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BRIDGES ACROSS CULTURES
FLORENCE, ITALY
JULY 2nd – 5th 2015
at
The International Studies Institute
Palazzo Rucellai
and
Palazzo Bargagli
Hosted by:
The International Studies Institute (ISI Florence)
The Umbra Institute
Washington & Jefferson College
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Conference Organizers
Dr. H.J. Manzari, Washington & Jefferson College
Dr. Amparo Alpañés, Washington & Jefferson College
Dr. Angela Tumini, ADA University - Baku Azerbaijan
Dr. Stefano U. Baldassarri, The International Studies Institute (ISI Florence)
Dr. Patrick J. Quinn, The American College of Greece
Dr. Michel W. Pharand, Queen’s University
Conference Committee
Dr. Paola Basile, Lake Erie College
Dr. Peter Schepelern, Københavns Universitet
Dr. Helena Talaya-Manso, Oxford College of Emory University
Dr. Maribel Vázquez Manzari, Washington & Jefferson College
This conference would not have been possible if it were not for the help of the following
folks and organizations to whom we are sincerely grateful:
Caterina Brogi, The Department of Modern Languages at W&J College, Erin Faulk, Dr.
Scott Frank, Dr. Tori Haring-Smith, Margie Mahramus, The NEH, Dr. Patrick J. Quinn,
Nienke Scholten, Danny Tartaglia, Dr. Sharon Taylor, Dean John Zimmerman
*A special thanks to our LOGO designer, Casey Ortega!
Keynote Speakers
Malin Isaksson, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of French at Umeå University, Sweden.
Her research interests in reception studies, intertextuality, gender theory, and
participatory culture have merged in research projects focusing on online-published fan
fiction and narratives taking an existing fiction as their starting point. She is the co-author
of Fanged Fan Fiction: Variations on Twilight, True Blood and the Vampire Diaries,
with Maria Lindgren Leavenworth. Isaksson has also published on the reception of two
controversial contemporary French authors: Marie Darrieussecq and Virginie Despentes.
Davide Papotti. Ph.D., is Associate Professor in Geography at the University of Parma,
where he has been working since 2005. He studied at the University of Parma (Laurea in
Materie Letterarie in 1993), at the University of Virginia (Master of Arts in Italian
literature in 1996), and at the University of Padua (Ph.D in Geography in 2002). He also
worked as visiting professor of geography at the Università del Piemonte Orientale in
Vercelli. He is the author of the books Geografie della scrittura. Paesaggi letterari del
medio Po (1996) and L’altro e l’altrove. Antropologia, geografia e turismo (with Marco
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Aime; 2012). He is also editor (with L. Rossi) of Alla fine del viaggio (2006), of a special
issue of a journal and of other six volumes. He has published about one hundred articles
in books and scientific journals. Among his main research interests are the relations
between geography and literature, the study of immigration flows and multiculturalism in
contemporary Italy, tourism marketing, place marketing and the geography of food.
Conference Registration will be held on Thursday July 2nd, 2015 at Palazzo
Bargagli: Lungarno delle Grazie 22, 50122 Firenze.
You may also pick up your registration packets and make final payments on Friday
and Saturday mornings at Palazzo Bargagli: Lungarno delle Grazie 22, 50122
Firenze.
ALL SESSIONS WILL BE HELD AT PALAZZO BARGAGLI: LUNGARNO
DELLE GRAZIE 22, 50122 FIRENZE, AND BEGIN ON THURSDAY JULY 2ND
AT 2:30 P.M. PLEASE SEE PROGRAM FOR DETAILS.
ALL KEYNOTE EVENTS AND APERITIVOS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO
ATTENDEES AND GUESTS OF THE CONFERENCE.
USEFUL ADDRESSES:
Palazzo Bargagli: Lungarno delle Grazie 22, 50122 Firenze.
Palazzo Rucellai: Via della Vigna Nuova 18, 50123 Firenze.
Ristorante La Spada: Via della Spada, 62R, 50123 Firenze.
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THE CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE
THURSDAY JULY 2nd, 2015
2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
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Colonial and Postcolonial Art and Literature I
Culture and Society
Art and Architecture I
Film Studies I
FRIDAY JULY 3rd, 2015
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
1. Colonial and Postcolonial Art and Literature II
2. Film and TV Studies
3. Art and Architecture II
COFFEE BREAK
11:00-11:30 a.m.
