The Marginal and the Mainstream in Eighteenth Century Italy and Britain
York, 13-14 settembre 2011
Il Terzo Colloquio Italo-Britannico è organizzato dalla British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies e dalla Società Italiana di Studi sul Secolo XVIII, presso il Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies dell’Università di York.
Info: Frank O’Gorman ( fog17@btinternet.con) and Lia Guerra (dog@unipv.it).
Programma
Tuesday 13 September
9.00 A.M. – 10.00 A.M. Registration
10.10 A.M. Welcome
Session 1 CULTURAL MEDIATORS
10.30 A.M. Lidia De Michelis (Dept. of Contemporary Languages and Cultures, Università Statale, Milano) “Letters from London: A ‘Bridge’ between Italy and Europe”
11.00 A.M. Matteo Ubezio (Università Statale, Milano) “The margins at the centre. Giuseppe Baretti’s uncharted Italy”
11.30 A.M. Rosalie McCrea (Dept. of Art and Design, Kuwait University) “Some thoughts on John Blagrove’s Portrait”
Discussion
1.00 P.M. – 2.00 P.M. Buffet Lunch
Session 2 COMMUTING PEOPLE
2.00 P.M. Anton Caruana Galizia (St.Edmund Hall, Oxford) “Negotiating a marriage in eighteenth-century Sicily”
2.30 P.M. Silvia Granata (Università di Pavia) “Tiberio Cavallo: a natural philosopher between Italy and Britain”
3.00 P.M. Francesca Saggini (Università della Tuscia) “In the cut: Italian Castrati on the London Scene”
Discussion
4.00 P.M. – 4.30 P.M. Tea
Session 3 COMMUTING IDEAS
4.30 P.M. Federico Bonzi (Università L’Orientale, Napoli) “Due posizioni a confronto nel dibattito settecentesco sull’’onore’: la Scienza cavalleresca di Scipione Maffei e l’Enquiry into the origin of Honour di Bernard Mandeville”
5.00 P.M Emilio Sergio (Dept. of Philosophy, Università della Calabria) “‘Anglomania’ and ‘National Culture’: The problem of National consciousness in Eighteenth-century Italy”
Discussion
Social event
Wednesday 14 September
Session 4 MODELS AND THEORIES
9.30 A.M. Angelo Canavesi (Università di Pavia) “Persons and individuals in Eighteenth-century Britain (narrative models)”
10.00 A.M. Andrea Gatti (Dept. of Human Sciences, Università di Ferrara) “Marginal Aesthetic Theories in Eighteenth-century England”
Discussion
11.00 A.M. – 11.30 A.M. Coffee
Session 5 CULTURAL TRANSFERS
11.30 A.M Rosamaria Loretelli (Università Federico II, Napoli) “The Reception of the Picaresque in Italy and Britain: from the Cultural Backwaters to the Literary Mainstream”
12.00 A.M. Patrizia Nerozzi Bellman (IULM, Milano) “From Clarissa’s sensibility in Samuel Richardson’s novel to the Romantic dream of self-realization in Ugo Foscolo’s Ortis”
12.30 A.M. Cynthia Stanphill (University of California, Los Angeles) – Clorinda Donato (California State University, Long Beach) “Periphery and Center in the Evolution of the Novelistic Genre: John Cleland’s Authoring of Fanny Hill and its Italian Translations 1764-1904”
Discussion
1.00 P.M. – 2.00 P.M. Buffet Lunch
Session 6 TASTE AND THE ARTS
2.00 P.M. Carly Collier (Dept.History of Art, Warwick University) “From ‘Gothic atrocities’ to objects of aesthetic appreciation: the transition from marginal to mainstream of early Italian art in British taste during the long eighteenth-century”
2.30 P.M. Tomas Macsotay (University of Leeds) “Autonomy, Propriety and Eccentricity in Foreign Artists’Circles in Rome (c.1760-1800)”
3.00 P.M. Hiroko Kondo (Toyo University) “Algarotti and the influence of the East”
4.00 P.M. – 4.30 P.M. Tea
Discussion