The Charles and Joan Alberto Italian Studies Institute
at Seton Hall University

Presents

Technology and the Printed Media in Italy Between 1870 and 1914:
                                         An international Conference*

                                          Oct 16-17, 2008

    Beck Rooms in the Walsh Library
For direction to Seton Hall and on campus go to: http://www.shu.edu/visiting/index.cfm

 

                                            Organizers: Gabriella Romani (Seton Hall University) and Ann Caesar (University of Warwick)
                                            Co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences and the Vice-Consulate of Italy at Newark.

           THURSDAY OCTOBER 16

9-10 Registration/Breakfast

10-10:15 Introduction:
Welcome: Gabriella Romani and Ann Caesar
Opening remarks by Joseph Marbach, Dean of the College of A&S, and Andrea Barbaria, Vice-Consul of Italy at Newark.

10:15-11:45
Chair:  Paola Gambarota (Rutgers University)

Maria Grazia Lolla (Harvard University), "Of Fickle Journals, Aesthesiometers, and Other Readers: The Politics and Poetics of Reading in post-Unification Italy."
Cristina Gragnani (University of Illinois at Chicago), "Flirt fin de siècle. Palermo letteraria e mondana (1897-1908)."
Fiorenza Weinapple (Princeton University), "Abbiamo fatto l'Italia. Adesso si tratta di fare gli Italiani. Il programma di educazione nazionale del XX Secolo."

11:45-12 Coffee/Tea Break

12:-1:15
Chair: Gabriella Romani (Seton Hall University)

Silvia Valisa (Florida State University) "Progetto Sonzogno: A Publishing House's History and its Role as Cultural Mediator."
Ombretta Frau (Mount Holyoke College), "Da Rocca San Casciano alla Roma Mussoliniana: i primi cinquant'anni della casa editrice Cappelli."　

1:15-2:30 LUNCH BREAK

2:30-4
Chair: Michael Caesar (University of Birmingham)

Luca Somigli (University of Toronto), "A Poet-critic between Two Worlds: on F.T. Marinetti's Fin-de-siècle Cultural Criticism."
Olivia Santovetti (University of Leeds), "De Roberto's L'illusione and the paradox of novelistic illusion."
Jennifer Burns (University of Warwick), "Refashioning the Author: Testing the Limits of the acceptable in Cletto Arrighi’s Narratives."

4-4:30 Coffee/Tea Break

4:30-5:30 Keynote Speaker:
John Davis (University of Connecticut): "Creating a Public of Readers in Liberal Italy 1870-1914."

7:00 PM Dinner

                         FRIDAY OCTOBER 17

8:30-9:30 Breakfast

9:30-11
Chair: Ann Caesar (University of Warwick)

Fabio Gadducci and Mirko Tavosanis (Università di Pisa), "Printers, Poets, Publishers and Painters: Pinocchio and the Giornale per i bambini."
John P. Welle (Notre Dame University), "The Magic Lantern and the Illustrated Book: Making Italians in Carlo Collodi's La lanterna magica di Giannettino."
Francesca Billiani (University of Manchester) "Intellettuali militanti, funzionari e tecnologici (1903-1914)."

11-11:15 Coffee/Tea Break

11:15-12:15
Chair: David Bénéteau (Seton Hall University)

James De Lorenzi (CUNY John Jay), "Manuscripts and Books, Chronicles and Histories: Print Culture and the Production of Knowledge in Colonial Eritrea, 1890-1935."
Matteo Salvadore (Rowan University) "Travelling and reporting on the borders of Dark Africa: Italian expeditions to Ethiopia and the Bollettino della Societa’ Geografica Italiana, 1867-1896"

　

12:15-1:30-ROUNDTABLE
Lunch will be served

*Abstracts for the papers can be viewed by clicking on the titles.