FRIDAY JULY 3rd, 2015
11:45 a.m.- 1:45 p.m.
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History I
Italian Studies I
Literature, Theater and Poetry I
Film Studies II
Languages and Linguistics
KEYNOTE SPEECH
Palazzo Bargagli
Dr. Malin Isaksson
6 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Dinner to follow at RISTORANTE LA SPADA
7:30 p.m.
SATURDAY JULY 4th, 2015
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
1. Literature, Theater and Poetry II
2. Italian Studies II
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COFFEE BREAK
11:00-11:30 a.m.
SATURDAY JULY 4th, 2015
11:45 a.m.- 1:45 p.m.
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2.
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American Studies
Literature, Theater and Poetry III
Religion and Philosophy
Film Studies III
Literature, Theater and Poetry IV
KEYNOTE SPEECH
PALAZZO BARGAGLI
Dr. Davide Papotti
6 p.m. – 7 p.m.
APERITIVO to follow at Palazzo Bargagli
7:30 p.m.
SUNDAY JULY 5th, 2015
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
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2.
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Art, Music and Architecture
Colonial and Postcolonial Art and Literature III
Literary and Multicultural Studies
History II
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PROGRAM
THURSDAY JULY 2nd, 2015
2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL ART AND LITERATURE I (AULA 6)
Chair: Patrick J. Quinn
Why the Poetry of Benedict Wallet Vilakazi Has Remained a Classic in South Africa in
the 21st Century
Nompumelelo Bernadette Zondi
University of Zululand
Colonial Nostalgia and the Imagined Self in the Kenyan Memoirs of Isak Dinesen and
Beryl Markham
Hariclea Zengos
DEREE – The American College of Greece
Emblematic of the Niger Delta: Focus on Students’ Projects and Dissertations
Harrie U. M. Bazunu
Delta State University
THURSDAY JULY 2nd, 2015
2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
CULTURE AND SOCIETY I (AULA 10)
Chair: Genevieve Jorolan Quintero
Yang Dawot (The Folk Epic): A Vehicle for the Transmission of Cultural Values
Genevieve Jorolan Quintero
University of the Philippines
Thai Folk Dance Conservation: A Case Study of Fon Long Nan
Praparsri Sripradit
Naresuan University
The Language(s) of Antonio Angelone’s Theater
Roberta Iannacito-Provenzano
York University
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THURSDAY JULY 2nd, 2015
2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
ART AND ARCHITECTURE I (AULA 8)
Chair: Bridget Sandhoff
Honoré Daumier, Mirror Images, and the Doppelgänger
Marcos Fabris
Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of São Paulo
Urhobo Wood Sculpture: A Bridge between the Pre-Colonial Period and the 21st Century
Ese Odokuma
Delta State University
The Compulsion of James Barry for Antiquity
Daniele Niedda
UNINT – Università degli studi internazionali di Roma
THURSDAY JULY 2nd, 2015
2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
FILM STUDIES I (AULA 9)
Chair: Helena Talaya-Manso
Culture and Finance Capital in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine
Marcos Soares
University of São Paulo
Recreating Amazement: Perception and “Presence” in Celati and Ghirri
Assunta De Crescenzo
University of Naples Federico II
Documenting the Spanish Crisis (2008-…): The New Immigrants in Icíar Bollaín’s In a
Foreign Land (2014)
Raquel Anido
Clemson University
Space as Crystallized Class Struggle in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema
Ana Paula Pacheco
University of São Paulo
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FREE GUIDED TOUR OF FLORENCE 5:00 PM -7:00 PM. MEETING POINT
FRONT OF PALAZZO BARGAGLI
Your guide: Prof. Rita Comanducci (ISI Florence)
FRIDAY JULY 3rd, 2015
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL ART AND LITERATURE II (AULA 10)
Chair: Piera Carroli
Postcolonial Italian Literature: A Poetic Citizenship?
