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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Identities. Cultural and Literary Re-inscription/s of the Feminine
Here you will find the programme of the Conference at Udine 's University dated 10th November 2009.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Id-Entities
Cultural and Literary Re-inscription/s of the Feminine
UNIVERSITY OF UDINE 9-11 November 2009
Convenors
Prof. Antonella Riem Natale (University of Udine),
Prof. Luisa Conti Camaiora (University Sacro Cuore of Milan)
Prof. Maria Renata Dolce (University of Salento)
Conference Advisory Committee
Prof. Antonella Riem Natale, Prof. Luisa Conti Camaiora, Prof. Maria Renata Dolce
Organizing Committee
Maria Bortoluzzi, Stefano Mercanti, Chiara Ministrelli, Laura Pecoraro, Caterina Colomba.
Coordinator of visual arts exhibitions
Tiziana Pers and Guglielmo Zanette
Music coordinator
Luisa Sello and Stefano Spoto
Info:
all@uniud.it laura.p@libero.it chiaraminestrelli@gmail.com stefano.mercanti@uniud.it
RESEARCH PROJECT
The main topics of the conference draw upon the critical studies of the Interlink research project 2005-2008 Partnership Models in World Literatures Written in English: Theoretical and Pragmatic Implications, which involved the Italian Universities of Udine (international coordinator) and Salento; Mysore and Bangalore University (India), and the Centre for Partnership Studies, Pacific Grove, CA (USA).
Partnership Studies have been also developed through the following research projects:
- Gylanies and Androcracies: the vision of the Feminine in 19th and 20th century English Literature (University of Udine, 1998)
- Partnership and Education: Possible Meanings and Contexts (University of Udine, 2002)
- Other Signs, Other Voices (University of Udine, 2004)
- Subjects on the Move. Immigration and Migrations within Cinema, Literature, Arts and Society (I - II) (University of Udine, 2004, 2005)
- Anam Cara. Poetry, Wisdom and Women of Peace (University of Udine, 2005)
- The Goddess Awakened: Partnership Studies in Education and World Literatures in English (University of Udine, 2007).
- Azania Speaks. Visions of Partnership in Africa: the Art of the Spoken Word (University of Udine, 2008).
The long-standing cooperation between Italian and International academic research units of Udine, Milan, Lecce, Bangalore and Mysore (India) together with The Centre for Partnership Studies is the basis for the analysis of texts in World Literatures in English within the partnership framework.
CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
The conference intend to investigate the presence and meaning of different partnership/dominator configurations within World Literatures in English by addressing, on the one side, a traditional view of literatures, institutions, languages, along with their imperialistic and androcratic (male-ruled) ideologies, and, on the other, a contemporary, ‘post-colonial', emergent view of world cultures, which can analyse the values of the ‘dominant mode', reveal the hidden agenda at their basis and offer new partnership codes for a future based on genuine values such as caring, cooperation and sustainability. In a parallel way, world literatures and cultures re-form their ‘identity' according to archetypal values of partnership and ‘care', rooted in their ‘native' past, and strongly connected to the Feminine Divine in all her forms. Tracing paths, especially interdisciplinary, will be the main aim of the conference in order to expand the English literary ‘canon' by studying the importance of a whole range of indigenous aspects of the world multi-cultural traditions, and the promotion of ‘other' creative writings in English by creating an awareness on present-day forms of trans-national dialogue, on modalities of cooperation within a common ground of shared values. Accordingly, the conference will touch upon the following areas:
•Ø the power of ancient oral indigenous traditions, poetry and storytelling;
•Ø the Feminine Divine as source of more peaceful and egalitarian societies;
•Ø ancient and modern narratives giving birth to new forms of expression.
Programme
The Id-Entities conference begins with a round table with representatives from local and Australian institutions (Ms Amanda Vanstone, Ambassador of Australia to Italy; Furio Honsell, Mayor of Udine, Cristiana Compagno, Chancellor of Udine University), followed by the keynote speech of Prof. Richard Nile, one of the most distinguished scholars on the field of Australian Studies (Murdoch University), who will present the most recent investigations on performing arts in Australia. As the conference aims at representing "other" possible patterns of construction of the self and forms of coexistence generated by non-hierarchical relational processes, particular emphasis will be given to those writers, musicians and artists who promote respect for the variety and complexity of world cultures, languages and literatures at local, national and international level. The guests of the conference include:
- Artists from Australia such as Djalu Gurruwiwi, senior member of the Galpu clan (Nhulunbuy- Arnhem Land), an internationally renowned didgeridoo maker and player; Jamie Boyd, who belongs to a great Australian artistic dynasty of painters, potters, sculptors and writers; Tom Petsinis, a Melbourne-based novelist, poet and playwright whose multicultural background inspired several works that evoke the beauty and mysticism of mathematics.
- Tsistsistas poet and cultural activist Lance Henson, long-standing defender of the rights of indigenous people and one of the most inspiring voices of contemporary North American literature; Natalia Molebatsi, one of South Africa's most talented and experienced artist; Franca Cavagnoli, writer and translator of Toni Morrison, Jamaica Kincaid, Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Cotzee, V.S. Naipul, William Burroughs and David Malouf; Ayşegül Türker, writer of the novel La leggenda del borgo.
