Conferences
2004 Program of the Annual CICIS Meeting
UC Berkeley, May 7-8
SPACES IN TIME: ITALIAN GEOGRAPHIES OF MODERNITY
Opening Address:
Giovanni Muto, University of Naples “Federico II,” "How
an Early Modern Italian Thought about Space."
Panel 1:
Barbara Naddeo, Stanford University, “Urban Arcadia. The
History of a Literary Topos, 1707-30.”
Stephanie Tcharos, UCSB, “Imagining Arcadia: Notions of
Space and Time in the Early Modern Italian Cantata”
Panel 2:
Clorinda Donato, California State University, Long Beach, “Masonic
Exotica and the Dislocation/Relocation of Ancient Symbolic Codes
in Naples 1740-2004”
Teresa Fiore, California State University Long Beach, “Invented
in Italy, Reinvented in Long Beach: The Doubly De-Localized Canals
and Arched Bridges of Naples”
Keynote Address: Giuliana Bruno, Harvard University, "Atlas
of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film"
Panel 3:
Jobst Welge, UCSB, “On Nature and Nationhood: Techniques
of Observation in Goethe’s Italian Journey”
Stephanie Jed, UCSD, “Social Spaces of History: Gender,
Erudition, and the Italian Nation”
Panel 4:
Eleonora Pasotti, UCSC, “Cities Changing Rapidly: Political
Lessons from Italy”
Tyrus Miller, UCSC, " From the Venetian to the European
Archipelago: The 'Geo-filosofia' of Massimo Cacciari"
Panel 5:
Jennifer Scappettone, UCB, “The Abject Geography of the
Modern: Venice, Tourist Capital of the 19th and 20th Centuries”
Mia Fuller, UCB, “Italian Geography and Modernity in a
Vacuum: Colonial and Post-Colonial Asmara”
Anne Toxey, UCB, “Mapping and Maintaining Matera”
Closing Address:
Denis Cosgrove, UCLA, “A Failed Icon: The Vittoriano, Rome and Italian
Modernities”
2003 Program of the Annual CICIS Meeting
UCLA
Visualizing Culture: Italian Modernities
Panel 1: Arts and Culture in the Making of Modern Italy
"Progress and the Picturesque in the Nineteenth-Century
Cityscape."
Cynthia Polecritti (History, UCSC)
"Fascismo-Stile"
Claudio Fogu (History, USC)
"Carlo Carrà's Modernism, and the Debate over Tradition"
Jennifer Bethke (Art History, UCB)
Panel 2: Film, Fact, Fantasy
"Performing Disappearance: Antonioni's Blow-up and the Return
of the
Crime Scene"
Domietta Torlasco (Rhetoric/Film Studies, UCB)
"Roberto Benigni, Primo Levi and the Politics of Holocaust
Representation or Is Life Beautiful?"
Marla Stone (History, Occidental)
"The Phases of Nichetti's Luna e l'altra"
Marguerite Waller (English/Women's Studies, UCR)
Comment: Pasquale Verdicchio (Literature, UCSD)
Panel 3: Stanford Humanities Laboratory CROWDS project
Jeffrey Schnapp (Departments of French and Italian, and Comparative
Literature, Stanford; Director, Stanford Humanities Laboratory)
ITALY, GERMANY, AND AFRICA BETWEEN COLONIALISM
AND FASCISM
September, 2002.
http://ias.berkeley.edu/africa/Events/ColonialismandFascism2002.htm
2002 Organizational Meeting for CICIS
UCB
Saturday April 6, 2002
Randolph Starn, Welcome from the Italian Studies Program
Panel: Recent Trends in Early Modern Italian Studies
Chair: John Marino (UCSD)
Albert Russell Ascoli (UCB), "Machiavelli and the 'Public
Sphere'"
Thomas Dandelet (UCB), "Politics"
Joanne Ferraro (SDSU), "Marriage and the Family"
Comments by Carla Freccero (UCSC) and Joanna Woods-Marsden (UCLA)
Afternoon Session, 2PM-4
Chair: Margaret Brose (UCSC)
Panel: Plans and Prospects for Italian Studies in California
Related Sponsored Lectures, 2002-3
Italian Early Modernities Seminar Lecture Series,
2002-2003
October 20. Dr. Jennifer Heindl (Arizona State University) "The
Anonymous Life of Cola di Riena and the Crisis of the 14th Century"
October 27. Prof. John Marino (UCSD) "Historical Perspectives
on the Italian Wars after 1494"
October 24. Robert Williams (UCSB) "Raphael's Modernity"
November 25. Prof. Mario Biagioli (Harvard) "The Modernity
of Galileo"
February 12. Prof. John O'Malley (Weston Jesuit School of Theology)
"Trent and the Making of Modern Catholicism"
February 13. Prof. Edward Muir (Northwestern University) "Is
Trust a Condition of Italian Modernity?"
Cosponosored Lectures, 2002-3
June 12, 2002. Massimo D'Alema
March 3. Maurizio Forte of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche
in Rome
March 3. Prof. Margherita Heyer-Caput (UC Davis) "Redesigning
the Deleddian Canon: 'regionalismo'? 'verismo'? 'decadentismo'?
April 21. Richard Samuels (MIT) “Machiavelli’s Children:
Leadership and Historical Choices in Italy and Japan”
April 24. Prof. Keala Jewell (Dartmouth) "Surreal Rome:
Giorgio de Chirico in the 1920s"
May 1. Federico Rampini West Coast Correspondent, La Repubblica
"The Struggle between Foreign-Led Modernization and Italian
Post-Modernity"
