Panel I, “Contamination of Land and Sea”
January 13, 2017
4:30 – 5:30 PM
Sarah Cantor (UCLA)
“The Myth of Sirens in Matilde Serao’s Leggende Napoletane”
Prof. Paolo Chirumbolo (LSU)
"Death by the Water: Industrial Landscapes in Contemporary Italian Filmmaking."
Panel II, “The Mediterranean Alternative”
January 14, 2017
10:00 – 11:15 AM
Emily Antenucci (NYU)
“‘Un episodio del mare’: An Ecocritical Look at the Representation of Sicily in La Terra Trema”
Silvia Caserta (Cornell)
“A Narrative Mediterranean as a Counter-Movement to Globalization in Paolo Rumiz’s Il Ciclope”
Melissa Melpignano (UCLA)
“Mediterranean Relationscapes: Performing Models of Livability and Citizenship in the Choreography of Roberto Zappalà and Daniele Ninarello”
Panel III, “Dynamics of Estrangement between Land and Sea”
January 14, 2017
1:30 – 3:25 PM
Federica Di Blasio (UCLA)
“Fuocoammare by Gianfranco Rosi: A Heterotopic Account of Migration”
Heloisa Rojas Gomez (European University Institute, Italy)
“Home, Sea, and the Empire: Practices of Identity Change among Crimean Italians
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Panel IV, “The Symbolism of Land and Sea"
January 14
2:40 – 3:35 PM
Andrea Capra (Stanford University)
“‘Lasciami andare oltre al deserto, al mare': Carlo Michelstaedter’s maritime path”
Viola Ardeni (UCLA)
“I frutti della terra: Fruit Consumption and Sexual Desire in Gianbattista Basile’s Le tre cedra and Edoardo Sanguineti’s L’amore delle tre melarance”