CICIS 2019

Speaker(s): Dr. Roberta Morosini
CICIS 2019
CONFERENCE PROGRAM @ Humanities Center,
424 Santa Teresa St. 鈥 黑料百科
Friday, March 8th
3-4pm CICIS MEMBERSHIP MEETING
(@ Pigott Hall, Building 260 - Room 216; 450 Serra Mall)
4-4:30pm REFRESHMENTS / Meet and Greet
4.30-6.30pm DISSERTATION PANEL (Chair: Laura Wittman 鈥 黑料百科; Professor)
Bristin Scalzo Jones 鈥 UC Berkeley; PhD Student.
Southern Animals: Marginalized Subjects in Giovanni Verga鈥檚 鈥淛eli il pastore鈥
Federica di Biasio - UCLA; PhD Student.
鈥淣o-Border鈥 and 鈥淣o-Global鈥: The Geopolitical Aesthetics of Cesare Pavese, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Gianni Celati, and Andrea Segre
Elena Festa - UCSB; PhD Student.
Social Media and Transcolonial Mnemonics
Nicholas Virzi - 黑料百科; D.M.A. Student.
On Text and Perspective in Salvatore Sciarrino鈥檚 Morte di Borromini
7pm DINNER
(@ Cibo Restaurant, 3398 El Camino Real, Palo Alto)
Satruday, March 9th
9-9.30am BREAKFAST
9.30-10.30am KEYNOTE
Roberta Morosini - Wake Forest University; Professor.
Tra' discordanti liti: maps and literary geographies of the Italian Trecento
10.30-11am COFFEE BREAK
11am-1pm PANEL 1
(Chair: Deanna Shemek 鈥 UC Irvine; Professor)
Nina Bjekovic - UCLA; PhD Student.
Conceptions of Otherness in the Literary Works of Claudio Magris and Boris Pahor
Nelson Shuchmacher Endebo - 黑料百科; PhD Student.
A invenc抬o虂 do Brasile: Juo虂 Banane虂re and non-Italian Italian literature
Todd P. Olson 鈥 UC Berkeley; Professor.
Refugee Image: A Madonna from Frascati in Colonial Mexico
Tatiana Sizonenko - UC San Diego; Lecturer.
Between Center and Periphery: Venetian Renaissance Architecture of Alvise Lamberti da Montagnana in the Crimean Khanate and Muscovy
1-3pm LUNCH BREAK
3-5pm PANEL 2
(Chair: Michael Subialka 鈥 UC Davis; Professor)
Amy Hough-Dugdale - UC Riverside; PhD Student.
Periphaural Vision: Sound as Rhizomatic Leakage in Fellini鈥檚 La voce della luna (1990)
Marianna Nespoli - UCLA; PhD Student.
From Backdrop to Backbone: The Po Valley鈥檚 Environmental Degradation in the Works of Michelangelo Antonioni, Gianni Celati, and Luigi Ghirri
Claudio Fogu - UCSB; Professor.
Making the Second Sicily
Rossella Pescatori - El Camino College; Faculty.
Tullia D鈥橝ragona鈥檚 Infinita虁 D鈥橝more; a de-constructive dialogue among genres and genders
5-5.30pm FINAL RECEPTION