Program
Canadian Society for Italian Studies
Annual Conference 2006
Held in conjunction with the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
and with the sponsorship of the
Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Canadian
International Development Agency,
Italian Cultural Institute of Toronto, and the Mariano A. Elia Chair in Italian
Canadian Studies
York University
Toronto, Ontario
May 27 – May 29, 2006
Congress Theme
The City: A Festival of Knowledge
Saturday, May 27 (Accolade East Building)
8:45
WELCOME (Room 011)
9:00 -10:30
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
DANTE (Room 011)
Organizer: Cristina Perissinotto (University of Ottawa)
Chair: Randy Scott (York University)
Antonio Rossini (University of Windsor) "Dante fra la ‘donna strana’ e la
'donna forte’: la filigrana biblica dell’invettiva di Cacciaguida contro le donne
fiorentine"
Guido Pugliese (University of Toronto at Mississauga) "'Vedere quadruplo' in
Dante"
Filippo Salvatore (Concordia University) "I migliori fabbri del parlar materno:
Arnaut Daniel e Dante"
or
DEVELOPMENTS IN 20TH-CENTURY POETRY, CARTOONS AND FILM (Room 013)
Organizer & Chair: Eugenio Bolongaro (McGill University)
Claudio Clivio (Concordia University) "La linea ligure nella lirica del
Novecento"
Corrado Federici (Brock University) "The City as Absent Referent in the
Poetry of Eugenio Montale"
Erika Papagni (McGill University) "Dante a fumetti: il lavoro di Marcello
Toninelli"
Yuri Sangalli (The University of Western Ontario) "Rural Heroes, From the
Peplum to the Spaghetti Western"
10:30 – 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 – 12:30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS
FROM ROMANTICISM TO VERISMO (Room 011)
Organizer: Sandra Parmegiani (The University of Western Ontario)
Chair: Rosalind Kerr (University of Alberta)
Anna Makolkin (CREES, MCIS, University of Toronto) " Paolo Mantegazza,
the Italian Freud"
Francesco Minervini (Università di Bari) "Tipologie dell’eroe tragico: Alfieri,
Foscolo, Manzoni"
Sandra Parmegiani (The University of Western Ontario) "Foscolo, Locke, and
'l'antimetafisica Inghilterra'"
Paul Salvatori (University of Ottawa) "Giacomo Leopardi and the Happiness of
Man"
or
HISTORY AND POLITICS (ROOM 013)
Organizer & Chair: Roberto A. Ventresca (King's University College, The
University of Western Ontario)
Mauro Marsella (York University) “Modern Rome’s Cultural Primacy in the
Thought of the Italian ‘Universal Fascists’”
Francesca Paduano (Scripps College, Claremont, CA) "Oriana Fallaci:
fenomeno storico-politico o giornalismo di parte?"
and
TRANSLATION: THEORY AND PRACTICE I
Organizer & Chair: Enrico Vicentini (TDSB)
Celestino De Iuliis (Independent Scholar, Toronto) “Some Reflections on
Translating Dante's Divine Comedy”
Anthony Mortimer (University of Fribourg) “‘Difficult to Construe’:
Translating Michelangelo”
12:30 – 2:00 LUNCH
2:00 – 3:30
CONCURRENT SESSIONS:
THE RENAISSANCE CITY - JOINT SESSION WITH THE CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR
RENAISSANCE STUDIES (Room 011)
Sponsored by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social
Sciences
Organizer & Chair: Konrad Eisenbichler (University of Toronto)
Rosa Maria Giusto (Università di Napoli "Federico II") "La città di Filarete/
Filarete's City"
John Nassichuck (The University of Western Ontario) "La tradition de l’éloge
de Florence dans la Cleopolis de Quinziano Stoa"
Rosalind Kerr (University of Alberta) "Reflections of the Ideal Renaissance
City in an Ideal Renaissance Theatre"
or
ITALIAN CANADIAN STUDIES I (ROOM 013)
Organizer & Chair: Gabriele Scardellato (York University)
Francesca L'Orfano (Carleton University) “Immigrazione in Canada: The
Films of Paul Tana”
Anthony Cristiano (Dalhousie University) "A Self-conscious Mise-en-scène:
An Italian-Canadian Film Experience"
William Anselmi (University of Alberta) “Still smouldering after all these
years: Roman Candles revisited, Part I"
Lise Hogan (University of Calgary) “Still smouldering after all these years:
Roman Candles revisited, Part II”
3:30 - 4:00
COFFEE BREAK
4:00 - 5:30
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
HUMANISM AND RENAISSANCE (Room 011)
Organizer: Cristina Perissinotto (University of Ottawa)
Chair: Randy Scott (York University)
David Bellusci (Dominican College Ottawa) "Gaspero Contarini and
