Bertinoro, 26 agosto - 1 settembre 2001

 

Schedule

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Sunday 26 August

Ore 16: Djelal Kadir: The Conspiracy of Culture and the Culture of Conspiracy 

Ore 17: Maurizio Boldrini: Tutti contro uno. Sono veramente complotti le maldicenze della comunicazione di massa? 

Ore 18: Remo Ceserani: The conspiratorial imagination/ L'immaginazione cospiratoria 
 

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Monday 27 August

Ore 9: Piero Boitani: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar 

Ore 10.30 Bertrand Westphal: Iudas Iscariote: traître, conspirateur, mythe littéraire 

Ore 15-17 Seminars: Wertheimer and Spiridon

Ore 17-19 Seminars: Kadir, Conati and Domenichelli

Ore 21 Evening with Marcello Conati on Italian melodrama 
 

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Tuesday 28 August 

Ore 9: Helena Buescu: Formes de conspiration: valeur, éthique, érotisme 

Ore 10.30 : Franco La Polla: Hollywood Parallaxes: Conspiracy and the Contemporary American Film 

Ore 15-17 Seminars: Wertheimer and Spiridon

Ore 17-19 Seminars: Kadir, Conati and Domenichelli

Free evening
 

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Wednesday, 29 August 

Ore 9: Claude Cazalé: Une conjuration médévale dans l'Avventuroso ciciliano de Bosone da Gubbio 

Ore 10.30: Salvatore S. Nigro: Congiure barocche nel romanzo europeo del settecento e dell'ottocento 

Ore 15-17 Seminars: Wertheimer and Spiridon

Ore 17-19 Seminars: Kadir, Conati and Domenichelli

Ore 21: Theatre evening with Laura Caretti
 

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Thursday, 30 August 

Ore 9 Svend Erik Larsen: Conspiracy. Metaphor in text, mataphor of the text 

Ore 10.30 J. Wertheimer: Conspiracies of stupidity in our Brave New World

Ore 15-17 Seminars: Wertheimer and Spiridon

Ore 17-19 Seminars: Kadir, Conati and Domenichelli

Free evening

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 Friday, 31 August

Ore 9 Beatrice Alfonzetti: La drammaturgia della congiura da Metastasio ad Alfieri

Ore 10.30 Danièle Chauvin: Conspirations romantiques: le reve, l'etre et la mort 

Ore 15-17 Seminars: Wertheimer and Spiridon

Ore 17-19 Seminars: Kadir, Conati and Domenichelli

Evening with Elisabeth Rallo on television serials XFiles, ou le complot dont la circonferénce est partout et le centre nulle parts 
 

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Saturday 1 September

09.00-12.00 Seminar discussions. Concluding discussion. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Seminars

Marcello Conati , Five melodramas on conspiracy by Giuseppe Verdi 
Tutor: Fabio Vittorini. With the help of Mario Lavagetto and Fabio Vittorini 
In Italian. 

Giuseppe Verdi, Ernani 
Giuseppe Verdi, Un ballo in maschera 
Giuseppe Verdi, Simon Boccanegra 
Giuseppe Verdi, Don Carlos 
Giuseppe Verdi, Macbeth 
 

Mario Domenichelli, Five conspiracy tragedies 
Tutor: Donata Meneghelli, helped by Sebastiana Nobili. 
In English 

Shakespeare, Hamlet 
Shakespeare, Julius Caesar 
Racine, Britannicus 
Metastasio, La Clemenza di Tito 
Schiller, Wallensteins Tod 
(Preliminary reading: The Oresteia; Lessing, Hamburgische Drammaturgie; Schiller, the entire trilogy). 
 

Djelal Kadir, Ars Conspiratoria: 
Tutor: Sergia Adamo, helped by Paolo Zanotti. 
In English 

Jorge Luis Borges, Tlon Uqbar Orbis Tertius 
Nikolai Gogol, Nos (The Nose) 
Henry James, The Aspern Papers 
Franz Kafka, Der Jäger Gracchus (The Hunter Gracchus) 
Colette, La femme cachée (The Secret Woman) 
 

Monica Spiridon 
Tutor: Pierluigi Pellini 
In French 

- Alfred de Vigny, Cinq Mars (and, as a comparison, a novel by Walter Scott: Rob Roy) 
- Thomas Mann, Joseph und seine Brüder (Joseph et ses frères), with particular emphasis on II: Der jünge Joseph (Le Jeune Joseph) 
- M. Bulgakov, Master i Margarita (Le Maître et Marguerite) 
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr., The cat's cradle (Le berceau du chat - Ghiaccio nove) 
- Thomas Pynchon, The crying of lot 49 (Vente a la criée du lot 49) 
 

Jürgen Wertheimer 
Tutor Sebastian Wogenstein, helped by Simona Micali. 
In German 
 

- Friedrich Schiller, Die Verschwörung des Fiesko zu Genua 
- Victor Hugo, Cromwell 
- Alfred De Musset, Lorenzaccio 
- Albert Camus, Caligula 
- Umberto Eco, Il pendolo di Foucault .