AISCLI SUMMER SCHOOL WORLD CULTURES & LITERATURES IN ENGLISH

Programme

Provisional Programme

AISCLI SUMMER SCHOOL ON WORLD CULTURES & LITERATURES IN ENGLISH
17-22 SEPTEMBER 2012

LECTURES	Monday 17.09	Tuesday 18.09	Wednesday 19.09	Thursday 20.09	Friday 21.09	Saturday 22.09
10.00-11.30	ANNALISA OBOE	MARCO FAZZINI	CARMEN CONCILIO	ESTERINO ADAMI	ROBERTA CIMAROSTI	FRANCESCA ROMANA PACI
11.45-13.00	SILVIA ALBERTAZZI	MICHELA BORZAGA	MELITA CATALDI Film + Discussion	MARIA RENATA DOLCE	CLAUDIA GUALTIERI	DONATELLA BADIN
SEMINARS
14.30–16.00	ALESSANDRO VESCOVI	ANNA NADOTTI Translation Workshop	LILIANA ELLENA	PIETRO DEANDREA Film	15-18 CONFERENCE CHILDREN'S LIT
16.30-18.00	FEDERICA ZULLO	ANNA NADOTTI Translation Workshop	PhD HOLDERS and PhD STUDENTS Workshop on Academic Research	PIETRO DEANDREA Film+ Discussion	VISIT SCHOOL MUSEUM

MORNING LECTURES

ESTERINO ADAMI (University of Turin)
Morning Lecture + discussion 1h30: Englishes in Postcolonial Literatures: Focus on South Asia

SILVIA ALBERTAZZI (University of Bologna)
Morning Lecture + discussion 1h30: Anglophone Literature and Photography

DONATELLA BADIN (University of Turin)
Morning Lecture + discussion 1h30: A View of the Present State of Ireland by Edmund Spenser and Frank McGuinness' play Mutabilitie (1997): Old Slurs Revisited

ROBERTA CIMAROSTI (University of Venice, Ca’ Foscari)
Morning Lecture + discussion 1h30: Englishes in Postcolonial Literatures: Focus on the Caribbean

CARMEN CONCILIO (University of Turin)
Morning Lecture + discussion 1h30: War Novels in Canadian Literature (Ondaatje, Kogawa, Michaels)

PIETRO DEANDREA (University of Turin)
Morning: Lecture + discussion 1h 30: The Children of Men From Novel to Film: Reflections on British New Slaveries

MARIA RENATA DOLCE (University fo Lecce) History/herstories in contemporary Australian Literature

Morning Lecture + discussion 1h30: Re-reading the past: History/herstories in contemporary South African, Australian and Caribbean novels

MARCO FAZZINI (University of Venice, Ca’ Foscari)
Morning: Lecture + discussion 1h 30: Postcolonial poets-songwriters from Scotland, Jamaica, South Africa
CLAUDIA GUALTIERI (University of Milan) "Edward W.Said: A Worldly Intellectual"
Morning: Lecture + discussion 1h.30: Postcolonial Studies Today: Provisional Reflections

ANNALISA OBOE (AISCLI President, University of Padua)

Morning Lecture + discussion 1h30: One or two things about postcolonial studies

FRANCESCA ROMANA PACI (University of Vercelli, Amedeo Avogadro)

Morning Lecture + discussion 1h 30: Going Canadian: Janice Kulyk Keefer’s “The Green Library” as Polylogue

SEMINARS

MICHELA BORZAGA (University of Vienna) Trauma and South African Literature
Afternoon: Seminar (+ discussion) 2h30 / 3h

MELITA CATALDI (University of Turin) The story of "The Field": from the 1965 play by John B.Keane to the 1990 film by Jim Sheridan.
Screening the Film. Afternoon: Seminar (Film + discussion) 2h30 / 3h

PIETRO DEANDREA (University of Turin) The Children of Men
Screening the Film. Afternoon: Seminar (Film + discussion) 2h30 / 3h

LILIANA ELLENA (University of Turin) "The archival impulse: performativity, memory and visuality"
Afternoon: Seminar (+ discussion) 2h30 / 3h

ANNA NADOTTI (Translator/editor for Einaudi, Neri Pozza) Translating Amitav Ghosh
Afternoon Seminar + discussion 2h 30/ 3h

ALESSANDRO VESCOVI (University of Milan) Sea of Poppies: towards a poetics of the research novel. Afternoon Lecture 1h 30

FEDERICA ZULLO (University of Bologna) An Empire on Display: Echoes of the Great Exhibition in Postcolonial Literature (Okri, Carey, D’Aguiar). Afternoon: Seminar 1h 30

PROGRAMME READING LIST
These readings are not compulsory. Yet, if students know the texts they can follow lectures and seminars more easily and can actively participate in the discussions.
Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies (2008) and River of Smoke, 2010

Joy Kogawa, Obasan, 1981

Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces, 1996 and/or The Winter Vault, 2010

Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda, 1988

Julian Barnes, Nothing to be Frightened Of (2008)

Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude (1982)

Philip Roth, Patrimony (1991)

Jane Urqhuart, A Map of Glass (2006)

Jonathan Coe, The Rain before it Falls (2007)

Derek Walcott, Ti-Jean and His Brothers (1993) and Moon-Child (2012)

Janice Kulyk Keefer, The Green Library (1996)

Recommended sites:
http://amitavghosh.com/blog/

Further Reccommended readings (prof. Deandrea)

Agamben, G. (1998 [1995]) Homo Sacer: sovereign power and bare life, trans. D. Heller-Roazen, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Arendt, H. (1996 [1943]) ‘We refugees’, in M. Robinson (ed.) Altogether Elsewhere: writers on exile, Houghton Mifflin: Harcourt, pp. 110–19, online. AvailableHTTP<http://www-leland.stanford.edu/dept/DLCL/files/pdf/ hannah_arendt_we_refugees.pdf> (accessed 6 November 2010).
Cohen, S. (2006) Deportation Is Freedom! The Orwellian world of immigration controls, London and Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley.

(PROF. ALBERTAZZI) For Italian students

Albertazzi, S. (2010) Il nulla, quasi. Foto di famiglia e istantanee amatoriali nella letteratura contemporanea, Firenze: Le Lettere.

(PROF. GUALTIERI)

Please, read at least one of the following books (or selection of chapters).

Orientalism. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978. Al least Introduction,

Chapters 1 and 3.
(Trad. it. di Stefano Galli. Orientalismo. Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 1991).

The World, the Text, and the Critic. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983.
Culture and Imperialism. London: Chatto & Windus, 1993. At least Introduction,

Chapters 1 and 4.
(Trad. it. di Stefano Chiarini e Anna Tagliavini. Cultura e imperialismo: letteratura e consenso nel progetto coloniale dell’Occidente. Roma: Gambetti, 1998).

Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith lectures. London: Vintage, 1994.

(Trad. it. di Maria Gregorio. Dire la verità: gli intellettuali e il potere. Milano: Feltrinelli, 1995).