The Institute of Anglo-Italian Studies, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute, Valletta, is organising the Eleventh International Conference on Anglo-Italian Studies 'Britain and Italy: Literary and Cultural Relations'
The Conference will be held between 25 and 26 April at the University of Malta Valletta Campus
Wednesday 24 April 2019
19:00
Welcome reception at Plaza Hotel, Sliema
Welcome reception at Plaza Hotel, Sliema
Thursday 25 April 2019
Morning Session
09:15
Registration
09:30
Welcome address
Peter Vassallo and Gloria Lauri-Lucente (Conveners)
Chair: Peter Vassallo
09:45
Leigh Hunt’s Letters from Abroad
Serena Baesi, University of Bologna
10:10
Leigh Hunt and Molini’s “English Magazine”
Tim Webb, University of Bristol
10:35
Discussion
11:10
Coffee Break
Chair: Ivan Callus
11:35
Peter Vassallo, University of Malta
12:00
James Thomson’s Response to Dante in “The City of Dreadful Night”
Enrichetta Soccio, University “G. D’Annunzio”, Chieti-Pescara
12:25
Discussion
13:00
Lunch Break
Afternoon Session
Chair: Tim Webb
14:30
Raffaella Antinucci, University of Naples
14:55
Dreams and Frippery: Thomas Hardy Goes to Rome
Philip Mallet, University of St Andrews
15:20
Italy as a Cultural Metonymy in John Henry Newman’s “Loss and Gain”
Francesca Caraceni, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan
15:45
Discussion
16:30
End of Session
Friday 26 April 2019
Morning Session
Chair: Phillip Mallett
09:30
In Search of a Language and the Quest for the Wholeness of Being in D.H. Lawrence’s “Twilight in Italy” and “The Lost Girl”
Renzo D’Agnillo, University “G. D’Annunzio”, Chieti-Pescara
09:55
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Reads and Teaches English Literature
Francesca Orestano, University of Milan
10:20
Discussion
11:00
Coffee Break
Chair: James Corby
11:30
Multitudes of Otherness: Italian and Indian Crowds in Forster’s
“Where Angels Fear to Tread” and “A Passage to India”
Francesca Pierini, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
11:55
“Lest we Forget”. The Grand Illusion of World War I on Celluloid in Britain and Italy
Gloria Lauri-Lucente, University of Malta
12:20
Discussion
13:00
Lunch Break
Afternoon Session
Chair: Gloria Lauri-Lucente
14:30
The Mysteries of Carini’s Castle: Radcliffean (and Burkean)
Reminiscences in Italo Toscani’s “La mano di sangue”
Fabrizio Foni, University of Malta
14:55
Discussion
15:30
End of Session
20:00
Conference Dinner