Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, 1818–2018: Circuits and Circulation
2018-09-19 13:30 - 2018-09-21 17:30 (Europe/Rome)
Convegno internazionale

19-21 settembre 2018
Aula Prodi
San Giovanni in Monte, 2
Bologna
Programma

Aperitivo Scientifico: ​Eruzioni Mostruose -- L'anno (senza estate) in cui nacque Frankenstein
2018-09-25 18:00
Aperitivo Scientifico
Serena Baiesi (Università di Bologna)
Micol Todesco (INGV, Bologna)
25 settembre 2018
Velostazione Dynamo
Via Indipendenza, 71
Bologna

Nicholas Halmi, "Historicization and Periodization in Romanticism's Self-conception"
2018-10-23
All’interno delle attività del Progetto d’Eccellenza e della programmazione del CISR
Martedì 23 ottobre 2018
alle ore 15.00
(Sala Convegni, Dipartimento LILEC)
Professor Nicholas Halmi
(University of Oxford)
terrà una conferenza dal titolo:
“Historicization and Periodization in Romanticism’s Self-conception”
Introducono:
Lilla Maria Crisafulli e Serena Baiesi

Frankenreads in Bologna
2018-10-30 - 2018-10-31
30-31 ottobre 2018
Bologna

Frankenreads Webage

International Summer School "Romanticism on the Coast"
2019-06-17 - 2019-06-21 | Lerici, Italy
International Summer School – Romanticism on the Coast – Castle of Lerici
“Literary Lerici: Itineraries between places and imagination”
Coordinator: Lilla Maria Crisafulli (University of Bologna)
The Interuniversity Centre for the Study of Romanticism(branch of the University of Bologna), in partnership with Lerici City Council and the Cultural Association “Amiche e Amici di Mary Shelley”, is organising a yearly Summer School in Lerici entitled ‘Romanticism on the Coast’. The first edition, to be held between 17 and 21 June 2019, will be devoted in particular to what might be called “ocean studies”, or “Mediterranean and maritime studies”, involving topics related to the sea, marine life, Mediterranean landscapes or anything concerning the idea of ‘the coast’.
The Summer School is addressed to postgraduate students and Early stage researchers (MA, PhD students, Post-docs), as well as scholars of Romantic literature and culture. Registration will be open to both national and international participants. The summer school will offer master classes and workshops in English, on topics related to aesthetic, artistic and cultural discourses, as well as literary criticism, methodology and creative writing. These classes will be held by national and international experts. Attention will be also addressed to the history of landscape and to its evolution/change across time. Particular emphasis will be given to the multilayered meaning of travel, from the Grand Tour to contemporary Cultural Tourism. The different master classes and workshops offered by the Summer School will deal with issues related to British and European Romanticism, focusing in particular on the personal and cultural connection between some of the most famous Romantic poets, writers and critics (including PB Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, Women Romantic Poets), the city of Lerici and the famous Gulf of the Poets. The literary and cultural heritage of the Lerici area and its surroundings will also offer the occasion to investigate the work of travelers and writers of more recent periods, including Henry James, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf and Charles Tomlinson. Surrounded by the evocative atmosphere of the Gulf of the Poets, participants will have the opportunity to expand their knowledge of texts and contexts of the British literary tradition, and of pre-Romantic, Romantic and post-Romantic literature. Primary sources will be examined with reference to contemporary critical theories and a stimulating variety of methodological and disciplinary approaches. The summer school will also focus on critical and literary texts that have contributed to the construction of the British and European cultural heritage and the dissemination of concepts such as inclusion/exclusion; construction/fragmentation of borders; migration/citizenship; gender/identity; nature /culture; landscape/cultural memory. The Summer School will host national and international scholars who will discuss these issues together with poets, critics or novelists. Speakers will include: Jane Stabler, Alan Rawes, Rossana Bonadei, Keir Elam, Gioia Angeletti, Norbert Lennartz, Lilla Maria Crisafulli, Michael Bradshaw, Carlotta Farese, Mirka Horova, Diego Saglia, Gilberta Golinelli, Fernando Cioni. Events open to the public, organized in collaboration with the Association “Amiche e Amici di Mary Shelley”, directed by Carla Sanguineti, will include literary walks, readings, exhibitions, theatrical performances and boat and bus trips to some of the most beautiful places of the area (such as Fiascherino and Portovenere).
The Summer School will last four days (arrival on the morning of June 17 and departure on the afternoon of June 21). The overall fee of 350 euros will cover the following: masters classes and workshops; welcome party on the17th; accommodation for 4 nights, breakfast; 3 meals; events and cultural activities. It will also be possible to book further excursions or trips.
The deadline for registration is April 3, 2019. Applications should be sent by email to valentin.pramaggior2@unibo.it and carla.sanguineti@alice.it The deadline for payment of the fee of 350 is April 20, via bank transfer to the Associazione “Amiche e Amici di Mary Shelley” (IBAN IT 69H0603010701000046467127). Please specify in the reason for payment your name and surname followed by: “Registration and fee Lerici Summer School”.
The registration form for Lerici Summer School is available here. It should be filled and sent to the above-mentioned email addresses within April 3, 2019.

