Thursday, October 1, 2009

Symposium: Marinetti and Ungaretti: Futurisms and Avant-Gardes (University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 9-10)

Marinetti and Ungaretti: Futurisms and Avant-Gardes
Symposium
October 9-10, 2009
French House and Pyle Center

Program

Friday, October 9
French House

3pm
Opening Remarks
Magdalena Hauner, Associate Dean of the College of Letters and Science
Professor Anne Vila, Chair of the Department of French and Italian
Ernesto Livorni, Organizer

3:30-5:30pm
Chair: Ernesto Livorni (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
Paolo Valesio (Columbia University), “F. T. Marinetti and Extreme Literature”
Laura Wittman (Stanford University), ““Cuore-proiettile:” from Mafarka to World-War-One”
Matteo Gilebbi (Duke University), “L’“inesauribile segreto” del nulla in Poesie disperse e Altre poesie ritrovate di Giuseppe Ungaretti”
Respondent: Steven Winspur (University of Wisconsin – Madison)

5:30-6:30pm Reception

Saturday, October 10
335 Pyle Center
10am-noon
Chair: Grazia Menechella (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
Cinzia Sartini Blum (University of Iowa), “Futurist Metamorphoses: Reading Marinetti’s
Manifestos in the Light of the Fantastic”
John Welle (University of Notre Dame), “The Alcove of Celebrity: Marinetti and the
Question of Commercial Literature”
Daniele Fioretti (University of Wisconsin – Madison), “Il canto dell’esule: esilio e
nomadismo ne L’Allegria di Giuseppe Ungaretti”
Respondent: Michael Vanden Heuvel (University of Wisconsin – Madison)

Noon-2pm
Lunch (French House)

3-5pm
Chair: Patrick Rumble (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
Mario Moroni (Binghamton University), “Nomadismo e confini nella poesia di Giuseppe
Ungaretti”
Enrico Cesaretti (University of Virginia), “Materiali sessuali: osservazioni sulla
narrativa erotico-sociale di F.T. Marinetti”
Lodovica Guidarelli (Colby College), “Il Puer Aeternus in Mafarka il Futurista”
Respondent: Marcelo Pellegrini (University of Wisconsin – Madison)

5-6pm
Reading of Marinetti’s and Ungaretti’s texts


For further information see under “Upcoming Events” at: http://frit.lss.wisc.edu/ .

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