POSTGRADUATE FESTIVAL OF ARTS RESEARCH, 26TH TO 29TH OF MAY 2015
SYMPOSIUM OF THE SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
Tuesday 26th May
Wolfson Research Exchange (3rd floor University of Warwick Library)
Time: 09.30 – 17.00
Timetable
09.30 – 09.45: Registration
09.45 – 10.00: Opening Remarks by Sean Hand (School of Modern Languages and Cultures),
Emma Smith (RSSP), Team
10.00 – 11.00: Panel One: Mapping out Identities
Chair: TBA
Pia Deutsch (German Studies): Mediating German Identities in the Everyday
Matt Coneys (Italian Studies): Representations of the Indies: the New World and
Medieval Travel Accounts in Italy
11.00 – 11.15: Coffee Break
11.15 – 12.45: Panel Two: Genea-Logics
Chair: TBA
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POSTGRADUATE FESTIVAL OF ARTS RESEARCH, 26TH TO 29TH OF MAY 2015
Sofia Mercader (Hispanic Studies): Signs of an Intellectual Generation in Ricardo
Piglia’s Respiración Artificial
Sara Boezio (Italian Studies): The ‘Degenerative’ Paradigm in Fin-de-siècle
Italian literature
Elio Baldi (Italian Studies): Carmelo Bene’s theatrical Cannibalizations of Dante
and Shakespeare
12.45 – 14.00: Lunch break (Lunch will be provided)
14.00 – 15.00: Panel Three: Remember, Remember: Current Discourses in Memory Studies
Chair: Mary Cosgrove (German Studies)
Polly Galis (French Studies): Transnational Memory in the Literary Works of
Nancy Huston
Maria Roca Lizarazu (German Studies): Introduction to the Warwick Memory
Group
15.00 – 15.15: Coffee break
15.15 – 16.00: Panel Four: Migration and Literature: a Cross-School Reading Group
Chair: Jennifer Burns (Italian Studies)
Katharina Forster, Gioia Panzarella, Laetitia Saint-Loubert, and Georgia Wall:
Introduction to the Reading Group
16.00 – 17.00: Wine Reception
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