Stefano Evangelista, "Romanticismo spettrale: tradurre Théophile Gautier nella fin de siècle"
2019-10-03 11:00 - 12:30 | Sala Giunta, Via Cartoleria 5, Bologna, Italy
Giovedì 3 ottobre 2019 alle ore 11.00 il professor Stefano Evangelista (Trinity College – University of Oxford) terrà una conferenza dal titolo:
“Romanticismo spettrale: tradurre Théophile Gautier nella fin de siècle”
Introduce per il CISR Carlotta Farese
Locandina

Geo & Eco Criticism – Returning to Romantic Italy
2021-04-15 18:00 - 19:30
Free online event
Get your ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/geo-eco-criticism-returning-to-romantic-italy-tickets-131867450093
Our roundtable aims to open up a discussion about the benefits to be derived, in Romantic studies, from an intersection of the methods and approaches of geo-criticism and eco-criticism. On the one hand, we take our bearings from positions, such as Kate Rigby’s, that focus on the natural world as a dynamic, active dimension enabling all cultural production, which in turn bears traces of its more-than-human genesis. On the other, we intend to suggest that geo-criticism, as developed by Bertrand Westphal and others, stresses the crucial importance of considering the geographical specificities of Romantic-era engagements with ecosystems, and more particularly how such engagements are inextricably bound up with notions of geo-politics and geo-culture (the nation, borders and boundaries, economic geographies, north vs south, the national character). Indeed, geo-criticism opens us specific insights into how literature can translate the experience of places into a critique of predominant modes of construction of reality.
Since the notions of space and place are constantly shifting (the former encompassing conceptual space and the latter factual place), authors such as William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Percy B. Shelley, Mary Shelley and Leigh Hunt among many others, represent environments as manifesting the variety of interconnected human and non-human spaces, and their im/material valences, in ways that are also always tied up with the political, economic or cultural forces bearing upon and conditioning such spaces (which, following Henri Lefebvre, may be viewed as intersections of perceived, conceived and lived space).
Exploring the possibilities of combining ecocritical and geocritical approaches, the roundtable aims to propose this methodological intersection as a way of unlocking new features of Romantic-period treatments of the connections between the environment and humans, their identities, activities, and institutions [Tuan, Yi-fu, Space and Place]. We believe that our approach may prove interesting to a wide audience by throwing light on Romantic representations of the environment as critical narratives (and counter-narratives) about the imbrications and overlappings of the identities of individuals, human communities and polities, and the environment. In particular, we aim to discuss the potential advantages of this mixed approach by throwing new light on Romantic-period representations of Italy as a particularly complex and unstable crucible of issues of nature and nurture, ecosystems and political systems, environment and polities, and so on. In Romantic-period literature, the highly diversified and challenging natural world of Italy – from the Alps to Vesuvius and Etna, its frayed coastlines, Northern plains, Venetian lagoon, Roman marshes, Campanian sulphur lakes, etc. – is everywhere enmeshed with the country’s complicated, fragmented and fraught cultural, political and economic context. Our aim is ultimately to stimulate a lively debate on how ecocritical and geocritical outlooks can be made to interact in order to identify new and exciting ways of capturing the multifaceted complexity of Romantic-period representations of human-environmental interrelations.
