SIS conference 'Affect, Emotion, Sensation' programme 21 July

2023 SIS Themed Conference 'Affect, Sensation, Emotion' 7-8 September 2023, Selwyn College, Cambridge This draft version of the programme, current as of 21 July, is subject to change. For queries, contact the organizers at sis.conference.2023@gmail.com. Registration is now open: https://forms.gle/wqPbPVfRnthXaqAh8. 7 September 8.45 Registration (the Auditorium) 9.15 Opening remarks (the Auditorium) Session 1 (the Auditorium) Session 2 (the Diamond) Session 3 (the Chadwick Room) Session 4 (the Walters Room) 9.30-11 Negative Affects: Absence and Loss Affective Ecology and Landscapes Mobile Affects, Mobile Objects, Mobile People Affective Communities and Community Building 1. Jonny Wiles (University of Cambridge), ‘AAA Cercasi: Absence, Affect, and Antiquity in Dante’s Commedia’ 1. Alessia Carrai (University of Cambridge), ‘Affective Landscapes and Dante’s “selva antica”’ 1. Chiara Giuliani (University College Cork), ‘Emotional Stuff: Affect and Material Culture in Italian Transnational Literature’ 1. Michela Sereni (National University of Ireland, Galway), ‘Il Risorgimento letterario. La patria e le emozioni’ 2. Frey Kalus (University of Cambridge / Freie Universität Berlin), ‘The Politics of Grief in Dante and Thom Gunn’ 2. Francesca Southerden (University of Oxford), ‘“Sensibil terra”: Affect and Ecology in Petrarch’s Rvf 22’ 3. Rebecca Walker (Trinity College Dublin), ‘Hard Feelings: Elena Ferrante and the Feminist Potential of Negative Emotion’ 2. Monica Miscali (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), ‘Leaving Alone: Emotions and Migration of Italian Women to Norway from 1960 until Today’ 3. Marina Spunta (University of Leicester), ‘Affective Gardens: Pia Pera’s Garden as 3. Erica Bellia (University of Material Spirituality’ Cambridge), ‘Affective Labour in Italian Industrial Literature’ 4. Marco Ceravolo (University College Cork), ‘"Spiriti! 4. Dario Galassini (University Folletti! Bestioline in pena!". College Cork), ‘Affects, L’impegno animalista di Dino Subjectivities, and Factory Buzzati e Anna Maria Ortese 2. Carla Panico (University of Coimbra), ‘Italianità e alterità. Per una storia affettiva dei processi di produzione dell’identità nazionale’ 4. Andrea Sartori (Nankai University), ‘Il cuore oltre l’ostacolo. La “via italiana” alla nuova fenomenologia e una riconsiderazione di Marino Moretti (1885-1979)’ 2 3. Noreen Kane (University College Cork), ‘Trauma, Sensation, and Affect in the Work of Igiaba Scego’ 4. Patrizia Sambuco (University of Dundee), ‘Sensing Migration’ tra narrativa e produzione giornalistica’ Work: Vittorio Sereni’s Una visita in fabbrica’ Tea, coffee, and pastries 11.30-13 Affects and Bodily Languages Second-hand Emotion (What’s Love Got to Do with it?) Negative Affects: Fear 1. Aistė Kiltinavičiūtė (University of Cambridge / University College Cork), ‘Fight 1. Nicolas Longinotti (Freie Universität Berlin), ‘Virtuous or Flight: The Fear of Flying in and Vulnerable Communities: Dante’s Comedy’ 2. Lisi Feng (Nankai University), Petrarch's Love and ‘“Molto porgeranno suo proprio Forgiveness in Francesco 2. George Rayson (University of movimento d’animo”: Cambridge), ‘Hair-raising in Filelfo's and Antonio Da trasmettere affetti e movimenti Tempo's Quattrocento Inferno’ nella letteratura artistica Commentaries on RVF 1’ 3. Ylenia Papa (University for rinascimentale’ Foreigners of Perugia), ‘Loci on 2. Francesca Santucci 3. Carlotta Paltrinieri (Royal (Università di Genova), ‘«Mal Fear in Quadriregio by Federico Holloway, University of London), d’amore Tatjana affligge». Dal Frezzi’ ‘“In che modo dal desiderio amoroso alla temperamento del corpo si malattia nell’Onegin tradotto 4. Alessio Panichi (Johns Hopkins University), ‘Not Just conoschino gli affetti da Giovanni Giudici’ Chapter XVII: The Functions of dell’animo”: An Overlooked Fear in Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Manuscript at the Intersection 3. Laura Lucia Rossi