sabato 4 aprile 2009

Convegno di studi, Italia ed Inghilterra nel '700

Convegno di studi, Italia ed Inghilterra nel '700
Capri, 20-22 aprile 2009
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Società Italiana di Studi sul Secolo XVIII
The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Second anglo-italian Conference


International Symposium

Britain and Italy in the Long Eighteenth Century
Literary and Art Theories

Anacapri, Villa Orlandi, 20-22 April 2009


Monday 20 April

10.30 Welcome Addresses by Authorities
Prof. Guido Trombetti – Rettore dell’Università di Napoli Federico II
Frank O’Gorman – Former President of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Alberto Postigliola – Segretario generale della Società Italiana di Studi sul Secolo XVIII
Rosamaria Loretelli – Presidente della Società Italiana di Studi sul Secolo XVIII

11.00 - Chair: Annamaria Lamarra (Università di Napoli “Federico II”)

Rosy Colombo - Dealing with Change in Literary and Art Theories (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”)

11.30-13
Nicholas D. Nace (University of California, Berkeley), Touching the Baroque: Clarissa and Sculpture
Clorinda Donato (California State University, Long Beach), The English Erotic Aesthetic in Eighteenth-Century Italy: the Italian Translation of Fanny Hill
Hal Gladfelder (University of Manchester), Useful Poisons: English Readers and the Perils of Translation in the Work of John Cleland

Discussion


15.00 - Chair: Alberto Postigliola (Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”)

James Moore (University of London Senate House), Theorising the Uses of Material Culture: History, Taste and the Restoration of Classical Sculpture in Italy and England c. 1750-1810
Andrew J. Rudd (Open University of London), Relocating Antiquity: Italy and British India
Giulia Savio (Università di Genova), Viaggiatori e artisti inglesi in Italia attraverso Romney
Uta Degner, Ian Mac Gregor Morris (Freie Universität Berlin, University of Nottingham), Greece through Italy: British and Italian Hellenism in the late Eighteenth Century

Discussion

17.30-19
Barbara Witucky (Utica College, N. Y), From the Mundane to the Transcendent: Music in the Novels of Miss Burney
Ruth Perry (Massachussets Institute of Tecnology), The Printed Record of an Oral Tradition: Anna Gordon Brown’s Ballads
Willie Donaldson (Open University Aberdeen), Scotland, Italy and Tradition

Discussion


Tuesday 21 april

9.30 - Chair: Rosy Colombo

Domenico Pietropaolo (University of Toronto)- John Weaver’s Biomechanics of Grotesque Dance
Angelo Canavesi (Università di Pavia) - Sterne and Foscolo: the Ironic Sovereignty of the Individual
Suzanne Marcuzzi (Christ’s College, Cambridge)- Aesthetics and the Moral Sense in Hutcheson and Hume
Daniela Mangione (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”), Fielding e Sterne: ricezione, nuovi debiti, usi ed echi nei primi cento anni di romanzo italiano

Discussion

11.00 Coffee break

11.30-13 - Chair: Frank O’Gorman (University of Manchester)
Lia Guerra (Università di Pavia), Work in Progress: the Circulation of British Books in Eighteenth-Century Pavia
Anna Giulia Cavagna (Università di Genova), Il mercato dei libri italiani a Londra nel Settecento: edizioni pavesi e genovesi alla British Library
Paolo Coen (Università della Calabria), Andrea Casali e le alterne fortune di un pittore accademico settecentesco fra Roma e l'Inghilterra

Discussion


15.00 - Chair: Lia Guerra

Riccardo Capoferro (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”), Immaginary Voyages’ Aesthetic Theories: Towards a Definition of the Fantastic
Andrea Gatti (Università di Ferrara), A Dialogue between the Deaf and the Dumb. Aesthetic Theories in England and Italy during the Eighteenth Century
Daniele Niedda (Libera Università “San Pio V”, Roma), Dugald Stewart on Language and Taste
Emilio Sergio (Università della Calabria), A 'British' Look at Italian Poetry: Saverio Bettinelli and His "English Letters”

Discussion

17.00-19
Francesca Orestano (Università Statale di Milano), Picturesque Reconsidered – and Preserved
Stijn Bussels &Bram van Oostveen (Leiden University of Amsterdam), Stranded in the Present: History, Modernity and the Picturesque in Charles-Joseph de Ligne's Lettre de Partenizza
Caroline van Eck & Sigrid de Jong (Leiden University of Amsterdam), A Picturesque Inner Landscape: Ruins and the Self in Charles-Joseph de Ligne's Lettre de Partenizza.

Discussion


Wednsday 22 April

9.30 - Chair: Ruth Perry

Rosamaria Loretelli (Università di Napoli “Federico II”), David Hume and the Cognition of Silent Reading
Silvia Granata (Università di Pavia), Talking Animals and the Instruction of Children. Dorothy Kilner’s The Rational Brutes
Matthew Grenby (Newcastle University), Was there a ‘Reading Revolution’ for Children?
Gioiella Bruni Roccia (LUMSA Roma), John Locke’s Epistle to the Reader: A New Model of Reception for the Eighteenth-Century Reading Public

Discussion

11.30 Coffee Break

General Discussion and Conclusions

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Scientific organization: Rosamaria Loretelli, Annamaria Lamarra
Conference organizer: Daniela Mangione d.mangione@fastwebnet.it