Speakers and topics covered:
Serena Baiesi (University of Bologna)
Leigh Hunt’s Italian Green footsteps
I would like to discuss a less-known aspect of Hunt’s aesthetic: his deep involvement with the external world, meaning the natural and urban landscapes which played an important role in his writings during the 1820s. In particular, I will focus on his descriptions of Italian places from an eco- critical and geo-critical point of view that examines the interaction between the human and non-human in cities, as well as in the natural environment. Indeed, it is during his stay in a foreign land that Hunt developed a deep and controversial interest in urban and natural surroundings, that is, what we can call a “botanic” eye for the multifaceted environment of Italy.
Paolo Bugliani (University of Pisa – ECR)
William Hazlitt’s Italian Spots of Time
My contribution aims at interpreting, through an ecocritical lens, some of the spots of time which William Hazlitt implanted in the Italian section of his Notes of a Journey through France and Italy (1826). Although these instants of highlighted sensation are more commonly associated with urban landscapes or indoors museum spaces, I wish to explore circumstances in which they are aroused by a natural landscape, most notably in the Appennines, near lake Bolsena and on the Plain of Lombardy.
Lilla Maria Crisafulli (University of Bologna)
Going Green and Blue in Mary Shelley’s work
I intend to explore not only the process of inter-human relationship, but also the conversation between humans and the world of signs or the religious universe that the works of Mary Shelley convey. It is such a self-dissolving opening up towards the universe that, it seems to me, deeply characterizes much of Shelley’s work in which the ‘biophysical environment’ deeply matters, be it the marine life or the inshore, with particular reference to Italy and Italian landscape.
Diego Saglia (University of Parma)
Re-Viewing Northern Italy
I will be looking at William Stewart Rose’s 1819 Letters from the North of Italy to demonstrate how, in the literature of the period, representations of Northern Italian landscapes such as those in Byron’s or Shelley’s poetry coexist with an attention to questions of agricultural and industrial exploitation, deforestation and depopulation, and climate change.
Elena Spandri (University of Siena)
Wordsworth’s Franciscan Ecology
I will be looking at Wordsworth’s poems “Musings Near Acquapendente” and “The Cuckoo at Laverna” included in his late series Memorials of a Tour in Italy (1842) as specimens of a typically Romantic – and Wordsworthian – structure of feelings in which Italian monasteries provide geo-cultural environments both for a revitalized poetics of memory and for a reflection on the mutual imbrications of natural sites, religious ethics, and national consciousness.

Prof.ssa Serena Baiesi, Mary Shelley and the Anthropocene: an Eco-feminist Reading of The Last Man
2021-05-25 09:30 - 23:30 | online
Locandina Evento

I Sabati del LILEC: Da Mansfield Park a Bridgerton: Jane Austen fra diversità e inclusione - 20/11/2021
2021-11-20 11:30 | online
Evento dedicato a Jane Austen a cura di Serena Baiesi e Carlotta Farese (CISR Unibo) inserito nella rassegna “I Sabati del LILEC”, che si terrà ONLINE il 20 novembre alle ore 11.30.
Titolo dell’intervento: “Da Mansfield Park a Bridgerton: Jane Austen fra diversità e inclusione”.