'Amplitude'”
Sally Hickson (Brock University) "Mantegna 500: The Anatomist of Sleep,
Dreams and Visions"
Francesco Divenuto (Università di Napoli "Federico II") "Utopia di un’idea
urbana: Napoli da Alfonso I a don Pedro di Toledo"
Robert Buranello (College of Staten Island, CUNY) "Zoppino's Pious
Persuasion"
or
ITALIAN CANADIAN STUDIES II (Room 013)
Organizer: Gabriele Scardellato (York University)
Chair: Mauro Buccheri (York University)
Konrad Eisenbichler (University of Toronto) “‘Prima ch’el mondo crolasse per
la guerra’: Il ricordo della città natale in Gianni Angelo Grohovaz”
Anne Marie Miraglia (University of Waterloo) "Les objets-signes chez Nino
Ricci et Bianca Zagolin"
Gabriele Scardellato (York University) “Invisible City: College Street Little
Italy and Immigrant Byways”
Monica Stellin (Wilfrid Laurier University) “Italian Literature in Canada in the
Twenty-First Century”
5:30 - 7:00
Dinner Break
7:00- 9:00
Culture in the Italian Canadian Community (Room 011)
(Sponsored by the Mariano A. Elia Chair in Italian Canadian Studies, York
University)
Organizer: Gabriele Scardellato (York University)
Chair: Jana Vizmuller-Zocco (York University)
Jerry Ciccoritti, film director and Antonio D'Alfonso, writer and publisher,
will speak about their work
Alessandra Piccione and Sergio Navaretta, film makers, will discuss their
docudrama Looking for Angelina
Sara Angelucci (photographer and videographer), Carlo Cesta (sculptor),
Carmelo Arnoldin (sculptor) will present "Who's Your Nonno(a)?: Italian
Canadian Artists and Their Muse(s)"
Sunday, May 28 (Accolade East Building)
9:00 - 10:30
CONCURRENT SESSIONS:
ITALIAN CANADIAN STUDIES III (ROOM 011)
Organizer: Gabriele Scardellato (York University)
Chair: Robert Buranello (College of Staten Island, CUNY)
Christopher Larkosh-Lenotti (University of Connecticut) “Italo-Québecois
Writing Through the Contexts of Diversity"
Angelo Principe (Independent Scholar, Toronto) “A ‘Scandal’ Among ItalianCanadian Fascists in Montreal, 1933”
Olga Pugliese (University of Toronto) “Beautifying the City: 1960s Artistic
Mosaics by Italian Canadians in Toronto”
or
TRANSLATION: THEORY AND PRACTICE II (ROOM 013)
Organizer & Chair: Enrico Vicentini
Charles Le Blanc (Université du Québec en Outaouais): “La critica come
totalità speculativa: Filosofia e traduzione”
Manuela Scarci (University of Toronto) “Translating the Koran”
Patrizia Bettella (University of Alberta) “Reflections on Teaching Translation
at the Fourth-year Level”
10:30 – 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 – 12:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS (ROOM 011)
:
MATTEO SANFILIPPO (UNIVERSITÀ DELLA TUSCIA)
"IMAGES OF CANADIAN CITIES IN ITALY: THEN AND NOW"
INTRODUCER: ROBERTO PERIN (GLENDON CAMPUS, YORK UNIVERSITY)
SPONSORED BY THE CANADIAN FEDERATION FOR THE HUMANITIES AND
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND THE ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE OF TORONTO
12:00 – 1:30 LUNCH
1:30 – 3:15
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE CURRENT STATE OF ITALIAN STUDIES IN
CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES AND HIGH SCHOOLS (Room 011)
Chair: Olga Pugliese
Panelists: Ernesto Virgulti (Brock University)
Carmela Colella (Brock University)
Anna Moro (McMaster University)
Lydia Rende (Italian Cultural Institute of Toronto)
Angela Nadin Piscitelli (Dante Alighieri Academy)
or
ETHNICITY AND HISTORY (Room 013)
Organizer: Marino Tuzi (Seneca College)
Chair: TBD
Marino Tuzi (Seneca College) "The Criminalization of the Italian as a Form of
Social Management Policy"
Howard Doughty (Seneca College) "Imperial Marginalization in Roman
Britain from Julius Caesar to the Emperor Hadrian"
Abdy (Abdollah) Zahiri (Seneca College) "Investigation of Iranian-Canadian
and Italian-Canadian Diasporas in Fiction"
3:15 – 3:30
COFFEE BREAK
3:30 – 4:45
CSIS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (Room 011)
5:00
York University PRESIDENT’S RECEPTION
7:30
SOCIETY BANQUET
Monday, May 29 morning (Accolade East Building)
9:00 - 10:30
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
THE CITY: A FESTIVAL OF KNOWLEDGE (Room 011)
Organizer: Daria Valentini (Stonehill College)
Chair: Patrizia Bettella (University of Alberta)
Maria Laura Mosco (University of Toronto) "Culture, Ideology, and the