Piera Carroli and Vivian Gerrand
Australian National University and University of Melbourne
Postcolonial Identity of Installation Art in Nigeria: Visual Migrations and Cultural
Hybridization
Otonye Bille Ayodele and Jolaoluwa Lawal
Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
Analyzing through the Rawlsian Framework the Creation of Social Justice in
Postcolonial India
R. Krishnaswamy and Sucharita Sen
O.P. Jindal Global University
Tribal Angst and Dominicanness in the Short Stories of Deisy Toussaint
H.J Manzari
Washington and Jefferson College
FRIDAY JULY 3rd, 2015
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
FILM AND TV STUDIES (AULA 8)
Chair: Helena Talaya-Manso
Arthurian Women on French Television
Tara Foster
Northern Michigan University
Criminal Minds and Psychopaths in Contemporary Crime Series
Cathy C. Petchel
Washington and Jefferson College
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Rock Me Amadeus: The Mozart-Salieri Conflict in Drama and Film
Fabrizio Cilento
Messiah College
FRIDAY JULY 3rd, 2015
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
ART AND ARCHITECTURE II (AULA 9)
Chair: Marie-Christine Michaud
Painting of the Cusco School (Esquela Cusqueña) as a Manifestation of the
Andean Identity in the Past and Present
Ewa Joanna Kubiak
University of Lodz
L’Art Magique – The Surrealist History of André Breton’s Art
Agnieszka Kuczyńska
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin
The Cult of Beauty in Ancient Etruria
Bridget Sandhoff
University of Nebraska Omaha
Disney in the 1930s: Between High Art and Popular Culture
Jorgelina Orfila
Francisco Ortega
Texas Tech University
COFFEE BREAK
11:00-11:30 a.m.
FRIDAY JULY 3rd, 2015
11:45 a.m.- 1:45 p.m.
HISTORY I (AULA 8)
Chair: Ronald Canterna
Interdisciplinary Research as a Tool for the Collective Memory Reconstruction in Eastern
Europe with Examples of Selected Sites in Poland
Inka Gadowska
University of Lodz
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The Second World War as a Musical
Laurie Slegtenhorst
Erasmus University
The Translation of the Regional Parliamentary Elites from the Dual Monarchy’s
Successor States: The Case of the Banat Region.
Emil Iudean Ovidiu
West University of Timițoara
FRIDAY JULY 3rd, 2015
11:45 a.m.- 1:45 p.m.
ITALIAN STUDIES I (AULA 9)
Chair: Simona Wright
“The Italian Branch of India”: Gabriella Kuurvilla’s Literary Work Torn between Two
Identities
Nikica Mihaljević and Galić Kakkonen Gordana
University of Split
Bridging Florence and Paris, Literature and Art: Dante's Inferno and Rodin's Gates of
Hell
Ernesto Virgulti
Brock University
The Use and the Abuse of the Classic Fragment in Fascist Art and Architecture: The Case
of Genoa and Sculptor Eugenio Baroni
Silvia Boero
Portland State University
La storia passa dalla cucina: The World of Italian Jews from Ferrara to Livorno
Mark Bernheim
Miami University of Ohio
FRIDAY JULY 3rd, 2015
11:45 a.m.- 1:45 p.m.
LITERATURE, THEATER AND POETRY I (AULA 10)
Chair: Michel Pharand
“She Gets by with a Little Help from Her Friends”: A Naturalistic Interpretation of the
Secondary Female Characters in Minelys Sanchez’ Amarilis mira en azul
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Sharon Reeves
Queensborough Community College (CUNY)
Images of Black Women Loving in the Novels of Toni Morrison
Gordan Matas
University of Split
Law and Damnation in The Last Judgment from the Chester Mystery Plays
Tomasz Wiącek
Vistula University
Don Quixote by Cervantes vs “Don Quixote” Film by Ah Gan. Creativity in Spanish,
Chinese and Don Quixote’s Ideal Landscape
Angela Pacheco
Purdue University
FRIDAY JULY 3rd, 2015
11:45 a.m.- 1:45 p.m.
FILM STUDIES II (AULA 11)
Chair: Angela Tumini
Cuba’s Dogmatic Educational Institution at a Crossroads: Reconstructing Childhood in
Contemporary Cuban Cinema
Patricia Tomé
Rollins College
Thresholds of Resistance: The Conflicting Coming of Age in Contemporary Latin
American Cinema
Rosana Díaz-Zambrana
Rollins College
Punk Music and Identity in El Calentito
Helena Talaya-Manso
Emory College
The End of the World: Spanish Science Fiction and Society
Amparo Alpañés
Washington and Jefferson College
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FRIDAY JULY 3rd, 2015
11:45 a.m.- 1:45 p.m.
LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS (AULA 6)
Chair: Nompumelelo Bernadette Zondi
Integrating Cultural Activities in Language Teaching
Gunay Tagiyeva
ADA University
The Role of Intertextuality in ESL Classes to Bridge Intercultural Dialogue
Aynur Aghazade
ADAU, School of Education
Gendered Linguistic Practices as Means of Performing Power in the Workplace Setting
Abbas Abbasov
ADA University
FREE GUIDED TOUR OF FLORENCE 4:00 PM -5:45 PM. MEETING POINT
FRONT OF PALAZZO BARGAGLI
Your guide: Prof. Rita Comanducci (ISI Florence)
KEYNOTE SPEECH
Archontic Literature: Fan Fiction Expanding the Storyworld
Malin Isaksson
Umea University
Palazzo Bargagli
5:45 p.m. – 6:50 p.m.
Dinner to follow at RISTORANTE LA SPADA
Ristorante La Spada, Via della Spada, 62R, 50123 Firenze
7:00 p.m.
SATURDAY JULY 4th, 2015
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
LITERATURE, THEATER AND POETRY II (AULA 6)
Chair: Camilla Caporicci
“Dost Thou Know the Difference, My Boy, between a Bitter Fool and a Sweet Fool?” –
Taste Metaphors in Shakespeare’s Production
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Marco Bagli
University of Perugia / The Umbra Institute
“The Rest is the Best and Shakespeare Knew It”: Shakespeare, Montale and the American
Muse
Camilla Caporicci
University of Perugia / The Umbra Institute
An Italian Jurist in Shakespeare’s England: Alberico Gentili’s Theories on the London
Stage
Cristiano Ragni
University of Perugia
The Shakespeare First Folio in Padua
Allison L. Steenson
University of Padua
SATURDAY JULY 4th, 2015
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
ITALIAN STUDIES II (AULA 8)
Chair: Laura Salsini
Carmen Covito’s Radical Italian Feminism
Laura Salsini
University of Delaware
Cartography Identity. Remapping Space and the Self through Language
Laura-Marzia Lenci
Boston University Study Abroad Padua and Venice Programs
Exorcising Fear through Laughter: Italian Film Comedy and Immigration
Giovanna Faleschini Lerner
Franklin & Marshall College
Visual Experience in the Golden Square
Idalina Conde
ISCTE-IUL University Institute of Lisbon
COFFEE BREAK
11:00-11:30 a.m.
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SATURDAY JULY 4th, 2015
11:45 a.m.- 1:45 p.m.
AMERICAN STUDIES (AULA 6)
Chair: Teresa Fernández Ulloa
Faith at a Lower Frequency: Situating Redemptive of Suffering in James Baldwin’s
“Sonny’s Blues”
Anton L. Smith
University of Alabama
The ‘Howard Beach Killing’: An Incident Revisited by The New York Times
Marie-Christine Michaud
Université de Bretagne Sud
"Negro Speech Is a Weird Thing": Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God
Rita Filanti
University of Bari
Some Constants in Subcomandante Marcos' Discourse.
Teresa Fernández Ulloa
California State University, Bakersfield
Developing Multicultural Competence in American University Students
Andrea Farenga
Lake Erie College
SATURDAY JULY 4th, 2015
11:45 a.m.- 1:45 p.m.
LITERATURE, THEATER AND POETRY III (AULA 8)
Chair: Sharon Reeves
Nation-building through Autobiography and Fiction in the Immigration Narratives of
Esmeralda Santiago and Christina Garcia
Alba Rivera
Purdue University
“A Secret Language of Our Own”: Intertextual Encounters in Azar Nafisi’s Reading
Lolita in Tehran
Zeynep Z. Atayurt-Fenge
University of Ankara
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New Colonial Narrative in Luz Gabás’ Palmeras en la Nieve
Sintia E. Molina
St. Francis College
SATURDAY JULY 4th, 2015
11:45 a.m.- 1:45 p.m.
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY (AULA 9)
Chair: Paul-Cezar Hârlăoanu
“Let Him Kiss Me with the Kisses of His Mouth” (Song of Solomon 1.2). The Kiss from
Erotic to Religious Practice
Paul-Cezar Hârlăoanu
University Alexandru Ioan Cuza
Interpreting the Role of Shrine Therapy and Mystic Veneration: A Case Study
of Abdullah Shah Ghazi's Shrine (Karachi-Sindh)
Abdul Jabbar Khan
University of Karachi-Pakistan
Reason, the Arts, and Psychotherapy
William Kerr
University of Maryland
SATURDAY JULY 4th, 2015
11:45 a.m.-1:45 p.m.
