing visionÑa work emanating from and culminating in the poetÕs glimpse of a universe "bound with love in a single volume." In the 21st century, the goals of universal digitization and constant accessibility that mark our information age might seem far removed from DanteÕs vatic rendering of the cosmos, and yet our technological models of thought might equally be understood as the current form of an encyclopedic impulse that stretches back to (and well beyond) the 14th century. Dante's Volume from Alpha to Omega will explore how the encyclopedism of today can enrich, inform, or obscure our understanding of Dante's universe and its poetic representation. In the interests of interdisciplinarity, paper topics may consider...Representations of Dante: the visual, acoustic, and cinematic arts ...Submissions to yaledantesymposium@gmail.com were due November 15, 2009. "Further information will be available on the events webpage ofthe Yale Italian Department http://www.yale.edu/italian/news/index.html as the symposium draws nearer."
ROBERT DOMBROSKI ITALIAN CONFERENCE
Annual; usually held in September.
April 30 and May 1, 2010. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. "This conference is intended to bring Boccaccio scholars together from various disciplines and approaches for the benefit of all the participants. With the anniversary year of 2013 not far off, and a series of new initiatives already in the works, the ABA is keenly interested in fostering a collaborative environment among its members. To this end, we warmly invite all those working on Boccaccio to give serious consideration to participating in this assembly...Proposals for a paper or panel on any aspect of BoccaccioÕs life and work (in English or Italian) should be sent by February 12, 2010 to Prof. Elsa Filosa, the ABA secretary, at (elsa.filosa@vanderbilt.edu). Abstracts should be approximately 500 words and accompanied by a brief CV.
ITALIAN CULTURAL STUDIES
8 May 2010. Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA. "This interdisciplinary conference will focus on the state of the field of Cultural Studies in Italian Studies. We invite presentations on Cultural Studies as practiced in Italian Studies, and on topics focusing on Italy and Cultural Studies in all fields. We i nvite submissions from colleagues in: anthropology, art history, economics, geography, history, literary studies, Mediterranean studies, religion, semiotics, sociology, visual studies, the sciences etc. Presentations will last 20 minutes. Participants will bring a final, longer version of their presentation for publication (Please follow the Chicago Style Manual for the publishable essay). Final essays will be refereed and those recommended for publication by independent readers will become part of the volume: Italian Cultural Studies (2010). All presentations and final essays must be in English (Please let us know if you need to contact translators.) No registration fees. Abstracts were due October 31 2009 to both: (graziella.parati@dartmouth.edu) and (p.calefato@lingue.uniba.it)
26-30 May 2010. Lecce, Italy. AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian) conference. "Questa sessione si concentra sul genere horror in Italia nelle sue tante variazioni. Infatti, pur non essendo un genere immediatamente associato alla cinematografia Italiana, l'horror del belpaese ha offerto e continua ad offrire spunti interessanti e novita': da autori cult come Mario Bava, Lucio Fulci, Dario Argento a registi come Pupi Avati che hanno sviluppato la corrente horror in parallelo con una filmografia completamente diversa; dal gotico italiano al cannibal movie, alle nuove frontiere del digitale. Le proposte possono essere monografiche su un singolo autore o movimento oppure trasversali e/o comparative tra piu' temi... Please send a 200-400 proposal and a short bios to (barbara.maio@uniroma3.it) y the end of next January."
KENTUCKY FOREIGN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE
Held every year, usually in April at the University of Kentucky, in Lexington. Usually lots of papers on Italian subjects.
22-25 April, 2010. Ann Arbor, Michigan. AAIS Conference. "Description: Papers welcome on all exploitation filoni (peplum, the giallo, slasher, zombie, spaghetti or tortilla western, poliziottesco, post-apocalyptic, gothic, etc.) Please submit a brief abstract by 2 January. Organizer: Dana Renga, Ohio State University, (renga.1@osu.edu). See the Web site for more information.