- Prof. Linda Hutcheon, a well-known postmodernist critic in the fields of literary theory and criticism, Prof. Luisa Conti Camaiora and Prof. Maria Renata Dolce, among the most influential Italian scholars on English studies, convenors of the International Conference "The Goddess Awakened: Partnership Studies in Literature, Language and Education" (Udine, 2007)
- Italian artists including Stefano Spoto, Val Resia musicians, Diegu Asproni, Guglielmo Zanette, Annamaria Fanzutto, Erika Di Bortolo Mel whose works represent the visible synthesis in pictorial, musical and sculptural forms of a cultivated elaboration on primordial themes of the feminine divine.
Multimedia and texts
The proceedings of the Conference will be published in a volume (Forum, Udine) that will be used for a series of seminars for undergraduate and graduate students, scholars and post-doctoral fellows. The volume will include a DVD recording the most significant moments of the conference as well as the creative performances of the artists.
ID-ENTITIES
Cultural and Literary Re-inscription/s of the Feminine
UNIVERSITY OF UDINE
9-10-11 November 2009
Sala Convegni - Via Petracco 8
PROGRAMME
9 NOVEMBER 2009
Morning session. Chair: Antonella Riem Natale
8.30 Registration
9.30 Opening - Musical ceremony with Stefano Spoto and Djalu Gurruwiwi (Didgeridoo musicians) - Greetings from the authorities: Hher Excelleny Amanda Vanstone (Ambassador of Australia to Italy), Furio Honsell (Mayor of Udine), Cristiana Compagno (Chancellor of the University of Udine).
10.30 Richard Nile: Id-Entities: Australian Vision of the Self.
11.00 Tea break
11.30 Keynote speaker: Linda and Michael Hutcheon (University of Toronto): The Consumptive Heroine in Opera: Sexuality and Gender in Medical and Cultural History.
12.30 Lunch break
Afternoon session. Chair: Luisa Conti Camaiora
14.30 Alessandro Grossato: The Goddess and the Feminine Myths in Contemporary Political and Cultural Western Imagination.
15.00 Laura Pecoraro (University of Udine): The Manifestation of the Self in Augusta Gregory's Decorum and Contradictions.
15.30 Enrico Reggiani (University of Milan Cattolica): Yeats's Cathleen: Celtic Goddess and/or Christian martyr?
16.00 Tea break
16.30 Giampaolo Grì (University of Udine). Presentation of Art Exhibition, open until November 20, Palazzo Antonini (Entrance Hall and Aula 4).
17.00 Tomasella Calvisi: Acting Stories and Contemporary Voices.
10 NOVEMBER 2009
Morning session. Chair: Richard Nile
9.30 Caterina Colomba (University of Salento): Aboriginal Women's Memories: An Attempt to Rewrite the Official Australian History.
10.00 Stefano Mercanti (University of Udine): Ironic Partnerships in R.K. Narayan's Malgudi.
10.30 Maria Renata Dolce (University of Salento): Re-membering Women's Violated Bodies: Sidiwe Magona's Beauty's Gift.
11.00 Tea Break
11.30 Anna Pia De Luca (University of Udine): First Nations, Female Myths and Cultural Identities in Canadian Ethnic Literature.
12.00 Stephen Muecke (University of Technology, Sydney): Aboriginal Australia: Feminine Figures and Myths in Literature.
12.30 Lunch break
Afternoon session. Chair: Antonella Riem Natale
15.00 Luisa Conti Camaiora (University of Milan Cattolica): The Triune Goddess in the Poetry of John Keats: Identity for the Construction of Individuality
15.30 Milena Romero Allué (University of Udine): ‘O Male! Thou art Thyself Female'. The Feminine and Masculine Dimensions in Blake's System.
16.00 Roberto Albarea (University of Udine): Competence and Narration: An Educational Antinomy Between Male and Female?
16.30 Tea break
17.00 Alessandra Burelli (University of Udine): Nature and Myth in Children Stories.
17.30 Folklore Dance and Music: Val Resia Musicians and Djalu Gurruwiwi. (Venue: Sala Madrassi, Via Gemona 60, Udine, free entrance
11 NOVEMBER 2009
Morning session. Chair: Roberto Albarea
9.30 Luisa Sello (University of Udine): Reworking Identities: Wonder in Poetry and Music Through Alice's Eyes.
10.00 Antonella Riem (University of Udine): The Only Speaker of His Tongue: David Malouf and Endangered Id-Entities.
10.30 Paolo Bartoloni (University of Galway): Liminality and Suspension in Modern Literature.
11.00 Tea Break
11.30 Natalia Molebatsi: The Goddess Awakened.
12.00 Dhanggal Gurruwiwi: How Yolnu people relate to the land
12.30 Lance Henson: Tsistsistas Poems.
13.00 Lunch Break
Afternoon session: Chair: Antonella Riem Natale
14.30 Ayşegül Türker Zanette: readings from La leggenda del borgo.
15.00 Franca Cavagnoli: readings from Mbaqanga.
15.30 Chiara Minestrelli e Giorgio Trevisan (University of Udine): Aboriginal Verbal and Visual Strategies for Emancipation: Contemporary Texts.
16.00 Tea Break
16.30-17.30 Closing the conference: Id-Entities roundtable with Antonella Riem, Luisa Camaiora, Anna Pia De Luca, Maria Renata Dolce and Richard Nile.
Special Guests: Djalu Gurruwiwi (didgeridoo) and Mauro Colombis (piano). Music by F. Liszt, M. Hindson and traditional aboriginal music (Palamostre Theatre, 8.30 pm).