Programme
Wednesday 20 April 2022
Venue: (Plaza Regency Hotel, Sliema)
19.00: Welcome reception for participants
Thursday 21 April 2022
Venue: (University of Malta - Valletta Campus)
09.15 – 09.30: Welcome address (Dominic Fenech, Peter Vassallo, Gloria Lauri-Lucente)
09.30 – 10.45: Session 1
Chair: James Corby (University of Malta)
- Nigel Wood (Loughborough University), Alexander Pope and a Vision of Italy
- Alison Yarrington (Loughborough University), Anne Seymour Damer: Self-Portrait (1778) ‘she her own self, made’
10.45 – 11.15: Coffee break
11.15 – 12.30: Session 2
Chair: Gloria Lauri-Lucente (University of Malta)
- Hal Gladfelder (University of Manchester), Pacchierotti, Burney, Stendhal: European Musical Networks in the Late 18th Century
- Peter Vassallo (University of Malta), The ‘Dantescan voice’ in Keats’s The Fall of Hyperion and Shelley’s The Triumph of Life
12.30 – 14.00: Lunch (by one’s own arrangement)
14.00 – 15.15: Session 3
Chair: Peter Vassallo (University of Malta)
- Daniela Cerimonia (Birkbeck, University of London), ‘Shall I Be the Slave of… what? A Word?’: Language, Silence, Beauty, and Justice in the Early Italian Translations of Shelley’s The Cenci
- Serena Baiesi (Università di Bologna), Leigh Hunt’s Green Footsteps from London to Tuscany
15.15 – 15.45: Coffee break
15.45 – 17.00: Session 4
Chair: Ivan Callus (University of Malta)
- Nick Havely (University of York), The Captain in the Casentino: Francis Brooke and the Pursuit of Dante
- Literary Interlude: Cicely Havely presents her latest novel, A Marble Column: Jane Eyre in India (Edward Everett Root, 2022)
Friday 22 April 2022
Venue: (University of Malta - Valletta Campus)
09.15 – 10.30: Session 1
Chair: Gloria Lauri-Lucente (University of Malta)
- Francesca D’Alfonso (Università degli Studi del Molise), ‘The Country of My Longing’: Edward Lear and the Myth of Italy
- Anna Enrichetta Soccio (Università degli Studi ‘G. d’Annunzio’ Chieti-Pescara), 'Gabriele Rossetti and La Beatrice di Dante: Considerations on the Presence of Dante in 19th-Century England.'
10.30 – 11.00: Coffee break
11.00 – 12.15: Session 2
Chair: Glen Bonnici (University of Malta)
- Stefania Michelucci (Università degli Studi di Genova), D.H. Lawrence’s Etruscan Seduction and His Late New Means of Communication: A Brush Stroke on a White Canvas
- Fabrizio Foni (University of Malta), Re-Mapping the Gothic: For an Emotionally-Centred Italian Survey
12.15 – 13.45: Lunch (by one’s own arrangement)
13.45 – 15.00: Session 3
Chair: Fabrizio Foni (University of Malta)
- Gloria Lauri-Lucente (University of Malta), Virginia Woolf, Luigi Pirandello and the ‘Devilish Talking Machine’ of the Cinema
- Francesca Orestano (Università degli Studi di Palermo and Università degli Studi di Milano), In the Garden We Are All Friends: Maria Teresa Parpagliolo Shephard, A Long Dialogue between Italy and England
15.00 – 15.30: Coffee break
15.30 – 16.45: Session 4
Chair: Anna Enrichetta Soccio (Università degli Studi ‘G. d’Annunzio’ Chieti-Pescara)
- Francesca Caraceni (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), ‘Un’insularità cocciuta’: Giorgio Manganelli, the Neoavanguardia, and the ‘Other’ Ireland
- Ivan Callus (University of Malta), Whimsy and Follia: Misplaced Reflections on Roberto Calasso’s Come ordinare una libreria
16.45: Concluding remarks
20.00: Conference dinner (tbc)
Kindly note that each session will consist of 2 papers of 25 minutes each and 25 minutes of discussion.