16-17 April 2010. Venice, Palazzo Pesaro Papafava. Society for Italian Studies Interim Conference. "Advance Notice" (meaning they haven't figured out the due date for the CFPs, and other necessities). "With particular attention to literature, film, the visual arts, philosophy and theology, as well as the social and political sciences, the conference aims to explore the role that religion and religious ideas have played in shaping Italian culture from the medieval period to the present. It aims also to consider examples of mysticism and constructions of the notion of heresy that have circulated down to the present...Initial contact can be made with the conference organizers, Fabrizio De Donno (fabrizio.dedonno@rhul.ac.uk) and Simon Gilson (s.gilson@warwick.ac.uk). Details of the conference will be placed on the SIS website and an official call for papers will be sent out later in the year. Conference participants must be members of the SIS.
22-25 April, 2010. Ann Arbor, Michigan. AAIS Conference. This panel is devoted to the exploration and analysis of representations of children and childhood in Italian contemporary cinema. Possible areas of interest might include: childrenÍs relationships within the family - children's traumatic experiences - children and violence - children and identity - missing children. Different critical approaches are welcome. Please, submit a brief abstract to (tconvert@indiana.edu) by January 2nd. Include name, affiliation, and audio-visual needs.
SOCIETY FOR ITALIAN STUDIES (U.K)
Held 16-19 April 2009 Royal Holloway University of London. Biennial Conference of the Society. "Proposals for panel sessions and for individual papers for the Cconference are now invited...All proposals, both individual and panel, were due 31 October 2008."
SOCIETY FOR ITALIAN STUDIES POSTGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM 2009
Held 23rd May 2009. University of Oxford, UK. "Postgraduate students are invited to submit proposals on any aspect of Italian Studies for the above colloquium. Papers can be in Italian or English and should last approximately 20 minutes. Abstracts of a maximum of 300 words, together with a short biography indicating your academic background and research interests should be were due 15th March 2009 to the organisers:
Tristan Kay, Eleanor Parker and Katrin Wehling-Giorgi
(sispostgradcolloq09@hotmail.com)
28-27 February 2010. University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida. "Abstracts for papers to be presented at the 2010 Conference are now being considered. SCFLL welcomes papers on all aspects of literature, linguistics, civilization, culture, film and pedagogy pertaining to foreign languages. Abstracts were due December 1, 2009. Reading time for each paper is 20 minutes. We would like to encourage submission by e-mail sent to: scfllatusf@gmail.com (mention language and aspect area in subject heading) or address material to:
University of South Florida Dr. Margit Grieb Attn: SCFLL Department of World Languages 4202 E. Fowler Ave, CPR 107 Tampa, FL 33620
22-25 April 2010. American Association for Italian Studies, Annual Conference at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. "Description: The topic of violence has been a central preoccupation in Italian literature and cinema. From the battlefields of war to those of politics, from the holocaust to the violence targeting specific social groups such as children, workers, women, foreigners, and sexual minorities, how have the different forms of violence been approached? How can the experience of violence be put into words or represented in cinema? How does its narration differ across literary and cinematic genres, historical periods, and authors? Deadline for submissions: January 5, 2010. Submit a short description and a brief CV to Federica Colleoni, (fedcolle@umich.edu) and Elena Dalla Torre, (edalla@umich.edu).
ITALIAN CULTURE
This is the Journal of the American Association for Italian Studies
ITALIAN STUDIES
STUDIES IN TRAVEL WRITING
"In 2012 the journal Studies in Travel Writing will publish a special issue on travel writing and Italy, edited by Sharon Ouditt (Nottingham Trent University) and Loredana Polezzi (Warwick University). Essays, of around 7,000-10,000 words, may focus on any aspect of the construction or refraction of Italy through travel writing in any period, although we particularly welcome papers that (i) focus on significant trends or transitions (e.g. with reference to related areas such as visual culture) in travel writing about Italy; (ii) are concerned with contemporary images of Italy, including those produced by immigration, return migration or long-term settlement; and/or (iii) display an engagement with the ideologies and methodologies that impact on the discussions central to travel writing. The timetable is as follows: Abstracts of around 500 words by 1 February 2010; essays to be commissioned by 1 April 2010; commissioned essays due to editors by 1 December 2010; referees' reports by 1 April 2011; final copy to editors by 1 August 2011. Please send abstracts to both sharon.ouditt@ntu.ac.uk and L.Polezzi@warwick.ac.uk
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