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CIRN Annual Symposium 2016

CIRN Annual Symposium 2016

Friday 20th May 2016, Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius CollegeÌý

"Death in Italy"

Programme:

10.30 - 11 Coffee Ìý
11 - 12.30 SESSION 1: Commemorations
Chair: Paola Filippucci (°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼, Social Anthropology)
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Ìý Katherine McDonald (°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼, Classics) 'Commemorating the dead while becoming "Romans": Italian funerary monuments in the 2nd-centuryÌýBC'
Ìý Paolo Heywood (°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼, Social Anthropology) ‘The two burials of Aldo Moro: Sovereignty and governmentality in theÌýanni di piombo’
Ìý Diego CarnevaleÌý(°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼/Aix-Marseille, History) ‘Funerals and burials in 18th-century Naples: A business for the Church’
12.30 - 1.30 Lunch Ìý
1.30 - 3.30 Session 2: BodiesÌý
Chair: Silvia de'Renzi (Open University, History of Medicine)
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Ìý Gavin WilliamsÌý(°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼, music) ‘Sounds Incorporeal: The Gramophone Company in Italy ca. 1900’
Ìý Andrea CarlinoÌý(Geneva, History of Medicine) 'A matter of life and death in XVIth century medical books'
Ìý Serenella Iovino (Turin, Comparative Literature) 'From Thomas Mann to Porto Marghera: Material Ecocriticism, Textual Interpretation, and Death in Venice'
Ìý John Henderson (°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼ and Birkbeck, History) '"More Feared Than Death Itself"? Plague and Society in Early Modern Florence'
3.30 - 4.00 Tea Ìý
4.00 - 5.30 Session 3: Representations
Chair: Delia CasadeiÌý(°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼, Music)
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Ìý Heather Webb (°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼, Italian) 'Death Stories and the Construction of a Transmortal Community in Dante'sÌýPurgatorio'
Ìý Donal Cooper (°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼, History of Art) ‘Saint Francis, Giotto and "Fratello Morte": Death and redemption at Assisi’
Ìý John Leigh (°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼, French) ‘Deadly Duelling in Italy’
5.30 Closing Remarks and Drinks Ìý

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For further information about CIRN, please write to: cirn@mml.cam.ac.uk

CIRN has been generously supported by: Italian Department, °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼; Keith Sykes Fund; Serena Fund; Trevelyan Fund, History Faculty.