Prince’ of Natural Philosophy and Art (University of Leeds), ‘Un Theory’ penoso amore. Becoming a Daughter and Becoming a Writer in Maria Grazia 1. Jessica Maratsos (University of Cambridge), ‘Affective Anatomy and the Early Modern Body’ 3 Across the Five Senses: the Histories of Sensation and Emotion 1. Simon Gilson (University of Oxford), ‘External and Internal Senses in Cristoforo Landino’s Comento sopra la Comedia (1481)’ 2. Gur Zak (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), ‘Leonardo Bruni and the Philology of Emotions’ 3. Paola Casella (Universität Zürich), ‘La retorica degli affetti nella letteratura: riflessioni metodologiche’ 4. Maria Silvia Marini (La Sapienza University, Rome), ‘Percezione e conoscenza: il caso della gnoseologia leopardiana nel contesto intellettuale europeo’ Calandrone and Jeanette Winterson’ Selwyn lunch (Hall; pay-for-yourself) 14-15.30 Troubling Affective Margins Reworking Medieval Affects Unveiling the Body 1. Valentina Mele (University of Leeds), ‘Sighs, Voice, and Poetic Subjectivity. The Reception of Medieval Culture in the Poetry and Poetics of Jack Spicer’ 1. Xiying Wang (University of Manchester), ‘The Iconography of Nudity in the Commedia and the Denuded Body in Dante Manuscripts’ 2. Kristina Landa (Università di Bologna), ‘La letizia della divina Sapienza in Dante e nella letteratura russa del primo 2. Alessandro Toma (Humboldt 2. Laura Di Blasi (University of Novecento’ University of Berlin), ‘Feeling Melbourne), ‘Rewriting as Between and Beyond the 3. Chiara Valcelli (University Discursive Authority: Laura Margins: Negative and Positive Terracina’s Discorso on College Cork), ‘A Tale of Two Affects in the Narrative World- Orlando Furioso’ Cities: An Affective Study of Model of Elena Ferrante's My Dante’s Florence and Joyce’s 3. Olivia Santovetti Brilliant Friend’ Dublin’ (University of Leeds), ‘Books 3. Valentina Serio (University of as “organismi pulsanti”: Elena 4. Domenico Fadda (University Pisa), ‘Melancholy and Political Ferrante, Goodreads, and the for Foreigners of Perugia), ‘«Che Dissent in Leon Battista Alberti’s Emotional Experience of per lei m'inforsava alta paura». Profugiorum ab Aerumna’ Rewriting Dante's Fear in 19thReading’ century Versions of the Inferno’ 4. Camilla Tibaldo (Scuola Normale Superiore), ‘Le forme del pathos: «iterazione 2. Daniela Shalom Vagata (Masaryk University), ‘Heart and Gestures in Ugo Foscolo’s Inni alle Grazie and Epistolary’ 1a. Nicolò Crisafi (University of Cambridge), 1b. and Giulia Boitani (University of Cambridge), ‘Troubling Joy: Affective Disorders of Happiness from Jaufre Rudel to Dante and Iacopone’ 4 Controlling and Rewriting Affect 1. Annamaria Azzarone (Sorbonne Université), ‘«Caro Lardello, Lardelletto, Lardelluccio, Lardellucciuccio»: Analysing Giovan Battista Andreini’s characters’ Emotions through Language’ 3. Vanessa Santoro (University of Glasgow), ‘Between Anxiety and Fear: Fashion, Women and Negative Emotions in Irene Brin’s Journalism’ 4. Davide Messina (University of Edinburgh), ‘Calvino’s Guizzo: A Semiotic Passion’ e specularità» nella poesia di Milo De Angelis’ Tea, coffee, and cake 5 16-17 Final round table (Day 1): Heather Webb, Virginia Cox, Daragh O’Connell, Robert Gordon, Chiara Giuliani 19 for 19.30 Conference dinner (Selwyn Hall) 8 September Session 1 (the Auditorium) Session 2 (the Diamond) Session 3 (the Chadwick Room) Session 4 (the Walters Room) 9.30-11 Affects of the Encounter Circulation of Affect Affects in Modern Media Affects Staged and Performed 1. Elsina Caponetti (University College Cork), ‘Body and Soul: Dynamics of Detachment and Reconjunction in Dante’s Commedia and in the Medieval Visionary Tradition’ 1. Helena Phillips-Robins (University of Cambridge), ‘Affect and the Shared Language of Prayer in Dante and Clare of Assisi’ 1. Joseph Perna (New York University), ‘Modernist Melodrama: Ophuls and Ruttmann in Italy’ 1. Serena Laiena (University College Dublin), ‘Shades of Madness: Performing the Pazzia on