CIRN Annual Symposium 2016
Friday 20th May 2016, Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius CollegeÌý
"Death in Italy"
Programme:
10.30 - 11 | Coffee | Ìý |
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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.