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BRIDGES ACROSS CULTURES

FLORENCE, ITALY

JULY 2nd – 5th 2015

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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.

1. Colonial and Postcolonial Art and Literature I 2. Culture and Society 3. Art and Architecture I 4. 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.

1. History I 2. Italian Studies I 3. Literature, Theater and Poetry I 4. Film Studies II 5. Languages and Linguistics

KEYNOTE SPEECH Dr. Malin Isaksson Palazzo Bargagli 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.

1. American Studies 2. Literature, Theater and Poetry III 3. Religion and Philosophy 4. Film Studies III 5. Literature, Theater and Poetry IV

KEYNOTE SPEECH Dr. Davide Papotti PALAZZO BARGAGLI 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.

1. Art, Music and Architecture 2. Colonial and Postcolonial Art and Literature III 3. Literary and Multicultural Studies 4. 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 7:00 p.m. Ristorante La Spada, Via della Spada, 62R, 50123 Firenze 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 7:30 p.m.

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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