LLSETI Seminar on Italian and Cross-Border Studies

January 24, 2018, 10:00 a.m. - April 3, 2018, 7:00 p.m.

As part of the work of the “Conflicts and Cultural Exchanges in Europe, the Mediterranean, and Italy” research team, the Laboratoire Langages, Literature, Societies, Cross-Border and International Studies (LLSETI) is organizing several days of seminars on Italian and cross-border studies between January 24 and April 3, 2018, on the Jacob-Bellecombette campus.

On the agenda

Wednesday, January 24

  • 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Room 510
    Massimo Lucarelli (USMB), Toward a Transnational Poetics: Ungaretti from “Il porto sepolto” (1916) to “Derniers jours” (1919)

Wednesday, January 31

  • 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Room 510
    Elisabetta G. Lurgo (USMB), Mystical Mediation in the State of Savoy from Charles Emmanuel I (1580–1630) to Charles Albert (1831–1849): Diplomacy Behind the Scenes?

Wednesday, February 7

  • 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Room 510
    Cristina Vignali (USMB), “Translation is the true way to read a text” (I. Calvino): the case of Buzzati

Tuesday, March 6

  • 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Room 102
    Floriana Calitti (University for Foreigners of Perugia), Between France and Italy: Real and Symbolic Petrarchan Geographies

Wednesday, March 21

  • 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Room 510
    Silvia Zangrandi (IULM – Milan), Are mermaids only found in Naples? In search of Italian-French mermaids

Tuesday, April 3 – POSTPONED to September 25 at 5:30 p.m. (room to be announced)

  • 5:30 p.m., Room 510
    Martine Camiade (University of Perpignan), The Catalan Question in the Cross-Border Catalan Region

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