End Date : February 4, 7:30 pm
420 W 116th St.
Deutsches Haus, Columbia University
Carlo Arrigoni, Nassime Chida, Massimiliano Delfino, Matteo Pace
Department of Italian, Department of Germanic Languages, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS), Graduate Student Advisory Council, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, The European Institute, and the Heyman Center for the Humanities.
Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, Department of Italian
Day 1:
4PM
Welcome and opening remarks
Introduction and screening of Benoit Felici’s documentary Unfinished Italy (2010, 33’)
5PM
Panel discussion with director Benoit Felici
6PM
Keynote Presentation
Professor Thomas Harrison (UCLA)
“The Art of the Incomplete”
Q&A
7.30PM
Wine and cheese reception
Day 2:
8.30AM: Welcome and breakfast
9AM: Panel 1
Incompleteness and the Other
chair: Professor Konstantina Zanou
Allison DeWitt (Columbia University)
(In)completely Visualizing Dante’s World from West to East
Alex Cuadrado (Columbia University)
Petrarca’s Incomplete Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
Bruno Duarte (Johns Hopkins University)
An African Oresteia: Pasolini’s Absolute Fragment
11AM: Coffee Break
11.30AM: Panel 2
Incompleteness as Authorial Strategy
chair: Professor Elizabeth Leake
Jamison Standridge (Rutgers University)
Abandonment and Silence in Sibilla Aleramo’s Trasfigurazione (Lettera non spedita)
Anna Chichi (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Oriana Fallaci’s A Hat Full of Cherries
Christina McGrath (Columbia University)
“Non una novella intera”: Incompletion in the Decameron
1.30PM: Lunch Break
2.30PM: Panel 3
Incompleteness and Restoration
chair: Professor Giuseppe Gerbino
Cleo Nisse (Columbia University)
Incomplete Survivals: Encountering the Ovetari Chapel Frescos
Stephen Mack (Rutgers University)
The Unfinished and the Roughly Finished Before Michelangelo
Marilynn Johnson (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Incompleteness & Interpretation
4.30PM: Coffee Break
5PM: Panel 4
Incompleteness, Life, Hermeneutics
chair: Professor TBA
Andrew Robbins (Rutgers University)
A Delinquent Physiognomy: The Incompleteness of Positivism
Luca Zanchi (Stony Brook University)
Dissociated Narratives and Narrative
Responsibilities. Marco Bellocchio and Renato Curcio: A Comparative Analysis
Luca Burzelli (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
Incompleteness as a Plurality of Ways
7PM: Closing remarks
Chaired by Professor Thomas Harrison
Wine and cheese reception
