Il programma in pdf: SPECTERS OF THE GREAT WAR: FRANCE, ITALY, AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR

 

SPECTERS OF THE GREAT WAR: FRANCE, ITALY, AND WORLD WAR I

An international and interdisciplinary conferene at Dartmouth College

May 15 th – May 17th 2014

 

All presentation in Haldeman 041

Wednesday May 14, 7:00 pm, 105 Dartmouth Hall

 

Gran Serata Futurista

The performance celebrates the birth of the Futurist Movement. Readings from a number of “explosive” manifestos will underscore the major developments in futurism. This effervescent monologue will highlight the impact of futurism on the arts, everyday life, and ideas about the acquisition of knowledge.

Thursday, May 15, 2014

 10:30 visit to the WWI exhibit in Baker Library with Morgan Swan, Special Collections Education and Outreach Librarian at Dartmouth College

 

12:45  Coffee

 

1:15 Opening remarks:  Graziella Parati, Chair of the Department of French and Italian

Philip Hanlon, President of Dartmouth College

 Adrian Randolph, Dean of the Humanities

 

2:00-3:45       MODERNISM AND WWI

CHAIR: KATHERINE HORNSTEIN, Art History Department, Dartmouth College

Cinzia Blum “Masculine Exploits: Marinetti’s Futurist Performance on the Stage of the Great War”

Abigail Susik “War Games: Surrealist Automatism and the Great War.”

Michael Syrimis “War, Laughter, and the Mechanized Body in Italian Silent Film”

 

3:45-4:15pm

Coffee Break

 

4:15-5:45pm Keynote Address:

INTRODUCED BY MARGARET DARROW, History Department, Dartmouth College

Mark Thompson National Unity or Shared Suffering? – Dilemmas of Commemoration in Italy

 

6:00pm

Reception

Top of the Hop, Hopkins Center

 

6:45 Dinner: Faculty Lounge—Hopkins Center (by invitation only)

Friday, May 16, 2014

8:30-9:00am

Breakfast

 

9:00-10:45 am  CULTURAL POLITICS

CHAIR: LUCAS HOLLISTER, French and Italian Department, Dartmouth College

Allison Scardino Belzer “Nurses, Spies, and Sacrifice: Female Citizenship and Patriotism in Italy

Diego Lazzarich “War on war!” The Italian Socialists and WWI

Andrew Sobanet “Pacifism and the Rise of Stalinism in France: A Legacy of World War I”

10:45-11:15am

Coffee Break

 

11:15- 12:45 Keynote address

INTRODUCED BY ANDREA TERNOWKI, French and Italian Department, Dartmouth College

PAUL JANKOWSKI “An Icon of the War and its Paradoxes: Verdun”

 

12:45-2:15 Lunch: Russo Gallery—Haldeman (by invitation only)

 

2:15-4:00 pm  WAR AND TRAUMA

CHAIR: ANDREA TARNOWSKI, French and Italian Department, Dartmouth College

Alison Fell  “Specters from Belgium: Cultural Encounters with Female Belgian Refugees in Britain”

Elinor Accampo  “Intractable Enemy: the 1918 Influenza Pandemic and its Consequences for the Great War”

Antonio Gibelli “The Specter of Hunger: Letters and Diaries of Italian Prisoners of War (1915-1919)”

 

4:00-4:30

Coffee Break

4:30-6:15 THE ROLE OF THE COLONIES

CHAIR: YASSER ELHARIRY, French and Italian Department, Dartmouth College

Eric Jennings “Remembering French Colonial Casualties”

Reena Goldthree “ ‘The Black Man Fights Wid De Shovel and De Pick’: Race, Labor, and Military Service During the Great War”

Steven Rowe  “Chinese Workers, Conflict, and Community in World War I France”

 

6:30 pm Dinner, Thomas J. Dern Cabin (by invitation only)

 

Saturday, May 17, 2014

8:30-9:00

Breakfast

 

9:00am-10:45pm THE FRENCH AND ITALIAN FRONTS

CHAIR: LAWRENCE KRITZMAN, French and Italian Department, Dartmouth College

Martha Hanna  “Foreign Fields:  Homesickness and Military Morale in the French Expeditionary Force to Italy, 1917 -1918.”

Loretta De Franceschi: “Writing and Publishing in Italy During the Great War”

François Proulx “ ‘Ne quittant pas mon lit pendant les alertes’ : Marcel Proust’s wartime letters”

 

10:45-11:15

Coffee break

 

11:15-12:15

CHAIR: LUCAS HOLLISTER, French and Italian Department, Dartmouth College

Regina Sweeny “Soldiers’ Soundscapes ant Their Transposition into Metaphor”

Giorgio Bertellini “Life Everlasting: The Narrative Failures of Italian Cinema during World War I”

 

12:15-12:30 CLOSING REMARKS, Lawrence Kritzman

 

12:30

Lunch (by invitation only)

 

4:00 Loew Theater: Jean Renoir The Grand Illusion (1937)