the Early Modern Stage’ 2. Ruoci Song (University of Cambridge), ‘Dante's Multifaceted Affection for Virgil Expressed through Appellatives’ 2. Emma Barron (University of 2. Charlotte Alton (University Melbourne), ‘45 MOGLIE SU 100 of Cambridge), ‘Rethinking DELUSE DAL MATRIMONIO’: the Role of Negative Affect in Post-war Market Research and Decameron Day Four’ Emotion’ 3. Giulia Gaimari (University of Toronto), ‘“Far piangere altrui”: Empathy and Friendship in Dante’s Vita Nova’ 3. Lorenzo Bartoli (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), ‘Filologia della colpa: la confessione in Dante, Petrarca e Boccaccio’ 3. Stefano Adamo (Banja Luka University), ‘The Impact of Emotions on Financial Decisions: An Exploration through Literature’ 4. Fabio Simonetti (Brunel University London), ‘A Sensory Liberation: The Wartime Encounter between British Soldiers and Italian Civilians’ 4. Cora Rok (University of Heidelberg), ‘Shame and Femininity. A Comparative Study of 19th-century Italian and French Female Writers’ 4. Francesca Medaglia (Sapienza Università di Roma), ‘La narrazione delle emozioni nella complessità seriale tra Stati Uniti e Italia’ Tea, coffee, and pastries 6 2. Kate Mitchell (University of Strathclyde), ‘Beyond the Female Gaze: The Affective Force of Matilde Serao’s Screenwriting and Her Writings on Screenplays’ 3. Maurizio Rebaudengo (Universität Zürich), ‘Sacra persona: l’emozione fisica del sacro in quattro regìe liriche di Emma Dante e Damiano Michieletto’ 11.30-13 Shaping Collective Memory Transnational Affects Lexicon of Affect 1. Yam Traiber (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), ‘A Collective Memory without a Group: The Failure of Empathy in Natalia Ginzburg’s Writing’ 1. Laura Ingallinella (University of Toronto), ‘Language, Gesture, and Affective Geographies in Fazio degli Uberti’s Dittamondo (c. 1367)’ 1. Anne C. Leone (Syracuse University), ‘Venting and Expression in Dante and the Medieval Context’ 2. Giovanni Miglianti (Wesleyan University), ‘Toward an Affective 2. Karin Peters (University of History of Italian Holocaust Bonn), ‘Transnational Affect: Memory’ Garcilaso de la Vega and the Neapolitan Vector in Poetry’ 3. Mara Josi (University of Manchester), ‘Hidden Emotions: 3. Gloria Moorman Holocaust-related Experiences in (University of Manchester), Occupied Italy’ ‘“Quasi in un momento volando coll’Ingegno”: 4. Elisa Russian (Universität Cosmography as Visual Zürich), ‘Race and the Literary Language of Victory in Venice Politics of Affective Detachment’ and France’ 2. Ester Baldi (Università per Stranieri di Siena), ‘Da «tenero amore» a «tenero dell'onore»: il lessico della tenerezza di Giovanni Boccaccio’ Skin Deep? Sensation and Affective Reactions 1. Rebecca Reilly (University of Cambridge), ‘Affective Devotion and the Liminality of Touch in Angela of Foligno’s Liber’ 2. Bili Zhong (Sun Yat-sen University), ‘Tasting Divine in the Commedia: Bread as a Window to Affective Piety’ 3. Sara Giovine (Scuola Superiore Meridionale), ‘Lessico degli affetti e delle emozioni nelle lettere di nobildonne italiane del Rinascimento’ 3. Rebecca Bowen (University of Oxford), ‘Movement and Beatitude in Botticelli’s Illustrations to the Commedia (c.1490s)’ 4. Céline Powell (LMU München), ‘Il cuore: lo specchio di un mondo in cambiamento’ 4. Bianca Rita Cataldi (University College Dublin), ‘Of Sensation and Affect: Women and Seductresses in Annie Vivanti’s Early Fiction’ 4. Laura Rorato (Lancaster University), ‘Travel, Liminality, and Affect in the Works of Genni Gunn’ Selwyn lunch (Hall; pay-for-yourself) 14-15.30 7 Roundtable: ‘Mental Health in PhD and ECR Community’ (organized by SIS Early-Career Academic (ECA) Representatives Federica Coluzzi, Chiara Giuliani, and Paolo Saporito) Tea, coffee, and cake 8 16-17 Final round table (Day 2): Emma Bond, Jessica Maratsos, Robert Gordon, Aistė Kiltinavičiūtė 17.30 Closing drinks reception 19 Dinner for any remaining participants (pay-for-yourself, in a local restaurant)