MUTAMENTI - Overcoming Crisis Graduate Symposium

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

OCTOBER 27
JANE TYLUS (YALE UNIVERSITY)
 

GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM JOHNS HOPKINS-YALE
OVERCOMING CRISIS
O C T O B E R 2 7 , 2 0 2 3

Y A L E U N I V E R S I T Y
H U M A N I T I E S Q U A D R A N G L E L 0 1
 

COMMITTEE: ZACH AGUILAR, COSTANZA
BARCHIESI, GIACOMO BERCHI, NICHOLAS
BERRETTINI, ROBERTO FERRINI, FRANCESCA
LEONARDI, FEDERICA PARODI, LYDIA TUAN.
HOPKINS COMMITTEE: TATIANA AVESANI,
MARTA CERRETI, GIULIA MARIA CIPRIANI,
CRISTINA D’ERRICO, MARTINA FRANZINI,
SILVIA RAIMONDI, SAMUEL ZAWACKI.

8:00 am - 9:00 am Reception and Breakfast

9:00 am-10:00 am Keynote Address
Jane Tylus (Yale University) Writing and Reading in Times of Crisis.
[moderators: Giacomo Berchi, Francesca Leonardi]

• 
  10:00 am - 11:30 am At a Loss for Words: Navigating Crises of Language. [moderator: Giulia Maria Cipriani]
   
• Giordana De Rossi (Boston College) Dante’s Illustrious Vernacular as a Response to Exile: An Analysis of the Metaphor of
  Light in the De Vulgari Eloquentia.
   
• Annalisa Guzzardi (CUNY) Dante’s Synthesis over Crisis.
   
• Irene Fiducia (Brown University) “Saeva deos contra non arma tuli”: Rewriting Political Propaganda.
   
• 11:30 am - 12:00 pm Coffee break
   
• 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Decline of the West: the Apogee of Modernity in Crisis [moderator: Marta Cerreti]
   
• Elisa Vivaldi (University of Edinburgh/ KU Leuven) “Uccidiamo il chiaro di luna!”: Crisis, Critique and Aesthetic Practices
  from Futurismo to the Neoavaguardia.
   
• Harry Rose (Brown University) Crises of Presence (and Re-Presence) in Gabriele D’Annunzio’s La figlia di Iorio.
   
• 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Lunch break
   
• 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm Solutions to Natural and Urban Crises [moderator: Lydia Tuan]
   
• Giulia Bernuzzi (University College Cork) Calvino’s Invisible Cities and its Relationship to Modernist and Postmodernist
  Architecture: Re-narrating the Urban Landscape.
   
• Claudia Lombardo (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Energy Hybris: Literature and Ecology of the Sicilian
  Landscape.
   
• Alessio Giovene (Florida Atlantic University) From Memory to Resistance: An Ecocritical Reading of Giovanni Raboni’s Le
  Case della Vetra.
• O C T O B E R 2 8 , 2 0 2 3
  Y A L E U N I V E R S I T Y
  H U M A N I T I E S Q U A D R A N G L E L 0 1
  
  8:30 am - 9:30 am Breakfast
   
• 9:30 am - 11:00 am Weaponizing the Bios: Upending Racial and Biological Crises [moderator: Martina Franzini]
  Jilian Pizzi (Columbia University) The Blood Libel Accusations: Medieval Jewish Scapegoating and Dante’s Commedia.
  Dora Labate (Rutgers University) Intersectional Identities: Constructing a Cultural Counter-Hegemony in the Name of
  Social Justice.
  Adriana Merenda (New York University) Mapping an Epidemic: Syphilis as a Geopolitical Device in Guicciardini’s Storia
  d’Italia.
   
• 11:00 am – 12:30 pm From Propaganda to Performance: Skirting Hegemonic Oppression
  [moderator: Costanza Barchiesi]
  João Marcos Copertino (Harvard University) Floria Tosca Loses her Audience: Puccini’s Opera, Politics, and Voice.
  Federica Parodi (Yale University) From Assembly to Action: Community Performance in Turin as Agent of Change.
   
• 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm Lunch break
   
• 2:30 pm -4:00 pm
  Screening of Maka (2023), conversation and Q&A with Simone Brioni, Professor and Screenwriter (Stony Brook
  University).
  [moderators: Zach Aguilar, Nicholas Berrettini].