FILM STUDIES III (AULA 10)
Chair: Amparo Alpañés
When Harry Met Sally and Sammy and Rosie Got Laid: The Real American and British
City in the Reagan-Thatcher Years
Douglas Muzzio
Baruch College, CUNY
Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, and the Holocaust
Lucena Jojo
Arcadia University
British Monarchy and Invented Traditions in Contemporary Cinema
Paulina Wapinska
Warsaw University
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Palace of Desire: Deterritorializing the Subject in Bertolucci’s Besieged
Simona Wright
The College of New Jersey
SATURDAY JULY 4th, 2015
11:45 a.m.- 1:45 p.m.
LITERATURE, THEATER AND POETRY IV (AULA 11)
Chair: Beatriz Rivera-Barnes
Laughably Modern: The Russian Readers’ Early Encounters with Symbolism and
Decadence
Jonathan C. Stone
Franklin & Marshall College
Poetic Responses to Terrorism: 9/11 and 11-M
Thomas Deveny
McDaniel College
The Borders of Ekphrasis and the Frame-as-Object in Gogol, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky
Stiliana Milkova
Oberlin College
The Distorted Lens: Immigrant Maladies and Mythical Norms in Edwidge Danticat’s
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Isabel Valiela
Gettysburg College
*** FREE GUIDED TOUR OF FLORENCE 3:45 PM -5:45 PM. MEETING
POINT FRONT OF PALAZZO BARGAGLI
Your guide Mark Bernheim (Miami University of Ohio)
KEYNOTE SPEECH
Contemporary Geographies of Food in Italy: Intersections between Food Imagery
and Place Representations
Davide Papotti
University of Parma
Palazzo Bargagli
6 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
APERITIVO to follow at Palazzo Bargagli
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7:30 p.m.
SUNDAY JULY 5th, 2015
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
ART, MUSIC AND ARCHITECTURE (AULA 6)
Chair: Gian Luca Lastraioli
The Political Symbolism of the Lute
Rita Comanducci
ISI Florence
The Divine Proportion: Music, Proportions and Numbers in Medieval and Renaissance
Music
Gian Luca Lastraioli
Conservatorio di Musica Arrigo Boito, Parma - Scuola di Musica di Fiesole
Actors as Bridges across Cultures. The Life and Works of a Commedia dell’Arte
Performer, Francesco Gabrielli - Better Known as Scapino.
Emanuela Agostini
ISI Florence - University of Florence
SUNDAY JULY 5th, 2015
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
COLONIAL AND POST COLONIAL ART AND LITERATURE III (AULA 8)
Chair: Zeynep Z. Atayurt-Fenge
Yes, It Isn’t: Afro-Caribbean Identity in Puerto Rican Poetry, from Guayama to Loisaida
Beatriz Rivera-Barnes
Penn State University
Sensuous Geographies and Silent Calls of the Earth in Postcolonial Literature
Sten Moslund
University of Southern Denmark
SUNDAY JULY 5th, 2015
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
LITERARY AND MULTICULTURAL STUDIES (AULA 9)
Chair: Patrick J. Quinn
Roberto Longhi's Early Prose between Academic Studies and Didactic Purpose
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Veronica Andreani
University of Pisa
Robert Graves and Aggelos Sikelianos: Apostles of a New Religion
Dionysious Psilopoulos
The American College of Greece
Reflection of the Shadow in Literature
Patrick J. Quinn
The American College of Greece
Mirko Menna
University of Pescara
Hemingway’s Rod: A Study of the Rescue of Ernest Hemingway after an Air Crash in
East Africa in 1954
Selma Karayalcin
The English School, Nicosia
SUNDAY JULY 5th, 2015
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
HISTORY II (AULA 10)
Chair: Daniele Niedda
Love Letters and Romantic Novels during the Napoleonic Wars
Sharon Worley
Houston Community College
Disraeli’s Duality: “Christianity Is Completed Judaism”
Michel W. Pharand
Queen’s University
Postwar Revolution in Transylvania. 1918 and the Transition of Power in a Multiethnic
Region
Andreea Dăncilă Ineoan
West University of Timișoara, Romania
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