Programme

 

Monday, September 8

(Cold buffet from 1pm to 3pm)

AFTERNOON
4 pm: Seminars' and Theatre Workshop's presentation:
Massimo Agus, Gillian Beer; Roberto Bigazzi; Laura Caretti; Laurent Darbellay;
Maria DiBattista; Paola Quarenghi; Jürgen Wertheimer
6.30 pm: Flashback on Synapsis 2006: Presentation of the volume Esilio (ed. by Roberto Russi)

 

Tuesday, 9

MORNING
Lectures
9.15 am: Gioachino Chiarini (Università di Siena), Metropoli reali e metropoli immaginarie
nelle letterature classiche
11 am: John Foot (University College London), Walking, Filming, Digging and Imagining. New Approaches to the History of the Contemporary City

1 pm: Lunch

AFTERNOON
3:30 – 6 pm: Seminars (Agus, Beer; Bigazzi;
Darbellay; DiBattista; Quarenghi; Wertheimer)

8 pm: Dinner

EVENING
Film screening (organized by Anna Masecchia)

 

Wednesday, 10

MORNING
Lectures
9.15 am: Lina Bolzoni (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), Utopian Cities in the Renaissance:
a Serious Game
11 am: Franco La Polla (Università di Bologna), The Changing Features of the Movie City:
a Matter of Cultural Development

1 pm: Lunch

AFTERNOON
3:30 – 6 pm: Seminars

8 pm: Dinner

EVENING
Film screening

 

Thursday, 11

MORNING
Lectures
9.15 am: Helena Buescu (Universidade de Lisboa), Migration and Humanity: W. G. Sebald, The Emigrants
11 am: Meric S. Gertler (University of Toronto), Cities and the Production of Culture:
 Exploring the Nexus in Europe and North America

1 pm: Lunch

AFTERNOON 3:30 – 6 pm: Seminars

8 pm: Dinner

EVENING
Film screening

 

Friday, 12

MORNING
Lectures
9.15 am: Laura Caretti (Università di Siena), Inside/outside: the City on and off-stage
11 am: Melania Mazzucco (Scrittrice, Roma), La città infinita

1 pm: Lunch

AFTERNOON
3:30 – 6 pm: Seminars

8 pm: Dinner

 

Saturday, 13

MORNING
10:15 am: Snapshots:
Fernando Bayón (University of Madrid), Metáforas de la ciudad sin sueño: Un poeta en Nueva York de Federico García Lorca
Orsetta Innocenti (Università di Bologna), Walking in a Ghost Town: Javier Marias' Todas las Almas
Florian Mussgnug (University College London); The City Without Us: Mary Shelley's The Last Man and Other Last Men
Attilio Scuderi (Università di Catania), Where Modernity gets stuck: Oran and Camus

1 pm: Lunch

AFTERNOON
3:30 – 6 pm (Seminars): work on the research projects

8 pm: Dinner

EVENING
9:30 pm: Theatre (organized by Laura Caretti)

 

Sunday, 14
MORNING
10 am (Seminars): Work on the research projects

1 pm: Lunch

AFTERNOON
3 pm (Plenary session): Students' presentation of the results of the seminars

8 pm: Dinner

EVENING
11 pm: Final party

 

Monday, 15
Departure after breakfast