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