Image of the City in Post-WWII Italian Literature. Rome: A Case Study"
Daria Valentini (Stonehill College) "Alla ricerca della madre, alla riscoperta
della citta': la Napoli di Elena Ferrante in 'L'amore molesto'"
Paola Basile (Lake Erie College) "Uno sguardo su Roma: la donna
irraggiungibile di Fellini"
or
HISTORY, EMOTION AND HUMOUR IN 20TH- CENTURY CULTURE (Room 013)
Organizer: Eugenio Bolongaro (McGill University)
Chair: Stefano Giannini (University of Calgary)
Beatrice Barbalato (Université catholique de Louvain) "Il ruolo del faire valoir
nella pièce di Vincenzo Cerami Il comico e la spalla"
Anna Chiafele (University of Toronto) "Storia e finzione ne Le maschere di
Luigi Malerba"
Michael Meneghetti (University of Iowa) "'Emotion' as History: Martin
Scorsese's Italianamerican"
Eugenio Bolongaro (McGill University) "Becoming Subject: Intersections of
Ontology and Ethics in Italo Calvino's Le cosmicomiche"
10:30 – 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 – 12:30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS:
LINGUISTICS (APPLIED AND DESCRIPTIVE) (ROOM 011)
Organizers & Chairs: Jana Vizmuller Zocco (York University) & Marina
Frescura (York University)
Roberta Iannacito Provenzano (Laurentian University) "Conceptual Blending,
Humour and the L2 Classroom"
Marina Frescura (York University) "'Beh, ... niente.... ecco...': Discourse
Markers and Information Management"
Gabriella Colussi Arthur (York University) and Enza Antenos-Conforti
(Montclair College) "Beginners' Level Textbooks for Italian in the North
American Market: Ten Years Later"
Giuliana Salvato (University of Toronto) "Gesture in Second Language
Acquisition and Cross-Cultural Communication"
or
IMAGINATIVE INTERTEXTUALITY: DIALOGUES, INFLUENCES, AFFINITIES AND
BORROWINGS IN 20TH-CENTURY CULTURE (Room 013)
Organizer & Chair: Eugenio Bolongaro (McGill University)
Cristiana Furlan (McGill University) "Mal d'Africa di Bacchelli: le vicende di
Gaetano Casati, un onesto eroe italiano"
Paolo Chirumbolo (McMaster University) "L'avanguardia informale di
Sanguineti tra letteratura e arti figurative"
Zubin Meer (York University) "Gramsci’s Five Theses on Italian Social
Structure and Change: From Feudalism to Fascism"
Giuliana Sanguinetti Katz (University of Toronto) "Silenzi e rituali in Marta
Morazzoni"
Monday, May 29 afternoon and evening
(Vari Hall Room 1152A)
The City as Target: Diaspora and Transnational Migration
MULTIDISCIPLINARY SESSIONS ORGANIZED BY THE CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR ITALIAN
STUDIES TOGETHER WITH THE ASSOCIATION OF CANADIAN JEWISH STUDIES AND THE
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF HISPANISTS AND
SPONSORED BY THE CANADIAN FEDERATION FOR THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES ,
THE CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY, AND THE ITALIAN CULTURAL
INSTITUTE OF TORONTO
Organizers: Olga Pugliese, Gabriele Scardellato, Marina Frescura, Jana
Vizmuller-Zocco (CSIS), Dan Heller (ACJS), Jerzy Kowal (CAH)
2:00 - 3:30
SESSION 1: THE ITALIAN, JEWISH, AND HISPANIC IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE IN
LITERATURE
Chair: Margarita Feliciano (Glendon Campus, York University)
Panelists: Pierre Anctil (University of Ottawa)
Luis Torres (University of Calgary)
Steven Hayward (John Carroll University)
3:30 - 3:45 COFFEE BREAK
3:45 - 5:45
SESSION 2: ETHNI(CITY): NEGOTIATING LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY IN THE
CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN CITY.
Chair: Randal Schnoor (York University)
Part (a): Museums and Memory: The Representation of the Immigrant
Experience in Canada
Panelists:
Mauro Peressini (Curator, Museum of Civilization)
Stanislao Carbone (Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada)
Part (b): Language and Identity
Panelists: Leo Davids (York University)
Jana Vizmuller-Zocco (York University)
Michol Hoffman (York University)
7:00 - 9:15 p.m. Session 3: Issues in Urban Immigration
Chair: Gabriele Scardellato (York University)
Panelists: Shaul Bassi (University of Venice)
Julio Torres-Recinos (University of Saskatchewan)
Luigi Bruti Liberati (University of Milan)
Matteo Sanfilippo (University of the Tuscia region)
Program and local organizers for the CSIS conference:
Olga Pugliese, Marina Frescura, Gabriele Scardellato, Jana Vizmuller-Zocco