Amor Vincit Omnia: Love as a Destructive Force in Italian Arts and Literature Friday, April 24, Cochrane Woods Art Center, 157 9:00-9:30: Breakfast (provided) CWAC Lounge 9:30-9:45 Opening Remarks 9:45-10:45 “Love Defeated in Boccaccio and his Continuations” Luis Lopez: “The destructive powers of Love: Fiometa’s Wrath and the Etiology of her Suicide” Cosette Bruhns: “Love’s Failed Vision in Boccaccio’s Amorosa Visione” Panel Chair: Elizabeth Tavella, RLL 11:00-12:30 “The Orpheus Myth: Love, Death, and Disintegration” Jessica Peritz: “La ragion m’abbandona”: Pathos and the Failure of Language in Two Eighteenth-century Settings of Orfeo ed Euridice” Daniel Rogers: “Né mi preme d’amor la grave salma”: Overcoming Love in Stefano Landi’s La morte d’Orfeo (1619)” Christine Zappella: “The Lady or the Maenads? Subversive Ambiguity in Bronzino’s Cosimo I de' Medici as Orpheus” Panel Chair: Madison Hendren, RLL 12:30-1:45 Lunch (provided) CWAC Lounge 1:45-3:15 “The Pains of Love: Representations of Rejection, Conflict, and Violence” Sebastiano Bazzichetto: “Syrinx vincit omnia: gli Amori di Pan del Barocco Bolognese” Marion Beaufils: “Renaissance et Conversion dans les Suicides de Lucrèce et Cléopâtre chez Artemisia Gentileschi” Sylwia Frach: “La Mise en Scène d’un Eros Fatal dans Médée de Pier Paolo Pasolini” Panel Chair: Chloe Pelletier, Art History 3:30-5:00 “The Material Culture of Tragic Love” Linda Mai Green: “Satirical Future: Superstudio’s ‘Salvages of Historic City Centers’” Charles Heinrich: “Material Matters: ‘Love and the Business of Marriage in Late Medieval Italy’” Emily Forden: “The Cost of Love: The Market for Female Prostitutes and Wives in Ancient Rome” Panel Chair: Ana Ilievska, Comparative Literature Amor Vincit Omnia: Love as a Destructive Force in Italian Arts and Literature 5:30 Keynote Lecture, Giuseppe Mazzotta, Sterling Professor in the Humanities for Italian, Yale University Breasted Hall, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago 6:30 Conference Reception: Solarium, Quadrangle Club Saturday, April 25, Cochrane Woods Art Center, 161 9:00-9:30 Breakfast (provided) CWAC Lounge 9:30-11:30 “Anachronisms and Production: Love in the Twentieth Century” John Welsh: “The Absent Banquet: Anachronism and Desire in Pirandello’s Enrico IV” Allison Hadley: “Melius amari quam timeri: Love and the State in Gramsci and Machiavelli” Sophia Farmer: “The Reign of the Machine: Il Duce and Anthropomorphic Masculinity in Futurist Art and Literature” Maddalena Bergamin: “L’Amore come Distruzione e Risorsa in Teorema di Pier Paolo Pasolini” Panel Chairs: Sarah Atkinson and Silvia Guslandi, RLL 11:45 Closing Lecture, Hendrik Dey, Professor of Art History, Hunter College 1:00 Lunch (provided) CWAC Lounge
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