CIRN Annual Symposium 2016
Friday 20th May 2016, Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College
"Death in Italy"
Programme:
10.30 - 11 | Coffee | |
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11 - 12.30 | SESSION 1: Commemorations Chair: Paola Filippucci (Cambridge, Social Anthropology) |
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Katherine McDonald (Cambridge, Classics) | 'Commemorating the dead while becoming "Romans": Italian funerary monuments in the 2nd-century BC' | |
Paolo Heywood (Cambridge, Social Anthropology) | ‘The two burials of Aldo Moro: Sovereignty and governmentality in the anni di piombo’ | |
Diego Carnevale (Cambridge/Aix-Marseille, History) | ‘Funerals and burials in 18th-century Naples: A business for the Church’ | |
12.30 - 1.30 | Lunch | |
1.30 - 3.30 | Session 2: Bodies Chair: Silvia de'Renzi (Open University, History of Medicine) |
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Gavin Williams (Cambridge, music) | ‘Sounds Incorporeal: The Gramophone Company in Italy ca. 1900’ | |
Andrea Carlino (Geneva, History of Medicine) | 'A matter of life and death in XVIth century medical books' | |
Serenella Iovino (Turin, Comparative Literature) | 'From Thomas Mann to Porto Marghera: Material Ecocriticism, Textual Interpretation, and Death in Venice' | |
John Henderson (Cambridge and Birkbeck, History) | '"More Feared Than Death Itself"? Plague and Society in Early Modern Florence' | |
3.30 - 4.00 | Tea | |
4.00 - 5.30 | Session 3: Representations Chair: Delia Casadei (Cambridge, Music) |
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Heather Webb (Cambridge, Italian) | 'Death Stories and the Construction of a Transmortal Community in Dante's Purgatorio' | |
Donal Cooper (Cambridge, History of Art) | ‘Saint Francis, Giotto and "Fratello Morte": Death and redemption at Assisi’ | |
John Leigh (Cambridge, French) | ‘Deadly Duelling in Italy’ | |
5.30 | Closing Remarks and Drinks |
For further information about CIRN, please write to: cirn@mml.cam.ac.uk
CIRN has been generously supported by: Italian Department, Cambridge; Keith Sykes Fund; Serena Fund; Trevelyan Fund, History Faculty.