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ECO-ROMANTICISM: HUMAN-NONHUMAN CONVERSATIONS
2021-11-25 09:00 - 18:00 | online
ONLINE DAY CONFERENCE
ECO-ROMANTICISM:HUMAN-NONHUMAN CONVERSATIONS
25 NOVEMBER 2021

9.00 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
MORNING SESSION: Eco-Engagements
CHAIR: SERENA BAIESI (Università di Bologna)
9.30-10 FRANCO NASI (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
An Epistemology of Silence: Walt Whitman’s Ecopoetics
10-10.30 ANTONELLA RIEM (Università di Udine)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Organicism and Environmentalism in“This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison”
10.30-11 KATE RIGBY (Bath Spa University)
Goethe’s Italian Gleanings: Eros, Ecology and Sympoiesis
11-11.30 DAVID HIGGINS (Leeds University)
Thomas Bewick’s Ecomimesis

AFTERNOON SESSION: Eco-Romantic Italies
CHAIR: LILLA MARIA CRISAFULLI (Università di Bologna)
14-14.30 FIONA STAFFORD (University of Oxford)
On Love and Leaves: Shelley, Italy and the Environment
14.30-15 SUSAN OLIVER (University of Essex)
Transformative Geologies: Scott, Byron and the Stones of ItalianRomance
15-15.30 GIOIA ANGELETTI (Università di Parma)
“Nature never disappoints”: Human/Nonhuman Dialectics in LadyMorgan’s
Italy
15.30-16 DIEGO SAGLIA (Università di Parma)
The British Romantics’ Northern Italy as a Human/NonhumanAssemblage
16.00 FINAL DISCUSSION

Contacts:
Diego Saglia diego.saglia@unipr.it
Gioia Angeletti gioia.angeletti@unipr.it
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Letterature, Didattica, Pluralità - Plurality in Literature Education- Littératures, Didactique, Pluralité
2022-03-04 | Sala Traslazione, Centro S. Domenico, Piazza S. Domenico 13, Bologna
PROGRAMMA
9.30 Caffé di benvenuto
9.45 Saluti istituzionali
Introduzione: la Formazione permanente nel Progetto DIVE-IN (Diversity and Inclusion)
Rosa Pugliese (Università di Bologna)
I PARTE – LA LETTERATURA E IL SUO INSEGNAMENTO: CONTINUITÀ E NUOVI
ORIZZONTI
10.00 The place of literature within a framework of plurilingual and intercultural education,Irene Pieper (Freie Universitat, Berlin)
10.50 Le sujet lecteur-scripteur : une orientation de la didactique de la littérature en France. Théories, dispositifs, prolongements, Jean-François Massol (Université Grenoble-Alpes)
11.40 Il corpo docente. Posture, stili e ruolo dell’insegnante di letteratura, Simone Giusti (Università di Siena)
12.20-14.30 Pausa
II PARTE- LE LETTERATURE: AREE LINGUISTICO-CULTURALI
14.30 La lingua dell’altro per guardare oltre gli stereotipi: la letteratura araba, Isabella Camera d’Afflitto (Università di Roma La Sapienza)
15.10 Insegnare la letteratura in tempo di crisi. Un caso di studio: British Romanticisms, Franca Dellarosa (Università di Bari)
15.50 – 16.10 Pausa caffè
16.10 Per un’idea di letteratura spagnola, Marco Presotto (Università di Trento)
16.50 La sfida pedagogica in tempi di pandemia: memoria e diritti umani tra Argentina e Mediterraneo, in un’aula virtuale Susanna Nanni (Università di Roma Tre)
17.40 Conclusioni, Serena Baiesi, Eugenio Maggi, Ines Peta, Rosa Pugliese (Università di Bologna)

Per l’iscrizione: https://eventi.unibo.it/letterature-didattiche-pluralita-lilec-2022

Mary Shelley e il grande schermo tra biografia e invenzione
2022-03-31 | evento online
31 Marzo 2022, ore 9.30 Seminario online, Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Sociali e della Salute – Corso di Studi di Lingue, Interviene la Professoressa Serena Baiesi
